Retirement?

Heaka75

How many of you hardcore players feel like you just want to hang it up or want to go back to casually playing, but feel like you are stuck in a prominent role in your alliance?

Twysta

I don't feel like I have a prominent role in mine, I feel like I'm more along for the ride most of the time.
It's the only reason I've been playing as much as I have for as long as I have though.
Think it's almost time to hang up my gloves.

Unknown

Heaka75 wrote:

How many of you hardcore players feel like you just want to hang it up or want to go back to casually playing, but feel like you are stuck in a prominent role in your alliance?

Lol just posted in line app to my alliance that i was feeling the need to hang it up or play casual, but that fire in my stomach is just still there no matter how much i dont want to admit it. so its still grind on for now. i dont consider myself hardcore by all means, but have to place top 5 in PVP no matter what for that ISO and hp and now to get the 4 covers

Heaka75

Twysta wrote:

I don't feel like I have a prominent role in mine, I feel like I'm more along for the ride most of the time.
It's the only reason I've been playing as much as I have for as long as I have though.
Think it's almost time to hang up my gloves.

Why are you feeling like letting it go Twysta?

Heaka75

demiser951 wrote:

Heaka75 wrote:

How many of you hardcore players feel like you just want to hang it up or want to go back to casually playing, but feel like you are stuck in a prominent role in your alliance?

Lol just posted in line app to my alliance that i was feeling the need to hang it up or play casual, but that fire in my stomach is just still there no matter how much i dont want to admit it. so its still grind on for now. i dont consider myself hardcore by all means, but have to place top 5 in PVP no matter what for that ISO and hp and now to get the 4 covers

I have the same problem demiser951, I am usually the winner in PvP for my alliance, I want to back off because it is hard to keep up with, but at the same time, I don't want to let my team down. I'm also competitive.

Unknown

I was part of an alliance that was very easy going with great members who cared for one another when it came to real life issues. When the competition started getting tougher we implemented a 500 PvP minimum that is easily attainable. Still, we stopped getting t100 rewards about every other event. I decided to take leave due to the stress the game was putting on me (it should not be stressful at all, and you should not be dreaming about the game when you sleep). Currently I still attain the 500 point minimum and do fairly well in the PvE events, but I am so much more relived that if I don't want to grind or make sure I play again in X amount of time I don't have to. Will I rejoin the alliance... maybe (if they would have me again), but not today, and maybe not tomorrow or the day after that. I can see myself taking my 4 maxed 3* and various other warriors and finding a nice little spot on the beach for quite some time.

# of days played = 225+

Unknown

I'm only 62 days played, and in whatever alliance I joined on day one, and for season 3, I'm 5,201points of our five man alliances total of 14,162.

Twysta

The game is getting stale.
And it feels like some of the devs priorities are in the wrong order as towards the games development.
They've done some good things but this has always been counterbalanced by usually controversial decisions.

There's been a lot of contradicting statements from them... when they have given us anything... and their perception of human response factors seems somewhat non-existent at the best of times.
They base their response completely off metrics rather than player interaction and seem adverse to people having fun.

They won't implement any feature purely for "the people" to have fun in if they don't think it will have a desired effect on ARPDAU and seem reluctant to change the game in the balance of rewarding players if they think it will harm their income at the expense of game longevity and player satisfaction.

Actions speak louder than words, and I'm afraid that neither their words nor their actions have really inspired that much confidence in me.
Most of my dealings with customer support end in them - instead of helping me or answering my question - saying thanks for your feedback, we'll take it into consideration for the future. What future is that exactly?
Pah.

That's just how I feel about it. My opinions are hereby purely my own and are not indicative, representative or affiliated with anyone else in S.H.I.E.L.D

...except maybe Ghast (1)

...and Clintman... (2)

...and everyone else who has previously left here before me. (3)

...and reckless (4)

*edit, edit, edit.

reckless442

Well your statements are very reflective of my opinion. I'm thinking of giving up the game at the end of the season. I'm too competitive to settle for just doing okay in events, but I feel like I'm burning HP trying to keep pace, particularly with the season bracket. Feeling like I have to use boosted Sentry to keep battles short between shields just means that I spend even more HP, but if I don't use him, I lose way too many points from being attacked. It just all seems silly when the season prize for first is one extra 10-pack that only has a slim chance of even having a cover I need. I might as well just save the HP and buy the covers. But, unfortunately, I'm not wired that way.

Twysta

It'll be a sad day, the day you leave S.H.I.E.L.D reck.
You're a monument of competitive play.
If we had an HQ, you'd have a statue outside.

Deviator1

221 days and part of Just with Locked. I still enjoy it and don't want to retire but we aren't trying to kill ourselves in competition. I've been enjoying the combos on different characters and trying random stuff as opposed to playing cmags LT all day

Unknown

Same alliance as KLogan. Been playing since mid-October and retired at the end of S2. It's my second time stepping away (last was in January) and I don't think I will ever go back to this madness. I've found other things to do in what used to be my MPQ time that are so much more enjoyable. I just read the forums on my bathroom breaks and stuff.

GWB said it best when he said "fool me once... Shame on... Shame on you. Fool me--we can't get fooled again."

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Heaka75 wrote:

How many of you hardcore players feel like you just want to hang it up or want to go back to casually playing, but feel like you are stuck in a prominent role in your alliance?

You know, my experience is that alliance is like the proverbial woman, who says that size doesn't matter AT ALL. Now really. Honest. Certainly provided it is big enough (or bigger than average or whatever).

I heard many times that we're going casual, fun matters more and so on -- all that never held up as soon as the top100 placement looked like not happening. What is a pretty sad affair, if people can't be honest even to themselves about real goals and expectations?

The environment doesn't help either, we suggested early on a schema when only the best 80-90% of the alliance scores count toward points (or other percent, or using a table) AND you need minumum X people (say 3) to qualify for alliance prize at all... What would allow few people to bench without penalty and big alliances still have the edge.

But no, while devs preach about goals of less drinding they run events and seasons back to back, multiple events on top of each other and expect everyone be on toes all the time while playing around the clock.

Ideally people would recognize that allowing the game take over their lives for virtual prizes and imagined requirements by peers is not good and probably not sustainable in long run either except for special circumstances. But that is not really happening.

Twysta

We all tried to take it easy once.
We won the event.
Go figure.
It's not built in our D.N.A

Unknown

reckless442 wrote:

Well your statements are very reflective of my opinion. I'm thinking of giving up the game at the end of the season. I'm too competitive to settle for just doing okay in events, but I feel like I'm burning HP trying to keep pace, particularly with the season bracket. Feeling like I have to use boosted Sentry to keep battles short between shields just means that I spend even more HP, but if I don't use him, I lose way too many points from being attacked. It just all seems silly when the season prize for first is one extra 10-pack that only has a slim chance of even having a cover I need. I might as well just save the HP and buy the covers. But, unfortunately, I'm not wired that way.

"If you're not first, you're last." ?

Mawtful

I "retired" just after Season 1.
I was ready to quit entirely, but since I don't really have anything better to do on my commute, I decided to play completely casually. I told my alliance to kick me if my points dropped too low and they wanted to replace me, but in the mean time they'd at least get an extra 10 iso out of me each day.

It's honestly changed the game for me, and mostly for the better. I missed out on Mohawk entirely, but managed 2 Shulk covers - the quick refreshes just worked really well whenever I thought "hey, I got a few spare minutes, I wonder if those high point nodes are up again?", I probably could have snagged 3, but I clearly don't know how to tell the time and leave myself enough to finish my last clear. I'm definitely not going to place nearly as well in the current Heroic, since part of it ran over the weekend and now days, if I'm not on my commute I don't see value in play MPQ.

Anyway, I've talked about this a few times before as "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Playing Casually" (or Dr. Puzzlelove?) and really I can't recommend it enough. Also, continuing to play whilst simulatenously not giving demiurge anymore money was the only way I can really put any small degree of strain on their servers without any additional income - and I'm a vindictive basterd like that.
My current goal is to "softcap" my collection. I figure if I can do that, then I'll have "won" the game as best as I possibly can, and be happy to put it down for good. I'm sure I'll fade away long before that happens, but it's nice to have something to work towards.

FaerieMyst

Day 249 of rewards... I'm sure I missed a few. Still love the game. Every now and again I get a little tired so I play less on those days.

My alliance is casually hardcore. Most of us are naturally competitive but fun is a definite requirement. I feel inspired to play more but never pressured.

I play hard but nothing is on the line ....that means that any stress I feel playing MPQ is internally generated and in my power to change.

Unknown

Game has only gotten worse over the past 2.5 months. Constant negative changes should drive you away.

Unknown

Twysta wrote:

It'll be a sad day, the day you leave S.H.I.E.L.D reck.
You're a monument of competitive play.
If we had an HQ, you'd have a statue outside.

I must admit that will be a sad day. Don't leave reck. Just don't try to win every pvp. You don't have to prove anything. Just enjoy the game and compete in pvp when you want covers.

I burned HP only in first season when I was in top 10. Now probably I am not mvp in S.H.I.E.L.D but game is more fun. And you won't be burnout to fast.

Unknown

I stopped playing about two weeks and I am now playing extremely casually, such as playing one match a day just to get my daily reward. I obviously put in my notice with my alliance as well before I left, so I would like to think I left on good terms with the game. I don't know if I'm ever going to come back to playing the game again, but I'll just let it sit there and try to find out what to do with it.

Unknown

I retired. I dropped out of my alliance and will only play PvP's where I need the reward. PvE I will just shoot for top 50.

Felt pretty good not having to compete and grind up 800+ points in the recent Punisher PvP. T

Although I wasn't ever really a 'hardcore' player, more of a 'since day one' player.

bonerang wrote:

Game has only gotten worse over the past 2.5 months. Constant negative changes should drive you away.

I think there were worse times. Right before alliances were announced, they were dropping HP rewards, ISO was scarce, level scaling was a mess and the characters they were releasing were all underwhelming.