OK, I have having such a melodramatic title but the game has really gone from being fun to being work and recent trends don't make me think it is going to get better anytime soon.

First things first. I dislike the races (but I still do them to help my mates and usually finish in the 3rd to 6th position on the team for doing tasks and spending gems). So imagine my dismay this morning when I logged in and saw that we were in the same race group as Resurrection of AMAB. Oh great, my 900-1000th ranked team is in the same group as one of the all-time greats. So much for getting the top monster. But at around 9 AM Pacific Time, even AMAB is in 2nd place to a team which had already done 3 laps in the first hour or 2. So I log in tonight and AMAB hasn't moved. I check their team stats and there are 2/30 members left in the team. So I'm guessing even one of the all-time teams has been shattered with its members trying to get a 3* monster on the cheap. If it happens to them, what does that mean for a normal no-name team?

So basically there's no loyalty any more. Why build a team and make friends? This is now an anti-social game (Mercenary Legends) now where you bail on your teammates to win a prize.

Also, battles with relics really stink. And not the relics themselves (although I'm neutral on them) but having relics in a battle. 6 monsters with 2 each-- that's potentially 12 animations that I have to watch before monsters start fighting. Gotta decrease the enemy's hit points by 1000, some monster needs to increase his power by 300, speed down by 35 on that guy, etc. It takes almost a minute before the first attack is made. I'm playing most battles on FFWD just to try and get them to finish.

It also doesn't help that I think during the rune event I've had about 12 downgrades, 4 upgrades, and 6 break evens. I've turned a lot of 4's into 3's and 6's into 4's.

There's no more wiki. That makes it even harder about what new monsters to buy and level up. Why should I spend money or gems on something where I don't know the ratings or skills? This used to be a great game with battles requiring tactics (maybe I can neutralize his fire monster with my water), but now the battles are so slooooow that it is painful to do so. And the strategy goes out the window too if I don't know if a monster is worth buying or not (I'd do my research and then see if my opinion aligned with Max or Armor's thoughts down in the comments section). SP needs to take over the wiki or create their own.

I've gone from spending $100/month to f2p and I'm seriously wondering why I still invest the time. Devs, can you PLEASE do something to fix the slow battle problem? And talk to those in charge to stop having so many team-busting races. And resurrect the wiki. You had the goose that laid the golden egg...

AMAB may have just moved to their race team, quite a few high level teams do that. (Not sure about AMAB, but I know they're known for their loyalty and battle tactics)

Amab probably went to a race team, yes animation do slow it down but i think a minute is a bit of an exaggeration. Wiki is still working atm. So all in all your post is a bit melodramatic indeed.

The original AMAB havent had a Race team ever the players from that team that kept on playing formed a new Team (or 2) but this was months ago. So the team you have been racing warent the original team members it least not most of them

@Dudester
Regarding AMAB , as a former AMAB member i tell you that we never jump for a race .. it you take just a small extra step and check our race log you will find that we ended 1st only 5\10 races .. the 2 members you see in team are actually 1 player - our former lead - with 2 accounts .. AMAB was disbanded nearly 4 months ago

2- agree about battle animation take too long time . esp now when monster got excited . i really wish for faster or no animation option

3-wiki is live no worry :)

@Haka-Taka said in Game is really broken, why shouldn't I quit (like Res of AMAB did)?:

3-wiki is live no worry :)

@Haka-Taka you call it 'live' with no updates on any new events for months? :-)

Yes, I also wish there's a way to configure the animation time for relic and possibly anything.

@Haka-Taka I am surprised that AMAB even qualified! They haven't had a war in 4 months as well! @Fox it means that even your minimalistic rule of 50 war coins in the last 2 weeks or whatever it is, isn't working either!!!

@David-ML They had members I saw their log and members some familiar names dont know if they where original AMAB tho, maybe some players need a temp home before doing other things there have been some changes lately at the top

@Marianne-van-Es they have been like this for months:

picture changed as by forum rules
Even the war log button has gone - they should not be eligible for the race pool if the rules are what SP claims them to be!

@David-ML said in Game is really broken, why shouldn't I quit (like Res of AMAB did)?:

@Marianne-van-Es they have been like this for months:

Even the war log button has gone - they should not be eligible for the race pool if the rules are what SP claims them to be!

you can hide your war log now ;) I assure you there were I believe 25 members in it last week I whis i made a ss of that

@Marianne-van-Es there are other teams with exactly the same name - the original team hasn't warred in months @C0ntr1v3d @Ekto-Gamat please correct me if I'm wrong!

@SkeelMaster
Yes . just events are not updates . and all nearly follow same pattern ;)
maybe owner want to focus on monsters only for now . but still live site

@David-ML
No idea how the team qualified either , but maybe they had a recent war ! recently some RV members was thinking about moving to amab and war under its name . later they all returned back . the leadership was moved to troy and then back to bob .. maybe they did a 10 member war or something before the left . with hidden war log no way to confirm

Lol, I am sure Bob would love to race on his own with both of his accounts. And yes, 'RV on holiday in AMAB' must have had a war when they temporarily moved there and qualified for the race.

AMAB has always been fervently opposed to race teams before disbanding. You can distinguish the actual top teams (POF, RV, Collusion, Big Dawgz, Cracks, LHOG) from the 'so-called' top teams by noticing they do not move. Not even when facing a hardcore race oriented team.

@David-ML said in Game is really broken, why shouldn't I quit (like Res of AMAB did)?:

@Marianne-van-Es there are other teams with exactly the same name - the original team hasn't warred in months @C0ntr1v3d @Ekto-Gamat please correct me if I'm wrong!

Please also notice the war coins there

@Dudester said in Game is really broken, why shouldn't I quit (like Res of AMAB did)?:

It also doesn't help that I think during the rune event I've had about 12 downgrades, 4 upgrades, and 6 break evens. I've turned a lot of 4's into 3's and 6's into 4's.

I understand that downgrades are not fun, but my analysis thus far shows that rune crafting 1112 and 1113 are probably accurate to what SP says the chance is. I am stilling working towards getting over 30 results on rune type 1114 and higher.

@Haka-Taka said in Game is really broken, why shouldn't I quit (like Res of AMAB did)?:

@SkeelMaster
Yes . just events are not updates . and all nearly follow same pattern ;)
maybe owner want to focus on monsters only for now . but still live site

@Haka-Taka I think I've mentioned this couple of times, the wiki must have some auto-populate mechanism setup to load new monsters' data. So everytime SP updates their server, the wiki will get it. This by no means the owner is active. I'm pretty sure he lost interests. Anyway, @C0ntr1v3d can confirm as he has some personal contact with him if I remember correctly.

@SkeelMaster I know for a fact thats nor true

@David-ML The team was ranked #40 when the race started. That's what caught my eye-- a legendary team name and a very high ranking relative to my team.

All, glad to see the wiki working. I did not see it update during the Rabooka event. So I didn't gem that one for a lvl 110 monster.

I'm still getting a ton of downgrades on 1115, 1114, and 1116. So much for a lvl 7 stamina for my Cryotan this weekend.

@Dudester

Resurrection of AMAB is retired for now. It briefly recently accommodated Revolution Valkyrie members (several are AMAB vets) for a couple of days while they considered what to do next, and it seems they must have done a war since Resurrection apparently qualified for races.

However, Resurrection of AMAB never engaged in Race Team malarkey. Nor particularly cared about winning races. We considered it a chance for low to mid ranked teams to have a chance at a mid ranked monster. Not for an Elite team to stomp on others for an unnecessary prize. So even when we were active it would not have been an issue to draw us in a race group.