Shadow-peashooter: The new EA cash cow ?

I did not follow on Reddit, maybe @Humplemann or @eieio_31310 can confirm but I read that first they were denying it, then they change their speech...

Btw did you notice what they add just next to the shadow peashooter pinata ?

Gems to buy with $$$ !
Just in case you did forget you can buy them. 🥳🥳

Misters and Madams who are developping the game - or should I say the business model - (and I'm not speaking about the employees here that are just doing their jobs), I must admit, I am really impressed by how far you are going on the freemium concept and how you are dedicated to the payers (hum sorry) players.

Everytime, I think you are done with new mechanics frustating players to force them to pay or watch more and more ads, you keep innovating.

Adding Pinatas with random seeds *cough* Lootboxes anyone ?* to improve plants.
Adding levels which are really difficult so players will spent coins and power ups on them.
Making a PvP mode that create a gap between P2W and F2P players.

Promoting ad(s) nauseam plants of the week.

Introducing a new currency that you can mainly get with this PvP.
Introducing new plants that can only be obtained and upgraded with that currency in a short amount of time.

Adding a streakbreaker (is there players that really believe it does not exist ?) so people don't get so many rewards.
Nerfing free plants from Battlez because they are too powerfull either by banning them *cough* Blover * cough* , making them have a really convenient bug *cough* Magnet-shroom *cough* or making a combo impossible *cough* banning sun producing plant so nerfing Dusk Lobber *cough*?
And now Buffz and Bruisez which I'm sure will have to tend to target the best plant families/best plants in the future. But good new here guys, we may be able to see Blover unbanned from Battlez when Contain-mint family will be nerfed by Bruisez !
Now it's not "what will the new updates bring to the game but what will the new updates bring to frustrate and force player to pay even more ?"
(Btw hello to the 3 world exclusive for the chinese version that we will never have, I guess there is not so much benefit to get them in the international version)

And your dedication to solve issues is outstanding.

A bug giving player one advantage ? Fixed in less than a day.
A bug giving player a disadvantage (let's say the issue with Battlez rewards) ? Fixed in ...hum ? a long amount of time.

But hey, double standard ! 🥳

No wonder EA has such a bad reputation...😉

After a public outrage, looks like EA is now decided to lay out the bait give SP seed packets in battlez again on next week's Battlez!  

https://www.reddit.com/r/PlantsVSZombies/comments/9fw53z/news_shadow_peashooter_seed_packets_update/

I have my fingers and toes crossed and hoping this is not being placed at the 13th streak!

Lmao, it looks like they finally realize that they can't do anything they want and that without the community they are nothing.
Last week with the nerf "bug" of Cauli, this week with SP seeds, it's good that players voice their discontents and make things change.
It will not make the game better but at least it will not be worst.

It's nice that Haem is here to listen to us.

I am still confused on this.

I thought we were told you could win the packets in Battlez... so what the hell happened?

On the two first days of this week tournament, there were Modern Day Battlez Pinatas with Shadow peashooter seeds on them.
But after two days, they backed off saying SP seeds should not have been in theses Pinatas in the first place, and there were no longer SP seeds in Modern Age Battlez Pinatas.

Which made the community really upset on Reddit (especially after all the bugs we had recently, and the Cauli issue last week).

So again they backed off and now they are saying that SP seeds will be available in Battlez rewards.

This is ridiculous.

So they say ONE THING, which LEGALLY should be bounding... .then renegade... 

Bringing them back next week? That is still insult to injury...

And I don't give a damn about $ calipower... It's a broken plant, and they know clear well it is. 

It's always double standard with EA.

They did remove SP seeds from Battlez quickly, they changed their mind, but now we have to wait next tournament to get them in Battlez again.

When it will not be plant of the week.

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And all those people who wasted their time and gauntlets in futility by broken promises by EA...  Where is their compensation for this?!

This is supposed to be the OFFICIAL forum BTW...

Yes, extremely frustrating way to promote entertainment.  I decided to conserve my Gems and Gauntlets this week because of the changes and instead spend my time 'watching' free ads to collect hundreds of thousands of coins instead of trying to improve my ranking in BattleZ which does seem to be rigged after you reach a streak longer than 9.  I have been fortunate in Modern Day pinata trackers to collect many Shadow Peashooters seed packets.  Looking forward to seeing Shadow Peashooter seed packets back BattleZ next week.

Has anyone else not been able to collect FREE Gems and FREE Gauntlets once a day ?

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@eieio_31310 wrote:

After a public outrage, looks like EA is now decided to lay out the bait give SP seed packets in battlez again on next week's Battlez!  I have my fingers and toes crossed and hoping this is not being placed at the 13th streak!

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Call me a cynic if you like, but I would bet that the promise of dedicated Shadow Peashooter rewards in next week's Battlez will end up as a disappointment for many players, even for those of us with long streaks. I really hope I'll be proved wrong in this, but past experience of EA's idea of what constitutes an adequate compensation package makes me doubtful. I can't bring myself to believe that the seed packets awarded will amount to much, and will be something like 10 packets each time. I also expect they will have wider spacing between them than the Plant Of The Week pinata rewards. (Maybe appearing next to the gauntlets rewards, so every 14 wins).

It's obvious that the real intention of EA's new approach to players acquiring a Premium plant 'For Free' is nothing of the sort. We only have to look at the proposed method for getting the free seed packets to see it won't work and what they REALLY want is for us to use gems to buy them at an exorbitant rate of exchange.

If things go as they have so far for me, the seed packets I get from the Pinata Party MIGHT total 6 each day. As for chasing Shadow Peashooter seed packets with the Pinata Tracker on Modern Day, I feel that I may as well not even bother.

Take today for instance. I have five Pinata Tracker slots. They give me 10 opportunities for receiving a specific seed packet. I used them twice today, so I had 20 opportunities. How many Shadow Peashooter seeds did I get from those 20 opportunities? - SEVEN! - A three and a four!

With the temporary inclusion of the Shadow Peashooter on Modern Day, there are 6 plants. This means that we have a 16.6% chance of getting seeds for a certain plant. It also means we have an 83.4% chance of NOT getting any. As far as I'm concerned, the 83.4% is winning hands down. After today's 'windfall', my total seed packets won through Pinata Parties and Pinata Trackers over four days has risen to the dizzying height of 37.

Another thing - What's the betting that next week's tournament will now prove to be the most brutal yet? I expect we will see the first implementation of the Bruisez effect where one plant family will be rendered useless. We may even get a situation where there is no family getting the benefit of Buffz.

As far as EA is concerned, I'm a definite 'Glass half empty' sort of guy.