The point of this thread is to give everyone a single place to tell all the wonderful and amazing people in this forum just why we are either
- Drastically reducing gameplay
- Done spending (Edited in - thanks @LordStrohker!)
- Taking a break
- Outright quitting
I ask that you only post in here if you are in one of those four categories. Please don’t turn this into a discussion about why you don’t think people should leave, instead let us voice our reasoning for leaving what was once a great game that many thousands have loved.
@Coppersky & @Rook I don’t know if you can do anything to keep things on track in here, but it would be amazing if you can.
My reasons are echoes of what has been voiced in here so very many times: the game has declined into a shadow of what it once was.
I am taking the high road and giving SG one last chance: if the upcoming 1.14 release and Season 2 do not fix at least some of the massive problems in the game, then I will either leave my alliances to go rogue or quit the game entirely. In either circumstance, there will be absolutely no money from my pocket going to SG.
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It is no longer “F2P” even though you can play it at a very low level without spending money. It has actually gone beyond P2W, as was voiced as a concern by @Avicious here:
Are we heading to Pay2Win? Plus, other concerns. It is my opinion that it has moved into the “Pay to Pay” realm, where even those paying money are getting little to nothing in return, no return on investment to speak of: “Paying for the privilege of paying” -
The most basic element of the game is the match-3 board. We use this in all battles. Lately, boards in the titan battles are horrendous. When I color stack, I can count on few if any of the color strong against the titan. It isn’t just once in a while, it’s the rule with a marginally decent board only coming up infrequently. Titans are hard by nature and I welcome a challenge, but when the tool used for that challenge is broken, what do you do? When there is consistently a drastically higher number of combos and opportunities to create bombs and diamonds when doing all the other battles than in a titan battle, it becomes obvious that something’s up. This is the current state noticed by a great many players.
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Titans and defense teams in raids and wars sometimes are inexplicably exempt from the core rules of the game. When a 9* ice titan can one-shot a fully maxed Zeline, the titan is NOT following the rules of the elements. When a mid-4th tier Cyprian receives only 71 points damage from a fully maxed Marjana’s special, and there are no buffs or nerfs in place, something’s wrong. When a mid-4th tier Zeline can nearly one-shot an entire team of higher-level 5* heroes in a raid, including fully maxed Fire heroes, there’s a problem
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Summons have become less productive. Point blank, SG has made the strong heroes too hard to get. The only event hero I got in the Avalon event was Lancelot. I made 6 or 7 10x summons and got 3 or 4 Lancelots. I have Lance, Merlin, and King Arthur from the previous Avalon event, why am I not getting Guinevere or Morgan? Why only Lancelot? I have him, I like him, I don’t need multiples though.
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A few days before @Avicious posted his concerns Are we heading to Pay2Win?.., I opened a ticket for how bad my titan boards had become (and many others in my alliances). The first response was acceptable and accommodating. I sent a video showing how bad the board was in a battle and received a response saying there were no aberrations in the game play and that “technical issues severely affecting gameplay are not limited to a single account but if broken, would affect a significant amount of accounts”. By then, @Avicious had posted his concerns, so I replied to the e-mail pointing out all the topic and how many people were complaining about the issue and was told I need to complain in the forum instead of in a ticket. They wouldn’t even acknowledge the glaring fact that a great many others are complaining of the exact same thing.
I’m left to wonder if SG cares even a little for the people playing their game.
Today, for the umpteenth time, a 9* ice titan one-shotted 3 high-level 5* nature heroes, plus Wu Kong, one right after the other. I did what I’ve never done before: I fled the battle. I fled because I am just too sick of these problems and SG is not acknowledging them.
So, I am giving SG until a few days after the release of the 1.14 code. If titan boards continue to be terrible, if titans and defense teams continue to not be bound by the rules of elements and have superhuman powers, I will follow the lead of so very many players before me and either play only when bored, or outright quit the game.
@AnjaValkyrie is one of the calmest, most positive, and most beautiful voices in this game/forum, and she’s no longer playing at a competitive level:
She’s still playing, but has had to make adjustments to her outlook in order to justify continuing. I wager she will play a tiny fraction of the time she used to.
That’s not where you want players to be.
SG, I’m afraid you shot the golden goose. I’m concerned greed has blinded you. I’m afraid you’ve somehow lost touch with the fact that a game has to be fun and challenging, not broken. I fear you are impossibly out of touch even though the same complaints have been surfacing here in the forum for many, many months.
E&P is the last game made by SG that I will play, and I may not be playing it for much longer.