Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-11179649-20130704063746/@comment-174.35.225.92-20130704204912

YoungBoomski wrote: I just noticed that when you get help after losing a battle it takes you to a page of allies (so I thought) I actually stopped to look at the list and did not see one ally I recognized, not one. WTF?

Originally, it didn't use your allies at all... you just got a random, relatively large group (compare to the current number) of people who were also playing at that time.

A couple of events ago they announced that they had been "experimenting on some accounts" with mixing in some allies, making your allies list more relevant. Unfortunately for those of us who have been playing since near the beginning, that became a problem because we'd created ally lists which were intended simply for getting your daily ally points through 'cheering' an not based on their level or presence in the game. However, you were still getting a lot of people to help so the odds of some of them actually helping were pretty good.

Then they changed it to this crap.

The game gives you probably HALF to TWO THIRDS (at best) the number of helpers you have had before. I've seen it request help from allies who are not playing and have not played in weeks. It's requested me as help on bosses when I have not been in the game while sleeping overnight. Most of the help requests directed at me don't come from my allies, but from total strangers... which means you're getting fewer people helping but those people still aren't necessarily people who would have any kind of interest in helping you out other than for the "greater good". At this exact moment I have 5 bosses on my screen, and none of them are requests from allies. I will give 90% odds that at least 2 will wither and die because there is no way I or anyone else will throw cubes on something with 10 minutes left that still has 85% of its hit points.

They done broke just about everything because they want to force you to buy cubes to replace the dozens and dozens that go to waste. From my point of view, they're treating the userbase like they're a bunch of morons who will keep coming back and spending money every time they, for all intents and purposes, steal your cubes by making you use them on bosses that are doomed to escape (doomed to escape? Hmm, there are worse fates - for the bosses that is... not us, we're just being screwed).