Its about to be a year since founders...

@Fork_x_Spoon I want to start off by saying I really like your contributions to the forum community 😇. I only recently joined the forums as an active member and have to say I like this community a lot. I very much hope they do something special for the 1st anniversary of BN. 

I agree with nearly everything on your list. Some things are more subjective, though. I personally don't consider replacing variants with upgrades to be a negative thing. I like the upgrade system more. I also like bots, even though I hate them (lol). While they can be annoying, I was way more annoyed and about the game when I was put into 2v7 Team Vanquish lobbies all the time. it was so incredibly unfair. I hated it. The bots got rid of this problem.

I'm on PC so wasn't there for Picnic but have been here since day one Founder's. Almost a year later I still stand by my earlier assertion that the game was released too early and it doesn't feel quite done to this day. I do like the game and have more time here than GW1 already, but it certainly has room for improvement.

The lack of videos and ads is glaring and jarring. GW1 and 2 had tons of videos showcasing game updates, devs playing the game, and so on, yet BfN has hardly any. I have to concur on your lists of good and bad, the game still has some great potential but as we've said before, it has a long way to go to reach it. 

Hey @Fork_x_Spoon, how are you? Thanks for your nice post. 😃

I have played Battle for Neighborville since the second week of Founders’ edition, I had not started playing GW2 until the start of 2018 so I had not got to experience the game from the beginning. I vowed that when the next PvZ Shooter came out, that I would experience it from the start. It’s a shame I did not know about this game from Day 1. But still second week, hey that is quite good right? 🙂

I started reading forum posts since November and started participating on the forums in December. I started making character challenge and weekly event challenges guides in about March this year. I started making other guides such as PvE after I had become a Champion in Late May. And guess what? I love the forums, I love pretty much all ideas, I love the community and love making guides. 🙂

I wanted to actually make a post similar to yours. One regarding the one year anniversary of Founders’ incoming. I hope that the devs give the players a special gift, for the players who played during Founders’ last year, but I suppose we will have to wait and see.

I was there, since Picnic day 1.

I had a dream with my friends in GW2, about a PvZ game that would be more more competitive and the best game of all timed.

When I saw BfN, I was so hyped and happy, seeing my characters and the cast I play with for so long back again in a better competitive scenario. Unfortunately, it wasn't like that and it end up being a really deception for me and my friends.

To this day, this game lacks so much in terms of multiplayer compared to any other game, despite it being really cool.

I hope that, one day, my dream become true and this ends up being a blast, and that's why I am on this forum to this day.

Thanks, to everyone in this forum that battles for at least one year for this game's sake, we are facing an battle even worse than the Battle for Neighborville itself. We are warriors. 😉

I began playing in November and in December I joined the forum and started posting, and I have to say I have thoroughly enjoyed my experience in neighborville this past year! I love the game and love the community on this forum, and I’m grateful to the devs for making such an incredible game!

@PineapplePiano I also love the game despite its flaws. I have many chronic diseases that on certain days bring me a lot of pain (on most days I'm ok). PvZ always helps me to relax when I had a bad day.

@GutmanSca Sorry to hear the game was such a disappointment to you and your friends after having so much hope. For me it was a huge upgrade from gw2 because I only played the free roam regions in Founder's and started playing pvp when things were a bit more balanced.

And of course we as the community will still fight to make the game better with our suggestions, you couldn't have said it better 🙌.

I'd like to ask you one question if you don't mind: How did you get access to Picnic alpha testing? Is there a place everyone can register to test future pvz games?