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I feel weekend events are going into a bad direction and it's been like that for a some time now. The D-von event is a good example:

• The main event of the weekend was a Showdown mode. The open requirements on offense was a pro, however when you look at the CSS, the majority was made of rare posters that not many would have and by missing 2 or more you'd have no chance to grind for the final milestone. And even if you did had them all, you'd still need to grind and hope for a good drop on shards for D-von. That's not good enough to justify the time spent, especially when you have more than 1 ultra rare CSS required.
• The overall value of the event was far from being good. Even a good amount spent would put most in the middle of nowhere and that has been a recurrent theme. As a player i understand the need of monetizing the game, however i also feel that whenever you spent a decent amount you should be rewarded appropriately and some might mention the portal, but the in-game store should also have a proper bonus for those that choose to spend there. Right now i don't even bother thinking if i have a chance because i know the cost is not worth it and far too high when you have options that are just as good.
• Everything else in the weekend, like tours and faction event, they are the standard, they are ok but just that. I already know what to expect and for a faction event where you can score by breaking a special type of gem and grind, you would think adding some extra levels and much better rewards would be good, but playing the game gets behind the spending factor. And once again i bring this aspect because it screams the direction the game has taken. I don't need to put a lot of effort or play because i know i have no chance without being forced to spend. And i speak for a lot of players when i say this: spending should be an option and not a requirement and that's the balance it needs to be found.

short as possible trying to hit my points

• Need more obtainable medallions in not only this event but most events, not everything needs to be behind the curtain of how much someone can spend I should be able to get enough free medallions to get at least one pack of Chelsea green shards I am still 400 away so 100 isn’t gonna recruit her

• prizewall pricing needs to be adjusted you price things way too high I get 3 star silver acro dvon and 6 star acro dvon being a high price he is brand new but the players should be able to get one or two nice things for their time and effort I wish the men and women of this gaming community would be judged by their time and effort more so over the size of ones wallet

• the energy system is trash I will always say that every time you have a showdown event why have you made a huge portion of this event behind a paywall I mean feuds I can feud as much as I want no limit faction boss I can go as much as I want showdown why have you ruined what was my favorite mode in the game by making it pay to continue playing or wait a ridiculous amount of time for 1 energy get rid of the energy system

• contest superstars not loving that muscle man Bray was one of them he is I am sure not widely owned that’s 90k pts missing for most people also hate that you put the weekend character in the contest superstars again even smaller amounts own him I am sure that’s 150k pts missing I had all other showdown contest superstars did all the other tasks damage, and gem tasks and bc of the dumb energy system I still ended up 54k away from the 1.8 million milestone and missed 700k solo points

Event its self was actually pretty decent. The points where their and so we're the medallions if you played right.

I for one am a massive fan of the faction task break X ammount of gems. After all this is a gem smashing game.

BUT as usual their was a scopely issue that cost me and some other players from what I heard also. This being were daylight savings time kicked in.. and all the offers with energy vanished before time was up on the event because of timers. This is actually very poor.

Also the faction event needs to end before the main solo. So we can buy additional offers if needed. Because I'm not doing it before to pay for your sloppyness. Hopefully RNGesus is on my side at reset.

In general, this SD contest format was fine - designated tasks associated with the individual Showdown event, and tasks associated with the faction event.

The problem was in the math. Most players (including me) did not have Bray or D-Von - while it may have been juuuust barely mathematically possible to hit 1.8M points in the Showdown event without them - it required max'd Showdown IOW Promoters and then a player would've needed these promoters overlapped with the posters required to hit cross break gems for the Faction Event.

I played Showdown from the start and was diligent about maxing my energy regeneration. I had all but Bray and D-Von, and fell three matches short of maxing SD and was below expectations contributing to my Faction Event score.

Even if I had gotten the 700,000 Solo Event points from the last "non-bonus" Milestone in Showdown, that would have put me at around 11,000 Prize Wall Medallions - still around $200 USD away from the 3SS D-Von poster (which would have been around $100 six months ago...you may be overplaying your hand here a bit since this D-Von release is barely a repaint of his model you already have in the game).

So...I played all weekend - even bought an energy pack from your store - and still finished with nothing to show for it. I'm left to wonder if I would have been better off not playing at all, and next time, I will take the first 15-20 minutes of the event to run the numbers and see where I can reasonably get. If this is the new normal, I'm inclined to just not play the Showdown Event.

Constructive feedback: do the math, calibrate the scoring a bit better. This weekend many of us were forced to choose between Faction Event score or Showdown score, and the last "non-bonus" SD Milestone was too far out of reach to be considered "standard." I'm a pretty good player with a big roster, aggressive in building my IOW promoters, and I spend money to play - for me to not reach the last non-bonus Milestone is a problem.

I just want to point out after reading more of these feedback posts...

The general view is that it wasn't bad but the Prizewall is just all over the place. It does not show any logical thought to it. It looks as though numbers are just added to objects without any rhyme or reason. This was set up as a rough feud for CSS but an achievable feud for everyone to participate in with the completely open requirements. In theory it was a very smart idea that seems to have been complicated by issues that could easily be rectified by a little more common thought and some standard Prizewall practices. I do not claim to know what goes on behind the scenes so I promise I am not telling anyone how to do their job however, from a customer standpoint some of the decisions after playing the entire event just do not seem to gel together properly.

Positives: An open offense showdown is always welcome. More open showdowns.

Cons: Big missed opportunity not to sell Regal shards. He was a contest superstar and no shards were offered. I would have spend if they were available and know others in my faction who would have as well.

Not much to add that hasn't already been said, but I'll try:

Tours - I struggled with New Day requirements because I don't have Tech Kofi or King Woods. Ended up not getting all the CSS bonuses. The last stage of Kairi Sane's tour was a nightmare if you didn't buy the Step Up packs, because guess what, the final match with Torrie has the cheater 31k Santa Hogan coach so she's probably going to wipe out all your health in one swipe. I hate what 31k Santa Hogan has done to event tours.

Showdown - the best thing I can say about this is that it was nice to have open requirements for offense so everybody could have fun running whatever they wanted, maybe even do team links that they don't always get to do since Showdowns have been so reliant on specific class/era requirements. Defenses locked to Showboats in slot 1 though meant having to continually refresh to avoid an army of 6SS Carmelo's and Regal's, and even when you got someone else, it's a Showboat so they're going to have a lot of health. Not fun to go up against all the time.

Of course, the CSS requirements were insane. So many premium characters required that not everyone has. I gave up after hitting 12/14 because I couldn't get any farther without the CSS bonuses. Nobody's happy with the rare requirements that are needed to get points in these Showdowns, and somehow the problem is getting WORSE.

Faction event - eh, having to sort of throw matches by running a Rick Steiner with no damage boosts just to hit lots of cross break gems over and over isn't very thrilling. Rewards weren't that great either.

Prizewall - terrible. Wasn't even halfway to being able to get the 100 Chelsea shards. As usual, gotta spend spend spend $$$ if you want to get anything decent.

I was able to hit the gold chest overall in the event without spending on anything, so good on you for actually doing the correct calculations this time. Given the track record on recent events, I start to worry about whether those milestones are actually possible or not.

Faction event

This event was so difficult to finish it

And everyone can't get all faction points so everyone can't get the best prize in the solo contest

Please work on improving faction event next time

What I said to my faction about this event and most of the medallions events of recent past……

Being a player who has spent a ton in the past and who continues to spend when possible I can tell you it is frustrating how bad the prizewalls have been unless you spent hundreds of dollars in the every event lately you didn’t get anything good like the pricing on things is insane the shards for green and Roman outrageous you can’t even get one pack of their shards without spending like it shouldn’t be impossible to get anything good like I get they aren’t just handing you enough medallions to buy the weekend character but they should give you at least half the amount so you can get something worthwhile like they don’t respect the player base enough to even let them sniff anything decent without forking over your paycheck it’s insane that they continue to cater to the 1% that spend hefty amounts of money all the time I have to imagine they are a minority of the player base but they are the ones they base each event off of by squeezing all the Pennie’s they can out of everyone and the loot pulls are still a joke 99% of the time you get dog crap especially these types of loots where they only have shards for that weekends character

Also I will keep saying this everytime you have showdown events get rid of the energy system that you have basically pay walled a playable event is really frustrating I mean I have been around since year one you have down a lot of terrible things and you have done some great things unfortunately the great things are in the minority but the energy system is one of your worst errors and it needs to go away I know your bottom line is how can you siphon our paychecks from us into your fat wallets but as a former big time spender and still a moderate spender i really don’t appreciate you putting characters like Muscle Man Bray and Acro Dvon as css like come on man that was 240k you were missing without them I did everything else I could I had all the other css and did all the gems and damage things and I ended up 54k away from the 700k solo points milestone that is insane guys like really also for the LOVE OF GOD can you PLEASE ADD more of the PROMOTER EVO TOKENS it is ridiculous trying to level them all to a respectable level to get all you can out of the game also more obtainable medallions for the player base not always requiring people spend $1,000 each and ever event so we can have nice things like I still don’t have Chelsea Green still like 400 shards short and you priced her shards ridiculously high like come one if a guy who spends a good amount still can’t get shards that still wouldn’t even recruit the character then your math is wrong the medallions need to be more obtainable for free or you need to lower the pricing so people can get something

Yeah, i was glad they put the first versions of the dudleys back in the game. That was a definite plus.