The game is getting stupid.

Android, ios, fb gameroom....?

Wait! Whaddya mean getting?

My take?(spittballing obviously, but with basis). We are all pretty aware of the lengths Pixonic will go through to beat a buck off a customer. A lot of the changes they have been making, (forgive me if I miss anything) nerfing backpedalling, increasing damage relative to health, introducing the kbots, mk 2 and now shocktrains all serve to shorten games on average.
The reason? The more games completed within a certain span off time, the more planned behavioral change makes an impact on the bottom line.
If pixo can make the average player reach for the wallet sooner by say 5 minutes per 100 games, he can fit more spend cycles in a given period.
It may sound diabolical but then, I've learned the hard way about putting anything past Pixo. Nobody hires a dev team on based on high ethical standards.

So the game is stupid, because players are bad at playing? Did I understand the argument correctly?

One thing you need to understand is that XP level has nothing to do with who you are matched with....

They have the money or enough components to get them

Besides, what is the point of attempting to obtain 10,000 components if they give 5 or 10?

January 2017

It seems to go in cycles, though I'll be damned trying to figure out how or why. I came back to playing after about a month off, had some fun mixing up my old hangar, even rejoined my old clan. Not playing anywhere near as much as before, mostly to try to keep the frustration level down. Wins and losses have been pretty even, so upward league movement is pretty slow, which is just fine with me.

Then all of a sudden yesterday somebody flipped 'the switch', and every game was crap. It wasn't even MM, just one team after another of idiot players playing BR with hangars full of long-rangers and missile-lobbers who wouldn't know a beacon from a pencil sharpener. Every. Damn. Game. The only one I won had two clan tankers on the reds dancing around all game with ECU Cossacks and Stalkers. I mech'd out futily capping beacons that the reds would change right behind me, but the end was pretty much a foregone conclusion about a minute in. Zero fun in that.

*The video below is from Lloyd Le-Mar (I think his forum name is AceThunder  ?), I do not own this piece of work.
 


Moving on. 

When I started playing over a year ago, War Robots was a well-balanced game. Yes, there were the heavy-spenders that were running all maxed lancelot hangers, but they were separated from the less powerful players by a hanger based matchmaker. A player with patience and a moderate game budget(say $20/month) could, within about a year field a relatively competitive hanger. A number of light and medium robots remained viable into the higher tiers because they could outrun/dodge a lot of damage from missiles, which were far less powerful at the time as well. Skill could make up for a lack of spending to some extent. A hanger-based matchmaker meant that you weren't as likely to get your butt handed to you by sheer overwhelming force. Then Mail.ru took over and balance went out the window. As we see now, the matchmaker is designed to make the heavy spenders feel like they are getting their money's worth by trotting out droves of underpowered opponents for them to roll over. Missiles got huge buffs, making light and medium robots virtually unplayable in all but lower tiers, and to add insult to injury, they "fixed" the ability of these robots to outrun/dodge these weapons. Soon after which of course, we get 300 dollar robots that CAN do these things, plus they have the health and firepower of heavy bots. These super-powered robots broke the rock/paper/scissors model upon which game balance depended... essentially turning the game into a pay-to-win proposition. You can't even buy these bots, you have to buy components to "build" them... one of the most shameless cash-grabs I've ever seen. Finally, in a move that makes Pix look even more like the greedy cash hogs they are, they added advertising monetization as well. So.... stupid? Well, yeah.... at least from a gamers perspective. From the perspective of the CEO who is at this very moment rolling around naked in your money? Not so much.

As a sharewhare author, I may be a tad biased, but to me saying you refuse to pay a dime for something you use regularly and enjoy is not exactly a badge of honor...  I'd say it's somewhat more douchebaggish than leaving your trash on your table at McDonalds when you leave.  As for your second statement...  it's a bit like saying, "If you don't like getting butt-「grape」 by Chester, find someone else who will do it more to your liking."  Just saying.

You're just picking stuff out of "Hippie grandads guide to benign one-liners" aren't you?