I've kept quiet for too long. I understand this game need money to survive but holy crap its getting ridiculous. It seems like over night it went from we could get the 2nd to last monster in an event (2 or 3 legends in total) without spending a butt load of gems to now we can barely get the 3rd legendary monster (1 in total). This is ridiculous for sometimes 20+ day events. You're driving away veteren players who are most passionate about the game for some quick cash.. the greed recently is unreal.. dont get me started on team races.. I want to see this game succeed long-term but at the pace its going im afraid it will die within 2 years..

I don't know how it was before, since I'm only playing this game for a month.
But I did notice, there is a bit too much of pay to win here.

And about that Maze event ... not sure if you can even get a single legendary out of it without spending any money on it.
I would like them to make it, so we can at least get 1 legendary out of every event like this. When you put 3 legendary monsters in one event, at least you can make 1 a bit easier to get.

Getting all legendary from event for free is no way to go, and I understand that. They need to earn money somehow. But this got a bit out of hand.

The first thing SP need to do is combine the Team Race gameplay into the Maze event, but we do it as individuals rather than a team.

We move through the nodes by completing in game quests like feed 100k food, or collect 1m gold... Obviously the best monsters in the maze need slightly more unrealistic targets (like collect 35m gold) for each node, but it eliminates the stupidity of what the mazes have become (and eliminates the need for a team race too :D).

@Clackers said in This game is becoming a joke quick:

The first thing SP need to do is combine the Team Race gameplay into the Maze event, but we do it as individuals rather than a team.

That would be a really really bad idea. Well maybe a good idea, but it would be implemented really really bad.

Obviously the best monsters in the maze need slightly more unrealistic targets (like collect 35m gold) for each node.

For some players, collecting 35M gold takes about 5 hours. The problem is that SP sets up milestones for an event with the whole player community involved. A mile stone for one player might take years whole for another a couple of hours. SP tried to even out the field by restricting generation of coins and what not based on player level. That has been a complete flop as they have not been able to set amounts correctly. Again a Level 130 that plays once a data to collect monsters verse a Level 130 that plays multiple times day.

There are many games that have successfully figured out how to segregate players for events based on similar playing styles and capabilities. I highly doubt SP will be able to shoehorn this into Monster Legends based on them implementing other smaller features in the game. I am sure I would cringe to hear the actual number of man hours SP has spent implementing the Monster Vault,

I have stopped spending money on two different accounts. I'll coast on what I already have until I stop playing altogether. Decisions by SP over the past couple months indicate that they are more concerned about short term financial gain than long term game health and player experience. Nearly every feature of this game contains some level of self-sabotage that makes the game worse and is completely avoidable. What's worse is when we communicate this to them it is seemingly ignored. All mobile games have a life cycle and it feels like ML is on the back nine. If SP starts to listen and make the changes that we've been asking for, I will happily resume giving them my money. Until then I'm on the lookout for a new, fresh, challenging, worthwhile, player friendly game that I can enjoy. Like what ML used to be.

Please no one come here and try to defend SP saying they need to make money too. SP was making money hand over fist before, when the game was much more player friendly. It's one of the reasons they were bought in the first place, the new people just took greed to a whole new level and I'm sure they could care less if the game dies as they will just go out and buy another hot game with a good player base to squeeze for money.

Event's like 72 hr challenge, Maze Islands, Progressive Islands, Breeding Events, use to be fun, added much needed depth to the game and didn't cost a weeks paycheck to complete. Now every event has become a PAY $$$ to accomplish anything events.

@Christopher-SunKing-Shelton Get what you can out of each event. Like the current maze, I am not getting a lot of maze coins due to the PVP matchmaking problem. Still I managed to get Coldberus, which I did not have and if I did, well then that would be cells I could extract. I managed to unlock Tephra and hope to get that one legendary. I doubt I will have the coins to get any of the others. Its no big deal, because I don't plan to spend money to buy maze coins. If I am patient, the monsters that I did not get will be on sale at some point.

I am one step away from collection Salamander, yay me. How bad has my enthusiasm gotten that I will be happy with a Salamander. All jokes aside, I hope I can get to Tephra and Living Forest. But if not, no big deal. I am actually doing this one without the discount hours just to see how far I get without it.

@Kaiju Sp cut back the amount of maze coins you can get from harvesting farms and habitats, this has basically forced players to buy MC if they want to complete the event. I'm very active on the game and collect from my maxed farm and habitat levels many times a day, plus some breeding and hatching, feeding, and some PVP, and I still haven't broke 3k coins with less than 4 days to go.

When the maze events first came out, as long as you actively played you could collect enough coins to complete the entire maze with time to spare and having to spend very little if any $$$.

@Christopher-SunKing-Shelton said in This game is becoming a joke quick:

@Kaiju Sp cut back the amount of maze coins you can get from harvesting farms and habitats, this has basically forced players to buy MC if they want to complete the event. I'm very active on the game and collect from my maxed farm and habitat levels many times a day, plus some breeding and hatching, feeding, and some PVP, and I still haven't broke 3k coins with less than 4 days to go.

When the maze events first came out, as long as you actively played you could collect enough coins to complete the entire maze with time to spare and having to spend very little if any $$$.

The first statement is not true. My average coins earned per day hasn't been changed for the past maze, around 1.1k. The biggest contributor is breed/hatch, 50 each every 4 hours so in theory you can get 600 per day from this alone (in reality around 500). The next biggest coin earner is PvP win roulette. I have a feeling that the odds to get 50 has been reduced as I used to get 2-3 times per day in the past but no more.

But overall, you're right. We used to be able to get all except the last one pretty easily. But with a shorter duration, there's no maze dungeon, no maze coin happy hour. Seems SP is forcing everyone to buy the maze coins.

Please don’t buy the maze coins.

In fact, don’t spend any gems.

The life cycle of an app is like this:

1. Create some fun—addicting—gameplay
2. Focus on improving the product
3. Get players hooked by getting them to spend just enough so that quitting isn’t really an option because they have too much invested.
4. Improve gameplay to a peak and make consumers spend to improve them as a player in a field against other consumers
5. Once your gameplay is at its peak, Sell your game to a company whose skill is soaking the addicts dry.
6. Focus on creating in game scenarios that make more and More money—move your time and energy there and focus less on quality of the gaming experience
7. Soak the consumers dry and go buy another app that is at its peak. Let the previous app die in the wind
8. Rinse, repeat.

Don’t spend a single gem on this ridiculous vault.

@SamIAm I have seen this happen with other games i played and it has made me nervous for the future of this game.

@SamIAm said in This game is becoming a joke quick:

Please don’t buy the maze coins.
In fact, don’t spend any gems.
Don’t spend a single gem on this ridiculous vault.

I think you have to ask yourself why you play? I play, because the game has some elements that are fun, some are silly. I love the animations and how some of the monsters react when hit. I think some of the monster designs are cool or funny. I don't spend, although I do toy the with idea of buying Zyla the Faithful someday. I think you can't have any expectations. Your generalization of the way things are is a generalization. By your rules, you should not be playing ANY mobile game.

Please hear me though, I hear your frustration. I am there in your frustration even though I don't pay. I am SO frustrated with team wars, I am ready to quit as the Lead on my team. I am SO frustrated with PVP that I am not fighting nearly as much as I used to, but this is all about my personal attitude. I have already walked away from one game I spent over a year playing for the similar reasons. I actually don't want to do the same thing here, so I need to change me attitude and my expectations, so that no matter how slow I think SP is moving, I will not be disappointed.

I hope you and many of the other players who are frustrated with the game can do so as well.

@SamIAm I have raised this issue with Fox. I am beginning to feel the same way, and I suspect there might not even be a Monster Legends this time next year - so I am afraid it is folly to spend real money on the game unless you are have it to spare.