Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-13094563-20130726065021

Hi all, I am quite new at TFL and this forum but I have followed the discussions and complaints for a while, so here are my two cents for what they are worth. My background: I started a "spark" account during the Heavy Metal war event when I found this  app that brought the nostalgia back from my childhood years for Transformers! After understanding the game and to get allies who I thought would be scared away from a "spark" name, I made this Mobage name and started again from last event. I never pay to play games as a rule. I strive to find strategies and spend time to compensate for not using the "premium" stuff and still be a bit competitive.

Shortcomings of the TFL game: Although I like playing TFL (I cant understand really why...), unfortunately IMO this games suffers from some very serious shortcomings: 1. The basic game is really really boring! There is no fun in doing the "normal" game. I mean getting 1 bronze medal every time you level up and making a meaningless PvP battle to get a lvl 1 weapon every now a and then is no fun. Unfortunately then this means its all about the Events, and actually only to get the rewards from the events!

2. Not much strategy involved in making a smart line-up. No levelling up cards by doing missions or anything...

3. The Events have all the same layout. Its allways the same thing but different cards... They should try to mix it up a bit.

4. Lack of information from the developers. Mobage seem to change the rewards and playing field(rules) for every event without notification. I mean at the first events I played I would get a lot of ??? bosses that kept me going, then they were becoming less and less frequent. Now in this event they are completely gone?!? Mobage seem  to be changing the rules to make it harder and harder for free players to do anything.

5. Mobage is charging way to much for things... 100s of dollars needed to get decent cards? Also they do not give out nearly as much free stuff as other games. Most other games you can get free coins by clicking some links, or trying a new game. Here there is nothing (I tried also on Android and downloaded 2 games but no coins were added...) 6. Bugs and lacking customer support. From what I gather in the other discussions this is unacceptable!

So all in all since this game is only about the events (rewards), it is doomed to fail in the long run if they dont make big changes especilaly making the game more fun to play. As it is now to keep people buying stuff, they need to make the new cards stronger and stronger, at the same time they make the event-bosses tougher and tougher to keep the best players challenged (and pressed for improving, and spending cash ofcourse). This leads to the weaker players really lacking behind, and trying to get the rewards to do better... A vicious cycle. I still dont know what makes me log on and continue playing though! :-) 