The short-term solution is low-level non-club random, Old School with power grinding rewards, or protected arenas where advanced players are barred from entering. Most newbies aren't going to pay money for club access when not understanding what it entails and being constantly mauled. Currently the only sensible option for grinding powers is random modes, which are nearly always club-based.
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It was dumb enough when it was just towers and upper tiers that needed to be unlocked, but powers are 10x worse, plus they look like cheating to someone who hasn't played much. Currently, new players are faced with opponents who have literally insurmountable advantages. Power grinding arenas for newbies where they don't get mauled by powers: You've gutted the grinders in the game, destroying their trust in you in the process, so most won't come back and you need new players to replace them. I'm operating on the assumption that NK will not remove powers, and that balancing them will take another 6 months at a minimum, if it ever happens at all. If it's so bad that we don't want to play the game, you don't make money. But it simply doesn't make sense for Ninja Kiwi to make the game as awful as it is for everyone, including those of us who made numerous purchases before the game went to hell. I understand why NK does not want player-testers, since playtesters would be in conflict with Ninja Kiwi's primary interest in screwing over players as punishment for not purchasing enough.
Everything gets buried, long-standing problems are not fixed, new problems are ignored as long as possible, and extremely well-document cases of cheating are met with blatant gaslighting. Admittedly, it can't be easy to pass along a single report when the Support team insists on merging every report you make into one mega report involving a vast variety of different issues and even different games (BSM2 has finally been shoved into my own Battles mega-report). But it's usually meaningless, with no action ever taken and suggestions not even getting passed along. Sure, players often get a response when submitting a report about a proposed or broken feature. They don't care if the game is balanced or even enjoyable - they just want new content to keep people watching. They don't play often, they don't play for long, they don't play at the top levels of the game, and their understanding of the game and their investment in it is pretty limited. They seem to react to streamers occasionally - but this is highly problematic due to streamers almost never being real grinders. Or if they are listening, it's to the wrong ones. Whatever the underlying reason, the process by which it happens is pretty clear: Ninja Kiwi essentially NEVER listens to players. So again - why is NK so badly mismanaging Battles? Indifference? Incompetence? Deliberate self-sabotage? (there's therapists for that) NK doesn't fix the problems, doesn't respond meaningfully to detailed complaints about the problems, and in fact shows few signs of intelligent life.
Players have to play at least twice as long for the same rewards. Due to powers, late game is the new norm. At least half of the top grinders are gone from the game, maybe more. Obviously the major (MAJOR) problem is powers.īut how did Ninja Kiwi end up in the position where they're doing such incredibly stupid and destructive things to the game?
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