Sweater Smackdown Contest

I love the contest. I think it provides valuable resources to the game. I love the xmas sweaters. They make the game even better.

I love the Christmas Sweaters. As far as gear goes, they are almost all very useful and they look great. It'd be nice if there were at least something to grind for. This contest feels like its less of a game and more of a shop. At least concerning Edge's sweater with a 24 hour window and very limited ways to earn medallions.

agreed level 17 boss 700 million health, what you guys lossing by having this high ? i feel its not a challenge its impossible, i feel it should be progressive hp each time you play not by level. rewards should more frequent not random, i would be more interested in playing boss if i got rewards of good quantity each time i play. thanks if you see this

Man, the shift in emotions I had for the sweater contest this year (and the people involved) followed by realizing it was god damn Faction Boss was severe enough to give me whiplash.

• To start - I think all of the gear selections were good in that most of the characters needed it (sans maybe Becky and Edge) and I thought that they gave them somewhat of a kick up the ass as a result. There's a bit of a complication in that a lot of those characters also had prerequisite gear (namely Hogan and Easy E, who have quite rare gear) but those are also two guys who probably need that second gear. That made everything else all the worse.
• The kicker came when boss battle was the event type, which mean that I would do what I do every boss battle - fall 5-8 milestones behind the end of 'free' milestones and ultimately waste my damn time. I actually got further than anticipated this time around despite this boss battle being unbearable past turn 2 because I ended up with a solid group of people in my faction, but even then it didn't make much difference because of how everything was structured: a large portion of points were locked behind clearing a level 17 boss battle with a list of people who ranged from 'underwhelming compared to more common options' to 'total waste of a slot'. And if you didn't do this totally reasonable task, then you didn't get jack and your time was better spent elsewhere.
• All the usual problems also cropped up to help contribute - weird phantom lobbies, losing up to a full turn for no reason, disconnect (whether myself or a teammate) out of nowhere - all make a bad mode worse. I've said it before, many others have said it before. I just want to emphasize that faction boss bugs are so much worse. You get the health pack bug in feud, you restart the game, lose at most a minute. You lock up deep into a boss battle fight, all you can do is take it and watch in dismay as the run falls to pieces, wasting all your time and possibly running the risk of not being able to group up with an ideal team. Kills all enthusiasm I have to play.
• Prize wall seemed to be tuned so that you maybe got one 30k gear if you did everything perfectly, and a premium price if you spent a ton - which is odd because all the more expensive gears are worse than the new ones imo. The Edge gear was in particularly incompetently set up (Shop description implies that one could unlock it by doing all the tours w/ contest bonuses day 1 but tours activate one day at a time so it's basically just a whale gear - this really feels like it's a case of one hand not knowing what the other is doing) and I'm not even dignifying the Bischoff gear on the portal with a response. Other than that, you had some really underwhelming gifts, a 6-star token which is probably 'the best of a bad situation', and a strap. It's also real easy to get stuck with ~3,000 tokens and have nothing to spend them on because there wasn't even a pity econ slot on the board.
• Tours weren't too awful, but I'm saying that at someone who actually had Hogan built enough to handle them, and that's not exactly an easy task for a lot of people. On top of that, if you didn't have the contest requirements down perfect they would also likely torpedo your event chances.
• Here's another bullet point jus to emphasize how much I hate faction boss and how it makes you reliant on either your faction (who likely don't have the roster strength or depth if you're outside the top 100) or randoms (oh my god the thought brings shudders) where all the other events largely grade you on your individual performance (Yes, ultimately feud is just you beating a bunch of 1v1 PvE matches, the second person on teams is usually a formality) - if boss battle was adjusted to solo play maybe I'd be a bit more understanding but as someone who isn't super in-tune with the faction thing it's always a weekend I dread.

Its interesting to see how the above posts that start before the event were positive and you get a sense that people were excited and looking forward to getting some of the hyped gear.

I like the idea of bringing in new gears to make older superstars relevant, or useful as with the changes in the game over the last 6-12months have made anyone older then then last year to be largely useless as a fighter and only good for trainer/coach.

Imo the trend over the last three months has been steeply negative and getting worse. It has taken a lot of fun out of the game. Alot of the complaints are the same. The amount of special superstars need for points that are pay walled, but thwy are not just pay walled but rare pay wall. This is not fun and it is not competitive they are not thw same things. Even doing 100+ pulls per month , I had one of those superstars, the oldest one. It should not be hard to come up with a formula that is 50/50 or 60/40 so you can still make money but its also fun for players. Uncontrolled greed is ruining the experience.

In the past it was cool and fun to work with teammates to overcome the boss. If it takes the top few guys in your faction to help pull guys through thats great it helps the faction experience. They should be rewarded not punished. This past boss event was ridiculously hard. Guys who spend 300-400 a month with whale rosters 5k+ talent and they couldn't beat the boss. The standard line for Scopley is that they want make it competitive but that is rhetoric, its all about squeezing more money. Selling boss breakers, selling pulls for special characters, selling gears on 4 year old guys. Uncontrolled greed ruined the experience for a lot of players this weekend.

It's was nice that there where some more the usual 6 star tokens available, unfortunately very very few could get to them because of how difficult they made the boss and ridiculously out of reach on the prize wall for gear. Not fun

The general trend is worrisome as the 2 monthong campaign equates to less events and less resources for players, but its still getting more and more expensive. Players in my faction have been saving to get the titan plate but have to wait longer because there's now less skill plate tokens. The talent up has been lost and all the resources that help set you up for the month. Basically they give less and want more. Lesa fun, more money.

I'm not sure Scopley understands Christmas. In case there is confusion its not about making people pissed off and frustrated. If there's one time to show your players, who are paying and supporting you, that you appreciate them, it Christmas. So far, not so fun and costing more money then last month.

The lack of player appreciation and respect for thier paying supporters makes involvement with Scopley more like buying services from a telephone air duct cleaning company. I think thats where the marketing director must have came from. Aggressive and one sided with increasing demands and wanting more money.

There was a class action suit that Epic games lost this month for its Rocket League loot boxes as they were deemed unfair and against consumer protection laws. Epic had to pay 2.75 million. We need to find ways to hold Scopley accountable in the same way as imo Epic, with Fortnite and Rocket League are a much more equitable company. They still make tons of money but as a player you don't feel screwed by them all the time. I can't think of a company where they are more hated by thier players. Its amazing its survived this long. The feedback on all social media is negative, 9 to 1 bad. New players are discouraged from trying the game and rightly so because of its ridiculous costs. So Scopley makes it existing players pay more. Sign me up for the next class action suit.

Biggest issue for me was the boss battle. This was by far the worst boss battle experience I've ever had, with it basically being if you don't win turn one you are screwed. The event overall was a let down, and I had my hopes set too hih

I like when an event doesn’t involve a new card. We don’t need a new one every week.

please send edge gear

this Was a fast boss to get done and made it enjoyable to complete fast with our faction

This weekend sucked. Faction contest with no ties to the weekend event. No faction contest points in either boss battle or the tours. Boss Battle was not good, there was no clear way through, just look at the faction leaderboards and you can confirm that for yourselves. Rewards largely did not justify the means.

Outside of the joy of making money, what did you, as a company, think went right about this weekend? I guarantee that whatever yall thought was a win internally did not carry over to the end user.

The Event is standard format just like all your other events. Nothing new.

Sweaters Gear were nice editions to make those three NWO guys good in current scenario.

I have two request:

1) Make a usable gear like that for those Original 8 characters. They deserve that.

2) Please Find a way to differentiate between leaderboard for Faction Boss Battle. 7 or 8 Factions having 400k points and still ranked differently isn't fair by any means. That gives some unfair advantage for solo leaderboard. Just reaching their first shouldn't be the one criteria. But yeah it that's the criteria make the event for couple of hours , or 6 hrs.

Grinding the whole day for top 50 rank and then fall behind because a faction who has same score got the better leaderboard rewards.

This isn't balanced.

This was by far the best boss battle experience as most of the faction was able to max. However, there was still issues with game lagging and the Edge gear shouldn't have been restricted to only 24 hours, it should be available until the end of the event.

Sería bueno que pusieran luchadores que la mayoría de jugadores tenemos para ganar las recompensas adicionales, mejores recompensas y que sea más fácil llegar a un luchador 6*

Boss battle was awfull in all sense. It had lots of glitches and connection issues and this time the difficulty level was way high.

Another thing that was horrible tis time was that you can buy for $5 the new sweaters but to be useful you have to buy the other gears, costing an extra $20. Felt like robbery.

On the other hand, the tours were accesible if you don't take into account the first one that you needed to have a rare guy and also do some extra backfips to get edge's attire. Looked impossible.

The rest of the prizewall options were very pricey but can't complain because there were cheaper options this time.

Also the faction contest is impossible to max unless the vast majority of your faction can evolve or have some 6s. You should have kept the option to get points by fusing or evolving