State of the Game - August 2020

[big_kahuna_2319]

@Polaris Please could you provide us some news on why the 100 shop refresh tokens (for 150 diamonds) were removed from the daily rotation - every single spending player in the game was buying these.

I agree with emitz without the shop refresh no one will buy bazzar tokens or use black market mega mart or memory tokens

It basically makes most contest rewards/deals absolutely useless

[Jackson_Storm2.0]

Me when I read that all characters in Disney Heroes will get Red Skills!

Thank You!

[ScroogeMcValentine]

It just came back

[Professor_Fidget_IX]

Any chance we can increase the chance on quick fights on endless surge??? Every time I do it for quick select and flight, it fails @polaris

[Warrior_Owl_XXXVIII]

Minnie is overpowered and could use a change. She can charm a whole team for 18 seconds

[ScroogeMcValentine]

Welcome to the forums

[Musketeer-Endgame]

You know, refresh means to make someone STRONGER.
So you want already strong hero to become even more stronger?

[big_kahuna_2319]

She has counters…that can neglect his charm enitrely

[Tabbykat]

How about reducing stamima costs?
More guild consumables like backpacks,xp and double gold ? More guild perks needed for sure!
Diamond crates as a guild gift were definitely the best ones!
We definitely need more xp rewards somewhere!

I Definitely dont agree with you about players leaving due to longer periods between level raises! Its quite the opposite actually!!
I’ve been here 2 + years and Don’t recall that happening at all!! I’ve witnessed top players leave because of the 4 week cap raises

I’m ok with new heroes as long as the badge costs are minimized!

Lastly action should be taken properly when a player breaks the rules! Not just chat silence but what should have been a ban. Thats quite ridiculous

[PawpsicleSticks]

It literally says in their profile that English is not their first language and that they have problems with spelling/grammar errors, please don’t be pedantic.

[Grim_grinning_Ghost]

They probably didn’t know

[IAmASnowySpongeYo]

YAY! a new state of the game! I like this.

[KayIa]

If you have questions make a topic and ask. Please stay on topic.

[Dalmatian_28234]

About creep surge. The next day, four surge contributors will be displayed. Do they get any extra rewards?
If not, I would like you to give me an additional reward.
Also, if you use XP Drink with Auto when raising the level of a hero, it will be used from a smaller XP drink. Wouldn’t it be possible to adjust the amount used like when strengthening badges?

[Herzog_Eule]

After a few days of deliberation, I have come to the following conclusions

What we’ve done since February

We refreshed the Arena and Coliseum challenger tier with Challenger Seasons. The feedback on this refresh has been positive and we hope you continue to enjoy the rules and bonuses each week.

Yes we get a few refreshes. (Good for Arena worse for Coliseum)
Bonus points are hard to claim now.

In Coliseum you can beat 2 from 3 Stages, and you get 0 Points.
If you get for a total clearence 3000 Point, why dont you get 1k or 2k for beating 1 oder 2 Teams?

I dont think its realy better now. ITs only Different

We changed the way matchmaking works in City Watch. These changes seem to have improved the experience, and next we’d like to bump up the rewards.

Matchmaking is “OK” now.
If mode is supposed to matter,
then the rewards have to increase VERY MUCH, in addition the guild benefits have to be revised heavily, as they are completely out of date.

We’re releasing Endless Creep Surge on all servers with 2.2. This refresh was to give players more options on which regions they attack and increase guild cooperation to unlock gold multipliers.

We currently have no more options.

What we noticed after a few days:

There is less gold and tokens than before.

You can only partially compensate for this if you have a full guild with very good players, which is not the case with 90% of the guilds.

It has become more confusing, but maybe it will still be there.

It has become much harder again (see above)

We’ve been working to keep heroes balanced, and ensure we make changes when needed to keep heroes manageable. The hero changes to Randall, Hook, and Donald kept them viable in the game, but kept them from overwhelming the meta. Less successful was our initial change to Gizmoduck: when we added the cap to his skill, we didn’t balance that with changes to his other skills. While he’s still viable in Invasion, we did a refresh on all his skills for 2.2.

Yes, the nerv of Randal was very important.

Gizmo! Big Point

Yes, after the refreh he is a little bit better now.
But still USELESS in all modes, exept RED Invasion.
So thanks for nothing.

New heroes are powerful, but not overwhelming. Since Randall, no hero has shown up in more than ⅓ of all challenger lineups, and with challenger seasons, we’re seeing a healthy rotation of heroes being used. While Mulan is a newer, strong hero we’re watching, none of the new heroes we’ve released since February have dominated the meta the way Randall did.

If you say, there are no OP meta Heroes here are two:
Mulan, Plekle

We introduced consumable guild perks. The intention with these was to give guilds something to spend influence on at a steady pace. This worked for many guilds, but we still have very active guilds maxing out their influence. There’s still work to do here and we have a way for guilds to track their influence earned even after they’ve maxed their guild limit with the 2.2 update.

Yes we get some perks, but month ago.
Some are a little nice, but the most dont have an inpact of the gameplay.

Give us some Perks, with which we can really improve the gaming experience.

Examples.

New heroes start with LV 20/30 -> 150

New heroes already have skills of 20/30 -> 150

That would also drastically reduce the problem of costs. (later more)

Cosmetic Collections give players more options for avatars and emojis in the game. In the 2.2 update, we’re adding the sticker avatars from Challenges to Cosmetic Collections.

Very bad point for You.
Before the Cosmethic Crates, we get this stuff for free, now we have to pay for some Pictures…

We’ve been working on some improvements for the early stages of the game. That’s one of the reasons some of the improvements we talked about in February haven’t been done yet. We’ve been investing in updating our early game experience since the 2.1 release. With the 2.2 update, you’ll see more improvements that are a result of that work (the campaign rewards and improvements to crafting UI for example).

This is a very bad reason for absolutely nothing having improved.
And you put us off with useless UI updates.

The rewards for the Campania (1-7 a box and a few Yax splinters) is probably one of the biggest insults and rubbish of the last update.

You have announced “great rewards” to us. Instead, we got a useless hero.

What We’re Working On

The Friend System refresh. We’ve talked about what this would look like and the design is done. This is a significant amount of development time, and while we wanted to get it done sooner, it’s currently planned for the 2.3 update

It must be very difficult to revise a small part of the game that only needs a few small tweaks.
The feedback in the GL area was extremely good and you had almost three quarters of a year to do it.
It’s incredibly disappointing what you’ve accomplished so far.

• Invasion improvements. We’ve heard your feedback on Invasion being time consuming and grindy, especially after we changed Gizmoduck. One immediate step we’re taking to make Invasion more enjoyable is to rework the tier rewards. This will be done in the 2.2.10 update, and beyond that, we’re looking at other ways to make the mode fresh and fun.

No matter how good the rewards, if 95% of players go no further than level 30, it’s totally useless.
With the Gizmo Nerv you have destroyed the mode.

Should there ever be a new team to dominate the invasion, you’ll do the same again.

You promised us the new rewards for the current update and it didn’t come.

You have to rework the bosses so that they can be beaten, or drastically reduce the required points.
You have also promised us a new kind of invasion boss for months, nothing has happened here either.

More Guild Perks. The consumable perks gave guilds a way to keep spending influence to benefit the guild members, and we’re working on more perks for an upcoming update.

Told you already, what are good Perks are.

The Black Market and Mega Mart are shops that haven’t scaled well with the game progression. The design team is exploring ways to make these shops more useful.

We nee a rework for all Shop parts (Dianmond / Token costs are to high, missing Badges, more Options (Mod Stuff Friend Power)

Reviewing game rewards to make them automatically scale up, resulting in better rewards as players progress. We’ve been working on the Gold rewards for a while, and Stamina and Badge rewards are next on our list.

as you currently do it, the increases are completely useless.

From the last “gold increases” we didn’t even get 100k more gold per day.

You’re always pretending to do something good for us, but you hope that most players don’t notice that they are being lied to.

You are very good at saying that increases have to be a very careful process, but in return you manage to nerv things very quickly (within 1-2 days) and drastically reduce rewards.

We’d like to improve our pipeline for player feedback and requests to make it into the roadmap. Forum and support ticket feedback is noted and shared with the team, but there’s room for us to improve here. We’re going to work on that in the next few months so that more player feedback is appearing in the game. Another thing we’re exploring is how to provide access and insight into what’s currently being developed and what’s coming up. We don’t know what form it will take, but we want to give you a bit more visibility.

You’ve been telling us that for years and still haven’t removed it. Nobody here seriously believes that you will get better.

What We Hear You Talking About

Balancing Rewards

I have already mentioned this above, you are currently not doing it well because it does not currently compensate for anything.

Rarity and Team Level cap Increases

Thats the biggest Point in this Statement, And either you’re lying here or you just don’t want to understand.

The basic problem is not the level increases.

It is the exponentially scaling cost of everything.
(Gold, XP, Mod, Friend)

The increases are perfectly fine, only the costs that come with them are not.

If you reduce this drastically, there will be no more complaints.

If you do not implement and understand this point, the game will no longer exist next year.

Deal values

Thats a big lie!

I’ve looked a lot at which deals are being bought and which are not.

Let’s take guild gifts as an example.

Very well done:

• Gold (but should be more)
• Diamond boxes

Sold very badly

• Invasion deals

± 0

• Chip Deals.

In the case of the invasion deals in particular, it has been noticed that these have increased in frequency since the gizmo nerve.
Nobody believes in coincidence.

If you had opened these deals to us, as they were announced at the time, no one would have complained. Again, this was a great deception on your part.

The normal deals are still bad, across servers.

The claim that you want to close the gap between P2W and F2P with bad deals cannot be taken seriously.

Most of them stopped buying deals.
Whales don’t care, they keep buying.

There is also no justification for deals over € 50/50.

Bring back the old stackable and exclusive deals. That helped most of them.

If you really wanted to close the gap, there are simple points to implement.

Makes F2P easier to play

• No raid tickets
• no skill points
• Powercrafting for everyone

Cost reduction of the entire game

With this you can close the gap.
And not with hypocritical reasons for bad deals

What’s next?

Change more systems to scale rewards automatically. This will ensure the rewards keep pace with player progression, and don’t rely on us adjusting them manually over time

I have already reported in detail on this

Continue Quality of Life improvements. Your feedback has helped us make great changes to the game, and we want to continue to work with your ideas

You say keep going, for most of them you haven’t even started.
Perhaps you are slowly beginning to implement the feedback and not just pretend.

Release more new heroes - we have plans to expand existing IPs and add some new ones! We’re very excited to share with you all the cool heroes we’re working on.

I know new heroes are important to the game, but if you don’t consider any of the costs, that’s exactly what will backfire. As I said.

Continue hero refreshes and adding new red skills. We put some extra work into the Queen of Hearts refresh, and that was well received, so we’ll be doing a more in depth refresh to one hero, rather than small refreshes on multiple heroes. Our plan is to have all Red Skills in the game by the end of the year!

Red skills are a good thing, but they only help with good heroes, so these have to be processed additionally, otherwise red skills are also useless.
Again, you have to keep an eye on the costs, which are simply too high.

So for me an unconvincing feedback from PB with very little content and even less prospect of improvement.

To the community

I’m sorry that I had to use Google Translate for some parts.
Otherwise it would have taken longer

Greetings Eule

[KayIa]

we tried a number of different items and the hero chip deals are some of the best sellers

Uh? Yeah, because it is the only one you put up? I highly doubt that those deals were remotely close to the diamond deal. Yes, the chips can be nice. But we could have got 10% more chips for that hero probably. 200 chests (around) per buy. So, if 10 people buy it around. 20 chips for each hero will be earned around. But Every hero opposing 10? Okay…

[Professor_Fidget_IX]

They just need to remove the chip deals for guild gifts. I get the thinking behind 10 chips. But there are better and useful stuff needed all in all.

And for clarification for what I just said, if you have 50 members buying 10 chips, that’s 500 chips and practically maxed out evolution of the hero. So it isn’t a bad deal if people buy it, it just isn’t worth it to most of us.

[Duck_Hunt_Duo]

That was awesome and amazing and beautiful amigo I get it now. Ho ho Looks like we all are going to have a awesome and amazing and beautiful update on uhh. When the update again?

[LurkerBelow]

It’s always good to see Devs that are communicating, so keep it up and don’t stop the reviews. From a player point of view the ever increasing caps and resources required to get there are making this a race to the bottom. There is no easy fix for games like this but you need to acknowledge this.
Some suggestions

1. login rewards. These suck. After 30 days of consecutive logins you get some exp which contribes 0.0001% of 1 heroes max cap. These need a refresh ASAP.
2. the massive resources required for new heroes. As a player who spends maybe once every 2 months I’m only just staying up to date with 15 heroes. I can’t get any new ones over level 100. All this does is to drive players like us away as we don’t feel like we are Competitive. I think there needs to be a way to use some of the resources you spent on older toons on the newer ones.
3. guild gifting: again as a player that’s not a high spender none of these make any sense. The rewards the spender gets needs to be higher.
4. if there were options to buy things for $2 or $3 I’d be more inclined to buy

[Onelove]

Glad I went on strike. If the cost to stay relevant stayed the same with new heros and cap raises I’d still play. Every cap gets more expensive, no thanks