Question RE : Changes to Web Coins and Trivia Energy

Im sure something similar would of been posted somewhere on here but these are my thoughts.

Last months flash market was the first time in a long time that im sure the entire player base felt some love and appreciation from scopely, not just the whales. And now Scopely have put not 1 but 2 drastically draconic changes too the market so essentially now no one can afford anything if starting out with minimal energy.

The weekend competitions are getting tougher to complete without spending excessive amounts and everytime we do get a competition (mostly faction ones) where everyone can complete it, the next month the points are lowered and the score required is higher. It was nice to have something for everyone that gave even people just starting out a chance to catch up to 5 Star characters.

I understand a balance was required but the way you have gone about it is terrible.

Here are my suggestions:

-Unlimited energy packs for purchase like before

-SMALL increase on prices like maybe x2 not x10.

-The major change would be increasing the cost of rerolls and limiting the amount of them per day. So 5 regular rerolls and 1 mega reroll a day but also increased prices, so 300 WC for regular and 2000 WC for mega. This still limits the amount one person can purchase during the flash market so it doesnt crash the 'economy', costs more WC so people are still encouraged to do more trivia or buy webcoins but also gives everyone a chance to get resources and characters with time rather then money which again benefits you guys because it keeps the player base up.

Cheers

you ask for anything what can be FREE? ^^

I think the better solution would have been to completely take down flash market and let the dust settle, the way it was released now was a slap in the face for the user base and it obviously received major backlash. To leave it as is, I fear this forum or any forum will continue to get hammered and ruin the game reputation (what's left of it) and put mods like you in a very tricky situation. At the end of the day, I don’t think scopely cares much as long whales are paying but sooner or later features like this will reduce the user base, if it hasn’t already.

Ignore the cost needed to buy the 2 energies per day , ignore the energy regeneration bug of the portal , consider the ideal case of 5 energies per day for duration of 14 days . So we have 70 energies = 7K webcoins. Are you guys going to provide the remaining 18K as gift/reward in order to max the event ?

Nice way to introduce another ruby market in the name of webcoins

Wait, three free energy points per DAY??? So basically you’ve worked out a new way to fleece money out of us? Great way to put more people off playing this game

The only way scopely might listen, if everyone goes to app store or google play and give them 1* along with a bad review

Already done. This game is getting boring anyways with copy and paste and spend events. Just coasting now and not playing to spend anymore since the webcoin store nerf. Blitz and showdown in the same week is making this game feel like a job so I'm going to take a break

So I’ve been playing this game for almost 4 years now. Every month the last year and a half it seems like the players lose a little more , now we’ve lost the 5 and 15 dollar milestone for spending on the portal. A lot of us don’t have $20 a day to spend. So many of us used those first two milestones to better or roster which is becoming harder and harder by the day I don’t understand why us players in the community continue to get the crap end of the stick. Not only did those two items getting taken away from us EVERYTHING IN THE FLASH MARKET has gone up about 125% yea you see that correctly. A bag of 100 TP which was 100 web coins since the start are now 240 , shards for useless superstars are a few hundred web coins for 15 shards. You guys pile on the useless shards with the monthly keys now it’s 2.5 xs the amount of web coins needed to get even more useless shards. It just blows my mind how the most loyal gaming community around gets it stuck to us like we have the last 18 months. Also this month the chase character Dom Mysterio isn’t up to par with what a chase card usually is. Nope now we have to spend pretty much a mortgage payment over 4 weekends in the month to try and get the “weekend release characters” to make the chase card that we bust our asses for every month so the chase is actually a decent card. So many of us are tired of being treated like this. My wallet is closed. 95% of us don’t get the superstars as it is on weekend release events. Now we are expected to spend spend spend even more so we have coaches and trainers for the monthly chase characters. I just don’t get it. I own a business and I would never treat my customers the way our community is treated. I know my wallet doesn’t matter cause there will be new players who don’t understand they have pretty much zero chance of getting anything new or getting it while it’s relevant. I really hope this stuff stops but I’ve been around to long to know it’s gonna continue getting worse. Sincerely a loyal player from your loyal community

I'll make a prediction here.

• With the number of folks who enjoyed the Trivia last month a lot more than others, their web coin bankroll is probably huge
• Since Scopely can't necessary take away Web Coins, I'm guessing they bumped up prices this month, along with the web coin milestones in order for folks with tons of saved up web coins to spend spend spend this month to hit the milestones.
• Once web coin savings are decreased across the board, then Scopely will do a "We heard your feedback! We will drop the amounts on web coin prizes going forward"

At that point, folks will be back on a level playing field and not able to stockpile like they did in April (due to energy being capped)

As for the economy of the game, I agree with someone who posted a few days ago about how a group of 20 or so wrestlers can basically wipe out the entire roster on Turn 1. Now that's the type of economy that needs to be fixed.

My thoughts:

A. Tone down some of the new characters. Not sure it's even possible to do so with folks who paid money to get them, so maybe just grandfather them in at this point. Going forward, stop trying to make each future wrestler the next best one. For instance - the new KO with his 8 bazillion combo hit points. Or even the zombie round this week with ZLashley and trying to use ZOwens to beat him on Hell. By the way, I love zLashley, have him, and use him very frequently, but I have to admit the guy is way too overpowered.

B. Roll out new wrestlers, who although are completely terrible (Ryback level of play), are required to beat certain contests. With that requirement, folks will still purchase and build up. I personally like using the older wrestlers who require more luck and strategy, vs the newer folks now who are super recycle machines and don't require much thinking. There's much more strategy using Titus O'Neil vs my example above of ZLashley with Blue, Red, Red, repeat.

C. If A and B don't work, start redeveloping older wrestlers to compete with the newer ones. The improvements to Striker Rocky and Acro RVD were good steps in the right direction. But how awful is it now using an older wrestler (>2 years ago) against today's ones at 5SG.

Some notice from this theme? some new modification that ends up killing the market?