Board Thread:Respawnables Discussion/@comment-24796871-20170318170828/@comment-30285046-20170319075002

First off, I love this game. It is such a fun game and it really gets me involved when I play it.

That said, i think that this game can be split into two parts. two histories if you will. This is especially true for me.

PART 1: part one consists of the time frame from which i first began to when the Aristocrat was released. Or something like that. In the beginning the game was easy, and the gun balance in the game... well lets just say there WAS a gun balance in the game. It was easy for noobs to be f2p and still get good. Also it was around this time that DLE was still innovating, they brought out new maps (a reskinned snow village and the City one) and they also had some pretty decent event weapons. The event weapons were mostly better than the paid ones.

PART 2: part 2 starts at around the time that the aristocrat got released for the first time. Now the problem wasn't the aristocrat per se, but it started off a chain of events that started to diminish the pleasure i got from playing. First off, the Aristocrat got released.Then was the MX fiesta 1, which was a horrible event. Then they started releasing weapons to counter the aristocrat, which meant other OP weapons. Event weapons started becoming obselete, and so did all the weapons in comparison to the paid ones. slowly but surely, it became a game where p2w ruled, and f2p sucked.

WHATS WRONG:

1. basically there is no gun balance. every match i go into i see the same weapons everywhere. no variety of guns. And yea i use them too. This kind of environnemt only encourages less diversity in gun choice. DLE's Response to gun balance was to release more OP weapons, either through bundles, or more recently through events. however this doesn't work since it still doesn't promote more weapons being used, it just promotes people to buy/switch to the new stuff. And dont lie, Aristocrat is still king in this game, so their attempt at gun balance failed. not only that, DLE is not transparent in their actions, they dont announce nerfs or buffs, but they still do them anyways.

2. Lack of innovation: no new maps. no new secondary weapons. no new free weapons in the shop. no new gears, no new gadgets. even the bundles/event weapons themselves can be argued to be re-releases of old weapons in new skins. DLE has done better (fire-clacker) but adding more to the game would be better. Not enough innovation.

WHAT TO DO:

WELL first thing should be obvious. iOS need invite friends back. Spotters should also come back. New weapons in shop. New maps. New gears. New Gadgets. New types of events. make paid bundles help event progress, but not actually better than the event weapons themselves. in-game chat in between matches.

After that, i really dont know. this game is going to die. period. as much as it hurts to say it. if i was in DLE's shoes there isn't much to do. Nerfing OP weapons that are won in events are fine. But they can't drastically change paid weapons. That would feel like an infringement on the rights of players who paid for a good weapon, but then recieved a crap one. on top of that this game has no strategy diversity. entire game is basically "who shoots first wins" 85% of the time. the other 10% is "if you have an OP weapon you win". 5% of the time its "counter OP weapons with OP gadgets".

the only thing i can think of them doing at this late of a stage in this game is to refund everyone who bought Aristocrat, RE, IR, flare mk3 and other OP weaponry and give out some free stuff to make up for it. an idea would be the "random bundle" idea i had. Everyone in the game gets a free bundle that they dont have, thats not one of the OP ones, and is not one of the ones that are always in the store. or make it so there are only a few bundles that can be won. i dont know. this kind of problem probably cant be fixed since theyve pretty much spent 2 years making a big problem it wont be fixed in a day or two.

But thats way too drastic. It would be much better at this late of a stage to just start afresh. release respawn 2 since you already made a crapton of money from respawn 1.