An improvement would not include a higher price point. Why not allow us to purchase materials packs based on theme? Also, before this update you were guaranteed an epic by spending $700, now you're not. That is not improvement.
If you are going to hike the price up, incentivize it to allow some control over what the consumer spends their money on. Increasing both quantity and price offers very little incentive as it pertains to a chance-based product.
I'll chalk this up to another ball dropped. C'mon RedLynx, it would be a shame if this game is killed due to greed. That would be the ultimate kick in the balls to a South Park fanatic.
The game wont end just at greed, it will end at Greed + No quality improvements. TvT is the single life saving source for a large base of the community ATM. Quality improvements are so critical now, but that's what will eventually kill the game. Greed + Not fixing bugs\going server side which at this point does not seem in the works at all.
Dear OTW, the thing is that they overhelp the spenders, you know. And the thing that they mislead us in the update is just weak. See my very first comment on this thread. Plus what the others pointed out already ... No guaranteed Epic? Why not improving free packs and pvp packs? Why not making the same brackets throughout the whole season what there is already implemented for the season end rewards?! Who and where requested this change? This is stated in the update, that we requested? Where? I'm reading the forums, never seen it either, like Armageddon... And yet again, not a single response to these comments from RL. I repeat myself, elegant move. Not...
But there should be some balance between pure greed and keeping a community. This way the only players left are the ones that paid for it. So eventually you have no profit anymore from buying cards and the game bleeds to death.Originally Posted by OTWBigPhil Go to original post
That said, this is my time to tune out. The disbalance update (making legendaries/epics important) did drop me from top 1500 to top 3000 barely. Nothing left from the themes I picked and switching would set me back even further.
And then we always had token events before legendary reset... Now a surprise card usage event and it panned out like expected. People buying their way have free higher cards and just did drop out of top 6000 trying to make the event.
Combined with het another weak balance update for upcoming season. The nerf of token gathering and being forced to derank to be succesfull within team wars... The joy is completely gone in a game I did spend some cash in to open additional lockers.
But the turns it took and the gap in balance is just undoable. For the ones sticking it out, good luck... sincerely!
no one asked for shop changes, free packs need a boost.
why not address issues people bring up EVERY WEEK FOR MONTHS ON END, double shot bug, and this beyond a joke deranking plague that is ruining the game to the point I have gone from 2500 to 6000s because every game is a deranked player, therefore reducing my reward that I have earned staying around that rank ALL SEASON LONG beating players in that tier and above. oh and I can't climb back in because of all the level 3 legendaries and level 6 rares still polluting the lower L region.
but yea, lets let the community get more and more toxic, let new blood leave because of the toxicity but make more money from the few whales.
So misleading but not at all surprising.
As others have pointed out, rightfully, when you triple the amount of cards but double the price, you aren't really getting three times the amount of stuff, you are getting about 1.5 times the amount for the same price.
You guys are quickly losing the small amount of tegridy that you had left.
Originally Posted by Tddupuis Go to original postDid you read my post? I've put quite a bit of $$ into this game. I'm also a game developer that has worked on f2p p2w games before. It's basically a pyramid scheme that allows payers to move up and feed off of the base.Originally Posted by OTWBigPhil Go to original post
That being said, I don't see this change as THAT greedy. I've even thought that the whole point of store packs was to make the special offers more enticing but as others have said no one is complaining about this.
No real fixes are coming. Period. They don't care that their in game chat system sucks and their UI is convoluted and takes a lot of loading screens to move through. That's their players time(ie money) that they are wasting for no reason.
You admitted to putting nothing at all into the game. That's fine, but winging about wingers doesn't help the devs. This game will go into free fall once the top players get tired of paying the same players with the same cards and the same strategies. And no amount of pack offers is going to help it then.