OKAY EA, I GIVE UP!
The way things are panning out with the Battlez mode has totally ruined the Plants versus Zombies 2 experience for me.
There is an increasing prevelance of players with their plants at MAX level. This makes it virtually impossible for most players to get even close to their scores.
I have just lost 10 consecutive Battlez matches. Each time it was against players with Max level plants.
My scores this week have averaged 4 million to 4.7 million, using plants levelled at 6 to 8, yet I lost my last 10 matches to scores between 7 million and 9 million. EVERY ONE OF MY OPPONENTS HAD LEVEL 10 OR HIGHER PLANTS.
The problem is that EA does absolutely nothing to prevent this sort of unfair mismatching from happening. Do they have any idea of how demoralizing this is for other players? More importantly do they even care?
I expect I am not alone when it comes to questioning HOW these players have levelled up all their plants to the MAX. I cannot believe that it was achieved through playing the game to gain Seed Packets.
I have been playing the game every day since 2016. Over that time I have played EVERY challenge, EVERY quest, EVERY Pinnata party, and EVERY twice daily level challenges (ALL 5 SLOTS) to level up my plants, yet NONE of my plants are anywhere close to max level.
Any suggestion that these players must have paid to level up their plants simply does not stand up. It would cost THOUSANDS, EVEN TENS OF THOUSANDS, to purchase the number of seed packets needed to upgrade all plants to the MAX level.
That leaves only one other means to elevate the plants - HACKING!
There are dozens of videos on Youtube showing Plants versus Zombies 2 having been hacked, as well as showing Battlez matches where opposing players scores have been overwhelmed by millions of points. Those videos also show the hacking players with ALL PLANTS AT MAX LEVEL. They also show Gem totals in the MILLIONS, and Coin totals in the BILLIONS.
Surely EA MUST know this happens, yet they DO NOTHING!
If anyone even dares to suggest that players are cheating, they are warned off by EA representatives. (It's as if they have their heads stuck in the sand and refuse to believe that cheating is even possible.)
WAKE UP EA!!!! AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!! If you are going to continue with the multiplayer option of the Battlez mode, you owe it to your customers to ensure the game is fit for purpose by taking the measures necessary to wipe out the scourge of the hackers/cheaters.
Now that we are having to PAY TO PLAY Plants versus Zombies 2, the very least EA should do is detect and ban cheats. They should also bring in a seeding system to ensure that players with MAX level plants are kept segregated from other players with lower level plants.
Will EA do this? If past performance is anything to go by, I think the answer will be NO.
