Ubisoft asked in their latest mail to come to the forums and discuss issues...
And so I want to do that. I've been playing this game for a few months now, up to the Riptide but have stopped upgrading it as I find it easier to GRIND coins in the bunker, and less choices of bikes means I have more of an advantage as my average bike should be more heavily upgraded than those who have the same bikes as me. This is just one issue but I'll bring that up again later. The game is very fun for a mobile system game, but like I said it has its issues which could be fixed easily. I have spent $20 (I think) on a coin pack solely just to finish up my armadillo (for the outfit) and I heard it removes ad's when you spend money. It does, which is another issue I'd like to bring up. That's my background on the game, 61k rank on the global (without most the extra maps, another issue) and I'd say I'm pretty well above average in terms of average trials skill (frontier and fusion).
So anyway, here is all the issues I have with this game, and I'll try to break each one up into separate parts.
I'll start with recent issues, the KTM bike. I missed it by 5 parts, and this is my first time playing a ktm event. ????????? Do I just get screwed over a very integral and large portion of the game? How is that fair? Ubisoft why do you disrespect your community so much.
A simple but very annoying technical bug, about half the time I check on the slot machine, it resets the time on me. I get a notification on my phone after an hour and thirty minutes telling me the slot machine is ready, I open it and go to the slot machine, but it resets at 90 minutes however only requires 1 gem to speed up. If you're going to make me grind so ****ing hard for coins to upgrade my bike at least don't **** this up on me half the times I try to slot machine.
Only a slight hindrance in the bunker, when I have 3-4 showdowns complete, I check the results of the first one, fine, get back to the main bunker screen to finish the next showdown, and it shows a loading circle for about 1-2 minutes before showing the victory screen. You have to close the previous victory screen and wait on the main screen for that time for it not to happen. What is so wrong with the servers that you can't even parse some info you already have stored?
Login issues, come on, it's been three years and you really can't leave the game running in the background without your entire connection to the game server being ****ed? Restarting the game all the time is getting old.
Three years and we still don't have all the maps, people who start late can NEVER compete on the leader board, ubisoft why do you hate your community?
Very personal, but the watchers might be the worse stage of any platformer game I have EVER played. Holy ****ing ****, what were you thinking level designers? Just had to get that out there.
And above all...
This game is almost THREE years old. How many people do you think have quit because the overall grind is just obnoxious? Don't you think you'd increase the overall playerbase (and more money) by not requiring WEEKS to upgrade your bike? No one wants to do this and no one wants to spend hundreds of dollars on this, $50 for every bike and every upgrade for this three year ****ing old game would sound perfectly reasonable but holy ****.
Most of these issues I believe could be very simple fixes. I would really appreciate an honest answer to these questions. What is so wrong with allowing people to buy the KTM bike with in game and real currency? Where are the server fixes, aren't you afraid of a declining fan base? What's wrong with releases maps you literally CANNOT ACQUIRE any more? **** The Watchers...
And what is so ****ing wrong with making the grind a LITTLE easier? Games are suppose to be fun, waiting a week to upgrade a bike is NOT FUN, even longer when you account for how much coins you have to grind, and all the server issues that makes coin grinding even harder.
Ubisoft, I love trials, I will keep playing it, mostly fusion but frontier is sometimes the only thing I have in class and such, and it just could be so much better, it hurts to see.