A Breath of Fresh Air

babar3355

Over the last 3-4 days our slack channel has been alive with chatter. Coalition members have been working tirelessly to optimize decks, enjoyed sharing stories of euphoric victories along with crushing defeats and have discussed the highs and the lows of this game that we love. It was the first time in over a month that the game felt like it had life again.

Why?  From where did this breath of fresh air come?

Rishkar's Expertise of course.  There was something worth fighting for and worth striving for.

The developers can not expect us to keep playing this game and spending money on it if they are going to only offer a worthwhile prize once a month.  You need to figure out other ways to make the game more fair and approachable to newer and more casual players. (Elo ranking system, tier system based on prior success, etc)  You can not hammer all players with huge reductions in prizes and expect us to stay motivated to play and pay.

New strong and usable cards are what keep end game players playing.  Getting a shot at one once or twice (with jewels) a month is not sufficient.  I genuinely hope you guys see the error in your ways and make some much needed changes to the reward system.

Regardless, thanks for this event and reminding me what this game used to feel like.

DuskPaladin

I totally agree. The keywords here are Meaningful Rewards and Competitiveness.

We, humans, are at our best working together to reach a common goal.

I was really disheartened by the state of the game, as many were too.

It truly gave me a second wind, and I'm hopefully about the future of the game.

Dear devs, @Brigby @Hibernum_JC , besides some hiccups with the app stability, this patch brought many quality-of-life improvements: Trial of the Planes is starting to be worthwhile too.

Please give us more like this.

Thank you.

THEMAGICkMAN

All this. The end game players need more interesting activities to do every week that are more worth it than what we have now. BP was great, it really was, and we need more like it. 

Phase

Competing for RE was exciting! More to the point, playing against event decks felt fun and refreshing. Seeing my opponents drop pummelers and deadlock traps and playing lots of tezz2 and saheeli was really novel. Other than the TERRIBLE reward delivery (or lack thereof) and just how broken this new card is, I think this event was a great success.

I hope you guys re-run it for everyone that got screwed during the maintenance, with the same rewards.

Mainloop25

And then we all get disheartened again when they screw up award payouts... Smh

Thuran

And this thread is also the reason why this weekend was so bad for the game.

People were really hyped for this card, waited months and month for it, and ever weeks ago when people expected the event to run, they were preparing and tuning decklists, all for the chance to get a single shot at that one vital card. It should have been a resounding success, with the new matchmaking proving its worth and the entire playerbase galvanized to compete for the grand prize.

Instead it as one disaster after the other : / Really should have done Q&A before launching the event

Don't get me wrong, the buildup to this event was great, and it was a joy to see everyone going at it with such passion and drive, it is just a shame that the game itself decided to ruin the fun for all those people. 

DuskPaladin

Funny enough, we're having another renaissance in the channel, as people are excited about the old **** event with Mythic rewards. The chat is more lively, people are more enthusiastic, discussing deckbuilding and other stuff.

Why all that?

Because of the meaningful reward: a Mythic for the top 5. 


Meaningful reward = Mythic

Mythic = Fun

No Mythic = Boring

Please reflect on that, devs.

Froggy

That's awesome news! This is hope. Now all the devs need to do is fix everything else broken with the game and we will actually be able to enjoy all parts of it. But at least this is a start...