Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-11067648-20131127115810

It feels slightly superfluous writing a farewell message on here these days with the exodus occurring but I just wanted to say thanks to everyone here on the wiki and in the chat for a fun ride over the past six months. I'm going into TFL semi-retirement (no more raids) and will delete all my allies so you have a spot freed up on your lists. Massive thanks to all my allies - long timers and new ones - for all your help during that time. You guys know who you are - you rock. And of course the chat team who make this game fun.

I'm leaving because life has gotten too busy to compete properly, but to be honest it has been a much easier decision to pull the pin following the cheating saga and the utter disdain Mobage has shown towards T2 players.

If there's one final rant left in me, it's that last point on the plight of T2. The Mobage formula towards T2 changed with the intro of the campaign events. Suddenly, T2 raid rewards totally sucked, while T1 rewards soared higher and higher in their Icarus-like power creep. For T2, Mobage decided the campaign events were where they would extract more money from T2 (on chains) so that's where they focused their T2 bait.

What it did was instantly make previously hard-earned, raid-acquired T2 decks easily achievable to T3/4 by chaining a bunch of Rampages, Getaways and Thundercrackers. Then we'd play a raid and get dealt a crappy Rodimus or Ratbat (or Jetfire [5] - he doesn't even make my deck!). What Mobage did was create T1, and then T-everyone else. The divide between a T2-4 deck is easily bridged now with minimal effort. T2ers are getting shafted now - the only way to "improve" a T2 deck is to grab one of the free R5s like Sky Lynx / Elita but again, everyone can get them.

So I see little point int continuing if there's no decent T2 rewards... it's boring. I was never going to drop the big bucks for a T1 finish and certainly not now given Mobage's woeful attitude towards its player base on all the recent issues. Today's Teletraan news just really iced the cake - "they are leaving us, hmmm... let's find a way to make them spend more with some pissy reward program". Please.

If the game improves I may give it another shot when I get free time again in future but I am thinking it is in an uncontrollable death spiral right now so prob not.

So thanks again guys - really enjoyed playing this game with you all while it lasted. Don't let Mobage ruin your passion for Transformers! 