Duplicate protection alone can improve this a ton. Give us the at least 3k for a duplicate or don't give duplicate at all. 1k token for a duplicate using a spotlight key is just disgusting. Getting spotlight key alone is so hard but not getting anything good from it is so devastating.
Yeah hilariously, I forgot to touch upon series drops, which is probably how I tumbled into my (Stegron, Martyr etc) confusion. And yeah you're right. I think there needs to be a delicate balance between Series drops and caches, so there's some simple fixes. I'm sure they'll come soon
Series 5 was supposed to be really strong card or cards which have a possible meta shift or Archetype change now every random card is series 5 , which actually sucks
If they're going to release new cards as S5 going forward, then they need to remove S4 cards from spotlight caches and add them to the collection reserves with a low percentage once youve finished S3 and add a token pass. If they're not going to add a token pass, then increase the probability of token getting tokens from opening reserves.
There are so many mind-bogglingly simple solutions they could implement to improve card acquisition, but they just never do a thing to remedy it. And I say this as a collection-complete player. I want more people to be able to easily get the cards they want.
Sounds like a great way for them to lose money. You must be the CEO of a company that survives on bail outs😊. All jokes aside... Seriously I'm almost collection complete at 18 months played and I don't buy anything but the pass and an occasional gold pass. It's so easy to acquire cards in this game once people like ourselves have been playing for any length of time. Might be tough for new players but snap has to make money somehow. People like me who only get the pass aren't going to keep the game going. To be fair your point is valid in the sense that if it's too hard for new players to build a meaningful collection then they are less likely to stay on as entrenched players. Maybe some changes to that aspect of collecting needs to be the focus for the benefit of the new players.
@Blazegti well conquest is basically a game mode with no stakes and I've noticed that it actually seems to move me through the monthly rewards faster..I know the rewards are often just.boostwrs but I grind pretty hard so I've gotten over 100 on the pass milestones, you actually get some decent stuff in there like variants, gold and creds, it's sparse but it adds up over time... Idk best f2p advice I can offer.
Hell the acquisition changes don't even need to be that much just make the random card always be a card you don't have rather then getting tokens 90% of the time. Having a chance to get 2 new cards every week would improve things.
SD's answer to the acquisition problem, "Every 1,000 collector levels you will get 150 Collector Tokens instead of 100! And once a week you'll get a $99 BUDGET bundle with a random token amount!"
it's good that many people recognize this (Alex Coccia talked about in the last video for future spotlights). One year ago i didn't buy the September pass, but i was chill, cause Loki was in the second week of november, with also a new card, and that's the best use of the spotlight keys, to optimize the opening. Now if i want wikkan, speed or even very old pass cards like Zemo or blink, how much do i have to wait a whole year? all because we have zabu, selene and havok filling the boxes with garbage
Great video! Very informative. One small criticism I have would be that you failed to mention the difference between series 5 and series 4 cards showing up in the spotlight caches. While there are double the amount of series 5 cards as series 4 cards, we still get multiple weeks each month that have 2 series 4 cards and no series 5 cards. This, in my opinion, is unacceptable and should NOT happen. Series 5 cards should be on a rotation and should be more accessible than they are and series 4 cards should NEVER be what we use our precious keys on.
Fr it’s insane how long cards take to come back, its insane that they do this too the player base There has been no baron,no gwenpool,no hydra bob, no Ajax. All being pretty relevant and good cards
Obviously SD pushes people to buy an overpriced pack with credits to acquire the latest card, they have reduced the number of credits that can be earned per week. Is all about money, it’s been like that since the beginning.
There was a time when you could get 100-1000 tokens from gold boxes. And series 4-5 cards they need to bring that back on top of having spotlight cache
There is so much series 3 bloat. New players need to be pushed through it faster. And S3 needs to be organized into smaller batches, so they get cards in an order that makes sense creating a sense of progression.
If you can believe this, artwork is a limiting factor, as every spotlight placement must have a new variant. It would be so simple to do away with this requirement. Of course, the most mind-blowingly simple fix would be to have a 4th real card in each cache. This buys them another entire year, and would only require a few keystrokes.
It been bad for awhile. List of the problem make Spotlight Cache worse for me: - All card release in Series 5: Before i can open 5, buy 4 for 3k Token but now, 6k Token, that is a lot. - Newer Season Pass card not there for 2-3 month: Usually they put Season Pass card in after release them 2-3 month but recently, only older card now (that is how i get Season Pass card too, aim for that week in Spotlight Cache). Lately they add Kate to Spotlight Cache but we can't have her until January. Some Season Pass card is really cool, i want them but with 6k Token, i have to choose, new card release or Season Pass card. - They release more card: Before, there will be no card when the Season Pass's card release, you can skip that week and save 2 more Spotlight Key. Now, we get more and more card, even in that Season Pass card release week, saving feel really hard. - Token take forever to collet: All new card is 6k now, choose which to pick is really hard and sometime we must skip the card we want, really painful. - Spotlight System should have a better pity, would be great if the "random Series 4-5 ard" become choosing form a group of Series 4-5 card. If you have it all, get Token, otherwise, new card guaranteed, Key feel more value. Overall, if you break form this game or newbie, the change you will quit is really high. Even for old daily F2P guy like me, it feel hard and harder each month.
Thanks for the hard work. It's crazy how Baron zemo, Blink, and gilgamesh haven't appeared in spotlight caches, but according to the datamines, Kate Bishop will appear. Although I'm happy she'll be in spotlights soon since I don't have her I can't believe how long it's been and cards like Baron zemo haven't shown up in a cache. I wish SD could give us an option of using credits to purchase cards. I think that will be a significant improvement for card acquisition. Maybe something like 7000 credits for a S5 card would be cool
I was thinking about this today. In the latest data mine in December misery is in the cache. And yet cards like Ajax have not returned. They put misery in an awful spotlight so that could be the reason. I think the spotlight caches and card acquisition needs a major overhaul. 4 new cards a month, constant meta shifts from ota's and lack luster amount of tokens in the collection track. I feel that the keys can be dropped to 60 levels from the 120. I feel series 4 cards can be put into the collection track. Series drops need to be more regular so players can have the core cards for decks. It needs a huge overhaul to allow players to catch up better.
The card aquisition does not work. Card releases are to frequent and spotlight caches cant keep up. 2 sereis drops a year are not enough, and its even worse that thay like to put garbage with cool new cards. The next month spotlights are terrible. Why does Thena get to be here this week but we havent seen any Sersi, Gil or Phastos? From the 10 returning cards next month 6 are series 4, and the ones who are series 5, 3 of them are the most seen cards in spotlights, only Sasquatch is unique.
I wish they would eliminate the chance of getting a card you already have for 1000 tokens. I'm pretty sure we grind to get keys to get at least 1 of the 3 cards showcased. Getting a card you already have is a gut punch. Just my opinion 🤔
add 300 token in reserve caches instead of 100, Spotlight keys every 60/90 levels just some ideas so that new players and returning players to catch up its becoming to a point where its really becoming a huge problem alot of cards are dropping will the devs really take this to heart i hope so at the old end card acquisition is a problem that needs to be fixed
Just like they switch cards every 8 hrs so we can target a card with tokens or if we’re not series 3 complete, they should give us the option with our keys.
Huge problem, but lets be clear this isn't a whoopsi that happened by accident and just isn't taken care of because it needs a big effort redesign solution. There are so many ways to improve as is, e.g. just insert loads of tokens into the economy so players can keeps up and get some of the cards without having to wait 6+ months after the first. Or just keep s5 and s4 at maximum the size they were when spotlights started with regular series drops. It seems like what will happen instead is just mixing things around and kicking up enough dust that people will say, "maybe it's better it's hard to tell, lets wait and see for another year" I just hope when they fix it they don't devalue existing keys, that'd be a game killer for a lot of people who have saved up!
Dude fr, as a newer player getting those series 4 and 5 cards. Even series 3 take a while. I joined I think when arishem came out and since then I've been infinite every season but it's pretty boring not having some of these meta defining cards... I wish at least they'd have an event to select a series 3 I guess like a refreshing special mode like how we got agony. And those with all series 3 cards could get token substitutes to save towards 4 and 5
@ I’ve been playing since launch and I still don’t have enough resources for anything. It sucks being a new player due to the acquisition rate of the cards.
@@sdmofficial1506 yeah I really hope all this new stuff coming will help in it. I'm not really caught up with leaks but I just remember the master tracks coming again and to me it just sounds like free stuff which I'll take free anything. Hopefully the snap card packs coming won't be super bad.
Yeah something needs to be done. The gameplay is fantastic but the game need some sort of catchup and something keeping the game fresh and interesting (events, stuff like that)
The problem is that SD ties card acquisition to art production. So, if they don't have the art for a card ready, the card won't return. You can see this with Master Mold or Teenage Warhead.
They won’t do it, but I still think they need to slow down on new card releases for a few weeks and work on the health of the game instead. Fix major bug issues, work on stuff that’s going to improve the game as a whole like new modes, or card acquisition or ways to earn more currency, things like that. They need to slow down on all these card bundles that are way too expensive cause it’s starting to make them look more and more greedy
I disagree with slow down card release cuz i want more characters and they could run for 15+ years without running out of characters (except that bruce banner and RocketnGroot), they just need series drop quarterly or improve token and gold.
There still tailoring the shop to older players when it comes to tokens all the bundles you can buy with gold and have tokens all have credits now because they know a lot of people that spend and been playing along time don’t want tokens. I’ve been playing since surfer season. Like 4 cards from complete but I need tokens not credits or keys because the spotlights only have one new card for me so the tokens are more value since I can just get the exact card. Next bundle you can buy with gold and has tokens. Is at the end of December so it’s like 2 month since the last one. It’s the only thing I spend my gold on. I only buy the season pass and gold bundle.
I a bit new to the scene, what i don't understand is why they don't add additional series. The current state has a crazy number of series three cards and series 5 is pretty large as well. If they treated 3 and 4 the same way as series 1 and 2 i think there would be fewer complaints overall from newer and returning players if the cards that are harder to get are the brand new ones rather than the massive iceberg between them.
I'm collection complete except for emperor hulkling and makkari, so I have been steadily testing keys to see if I could perhaps roll either one into the ? but so far I always get 1000 tokens. I think a simple solution would be to simply replace a landmine with a decent card. Looking at next seasons datamines how many cards that are considered trash cards are basically seen as landmines. I mean, why would I bother rolling on Luna as a F2P player when LDS and X-23 are there to stop my good roll, or Miek, High Evo, and Blob and Selene? IF you were a mid player most likely the variants themselves aren't even worth what the card is as most are obtained, or not needed or wanted to be competitive or serve any real purpose in decks. Other than HE, literally no cards that could potentially define an archtype for a player is included in any of the upcoming spotlights. Even this season with surtur literally nerfed the first week and now being slaughtered in meta by Scorpion makes any anticipation or hype carried from last seasons Agent Venom also being nerfed honestly makes me not even wanting to play lately.
I miss out on one card a month and I would like it if the card is available 4 months after its realease. If copycat has shown up already, Makkari and Ajax are over due.
It’s ridiculous how I need to spend money for spotlight cache most weeks…I’ve been working like an animal so no I can’t rack up credits with countless hours of playing constantly 😢
6:47 😪 isn’t it weird that second dinner doesn’t put good cards like these in spotlight cashes ?? Thank u so much for figuring out when all the cards appear I know that was hard work 🙏🏾
I will be honest, considering the leaks keep going, I do not actually think the spotlight system is that bad compared to other card games. The real problem is that drops are too infrequent and, especially, that the cards they choose SUCK BALLS. Like, some spotlights make a lot of sense. Bruce Banner being featured alongside High Evo and Ravonna is a good spotlight, as an example. But WHY THE FUCK is Gorr being featured with fucking Havock and Legium, as an example?
Why not be more generous? Im only missing 3 cards and play as much as ive ever have. Being able to get every card isnt the deathblow SD think it is. I want others to almost have every card too
I think there doing x23 and those other cards they keep repeating because High Evo creates a deck type and the other cards are key cards in those ark types. I wouldn’t say ghost spider is the best move card in that arch type but it’s actually an underrated card and can be used in so many way. Love sending my goblin over on turn three then in turn four moving it with ghost spider to one of there fuller lanes. But I do think that they should stop repeating those cards if some one needs those cards bad enough they can just use tokens. The amount of people without these cards vs other cards is what matters
I can understand X23 and High Evo occurring often as it means early game players can build those archetypes. But that’s why the system sucks because move too far one way it disadvantages late collection players but go too far the other it disadvantages early collection players. A conundrum for sure.
The spotlight is only a problem if you want every card. Smart players will just play a specific archetype and only get new cards that benefit that archetype. If this is the best way for them to make revenue, it's fine
I appreciate the time you took to do this, but it seems like your research wasn't well done. Not only do you have a bunch of series 3 cards shown here (Master Mold, Stegron, Martyr, etc.), but they did not include "improving card acquisition" on their latest roadmap on October 15th, which was the first time they had left it off. Sort of undercuts credibility.
The part that some people dont get , Is that limiting access to cards, is actually a way they balance cards. If too many people get their hands on a card, the spreadsheet will show the deck has a higher metashare, that SD might not like, and nerf it. They proved this time and time again, the most recent one was the Agent Venom nerf. They cited the metashare as the reason why they nerfed it, but they said the card was fine when it was behind a paywall. That is because less people had access to a Pay to Play card. They need to approach balance differently, in way that card access isnt the main balancing factor
It definitely could be worse but it definitely could be better. I think we are gonna continue to have the conversation about card acquisition. It’s a nasty little balance between player enjoyment and SD having to make money. So unfortunately I don’t see this being fixed any time soon. Not unless they do a MASSIVE overhaul of the acquisition of resources and the resources themselves.
They got too much greedy because there wasn't any competition in mobile tcg now with the release of the new pokemon game they either need to get rid of this bs system or this game going to be dead in about a year
Imma keep coming back here every year to laugh. Literally the top grossing game of the year in phone gaming. You don't think theyll do changes to keep a player base. Yes they got greedy for share holders, but the always make amends and constantly change the game to appeal to players.
@@vladimiralvarenga9144 Not even in the top 10 in top grossing in phone gaming. You pulled that statistic out of your ass? Even Honkai Star Rail, Dragonball: Dokkan Battle, Genshin Impact & PUBG are all above this game. Perfect example of a misinformed moron glazing the game.
LMFAO! No they are not. The only thing they are working on is nothing except feeding on gullible morons who spend a fk ton of dollars on this game. I'm a day 1 player. Come to this comment 4 months from now & see how nothing has changed. The greed is unreal. I'm glad how this game's viwership & engagement are plummeting. Deserved.
Stegron, teenage warhead, master mold, martyr, all series 3 my man.
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The absolute state of me 😂😂😂
I was just about to say the same exact thing 😂
Duplicate protection alone can improve this a ton. Give us the at least 3k for a duplicate or don't give duplicate at all. 1k token for a duplicate using a spotlight key is just disgusting. Getting spotlight key alone is so hard but not getting anything good from it is so devastating.
I feel you
I think another problem is that so many cards are released as Series 5. Token acquisition is non existent and there are too few series drops
Yeah hilariously, I forgot to touch upon series drops, which is probably how I tumbled into my (Stegron, Martyr etc) confusion.
And yeah you're right. I think there needs to be a delicate balance between Series drops and caches, so there's some simple fixes.
I'm sure they'll come soon
As many that goes in NEEDS to go down in Series.. or else the goalposts keep moving and new players can never catch up.
Series 5 was supposed to be really strong card or cards which have a possible meta shift or Archetype change now every random card is series 5 , which actually sucks
If they're going to release new cards as S5 going forward, then they need to remove S4 cards from spotlight caches and add them to the collection reserves with a low percentage once youve finished S3 and add a token pass. If they're not going to add a token pass, then increase the probability of token getting tokens from opening reserves.
There are so many mind-bogglingly simple solutions they could implement to improve card acquisition, but they just never do a thing to remedy it. And I say this as a collection-complete player. I want more people to be able to easily get the cards they want.
Sounds like a great way for them to lose money. You must be the CEO of a company that survives on bail outs😊. All jokes aside... Seriously I'm almost collection complete at 18 months played and I don't buy anything but the pass and an occasional gold pass. It's so easy to acquire cards in this game once people like ourselves have been playing for any length of time. Might be tough for new players but snap has to make money somehow. People like me who only get the pass aren't going to keep the game going. To be fair your point is valid in the sense that if it's too hard for new players to build a meaningful collection then they are less likely to stay on as entrenched players. Maybe some changes to that aspect of collecting needs to be the focus for the benefit of the new players.
I would play the game so much more if I had access to all the cool new fun cards and there was a gamemode with no stakes like high voltage
@Blazegti well conquest is basically a game mode with no stakes and I've noticed that it actually seems to move me through the monthly rewards faster..I know the rewards are often just.boostwrs but I grind pretty hard so I've gotten over 100 on the pass milestones, you actually get some decent stuff in there like variants, gold and creds, it's sparse but it adds up over time... Idk best f2p advice I can offer.
@@batmanwins5701 conquest has stakes and also it takes so long to get in conquest matches and they last so long which I dislike.
@Blazegti when I enter conquest I instantly snap because the stakes don't matter at all and it makes the game go a.lot.quicker.
Hell the acquisition changes don't even need to be that much just make the random card always be a card you don't have rather then getting tokens 90% of the time. Having a chance to get 2 new cards every week would improve things.
SD's answer to the acquisition problem, "Every 1,000 collector levels you will get 150 Collector Tokens instead of 100! And once a week you'll get a $99 BUDGET bundle with a random token amount!"
it's good that many people recognize this (Alex Coccia talked about in the last video for future spotlights). One year ago i didn't buy the September pass, but i was chill, cause Loki was in the second week of november, with also a new card, and that's the best use of the spotlight keys, to optimize the opening. Now if i want wikkan, speed or even very old pass cards like Zemo or blink, how much do i have to wait a whole year? all because we have zabu, selene and havok filling the boxes with garbage
Great video! Very informative. One small criticism I have would be that you failed to mention the difference between series 5 and series 4 cards showing up in the spotlight caches. While there are double the amount of series 5 cards as series 4 cards, we still get multiple weeks each month that have 2 series 4 cards and no series 5 cards. This, in my opinion, is unacceptable and should NOT happen. Series 5 cards should be on a rotation and should be more accessible than they are and series 4 cards should NEVER be what we use our precious keys on.
Fr it’s insane how long cards take to come back, its insane that they do this too the player base
There has been no baron,no gwenpool,no hydra bob, no Ajax. All being pretty relevant and good cards
Obviously SD pushes people to buy an overpriced pack with credits to acquire the latest card, they have reduced the number of credits that can be earned per week. Is all about money, it’s been like that since the beginning.
Spotlights should only have cards you don't have.
Lol tell that to a new player
There was a time when you could get 100-1000 tokens from gold boxes. And series 4-5 cards they need to bring that back on top of having spotlight cache
5:03 A lot of these cards were dropped to series 3. That’s why they aren’t in spotlight caches anymore
The unbelievable state of me. Thank you 😂😂😂
There is so much series 3 bloat. New players need to be pushed through it faster. And S3 needs to be organized into smaller batches, so they get cards in an order that makes sense creating a sense of progression.
If you can believe this, artwork is a limiting factor, as every spotlight placement must have a new variant. It would be so simple to do away with this requirement. Of course, the most mind-blowingly simple fix would be to have a 4th real card in each cache. This buys them another entire year, and would only require a few keystrokes.
It been bad for awhile. List of the problem make Spotlight Cache worse for me:
- All card release in Series 5: Before i can open 5, buy 4 for 3k Token but now, 6k Token, that is a lot.
- Newer Season Pass card not there for 2-3 month: Usually they put Season Pass card in after release them 2-3 month but recently, only older card now (that is how i get Season Pass card too, aim for that week in Spotlight Cache). Lately they add Kate to Spotlight Cache but we can't have her until January. Some Season Pass card is really cool, i want them but with 6k Token, i have to choose, new card release or Season Pass card.
- They release more card: Before, there will be no card when the Season Pass's card release, you can skip that week and save 2 more Spotlight Key. Now, we get more and more card, even in that Season Pass card release week, saving feel really hard.
- Token take forever to collet: All new card is 6k now, choose which to pick is really hard and sometime we must skip the card we want, really painful.
- Spotlight System should have a better pity, would be great if the "random Series 4-5 ard" become choosing form a group of Series 4-5 card. If you have it all, get Token, otherwise, new card guaranteed, Key feel more value.
Overall, if you break form this game or newbie, the change you will quit is really high. Even for old daily F2P guy like me, it feel hard and harder each month.
Thanks for the hard work. It's crazy how Baron zemo, Blink, and gilgamesh haven't appeared in spotlight caches, but according to the datamines, Kate Bishop will appear. Although I'm happy she'll be in spotlights soon since I don't have her I can't believe how long it's been and cards like Baron zemo haven't shown up in a cache. I wish SD could give us an option of using credits to purchase cards. I think that will be a significant improvement for card acquisition. Maybe something like 7000 credits for a S5 card would be cool
I was thinking about this today. In the latest data mine in December misery is in the cache. And yet cards like Ajax have not returned. They put misery in an awful spotlight so that could be the reason.
I think the spotlight caches and card acquisition needs a major overhaul. 4 new cards a month, constant meta shifts from ota's and lack luster amount of tokens in the collection track. I feel that the keys can be dropped to 60 levels from the 120. I feel series 4 cards can be put into the collection track. Series drops need to be more regular so players can have the core cards for decks. It needs a huge overhaul to allow players to catch up better.
The problem with the acquisition it is pushing more and more towards tokens which is might be the final straw for me.
Would love to see monthly drops. If a card is out for a year, it drops to series 3, 6 months drops to series 4.
They tried that, and they didnt like that people would just wait to get the cards they want, and not spend money. They like FOMO
The card aquisition does not work. Card releases are to frequent and spotlight caches cant keep up. 2 sereis drops a year are not enough, and its even worse that thay like to put garbage with cool new cards. The next month spotlights are terrible. Why does Thena get to be here this week but we havent seen any Sersi, Gil or Phastos? From the 10 returning cards next month 6 are series 4, and the ones who are series 5, 3 of them are the most seen cards in spotlights, only Sasquatch is unique.
I wish they would eliminate the chance of getting a card you already have for 1000 tokens. I'm pretty sure we grind to get keys to get at least 1 of the 3 cards showcased. Getting a card you already have is a gut punch. Just my opinion 🤔
They really should do series drop instead of keep recycling into spotlight caches
add 300 token in reserve caches instead of 100, Spotlight keys every 60/90 levels just some ideas so that new players and returning players to catch up its becoming to a point where its really becoming a huge problem alot of cards are dropping will the devs really take this to heart i hope so at the old end card acquisition is a problem that needs to be fixed
Just like they switch cards every 8 hrs so we can target a card with tokens or if we’re not series 3 complete, they should give us the option with our keys.
He'll yea spotlights swapped out every 8 hours
Huge problem, but lets be clear this isn't a whoopsi that happened by accident and just isn't taken care of because it needs a big effort redesign solution. There are so many ways to improve as is, e.g. just insert loads of tokens into the economy so players can keeps up and get some of the cards without having to wait 6+ months after the first. Or just keep s5 and s4 at maximum the size they were when spotlights started with regular series drops.
It seems like what will happen instead is just mixing things around and kicking up enough dust that people will say, "maybe it's better it's hard to tell, lets wait and see for another year"
I just hope when they fix it they don't devalue existing keys, that'd be a game killer for a lot of people who have saved up!
I think having a special chest where you pick 3 cards you want and have a key just for that just would be a great addition
Dude fr, as a newer player getting those series 4 and 5 cards. Even series 3 take a while. I joined I think when arishem came out and since then I've been infinite every season but it's pretty boring not having some of these meta defining cards... I wish at least they'd have an event to select a series 3 I guess like a refreshing special mode like how we got agony. And those with all series 3 cards could get token substitutes to save towards 4 and 5
@ I’ve been playing since launch and I still don’t have enough resources for anything. It sucks being a new player due to the acquisition rate of the cards.
@@sdmofficial1506 yeah I really hope all this new stuff coming will help in it. I'm not really caught up with leaks but I just remember the master tracks coming again and to me it just sounds like free stuff which I'll take free anything. Hopefully the snap card packs coming won't be super bad.
You didn’t mention that Kate is returning and her predecessors have no dates in sight😂😂
A dynamic spot light of cards you don’t have would be very helpful. Or if 3/6 of them are cards you don’t have
It's fine lol, that you forgot about them being in S3. There's definitely an issue, especially when you look at cards like Blink.
Is this an art problem? Do they just not have alternate art for some of these characters?
Yeah something needs to be done. The gameplay is fantastic but the game need some sort of catchup and something keeping the game fresh and interesting (events, stuff like that)
The problem is that SD ties card acquisition to art production. So, if they don't have the art for a card ready, the card won't return. You can see this with Master Mold or Teenage Warhead.
They dropped to series 3 thats why they never returned to catches
They won’t do it, but I still think they need to slow down on new card releases for a few weeks and work on the health of the game instead. Fix major bug issues, work on stuff that’s going to improve the game as a whole like new modes, or card acquisition or ways to earn more currency, things like that. They need to slow down on all these card bundles that are way too expensive cause it’s starting to make them look more and more greedy
I disagree with slow down card release cuz i want more characters and they could run for 15+ years without running out of characters (except that bruce banner and RocketnGroot), they just need series drop quarterly or improve token and gold.
How would more cards in a spotlight week help exactly? Wouldn't that be worse?
It would, yeah, so it would need to be alongside giving us more keys.
Im still pretty new to your content but wow man Im very impressed. I really like your vibe and passion for the game
6:17 BTW there's gonna be hawkeye & misery in january
There still tailoring the shop to older players when it comes to tokens all the bundles you can buy with gold and have tokens all have credits now because they know a lot of people that spend and been playing along time don’t want tokens. I’ve been playing since surfer season. Like 4 cards from complete but I need tokens not credits or keys because the spotlights only have one new card for me so the tokens are more value since I can just get the exact card. Next bundle you can buy with gold and has tokens. Is at the end of December so it’s like 2 month since the last one. It’s the only thing I spend my gold on. I only buy the season pass and gold bundle.
I a bit new to the scene, what i don't understand is why they don't add additional series. The current state has a crazy number of series three cards and series 5 is pretty large as well. If they treated 3 and 4 the same way as series 1 and 2 i think there would be fewer complaints overall from newer and returning players if the cards that are harder to get are the brand new ones rather than the massive iceberg between them.
SD need to watch this!
5:10 don't you think cards that dropped to s3 should only be tracked for as long as you could have gotten them from caches?
Yeah, I'm stupid 😂
I really think that spotlight cache needs to be changed to only display series 5 card.
And series 3 and 4 would be possible to get in gold chests.
I'm collection complete except for emperor hulkling and makkari, so I have been steadily testing keys to see if I could perhaps roll either one into the ? but so far I always get 1000 tokens.
I think a simple solution would be to simply replace a landmine with a decent card. Looking at next seasons datamines how many cards that are considered trash cards are basically seen as landmines.
I mean, why would I bother rolling on Luna as a F2P player when LDS and X-23 are there to stop my good roll, or Miek, High Evo, and Blob and Selene?
IF you were a mid player most likely the variants themselves aren't even worth what the card is as most are obtained, or not needed or wanted to be competitive or serve any real purpose in decks.
Other than HE, literally no cards that could potentially define an archtype for a player is included in any of the upcoming spotlights.
Even this season with surtur literally nerfed the first week and now being slaughtered in meta by Scorpion makes any anticipation or hype carried from last seasons Agent Venom also being nerfed honestly makes me not even wanting to play lately.
I miss out on one card a month and I would like it if the card is available 4 months after its realease. If copycat has shown up already, Makkari and Ajax are over due.
It’s ridiculous how I need to spend money for spotlight cache most weeks…I’ve been working like an animal so no I can’t rack up credits with countless hours of playing constantly 😢
6:47 😪 isn’t it weird that second dinner doesn’t put good cards like these in spotlight cashes ?? Thank u so much for figuring out when all the cards appear I know that was hard work 🙏🏾
My solution would be have 2 spot light pools you can choose to pull from both having the new card just 3 different cards in each
Is it good saving tokens and credits now for this eventual update ? Or is there a max amount you can have ?
I will be honest, considering the leaks keep going, I do not actually think the spotlight system is that bad compared to other card games.
The real problem is that drops are too infrequent and, especially, that the cards they choose SUCK BALLS.
Like, some spotlights make a lot of sense. Bruce Banner being featured alongside High Evo and Ravonna is a good spotlight, as an example.
But WHY THE FUCK is Gorr being featured with fucking Havock and Legium, as an example?
Why not be more generous? Im only missing 3 cards and play as much as ive ever have. Being able to get every card isnt the deathblow SD think it is. I want others to almost have every card too
They always put the same filler cards on spotlight for few months.
Example blob and x23
I think there doing x23 and those other cards they keep repeating because High Evo creates a deck type and the other cards are key cards in those ark types. I wouldn’t say ghost spider is the best move card in that arch type but it’s actually an underrated card and can be used in so many way. Love sending my goblin over on turn three then in turn four moving it with ghost spider to one of there fuller lanes. But I do think that they should stop repeating those cards if some one needs those cards bad enough they can just use tokens. The amount of people without these cards vs other cards is what matters
I can understand X23 and High Evo occurring often as it means early game players can build those archetypes. But that’s why the system sucks because move too far one way it disadvantages late collection players but go too far the other it disadvantages early collection players. A conundrum for sure.
I got ugly variant of werewolf+ 1000k tokens from spending my 2 spotlight caches few moments ago. 😭
me getting a stergron bundle for the 5th time in my shop (i’m a new player so this is a lot to me)
My friends got thena I didn't ?
The spotlight is only a problem if you want every card. Smart players will just play a specific archetype and only get new cards that benefit that archetype. If this is the best way for them to make revenue, it's fine
I got zemo from the random one last week
I appreciate the time you took to do this, but it seems like your research wasn't well done. Not only do you have a bunch of series 3 cards shown here (Master Mold, Stegron, Martyr, etc.), but they did not include "improving card acquisition" on their latest roadmap on October 15th, which was the first time they had left it off. Sort of undercuts credibility.
Whilst it wasn't on their roadmap, they have mentioned it a few times since then, for example;
www.reddit.com/r/MarvelSnap/s/YSHz2vDUCc
The part that some people dont get , Is that limiting access to cards, is actually a way they balance cards. If too many people get their hands on a card, the spreadsheet will show the deck has a higher metashare, that SD might not like, and nerf it.
They proved this time and time again, the most recent one was the Agent Venom nerf. They cited the metashare as the reason why they nerfed it, but they said the card was fine when it was behind a paywall. That is because less people had access to a Pay to Play card.
They need to approach balance differently, in way that card access isnt the main balancing factor
It definitely could be worse but it definitely could be better. I think we are gonna continue to have the conversation about card acquisition. It’s a nasty little balance between player enjoyment and SD having to make money. So unfortunately I don’t see this being fixed any time soon. Not unless they do a MASSIVE overhaul of the acquisition of resources and the resources themselves.
New player friendly
half of the cards u talked about are series 3
We can all agree that Pokemon pocket is going to kill snap, right?
You made a video complaining about series 3 cards not being in the spotlights lol
Fourth on the board!
The tokens should have never been only 1k thry should be 3k.
@00:45 ok
I'm skipping December i have 2 of the cards in each spotlight
same here... problem is January also same problem
They got too much greedy because there wasn't any competition in mobile tcg now with the release of the new pokemon game they either need to get rid of this bs system or this game going to be dead in about a year
Game rigged
This game will die soon
Imma keep coming back here every year to laugh. Literally the top grossing game of the year in phone gaming. You don't think theyll do changes to keep a player base. Yes they got greedy for share holders, but the always make amends and constantly change the game to appeal to players.
@@vladimiralvarenga9144 Not even in the top 10 in top grossing in phone gaming. You pulled that statistic out of your ass? Even Honkai Star Rail, Dragonball: Dokkan Battle, Genshin Impact & PUBG are all above this game. Perfect example of a misinformed moron glazing the game.
LMFAO! No they are not. The only thing they are working on is nothing except feeding on gullible morons who spend a fk ton of dollars on this game. I'm a day 1 player. Come to this comment 4 months from now & see how nothing has changed. The greed is unreal. I'm glad how this game's viwership & engagement are plummeting. Deserved.