Okay, 24 hours later and I like this update even less than I did yesterday.
First some nitpicks: Can we please not have red notifications on the home button? When you put something in red, it screams "EMERGENCY!" I have always hated that the normal reminders that a character upgrade is available is in red. Literally every character I own has that red notification. It's entirely annoying but I've trained myself to ignore it on characters. Now it's spreading.
Please, just no.
There is no emergency when we have completed a daily quest item. It's normal part of the game. Red is for warnings. You have always failed to understand that, and it's always been a terrible part of the UI, but seeing it metastasize to the home button is breaking me. What is wrong with you? Aren't you normal human beings who participate in society where yellow is a normal caution color and red is used for the most important warnings? Stop it.
Then there are the pulsing notifications in the triangle-and-exclamation-point icons. I greatly appreciate that these aren't red, but why do they pulse? It's distracting and unnecessary. Further, why is there an exclamation point? AGAIN not everything is the most important thing in the world. Just like red is a color for emergencies, exclamation points are to be used when something is a BIG DEAL!!!! It makes no sense to overuse EPs!!!! Why do that?!?!!!
This new pulsing icon doesn't need to pulse, and it doesn't need an exclamation point. The idea is that the character can be levelled up? Cool. Use an up arrow and/or a staircase as your icon. No pulsing. Just bc modern phones have the memory to make something pulse doesn't mean you have to use it.
And the monster animations? Again, terribly distracting. Today's coliseum boss isn't as bad, but yesterday's Rancor-cousin doing sudden thrashes was annoying. You're very clever to create such art, now let the boss show off its terrifying pose once and then STOP. Don't do it again every time I return to the main Cantina view. Once was impressive. Now I've learned to hate the thing your arts people put so much time into, and that's just sad.
Yesterday's boss was also large enough to block line-of-click to the Shipments icon. Again, please don't.
All in all, rewards are meagre both in the short and long term. I don't need you to give me g1-g11 for free. I worked hard for my gear stash. But if I play hard every day in a game mode that isn't fun with a character whose abilities I can't control with 4 summoned characters whose abilities I can't even inspect, that's what I have to look forward to.
I don't want r10. I don't need r10. The coliseum gives me nothing but r10 and g1-g11, meaning it has literally nothing to offer me. And on top of that, it's not even a fun game mode.
As I said yesterday. I don't know where I'm going, I don't know how to get there, and I don't even know if I'm making good or average or bad progress.
But on top of all that, I don't know WHY a player with a solid stash of g1-g11 would bother. This game mode has nothing to offer us unless we're obsessed with r10. Well, I'm not. Most of my GLs aren't r9, and I'm someone who has r9 Pirate King Hondo, so I'm no slouch in the GL department.
I suppose I'll be back tomorrow to update this thread again, but for right now, I just don't see anything in this for me.
Capital Games Team
