I really lost interest in the game coz of this. They basically made the game inaccessible because it's just really hard to compete now and keep progressing coz there are no achievable ways to gain ISO-8.
Kiloo games came up with a great solution to this potential problem in Subway Surfers (another infinite run game), and eliminated its presenting itself to the exclusion of the majority of gamers that simply cannot compete at the very highest level. A few updates ago, they introduced something called "Ranked Runs" where you get medals based on where you place. The highest 20 or so are Gold medals AKA Rank 1, the next group is Sliver, or rank 2, etc. However, here's what they did that is very interesting: Instead of taking the top 50 worldwide, they made it national, so that you compete in whatever country you have your device set in. Even that, however, had lots of cheaters, hackers, and incredibly skilled players, so they basically limited the "pool" of gamers you compete with to your own friends list plus a slew of gamers chosen at random. But the important thing is that when you play Subway Surfers and are doing your ranked runs, you are not trying to pointlessly beat out the 100 best players in the world. Honestly, I like this game a lot in many ways, but in many other ways there are far too many elements that smack of developer elitism. I don't know Gamesloft very well, to be frank, but if I had to venture a guess, I would say that these guys take themselves and "their creations" way too seriously, They managed to design an amazing game in some ways, and one fraught with incredible frustration in far too many other ways.
To be completely fair, the progression rewards are much much MUCH more achievable. So THANK YOU GAMELOFT. The current one is 5000 combos in 3 days? Easy. The other ones were like 60 boss kills in 2 days, 50,000 vials in 3 days, and then the other flash event this past weekend were also very achievable. We can't get everything for free. And by making the progression awards more achievable, it's miffs the cheaters. Because their 10,000,000,000 points doesn't affect me and my goal for a progression award. Even the Subway Surfers national leaderboards doesn't solve the cheaters because you have cheaters in every country. They also make it clear now that for the events, you are only competing against 500 or 1000 players per pool. So they have limited the leaderboard for events pools. So again... we can't get everything for free but I think the rebalancing of the progression awards and capping the event leaderboards are a step in the right direction for the casual player.
For the event progression rewards, it's always been up and down. Sometimes it's very achievable, sometimes near impossible. As for your point regarding "miffing cheaters", it's moot, coz cheaters, if not caught will still get the rank rewards. Also, since the beginning, cheaters never affected your progression rewards anyways. This is so far the 4th or 5th of events where progression rewards are very achievable. I wouldnt be surprised if the next ones are going to be near impossible again. The endless leaderboards bracketing now, only favors cheaters. Those who dont cheat cant get the higer-up rewards, coz those will most likely just be taken by cheaters and hackers. Or even IAP abusers. Either way, it's a lose-lose in our point of view. As for the 500 or 1000 players in your ranking board, it has always been like that.
The only thing Gameloft can do is police the leaderboards down to the minutes before the day ends as well as make other aspects more accessible to the casual gamer. If they open up the top prizes too much, they are basically devaluing their ISO-8 currency. I don't know their calculations but they have to basically maintain some value behind all of their in-game currencies and therefore prizes. HOWEVER, some revaluing is definitely needed because vials are practically worthless after getting to the mid-game and ISO-8 is too super valuable no matter what. The progression awards being more achievable is one way that I hope they keep maintaining. Because honestly, I've been playing since day 2 of the US release and I have only now been able to completely fulfill the last 4 or 5 event progression awards. So I am pretty happy particularly for paying nothing. Now if they can fix some of these damn glitches, that would help.
^Yeah i agree. As for the value of ISO-8 though, they're giving it too much value. 10 iso-8 for $2... 10 ISO-8 gets you NOTHING. Sure you can get a powerup in one run, but that's it. It's not even a guarantee to give you any placement in ranks. In this game, it;s all about multipliers. Even being very good at the game isnt as important, coz of the way the game is designed, where nothing is endless. Multipliers is everything in this game, and you cant get any where a decent number unless you've been playing hour after hour, or just going the IAP way. Limiting rewards like what they did in the new rank brackets makes things worse.
1. Yes, i have already updated to the latest hot fix long before thid issue happened. 2. I am on an ipad3. Yes, this is for the current event firm foundation 3. I understand. 4. I dont rewlly recall what happened to be honest. I was playing and suddenly the app force closed. I restarted amd it force closed again. Ehen i started the third time, i could see 9 days at the top right. In anycase, now i have collected 5 energies and reset the timer. So, far no replies received on any of my two complaints made from the chstomer care team. One complaint is 4 days old and another is over a day old.
I got 4th place on one of the events and got future foundation spider man with a score of 400,000 something so it shouldn't be too hard for some. Also Gameloft, I was wondering if there will ever be a feature to view your card models, as currently you can't even rotate them or make them do an action; a model viewing feature would be sick.
I received 9 consecutive 5* rare spidey from the premium and event portal. I have no idea what th hell is going on. Whats th point of having 10 different spideys when all I am gonna get is just one. This game is getting weird and irritating lately. If not for the spiderman theme and the good running platform, I don't think I would have played this long, but then again, you can only push to a certain extent.
You should be getting easy 20x multipliers like I have with three max rank but not max level green cards bought with vials and three slots total. This really helped me get some portals and stuff. Just play story mode, get some team slots and buy standard portals and rank up greens.
The problem is that restricting it too much devalues spending ISO as well. The current event portal doesn't have an epic Future foundation spidey in it, only a rare. Anyone who has managed to grab at least one Epic from the daily leaderboard is pretty much guaranteed first place because of the way the multipliers work, especially if they have more than one. Why would I bother spending money on ISO when I won't have a shot at winning even if I do? The person who wins the event then gets a good chunk of ISO/portals and uses that to get better multipliers for the daily. It's a cycle that's probably not going to stop until everyone has full level 90 epics. If more people were earning the daily rewards and multipliers were more even getting that extra event rare from a portal might make a difference, but with the brackets the way they are now I could throw $50 onto event portals and still not have a shot at winning even with a perfect run.
I just got a response from customer care saying that I need to send them in documentation of my age, which seems a little ridiculous. No offense Gameloft, but I don't really feel like sending you my personal documents for a free IAP phone game. I sent them a cropped picture of my driver's license, hopefully that's enough. I'm pretty sure that this is a bug because when I reinstall the app I can see the age box appear, but then I get the message that I have an existing save and do I want to reload it. When I choose yes, it jumps into the game and then I can't modify my age any more. I'm sure that if I didn't care about my weeks of progress sunk into this game I could set my age, but I probably wouldn't continue playing if I lost my progress.
LOL... I didnt realize that my post made it sound like i couldnt reach x20 multiplier. To give you an idea how much i've progressed in this game, in the new event Red Zone, i have a multiplier of x94.4. And 2 of the characters in that one still need to level up some more
After reading some more of the replies, I guess I'm just old and realize it's not about being #1 on some leaderboard -- I don't have the reflexes or what not to bother, though I could buy my way to the top I guess. I have had zero aspiration to win any event in this game. But I feel like #1 when I'm zipping through the trusses of the Queensboro Bridge, diving through the Washington Arch, taking a peek at the outdoor cafes by the Flatiron building, etc.. And then I smack into a wall THAT SPIDERMAN SHOULD BE ABLE TO CRAWL UP. WHY CAN HE CRAWL UP SOME WALLS AND NOT OTHERS?!
