Developer Letter January 2025

oh boy…. Guess we can’t hide my comment any 🤷‍♂️

Well there seems like there COULD be some things to look forward to and I hope there is. That first time around with that showdown was interesting but idk how newer player are going to feel facing players with stacked rosters. It’ll be interesting to see the plans for this update vs the others I’ve seen since I’ve been playing this game quite awhile now. Even lost one account during an update and restarted a whole new account after a couple years progress on the first… So I’ve seen some good and even lots of bad times had. Some of the semi-recent changes have been decent so I guess we can see what happens in the near future especially with your “rumored” 7* release around your anniversary date.

HOWEVER…. I feel like the photo I’m going to attach, which is a screenshot of what happens when you click on the link you TELL us to do so in this article to tell you our visions and ideas for the future of the game, may be one of the sides of most events we’ll get. “Basically a sorry, it’s not working or available at this time. {*STC*}” then we’ll get a run around from support when we ask questions.
And I’m trying to be polite about this all, but there have been issues (aka clawbacks, the rock debacle, store loot purchase issues (either amounts or prices that altered the amount of offers in the end) that have been resolved poorly (“to preserve fairness” 🙄 ) to say the least. And then there’s the event issues in general that happen without much resolve; even like general freezing or move freezing even but we hold out hope that things will get better….. And again I hope they do because when stuff is flowing smoothly enough, I do enjoy my time playing the game. I’ve invested lots of time and money even, and have met a good amount of decent people playing the game and some that are not.
so 🍻 here’s to hoping that this update works out smoothly & with less glitches than normal.

As for feedback and additional aspirations….

First thing… let’s lower some of these prices in the Club store. I get you’re trying to “help people” obtain those that they didn’t upon release, but by the time anyone can get them at the prices they’re at, they’ll be obsolete and needing a revamp like about 400 of the currently “available” roster.

Make events where you can GRIND for rewards! Sure, you can have even higher/more BONUS ones that can be a pay version. But like make it so you can grind out and get the main reward…. For example, the bronze/silver/gold chests like you’ve been doing that have had the collectibles and such, have an event where you can grind and get a dominators plate but if you spend money and make it to the end milestone you can obtain like 2 more of them. (But Black Fridays guaranteed one was like $1200 if you couldn’t pull one from loot 😢 and you could do something like that for your bonus slots if you wanted. But have a grindable one, like you’ve had for characters like sb British Bulldog)

Silver league loot… ROTATE THAT STUFF! No one above league 18-20 even wants to use the coins generally because it’s the same stuff and it’s even worse once you get to above that because it NEVER changes! Same with the base Showdown shop, when there’s the new changes (which hopefully aren’t outrageous because I remember some were and made it somewhat unrealistic and unplayable during testing) that there will be a new rotation of rewards to purchase in there. Also, lower the timer limit to play more often. (No, I haven’t watched the video yet sorry, just read what the blog said, tend to like reading)

Allow feuding to be single player based, there’s alot of time lost because of a teammate being stuck in a lineup and logging of the game and there’s nothing you can do. Yes, allow all points earned to be the solo and faction based like they are but the team settings, have an option to swap between solo and duo pairings.

If you’re going to require more points, or when you release 7* within a few weeks, make sure to increase the reward amounts in ALL milestones and matches too to factor in that everything costs more and that there’s not enough of a way to gain the resources otherwise.

More Career tours. Do some that are similar to extreme rules but not quite that “extreme rules”. Do high health pools. Certain class requirements. Certain gem types don’t count. Something somewhat challenging but have the rewards rewarding for beating all of the tours and have them open to leagues like 23+ and maybe add some more league levels since there’s a new star level coming 🤷‍♂️

Well I think that’s several things yall can give me some feedback on at this point lol.

Well this is a new one, my .com information is all gone. Im not able to get into my account here no matter what i try. Not as bas as when i was being logged into other people's accounts a couple of years ago but still disheartening nonetheless especially considering this is a thread about improvement and hopes for the future going into our 8th year playing together.

So lets get my usual complaint out of the way first, Until you get rid of the energy requirement Showdown will only be a shell of what it once was and will never reach the potential of what it should be. Tag links have been rendered completely impotent and the rewards store is at least one year behind where it should be in terms of time/effort vs reward.

Feud and Boss battle Starting & ending times need adjustment. First, a feud should always run a minimum of 24 combined hours. That makes the most sense. If it starts at 6pm Saturday it should end 6pm Sunday. Too many times i find myself not having enough time at the end of the feuds to hit milestones i could hit if given a full 24 hours. I don't think enough consideration is given to IRL issues and activities that coincide with weekend schedules. For instance family gatherings, date nights school functions are all prime Saturday evening activities. Sunday mornings statistically is dedicated to more religious activities. There's other family gatherings. Errands to prep for the next week and right now Playoff NFL football 😄. I just really think the four hours between 2pm-6pm (Central) at the end of feuds would be a huge boost to alot of players trying their best to juggle family obligations and faction contributions.

The last thing I'll say is i would like to see something done for day 1 players who received little to no benefits from things like the past 12 days of Christmas poster giveaways. Obviously the shards are useful but that was really it. It would feel nice to actually receive something useful, beneficial and New with a note attached saying "Thank you for 8 solid years of dedicated game play. Here's to the next year".. I love seeing newer players get posters of wrestlers free that i had to pay and get lucky to pull or grind out through the chase. I would love to see that done for us veterans so we could have that feeling even if only once a year.

Ok, keep up the great work providing the best mobile game I've ever played and the only single video game i can say I've played for nearly 8 years straight now.

Zappadad

2025 is indeed going to be big but there is 1 thing that many of us would like to see and that is the recycle button to clean all the unused currencies and get rid of the dead weight in inventory