The Dearth of Gameplay

GrizzoMtGPQ
GrizzoMtGPQ Posts: 776 Critical Contributor
in MtGPQ General Discussion
There's nothing to do in this game. Events are so few and far between. We get maybe 10-15 minutes of daily content playing Trial of the Planes and Across Ixalan. The PVE event supplies maybe 20-30 minutes of content. Why is this game so stingy giving us stuff to do? It's just weird. I guess the most common activity is to log in and collect the free card. Lame.
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  • Ejmoose
    Ejmoose Posts: 32 Just Dropped In
    I fully agree with this, it’s hard to keep our players intrigued with nothing to do at all... All this new content and nowhere to use it. It almost feels as slow as the months of nothingness we had before Ixalan released.

    Two coalition events is a nice pace, as long as they don’t end/start within hours of each other. A dog between coalition events is a good pace, plus CONSISTENT other non coalitions events for those who want to play.

    I understand that the dev team is busy designing Dominaria, but it shouldn’t be that hard to programming a slightly busier schedule than what we are currently being given. 

    @Brigby are there plans to fix this? There seems to be the start of more turnover within a lot of our groups. Even something to the style of Quick Battle, where grinding actually gives you something rewarding for playing all day, would be a welcome sight. 
  • GrizzoMtGPQ
    GrizzoMtGPQ Posts: 776 Critical Contributor
    edited April 2018
    I'd love to grind. That's all QB was. Just endless play as fast as you can. It was glorious. Why oh why don't we have something like that? Just let us do something that provides progression and a prize that keeps going with lots or infinite refreshes.
  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,731 Chairperson of the Boards
    Need.more.Story.Mode.
  • Kinesia
    Kinesia Posts: 1,621 Chairperson of the Boards

    At the moment "large" resources probably don't exist for adding story, but I think they could fully do "small" resources and add new heroics for the new planeswalkers on a _weekly_ basis, just one fight at a time. A litle bit of time that's committed constantly rather than trying to get a big batch out (which will always be pushed to the back when it's crunchtime for a new set or whatever.)

    Also, with the training grounds... We absolutely need 1 standard and 1 legacy, but to make it more interesting use the 5 colour wheel and lock planeswalkers in, so you get your reward by playing once in each colour which give us a variety of decks. (Obviously you need to be able to keep playing aftrer you've gotten your reward for that colour if you are actually testing.)
  • GrizzoMtGPQ
    GrizzoMtGPQ Posts: 776 Critical Contributor
    @Oktagon_Daiane is there anything you can do? How about running 2 different Trial of the Planeswalker events with a couple new walkers? Or even the old ones?

    Can we get a mid coalition event too? How about two simultaneous mid week coalition events?! That'd be swell, kick it 2016 style.

    I'm dead serious. I paid money for this new stuff. I want to use it.
  • ard021
    ard021 Posts: 39 Just Dropped In
    GrizzoMtGPQ said:
    @Oktagon_Daiane is there anything you can do? How about running 2 different Trial of the Planeswalker events with a couple new walkers? Or even the old ones?

    Can we get a mid coalition event too? How about two simultaneous mid week coalition events?! That'd be swell, kick it 2016 style.

    I'm dead serious. I paid money for this new stuff. I want to use it.

    Complaining to the devs about this is pointless. The devs are answerable to the publisher, since D3Go! owns the game itself. If D3Go! decides that they should be running more events, they can find a way to do it (provide more resources, redirecting priorities, etc.) If they don't, @ing Oktagon employees isn't going to do jack squat. Realistically, this is more Brigby's territory.
  • Ejmoose
    Ejmoose Posts: 32 Just Dropped In
    edited April 2018
    I’m seriously regretting having bought all the new planewalkers as I haven’t had enough chances to use them. No events have run giving me a bonus in standings for having owned the correct walker within such a short time frame. We are the ones who pay to see the game continue but are giving very little value on their use first anymore... I’m hoping for something better to come from Dominaria, but I’m not holding my breath at this point. Just a rush to make bank off of our ambitions.. 
  • ManiiNames
    ManiiNames Posts: 213 Tile Toppler
    Ejmoose said:
    I’m seriously regretting having bought all the new planewalkers as I haven’t had enough chances to use them.
    This.
  • jtwood
    jtwood Posts: 1,285 Chairperson of the Boards
    I guess I’m a minority, but I have a hard time keeping up with what’s out there now without ignoring my family/job/self. I wish coalition events were shorter, and I’d like more “for fun” things, like intra-coalition challenge matches and pauper. 
  • TheF3C3SK1ng
    TheF3C3SK1ng Posts: 31 Just Dropped In
    There are times when I do wonder where all the events are, and then occasionally I have the exact opposite. Thats just life. 

    I do think though, that they are purposely making crystals MUCH harder to come by, so that we are tempted to spend real money

    But without games to play with the stuff we get from the crystals we purchased...I imagine its a very difficult balance for them to make. Not SO easy to acquire crystals so that nobody spends money, but also not so scarce that we all just stop playing.

    I just hope the Vraska and Huatli2 that I just spent 1300 hard earned crystals on see some playing time and don't become irrelevant. 
  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,731 Chairperson of the Boards
    TheF3C3SK1ng said:
    There are times when I do wonder where all the events are, and then occasionally I have the exact opposite. Thats just life. 

    I do think though, that they are purposely making crystals MUCH harder to come by, so that we are tempted to spend real money

    But without games to play with the stuff we get from the crystals we purchased...I imagine its a very difficult balance for them to make. Not SO easy to acquire crystals so that nobody spends money, but also not so scarce that we all just stop playing.

    I just hope the Vraska and Huatli2 that I just spent 1300 hard earned crystals on see some playing time and don't become irrelevant. 
    agreed, at this point though it's almost easier to acquire purple crystals than it is yellow.  Yellow crystals are the new unobtainium :o
  • Mojo
    Mojo Posts: 44 Just Dropped In
    It is worse for people in lower brackets because you have to spend crystals to play.  So if your not in platinum you will have to drop 80 crystals a day to play less the 15 you get from TG.  Once your done with story mode like I am but not plat yet it is really pay to play except that last 10 days 9f month when daily reward will help.
  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,731 Chairperson of the Boards
    oh geez, yeah if it's hard for the people at the top I can't even imagine how frustrating it must be for the bronze, silver, gold players :o 
  • GrizzoMtGPQ
    GrizzoMtGPQ Posts: 776 Critical Contributor
    @Brigby anything? Can we get some more content? Let's try swinging the pendulum in the other direction. Just give us a ton of content to play through and see if you see more ****. :smile:
  • Sirchombli
    Sirchombli Posts: 322 Mover and Shaker
    How about we focus on all of the stuff that still needs fixing? Want more bugged events? Be realistic . Now ain't the time. 
  • ArielSira
    ArielSira Posts: 520 Critical Contributor
    No, but it feels to me it shouldn't be a problem to launch an extra old single player event. Fateful Showdown, Oath of the GW etc, I would love to see 3 of those per week instead of 1 that stays for 4 days.
  • ElfNeedsFood
    ElfNeedsFood Posts: 944 Critical Contributor
    Kinesia said:


    Also, with the training grounds... We absolutely need 1 standard and 1 legacy, but to make it more interesting use the 5 colour wheel and lock planeswalkers in, so you get your reward by playing once in each colour which give us a variety of decks. (Obviously you need to be able to keep playing aftrer you've gotten your reward for that colour if you are actually testing.)
    A color-locked training ground is not actually training you for meeting up against other colors of decks unless they hold the decks in the selection process for the whole week. 
  • Aeroplane
    Aeroplane Posts: 314 Mover and Shaker
    They definitely need something better than farming story mode for runes to level up your PW.Even if the extra events reward runes and the odd booster pack.I don't expect free yellow crystals every time I play , but the lack of content to help with progression is counterproductive. Someone mentioned before of daily objectives in story mode to obtain runes. Example- complete story mode X level Y with cards costing 10 or less. Complete X level Y with no spells...etc..  Or they can keep it simple with x3 runes events for certain story modes. This would help beginners with progression greatly and people who need to level up PWs.

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