Shadow-peashooter: The new EA cash cow ?
You were afraid or annoyed of your opponent playing a Cauli spam strategy ? Well, beware of this plant, which will likely be premium, that may be the most powerful and broken plant ever released by ...
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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!
@eieio_31310 wrote:After a public outrage, looks like EA is now decided to
lay out the baitgive 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!
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.
