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 I always complain

The BG pop ups

You misspelled one word. Fixed it for you.

Hey folks, so a lot of the stuff we're talking about here, plus more, is going to be present in the daily quest update (Alliance potions, boosts, etc)

Correct me if you're seeing otherwise, but aside from that, the only thing that seems to be "missing" are energy refills, correct?

Everything else has had its potency bumped up by quite a bit.

Say that stuff shows up. Is there going to be an announcement about the energy refills being added elsewhere? And requiring energy to obtain all of the missing stuff? Delayed for a period after the launch of this new “super” event? (Lol bad marketing at its best) Curious game economics at play here. Im not going to pretend that I understand game economics as well as someone that works in game economy design, so some insight into these decisions would be great. Even a “hey we need to squeeze more money out of the player base or netmarble will shut us down so we are forcing engagement in new spaces and slowly chipping away at stashes to incentivize spending at a more consistent rate.” That would be better than calling the event “super” when its anything but. Just call it “event.” No adjectives. Just. “Event”