The Problematic State of Pokemon Masters EX
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If you agree with the points made in this video, I encourage you to share this video to others, as well as send the link in the feedback section of Pokemon Masters EX. I don't ask for this because of "clout", I ask so that the development team has a higher chance of listening to what was presented.
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If you are someone directly affiliated with DeNA or Pokemon Masters EX, I hope that you can understand and interpret the points made in this video so that the playerbase can continue to enjoy Pokemon Masters EX, as well as boost the popularity of Pokemon Masters EX as a whole.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
2:25 Ch. 1 Limited Sync Pair Reruns
9:13 Ch. 2 X/Twitter Rally Rewards
14:06 Ch. 3 Sync Pair Pull Rates
24:16 Ch. 4 Monthly Gem Counts
27:08 Ch. 5 Returning Events
30:31 Ch. 6 Spotlight Sync Pair Scouts
36:41 Ch. 7 Move Candy Coins
42:16 Ch. 8 EX Roles
44:53 Final Inputs & Outro
This video contains my thoughts on the current state of some aspects of Pokemon Masters EX, as well as the thoughts of surveyor's who filled out the following survey: forms.gle/oSofnAVkitLnVkGh9
This video took me roughly two months to script, narrate, edit, draft, and review. All of the work was done by me, and the credit list for assets is down below.
I hope you all enjoyed the video, and I hope that us as the playerbase can come together to speak out on persisting problems with Pokemon Masters EX, so that we can look forward to more communication with the development team and see this game grow into something even greater.
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As stated at nauseum. PLEASE send this video in the feedback section of Pokemon Masters EX (Poryphone -> Other -> Customer Support -> Feedback). It is the only chance of the development team listening to it.
They want money and more money 💸💵💰
I just answered the Survey few instants ago and shared the link to your video through a Feedback message. I really want them as well to listen to us all. So, I hope they can take their time to see your video and understand all the points of view you stated here. Hoping that Masters EX can change the direction is going to now before getting late.
I am very worried about Lillie, who does not have a Sygna Suit and I wanted to see her with Alola Ninetales
Also I wanted to see Chuck, Wattson, Juan, Byron, Drayden, Conneisur trio, Ilima, Milo, Kabu, Opal, Malva, Brandon, Greta, Spencer, Tucker, Dahlia, Aarune, Riley, Buck, Mira, Benga, Shadow Triad, Tierno, Trevor, Mohn, Dexio, Sina, Klara, Avery, Swordward, Shielbert, Mustard, Honey, Peonia, and Peony
Also Trace, Green, Chase from Let's Go, the Hisui cast, and the Paldea casy
@@piercemat331 Nope just Lillie and only more Lillie alts lol.
@@SagiVTamer7287 Will do the same and can tell a lot of effort and time went into making the video. Great points!
Im surprised you didnt bring up how minimal effort the new pairs feel now, characters used to have a ton of dialogue in the lobby and detailed sync pair stories, now they have like 4 lines of very simple dialogue. Not to mention the extremely lazy variety scout pairs that dont even have EX colors, which is sad because I wouldve loved to see full-on alt costumes for these pairs, but its just the same pair with a different kit and no other differences and its so insanely lazy and uninteresting
I couldn't bring up everything, I know this has been an issue too.
As someone who pulled for Variety Noland and have loved using him and EX Roled him to be a Striker, I can't understand the hatred towards Variety scouts. How is giving characters who are very unlikely to get alts (something that requires money to develop and likely won't sell well so why would they put in the extra work if it'll be a waste) alternate units that are drastically different than their base and fun to use? I see the "lazy" description all over the subreddit but these units weren't built overnight.
Plus 95% of the EX colours in this game look awful and the sync animations get skipped after the first watch. So why would you want those if you're never going to utilize them?
dont forget sync move animations
@@kylecresswell0478You're kinda overestimating the effort needed to make these units. Making new alts and EX colors may increase their popularity, and at least we could say they made an EFFORT to promote them, which is what most players want.
P.S. I do play Sync Pair animations once daily, so I do want to see them from time to time.
Something else with lobby trainers you can notice is that older ones like Karen and Olivia have animations with them interacting with their Pokemon in a way. Newer ones are always seen standing with or without them which is soooo boring :(
Some people said me: "Man, you have more than 200k non-paid gems, why don't use them?". Some people I now that play the game pull in a lot of banners, but with the small amount of gems they have, many times they don't even get the one they want, thats the reason I saving gems, to ensure some character that I really like doesnt matter if cost a pity. The game is good, but it fails in many things, I hope it corrects them soon.
The biggest problem is locking every sync pair behind a limited sync pair
Even pairs as old as Cynthia lance Steven and SS Red are still limited
It's not like they can say "hey, now those pairs are free, enjoy !". For people who have pulled for them in the past because they were limited, it feels like being robbed. But I agree that those pairs should have a banner dedicated to them, even though the Lodge banner tries to do that in a sense.
@@astreiya the thing with the lodge banner thing, is that there's no real reason why you'd ever waste gems on it, cause the sync pairs that are there STILL have VERY low chances of being scouted, AND ON TOP OF THAT, it resets scout points each month so it's not like you can save up scout points there for a pitty
@@mertensiam3384 I totally agree that's why I said "tried". It definitely would've been better if the pity was carried through the different lodge banners, because now it isn't worth it at ALL.
They tried but failed unfortunately
@@astreiya honestly what I would've done is make a pokefair scout ticket that you get every month and give you a high chance at getting the pokefairs that appear in the lodge. I think 5% would be good since it would be monthly?
I do think that maybe that would make people feel like they wasted their gems before but I don't personally think anyone would mind having a chance to get a chance to get copies for free each month.
Maybe give an option to exchange 1.5k gems for the ticket so people can still invest gems on it?
I think that could also work for seasonal pairs. Maybe each seasonal event could give you a few seasonal scout tickets and if you get 30 you get to have a guaranteed random seasonal pair from the selection they have at that point? 🤔
Idk, I love the idea of the ticket scouts and I want to see it expanded lol
Havent they given us a champion every anniversary for 2 yrs now?
i know you told non Pokemas fandom members to click off, but as a non fan who sees complaints online about issues a lot, this is genuinely a really well structured video
That's interesting. Thanks!
The biggest problem this game has had for the last few years is the lack of new content, especially end-game content. As a veteran player, there isn't anything to do that I haven't done before. Some sort of new community-based game mode or feature (such as clubs) would really give more reason to play this game every day.
very true, the singleplayer endgame content has at this point been trivialized due to the endless march of power creep..
This is a personal issue more than anything else but my cycle of gacha-game-playing consists of:
-not having enough in-game currency
-saving/grinding in-game currency as I get the units I wanted from the start
-having a bunch of (in this case) gems ready for an interesting character
-dropping the game after some months of not releasing characters I actually care for (it seems I'm not part of the target audience)
The last time I actually cared for a character was SS Steven and Anni Cynthia, the rest of the characters released have not piqued my interest thus my interest in the game plummets as well
That's because the game is meant to make you pay money, when you substitute your wallet for in game grinding you tire yourself out and get annoyed at the game because it's not how it's supposed to be played, grinding is a secondary source of income in mobile games, your wallet is the primary.
@@mesmorrow I mean you're not wrong about that. But the problem here is that gachas at later years (naturally) tend to release less characters of certain type, favoring the ones that give them more money. And usually, the ones that give them more money are not the ones I'm interested in. Even if I wasted money on the ones I cared for, I doubt something would change.
The sync pair reruns are spot on! We had so many VAs rerun but they didn’t even rerun the units for the said VA. They did it right with the UnoVA banners and I hope other rerun will get the same treatment.
Thanks for discussing all of this, buddy. Everyone has the right to express their opinions about all of this, and I deeply agree with all of yours voiced in this video. I hope we see some changes in the future of such a great game that is starting to feel really messy day by day. 😊
SS Steven also has not reran on a normal banner since release.
Sad.
This is a very hot take but imo they should just remove all candy coins and replace them all with the all type candy coin but don't change the amount given, meaning for the period of September 29 -> October 29 for example, we would get 40 all type candy coins instead of them being separated into categories aka 7 strike, 9 tech, 11 support, 7 sprint, 3 fields & 3 all type
Some other gacha games have that system and it works pretty well, World Flipper for example gives the equivalent of at least more than 5 all type move candy coin PER MONTH as long as you keep farming the levels to obtain them and their importance is fairly close to what move levels in Masters EX is
It's clearly evident that every gacha game only wants your money and use predatory systems but Masters EX reached a point where they literally don't even care anymore and straight up tell you that without spending hundreds of dollars each month, you'll barely get anything at all
I may be able to get behind this, I would have to ponder it though.
@@salamencelvx I tried to compare even though it's tough because both games handle themselves differently in many aspects, but I still genuinely think that Masters EX normalized way too much the non-F2P aspect.
It's not P2W of course but there's just way too much units per month and so little to get them, when you take in account the fact that you may want more copies for certain units for various reasons, the move candies come here to help, but there's just not enough and they're too separated, making the grind overall slower
That was mainly the point of my first comment, I just think that it should be way faster to get dupes for units with coins
As a new player all the different coins and stuff is just dumb to me, just make them all the same
EX role cakes being available on the paid versions of Master Fair banners -- this just showcases how flawed the distribution of EX role cakes is at the start -- for most players, especially low spenders and F2Pers, this is unusable content for about 2 months. For whales, livestreamers, and YTubers (Pokemon Masters Partners in particular, since they receive a stipend of paid gems), however, they can pony up the paid gems so they can showcase the EX roles for all teh video views on day 1.
It’s really outrageous that now 5 star gen pool sync pairs have generic sync move animations
I feel as though the new ultimate battles are much too limited in which sync pairs are available. For example, if you had an on type, fire team against the Thorton ultimate battle, you essentially NEED champion Leaf and Moltres, not even Sygna Suit Hilda with Sygna Morty is enough with each at 3/5. It's insane.
I will say I’m surprised you didn’t mention Bugsy and Scyther in the first part. It’s been almost 1000 days since he first dropped and no rerun. They’ve released 4 other units like him and they were all available during 4th anni besides him. There’s also the fact that he got his EX unlocked with other “cheap” pairs like Lodge & BP earlier this year so clearly it’s not like he was forgotten.
Ok so it’s not just me feeling a bit…out of it(?) recently with this game. I still haven’t touched Gauntlet despite loving the mode and sometimes I just rush to do dailies before reset. Still love this game and it’s my favorite spin off so I really hope DeNA will see this and take your points into consideration. Good video and great that you didn’t just dismiss others in the fanbase or ignore when DeNA has gotten things right/improved. Only thing I’d add is I’m not a fan of them drip feeding EX styles. At this rate it’s going to take years for every character to have the mechanic literally in the title. Adding on EX Roles and grid expansions feels a bit much but at the very least they could stay for something to look forward to on Masters Day (like today) but please introduce them in waves like the 3/4* grids.
I agree with the sentiment. I personally think Bugsy is a bad unit and I assume DenA agrees, but even still that's not a valid excuse to never have him be available again.
A free unit is always welcome.
Jessie and James break my heart. I got lucky with SS Cyrus on my first daily and got 1 copy of Classic Elesa on her first rerun. The people who passed on Anni Skyla got royally screwed. Not crazy about the new gear either (don't understand it at all).
I really hate variety scouts and making later gens protagonists Pokefairs and not General pool. Selene and Elio are free but Gloria, Victor, Akari, and Rei aren't? Paldea don't even have a general pool 🙄
my ass went for fucking anni may because i hadnt grasped the full utility of raihan/skyla. Luckily ss brendan came around later to indirectly buff her but she’ll never match skyla or raihan.
Very nice video, I can tell you worked hard on this. I hope the devs listen to us and implements changes. One thing I would want is longer story content becuse in recent years there has been a shortage of it.
Another thing is the addition of 4/5 and 5/5 expanded grid.
While some of the grids are good, bad or even average, there's like no value to level them up to 5 move level since some of them already worked at 1/5 or even better overall at 3/5 with a 60 limited energy with high tile cost.
For me, they need to apply more energy at the sync pair with expanded sync grid that the players decided to level them up to 4/5 and 5/5. Let's say, +15/+20 energy each at 4/5 and 5/5 up to 90/100 energy in total so that they gain more value to picking more tiles when leveling them up making them more worth using.
One “mostly” absent feature that I wish was acknowledged in this video is the lack of multiplayer and community modes. We rarely get any multiplayer events, and when we do, they’re not very great (it’s usually just mindless grinding for type equipment). Community features would be cool too, like discussion tabs or replay tabs for battles that may be pretty difficult. There’s a lot of missed opportunities here with multiplayer, but they just completely ignore it.
Thanks for your take on the actual state on the game, as a player who has played Masters since release I've seen a lot of improvement, but right now I feel like they've change direction and the community isn't happy. Hopefully DeNa listens so they can improve even more the game. I would like to add that they should also try and create new original characters for the game it would add more personality and give them more freedom.
YES. GO OFF. 👏👏👏
Very well said across the board. Very clear and very professional. While I don’t know if DeNA will ever see this, I agree with just about everything you’ve said. I hope they take some notes.
I agree with all of this.
also a little bit of a side note, some characters like Bianca havent gotten any love at all. my friend has been a huge Bianca fan since he was like 14 and she's the only character he really cares about. no alts, no events not in the lodge. and I personally feel there's not enough characters available in the lodge either. I would love my fav pink man Bede to be in the lodge. I wanna be his bestie not Silver's bestie lol
I get that. My favorite character is Marley and she gets no love or recognition. Still hate that Rosa got Shaymin before she did and that bdsp cemented Marley as a character people hate because of how buggy the final product was
One of my favourite characters is Liam from sun and moon ...yeah
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who tf is he
30:24 this is my biggest complaint. I‘m a Completionist and I started playing this game around the first year anniversary. Since then I have been playing it almost everyday so I haven‘t missed stuff since then, but I‘m still missing many of the medals of the events that where held in that first year like the Aether Family one, the first year anni one, the one with Volkner and one that where only held when I was new and figuring stuff out so I didn‘t get the fourth medal like the Gloria Zacian one or the Tony one. It‘s really annoying.
I’m actually surprised the 4/5, 5/5 pokefair sync grid tiles never got mentioned.
I wish they gave 4/5 and 5/5 grids to permanent units and spotlights more than pokéfairs but it's technically not a problem until those grids are game-breaking, and so far they really haven't been for the most part, you can perfectly ignore them
The problem I have with it, is that some of the units that received them, are metachanging with them compared to without. 5/5 Cynthia and Lance are completely different units compared to 3/5.
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Thank you so much for your hard work to create this video and for sharing the thoughts about the problems this game has so far. I've been playing since a month before second anniversary (a few weeks before Howling Shield of Eternity) and I remembered trying my luck at SS Leon's banner during his release but no luck, and I still don't have him due to the lack of rerun. During SS Cyrus' release, I was also too focused on Palentine Dawn's banner for the Sp. Def debuffs so I skipped him, and then Lucian was released shortly after. I already have Akari and Champion Calem but I'd love to have SS Cyrus for his debuffs and his AoE sleep.
The gem counts and the amount of units released each month, lack of gems in X rallies as well as Blissful Bonanza, really have been pretty noticeable. I almost didn't get Paulo when his banner was running (had to pity him) and had to skip the Kantrio Birds because of that despite having saved a lot of gems, due to the lack of gems being distributed. Meanwhile units are keep being released at an unusually rapid pace, and it's getting more and more overwhelming.
I'm a casual player, I play this game because I enjoy the characters and the story first and foremost, so I'm glad you expressed your opinion of wanting event reruns. Some really old events like the Lance & Cynthia one hasn't gotten rerun even though I really want to enjoy it in-game. Thank you for that. I also like EX roles because it allows units like Paulo to be fast ramp support that people love, and add more power to SS Serena so she can catch up with the modern standard of strikers.
It seems like some feedbacks addressed in this video, either by you or by the community have been heard too, such as the permanent difficult battle event. I personally prefer the game to stay single-player-oriented, so there are some things I don't agree with, but I still like reading and listening people's opinion of this game regardless of my stance.
Anyway, thank you so much once again for sharing not just your thoughts but also the community's!
Thank you for your feedback as well, opinions and thoughts like these may make it into a future video if I ever do another one.
The story part about immersion is definitely a massive part of why I stayed since the very start of the game. Masters EX is basically one massive fanfic that most pokemon fans love to see. Its fan service for pokemon fans. I didn't get to play the story that involved N & Reshiram so I was bummed out when they still haven't reran the event yet.
Nothing really to do with the game but I think the biggest missed opportunity of Pokemon Masters is merch. The reason why I love Poma is because we FINALLY have a game that is related to the trainers and it would be nice if we could get various different merch on the different alts (I would KILL for NY Dawn)
Edit: Wow, this 40min ride did not feel long at all. Thank you for the super concise explanations - I am sure the dev team for Poma will also find it easy to follow through
Just a suggestion, I think adding the last bit about loving the game to the start of the video would incentivize the dev team to watch the entire vid (loved how your criticisms were super constructive and encouraging the whole way through
I'm very happy that I've gotten Leon and Cyrus when they released, since I rarely ever pay to get units. I can see why people have a problem with reruns.
As a longtime PoMa fan, I can't believe I didn't discover your channel sooner. This is an incredibly well put together video on the state of the game and I agree with pretty much everything you outlined. I had hoped you would also go over the staleness of endgame content and how this game desperately needs more game modes to keep players engaged, but perhaps that could be another video in the future. Either way, kudos to you and I'm looking forward to more of your content in the future.
Glad you enjoyed it!
More game modes? I always felt overwhelmed by the quantity of events
Finallyyyyyyyy, someone rose up. I love this game a lot and I have huge fear of the direction they are taking the game to. I loved your video, you have done a great job. I hope everyone sees this video. Keep up the good work.
This is an incredible video. It provided constructive criticism and some great suggestions. I am a D1 player and have been through the peaks and valleys. I think they're trying to squeeze the most possible profit as possible given the general downturn in mobile gaming profit across the board, but they are really playing with the players' loyalty here. And it isn't lost on me that there are so many compartmentalized items. We are getting daily tickets -> cake coins -> cake. In the past, we got complete 5* candies off of rallies. Now we're lucky to get stuff to cash in for stuff to cash in again. It's degrading the experience.
AND we also now have premium units locked behind a paywall entirely! Might have to make a sequel here.
As of today, SS Steven is technically rerunning along with every other non-MF limited unit in the Red/Leaf Mix Scout banner. I imagine the video is leading up to the Mixed Scout initial impressions but the scout dropping today and revealing that every unit is available within definitely changes the landscape a bit. It is locked behind paid gems, and long play, but it definitely changes the landscape.
Not really. Paid only and 0.025% chance for Steven individually. Doesn’t change anything for me.
@@salamencelvx That's totally fair. Since the banner carries over scout points, it's about $30 if you're willing to play the long game to pity and take the 3% of getting a limited unit as a whole.
I think this system could have been a step in the right direction if they had given daily multi (x11 added) to paid gems and single daily to non-paid gems.
Agreed@@RWAsur
Pokemon Masters is my favourite game, but my biggest problem is that it seems the game is too convoluted for new players now. I've had so many friends who are pokemon fans but they play PoMa for a few days or weeks then quit because it doesn't hold their interest enough to keep playing daily.
Very surprised that one else than seems concerned that the game is becoming wayyy too complex, which is by far the main issue for me. I've been playing for more than two years and I can't understand the newest additions, there are too many things to do and to think about, while some events are returning like three times a year.
I know that some people don't like that you can't get the sync pair you want etc. but imo that's part of the game. Even with this short amount of gems, I feel like it's too easy to get sync pairs (probably because I played for +2 two years but I mean that's fine, it would be bad to be able to get everything you want right now)
I quitted playing last month after almost 2 years in the game and some money spent.
The split on paid and non-paid gems is a great problem and the need of 36k gems for a guaranteed character too. If i waste 90 bucks in a game give me the character I want, not 15k gems that dont amount to nothing.
The game modes got too boring and a chore, so good choice to quit it.
This doesn't even touch on Extreme Battle difficulty, lack of propping up the lacking aspects of regions (recent Unova Extreme Battle that used to be a battle for Thunderbolt Red, thus made nigh incompletable without Classic Elesa), lack of general scout units in certain regions (Galar), few other things; but it's a great video with solid points
Stadium rewards and BP systems could definitely use revamping this late in the game, since BP pairs are quite few and far between, and they're adding 30k point clears, but what's the incentive outside of high score (but also don't make needing 30k for the best rewards). Example, maybe make 5k and 10k Super Vouchers
Pull rates should just be bumped up across the board. 10% 5* should be the norm, Fairs could be 12%, and Master Fairs 14-15%. Even then it probably wouldn't solve multi scouts. And if they don't want to increase the overall rates, then they could start limiting the amount of pairs in each scout down to like three/four regions? We have 8 in game, 9 when they flesh out Paldea.
I agree with another commenter mentioning it should all just be Move Candy Coins, no longer split into the specific roles; but seeing as the likely won't do that, another unlikely option for them to do is just reduce the conversion rate of coins to candy to 10 (or 15). With the pool now bloated thanks to Field and Sprint, reduce the amount you need. So using your numbers, we already have 1 Sprint candy to use.
Only real criticism is the use of X. Imo it should never be referred to as anything than Twitter, but I understand fairly new people may just get lost on what you're talking about
The reruns being like that is a classic gacha game tactic. They don't WANT them to keep rerunning, they want you to be scared into not being able to get them the first time.
That way everyone won't hoard gems and people more likely to spend will spend all the time.
Should have brought up the fact how ridiculously expensive paid gems cost, say I have 0 gems and it takes 400 points to guarantee me a sync pair I really want, that means even with the discounted 7k gems for $48.99 I will be paying $250.00 whopping fucking dollars for a single unit! Without the limited discount it’s far more, so they’re telling us it’ll cost 1/3 the amount of my thousand dollar phone to pull for a sync pair that’s just a video game in-game purchase! Does anyone else think that’s absolute fucking lunacy?!
Thank you for making this video! Since the introduction of Fair Exclusive Grid Tiles DeNA is on a greedy trend that keeps getting worse and worse every month: Variety Scouts are the pinnacle of cutting corners for maximum profit, with their reuse of assets and generic Sync Move animations that are now used even for Spotlight pairs (Lenora and Ryuki are the first Spotlights victim of DeNA’s lazyness), Gem Counts diminishing every month while the number of limited pairs keeps increasing, no new real permanent modes that change the game’s gameplay loop with new interesting ideas, new Move Candy Coins and Cake Coins being incredibly rare while DeNA shamelessly releases new Paid only MasterFair Scouts that give you a full Cake, and now even puts an entirely new Sync Pair behind a paywall with the new Mix Scout.
This situation really reminds me of the Prestige Event period, which was easily the worst part of the game’s life before this greedy nonsense we are experiencing now: at the time, the voice of the Community forced a stop to DeNA’s greedy manouvers and changed the way they handled the game, and I hope the people’s voice will force a radical change for a second time.
cant forget the great post launch drought either…. the game really has spiraled downhill since the introduction of the 5/5 grids
the best way for this sync pairs to appear permanently they must create a gem points just like the 400 point assurance per banner but this gems point where you can choose all the release sync pairs of your choice
so you dont need to wait for the sync pair you need. same as other game i play they have a roll gems coins then a shop where you can choose the one you need.
They should make the scout point stackable to future banners that makes the pity system more reliable.
I don't spend money on any gatcha. I think they should boost the non-paid gems and I did manage to pull Akari for the Hisui event but I just missed Penny. The duplicates I pull is really annoying. That probably won't change but I got in pretty late.
Master's fair had this issue for a long time too. I think it took about two years for Leon to finally get a rerun and I think he was the first master fair to get a rerun. Only recently, have Dena decided that it was finally time to rerun masters fairs and I'm hoping they revise it for other units as well. I'm sure their logic is that by making a unit incredibly limited they create a trend of FOMO so that players spend money the first time around. I think this is why they prioritize releasing new units instead of reruns as well. It's always about the manipulation and money. I personally don't understand Dena's logic though because everyone knows it's not the best way to create a revenue funnel and it creates ill blood with many of the players. Adding multiple units in one banner is definitely a good idea and hopefully Dena understands that releasing more practical ways to get units is better than heavily timegating them to create FOMO, especially when they coincide with many new units where most people will want to go with the newer, and usually much stronger, new units anyways.
I do not usually comment on videos but I had to for this one. I have been playing this game since day 1 and only took break during the galar villein arch.
I have one major issue myself, the game needs more challenging/ complex battle moods. I love the battle events we have from time to time and I love the timed battle events. However, the only event where I take time out of my day to actually try to come up with different teams and combinations are in legendary gauntlet, which are unfortunately limited. I would love to have a more advanced battle mood like an infinity type villa where it gets more difficult the higher you go or simply add moor floors to the current villa. Also how about they add a story about collecting all the gym badges like similar to the games.
Thank you for the great video, you have a new subscriber now. ❤
I've been wanting a sort of "gym" system in the game myself.
I am a day one player I taken many breaks from pokemon masters because of the fact that they shove so many banners into the rotation masters fairs to normal banners, vairty scouts, new limited scouts, Old limited scouts, then paid scouts, new seasonals, old seasonals, and then the new Mix scout. I hate it and it hurts more when there are a total of 20 banners on the screen and I cant even pity one of my favorite characters they either need to give more gems so we can atleast pity one or two units or rework the pity system because 400 scout points is too much if there are that many banners, or flat out just increase the rates
You didn't address how DeNA: handles bug fixes. There's a lot that has gone more and more wrong lately, including:
- Variety Bruno, who had a wrong tile on his grid that took 2 months to be fixed;
- Grimsley's grid extension, same, it just got fixed;
- Rei's Aggravation and On a Roll tiles straight up don't work and they are very important in his kit but nop still not fixed;
- Valerie (not BP, the OG) losing 2 theme skills this update, for no reason at all, what ??;
- Leaf's introduction in lodge with the wrong stones;
- Sygna Suit Cynthia (Aura)'s sync move not setting fighting zone if it KO'd the opponent, I don't have the date on top of my head but it took time to be fixed;
and probably more that I forgot. Before, we used to get about 300 gems as an apology when they fixed these glitches, commonly refered by the community as "apologems". Now we get nothing and some are fixed without even telling us.
The ONE thing that was fixed quickly recently was a glitch introduced during the anniversary that made Piercing Blow bypass the Physical, Special and Standard Damage Reduction paramaters in Champion Stadium.
It was fun and it gave more value to these passives and more reason to pull for them since right now their only value is in Gauntlet which not many people value, or in specific Extreme Battle Events which is *very specific*. It was discovered, we asked DeNA: if it was on purpose via the customer support feature and it was fixed literally the next update.
Meanwhile we still have some literal game breaking glitches like Rei's Aggravation and On a Roll tiles. This is unacceptable.
Good point. There was dozens of things I could bring up in this video that I didn't just because I felt other things were more important. But yeah, a lot of things still need addressing.
Great video! I'm late to the party here, but a very devoted fan. I've been playing every single day since launch and have seen all the high and lows the game has offered. My biggest gripe with the game at the moment has to do with the lodge and how we had back to back tech sync pairs all summer. This goes along with what you were saying about more availablity with the different coins. Overall, super thoughtful suggestions for improvements and narrowing down the big problems! Thanks for all your effort!
About rates i can tell since i pull alot. Its just numbers its all has nothing to do whit reality. Wors rates i got better many times then this 2%- 0,33% . So its just random luck. If on pokefair you need get 400 scout points to grab 1 copy. Only need if they rerun rates need be up from 2-10% and master 1-5%. Since they are old units and need they make some promo for them this is wat we realy miss.
When was the last time we got blissful bonanza? The last time we got a rally? What’s actually going on lol
I was a day 1 player and dropped the game when the first Master Fair banners dropped. I wasn't a fan of the lower drop rates for the target character. Glad to know I dipped before things got worse.
as a new player, getting move levels up on older limited time seasonal sync pairs is just demoralizing to look at doing. I got an old seasonal may from one of the scouts and I want to max out their move level but there's no real way for me to actually pull that off in a reasonable amount of time, the process of getting move level candy is something that I'm sure probably isn't a big deal to someone who's been playing since launch, but as someone who's only in the past few months had a phone even capable of playing the game, it feels impossible to catch up to the expected gameplay level they expect from players, and even worse, unlike some other predatory gacha games, you can't even pay your way through this issue. not that I'd be able to afford that method, but still, it's ridiculous.
I'm kinda commenting early here, but I think my biggest issue with the game as of now is that the 5 star pool is WAY too overloaded. Like, I think the only times we get new 3 or 4 star units are when BP units or Pasio side character pairs are released, which is basically once in a blue moon. With how rare 5 star units still are while there are so many, it doesn't add anything new to the pairs we more commonly pull amongst the several Lt Surges, Marlons, and Minas that we pull hundreds of every time.
Furthermore, I think some of the choices they make for Pokefair Units are just stupid. While some like Raihan and Nemona make sense given their backgrounds, why would they make Marnie and Bede specifically limited other than to capitalize on fanservice?
The thing shown in this video with which I agree the most is the lack of some events rerunning:
I have over 1100 connection days in this game, and I've seen many events come and go, but my problem comes from some of the earliest events in the game, which have only occurred ONCE during the first year of the game and became unused ever since.
One such example is the one i look back on the most, and the one that was happening during the time i joined the game; the Training with legends event. This was the event that happened for the introduction of the SS kanto protagonists sync pairs, as well as the renaming of the game from Pokémon masters to Pokémon masters EX. This event seems to have practically been forgotten by both the developers and the community alike, because it has never returned once and has had little to zero talk about it in the recent years. My problem with this and the other events that haven't returned (some of which i never even got to play because they happened before i joined the game) is that there are multiple medals associated with them that have become unobtainable because of this, and as someone who likes to get every medal from every event i play, this is just plain sad.
I don't have a good closing note for this comment, i just wish for many of the older events to return, especially the Training with legends one as that's the one i feel most nostalgic about
As somebody who started playing recently, this is very informative!
Thanks for such an indepth video my dude, i love playing this game a lot but my problem will always be the gacha aint no dammm way it's that hard to get one copy of a sync pair as an f2p we have to struggle way to hard to the point were we have no choice but to save for a year and more.💀😑
At least signasuit Leon and signasuit Cyrus have a specific region and rerun-able events. Lear is an original character from the original arc. He's doesn't have a rerunable event, and he can't be obtained from region tickets because he isn't from a region. I don't recall him getting a solo rerun, and I've only seen him available in general variety scouts which are rare and always get featured alongside solo scouts for new sync pairs with better pull rates. He gets increasingly rarer and chasing him makes you miss out on new sync pairs T_T
Lear’s last free rerun was during the 3rd Anniversary.
Firstly, I have to say that with the limited resources you had from the survey you were able to make a more than decent video, I really admire the effort you put into this.
Starting with the point you made about reruns of limited sync pairs, I 100% agree with the idea of putting more of them in a single banner, such as the recent Unova banner with SS N, Hilbert and Hilda (even managed to get a x3 N and a single Hilbert, missing only Hilda now). I don’t know if this could really work, but I think monthly Poké Fair scouts could be repurposed: as far as I remember (correct me if I’m wrong!), we’ve been cycling through Steven, Cynthia, N, Gloria, Marnie and Raihan, all sync pairs available in the Trainer Lodge: while this constant rerun gives players the opportunity to get some pretty strong units every few months, I find them redundant, offering nothing new each time. Would it be a bad idea to incorporate some limited sync pairs under them? Let’s say, the next time we have Gloria as the monthly Poké Fair, Leon and Eternatus could be listed as a 1% rate sync pair. The same could be said for all the others monthly offers, as they all could implement limited sync pairs from their regions (ex. Rose/Oleana for Marnie/Raihan, that SS Cyrus and Darkrai for Cynthia, and as you said SS Skyla or Classic Elesa or SS Hilda under N’s…).
Moving on to rallies, I must admit I never participate in Twitter/X rallies as I don’t have this social; on the other hand, I really liked the battle rallies and found the Groudon and Kyogre one the best made, mainly for the adequate gem and resource prizes. There’s not that much to say, lately the prizes have been on the verge of disappointment: given that rallies are usually announced during the release periods of multiple limited sync pairs, non-paid gems for at least one x11 summon would surely be more appreciated than 5-star tickets players could get literally everywhere else. The “Stop the Evil Mastermind!” rally kind of mitigated this issue, giving that ticket that guaranteed at least one of the featured Team Rocket admin sync pairs.
About the third point you made, about the multi-pair banners and specifically the Team Rocket admins, I think nothing could have saved the banner. Not considering the period they were announced in, five sync pairs released at once could never have been managed satisfyingly. Probably dividing them in two different banners could have mitigated the problem, but unless someone summoned for just one specific sync pair, getting all of them would have been the same huge pain. On the other hand, I absolutely agree with the suggestion you made about the seasonal reruns and their division in multiple banners and increased pull rate. About Variety sync pairs, I have to say I never found them particularly appealing to try and summon them, as I believe there’s not that much effort put into them, not even a recolour after upgrading them to 6 stars. I think they could be incorporated in the suggestion I made above about the monthly Poké Fairs.
The fourth point is another I wholeheartedly agree with. I could (and even here, COULD) understand devs not giving players 36.000 gems per month every month, but not being able to have AT LEAST ONE guaranteed pull on the anni/half-anni banners unless you’ve been managing and saving gems from the previous months’ prizes is discouraging. While I always managed to have luck and get almost every Master Fair trio never resorting to the pity pull (Kanto and Galar Neo Champions, Johto’s SS Ethan, Lyra and Kris, plus both Archie and Maxie and Thunderbolt Red), I know this was pure and huge luck as I was saving from previous prizes and not resorting to the anni month’s free gems (and even then, I would only have had ONE of them guaranteed). 36.000 non-paid gems on celebration months are a must.
The fifth point you analysed is the one I hoped you acknowledged the most. Events rerun, as far as I remember, always covered the same ones, such as the festivities offering the previous year’s event. I noticed that the very first events with medals as prizes were almost never rerun, with only Serena’s Dessert Party (rerun in 2022), Morty’s Secret Ghost Training (rerun in 2022) and Summer Superstars (rerun in 2021) being repeated. I also wonder if some events were rerun just for story value, as I remember playing them FULLY once each but not getting anything more than the bronze medal (being specific, the events were Training with Legends, Family Ties and The Eccentric Electrician). Also, even if I remember how wildly unpopular it was due to the limited possibility of getting the fourth medal, the Battle Buffet Bash and its prestige event in my opinion should have a rerun, along with the Race to Victory’s Time Trial.
Nothing to say about the spotlight revamp you suggested, pretty good ideas I agree with.
The rental battle system suggested in the last minutes of the video is probably one of the best ideas I’ve heard of and I’m honestly surprised the devs never thought of it, barring maybe that time SS Leon and Eternatus were made playable in a battle (if I’m not mistaken). I think that a showcase stage for the new limited sync pairs would be a massive improvement.
All of this being said, keep up with this good work you’ve done, and thanks for voicing players’ opinion.
Thank you for submitting your feedback and points.
My personal problem with Pokemon Masters EX is how many variants memorable character have. Lillie and her pairs for example, as well as most of the champions and protagonists. There's not a whole lot of male protagonist variants since Halloween 2020 (Hilbert & Mightyena), and it only took until the Johto Villain Arc to give some spotlight to Ethan, Brendan, Hilbert, you name it.
This is coming from a player who's been there since 2019, only to leave the game by the start of 2023, getting back into the game after hearing about Champion Nate and one other pair feels like getting back into motion, alongside some new things to learn.
ive been playing since launch and your vid summed up my feelings pretty well. the only reason i keep playing is i love the pokemon world and its characters
Great video! I wanna talk about one aspect you either skipped or didnt think was a major flaw.
And that is the GENERAL pool. At some point we have to rotate out Sync pairs, some of which have been there since day1. The pool is WAY too wide imo.
34:00 This is actually what Dragalia Lost did later in its life, having a general pool unit on a Gala Dragalia banner alongside the new gala unit that went into the general pool after the banner ended
although Dragalia wasnt a limited unit centric game like Masters is, its still a great feature that i think Masters could greatly benefit from
"Lousy! We're *ALL* Strikes!"
"We need get the *Tucker* & *Greta* is New Sync Pairs for 20th Years!"
Pokémon Masters EX Story Event: National Squad from Battle Frontier (Hoenn)
Greta is Main Character
DeNA is really giving End of Service vibes with how greedy the game gets
If we can get more sync move animations l, that be great
on the rerunning of events, i have one specific complain. i started playing around the first anniversary and i have consistently played ever since. i haven't missed any story/solo events. however, i wasn't able to finish the event for the first anniversary, seeing as i didn't understand the game. IT HAS NOT RERUN SINCE and i have never gotten the medals. this is literally the only event I don't have all the medals for, excluding the prestige event (fuck the prestige event) AND THIS TRIGGERS ME SO MUCH
The co-op missions were cool, and the Giovanni battle was actually a little challenging. I hope they do more of those. Otherwise all the co-op battles now are stupid easy
thank you for this video!!! I definitely agree about the variety scouts as much as I want to pull old seasonal scouts I wish they didn't bundle them together with everyone else.
Agree we most of what you said, scoutpoint should be 300 in mi opinion there is to many sincpairs in a monthly bases, I think this game is asking for to much just to be pve game and would like to play more with other players to but Agree we most of what you said.
1-3. You're totally right.
2. They could sometimes give 5* candies in rallies or 5x candies coins, 5x ex roles coins from each role with non paid gems.
4. Agreeing with the community about getting less gems.
5. Some events reruns are unbalanced too. Some events never had a rerun like Training with Legends (I miss this event's medals), Double Trouble and Sync Pair Up Bugsy (Scyther), some other older events.
6. I think some sync pairs which are released as limited (Pokéfair, Variety) could be just Spotlights. Rocket Exec. could be Spotlights as an example. A pair which gets 2nd alt. could be limited.
7. We need more coins. Field and sprint coins are not added to some modes/events like Legendary Gauntlet, Battle Point (BP) system, Trainer Lodge Friendship Level Up Rewards. Battle Villa could give 1x coin from each role.
8. Agreeing 👏
I want to add my opinions too.
1. Some moves could be revamped.
2. They could add the second and third lucky skill slot. But you can't pick a skill twice just once.
3. Some 3*, 4*, 5* sync pairs lack passive skills. Their second and third slot could be added.
4. Some sync pairs grid could be revamped or add grid tiles. Story sync pairs need grid tiles like Hau & Raichu.
5. Trainer Lodge Character's pokemon could be different. For example, Giovanni has Nidoking and Nidorino. Instead of Nidorino, he could be paired with another Pokemon. Some pokemon appear too much like Umbreon & Pikachu.
6. We need some new modes/events.
7. They could add another mission which is more difficult to the events which gives us 5* candies or 5x candy coins.
We dont get 5* candies anymore.
8. In the past some players candied F2P legendaries. DeNa gave them their candies back and gave us free copies for each F2P legendary. We could get back candies from some story events sync pairs (Rosa & Serperior) which we candied before and we could increase their move level through each Pokemon Days Exchange Item.
9. Too many releases of limited pairs. 5-6 is enough.
10. Sync orbs as a reward in Battle Point & Trainer Lodge is unnecessary. They could be changed.
These are mines which I remember right now.
Yeah a lot of areas could use changing, I tried to cover the *most* important ones. But yeah things like Bugsy's rerun and the amount of premium Sync Pairs released should be addressed too.
Give is monthly 5 star move candy. That would be ideal
I’ve been thinking of getting into PokeMas recently and it’s interesting to see how as bad as PokeMas might be in these areas like limited sync pairs, other gacha games I’ve been playing are much worse and it makes me realize just how bad I had it in those games LOL
They should use the same method as other gachas do, like Grand Cross which have AT LEAST a rerun of a new character (Festival) twice a year.
You made a full presentation on this! I'm extremely pleased with how this has come out
Regarding candy coins, I would go even further to say we need at least one guaranteed CANDY / CAKE of a type PER month.
And that's just one sync level for one unit per month (In a YEAR, with 5 current roles, you could get approx. 2 sync levels for a singular unit, that's IF you play the events and do the quests, which is reasonable), in a game with 300+ units and growing.
2/5 is where most of my units are because I've been lucky at the gamble to get copies of them, and because for 1-2 years I played CONSISTENTLY, not because of the number of candy coins received during my peak months of playtime (even now I don't play as often BECAUSE of the lack of player rewards; this is a make or break for me in any gacha)
Dont mistake it, the rate of releasing banners VS free player gem rewards/month VS the number of candy coins received in a 6-month span is absolutely on purpose to try and elicit player FOMO and gamble stress, but for me, these concepts just deter me from playing at all. Why spend hours and hours of my time playing for a gamble that won't net me a win? Gacha games, including Masters EX, need to understand this very fundamental concept of free player economy if they want long-term player bases promoting their game and becoming potential buyers.
I would also have the Scout Points at 330, not 400 as they are now. As I understand, 11 pulls give you roughly 33 points, 3 per unit (maybe more if they're special units I can't remember right now), which means you need around 133 pulls (?!?!) to get CLOSE to ONE banner's scout point pity territory. This actually happened to me once with Mastefair Groudon and Maxie, other times I simply missed out on the units I wanted. It just feels like a complete cheat when a lot of gachas (to my understanding), have pities at 70 and 90 pulls.
Compared to the number of free gems per month, roughly 30k to 40k on a good month, you'd have to play every day on every event and ace every quest (which is sometimes impossible due to the nature of the quests, favoring new and exclusive units vs the boss' matchups) just to get ONE banner to scout point territory. One. When some months have 15 banners...?
What I'm asking isn't for them to give us free units and powerups on a whim, but if your gacha system is hellbent on putting players in difficult positions with their units atleast supply the player base with enough to want to continue to play. More work on a gacha daily/weekly/monthly, demands better and guaranteed rewards. That's just how I see it.
Excellent video Salamence. I really hope DeNA takes the feedback into consideration.
Thank you man, I appreciate it, and I hope so too.
Here’s hoping they hear our voices
I am sort of pleased with the Mix banner as a solution to reruns, it takes like 10 months to do it on the sync orb daily budget but it's like $40 to pick pretty much anything other than Master Fairs, which makes it cheap by gacha standards. I'd prefer to see more consistent free gem reruns, but I also see the difficulty with that so I can at least understand, just having the potential to pull anything you want whenever is enough. I fully agree with the rally complaints, they've become less and less worth worrying about. I do also agree with the variety and multi-banner complaints, if it were up to me the Team Rocket Banner would've been 1% per pair, it was utterly silly that they made pull rates so bad like that on less desirable pairs during a pretty packed Anniversary month. If the odds were stacked in your favor to get limited units when you pull a 5-star, it would feel way more worthwhile to gamble on trying to get a few copies of some new ok 5-stars instead of a single copy of a great master fair. I also think Variety banners need a reason to exist, they're basically just worse pokefairs in every single way. Maybe they have certain old units featured alongside them (making them truly varied, imagine if Variety Kiawe had SS Red, SS May, and Variety Lucas at .66% each in addition to his own 2% rate) or have a 3-4% pullrate instead of 2%? I think the same goes for spotlight scouts, as you said. Maybe they have one 1% pokefair rerun? If we got a spotlight Team Galactic Admin Mars, maybe we could get SS Cyrus at a 1% rate? I feel like this would overlap with the rerun issue, add limited incentive to these non-limited banners, and make it still feel like these non-limited pairs are getting the 'spotlight'.
I think the Roll cake addtion is interesting but I hate it that every have a specific EX role.
I think would be better that YOU, the player, can pick which EX role give your sync since gives us a sense of choice and can broaden the strategy.
I know many will go for Tech+Physical EX combo but let's be real.
Imagine give ving a Field EX role to a support, it will be a game changer and help a lot. When Cynthia Sygna Suit EX gets unlocked and is anything but Field Ex role (maybe SPrint), I am gonna riot. Cause her field aura barely lasts and helps the fightning type team
what’re your thoughts on the new mix scout?
Lol.
@@salamencelvx very much agreed lmfao
Its not good
A little nitpick I have with "modern" regular sync pairs. While I do want more sync pairs in the regular gacha, the two recent ones, Lenora and Ryuki, were given basic beam/impact moves rather than a unique one which really worries me that regular sync pairs are now an oversight by the devs
So the very first point was "Synch pairs do not return often enough; 45% [the minority] say this and they should not be shrugged off"
Neither should the 55% [majority] who say it's fine as-is?
I played for years and gave it up (mind you after pulling the three anniversary kanto units) because of the issues listed out in this video. Maybe I’ll pick up the game again one day but regardless this was a very well made video.
SS Steven is just broken in Villa with unlimited use of trainer moves 😬 they know it was a mistake releasing him
I really enjoy this game, and I think it’s by far the best Gacha game, but the only thing that really bites me is that as somebody who has been playing since launch is that it is so boring pulling for units. I barely even get the little sync move rank ups anymore. I’d just like it if they moved the older fair scouts (especially the ones with lodge units) that have been wildly powercrept, especially the ones from the first year of the game, into the generic scouts. Would be at least make not getting the featured unit much more interesting. At least we got Shauna and my GOAT Chesnaught…
As a day 1 player, there are fun aspects to the game like seeing your fave with a new outfit and a Pokemon you love, seeing the amounts of damage a sync pair does with their sync move etc. But we're on Pokemon Masters EX's 4th anniversary this year and I'm honestly just feeling burned out with the game - not sure if it's just because of the current state of the game or I'm just not enjoying it as much anymore.
I agree, but that's assuming your fav is well liked enough to get alt outfit.
idk, it feels like DeNA has decided to move to the milking the remaining players stage of gacha-life. I'd love to be proved wrong but I don't think we'll be seeing many friendly improvements from here on.
I've been playing this game for 4years now and i agree with you giving rewards and free gems for players is the downfall of this game they want you to spend atleast 500$ per scout and more that's why they're giving us small amount of rewards and gems
My issue with Masters EX are region specific events, as they can be very unwelcoming for newer players and even some veterans. Additionally, as you said, the pull rates for scouts where multiple pairs are included is far too low. A mediocre seasonal scout should not be as rare as a master sync pair- period.
I have tried for three years straight to get May and Lopunny and failed each time, while also getting 4 different copies of Burgh and Togepi. Now, anybody would absolutely be justified in saying that’s my own fault for not saving enough by the time they rerun, but in my opinion with all of the different sync pairs releasing each month, it’s really not worth saving a guarantee to get a sync pair that ultimately underperforms compared to many others.
I will say, I think this game does a lot of things right. Among gacha games, I think Masters EX is super f2p friendly and they really do a lot for the fans. But, it’s definitely not perfect and I just hope the game doesn’t get to a point where it feels it’s not worth playing anymore.
You're actually calling Twitter "X"💀
Love how structured this video is & agree with some of the stuff you covered including non paid gem amount especially monthly, sync pair scouts & the rewards given from twitter campigns (surprised one of them didn't reach its target & DeNA decided to reward them anyways 😂) I can tell how passionate you are for this game so hopefully the developers can take this constructive criticism covered here.
You mentioned about certain sync pairs not returning after for a long time or never returming them all i do like to bring up master sync pairs you didn't talk about more such as Ash who I feel may never return as it's only anime crossover event & i can imagine many players still want to get him 🤷♂️ it's odd DeNA removed his battle theme 🤔
Oh yeah you didn't talk about the mix scout lol it's an odd decision even with paid gems 🤔
I want to see everyone in the game, as in EVERYONE without absent, and I want to see Lillie and Alola Ninetlaes as her Sygna Suit
Between increased rate chance on banners or a higher amount of unpaid gems per month what would you pick ?
Gems. Both, but gems first.
@@salamencelvx Hard to pick ,I m undecided also ,depends of how much increase chance also if it s from let s say 1% and goes to 3% I might pick the latter ,esp that I ve got from dailies Calem and Greninja ,Red and Snor, Blue and Zapdos so ya 3% would rock 🪨.Nice video btw ,hopefully they will listen :D
time stamp pls?
I think reruns should be 18k gems, the players who r missing the units either didn't pull on first release or didn't play, feels odd spending month and half gem total on old unit.
Lower total gem cost also makes lower rates more acceptable
the move candy bit I don't know how you can think 10ish coins (if that) every month or 2 is fine when you very likely need to pull on some banners to even get some of those coins that banners give away (unable to do pulls if the game doesn't give f2p gems or if it's a unit + pokemon you don't care for/saving for something later down the line) or the coins gifted from the 3k gem pulls is completely disconnected from the unit sometimes, a recent banner I can't remember being a support unit but giving a yellow candy and field or sprint candy instead of just giving 6 of whatever role you're pulling for at 1 3000x 3 3000x and 5 3000x wish I could remember the unit but I found it odd how I was getting those candies instead of the one for the role of the character I'm pulling for. For clarity I of course don't mean when the 3rd 3000x (red and green candy) and 5th 3000x (red green blue candy) pulls gift us all that. Mean solo banners that's been getting somewhat random candy thrown in there, albeit the rare time I noticed a Yellow candy in there was very welcome
Another thing to mention, a large chunk of units even spotlights variety and especially master fairs want 3/5 or some even needing to be 4/5 or full 5/5 to truly unlock the character to have maximum use. Granted there isn't hard content for that kind of dedication to a singular unit (at the time that is) when they first introduced 4/5 5/5 grids but now while it's only 300 gem rewards Dena has been implementing A LOT of ultra hard extreme battles or the recent Anabel Impossible battles that require 1 to maybe even 3 master fair units at max potential basically to clear some battles (anabel most popular team to win was NC Blue, NC Serena, SS kris at 3/5 for all three most likely) or other random events that has extreme battles needing more than just the banner unit for the event to even clear it
17:03 This actually got worse in the New Year's Banner where the odds of getting any specific 5 Star is 0.33%
Well said, I would add more point: more content to exhaust and make use of our existing teams.
I've been waiting for Red and Pikachu for a long time. I also want Jessie and James to return, and it seems they are lost forever.
I agree with you on most of this points and i explain what are the actual problem of masters ex for me.
The major problems are:
-1) the regular pool of units as you sadi only 3 spotlight unit in a year is ridiculous and to solve this issue they create the variety scout that in my opinion doesnt make sense because they have same outfit and dont even change colours (except the new one's).
I hate so much this kinda banner because doesnt even go in the regular pool of units like the spotlight.
Then why dont put older pokefair/seasonal in the regular pool on every banner? No one is probably gonna pull for a unit for years ago unless they like a specific pokemon or trainer.
Yes the mix banner kinda fix in a way the problem BUT thats only for who invest in the game.
-2) the mix banner unit feature, if someone loves red and venasaur is forced to spend money to a unit and that is really BAD and disappointing. I think everyone agree on it.
-3) really low number of gems, the count gems are drastically go down while the number of new units are increasing and i dont like that. The number of gems arent enogh even to garateed one of them and that is really sad. As you mentioned even the last rally events dont even gets gems.
-4) more new contents would be still nice
For the rest the new gear dont change too much except in specif scenario.
The EX role same thing except for gauntlet or the new event where you compete against other players.
Some of this problems you said i agree but for the 5th point usually if someone want a unit 3/5 or is going to pull the actual unit or is going to pull 1 copy then give candys.
Candys would be nice having more of them if possible obviously BUT in reality people is going to pull only the one copy anyway... while the mechanic is suppose to pull more copies instead of giving the candy to that unit.
To me the candy coin problems are connected for the low number of gems recived from events.
Also giving more coins from the new roles (field and sprint) makes you gain less coin from the 3 initial roles (striker, tech and support) that are actually better the initial 3 (for multiple reasons...) and that is NOT GOOD.
How to solve the problem?
1) the master mode (and they didnt...)
2) add the new candy coin (sprint and field) on the lodge in a level i dont know 125 and 150 of character?
3) the pass (the point you gain from regional battle kanto, jotho etc... for another useless reward like the 10 bronze ticket that you would probably had bilions after 6 months and dont know what to do it).
The point is the number of coin should be higher considering we have 5 different role and not remain the same ones and reduce the quantity between them.
This is a good video! I quitted right at the 4 year anniversary, mainly because of the team rocket scout. The real money players are required to pay in Order to get every sync pair a copy is too costly. They are simply too aggressive and I guess their revenue speaks for players. I think they should reflect on why with more and more limited units per month will still result in a lower revenue compared to the good old times. I even deleted my account data to ensure I will not return to the game. DeNA should take note that sometimes if you lose the players base, you are going to lose them forever.
I rarely pay for gems anymore. I got myself to a half decent team set up and the drop rates are sooooo bad vs the cost. The gems are only somewhat worth it when they do some big sale.