RISE OF THE GREAT ONE

It would be good if for some time they make it easy for you to get the super star, they always put fighters that you don't have, so there's no point in ever reaching your goal if you don't invest money

I love the game but yeah they never let you get the superstar that you need to use for the contest unless you spend money they should give that everyhow and then free or something or an easier way to get it I play it daily they should give their daily players a Better incentive or an easier way of getting those superstars

Pues veo q esta bien el evento su ve genial

It’s pretty disappointing to not have any shards available to chase the new Rock. Even his bags/chests don’t give his shards, just shards for other characters with a tiny chance to get the new Rock. It makes him feel entirely unobtainable.

The resources for maxing out the feud contest (with 75mil points) are very nice, but the feud start times are very awkward for any time zones other than PST. The next feud starts at 11pm here, even later on the east coast. That’s rough.

Was excited to get mem rock shards atleast. But they Paywalled them so much. Zero shards of new rock and they want to be stingy with the old one? That's low bro.

The truth is that they do not find fragments of the rock, it is very unfortunate, the event was normal, the tours were fairly accessible, since most versions of the rock are grade s and can be obtained by buying, and there are people whose economic situation does not allow them to buy, like those in the US. faction feud was good but I have presented some freezing bugs that made me lose points fix that in general it was a bit of a regular event the rewards should increase the amount of diamond and emerald token and make them a little more accessible since they are always in the high rewards and several people do not have the extras to reach those rewards so this event was normal although it was very bad not to give any fragments of the rock

I'll be the first to admit I generally have the awareness to see that most of the weekends I post after an event, it's mostly me saying how much things sucked. 

And at face value, there was a lot to this event that is pretty easy to put people off but if you let it play out, there was actually a lot to enjoy about this weekend. It's been interesting!

NOT GOOD

• Obviously, a shardless recruit just off the rip usually makes me and a lot of people check out. It's just been a while since one and I got mixed feelings on it. I had a fate glimmer of hope of maybe this would finally be the weekend we got a return to top X warscore gets the card but no dice. Could be worse, but it is always a feel bad to just kinda assume you're gonna be on 0 shards forever.

• The ongoing murder of CSS competition. I mean at this point, I just assume this is gonna be the way it is. It's really, really disappointing to take this grind element out of the weekend for people that want to do it. One idea that I saw come up in my faction: if going forward this event is just going to be a straight roster check, maybe consider just making all the CSS a straightforward one off? Some of the css are always less than ideal and it's kinda like you either have it or you don't. At least for flash it would be a little more enjoyable if it was a fastest in and out, especially for rounds like flash 2 that were starting at midnight here in some of the states after people got to enjoy the PLE.

• Did not particularly enjoy the faction spend contest just being a one day event. Personally, I was not in a position really to throw down massively so my opinion only goes so far (For full transparency, the only spending I did this weekend was the $5 weekend pack and 2 $20 packs for the faction event) but the structure kinda made people take all their shots early. Especially for a shardless recruit, why? Not the end of the world but didn't seem particularly needed.

• I'll admit I made it work, but a good chunk of feud lineups were a bit restrictive were really cramped some fun creativity options in some lineups.

GOOD

• This does certainly come from being in the position of being in a top faction/being an established player/etc etc but if you look outside the weekend card, the resources this weekend were pretty dang solid IMO. My faction collectively was able to get to the 15m milestone in the early contest which got me (and a good chunk of others!) MEM Rock which many of us kinda never expected to happen. This is very cool!! Yes, it was all behind some big spending but it was nice to finally get a new card that has eluded many players.

• Related: With my upfront less than $50 spending, I was able to get to 9 medallions for the weekend. And personally, I think 9 medallions on the prizewall for a lot of people is pretty solid. Plenty of great plate and tokens options to choose from for minimal spending, and I do notice if I wanted to grab an extra medallion or two it's not the most terribly expensive. Personally, getting a new plate I've never had and some extra goodies a fun get.

• I guess this is a chain on the same theme, but the shards for some other premium characters seemed to come up decent for a lot of people. I personally picked up over 100 MoD Taker shards which puts me a LOT closer to him than I was going into the weekend and it's a nice feeling to inch closer to a high end unlock without spending.

• Personally, I thought the weekend tours were pretty straightforward and easy. I will say the Rock tour was a toughie and with some premium CSS but y'know, I'm always down for a little bit of a challenge. I even got to see some people in my faction clearing it with both The Great One and People's Champ. Kinda fun!

Overall, not a bad weekend after coming into totally checked out IMO! I did get to see some previews for Rock. Looks like a massively fun and good card, would be great to land him someday but I'm not holding my breath for sure. But I liked the idea and execution of the medallions and prizewall! I will say the rollout of the prizewall was a bit messy but a lot of players picking up new plates and resources for mostly just playing the event is nice. It might not be the new chase card, but it's nice to feel like you can come out of the weekends with *something* new.

Xoxo,

Dear You

i'll say this a good event for top factions and players with good wrestlers ,easy stuff to get

in the other hand for players without good wrestlers or not in a good faction then is kinda impossible to get something

being in a bad factions with a limited amount of wrestlers will get you few stuff

landed a 6 star finn balor and with him i could only get 25 million in the total of the factions feud event

for the spending event didn't get anything

and for the faction event got only the first objective

I don't have an opening joke. I do have a string of four letter words I'm tempted to post, but I know another place I could actually post those and have them stay up for longer than 15 minutes.

• 0. Shards. Available. I've briefly mentioned cardinal sins events can pull off in the past, and never really detailed all of them (mainly because these review posts are mostly stream-of-consciousness rambling) but one of them is definitely this - the shard recruit is a core part of the event because it directly gives one both a short-term indicator of performance and makes the character, you know, possible to work towards later on. Without it, there's no flow, feel of progression, or incentive - it has become the backbone of the weekend event. There are other questionable decisions made in this event, but this is the one that killed it dead for me before I even saw anyone begin to scroll downwards.
• What about everything else, then? The shard selection was passable but default bags were giving out 10 shards each for the rarer shards - are you that hard up for any sort of reward that weighting them towards Striker Farooq from hell to back wasn't enough? There was talk of getting MEM Rock shards as an alternative (another guy who was a 0-shard release so I never opted for his shards and I guarantee you I will never shard recruit) and I think I got less than 200 shards. I'm now at 755 shards. 1,245 away. Let me break out the streamers and celebrate!
• Tours were subpar - only good part was DX HHH was actually on sale as a poster, and that card could give a lot of rosters a kick up the ass. Friday tour wasn't awful for once, but the Rock tour was just dreadful (and highlighted the big issue with making a ten-thousand dollar paywall for a usable Rock) and the others were... fine, I suppose. Requiring PH Farooq for the challenge tour is not what I'd call good, but honestly nothing in these tours mattered (because no Tech Rock shards) so why do I care, I quarter-assed these.
• Feud drug like hell - I had every character for the middle rows, and besides PH Faarooq I wouldn't call them too out of pocket to get. My kingdom for a god damn open slot.
• This superstar competition was a directed statement of ill intent - tiebreaker was just straight-up a spend with no intention of actually working between milestones (the fact that people are bargaining for 200 matches between milestones grinding to return shows that something is required for this), and this was an extra-nasty set of requirements, meaning that I was especially incentivized to sleep through feuds.
• Usually community events in other games are set up in that if it doesn't appear to reach a given milestone in time, there just happens to be an extension to the event or there's a sudden surge of progression out of nowhere. You guys, though, will honestly and earnestly let a community contest land with a bigger thud than a balloon full of wet sand, and that's... admirable? But it's also taught me not to even bother with the community contests because so few of them pan out to the point where any meaningful reward will be fulfilled.

i'll say this a good event for top factions and players with good wrestlers ,easy stuff to get

in the other hand for players without good wrestlers or not in a good faction then is kinda impossible to get something

There was a lot of connection issues during the feuds which made the event extremely frustrating. If this can be addressed it would be appreciated

Feedback for Rise of Great One Flash Fued

Positives

• New Rock looks impressive and likely the strongest in the current meta.
• It's great there were plenty of MEM shards given out but still not enough to warrant being able to recruit him though.
• I like that the Chests, Bag and Flash Fued Loot included a number of new superstars shards from this month, it wasn't many but enough to make a small dent to inching closer to recruiting them.
• Flash fued was fine for me personally, aim was to max warscore, do what I can for superstar competition and call it.
• Solo Tours and CSS was good with the options offered, was able to complete them all.
• The Faction Gift bag was a good incentive to get people to spend so others can get small gains. I don't think this is an option if you spent in Web portal, if not please make this an option.

Negatives

• It's great there's a new Rock but not so much considering there's no shard release, so he's probably going to be one in the wont be able to recruit after 2 years bucket.
• MEM Rock was released with no shards so those who didn't spend or are not heavy spenders are still miles away from recruiting him, therefore making this a very boring Flash Fued where there was no option to recruit someone new.
• If you choose not to spend and grind fued then you end up with just 4 medallions so no plate options which makes it a boring weekend event where even if you played you don't really come away with anything to show far.

Another "meh" Flash Fued Event, I managed to get 4 medallions and would need to spend to atleast get the others. Personally I don't think I will spend to obtain plates when I'd rather spend to obtain new/rare superstars so will save my money for something else down the road.

I'll preface this with a quick overview of where my perspective is coming from. I'm a daily player currently at League 11 and 4 million power. That is to say, I'm a new player that started just a few short months ago, but I am a whale. WWE Champions is not the only game I play or the only one I spend in.

Starting with the obvious, the chase for the event. The new Rock is a very obvious example of Power Creep, as have been the last few characters to come out - though they were less extreme. Ignoring all of the general arguments that arise from power creep, I'll concentrate on just the most relevant to Event Feedback. Firstly, you've made the decision to make this a 0 shard character, requiring pure rng that is heavily favored against acquisition as the only means of obtaining this character during the event, leaving me with almost zero incentive to participate or spend. Disregarding the ample selection of Skill Plates in the prize wall, this events only savign grace, my rewards consisted solely of materials that I already get through IAPs in actually good events. I don't spend to get coin and TP, or even straps and medals. I expect those as supplemental rewards while getting the chase. When the milestones grant me the same thing as the IAPs themselves, with no goal as a very clear special reward, there simply is no incentive.

Additionally, of lesser importance but still worth mentioning, the event greatly rewarding those who were lucky instead of those who had much higher participation or higher spending instead. I'm always in favor of F2P sources, even rng ones, that can allow every player the same opportunity and great characters and items. The reward for that should've ended at being lucky enough to obtain this new overpowered character for free and relishing in the fact that they are one of the few who will have it. What should not have happened is having the event provide them with insurmountable bonuses as well. The best example of this was allowing those players to gain an additional 5 million points in the supplemental War Score event. The event which is un-grindable and granted points in the main Solo event. This meant that a player that grinded out milestones and spent money in several of the previous events, obtaining characters which only granted 1 million points each, had less advantage than someone who was simply lucky and nothing else. To clarify, having the chase should expedite milestone progress and increase overall rewards, but when the chase in unable to be earned and only gotten through rng so unfavorable that you're better off buying a lottery ticket, it's on the verge of becoming insulting, even more so when those advantages outweigh those that grinded and spent with no additional gains whatsoever.

Issues not pertaining to the unobtainable chase are issues that persist regardless of this particular event and can be found in others. One of which, as others have previously mentioned, the FLash Feud and it's ridiculous timeframes are infuriating and burdensome. I'm frtunate enough to be able to grind out enough points to finish the Event milestone in the first run, but I still need to set alarms to wake up in the middle of the night so that I can get the points for the supplemental event for using CSS as well as support my Faction members by helping them queue and clear faster and well as increasing our overall score for LB position. Another issue is that of the IAPs and Prizewall debut/duration. The prizewall not being active from the start made it much more difficult to plan out purchasing to obtain the prizes I wanted. Not knowing what exchanges are available and what their cost is should never be the case. I can't see how this strategy would ever be helpful to either the players or your own KPIs. The same holds true for the IAps themselves. Not kning how many offers will contain prizewall currency and how much they will contain, makes it difficult to judge when to spend and on what it should be spent on. Imo, holding better IAPs untilt he final day makes one hold their money until then, but also creates FOMO for the first few days, which is frustrating and can be agonizing simply because you don't have all the facts. Adversely, Spending on the first few days and then seeing the better offers on the final day create regret and lowers spending confidence altogether (something significantly power creeping your characters also does in the long run *cough cough*).

It was also quite apparent that some goals were severely overestimated. The global event on the portal also suggests a dire need to analyze data better. It took the community 3 days to achieve half of the ultimate goal, which is wild considering it involved no need to spend. Having played for only ~3 months, I don;t have a lot of insight on historic frequency or performance of the global portal events, but I would hope the outcome of this one is not the norm. Another was the Faction spending event. Only gaining points through spending Loot Coins. This is where those "plenty of mem rock shards available" boasts on the blog were pointing to, and if I recall correctly 1/3rd of those were tied to the 3rd to last milestone that only 2 Factions were able to obtain. The remaining 2/3rds of the shards were much easier to obtain for the overwhelming majority of Factions while we're at it. I am willing to listen to any argument regarding making the chase virtually unobtainable, but locking a much older character behind a paywall this large, whether highlighted on the event blog or not, is unacceptable imo.

I think the best way I can sum everything up is by saying that I absolutely grinded out every event and spent a very large amount of money on this event, but I absolutely would not do it again. Not because I didn't feel rewarded, but because the way I was would not matter to me in the next iteration of this format. Being a very new player, I have no skill plates and their importance in the endgame is unquestionable. Through the spending I did, I was able to walk away with 7 new skill plates at the end. It could have been 9 new skill plates, but as I stated earlier, not knowing the cost of the prizewall exchanges or what offers are available, I was unable to maximize my spending and went after early IAPs that were less efficient If I was a veteran player with these skill plates already, my wallet would have stayed closed once I knew there was no chance at getting the chase. If I had been a F2P, whether new or veteran, I know that I would have not enjoyed this event because there was no goal to aim for. Only due to the combination of my being new and being a whale did I have any reason to participate or spend, and unless this is ran again with a completely different set of plates available, I absolutely would ignore it. No chase? No reasonable expectation of at least some older characters? I don't care how many plates, straps, medals, coins, etc. I can get from the event, if I don't have characters to use them on, those materials have no value. I disagree with making the new character as overpowered as it was, making it a 0 shard event, and not at least making mem rock more accessible. I do think an event format that highlights materials as the goals, as long as those materials are valuable endgame ones such as these skill plates and guaranteed ultimate straps were, is viable and would help push KPI's favorably, but not coupled with a 0 shard unlock chase that happens to be a brand new overpowered character. It would work much better with multiple older, but still meta relevant, characters as easier to unlock chases. With the right frequency, I believe that would ultimately help the economy and allow players to better develop their rosters. After all, what's the point of making characters if nobody gets to use them? It also has the added benefit of slowing your release cadence a bit, allowing moire time to increase quality. Food for thought.

Thanks for reading.