The negative reaction is NOT going to go away
To whom it may concern,
You individuals in position to make decisions on this game have quite obviously seen that the overwhelming response to the update has been exceptionally negative. This goes beyond a few people being unhappy with change. Your app store ratings have dropped through the basement in 48 hours, p2p customers are locking up their wallets, and even f2p customers are abandoning the app en masse. If you do not address this immediately, you run the risk of the only people remaining being the very small minority who think the update was good. IGNORE THIS AT YOUR FINANCIAL PERIL.
I have been asked by certain individuals to bash the company less, and instead offer constructive suggestions. Here they are. First and most obvious, roll back the update. That is an absolute necessity. Next, fix the existing issues we have all been complaining about for quite a while (the credit crunch, the absurd gear drop rates, gw's difficulty glitch). Fix the arena. This could have been addressed by eliminating ohk on the first round by leaving a 5 or 10% portion of health on first round attacks, or by balancing the meta the way you had promised, by buffing slower characters while nerfing faster characters.. Another issue is the massive nerf of yoda, considering how difficult he is to obtain and max, he never should have been touched. So undo it. If you do these things, I am confident the majority of the player base would be happy until the guild content release.
Lastly, I understand you decision makers are in control of what happens in the game, so the perceived power lies with you. Realistically, the power lies with the players, f2p and p2p alike. We control the profit, and we control the ratings. If we are angry, like we are currently, we stop spending and your profits disappear. If we are angry, we give bad ratings, and new money never appears. You are making a very dangerous gamble. I for one want to see this app succeed, however I know human psychology and I know business. Please, for the sake of this app, get it together before it's too late. Thank you
You individuals in position to make decisions on this game have quite obviously seen that the overwhelming response to the update has been exceptionally negative. This goes beyond a few people being unhappy with change. Your app store ratings have dropped through the basement in 48 hours, p2p customers are locking up their wallets, and even f2p customers are abandoning the app en masse. If you do not address this immediately, you run the risk of the only people remaining being the very small minority who think the update was good. IGNORE THIS AT YOUR FINANCIAL PERIL.
I have been asked by certain individuals to bash the company less, and instead offer constructive suggestions. Here they are. First and most obvious, roll back the update. That is an absolute necessity. Next, fix the existing issues we have all been complaining about for quite a while (the credit crunch, the absurd gear drop rates, gw's difficulty glitch). Fix the arena. This could have been addressed by eliminating ohk on the first round by leaving a 5 or 10% portion of health on first round attacks, or by balancing the meta the way you had promised, by buffing slower characters while nerfing faster characters.. Another issue is the massive nerf of yoda, considering how difficult he is to obtain and max, he never should have been touched. So undo it. If you do these things, I am confident the majority of the player base would be happy until the guild content release.
Lastly, I understand you decision makers are in control of what happens in the game, so the perceived power lies with you. Realistically, the power lies with the players, f2p and p2p alike. We control the profit, and we control the ratings. If we are angry, like we are currently, we stop spending and your profits disappear. If we are angry, we give bad ratings, and new money never appears. You are making a very dangerous gamble. I for one want to see this app succeed, however I know human psychology and I know business. Please, for the sake of this app, get it together before it's too late. Thank you
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Please don't merge this, it "nerfs" the effect...I guess like the rest I will say no more monies until some change. Everything takes too long, this is an app game dude! Not leveling, the missions, gw, etc. Something to play on the potty! This isn't skyrim. But we appreciate the free stuff yesterday.
Also devs, fix the level 8 gear issue for people who didn't precraft. Thinking about farming 100 total pieces of gear for one slot makes me nauseous. All that wasted energy.
Credit crunch? It doesn't exist unless you are a milleniel and want everything 'now'. Complete GW every day and there is enough to tier and star a wide range of toons. Given the pace of levelling to 80, it also allows you to bring your A team and extras.
Human psychology and business? The same vitreol presented on most of the posts on this forum has been sprouted about World of Tanks every time they change something. I have been playing that game for 3+ years now and still enjoy it. For every player that leaves, there are 2 that join.
While EA probably has flaws, they are generally doing a great job with this game.
I am a fan of the update as well. And I think you bring up a very valid point, when the player base reaches 80 and the majority of the player base breaks the gear VIII barrier things will be quite a bit different than they are now. I personally enjoy the tanks with the high hp. It adds an element to the game on defense. If people are struggling with the timer, maybe they need to revaluate the characters they are bringing to the table!
I love WOT as well, but the big difference is that game is 70% more skill than this. Not saying that this game doesnt have some degree of skill, but they are nerfing 6 months of work to some to a quite drastic measure. Of course there is going to be a lot of backlash
You need a hat. Definitely
Nope. Total reward is the same, you just have to complete 3 battles to earn all of it.
Nope again. Just your opinion, which cannot possibly include "Everyone".
You're disappointed, and you are entitled to your feelings, but it doesn't change reality. A majority of the forum members are not happy with the update, but there is a sizeable group who are reasonably happy within (and not all of us are whales).
I can't complain. In the top 10 in arena for first time.
I know!
I'm curious what generation you're from that grants you the omnipotence to be able to come to a definitive conclusion that not only does something not exist, but that people who say otherwise are from a specific generation.
For one toon from 74 to 75 it costs 213k credits. GW grants ~550k credits. That means for one day of GW you only able to level two toons a single level.
With a new landscape, people are attempting to find the new fotm squad. Doing so is incredibly expensive.
- 4* -> 5* = 250k
- 5* -> 6* = 500k
- 6* -> 7* = 1 mil
The total cost of leveling from 1 to 75 (where I'm currently at) is 3,358,584.
So let's say, you want to try just one new toon in this changed landscape. The total cost of going from 1 to 75 and 4* to 7* is 5,108,584 credits. That's 10 days of GW for just one toon; and that doesn't even count the credits it requires to gear and level abilities.
Now if there were only a few toons to play with or only a single game mode. You might have a valid argument. But this game has over 70 toons with multiple game modes that have different requirements.
But yea, it's just millenials...
At least you got that right.
Great response. I agree with all you said.
I would buy hats. Pass it on.
As to your personal experiences, congratulations. You are in the minority. As for me being a millennial, hardly. I detest everything they stand for. However these fixes are what the COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE have been begging for. As to your statement that more will come, with a 2 star rating or less, some may still come, but it will not be the spenders EAwants to attract. If theres no profit, theres no game. EA was doing an average job. Until now. AVERAGE. They are now FAILING, as is evident by the ratings, reviews, and rough visual estimate of 4 players hating the update for every 1 that likes it, as well as the numerous forum polls overwhelmingly showing vast disapproval
+1, quoted for truth and also for great justice.
Hard to respect "gamers" who get upset over challenges suddenly becoming challenging, levels getting increasingly more expensive to gain, and Galactic War missing an instant "I-win"-button.
Back in my days we only had the Nintendo hotline to help us get past that hopeless Death in Castlevania. And the line was always busy.
I got all 108 characters from Suikoden 1 without consulting some stupid guide, and I can still reproduce the entire Legend of Zelda overworld map from memory alone! What has this got to do with the topic? Absolutely nothing, but it's a good story from the good old days. Now I'm off to yell at my emulator.
I like it, it's my last resort before rage quitting, the change is too much, overnight I went from loving the game to hating the game. The protection bars seem to have made the game completely reliant on chance. Off to write a review.
So you don't agree that yoda has been nerfed on his damage in a big way?? The majority of players who have him, myself included, would disagree. Also, before you come back with "Well he's speedy so he should be nerfed", try to keep in mind (a) its yoda and (b) considering it takes people massive amounts of grinding and time, and the last 2 battles are extremely difficult he is the one toon that should not be touched as he is supposed to be op for what people have to do to get him
I did that. The response on app store has been brutal
You fail to take into account that Yoda's AOE was crazy powerful and wasn't intended to be. Now it's as powerful as other Jedi AOE. Which is exactly right. Yoda's other skills weren't nerfed too hard, and after trying him out a lot my impression is that his power in the new economy is very close to where it was before.
And no, this clearly is not a game where there's supposed to be any truly OP toons. Vader is much harder to farm than Yoda. Grievous is worst of them all. None of them is considered OP. So just please educate yourself a little before creating high strung threads, trying to tell game developers about their own game.