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I’ve just answered those in my other replies here on the thread! But since the answers are getting quite long, I’ll use the space to tease that we’ll go deep into the reasoning of all the controversial changes in our next time to explain! So hopefully I’ll be able to count on your ears there!

Heist is definitely not a favorite in the community though, that’s why it got removed, haha

I understand it could definitely be the favorite mode of some people, but the problem we were trying to solve was not removing modes players don’t play that much, it was actually reducing the number of options so it doesn’t get so overwhelming for casuals and increases the MM pool in all trophy ranges, so unfortunately, the modes we removed were the least performing ones, it wasn’t personal :(

Let’s see how it goes though, if it does affect us negatively, I’m sure we can reiterate. But if it does make more player to engage more with the game, we’ll have to find another alternative to please both sides… either way, time will tell!

We did have less time for this cycle than for any other update in the year - since there’s a 1 month break in between, but even though, we didn’t have to crunch and there was no need for overtime or late hours working (or at least not much :p) So I wouldn’t say rushed, because we delivered what was in the scope

If the reason seems strange, then I’m here to explain why and we’ll have another time to explain specific about this update

Game modes - Sample size is one of the main problems with matchmaking, since it only expands the range when it doesn’t find the “perfect” matchup Brawl also has way too many options and it could be overwhelming for some players (this isn’t an assumption, it’s the results of many focus groups we ran + occasional feedback we’ve seen from new players)

The analogy of the restaurant kinda works, because you are not seeing from the perspective of the owner of the place, why did they remove that option? Is it because only few people or...

That’s pretty much it… And even though people can’t track the same data we do (player retention, monetization, active players…) we try to be really open and transparent with our communication (just watch any of the “time to explain” episodes and you’ll see)

The thing is that the last 3 updates (or 4 if you count the Starr Road update) created huge positive sentiment in the community, which we believed it would also reflect in our game growth, but it didn’t, and we had to try a different strategy even if this would mean sacrificing some of the positivity we’ve built together. I’m also using only the last updates as reference, but there are a lot of learnings in every update we ever dropped

When we release all those changes at the same time, it’s because they are all hypothesis that we need to prove by trying with our player base. The more “bets” we have, the higher the chance of one of them to stick/work

All the changes have a logic behind it, but whether ...

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It seems only visual though, so it's still giving Bling (phew!)

We are adding it to the list!

got it! thanks!

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Do you have the steps to repro this issue? Does it happen every time you go to that screen?

It won’t change. The value was just incorrect in the developers version of the game that the content creators used for their videos

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Can you share your player tag with us? And maybe see if the problem still persist if you close the other apps running in the background?

I don’t know if I’m happy or sad with people saying they don’t need to make a single purchase to have all the Brawlers :D

Sorry! I meant “that’s why we can give hearts on YouTube” which is the nice thing… it’s a “meme/expression” people say when someone takes advantage of you for being nice, in this case, those freakin’ bots

It wasn’t targeted at you, just tried to make a dry joke :D

It’s the opposite - the majority of the players get a bigger progression buff (even more than 20%) The super engaged player who plays all modes and completes the pass still gets a buff, but a smaller one

The only nerf was to the freedom of progressing your account, but this change is intended because it’s exactly this variable that allows us to inject more resources into the economy without making it unhealthy to sustain the game

One thing I see though, something in the communication didn’t go well, because it is a progression buff, but a lot of players perceive it as a nerf, so we could have communicated it better or added something in-game where it would clearly show the benefits of this new system

And only so this doesn’t get too long, there are more insights about the feature here if you are curious about it:

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That’s why we can’t have nice things

We wouldn’t kill it from night to day, but what we would do, if the performance of the game is “unfixable” (meaning that resources added to the game don’t move the metrics as we wanted anymore) we would start by shrinking the team down, releasing less content and changing it so the people in the team could work on more impactful projects But if it does come to kill the game, I don’t think there’d a mass refund (maybe for the last month or something), and SC hasn’t killed a game yet, but in previous games I worked on we had a sunsetting event where everything in the game was free in the last days and things were really crazy, since there’s a lot of freedom on what you can do when the game has an end date… hard to tell, but hopefully Brawl is very far from this scenario now

1 - we did, there’s also an amount of credits that got removed, but it’s not that much and I believe it’s only in one milestone - still, you are still getting more coins and power points until the end rewards - as for the credits, you still get more in Starr Drops, either the currency itself or a Brawler It could be seen as an actual nerf to stacking credits though (since if you have all the brawlers, it goes to fame), but if you are in this scenario, you should still be able to get the newest Brawler in the same season

2 - we removed boxes because we didn’t like how the progression was all based on luck, meaning there were people with no legendary for years and such - now, even if you are in this case, there’s Starr Drops that guarantees you’ll get all the brawlers eventually We think we were too harsh on the removal of the boxes because it seems a lot of players do miss the surprises aspect of it, so we wanted to bring back this feeling I agree with you that there is a...

The randomness is the actual “fun” part of the rewards - I understand it might be subjective, but we believe the casual player do like this feeling of not knowing what they will get from a massive pool of items. And if we are wrong, we’ll adjust the system so it does feel exciting

There is an actual buff to the rewards also, it’s not only transferring from one system to another, but if before you were struggling to play PL just for the Bling, then the problem is not on the reward side, but because it seems you consider playing PL a struggle

If you keep the same playing time as before, you should be getting more overall, but it’s true that if you were really active and engaged, the buff is not that much more, but we want to see how it goes now and we are open to tweak rewards around if they show they are harming the game more than making it more fun

They are set now, there isn’t a pity system added this time

You can, but it’s because Star Points were a mess and pretty much the only thing you could do was buying the PL skin Now you can buy a lot more, but if you wanna the PL skin, you would have to save your bling for this instead of something else

With that said, I think the PL skin unlock and it’s benefits might need some adjustments still, but we don’t know when we’ll tackle that yet

I agree that this could become really demanding in the long term, and we are open to change if needed, but the reason we done that is actually in your message: most of the people would stop after their tokens were done or the daily quests, now there’s something more

The argument of “play the same to get more” considers that you are not collecting all 3 everyday - collecting 2 daily or missing some days should still gives you a progression buff, but not as much of course

The idea of an improved rarity the further you go is really nice and might be something we use for events (imagine an event where you get guaranteed epic or something) or double Starr drops per milestone.. we didn’t have time to implement the event parts, but it’s something we wanna play around still!