SummerSlam 92 Scrimmage Contest

As others have written, it was refreshing to chase a decent character in this mini event. I found the Showdown challenging and time consuming but ultimately rewarding, as I was able to grind it out and emerge with Bulldog by the end.

Far too often, these events exclude players who don’t already have rare characters and/or who can’t afford to buy a vast number of pulls. I enjoyed this change where every Showdown match added some points to the chase — it meant that even without the rare characters, I was able to pursue. Good work there, and I’d ask you to please continue in this direction, as it renews my interest in the game and fights the suspicion so many players have that Scopely only cares about the whales.

I very much enjoyed the grindable part of the '92 scrimmage event but hated that they said one thing to players and then switched it up without any notice.

I find it worrisome that Bulldog has two characters that are literally no different from each other in design. There are different eras he could have been drawn from such as designing him more like his appearance in the legend era or hart foundation era.

So now we have two indistinguishable bulldogs, two indistinguishable Vince McMahons, two indistinguishable honky tonk men (btw, guys he didn't actually wrestle in the full jumpsuit except the time warrior squashed him),and 3 indistinguishable Rocks (IOW, great one, most electrifying). Are we having that much trouble negotiating? I really hope not. I know I'm one of the more chronic negative reviewers but I wouldn't stick around if I didn't like the game and want to see it succeed.

I was unable to play the showdown at all so I can't fairly evaluate whether or not the claim of "free to obtain" is credible. I remember quite clearly the 420-turn survival match with dude love and a board full of color turn gems so I'm deeply cynical of any of these types of claims. Assuming its legit, great! The game needs more of this. But if this is yet another example of technically correct but very misleading hype, thats terrible.

I just worry if we are at the point that "new" characters are just palette swaps with different moves then we've got trouble. Did we need a new bulldog or did the existing one just need better moves? Seems more like the latter to me.

*I was able to get a 4SG Bulldog from a bag, so please give someone else a chance to win.*

Good : Yes it was hard to grind out that many wins but getting a character for 100% free was amazing. I really hope these are done more often, giving people a means to speed it up with $ and also give a reasonable means of maxing it for free is really the best of both worlds.

I want to add a caveat to PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't increase the milestones and half the amount of points you can earn in the future should an event like this be rolled out.

Bad :

First, I'm not going to write a novel about this but we all know the rollout of this event and the communication was not ideal, and I even made a comment about it earlier in this thread.

it's not BPG's fault nor do I blame him for what he said on stream as he was given bad info to share, so I would just use this as a learning opportunity to tighten up how things are relayed in the future to prevent issues like this from popping up.

Second, I didn't personally have any issues beating the tours but... The blog information vs. the tours rollout was wrong again. That really needs to be addressed and have 1 person, 2 people, 3 people or whatever is needed do a proof read before it's published.

I totally understand the people that were upset because of misinformation on where the Bulldog card was going to be located. However, one of my greatest frustrations over the last 6+ months in regards to the changes that have been made to the game is that grinders cannot get anywhere in this game because of the best things being placed behind a paywall.

So, for me, this was a really welcomed event because of the "infinite" points per win allowed grinders to be able to get much needed resources that are now always behind the paywall. Yes, I had to dedicate a lot of time grinding, but I was willing to do that. Paying should be for those that just don't want to spend the time grinding to get the rewards and not a necessity for everyone playing the game.

I know Scopely put the Bulldog card in the milestones because of a mistake made earlier in the week, but I'm not saying that Scopely has to give out a card every contest in the milestones, but all of the milestones should be grindable. The amount of resources (coins, TP, and tokens) has been ever increasing, but much of those resources are behind a paywall. It was definitely nice to be able to grind for a few extra 5 star emerald tokens and another 20+ mil in coins.

You don't need to give away a card everytime, but at least make the events maxable via grinding.

I will give Scopely an "A" for this event. I do think they need to evaluate what is an adequate amount of grinding for events. For this one, I know I did over 250 matches and got to the next to last milestone. I would have needed about another 100-150 more to get the final milestone. That is pretty steep for a 24-hour period. I would like to do things with the wife and kids on weekends. 😁

My feelings about the game would greatly improve if I could earn the rewards by actually "playing the game" and not just having to buy them.

It was great the rewards helped out a lot the rewards I got were brilliant