Prize Bulb gain rate is outrageous.

I agree, they need to fix the bulb system 💡 when playing online an make new ways to get bulb besides doing character challenges and playing online.

I’ve not logged on in 3-4 days because of the math expressed above.  This really is a community killer.

Some guy in EA: How about a bulb system to keep player playing?

Another guy in EA: What about increase the required amount so they have to be playing non-stop?

I'm one of those people who's never minded grinding for rewards but this game is a different story. We went from what was arguably, an easy grind to get bulbs, to something completely out of reach for almost everyone since the update. There has to be a happy medium between the two.

Something has to be done about this, it's really bad

I have all but given up the grind for bulbs unfortunately, even after they gave us the 30 bulbs I thought wow awesome and then I unlocked a few spaces and it didn't make a dent. I'll make another SWBattlefront 2 comparison. When people originally did the math on how insanely long you would have to grind to unlock characters Dice went back and changed how the system worked. With BfN I prefer time spent on leveling up my characters but as much as I hate to say it the perks are little underwhelming and the star rank system isn't nearly as satisfying as the diamond and gold plated slabs from GW2. 

Are we sure its not some hidden mechanic like before? It was Ops that gave good bulbs and it could have moved on to another mode. Its definitely not Ops anymore as i have played plenty.

But maybe some other mode now that hands out bulbs.

If not i see no way to play this game that much. I got better things to do. Like even play other games. Some of which btw also have time limited content.
Way to ruin it Popcap.

I'm going to echo this. I'm no longer getting bulbs from whatever factor it was that saw me get them from almost every ops match and often in TT. XP is working now but 15k is too high. I had posted about this before as I felt that once things were fixed it would be too much XP to get a bulb. Some of the challenges are still bugged as well, showing complete when not. Luckily the trick where you go and vanquish enough of the proper enemies, log off, log back on, and vanquish another one of those key enemies gives the bulb (I had this with scientists yesterday).

I went and counted and it's 182 bulbs to unlock the entire map again just like last month but there's 2 problems; 1) we lose an entire day which is 2+ bulbs we can't get for the missing day (imagine February with this!), and 2) unless something changes, we won't get a 30 bulb influx like October. I got 5 bulbs yesterday with 2 from challenges and playing lots of TT and Ops, but I played a LOT and it was Sunday so didn't have to work, there's no way I can maintain this pace while working, playing other games, and working on my own projects plus RL obligations. 

I would suggest one or more of the following:

-Reduce the bulb XP to 10k, 7.5k, or 5k. (i'm leaning more towards 7.5k or 5k now that the random bulb for finishing matches is no longer a thing).

-Provide more daily challenges and/or have them provide more than 1  bulb each.

To the devs, I've always been positive even when pointing out problems, but this has to be fixed and soon. I like the concept of the prize maps; give us incentive, let max rank XP count for something unlike GW2, and keep giving us new things to strive for, but this is going to frustrate people more than incentivize us. Please get this made less tedious ASAP.

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@Iron_Guard8 wrote:

To the devs, I've always been positive even when pointing out problems, but this has to be fixed and soon. 

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You're certainly an asset to the community, buddy!  As for myself, I can no longer justify chasing a goal I can’t achieve (prize maps) and have stopped playing this game.

I’m different than most in the fact I’m a massive fan of the series and I’m not playing any other games, either.  

Let that sink in... I’d rather not game at all than play BfN in its current state.

EDIT: not sure how my phone turned your quote black....

I posted about this on the PvZ Twitter as well, replying to the food fight tweet and there's at least one thread on Reddit about this I posted in too. The more visibility this gets the better.