Best Of

Obviously there are more than three, but I’d like to focus on three things that currently reduce my day to day game enjoyment.

1. Loading Times: This is becoming an epidemic for me and at least a batch of others. Wait times starting a fight, completing a fight, ranking a champ, moving in quests…it’s just a holding pattern while the spinning disc continues to spin around. Personally haven’t ever seen it this bad, but it affects boosts, rhythm, time spent playing, etc.

2. Currencies: I realize there’s an ongoing effort to simplify game currencies, but it feels like there’s no effort to sort out some currencies. Mysterium is the most obvious, but I’d put loyalty up there also. Stores need an update—period. If I’m playing at least in part to earn currencies that aren’t worth anything for me, that makes me want to play modes less or not at all.

3. Cadences: More than just one thing here—for starters, the decision to decouple start times for EQ/SQ from updates adversely affects timing of game play. I’m often unsure when something drops and I consider myself reasonably well-informed. Also, Crystal inclusion timing—having champs remain in the Titan for the same time as human gestation was a fun experiment, but it’s way too long and devalues Titans. I will also suggest other random cadence things (Solvarch dropped on a Thursday after update, buffs that take super long times, e.g.). All of this makes it more difficult to play the game without stressing about schedules and planning.

I don’t expect any of these are simple fixes, but when I think about things that seem more controllable (as opposed to things like lag and game mechanics, which I’ve given up on), these three items feel somewhat approachable with a bit of effort.

Dr. Zola

You missed one thing we always complain

The BG pop ups

Hello y’all,

I have a few questions and I’m a bit worried I might accidentally be doing something that could get me banned in-game or for related reasons.
1. I noticed that we can refresh the Solo Raids rewards/objectives and get the rewards twice after completing the first objective and claiming them. I’ve been doing this. Am I unintentionally exploiting a bug, and could it get me in trouble, or is it fine?
2. I’m a student in China, and we need to use a VPN for pretty much everything I normally use in my home country (Google, WhatsApp, YouTube, etc.). The game also doesn’t work here without a VPN, so I use one to play. I’m not a big spender, but I do make occasional purchases. The region and currency for my payments are set to my home country—not China or my VPN location—so I’m not taking advantage of currency rate differences.

Could you please let me know if what I’m doing is allowed? I’ve been playing for almost 10 years, and I really enjoy the game—wouldn’t want to risk losing my account.

Obviously there are more than three, but I’d like to focus on three things that currently reduce my day to day game enjoyment.

1. Loading Times: This is becoming an epidemic for me and at least a batch of others. Wait times starting a fight, completing a fight, ranking a champ, moving in quests…it’s just a holding pattern while the spinning disc continues to spin around. Personally haven’t ever seen it this bad, but it affects boosts, rhythm, time spent playing, etc.

2. Currencies: I realize there’s an ongoing effort to simplify game currencies, but it feels like there’s no effort to sort out some currencies. Mysterium is the most obvious, but I’d put loyalty up there also. Stores need an update—period. If I’m playing at least in part to earn currencies that aren’t worth anything for me, that makes me want to play modes less or not at all.

3. Cadences: More than just one thing here—for starters, the decision to decouple start times for EQ/SQ from updates adversely affects timing of game play. I’m often unsure when something drops and I consider myself reasonably well-informed. Also, Crystal inclusion timing—having champs remain in the Titan for the same time as human gestation was a fun experiment, but it’s way too long and devalues Titans. I will also suggest other random cadence things (Solvarch dropped on a Thursday after update, buffs that take super long times, e.g.). All of this makes it more difficult to play the game without stressing about schedules and planning.

I don’t expect any of these are simple fixes, but when I think about things that seem more controllable (as opposed to things like lag and game mechanics, which I’ve given up on), these three items feel somewhat approachable with a bit of effort.

Dr. Zola

You missed one thing I always complain

The BG pop ups

You misspelled one word. Fixed it for you.