Fight for the LIVing Dead

Found this one tough as it seemed to be for the big spenders rather than the rest of us. Didn’t enjoy it

There was a lot done right with this event and a few things that could be adjusted in the future.

Things that went right:

For the main tours the bonus superstars requested were very accessible, there have been many opportunities to get some version of the required superstars and that’s always fun for us to build up shards in the featured card.

Showdown mode is always a fun time, you guys continue to deliver in the minor categories with damage from Powerhouses and Zombie superstars.

Things that could be improved:

Similar to the Cora Jade Showdown, it’s tough for some people to have the bonus superstars. I don’t think you should make them all easy to get. There should always be a reward for people willing to spend on the game to entice others to do so. 2-3 superstars that are less rare, even if they are A and B tier and harder to use.

On a somewhat related note, it was tough to get the LIV poster for the month long scavenger hunt. I feel like the month long events should be accessible to everyone. Potentially the next time you run an event like this maybe consider making the poster available at the silver chest so it’s a little bit more attainable.

something to give credit for:

I will give you guys credit in trying new things, there are a lot of games who stick to what they think works. I think we can acknowledge that needing LIV for the showdown didn’t work this time, but there could be a place for this in the future. Possibly running a separate showdown that offers rewards such as evo tokens instead of event points. The extra event points usually aren’t needed if you pull the featured superstar in day 1.

Thank you for continuing to strive to make the game more enjoyable for everyone. We do appreciate how awesome the game is

this event felt rushed and unplanned. Please spend more time in development planning contests so this does not happen again, in the end you did right and gave bonus points that were missing in the event but it was too little too late and could have been avoided. It sometimes feels like events are planned and the devs think that most of the player base has all the rare superstars. We don’t. I have a good handle of rare champions but still in most events I’m missing at least half of the CSS. Champions are pumped out so fast, they have a short shelf life and become uninteresting. I did enjoy the Liv trial and hopefully will get her next year. I hope she is still relevant then

SD Tours: I didn't really like that the Liv Tour was one only exclusive to having Liv at least we should of been able to use any live to do the tours and being able to use ZLIv to get the bonus.

SD: I didn't mind that there was a SD specific for if you got ZLiv early but didn't like the specific requirements as there are not that many powerful females in specific classes. I also don't see why the energy is needing to be used as it was way better when you can grind out SD if you wanted to instead of only being able to do so many matches.

This game has become more pay to play then its ever been. EVER! this is so ridiculous. This used to be a very fun game. Now it's just a drag. You bring out new superstars every week or weekend and expect us players to spend hundreds of dollars to even have a .001% chance to pull them. What happened to this being a free to play game? I'll tell you what happened. You've become greedy AF. Only wanting money. You do not care about us players unless we spend our hard earned money daily. Only listening to the whales that fill your pockets. What about the people who want to just enjoy a game? Oh that's right. We're just trash on the sidewalk that everyone just walks over. Cards used to be 2 maybe 3k shards. Now it's becoming 5k every new superstar that gets brought out. Especially the MLC chase card. If it wasn't for the people I've became friends with here. I wouldn't even be playing still. Get this game back to what it used to be. Make this game fun again.

Nice move from scopely

Oh, a second showdown event! I like showdown scrimmage (usually), what could possibly go wrong?

Oh. Oh.

• First off, the points were all out of whack with this - even if I redeemed the free 1 mil points in time (which I didn't because who's seriously playing the event on the monday after everything's wrapped up), I'd still be at least a million points out from the last free milestone, and that wasn't going to happen with how the superstar competition was.
• The idea of a premium showdown is, uh, sure something. I'd imagine making it even more time-intensive then usual (You can complete a tour any time of day but the sooner you pull zLiv, the more showdown you get to play) makes people want to pull Liv in theory, but at this point I'd imagine the dreadful odds of pulling any thing of substance have warded most people off. I'd also imagine it would be either relatively dead or crammed full of awful whale-types, both of which don't seem fun.
• Tours were fine, not much more to say - will reflect my surprise that 'Any Liv' didn't get any presence, but I didn't think anything was too terribly bad for requirements.
• Showndown itself was kind of a pain, assuaged by the fact that I saw a lot of low-tier SB Laceys, presumably because modern era powerhouse is a bit of a nightmare to fill (especially if you use Super Stacy to lean on any PH women's requirements like I do). Lowered cap wasn't particularly welcomed, but honestly this was a showdown where I got in and got out because...
• Pretty awful superstar competition. Lot of paywalling and basically impossible to reach the end and get the 1 mil unless you had one of a handful of very hard to get characters including a character that came out last week. I thought we talked about this, stop building these events around 100%ing the month. Killed my motivation to play showdown dead because why bother, grinding isn't going to do anything.
• When I saw plates were cheap, I was hoping that they'd be obtainable, and I... guess they were? I did have to drop a 20 spot for an Uso Cap, which is much cheaper than they usually go for, but it's also a three year old plate - it should be going for less at this point, if not obtainable for free. With how paltry the medallions were, though, it seemed like the low-cost plates were the only thing really worth pursuing with the rest being a pipe dream.

That was, after a fair amount of time passed, a really really bad event overall. The premium showdown for those who pulled zombie Liv Morgan, ok fine. But then the exclusive zombie liv tour made no sense. It was like being double rewarded for the same thing.

Coming to the normal showdown. How and why, after so many years of adding women characters to the game, have the people that plan these events not realized the difference between men roster and women roster? The sheer thought process that goes into the planning of such kind of events is completely baffling. The CSS were all premium characters (i had two). The points distribution was abysmal.

Tours were okay but again the miscalculation from the people who planned it, where were the solo points? Lack of solo points in the tours forced adjustments and giving out free points. Even those were not enough though.

All in all, a very disappointing weekend event.