Community morale & state of the game in 2023

I used to spend a bit that atleast guaranteed me a few good pulls but now it's like you spend as much as you can and still no card pulls. The loot coin which we get as feud rewards have the worst pull rate, like, seriously, 5 shards. Now there isn't any fun playing at all. I agree with Luke here the way the game us going and just for spenders, there won't be any fun playing this game anymore. Talking about money, ₹6000 for Indians is a huge amount which doesnt guarantee any good amout of shards or card pulls. Either put good pull rates so that at least we too have chance of getting cards if not maxing events or lower the amount. Talk about maxing, how are we supposed to max events if they aren't grindable at all?

I don't know whether I added value by my comment but sooner or later the game is going to loose plenty of good players.

I see absolutely no value anymore in even spending a few bucks and hoping for a miracle with any of the pulls.

I do see myself losing interest in even putting effort to complete certain events. Take for example,

*mid week showdown, missing a couple of whale CSS stars, opens calculator, do some calculations, grind 200 matches (doable), wait, timing for replenishment of energy will never hit 200, ok, close game and do other things*

this is probably the approach I’m taking for every event in the last 3 months or so.

and very very close to just dropping my account to focus on more important aspects in life

this latest even has now become bags that don’t even have a set amount of shards anymore, purely luck of the draw, down right nonsense

I’m one of those “giving it one more month” people. Honestly the only reason I’m still playing at all has nothing to do with the game itself. I just like chatting with the people in my faction.

not asking for easy. Just asking for the ability to play. Super rare character requirements for showdown css, super rare feud requirements, needing 1 of only a few characters to effectively do boss battles are all draining on my morale and will lead to me leaving sooner than later.

Game is going from bad to worse.

No value in offers

Boss battle constant issues

Showdown now sucks

Feuds not even worth the hassle anymore due to no shards for new character

Victory tours lag like hell

Keep adding new crap no one asked for instead of fixing major problems already in game.

YOUR GREED HAS SUCKED ALL FUN OUT OF GAME AS IT IS NOW BASICALLY PAY TO COMPETE

When the game isn't fun anymore,the only question left to ask is.."why bother?"That is sadly the point I am at after this entire disaster of an MLC

I wrote something similar in a survey I recently provided. You are killing any sort of F2P element and the players who make this game a community. I personally do (or at least did) spend. But this rock event was it for me. Not a dime on it aside from the 5 bucks to get my feud steps. You created shards years ago to allow cards to be acquired over time. Then you break out an all about the chance card to say screw you to everyone. You used to grind or pay. Now it is grind and pay for a chance. Like your discount prizewall is terribly overpriced (I am around top 50 in solo MLE and can't get anything good), you make it almost impossible unless you get "lucky" to get the top reward and 4 tokens because even with the $100 you can't get him to 5sb week 1, and in general your distribution and point system is just stupid (make things round numbers please for quick and easy math). You are trying to suck every penny from your players, which is business, but you need to keep your F2P players engaged and active or there is no game.

Honestly, as a coleader of a top 15 faction, which is the only faction I have ever been a part of, this is the worst it has been with regards to morale and general feelings about the game. There are always issues that people moan and complain about, that's part of faction life, but now it's so bad that people don't even get upset. The discussion is more about how much longer they will continue to play or when they will stop playing. It is a real shame that the game has taken such a dramatic change towards the money grab, rather than the players because ultimately the motivation across the community is low, which means eventually the community will begin to shrink, and the game will disappear other than those still willing to spend and play. There is a balance between making good money nd keeping players engaged, but that has definitely been lost in the last 2 months with events becoming impossible to max, and matches that exclude most players. I think that if the aim is to keep the longevity of the game, then this is the completely wrong direction to achieve that. However, if the aim is to make as much money as possible before killing the game off, then this is the way scopely should continue to "improve" the game. I for one and crossing my fingers, that things change back to being more about the players than how to extort the most money from the big spebding players (off which those are disappearing too!)

I totally agree with Luke, now players have yo decide that they want to spend money for useless shards in the loot , bcoz no grindable events in this game. Game is totally based on spending..

I've been posting comments like this warning Scopely that eventually things would come to a head. I agree with every single comment posted above. Morale is at an all time low with the vast majority of the community base. We keep getting told that feedback is critical and te more people that jump on a topic the quicker that gets addressed, time to put your money where your mouth is Dev's. All these comments here are telling you what to do and how to improve. Nobody is asking for anything outrageous or unjustified, like me they simply want to enjoy the game. I've been playing almost 6 years myself like many others and spend occasionally, I've seen many free to play players try and start their journey with this game only to get blocked by various reasons whether its specific cards or payroll and then they walk away. The players that invest a lot in this game, will continue to invest, just because you make adjustments to cater for everyone doesn't mean you would lose anything, quite the opposite in fact.

Listen to the community!

At this point, just let the game die. The game isn't really fun any longer and while having to grind to succeed was a drag, it was at least an obtainable ends to a mean. Now, when there are events that announce they aren't even grindable... why bother?

I'd love to see the metrics of quantity of unique spenders per month and average $ spent per person. I'd have to imagine the quantity of people spending is diminishing rapidly thus causing the need to make the game more "pay to play" so the habitual whale spenders keep that $/person average up.

However, that technique will continue to cannibalize the game as it will drive the less dedicated spenders to drop off continuously until all that is left are the big spenders. And when what is spent by the whales is less than what it costs to run the game... adios game.

You are ignoring a large portion of your players with the way the game is currently set up.

Top 10 faction rewards are the only ones worth worrying about and those are purchased, not played for. Even then, if people were paying attention, I'm not sure they are worth it.

Almost every event is paywalled. The bonus characters are wrestlers you have to try to get in loot pulls, and even then you have to spend $300 - $500 for a guarantee. I'm not sure it's realistic to expect everyone playing the game to have that much extra money monthly to spend. It's a mobile game. If you don't spend, you have to get lucky with random shard bags. I've hardly ever gotten more than half of the shards needed to get an event character, other people seem to get them from bags on every single event. I'm not sure how random that's supposed to be.

Every event is starting to take 8 - 10 hours a day. People have lives outside the GAME. Please remember this should be a game not a lifestyle. People need to live their lives.

People in our top 50 team are talking about quitting because it's so frustrating and we've lost people in our lower, more fun team because it's too time consuming and no one wants to wait 2 years to be able to compete.

Something needs to change, players are frustrated and people don't feel the game is fair - except of course to those who can spend thousands of dollars monthly. But I assure you, the majority of the players don't have money like that to spend on this game.

Please bring some balance back to the game.

I have been playing for over 3 years and noticed myself as the game continues to “evolve” sometimes it’s not for the better. I was in a top faction Wolfpac Elite (Wolfpac in da house!)for the majority of that time and because of the requirements implemented by the game it was no longer fun being in a top faction if you didn’t spend or commit your life to the game. Despite having built up a good roster through time and effort rather than spending the evolution of this game has made it almost impossible to try and enjoy the “chase”. As noticed clearly this month more than ever if you don’t have the paywall characters you get left behind by the heavy spenders and those with “all the luck” (I’ve managed to get 2 “premium” weekend characters in 3 years, that’s 1 every 75 or so weeks!). To say the game is two tiered is wrong, it’s actually 3. Heavy spenders, grinders and casuals. I’ve noticed recently the casuals are giving up. The grinders are now at the start of the same process. We play this game to enjoy it, please remember without enjoyment or players there is no game.

I agree with all of the above ..I quit for a few years and came back..After coming back I regret quitting but now I regret coming back to the game .I've worked my tail off to catch up and try and participate being behind and everytime I do get somewhere you keep pushing me back down ...I spend some unfortunately I'm not spending what you require to get anywhere...to be totally honest my wallet is closed now and it will remain closed because it doesn't get me anything anyway..last months mlc has just proven that....it's utter BS to require the loot kings and queens of the month as CSS..you've made it so you shut 3/4 of the community out ...your killing the game to be honest...it's just not fun watching everyone who spends get everything ...I know it's a business I also don't mind throwing a few dollars to help but you just make it unreachable and it's ridiculous...you've made some great changes but now it seems your just out to rip the community off...I also dont expect everything for free but I also don't expect to spend my entire month giving all I have only to come up short every single time..nor do I expect to spend 100 dollars and get shards ..bait and switch for sure...Another mlc is starting guess what we will not get anything for it .. just come close enough we can buy some packs to get it...explain to me how that is fun ...it's not in case no one told you that...I cannot recommend this game to anyone ..not a single person everyone sees me playing it and I tell them stay away...your greed will be your downfall.ibe never seen greed in this level I gotta be honest.....mark my words .that kind if greed will destroy the game it already is ..there nothing to play for...change it to a show what you bought collector game and save yourself some money ...it's not a game it's just gambling...there a way you can get make it achievable and you might even profit more from it ...