Mburn7 said: We have a serious problem. Brand new players are cracking the Extinction roster in events and we still can't get a full 20 to put up scores. Old players have almost universally stopped playing (including myself) and have dropped to our more casual coalitions. For the first time ever (not counting the year of 52 consecutive RoTGP) we've made coalition events participation-optional.Nobody wants to spend any amount of time on this game anymore. Its simultaneously really sad and really terrifying to see.
thesmallesthuman said: Re: Extinction...not ALL events have gone participation optional. Just all of the new events (RAW, TE, and TGT) that give little to no rewards for time spent. Doesn’t bode well for moving forward if they keep up this trend tho...Seriously, why bother competing if there’s no incentive for doing so? Bragging right are great and all, but many of us work on the weekends, or have families or social lives. We’re happy to devote time to this game to help ours and our friends’ collections grow, but time spent no longer seems to = rewards granted.
Pantagruel said: It'll be interesting to see what happens to YH1J when they overtake GoblinPile at the top of the overall leaderboard.
Mburn7 said: Nobody wants to spend any amount of time on this game anymore.
madwren said: Mburn7 said: Nobody wants to spend any amount of time on this game anymore. We lost a lot of people with the coalition event reward nerf. Who wants to spend literally hours finishing all of their nodes over the course of a weekend for a first place reward of 5 jewels? It makes it very hard to care. The dearth of functional, rewarding, and fresh content has been the issue with this game for years. I don't play a lot of non-coalition events because I'm tired of playing the same iteration of the same event from two years prior, and coalition events are frustrating because the payout isn't commensurate with the effort required.Honestly, aside from friendships, the main reason I'm still around are because I love Magic THAT MUCH. If it wasn't my favorite IP I probably would have quit long ago.
madwren said: Pantagruel said: It'll be interesting to see what happens to YH1J when they overtake GoblinPile at the top of the overall leaderboard. I've been sort of wondering if they'll all just spontaneously retire, and that chasing us is the only thing that's kept them going for 3.5 years. It's easier to hunt when you smell blood in the water. It's been a pretty fun rivalry. I just wish--and this applies to both teams--that so many events weren't fraught with freezes or crashes or people being locked out of their accounts.
Mburn7 said: madwren said: Mburn7 said: Nobody wants to spend any amount of time on this game anymore. We lost a lot of people with the coalition event reward nerf. Who wants to spend literally hours finishing all of their nodes over the course of a weekend for a first place reward of 5 jewels? It makes it very hard to care. The dearth of functional, rewarding, and fresh content has been the issue with this game for years. I don't play a lot of non-coalition events because I'm tired of playing the same iteration of the same event from two years prior, and coalition events are frustrating because the payout isn't commensurate with the effort required.Honestly, aside from friendships, the main reason I'm still around are because I love Magic THAT MUCH. If it wasn't my favorite IP I probably would have quit long ago. That's something I think we can all agree on.If this was a generic-named CCG style Match 3 game we would have all quit years ago.If we haven't spent 4 years of our lives playing this game we would have quit months ago, even with the MTG IP.I'm reasonably sure that D3/Oktagon knows this, and they're trying to exploit that to get people to pay 30 bucks a month for absolutely nothing and keep playing a buggy mess of a game.
Gabrosin said: madwren said: Pantagruel said: It'll be interesting to see what happens to YH1J when they overtake GoblinPile at the top of the overall leaderboard. I've been sort of wondering if they'll all just spontaneously retire, and that chasing us is the only thing that's kept them going for 3.5 years. It's easier to hunt when you smell blood in the water. It's been a pretty fun rivalry. I just wish--and this applies to both teams--that so many events weren't fraught with freezes or crashes or people being locked out of their accounts. It is indeed much easier to motivate people when chasing something than when keeping something. And it's sad that you can get more expected value from carefully paying attention to the bug tracker than you can get from any strategy guide.
madwren said:Honestly, aside from friendships, the main reason I'm still around are because I love Magic THAT MUCH. If it wasn't my favorite IP I probably would have quit long ago.
Mburn7 said: Kind of unrelated to this, but look at how MTGPQ is described on Channel Fireball.If this is how the greater MTG community sees this game, no wonder it isn't super popular.https://www.channelfireball.com/all-strategy/articles/magic-manastrike-released-on-mobile/?_ga=2.90000536.2086285341.1580131948-337197286.1534346453