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Showdown pay to play

I can play feud over and over

I can do boss battle over and over

But yet for some reason we are capped on showdown. Ohhh wait no i can spend real money to continue playing a game mode in your game. Saying that out loud sounds like a terrible idea. Stop with all the money grabs.

Comments

  • Stagger Lee
    Stagger Lee Moderator Moderator

    Thank you for the feedback. energy was originally introduced based on feeback about people not wanting to feel like they had to grind showdown but if there's enough feedback against it the team may reevaluate.

  • I seriously can not recall anyone ever posting anything about the feeling of having to "grind" showdown. I'd really like to see any thread where a majority of players voiced that opinion.

    I'm going to say it again for the umpteenth time, "Energy" is the absolute worst thing to ever happen in WWE Champions. It should be removed immediately and Showdown should be a open and grindable mode for FREE gameplay. Enough tinkering has been done with not only the reward/shop but also the tier system to where players who don't want to grind don't have to and us players who want to use Showdown as the open pvp environment it originally was intended to be. Not only that but it is the only game environment you can face either on par opponents or find tougher foes to test different builds on.

    Cap the rewards per day if necessary but Showdown should be and always should have been open world FREE TO PLAY PVP.

    zappadad

  • DrWhargoul
    DrWhargoul Member ✭✭✭✭

    I think he's referring to people complaining about getting attacked so often that they have to play constantly to maintain their level and so by instituting the energy people are unable to constantly attack thus you are not dropping levels while you aren't playing.

    That's why I always advise being very specific when you respond to feedback and surveys. They WILL find the worst interpretation possible if you let them. Examples: The only way to recruit Papa Sango when that card first came out was to pay 500USD because "the community asked for a way to buy superstars". And that time they removed key pulls from the MLC because the community "didn't like them" but what we didn't like was actually the duplicate shards (this was before 6 star and before moments).

  • Stagger Lee
    Stagger Lee Moderator Moderator

    Not all feedback is from the forum. Some comes from factions in town hall and surveys. Go back to zombie Paige release and you'll see complaining about grinding and its been voiced since then as well

  • Stagger Lee
    Stagger Lee Moderator Moderator

    The attacked too often was fixed quite awhile ago by implementing a shield. Yhe shield has been removed w8th the most recent version of Showdown and we have seen a return of that complaint

  • Danny312481
    Danny312481 Member ✭✭

    Yeah,it's like the one complaint I always see is about the zombies because people always want them

  • SmarkSmasher
    SmarkSmasher Member ✭✭

    Could you elaborate a bit on the “shield” part? I have never seen something like that in the game and I have been playing for 2 years. Was this “shield” visible to players or was it something that the team tinkered with behind the scenes?

  • Stagger Lee
    Stagger Lee Moderator Moderator

    When you weren't active in showdown you could only lose notoriety once per hour after hte first loss you got a shield. prevented massive notoriety loss when you weren't even playing and helped keep you from getting hit repeatedly while you were active limiting it to 1 loss per match so if you got 3 times while you played 1 match you only lose notoriety once.

  • Rex_Craven
    Rex_Craven Member ✭✭✭

    S It is understood why the energies were placed, but let's look at some points. The amount of energy given is very small. How is it possible that you get only 3 energy? Then the energy recharge times are excessive, and you have to wait a long time to play.And if you want to do it, you have to spend real money...and with the price increases they've made, it's unthinkable.

  • Stagger Lee
    Stagger Lee Moderator Moderator

    For the regular showdown energy refresh happens at reset regardless of when you use the energy. the goal of the dialy showdown is to slowly climb the milestones over the course of the showdown the current one has 17 days left so plenty of time to reach higher notoriety levels. If you use notoriety promoters for each character you can significantly increase the rate that you climb getting up to 480 notoriety for a single win.

  • Bear2297
    Bear2297 Member
    • Remove energy
    • Remove losing points on a defense loss (yeah im complaining but its unplayable even with promoter you lose 3x what you earn (f2p pov) in minutes and energy load is too long to sustain your points)
    • Add winning points on a defense win for competitve pvp mode + rewards for best players
    • BRING BACK SD PRIZEWALL ⇒ again this is infuriating to see you removed the prizewall to lock HOF evolution token behind paywall, sneaky what you ve done to revamp SD for the benefit of players and a new interface : LIES, you revamped SD to lock HOF superstars as premium now totally impossible to upgrade without paying... weve seen with hof rey... thats very bad, and bad making fun of us, so mad to get owned like this..
    • Reward the farm, even if its more mission to complete with lower points on completion
    • Im fine with bonus reward only accessible to p2w players they need to be rewarded more than f2p but make SD regular reward accessible with farm atleast till gold chest
  • Joshuazappadad
    Joshuazappadad Member

    I think you're right and you're comment brings up an interesting thought based on Staggers response.

    If there's an issue in showdown where a "shield" was needed, implemented, then removed, that tells me fixes or changes can be added, adjusted then removed on the fly leading me to believe that Any issue can be resolved relatively easily , perhaps the removal of energy?,

    Bear is hitting the points that I hear most from the community as far as showdown and attached contest's are concerned.It really looks like the attempt at forcing the sale of energy is paramount to any needs of the community when it comes to Showdown. If not, the new "regular" showdown wouldn't have a max of 3 free energy per 24 hours with the option to purchase a couple with coin then more at a nominal fee.