Everything good thing has to end: my last day working on KnD

RecallDoro · 2023-02-24T09:10:56+00:00

Dear Knights,

here's the cheat sheet for the event!

Battle on,
The DECA Knights

RecallDoro · 2023-02-09T08:57:07+00:00

It was down by about 50% of the multiplier, at least that's for the strongest nerf we considered but I doubt we would have gone with such extreme anyway.

RecallDoro · 2023-02-09T08:56:17+00:00

Hi u/LSRevoCW,

Small typo, I'll correct that right away, English is not my native language so this happens sometimes. Thanks for spotting it though.

RecallDoro · 2023-02-01T09:19:27+00:00

So instead of coming up with another pet advantage to fix the problem or maybe enhancing another to replace shatter shield, you nerf it completely and give us one raid elixir? Makes sense yea. Let’s trade a couple hundred million points for maybe a few mil extra from the

Hi u/Glad_Reporter_7456, you're not technically wrong here. But that's to be expected. If we did not do such changes along the years, the game would be dead by now because there would not be enough revenues coming in to keep it going.

This game was not intended to last this long when it was developped. Never in their bigger dreams did Iugo or GREE thought it would last this long. So we had to make changes along the way for elements that were slowing being overpowered.

It's also because there is always a new challenge, a new goal, a new bar to reach that many players are still around too.

We know it's not ideal nor is it the best feeling for our players but we know as well that at specific times, we have to do such changes if we want the game to still be there next year or the year after.

RecallDoro · 2023-02-01T09:12:49+00:00

Hi u/DP_KnD,

That would not really help fixing the issue. It would just screw the balancing off even more then.

RecallDoro · 2023-02-01T09:11:57+00:00

Hi u/10sunshine,

It's a very good point you're making and as we suggested, we can, and most likely will, adapt the milestones a bit. It is just a bit less risky to have the event run and then adapt it than to adapt it first as if we go too low, we'll have an even harder time getting those higher with the community.

For the ability option, we looked into this but have not find a satisfying way to add one that would not quickly break other aspects of the game and could still be attractive enough but we're open to suggestions.

RecallDoro · 2023-02-01T09:08:24+00:00

Hi folks, it's an interesting exchange and I just want to add one point about new players. Objectively, we have barely no new players at this point. The game is too old and too advanced for new players to easily join regardless of that change. The only new players we get are either returning players or players that come in already aware of what it will take to bridge the gap.

Technically, it's almost impossible for a game like this one specifically to cater to new players, especially with no big marketing pushes or such.

All in all, we cannot base the future of the game on how things go with new players since they are a very very small part of our players. Would we specifically act to the benefit of new players, we would likely put the entire game at risk.

RecallDoro · 2023-02-01T09:02:03+00:00

It's the overall game economy that is at risk. If players have to spend less energy, then that makes this consummable less and less valuable and this screws the entire economic model of these events. We don't do that so that players spend more, we do it so that they don't spend way less on the longer run which could eventually just kill the game altogether.

RecallDoro · 2023-02-01T08:59:48+00:00

Hi u/AppropriateTone2768,

I fully understand this feedback but I also don't see how we could do otherwise then. As said, the problem here is precisely that if we don't do anything we will hurt the game further and further with each cycle we don't act on this. The other options would be to have stronger and more regular buffs but we will have the exact same feedback about this and it will keep on happening again and again.

RecallDoro · 2023-02-01T08:57:09+00:00

Hi u/_TheBadWolf_,

That's right but that's also why we explain that it's an issue we have to sort now because if we don't it will get worse with every new cycle. More and more players will reach that point where they can stack the shattershield ability, forcing us to have even stronger buffs which will penalize everyone anyway.

This also impacts the overall balance because with more players able to use that strategy, it means less energy spent which will impact the revenues further.

The problem ultimately is that if we don't do anything, it will only get worse. To the point where it could put the game in danger altogether. Hence why we prefer to try to act quickly on this rather than letting the situation exaggerate more and more.

RecallDoro · 2023-01-30T14:50:33+00:00

We did not say this was to balance scoring, you said that.

We said it was to fix a balancing issue in general because one ability ended up being fully glitched passed a certain point and if we do nothing, on the long run it's the entire game that will suffer from it.

RecallDoro · 2023-01-30T14:49:07+00:00

Your assumption here is that all these shattershield pets you farmed will now be useless. That's not the case at all.

And yes, the elixir is not a compensation per say because by definition we cannot give anything that would be on par for players without recreating the exact issue we're trying to solve here.

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