Then, Now, Forever, Together

i will play it by ear but do we really need steel cage match for every event ? i feel its excessive, just couple years ago when you guys though we needed show down every week for month mlc …..i dont mind steel cage but to have attached to every event now with same rules is a bit much i feel the lower roster is not going to have as much fun with this as you think. Maybe rotating the things that we can bring would be nice one event no skill plates ….. next event no entourage … next week no medals, i get you have this every week which is gonna boring. I mean for showdown too what happened to gem breaking tasks ? you guys revamped 12 ss for this and just totally benched them , also think ideas should be forced on more long term then short term, steel cage better with little and not alot.

Adding Armory lot needs to better i should be able get some off the prizewall for less then whats up there i would not care the item was 1x buy i feel 200k plus is to much , your basically saying if you need over 200k with out saving to buy is 1000 bucks for any of the items on the pw, i feel there a big miss prices on items spanning from web markets to web shop to prize wall. Older items should be lower priced, as it stand s i would like to more options then low rng loot and overpriced prize wall.

So far this show was good for week 3 ….. not liking the change in blog from m/f to m/m made it even hard to get points ….. but small hurdle ….over all show down is what is.

For the last week of this mlc sure is lacking something not a good way to finish off mlc

iI get you guys have to claw back items in game i hope there is nice balance of rewards and with all the extra rewards gone hoping they will be plentiful re ups from all the min talent s we do

Why make the CSS for the blitz (Ron and Savage) only count 4 times for the faction points? Making us choose between extra bags or more points for the faction is poor design

Replacing the midweek prizewall for armory loot is a big fail as far as I'm concerned.

With the recent hall of fame blitz, I feel there needs to be an alternative on the prizewall to just moments - all of the 1 and 2 cost moments are super common, and I imagine most players will only get 1 or 2 emblems. Even if it's just coin or TP, it would be nice to spend the emblems on something else as it just feels like a waste.

Stop with the steel cage nonsense. Is it not clear that we ABSOLUTELY hate it? It doesn't add any fun in any way and only makes you waste more time and get same rewards. Even if you're adding it here n there it should be limited to tours,it has no place in pvps.

Like in showdown without mp trainers you can't do tasks because everyone will put someone like rhea on defense and she benefits from the perks and will sub you immediately. But you can't benefit from that perk cz the task you doing requires a character that doesn't have those color moves.

Overall it sucks,what sucks more than that is that you guys don't even care about what the community thinks. The devs take away everything we like (like midweek prizewall) and only listen to the people in townhall.

does the midweek loot roll over into the next month

these cage matches are the dumbest thing you’ve done in the 3 years I been back, crap like this is why I left in the first place, who in your meetings said yeh this is a great idea, might wanna take a look at who come up with moronic crap, NO ONE LIKES THEM n now you’re taking the piss with it ,no damage no kick out very clever my ass

You guy's increased the rarity in every MLC tour telling that due to 6sg but the loot pulls are the same shit brief case pulls are awful you should have increased the rarity even in loot pulls to be fair evenly and on top of that you guy's even took the 6sg loot coin we were getting from shards contest and included it in extreme rules I don't know how many people will reach the milestone to get it. A change was needed in the MLC but this month the change is terrible shame on you scopely and finally go f**k yourself with steel cage rules.

Steel cage rules has really sucked the life out of this game. I did not mind if it was like one thing one time like no skill plates in faction boss, but this monthlong of a stipulation is way too much and makes me want to really quit.

I get it from a strategy standpoint from playing World of Warcraft in the past, but handcuffing SD the way it is and now introducing it in faction feuds will make the grind a bit harder than before. I want to spend less time for prizes given. I have other things I want to do outside the game that I try to limit my time while having fun keeping my mind off things.

I definitely noticed a downward spiral of morale, not only with group of friends I play the game with, but with my faction and other CC’s discord servers. If this is not fixed, I’m sure more people will leave the game unless some more thought into enhancing the player’s experience is given than how to further pad Scopely’s pocket to purchase games like Pokémon Go and Monster Hunters Go.

Some mid-month thoughts (more to come, I'm sure):

-Everything about this month can be summed up as "not necessarily terrible idea, really rough execution.

-To be more specific, I actually kinda like the idea of Steel Cage rules! However, SD was brutal, as were the temporary Tours that were literally "only certain gems do ANY damage at all" before it was changed (which thanks for that by the way, sincerely). The Steel Cage Rules for feud this weekend seem entirely reasonable; they're basically replacing the former individual Feud Perks without doing anything too extreme and leaving players with basically all their tools. I for one am fine with that. However, the more extreme Steel Cage rules have almost left every mode feeling like Faction Boss, which is personally my least favorite mode in the game.

-The Armory Loot WOULD be a decent change IF there were way more free coins, the pulls were cheaper, the odds were better, there were more choices in the dedicated purchases, they were more affordable, or some mixture thereof. I appreciate the effort to switch things up for a couple of reasons, most notably that under the old model, I'd often buy one or maybe two really good things and then be left with a really awkward, uneven number of PW coins that I'd spend on detritus that I really don't need. Armory Loot eliminates this. I also really like the reworked ladder for the contest with things like skill plates in the milestones. However, I always felt confident in maxing the Collection Contest with basically zero spending on that aspect and that always felt like a player-friendly thing that I always very much appreciated. There's no way that's the case with the Armory contest. I actually kinda like the idea of the Title, Moment, and Gear loots, but the odds are so absolutely horrible as currently constructed and/or pulls are scarce enough that the execution is off. Another possibility to somewhat offset this if you didn't want to rework the numbers too much is to guarantee a featured with a max pull (like with pretty much every other loot in the game). As of now, there's really no incentive for a larger number of pulls other than speed, which I don't feel like should be the case.

-The cat's out of the bag on this one unfortunately, but I honestly think Tier 6 medals are WAY overpowered, especially with defensive stats. I will say, it brings things like sub, bleed, and power gems back into viability, which I absolutely appreciate in theory, but like, there's no universe in which a handful of medals should be able to leave you with essentially 0% All Move Damage (which I've encountered) or 0% All Gem Damage (which I've both encountered and executed against AI, even though I didn't find it fun). Unless 7sb is coming and is REALLY gonna change power scaling (which I suppose is feasible) then T6 medals were way too big of a jump in benefit. It feels like 5 jumps ahead instead of one or two (again, mostly on things like substats).

-Please, I beg of you, never do a full month focused on Steel Cage rules ever again. I wish I could be more constructive on this aspect, but it really is just a slog. I will say though, just to reiterate, the rule set chosen for this weekend's feud seems fine. More of that, less "no belts, no entourage, no skill plates" kind of stuff, please.

Something I want to bring up that I don't think has been mentioned is the volume of showdowns we're getting. The weekly contest character showdown (example being the Rhea one for this month) just feels like a constant every Tuesday evening/Wednesday daytime, it's getting exhausting doing the same showdown every week. Can we either a) give it a break one month, or b) switch it to being alternate weeks. It feels like a bigger issue when there are also midweek showdowns on top of weekend showdowns so ends up being back-to-back showdown.

PLEASE POST THE BLOG POST FOR THE EVENT AT THE SAME TIME AS YOU HAVE SOMEONE OVERANALYZE AND TAKE FIVE TIMES AS LONG TO READ THE SAME M’FING THING!

but it’s just so counter productive to have most of the player base wait as I don’t want to hear one of your sponsored players go on and on for 15+ minutes when I can take 5 to read it

Still my unpopular opinion but i don't mind the steel cage as much as others but if this was how it was when I started playing I'm not sure I'd still be playing now as it's harder to work around the limits and makes it unfun for the community.

The amour loot coins bother me, personally I'd rather the old midweek format as it gave me something to work towards as I feel the shop for them in unrealistically high. I've spent as I've learnt it. Others in my faction have saved them so we can compare how we finish on the month long .

Great call keeping the Showdown store open longer. Camt wait to see what phase 2 is for Showdown once it arrives

Other than that I continue to enjoy the game and are looking forward to feud next weekend I believe.

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