Game Dissatisfaction - Resources, Feuds, and Spending

I completely agree with everything stated here. Especially with the inability to get the chaser without significant spending! I went all out last month, maxed everything I could and spent over $60 and was nowhere near getting maxing the solo event. It pissed me off so much that I voluntarily lowered myself out of a top faction to take a break from the game. I am not spending or trying this month, and I may not again. If you want my time and my money, you need to make it worth it to me, and it currently is not.

I couldnt agree more with the previous comments the game has gotten out of hand with several lack of ideas causing the game to become stale the loot pulls are ridiculous and sd every week puts a sour taste in all of us the whole game needs to be revamped alot of of us are tired of spending and getting garbage time to make a stand and stop spending until the developers do something about all the complaints this game is not set up for f2p players and makes it impossible for them to get anywhere without sending and this garbage needs to stop

I'm so glad that this came out....many players are just quitting the game because it has become the apotheosis of repetitiveness....but at least somehow it was still entertaining....but now there are a few questions that need an answer:

1st Topic: Overloading the game with grind events during the week

Question n.1: Who told you to replace tours with idiotic showdown tournaments?

Question n.2: Who is the idiot that complained about having few things to do gamewise during the week? Tell him to get a job!

Question n.3: Noone in the right state of mind would ask you for 6 consecutive days of showdown, so why???

2nd Topic: In-game offers

Question n.1: Who told you to remove faction mlc points from the backstage pass? It basically lost 50% of its appeal

Question n.2: Why are the 300 cash offers gone? Why?????

3rd Topic: Revamping

Question n.1: some game-structures are ok , so why don't you just revamp 'em a bit? Time-wise, reward-wise, also game-wise, adding some old features, e.g. 5 vs 5 for feuds....they were chaotic, but also way funnier than the current and repetitive 2 vs 2

The list goes on, from key pulls to pointless events like cash events and loot coin events, but hey, sellers gotta sell...

I agree, there are changes that need to be made to keep the game fresh. Right now everything has turned into a grind/time suck for very little in return. One very recent example is today's SD event. Even having every CSS you can earn 1.365% of the MLC points (that is having every CSS and getting each SD coin). That doesn't motivate me at all to spend my free time outside of work and family on a Tuesday to spend the hour to two hours to play Showdown. Not to mention that this is happening for four days in a row just demotivates me to even play at all.

The other part I agree with the most is the feud timing. With the length of each feud and flash feuds taking up entire weekends this event just feels like a job rather than fun. I can't tell you how many times I just do the same thing over and over and over again in feud without really thinking. It doesn't require any skill, game knowledge, or thought. The most fun i have is setting up my lineup, not actually playing feud because everything has turned into turn one or bust. The rewards do not match the required game play either. For each player it takes a different amount of time to get to the 40 million warscore mark and I feel like even if it takes you 4 hours of feud game play (which is very fast) the rewards don't match that kind of time commitment. This is because to get to 40 million warscore in 4 hours you need to have your IOW feud promotors up to 5sg, have a warscore boost (spent money) and have some top superstars to be able to move fast through your opponents. The planning of resources into your IOW superstars and spending money for the steps doesn't pay back anything worth while in my eyes anymore. If you take out those advantages, which a majority of the player base doesn't have, then you are looking at an 8 hour grind to reach the 40 million warscore (and that is being very generous. I would think it would be closer to 10-12 hours of grinding the same thing to get there). That kind of time spent on the weekend twice a month is brutal.

Couldn’t have said it better! Dumping all your resources to not max the mlc or get the chase is probably my biggest complaint. Like, if we’re going to use coin and TP to bring up a next-to worthless character for the css, then let us get the solo points in hell mode. They’ve made it so exclusive to get solo points on hell mode mlc tours. I think I’ve had maybe 3 css for hell mode since they started doing that. Thanks for speaking on our behalf Brofessor_G

To add to this I just want to mention the loot pulls. Commons should be common, rare should be rare, etc. If I do 100 pulls, there's almost no reason that I should be getting the same common pulls every time and certain pulls that are listed as "common" never. The odds of pulls should be completely transparent.

it's a sad fact that all of this is true beyond any level of comparison.

Between the medicore, and often impossible, milestones that require money to be spent within limited time tours for points to advance your rank within only a couple days as they're set.

The oversaturation of new wrestlers, or variations of, every month. We're getting redesigns of wrestlers for what? Just a different class?

The criminal imbalance of SD and old wrestlers compared newer ones released.

With the wrestlers, the fact that new ones get placed in limited tours and you have to use an old wrestler that has to do double the work for using a move. Most newer wrestlers only need 4 to fire a move and always have a 3* trainer that gives them that boost. While you are required to use an older wrestler that'll need 9 to 12 to get the bonus on each node. Attatching coaches and trainers are not enough to compete. Especially if the opponents in tag matches have the same trainers. They should be treated like actual players rosters. Only one use per wrestler per node. And even as trainers, the reduced gem/move damage does nothing in comparison to the damage caused by either regardless of level.

SD events are terrible when trying to earn noteriety points to move up in league. Constantly I'm in matches only to come out of them to find that I've lost noteriety. Too many times I go into a match, come out earning 15 to 17, only to find that while in that match, I've lost anywhere from 30 to 100 in 3 or 4 defenses. And often times, they're to the same person twice in a row. This is painful for someone like me when the opponent has an OP wrestler to use. Career SD use to have a prompt that if you selected an opponent that was already in a match, you couldn't select them. This needs to be balanced out. And even though in the rules it says "more stars, more noteriety", then why am I only getting 18 to 22 points, which would mean my opponent lost 18 to 22, only to see that I've lost 30 to 34 in a defense. And these are all 4*.

What about the empty stars? Star fragments for filling you can only get 10, some times 100, once a day in the SD shop. And of course the class is different each day. With every evolve there's always empty stars that is now even the most difficult to get. For a short time there were Gauntlet Blitz for star fragments. We should at least have one other medium to earm fragments. Especially since there's 5 classes and again, with each evolve it costs more and more as the stars stay empty. Why not also add star fragments in milestones? Or in the faction shop and stipulation shop.

Disconnection issues will constantly be a problem. Seeing that wi-fi symbol pop up when about to hit a move or make a match. And then won't continue weather you're on wi-fi or not. Sometimes it happens even while using data and no wi-fi. Same goes with the asset bundles. Why do they happen randomly even on the same match or tour?

And, finally, our inventory. Why do we still have to hold on to old currency and items that are not used for anything beyond the old events from years ago? I still have ingots from tours 5 years ago. Loot tokens that were the old currency before these new tokens. Shard toekns, turnbuckles, stairs, event currency that repeats because of different years, etc. We don't need these taking up space. We should have the ability to trade all of that in for use in the game. Coins or TP or shards. Hell, even loot coins to use in limited event loot or even a new wrestler at 3* or the newest talent?

So much of the fun is gone from the game and more of a chore. The room to grow your roster is limited to only the new wrestlers and none of the older ones that become requirements.

There are soooooo many ongoing and old threads about this or similar topics which are being constantly discussed within my faction family but the result won't ever change, that's for sure. Scopely will do as they want and the top 1 priority is making money and changing the game to do so with a minimum of coding investments.

The last year really shows in which direction the game's going to be processed:

• put out 5 + characters each month so players get triggered to invest money for loots, resources and event's progression
• 1 step forward, 2 backwards - ie boss battle mode which I really dig but is currently still in beta to my opinion as it is full of lags, errors, freezes and galore loading times. That, unfortunately, applies to all other modes. The time wasted due to loading screen / red circle of death, freezes, force quits etc. is atm absolutely ridiculous considering the amount of money the company is making... there is absolute no appropriate re-invest showing up.
• yaaaaawn - game's getting exploited by the same boring modes for ages. About SD I don't want to say a thing as it is an obvious lazy move by big S. I only started to do some matches last night as I was really "burnt out" of the game recently. It's just not funny anymore (playing since... 2017 with some breaks so my roster as a minimum spender is quite ok-ish)
• OPness - I get it, totally. New characters have somehow to outmatch older ones. Ie an SB Fiend does not have the same impact like he had maybe 2 years ago and gets easily sidelined nowadays. But what was released within the last 6 months just makes my head shake in disbelief; here comes my favorite experience from last women's feud: feuded against 3g trickster Becky with my 5g IoW Charlotte... thought, cool, piece of cake, bust her ass and proceed to next opponent's superstar... haha, I was soo naive and wrong. That bitch really knocked me out of the park. A THREE STAR GOLD who was not even max leveled. That was the moment I lost my drive on the game. Until recently players could somehow compensate the strength of new characters (by using the right trainers, medals, props, gears and - what I despise to touch - perks) but since beginning of 2022 that changed dramatically... and, of course, not for the better. (cudos to everyone who was lucky enough to pull these behemoths)

So... I will wait what this summer will bring up on the game but as of now I might drop it for good... not imagining what might happen when Big S dev team meets up with Blizzard's lol

Additionally, when speaking of an “economy“ within the game, consider amping up not only rewards, but also all the shops etc.

Ie, showdown shop hadn't been given a real update since years (not mentioning the IoW characters from 2021).