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Post by T34 on Dec 8, 2019 23:02:40 GMT -5
Pix have said, somewhere - don't recall where, that the iOS player base is getting smaller. Which I guess is the reason for the apparent setting up of cross platform games. I guess it depends on Android. If their player base is getting smaller as well, then eventually the game will die. I doubt the aggressive monetization is helping matters, but the matchmaking must be putting people off. The runs of beatdowns due to the 'must keep them at 50%' design gets wearing after a while. For that to continue from Diamond and up - you'd really have to have think skin. Add in lag, bugs, tankers, dire currency income, awful economy, mass adverts, not forgetting the league design which seem to push you up, and they don't really have a winning formula. Scams always come to an end, then companies find Jesus and proceed to balance again. It may take some time for this scam to come to an end. But i 'd say the power creep is evident in this game and is caused by the release of new P2W content and new P2W monetisation mechanisms. Cant go on for ever. And when it finally breaks i reckon pix will not rehabilitate the game because it is on the old side. Remember the annual report... steady as she goes, not expecting more from this game and indirectly mentioned that the future is in other games.
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Post by linearblade on Dec 9, 2019 0:30:15 GMT -5
Scams always come to an end, then companies find Jesus and proceed to balance again. It may take some time for this scam to come to an end. But i 'd say the power creep is evident in this game and is caused by the release of new P2W content and new P2W monetisation mechanisms. Cant go on for ever. And when it finally breaks i reckon pix will not rehabilitate the game because it is on the old side. Remember the annual report... steady as she goes, not expecting more from this game and indirectly mentioned that the future is in other games. Yes. Jokes on them. This is a one hit wonder. I think the whole loot box behavior is coming to a halt. I’m curious if this p2w will continue industry wide as well. I think it’s likely they will not succeed if their plan is to move on. I say this not because of a lack in pixonic (which I don’t have), but because typically complacency leads to failure. And this is speaking from experience . Pixonic has clearly decided to eat gooses that lay golden eggs. Expensive food fetish. If this is not a clear cut case of complaceny I don’t know what is
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Post by T34 on Dec 9, 2019 0:52:36 GMT -5
It may take some time for this scam to come to an end. But i 'd say the power creep is evident in this game and is caused by the release of new P2W content and new P2W monetisation mechanisms. Cant go on for ever. And when it finally breaks i reckon pix will not rehabilitate the game because it is on the old side. Remember the annual report... steady as she goes, not expecting more from this game and indirectly mentioned that the future is in other games. Yes. Jokes on them. This is a one hit wonder. I think the whole loot box behavior is coming to a halt. I’m curious if this p2w will continue industry wide as well. I think it’s likely they will not succeed if their plan is to move on. I say this not because of a lack in pixonic (which I don’t have), but because typically complacency leads to failure. And this is speaking from experience . Pixonic has clearly decided to eat gooses that lay golden eggs. Expensive food fetish. If this is not a clear cut case of complaceny I don’t know what is Shame they wracked the original game. This was eSports caliber IMO. I spent energy on figuring out how to consistently beat a gareth with a gareth and a lance with a lance. It made a huge difference to the outcome. Pointless doing that now. Just get another pilot skill and dont think too hard about game tactics.
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Post by linearblade on Dec 9, 2019 0:57:34 GMT -5
Yes. Jokes on them. This is a one hit wonder. I think the whole loot box behavior is coming to a halt. I’m curious if this p2w will continue industry wide as well. I think it’s likely they will not succeed if their plan is to move on. I say this not because of a lack in pixonic (which I don’t have), but because typically complacency leads to failure. And this is speaking from experience . Pixonic has clearly decided to eat gooses that lay golden eggs. Expensive food fetish. If this is not a clear cut case of complaceny I don’t know what is Shame they wracked the original game. This was eSports caliber IMO. I spent energy on figuring out how to consistently beat a gareth with a gareth and a lance with a lance. It made a huge difference to the outcome. Pointless doing that now. Just get another pilot skill and dont think too hard about game tactics. Really is. Because slower games tend to favor older people. It’s too twitchy for me. I happen to still be good at twitch games, and not like the requirements are all that high, but combine that with lag etc, and it’s a recipe for disaster. Cherry on top is the current stupidity. This party is ending faster than they expect. My credit card processing business has changed dramatically over the last year. I’m noticing far more refunds and chargebacks than before. Additionally visa is tightening hard. Just like 2008. The top is in
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Post by Forumite on Dec 9, 2019 4:18:26 GMT -5
Pix created a game that was extremely fun to play and was very close to being esport ready. personally I think all they would have had to do was sell tickets....
There were already plenty of top competitors to help insure exciting matches for spectators ( and lets face it, betting).
The growth numbers were smokin.. which attracted pos internet giant mail.fu. who promptly shifted priorities to data extraction and monetization of EVERY ASPECT OF THE GAME. They quit focusing on what made the game fun and engaging to play in the first place. To add insult to injury, they never looked back.
Now here is the funny part. To the people running War Robots, they think anybody criticizing their short sighted, greed driven approach to maintaining an already proven winner as naive or stupid or both. SO MUCH SO that mail.ru/pix mukuteemuks monetized their FAILED METHOD OF MAINTAINING AND/OR EXPANDING A WILDLY POPULAR GAME TITLE by "teaching" other would be parasites how to fork off awesome games in their home town..
Heres the really funny part.
These geniouses, and hope some are reading, are patting yourself all over the place for your cunning and creativity. You guys who only equate sukcess with money. You guys ( and Im leaving the ladies outta this cause I dont think they are as shallow and dumb as you fellas are in the pix brain trust) you guys that are looking at the millions and millions of dollars (rubles) thinking, "who you calling dumb, jethro?".
You. You short sighten dip-sticks. You. Who missed, no You, who squandered, blew, jaked and literally threw away the baby and kept the bathwater. YOU. Thats who. Enjoy the coke and 「strong independent woman who don't need no man」s morons cause NOBODY is gonna take serious jamokes that flush billions down the loo while in a rush to lap up the loose change in the barcolounger.
Plus, lets say pix lives on after War Robots. How many return customers ya counting on there fellas? Alot?? Ah-me!
Hey mail.fu. fu.
Bottom line, fun games are fun to play. Monetized grind fest chit hole versions of former great selfs?
Not so much.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2019 5:45:44 GMT -5
Shame they wracked the original game. This was eSports caliber IMO. I spent energy on figuring out how to consistently beat a gareth with a gareth and a lance with a lance. It made a huge difference to the outcome. Pointless doing that now. Just get another pilot skill and dont think too hard about game tactics. Really is. Because slower games tend to favor older people. It’s too twitchy for me. I happen to still be good at twitch games, and not like the requirements are all that high, but combine that with lag etc, and it’s a recipe for disaster. Cherry on top is the current stupidity. This party is ending faster than they expect. My credit card processing business has changed dramatically over the last year. I’m noticing far more refunds and chargebacks than before. Additionally visa is tightening hard. Just like 2008. The top is in This game is becoming twitchy AF. Im playing more twitchy game rn. But it’s more balanced. If I nod of for one second, I run right past another player.
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Post by milty72 on Dec 9, 2019 6:12:18 GMT -5
I suspect the presence of titans narrows the power gap between weak and strong players at this point in time. Strong players are not as likely to deploy titans as the weaker ones from what I’ve seen. This narrows the power gap by the weaker players having an additional decent bot on the field. With time titans will be upgraded and the disparity will be re-established and possibly pushed out further. In the mean time, low powered players using titans will be accelerated towards the Champions League MM-ing zone. Once in the Champions League MM-ing zone there is no way back down. I agree, and its great for those of us who intentionally play a "weak" hanger. Yep. Play an intentionally weak hangar will drop you. Over the past few months I've gone from High Masters pushing on and into Champions League down to high Expert. Win ratio is still around 50% but my damage is lower. But generally more funnerest games. It's not like it's a weak hangar. I do have an Ao Jun sporting kang daes and an Invader with bunson burners. But I've also got a Rog, Doc and Schutze. Find the sweat spot and it's still fun. And you still win.
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Post by pluto335 on Dec 9, 2019 8:55:01 GMT -5
Well , no matter how good a game is , people can only put up with so much BS for a while and if they do not feel they are getting rewarded then there is no point in playing a game . with latest bots and so called bugs (some bots do not take damage, silver nerf etc ) , people are finally seeing what it really is . All you need today is leech/phanthom and PS and endless supply of green crack and the battle will be in your favor.
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Post by WattTron on Dec 9, 2019 11:15:14 GMT -5
I haven't noticed any decline. This is mere speculation.
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Post by shivaswrath on Dec 9, 2019 14:18:58 GMT -5
I haven't noticed any decline. This is mere speculation. Yeah I see same wait times as before in BR and Dom. I find myself though always on the top 1 or 2 on the losing side about 60% of the time. I used to be 50-60, but I've accepted this as the new MM.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2019 9:20:01 GMT -5
I haven't noticed any decline. This is mere speculation. Yeah I see same wait times as before in BR and Dom. I find myself though always on the top 1 or 2 on the losing side about 60% of the time. I used to be 50-60, but I've accepted this as the new MM. The way to not see a decline is to push most players up, fast....with Titans, and the availability of massive, ez to get damage, the ride to the top is faster than ever. My avg. damage just hit 910k per battle, with L9 gear.....and, I’m not a good player like many here.... Ponder upon this.......
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2019 15:25:56 GMT -5
So, just had yet another, league upward type of battle...and a loss! I just missed 2.5 million damage on Carrier, the next blue had just under 800,000.......this time, it gave me the 2 million milestone....but, is my hangar really this good? I suppose I will know more when I’m in Champions League......
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