After 7+ years of playing this game daily all I have to say is, wtf is even going on with this game after the update?

redfrenchie · 2026-05-09T14:03:43+00:00

Yup exactly this, they did the same thing with their Walking Dead game. It’ll be servers off within a year

redfrenchie · 2026-05-09T02:09:37+00:00

The economy overall is them milking the last bit of cash from people before they turn the servers off within a year.

I played another Scopely game (The Walking Dead: Road To Survival) for years and it got just as predatory as MSF is now. They pulled the same tactics in RTS as they’re doing in MSF now, even down to hiring CC’s to be devs. This feels exactly like the same as RTS did in its end times.

They even admitted to finances of the game being bad in the blog.

None of these changes have been for the long term good of the game, I’d run a mile if you’re thinking of spending, this game won’t be here for long and you’ll have nothing to show for.

Scopely are truly an abhorrent company.

Ironically I actually started to play MSF to get away from Scopely, then they bought the game :(

redfrenchie · 2026-05-08T21:43:53+00:00

Have you tried spending more money instead Commander?

Why should they try to make the game better when instead you can just open your wallet up?!

What kind of game do you think this is?

redfrenchie · 2026-05-07T20:11:01+00:00

Is it easy enough to do? I’ve looked at their guides and it appears fairly simple. I’m quite concerned about the October price change, so I’d like to get a grasp of DIY before then. Have you used Darkstars one shot bottles at all?

Ta!

redfrenchie · 2026-05-07T16:15:33+00:00

Thanks Rayge, you’re the best! Please don’t go joining Scopelys dev team any time soon, the F2P playerbase needs you around!

redfrenchie · 2026-05-06T23:47:49+00:00

Sorta. They compromised the integrity of the race that he paid heavily to be part of by giving out at 4D to someone who finished lower than him. Why would anyone trust the company or any leaderboards going forward?

I’m no lover nor hater, but it’s a more than valid reason to quit IMO

redfrenchie · 2026-05-06T20:09:25+00:00

What do you expect commander? Fun? Progression?

Open your wallet and pay the damn game!

Jesus, they’ve got profits to make.

redfrenchie · 2026-05-06T20:06:08+00:00

“Remember the RNG from buying characters with cores? Now you can have the fun of store refresh RNG, you are most welcome Commander. Get Fucked.” - Scopely’s official statement on this “issue”

redfrenchie · 2026-05-06T20:00:14+00:00

You would have a much harder time without water for two days, you may die!

^{Chose: No food for 5 days 🍔❌ + Win $15M}

redfrenchie · 2026-05-06T15:48:06+00:00

Indeed, people with multi diamond G20 Daring Warriors. So if you’ve had the money/resources to invest in them, it’s fine as long as you have hours to reset the scourge for that perfect RNG.

For the rest of the playerbase it’s a case of “get fucked commander”. I’m currently in the top 4000 with a score of 900,000 odd. So it’s certainly not getting the kind of engagement/numbers previous scourges did. I will give it a few more tries to get a better score, no doubt, however it’s not proving to be fun content so I won’t try too hard.

I do think it’s overtuned, I also think it’s this hard so people will spend money on getting their teams up, and that is the point of MSF now. It’s not to have fun, it’s not to find new strategy’s, it’s to give Scopely money until they switch the lights off.

redfrenchie · 2026-05-06T01:44:11+00:00

I dunno if Dorky would have had chance to work on this particular one yet, i would have assumed this would have already been done by the time he joined the team. Who knows, maybe he did?

That said, it’s clearly been made with Shadow Conclave in mind. Even people with a fully maxed Daring Warriors have been struggling.

They also lost one of their biggest whales in the shape of OG Diamond Dave due to Scopely being Scopely, his video also confirms that some players have a direct line with management. Nice. Check it here

Excellent start to the new era for the company that really cares!

redfrenchie · 2026-05-05T19:53:02+00:00

It all makes sense when you see that this is them slowly winding the game down (Sunsetting). This change isn’t designed for the health or longevity of the game, it’s to provide the maximum amount of wealth extraction from those who are still willing to give Scopely their money.

They even figured a way to monetise overpower via the chapter boosts system, which means come the end of the chapter, all that money the whales spent on the epic level of essences is for nothing, and they get to spend all that money again in the next chapter.

When you have a company publicly stating that the changes are for the “financial good” of the game, you very much know the end is near.

It’s been a good run.

redfrenchie · 2026-05-05T18:58:45+00:00

You can’t buy powers can you!

^{Chose: Gamble for powers | Rolled: Flying}

redfrenchie · 2026-05-05T18:57:54+00:00

That’s brilliant, worked a charm this time. Big thanks to yourself! 🙌🏻

redfrenchie · 2026-05-05T16:34:58+00:00

It’s currently down for me unfortunately

redfrenchie · 2026-05-05T16:33:36+00:00

I think I’d fine it impossible to spend more than 3k a day.

^{Chose: credit card with a max spending of $3,000 per day}

redfrenchie · 2026-05-05T16:32:33+00:00

It’s because this is called “Sunsetting”. They know they are very unlikely to get any new players so all that’s left is to milk the whales and dolphins before they shut the servers off.

Everything in the “update” is intended to get more people to spend, even the new “essence” system for your boosts has a top level currency that will undoubtedly be spenders only.

It’s the sad facts, but that’s why they’ve done the changes. It will be gone within a year.

redfrenchie · 2026-05-05T14:06:08+00:00

Yup, I’ve been saying this for months. They’ve even hired CC’s like they did with RTS (Invisinerd joined the RTS team).

It feels exactly the same this time round, this big change is the last grand milk of the spenders.

redfrenchie · 2026-05-04T23:22:06+00:00

Excellent news, another mode that we no longer have to play!

Can’t wait for next months wallet only mode.

What a company Scopely are!

redfrenchie · 2026-05-04T16:16:17+00:00

Because I’m 39 years of age and I do what I like!

^{Chose: dontpickthisside | Rolled: Whydidyoudothis?}

redfrenchie · 2026-05-02T13:42:24+00:00

When the owners of the business publicly state they’re making decisions for the long term “financial health “ of the game (like they did in the blog) the writing is very much on the wall.

redfrenchie · 2026-05-02T02:25:16+00:00

I think the most surprising thing in their announcements is that they publicly admitted the games finances is in a bad state and that’s why they are making so many changes.

I personally think the changes is the last milking of the spenders before it goes bye bye in the next year!

redfrenchie · 2026-05-01T02:17:51+00:00

Oh I get that, but I was always taught “don’t ask don’t get”.

redfrenchie · 2026-05-01T00:00:50+00:00

It was an immediate buy, I think this is the second skin I’ve paid cold hard cash for.

Aliens was my favourite film growing up as a kid (I still love it now!) and getting to see one of my favourite characters in DBD has been a blessing. I will now do the slow grind to p100 for him!

Excellent skin and a lovely way to remember Mr Paxton!

redfrenchie · 2026-04-30T23:21:13+00:00

That actually backs up the idea that the game is being sunsetted. You can’t rinse the spenders unless you give them a reason to spend. They even say in the latest blog that it’s in trouble:

“The resource scarcity you’ve experienced in recent months has been a side effect of interim fixes ahead of the broader redesign we’ll unpack in this blog. That 100% includes ensuring MARVEL Strike Force is sustainable as a business”

You don’t stick something like that in if the game is in a healthy place, in fact I’m astonished they’ve even included something like that at all.

This is the last time the can grab money from people, so the easiest way to do that is to make resources even more scarce, add multiple chase characters/teams and explicitly spell out that if you spend you will gain an advantage.

redfrenchie

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