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If we're being honest I blame your boss for allowing this to happen. Miike's original intent may have been for you to cosign reports from devs that he as a community relations flack lacked credibility in passing on, however this only led to confusion in the marketplace, as he and his successors aren't your boss and if/when you bigfoot them by announcing things they aren't privy to, you leave them to have to answer for it in your absence. If we didn't know you from a Roy or a Roger or a David or (another) John and the angry mob was just yelling at a faceless boogeyman, we'd still be where we are now. Lessons learned, I suppose.

And for the angry mob, this is more or less where you'd expect a long-in-the-tooth live service game to be - squeezing every last drop from whatever/whoever's left. And the boogeyman will always be the bean counter analyst pointing to a colorful report with metrics, forecasts and unrealistic expectations, or Stretch Goals as they say. Crashed and co. are just there to try and make it happen and collect a paycheck, like the rest of us.

I like the constructive thoughts in here. When the community is coming together in agreement there is a real issue that needs to be addressed. And yes to post above me that’s my point in a way. The game is being killed not dying.

Dude I think has good intentions, but what the game has been is why it’s stayed successful until crashed took over. Promised us the best banquet ever and delivered the worst. Crashed I’m not trying to say you don’t want better for the game but you are single-handedly with your decisions destroying it and tanking it. Is that your intention?

So because I posted a thread that the community agrees on I require mod approval for my posts now?

We all know why you're making these decisions tbf, Net marble wants more 💲💲. I don't blame you, you're just doing what they tell you to do, but sorry, you can't turn the clock on the game economy like this after YOU let it get out of hand.

"You know all that energy we gave you for free for years, well we've decided we don't like that now, sorry, pay up"

It's just greed plain and simple.

And what makes it worse is despite all this monetization, the game is still constantly bugged to 💩 on the weekly and you can't launch an event/content that runs well out the box to save your life the last 3 months. Maybe have a word with your bosses to fix that if they want to bleed us all dry.

every month or 2 you have a new sale. Add to that the gradual lowering of in game items we have been able to get for free for 10 years, it seems to be a push to get us to spend more. Everything has been about having to buy to keep up or get left behind. That is monetization. In the past 9 years before all of these decisions started getting implemented I could spend as I wished and feel like it was a choice I enjoyed and benefitted from. Now it seems if I want to keep up I have to open my wallet. Especially with the prestige flip. Also that prestige flip has taken the enjoyment out of one of my favorite parts of the game outside of being a collector. I enjoyed only having to worry about my top 5 champs and make any silly choices I wanted on the rest of my champs. I’ve found some real gems this way that no one else looks at. Now I have to choose what you set as the top 30 prestige champs in the game to stay on top of if I wished to do so. Relics when they were introduced were never supposed to be deciding factors in prestige. They were promoted as an add on not a necessity. Now between prestige and nodes dependent on strikers they have become a necessity. The decisions may have good intentions behind them, but they have all been failures. I’m not even worried about cyber Monday or banquet this year because it’s already been made evident it’s gonna require a spend fest. The game was fine as is. It needed some tweaks to refresh it, but you sir have flipped the game upside down from what some of us have been playing for a decade. I’m trying to stay constructive and be respectful. I’d like to see success from changes but so far since you took over every change has been laid behind a paywall. There has always been paywalls but it’s been horrible under your tenure running as head dev sir. Also to your edit I know you don’t own the game, but you are the face right now. As the face you tell us one thing and when things get dropped it’s completely different than what is related to us in advance.

Side quests should have between 0 to 1 energy cost per tile, daily quests the same, how are we supposed to complete everything if we don't have the energy?

The elder marks are the only reason for me to play bgs, since it wouldn't spend my energy, without it I will just give up in another mode.

Probably the next great idea will be putting energy costs in arena, since we have that many overflow refills.

Pipe down single celled organism, the people with more than two brain cells are talking

If it is focused on villains my best guess would be a Kabam employee.