SUMMERSLAM CLASSICS MLC FEEDBACK

So in the kickoff faction tourney the only way to get bonus rewards each match is to purchase the new HTM upgrade to 3*...what an absolute scummy thing to do.

Imagine being so greedy that you put all the bonus rewards behind a 3s version of the MLC Character stop screwing free to play people over. I get Scopley is a business buts there's better ways to be a business then being this greedy and saying a big f you to your customers

Another MLC starts,

massive problems again.

Web portal was not working.

Points are not counted.

Milestones not paid.

Incorrect minimum requirement in the tour.

It can only run even worse if the servers go offline for a day at the start.

Problems that will still arise this month:

Red ring for feuds.

Brawl is simply ended in feuds, players lose points and healing packs.

In boss fights, the fight freezes, players fly out of the fights. Battles will end for everyone.

At least 4 more failures on the web portal and so on.

Events are announced far too late, every other game in the world announces all events, with all the details, 3 days in advance. Even much smaller developers can do it.

You screw up the prices every month, of course there is only one way, players pay more and more.

But problems that have existed for years will not be solved, take care of them, because more and more players, some of whom have paid a lot of money per month, are quitting.

@ThePacMan

I'm really not one to shoot the messenger, but I think the issue isn't just the last three nodes, it's what they represent: the continuing efforts of the devs to underhandedly screw over the player base through poor communication. In this instance, it may have been intended, but how are the players supposed to know that intent? Was it communicated anywhere? If someone looks at the Hell rewards and thinks "I could beat that with 4sb HTM," then spends $100 only to find out the last three nodes are locked, how were they supposed to know? It certainly isn't clear in game.

This is just a part of a bigger issue: the game is structured around month long events, but we never find out what is going on more than about 48 hours before it happens. I know the MLC takes 500k points to max, but that number is meaningless if I have no idea how I'm getting those 500k points. Do I need to max all the coin and TP events? Do I need to have all the special event characters? Do I need to get a backstage pass? All four backstage passes? Who knows? There's no way to plan out anything other than maybe a loose idea of what I need each week. The shards are a similar issue. The 3000x shards needed are strewn about through dozens of random contests, event nodes, milestones, etc, with no possible way of ever planning how you're going to get them all. Let's not forget that Scopely constantly raises the coin and TP needed to max these events with absolutely no notification as well.

Beyond that, the new characters released each week are the same way. Every event seems to be structured around getting about 80% of a character's shards with absolutely no way of knowing when or where you'll get the other 20%. Will I be able to trade in prizewall currency during the next event for them? Is there going to be a pack in the store for $20? Will they be put in the next flash market milestone? Or am I going to go 6 months without a chance to get them? It's hard to make any kind of informed decision when you don't know what the options are.

The last issue is just how deceptive everything is. Obviously one thing I'm alluding to is the HTM contest nodes mentioned already. But in the grander scheme, almost everything is misleading. The loot pull system is so bad that I'm not even going to go any further into how unfair it is. Events where you find out you need to pay for something (Alexa Bliss Pyro Plate comes to mind) that is advertised as achievable is equally frustrating. Plus, the confusing and overdone currency system, where an average month probably has over a dozen separate limited time currencies, not even counting the dozen lootcoins, is just annoying. For instance, last month there was an event where players had to spend real money to buy lootcoins which they then used with the hope of getting prizewall tokens to spend on the gear they wanted. This just obscures the real cost of anything to the point that players cant easily judge what they need to spend. Finally, every event seems to have contest chests where the top prizes are amazing, while the bottom prizes that people get 90% of the time are medal bits or useless 4star tokens, or other stuff that makes it a waste of time to spend hours grinding for such a worthless payoff.

Bottom line is that I think everyone is tired of not knowing what is going on. Everyone is tired of reading a blog post, getting excited for the weekend, and then realizing yet again that most of the good stuff is paywalled or requires spending the whole weekend grinding for a "spooky high chance" to get anything useful. It's just getting exhausting. It seems like the only things we can count on are that MLC launches will be riddled with errors, feud will have constant red ring issues, and the same top three factions will win every contest.