@jnicol1975 wrote:
@ImaHappy I did a quick count and I think it might be 182 bulbs required to complete the map? Which makes the math more discouraging.
This is encouraging. 🙂
Thanks for the feedback everyone!
Agree with all the above.... the time to earn bulbs has gone from a bit of a grind (I don't mind grinding) to a total grind
and the fun has all but gone for me too.
We have to be able to earn bulbs in a reasonable time frame so that people can utilise the time they have to play and still be able to complete the map....
its pretty ridiculous to expect people to give up SO much time out of their busy lives/families/jobs etc... people just are not able to do that.
And lets be honest, we are really talking about a HUGE amount of grinding and time for what amounts to a couple of hats, customisations and one costume (x 2 colours) plus emotes and slabs (most of which wont ever get used by most people).
It just isn't worth it for most people even if they had the time I would imagine.
@spIash_damage I like you love GW2 (never played GW1) .... have spent 2000 hours in gw2 or something..... but I don't play any other game, the arrival of BFN was super exciting and much welcomed....
and I love the potential of this game.... have adapted to the new graphics/playstyle etc and have coped with the numerous and neverending PC issues for both me and my partner since the beginning of the Founders edition, hung in there hoping that all would get sorted out and this would become the awesome game it could be.... love it and the new characters and maps etc etc... hope that Ops will be better in the end etc etc etc.......................................
however I find my interest already waning... primarily I think, or at least the last straw for me, seems to be due to this bulbs earning situation.... we grinded a lot last month as I was going away.... and the map was doable ( I was not too busy and was able to spend a lot of time in the game grinding out Ops, challenges etc).
When returning from my trip I returned to having 55 bulbs due to the 30 bulbs giveaway... so have spent the last week playing but really for nothing.... max bulbs so while earning them they didn't count... so just gathering coins.... nothing to spend them on either....
but its fine I thought the new prize map is coming.... yay....
however so was the patch and the earning rates of XP change and therefore bulb earning potential.....
even with the head start of 55 bulbs for the prize map... the grind involves crazy amounts of time and games and XP...
after playing for a few days I don't find it appealing or fun anymore,
the huge time between that wee ding-a-ling noises of being rewarded a prize bulb is so infrequent and unrewarding that I am losing interest fast.
I am scared for the game to be honest as much of the community it seems feels the same and it is very sad that such a loyal community is being turned off at such a great rate when the game has literally just been globally released.
And the way the global release itself was handled was a bit weird , but that's another discussion.
Fingers crossed they (Popcap, Devs, EA) can turn it around, but my feeling is they are running out of time.
@asabaida I started with GW1 myself but looking at Origin I have 313 hours in it while I have 2389 hours in GW2. I have over 200 in BfN, a big part is from the free roam zones but also the week layoff we had helped a lot with that during founders. I love all 3 games and BfN has massive potential, but they have got to fix this stuff soon. If people like @spIash_damage are unhappy and I'm getting a bit exasperated with the grind and the some of the other problems we still have, I can't imagine how people less invested are feeling right now.
I got the original PvZ on Steam and loved it. I actually had put off getting a smart phone for years but wanted to play PvZ2 so that actually pushed me to get a modern phone! I also enjoyed PvZ;Heroes although haven't played in awhile. I even have the PvZ:Risk board game. PvZ is one of the few IPs I really love (the other is Doctor Who, mostly the classics), so having a shooter based on PvZ was like heaven for me as I'm also a shooter fan since Wolfenstein 3D ran on my 486! The longer this stuff takes the fix, the more difficult it is going to be to recover from. Not every game can pull a 'No Man's Sky'.
