Serious question for all free/low gold players

[smokey77]

I agree with Weasel , for me it has nothing to with anything other than the boredom factor of spending 7 days doing a war . I have other things to be getting on with outside of this game . I had a couple of good offers to join a syndicate with my mini but didn`t bother as I can`t dedicate 7 days to a war or SA so have basically stopped the game altogether now except for IPH building on my main account .

[fuzzy]

many free players lack the IPH






Completely disagree with that statement of free players lacking IPH for SA

Got a few players in my Syn with 0 income

Very easy to rob enough to buy the top ingame cash units in SA in about 10 minutes

IPH is not the complaint....it's the boredom

Day 1...energy high
Day 2...can see the goal in sight
Day 3...lets F other team streaks
Day 4....whatever
Day 5...whatever

[Nighteg]

Weasel pretty much covered it all. It's not the length, it's the bore-fest. Same ole retarded atk/def mods as rewards. Absolutely no motivation to participate.

p.s. SA requires IPH? Is this a joke? I haven't purchased a single unit in months. And even if i'd have, the price is laughable.

[The Hammr]

Most of the concerns I have seen about longer wars do not put time/gold spent and final ranks at the top of the list.

The most common issue I have seen regarding the 5-7 day wars is the fact that doing battles for that length of time is too repetitive and tedious an undertaking to be enjoyable. The first few days are normally battle as usual, but after that people become bored, people have more important obligations during weekdays, and interest wanes because it basically turns into a 24 hour job with only up to 60 people available to "work".

Games should never feel like work. Games are supposed to be fun and interesting, not boring and repetitive.

This post pretty well sums it up. Let me add one thing. After the first 48 hours, the standings do not change that much. The prize a syndicate winds up with will likely be the same if the war is 2 days, 3 days, or 7 days. The point spreads will be wider, but the final standings usually wind up being about the same. The only real difference is how much money is spent on the game.

This also magnifies how tedious a longer war becomes because it really isnt necessary.

[Evan1000]

I'd also like to add onto my other post, free players require free hits, which means being really active to do well, and I sure as hell don't look forward to staring at my phone every hour for a week straight, and trying to sneak in hits during and inbetween classes. 5 day was wasn't fun, 7 days is just going to suck

[TheWarthog]

Let me put it to you like this. In my old t350 syndicate I had a player with a mini who's main was in Solemn Carnage. He wasn't extremely active in the t350. He wasn't inactive...just kinda around, would hit, offer advice...kinda casual. He retired just before SC folded. He said he was going to retire from CC ($1000 a month was getting ridiculous) and play another, free game. I asked him why he didn't just play CC for free and his answer was "because the less gold you use, the more time it takes to play CC and be competitive." Extending events length makes it worse. Down time between events is lessened.

[Weasel]

Lol @ "be competitive". There is only one competition in this game; who can spend the most amount of money.

Watch the video in my sig, it'll all make sense. Animated, safe for work/lunch.

[TheWarthog]

Nice vid. Love R&S. Takes me back a few years, but that was exactly his point. Either stay up 24/7 working events or throw ridiculous amounts of money at events. One his last messages to me on gm was "I hear ya. Been trying to quit for 2 months now, but every time they put up a new shiny ip bonus for 3rd place, and i jus cant miss out on it lol"....which is kinda what your video was about. Spend more and beat more.

[Weasel]

There isn't really a big difference in the pvp aspect of the game for those with monster stats and those with low stats. There's always someone you can beat, there's always someone that can beat you. So the "being competitive" argument flies out the window on that fact alone. It's all about who wants to spend more to "win", although nobody really wins at all.

[sister morphine]

There isn't really a big difference in the pvp aspect of the game for those with monster stats and those with low stats. There's always someone you can beat, there's always someone that can beat you. So the "being competitive" argument flies out the window on that fact alone. It's all about who wants to spend more to "win", although nobody really wins at all.

Then eventually the strongest players get sucked into wanting immunity from robs or attacks. That's an even more futile moneysuck.

[IronM@n]

Makes me laugh that T10 players are now complaining.

The way the game has gone and currently is is completely your fault and down to T10 alone.

They increased the events per cycle and the duration of these and you kept spending. Gree don't give a **** about anyone outside T10 because we're not supplying them with their main revenue. You can't complain as if I was head of Gree that's what I would have done as most businesses are profit orientated, especially gaming ones.

The irony of most T10 teams having jump rooms for RB and the rest helping them finish it was laughable really.

[TZora]

the real question isn't about 3 days or 5 days or 7 days .. it's about time, syndicate and events. at a time, how many events do you really wish to play? 3 or 4 events running at the same time and now the war running 7 days. do u really think it's fun?

the problem is that you will have to play the event(s) or you are a burden on your syndicate. not fun if u ask me, i've already given up on most events and informed my syndicate that i cannot dedicate so much time to the game since it is not what i should be doing 24x7x365 .. oh dear, i'm again talking sense. it's not what u really get appreciated for, hey it's crimecity and greedy is the biggest dawg in the city

[Winnson]

I will have to pace myself and will not be spending gold on this game again I don't think.

I spent a bit, but that's done.

I hope that answers your question.

[Camper]

the real question isn't about 3 days or 5 days or 7 days .. it's about time, syndicate and events. at a time, how many events do you really wish to play? 3 or 4 events running at the same time and now the war running 7 days. do u really think it's fun?

the problem is that you will have to play the event(s) or you are a burden on your syndicate. not fun if u ask me, i've already given up on most events and informed my syndicate that i cannot dedicate so much time to the game since it is not what i should be doing 24x7x365 .. oh dear, i'm again talking sense. it's not what u really get appreciated for, hey it's crimecity and greedy is the biggest dawg in the city

Yep, too many events, event too long and War & SA should be on weekends, not week days. My game time is being reduced significantly as the fun continues to be reduced to nothing. Greedy, you need to listen to your customers, high and low rollers.

[lordsagacity]

the real question isn't about 3 days or 5 days or 7 days .. it's about time, syndicate and events. at a time, how many events do you really wish to play? 3 or 4 events running at the same time and now the war running 7 days. do u really think it's fun?

the problem is that you will have to play the event(s) or you are a burden on your syndicate. not fun if u ask me, i've already given up on most events and informed my syndicate that i cannot dedicate so much time to the game since it is not what i should be doing 24x7x365 .. oh dear, i'm again talking sense. it's not what u really get appreciated for, hey it's crimecity and greedy is the biggest dawg in the city

This game was a burden since the introduction of syndicate. At that time, there was a syndicate battle every three weeks and a pvp leaderboard event in between. Only one weekend off every three weeks until SLTQ was included to occupy it several months later. The intensity of events didn't increase afterward, but the greediness increased a lot. There were only 40% off only during thanksgiving 2-3 years ago but now almost every month. I do see Gree's effort of money grasping. But the interesting part is the more effort they put, the less money they grasp.