Boycott, stage 2?

Judging by the activity required in the current operation, and the frenetic pace of events this year , I would assume this is pretty well intended to boost sagging play time.

So yes, I’m assuming they in fact do notice

Personally I stopped playing on the 2nd day of operations. I'm having way more fun playing COD. Upgrades are instant (tired of all the waiting in War Robots), matchmaking is fair and equal (no whales made to play against low level gear), and I get instant rewards for playing. Plus a free crate from ads every 10mins.

They do not care that you are not playing.

I have a old Champ account in iOS that I haven't played in well over 2 years. I still collect the Supply drop each day, watch ads and
collect resources as you stated. Guess what they are making a small amount by me watching ads.

I get offers. I have spent a half billion doing unnecessary upgrades, never qualify, never play Skirmish.

Never started the first item in WS. Collect the 1 mil Ag from the first level of Operations.

I think you want to be the HAMMER not the nail.

As far as PC there are plenty in this event to keep the green flowing.

Seems reasonable. I only started playing a few months ago, but this second OP saw my playing drop drastically not only from the first OP, but from the day before Raging Typhoon started. That wasn't as a form of protest, but rather the reminder that increased effort will not lead to increased overall satisfaction. I'm still enjoying the game though so still in it.

You know, War Robots is simply boring. I've been playing this game now for ~three years. Something early 2017 or late 2016, I don't remember. Back then, the game was pretty slow and very tactical. Today? I play against some bot with some ability. Then the ability wears off, I start hammering the bot, but the bot just activates Phase Shift. So I have to stop hammering. Then the bot reactivates the ability. If I'm able to bring down the health of the red guy, Last Stan kicks in. Then the red guy activates Phase Shift again. Then I die.

How's this even entertaining? It's bull「dookie」. Playing War Robots feels like doing your annual tax statement. It's not a game, it's a chore. It's actual work. Which is why I stopped playing, too. PUBG Mobile, PUBG Lite on PC(free), COD Mobile. So many options. Zero pay to win. Nothing. Why bother playing War Robots?

If War Robots had fair match making and removed some of the power cell related crack pipe issues, I'd instantly continue playing War Robots. Given its current gamestate, I won't. The gameplay of War Robots in its current state is pure bull「dookie」.

Yeah, I realize leeches worse than Ares train when in groups.

I realize that it's out of my power and I should just enjoy the game for what it is. It's not like I see death squad every single game, and I see more good games than bad in lower Champion League. And I see enough good games where I can experiment on different silly robot builds that may or may not work and not work on stats.

My thoughts is what happens when Leech gets into the workshop and becomes commonplace like the Ares. I'm scared that the game will become a three to four robot mess(Ao Jun/Ares/Phantom/Leech) and that could lead to mass boycott/quitters. Yes you can argue that this didn't happen with Aries or Ao Jun, but those box had particular weaknesses. Phantom and especially leech have a very small to almost non-existent weakness. I'd blame phase shift. I was a fan of it at the beginning but now I realize it can be abused badly with the pilot skill foolhearted.

Yesterday I decided to play dragalia again after having a year off from the game. And now I realize I missed the game quite a bit. Hopefully, I don't leave robot wars. Its really fun when you see creative builds and people playing with different robots. I just don't want it to become a for robot game until the next overpowered robot appear.

I even stopped collecting resources, I just don’t care anymore, that’s my boycott drop in the pond 

Every indication from articles based on Pixonic presentations and interviews seem to suggest that they are watching incredibly closely and they do care. They care about the overall player population and not so much about individuals. Individuals come and go, they fall in love with the game and then get bored.

Having said that I agree with [CK]erazor ‘s assessment.
While Pix is introducing new content they monitise just about every content that has a considerable impact on the game. Before continuing, must acknowledge that Pix does refresh the game at reasonable intervals, adds non monetised content and nerfs out some content. But overall, there is a definite steady trend to increased monetisation and more OTT features. That in turn leads to the game requiring less tactics, reduced levels of strategic approach and lower levels of skill where skill is something that is required to defeat another on a level playing field.

I still like this game more than I don’t and that’s why I keep playing. It is also easy to access using an iPad but it is definitely getting more and more boring (IMO) over time because it is becoming so messy and requires less skilful input. It is entertaining for sure but when entertainment incorporates more and more frustration than it becomes less entertaining. Haven’t Played Vox Machinea but I think that’s where these robot games are heading. I think War Robots will fold due to emerging competition in this market segment.

Yeah, I wonder if they can track that I am playing WAAAAY more COD than War Robots these days = free to play.

Frankly I can't wait until I get backed up by workshop and stop upgrading anything. My cap is level 8. The Ag costs are utterly insane. I'm on hangar 4 and I only have a Fenrir and Mercury to work on. A blaze, hussar and a viper I don't know where to put. 2nd blaze in workshop. I finally finished hangar 3, so I know when these things are 8, with how long it takes to build out of the workshop, I'm essentially retired from the nonsense. I have ~85M Ag to spare, but that's all for 4th hangar. And considering a bot or weapon takes roughly 20M to get to 8, that's hardly enough.

With those 4 hour ad boosts I'll probably be done with each item out of the workshop inside a week. That's 3 weeks of a big nothing. And I can't wait. This carrot chasing game has gone on for too long. I don't even know what I want to build, because I know the wait just kills the excitement. I may funnel the ads into the workshop, but I haven't done any numbers and the thought of being a slave again sickens me.

If I never switched to Chromebook I never would have come back. Most of the reason I choose to play is this method beats the snot out of playing on a phone. I have it on installed on my phone but only to play the slave game.. isn't that a little strange..

Also now that I think about it.. I said a bot/weapon costs ~20M to take to 8. Well suppose I log in every 24 hours like the slave I am and get my 500k. That means I'd only need to make 5M a whole freaking month to keep up. Ahahaha. I can get that in Skirmish! Which I do enjoy. That is one thing I do enjoy. Why the hell am I making bots I use less and less? The hell if I know.

I have played it for a couple of hours and I think they need to work on increasing tactical depth of the game. For example, I picked light and supposedly fast bot with machine guns but those do very little damage and bot's speed was not enough to compensate. So right now the game turns into slug fest of medium/ heavy bots too often, if you can find a game with enough players. They need to make combat really good since there's no resource management and very limited hangar building.

Say what you will about Pixonic, but they got the formula right. At least initially, before they decided to ruin it with all the p2w crap.