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Tours were fine

Showdown started out broken and it took a long time to correct which was a problem when you needed to use drew McIntyre in a Showdown to score damage but after a certain level of notoriety you can only use legends in the first slot. For tasks like this in the future I think you should only select characters that can be used in the first slot through out Showdown.

Prize wall keeps getting worse, hit milestone 21 and can barely get anything and what I can get is meaningless for me.

Faction contest rewards were poor.

This weekend’s Showdown event is a complete disaster. I almost skipped the entire event because of the squirrelly scoring methods, like the row break point method for the faction event. I used Pat Patterson and lost 5 straight matches just to get enough to cover my part of the faction event as I was low on resources for leveling 6s superstars with the flash feud TU looming.

The SD event was also horrible as most Drew McIntyre in the game are absolutely horrible! Luckily the SD coin promoters are working as it should have been at the beginning! It was such a slog trying to get to the 1.8m milestone to get the Turkey for the week. Since the coin promoters count for event scoring, I could care less about notoriety including the revenge list. I leave that alone as it’s just easier to build up the streak again after hitting the top league of 3500.

The prizewall coins amounts were pathetic and the prizewall, although was just okay, seen better including the midweek’s Hall of Fame prizewall earlier. I never seen a SD that getting a character didn’t have a clear path to get. I should thank Scopely for a spending free weekend with the horrible packs, lack of prizewall coins to obtain and for Dusty Gate where there were some people that were able to get Dusty via 2k shards at the beginning in the portal’s reward tab minutes into the start of the event Friday Afternoon. After that and the TP takeaway, I am really rethinking whether this game is worth my time and money. Players should not be punished for Scopely’s programming errors and should take full accountability of the mistakes and let people keep what they earned… fair and square.

The only good thing was the tours. For me having the CSS, it was fun trying out Patterson for the first time, playing with Razor for the first time in ages and trying out Mosh at newly minted 4sb.

Overall, I used to love Showdown. It used to be my favorite game mode, but it is ruined with decisions that made the game not any fun on weekends anymore and discourages game play and even spending. I would like the energy aspect scrapped if this continues each time it’s a SD weekend. A SD weekend character should be able to be attainable and even for at most $100 at 1600 shard recruit. Showdowns are beginning to be more hated to me than faction boss. Unlike last week where there was a shard pack that helped me recruit a character I was within 100 shards of and was able to get Bam Bam, this week offered NOTHING! So the wallet is closed. Unless there’s great things in the store on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, I will not spend a penny.

Please change things like the scoring requirements for the faction events and add more prizewall coins so it would be able to obtain the new weekly characters. We shouldn’t have to feel ripped off and hopeless getting 3 quarters of a character when we can get closer and encourage spending and having fun.

How is anyone able to reach 1800000 with the paywall, limited energy horrible requirements and freeze. The reasons feud is awesome is because you can grind and reach a lot of milestones.

Posting again to address the absolute steel balls on these guys, where after a showdown with so many technical issues, they release a tour named Technical Difficulties.

And no damn response from any Scopely reps. Sounds about right.

First feedback post I've ever put on this game. To be honest this event was a total disappointment one part after the next with all the red rings and drew not counting towards points in the SD event. I usually spend bc I enjoy this game but with shardless loots becoming more common which I'm not a fan of. SD events used to be fun although not my favorite event of the game this one just made me not want to play this game at all. Usually I do spend most if not every weekend but it was an easy pass not to spend a dime on this game this weekend. Do better with future events your player base deserves alot better than this

Ok, I’ll start with positives:

PROS:

Faction contest requirements:

I'm hoping that this is the start of a move away from non-stop talent ups. The additional requirements like “break row break” was good, and actually gave you something to puzzle over in a puzzle game. Better if… there wasn’t a talent up component at all (see below). Now you have started, you could easily scale this up.

Tours:

were looking pretty good. It useful if there is a “common” superstar on there every week. Things seemed to be well balanced. Better if… prize wall tokens rewards could be more generous (see below).

CONS:

Faction contest: we are really close to a “feud talent up” so having a faction contest that, again, relies on a huge and expensive talent up task (again!!) isn’t great. Neither are the rewards. There is nothing to get excited about here, with the exception of the solo points. But there is very little to get excited about here… better if… talent up minimised (easily doable as you have shown with the other tasks this week) and rewards for the current Meta, not from 2 years ago.

Showdown contest:

It’s frustrating when the “non-bonus” milestones require the new character and another rare one (bomber) to complete. It is very misleading to say that these are achievable as F2P when you need to have spent a load on previous weekends to actually achieve it. It’s good that you have reduced the number of CSS needed and put in other requirements but… better if you can actually achieve that last milestone being F2P.

Solo contest:

is secretly not a solo contest… you can’t get the last showdown milestone with out paywalled superstars, so you need the points from the faction contest to achieve this. So you’ve made this an extension of the faction contest. So again, for many players who play hard like me, you’ve killed the collection contest on week 2 (slow clap). Better if… this were a genuine solo contest. Also better if… the solo contest feeds the faction contest (as it should be) not vice versa.

Prizewall:

Ok, we’ve seen from previous contests that you know how to do this. I’ve played pretty hard all weekend. I’ve mopped up as much as I can. Even if my faction gets that last milestone, I think I’ll have about 7k tokens. What. Is. The. Point? Look, no one is expecting another zombie prizewall, but come on. There is 0 motivation to chase this. If my faction doesn’t make that last milestone, I can not even but a strap. Thanks for the coins I guess. Better if… you have low, mid and high end rewards. I’ve got absolutely nothing to show for this weekend.

I think that’s it.

Ok so my real 2 cents..

Pros: you made this weekend very easy not to spend this weekend!

Cons:

The bugs and tasks not counting.

The lack of medallions actually available even through buying isn't worth it with such a bad prizewall.

Faction event is absolutely meaningless with paltry rewards

Really hope things are gonna get better because last 2 months outside of the 1 zombie week long contest.. have all been poor

The whole thing sucked. The requirements get annoying as to who I have to use first. That being said, it could be for “fairness” but realistically who wants those restrictions. I’d rather work towards maxing sd coins for two days again than this.

Hiding behind a paywall gets you nowhere. No one wants to spend a mortgage payment to TRY and get the CSS. The shards weren’t even there to get close like they have been in the past.

The prizewall is ridiculously high considering that you didn’t give out very many medallions.

All on all, you so called “developers” are killing this game and disappointing the fanbase. It’s becoming less and less desirable to play as you change things up for the worse.

Leveling up a 6sb and only getting 1000 points is ridiculous looks like a lot of factions won't max this event not enough faction points were available during this event I change these events back to raising talent of 6s so raising a players moves is also accounted for, what happened to using emerald tokens also why are yall makimg these events more difficult to max there should be nearly enough points available in game to have a full faction max an event and have the leaderboard rewards be something worth chasing, have more points in tours for players to obtain and having the drew damage when a legend I'd required in slot 1 is just ridiculous in my opinion

No1 will answer for this bllshit Showdown. They re laughing at us nothing more nothing less

Showdown contests with this current format forces way heavier spending just to get the card. I had every css except tech dusty and only got 12k prizewall medallions. Can’t even sniff the card anymore with spending at least $300. I refuse to line your pockets to promote gouging your player base. Every weekend event is now a complete money grab. Thanks for ruining the game for grinding.

Prizewall and reward points were way off and unobtainable. Most of Drew's hit points didn't count which left many of us from hitting our goals. It seems SD is becoming a pay to play event and far less people are participating. The only good thing was that 16 energy cans were brought back.

Not one of the better events.

Prizewall currency seemed very scaled back. Showdown was plagued with bugs and glitches. So called "free" milestones should not be behind using rare characters that a majority of players do not have.

My biggest complaint was having "Damage with Drew" as a contest point method, when he cant be used in the first slot. That is not a challenging or fun task. It's just annoying and everyone I have talked to hates it.

The whole Showdown concept seems to have taken a bad turn. Maybe increase energy limits. What used to be one of the few grindable events has turned into more paywalled events.

I am not a fan of the revamped showdown. Limiting the amount of matches you can play while forcing you to have extremely rare characters in order to advance high in showdown for rewards is not fun. I don’t mind having to have an era specific, but then don’t make me try to get points for a secondary slot character (drew). Go back to old showdown mode where I just have to play showdown for the first 3 hours instead of a constant grind where I struggle to hit 1.2 mil even though I have a 6.5 mil roster. If you are going to keep a limit to the amount of showdown matches f2p can participate in, then make the bonus characters ones that we have gotten for free or chase characters, not rare weekend characters. And don’t even get me started on how rare you made medallions this week. Very weak.

Wow so this is actually my least favorite showdown in a while there were some severe messed UPS in making it which I'll address and you guys really should fix

1) never not enough tours in the contest Superstars didn't make any sense what is true McIntyre have to do with Dusty Rhodes in the '80s? Also you should have one challenge tour and stick to the era, use legends

2) I did not like the way that the faction showdown event was set up too many points required you should not have your main way of getting points b level up a 6 star superstar when there is no gold event on Sunday

3) The showdown itself the heart foundation was a terrible ad to get points with because if you don't have two super premium Superstars you really can't get any points that way

Again what in the world does Drew McIntyre have to do with Dusty Rhodes

Make more points for the legends of his time or Cody Rhodes or Dusty Rhodes himself it's ridiculous that I can finish in the top 1000 of showdown and not even get close to the top milestone in The showdown event I absolutely hate the way that this one was set up and you really need to think it through

4) terrible prize wall

Grade D