Issues with the current Reward O Tron
The Reward o Tron in BfN has some major flaws and I wanted to make this post to list them of
1: Too little items
The Reward o Tron is something that only has enough content,
for about as much time as it will take people to get master rank on every char.
This means, that not only is there no more upgrades for them to gain,
but they also have nothing to get from the reward o tron anymore.
This means, that coins infinitly inflate and the experienced players have nothing to play for outside
of the pricemap, wich most high ranks finish early anyways.
So the people that like the game enough to continue playing it have nothing to get as a reward
2: Coin inflation hurts newer players aswell
If popcap ever wants to add something for coins they need to make it hillariously
overpriced, or time gated, as veterans would easily be able to buy everything up and have
nothing to do.
3: Capsules feel worse than Stickerpacks
Most people agree, that capsules feel worse than stickerpacks and that due to a few reasons.
The first reason is, that the time spend on getting a capsule often isnt worth the reward.
You have to press the button for multiple seconds and get a long animation, to find out that you got a emoji, that you will never use.
Or the fact, that you will have to leave your match to even get one.
Or the fact that it will cost you 30k coins wich takes about two matches to even get and the reward will
range from something worth 5k to something worth 50k.
In general the overall feel of the reward o tron capsules is pretty bad.
Overall the current reward o tron situation is pretty bad, especially as the reward o tron isnt even monetized and there
is absolutely no need for it too feel this bad and annoying to use.
Possible fixes:
1: Too little items
Option 1 to fix this would just be to add some of the stuff that will likely be added to rux into the reward o tron and just make new stuff for it.
In addition to this the items from previous pricemaps could be added (except the last skin and the 100% reward) to allow people to get them
as having all of these items permanently exclusive isnt gonna help anyone. (Especially as that might cause them to recycle pricemap wich is nothing what people want)
Spectrum hats are some of the most liked cosmetics in bfn and there could be two things done with them.
Number one being making basically everything into a spectrum piece and number two being adding more colours to existing spectrum hats, but making them( a single colour at once)only unlockable with reward o tron. This would instantly x5 the amount of cosmetics in reward o tron, but would also be liked more than what happend in gw2 with the bling cosmetics. (This could be doable with little effort by using shaders, so that the little effort while lend alot of content)
This also fixes 2: , as there would now be enough items to almost entirely eliminate the inflation.
Another thing that would be nice would be the return of weapon skins. Yes not every character could really get them, but all that could get them should get them as they look good and
are another easy way of creating reward o tron content.
3: Capsules feel bad
One way of fixing this might be to sell capsules in bundles at reward o tron, so that every bundle atleast contains 1 valuable item and players arent left with just emojis and
phrases. Bundles would be adjusted in price to correctly fit their value and this would also allow specific bundles, like a bundle
for zombies and one for plants that only contains items related to them, as this would improve player experience by making it more
likely for them to earn the items they want and it would give them more choices.
Also speeding up the earning animation would help, as this makes the action feel more important, but the items earned arent worth it most of the time,
so the disapointment will be higher.
Allowing players to buy capsules while in the lobby isnt necessary but would be a nice Quality of life addition.
Let me know what you think about this idea
