I find myself being bored with the game. We have so many events and activities and yet nothing fun to do. Everything is a grind. A long time ago, we could get new units from the Monthly Event, upgrade units, and have fun doing PvP. Now, every time we get our units upgraded to the max level, those units get new levels, our bases get new levels, new content gets added, and new events get added to the game.
What's hilarious, is that Kixeye representatives like to get on the forums and say "you don't have to do everything". Haha. Yeah right. The players who do not participate in everything find themselves falling behind the power curve very quickly. Before long, they are no longer competitive. The game is currently designed so that players that grind are competitive while those that play casually fall behind. PvP is dead because players are too busy trying to stay competitive. The game is a never-ending grind with the hope that one day we might get to have fun again.
Here is the current grind:
- Shadow Ops - new tech/new Unique unit
- Alliance Raids - Diamond tech
- Challenge Bases - medals for Heroic tech
- Warpath Event - Blood Thorium for Heroic Tokens
- Ryu-Kai Bases - Fire tech
- Intel Bases - Intel for Alliance Raids
- Weapons Lab Bases - Cores/Chemicals/Silicon
- Training Token Bases - Faction Training Tokens
- Faction Unit Bases - Faction units/Faction tech
- Unique Unit Bases - Unique units/Unique tech
- Thorium Bases - Thorium (building units)
- Resource Bases - Oil/Metal (base upgrades)
- Monthly Event - new units/new tech
Here is what I want to do:
- PvP - for fun
- Monthly Event - new units/new tech
- Thorium Bases - Thorium (building units)
- Resource Bases - Oil/Metal (base upgrades)
HELLO KIXEYE! YOU ARE DROWNING YOUR PLAYERS! ARE YOU LISTENING! STOP THE GRIND!
What do you the players think? Is the game a grind with too many "activities"?
GRIND? 339 votes
Yes - the game is a grind
No - the game is not a grind
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My complaint is they claim every "activity" is optional. To a certain degree everything is optional but by not participating you are falling behind. Most events now have something exclusive to them that you really do need to stay relevant and competitive in this game. To not participate is to fall behind and make your struggle more burdensome. I would LOVE to be able to sit out an event or activity but you really can't.
I know we all want the newest, best units along with the strongest bases, but face it, with 50,000 plus players, there're always gonna' be people with more free time who can stay online 12 hours a day to do all the events, challenge bases etc to gain an edge and be at the top. To them I feel like saying 'get a life' but it isn't for me to bash them becoz they can do something I can't! Envying the better players who 'grinded' to have the nicest toys at a cost of either gold, loss of their personal time, or just honest sweat is ridiculous, in my opinion.
Just play the game how you want and find a way to make it fun for you! Yeah, it's a serious grind to stay at the top, but isn't everything in life the same in that respect?
And by the way, if you're online 12 hours a day playing this game, GET A LIFE!!!
someone once said that kixeye brought new devs into this game who had driven other games into the ground, its really been looking that way
here's units I would grind for :
Elite/Omega Inferno, Elite/omega Growler, Elite/Omega Ronin, Elite Archangel/Omega, Elite/Omega BFGX, Elite/omega Sarkis ( even Expert Class would work I think if stats were awesome ). Expert class access for Sheila, Kara, Doran, Dante, jerico, BJ I think all these should get Elite Status along with all VXP units.
that there is an list that would be an addition to the grind but it would make KIXEYE stick to their claim of Making bad **** units be GREAT or fk'n awesome again.
Not only would it give chance to make these units great, but also would give us time to get all the tech for said Units. and if they are not to be added to faction then FINE so be it. However, Sarkis and all corpus units should be classed as Corpus, also includes Sentinels be classed as such. No excuse that they didnt get classed into such.
Lastly quit adding more stupid garbage like this Warpath System to track payout and what not, you should be focusing on Performance and removing crap from game that doesnt need more crap to prolong load times and destabilize the game.
40 elite parts for unit x then for unit y, then 80 omega parts for unit x and y etc but 80 parts or 40 parts are resp 40 or 20 bases as the average amount of parts is 2
Do 100 pvp bases to get in diamond in pvp event
do each week at least 2 70
5 x a 100 a week
5 x a 150 a week
After the things you have done , you don`t even have time to repair your units to do next
The grind is just to much and to boring.
Then all game crashes... so trying to use warpath leaderboard... makes flashcrash each time another 3:30 miutes wating for loading.. that several times a day.. so besides the grind we play load and reload commander aswell....
Grind, grind , grind and more grind. Ive stop, when we get tokens, now u got warpath(blood thor), and more grind with raids etc. You all know what WT or other kixeye employee would say. Thats not grind , that they reduced lol and all kind of common BS they always do. I switched my wallet to other game as well as my time due to all the stupid amount of grind we got and more. Loads conent and rare bug fix thats await for fix over year. They only fix those which r in favor of player
Medal bases, just because kix made the prizes for tech and units in Gear too high.
I can barely keep up and can't. Right now its either my Herald OR my Blackout I have to make a choice. THis ruins the fact I am grinding for parts I will prob NEVER get to build, but again you never know.
Only medals are a grind for me. I haven't sat down and dedicated an hour or 2 to medals bases for a couple of months now.
With the payout so small I just don't feel like I'm getting anywhere when I do them.
What exacerbates the grind is familiarity. Familiarity breeds contempt. Content release being routine with little imagination, repetitive chores to unlock prizes etc.
I'd rather participate in an engaging quest with a variety of missions than repeat the same base 50 times. All it takes is a resourceful mind, something which the game team is found wanting for.
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Repair time, Force PVP, Unit upgrades, Building upgrades, Tech bases, Op's, it is so much more.....
There once was a fun factor it was your job to log on jump and fight for 7 days you felt guilty if you miss a day lol.
Even if this number is incorrect, it speaks volumes.