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The producers of Pokémon Masters apologize for a lack of content, and outline future update plans
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Well that's positive at least. I dropped the game for now but I'll check it out again when these changes arrive.
This game is a mess. I was super excited for it, spent like $30 at launch, then just gave up after 3 weeks in after I cleared all the solo content.
The remaining content is coop and it is absolute garbage. Fights take way too long because you can't speed up battle speed in coop, they're too hard, and it's just not fun. It's a torturous grind for no reward. They need to get rid of coop altogether.
The remaining content is coop and it is absolute garbage. Fights take way too long because you can't speed up battle speed in coop, they're too hard, and it's just not fun. It's a torturous grind for no reward. They need to get rid of coop altogether.
#mess
It's hard to believe it considering it's a Pokémon game, but out of all the kusoge currently installed on my phone, this is the one I'm closest to just deleting.
It's hard to believe it considering it's a Pokémon game, but out of all the kusoge currently installed on my phone, this is the one I'm closest to just deleting.
I've still been logging in daily. I dig the active timer battle system which is the big reason I've been playing it. We'll see how it changes because it's definitely not worth the commitment I've been giving it.
That's because this game is a palpable dud, whereas Sword and Shield is nailed-on to sell 15 million and be a huge success no matter what Game Freak do, and because Masters is a GAAS that lives and dies on ongoing support and appeal.
Talk about try-hard.
Dude's been spouting his nonsensical hate on literally every single thread, even unrelated to SwSh. Ignore him.
Come play DL instead at this point. Fixing this game will take a Herculean effort and they only *just* started saying anything because their revenue fell through the floor.
This game doesn't really deserve any good will when it's done nothing to earn it, and they only start to communicate with fans when the bottom falls out.
This game doesn't really deserve any good will when it's done nothing to earn it, and they only start to communicate with fans when the bottom falls out.
good, but makes me wonder why they released the game in that state. any f2p dev has to know that people will lose interest immediately if you don't put out content at a fast pace.
ignore him
Well, I'm glad they're at least putting it out there that they know it sucks... but it kind of feels kinda late considering people who were on the fence about the app (like me) seemed to already have jumped ship.
I dunno how they thought this was good enough because there's so aggressively little to do and/or "look" at during a single play session even for a gacha game.
I dunno how they thought this was good enough because there's so aggressively little to do and/or "look" at during a single play session even for a gacha game.
Pokemon Masters is an absolute garbage fire.
Endgame is a horrendously boring co-op grind with little in the way of strategy thanks to terrible balance. The incredibly boring bottle grind to reach level 90/95/100 discourages any experimentation. Incredibly popular characters like Cynthia, Red, Steven, Lance, the villains, etc. are still all absent from the game. There's barely any story content past the half finished main story, with trainer conversations limited to one per trainer outside evolution conversations... And bizarrely, most of the Pokemon that should be able to evolve can't. And content is added so slowly; the datamining revealed there's not even a fucking Halloween event in October.
This apology is too little, too late.
Endgame is a horrendously boring co-op grind with little in the way of strategy thanks to terrible balance. The incredibly boring bottle grind to reach level 90/95/100 discourages any experimentation. Incredibly popular characters like Cynthia, Red, Steven, Lance, the villains, etc. are still all absent from the game. There's barely any story content past the half finished main story, with trainer conversations limited to one per trainer outside evolution conversations... And bizarrely, most of the Pokemon that should be able to evolve can't. And content is added so slowly; the datamining revealed there's not even a fucking Halloween event in October.
This apology is too little, too late.
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Game never clicked with me. Dragalia Lost and FEH are far better mobile gacha offerings from Nintendo.
I would if it had launched in Germany (don't want to use the backdoors to play this)
Price has to drop too. I'll spend a bit on GaaS if the value is there, but Masters is really overpriced.
They're probably gonna need to smooth things over for a while with consistently excellent freebies while they work to somehow prepare a soft relaunch to get people interested again. It sounds like a lot of people only logon when they add a ton of apologems lol. It's certainly going to be an uphill battle.
It was a matter of time, the game is on life support already because playing the hard content is straight up impossible without hard coordination or the 5* Gacha units, most of the time both.
Hard content aside there's literally nothing to do and the reward system is the worst I've ever seen in any Gacha.
Hard content aside there's literally nothing to do and the reward system is the worst I've ever seen in any Gacha.
Considering how fast it fell down the charts I figured there would be big changes coming soon. Didn't TPC team up with DeNa specifically because of their experience in this area? It's kinda ridiculous that DeNa thought that the current set up was good.
I also hope they address their stupid method of releasing 1 new unit at a time.
I also hope they address their stupid method of releasing 1 new unit at a time.
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I don't know how you can expect players to keep playing with both a lack of content and a severe lack of rewards.
I deleted it a week ago and haven't looked back. May go back if they can fix it, but it sounds like any significant fixes are months away.
I deleted it a week ago and haven't looked back. May go back if they can fix it, but it sounds like any significant fixes are months away.
They havent mentioned anything about evolving pokemon like Brocks Onix to Steelix or even the player characters pikachu to Raichu. That was my biggest issue.
Idk if pvp would work but I enjoy Summoners war arena where players put up a team and its controlled by ai. Would like something like that.
Idk if pvp would work but I enjoy Summoners war arena where players put up a team and its controlled by ai. Would like something like that.
Feels like they could have taken a lot of queues from Cygames and Dragalia Lost (or hell even GRanblue) for how to pace out PvE content and keep it engaging. The dungeon diving mechanics in Dragalia would lend themselves well to "expeditions" of sorts from Pokemon and having events to "catch" a big rare one like the blazon summons would be cool. I could go on for days how even though I hate Gacha that Dragalia has a nigh perfect system of keeping players coming back and engaged with content while still keeping it resource friendly and cost friendly.
Can your player character even swap out their pokemon? I didn't know if they could or not. Player progression is big, and I don't know if you can just remove your character like you can in Dragalia but if so that kinda sucks as most Pokemon games are about the player power fantasy of catching em all and training em all.
I'm totally down for joining in at a later date for Pokemon Waifu Battlers but for now aside from the stellar music and presentation it seems the "game" part is still missing in a lot of ways.
Can your player character even swap out their pokemon? I didn't know if they could or not. Player progression is big, and I don't know if you can just remove your character like you can in Dragalia but if so that kinda sucks as most Pokemon games are about the player power fantasy of catching em all and training em all.
I'm totally down for joining in at a later date for Pokemon Waifu Battlers but for now aside from the stellar music and presentation it seems the "game" part is still missing in a lot of ways.
People act like Pokémon guarantees sales and that fans will buy/pay for anything.
Spin-off sales and amount of closed mobile projects say otherwise
Glad they're addressing it. As it is now, I really dislike the game.
Looking forward to potential updates.
Looking forward to potential updates.
Not sure what can be done with this game. The core gameplay is fundamentally unfun. Adding more content isn't going to change that.
Yes, it's a real shame since it looked so promising on paper.
I wish we got a new Pokémon Shuffle instead with the Gen VIII Pokémon. I'm still playing that game on a daily basis, years after its release.
After the bullshit nonsense that was the latter days of Shuffle? No thanks. Masters has never left me feeling half as ripped off as that.
What do you mean by the latter days, when they introduced Gen VII?
I just know that I've been able to keep playing every day since launch, I'm still stuck in the 600's lol but I already caught all the "event" Pokémon. I've managed to come this far without spending a lot of money, I think only once or twice I spent to buy a couple of jewels. It's become a daily routine at this point, to log in, get my coins, and keep getting the daily rewards. Eventually I get a free jewel and I'm able to defeat the stage I'm stuck at. But I don't know, the gameplay itself is very addictive to me, unlike Masters which bored me not even a week after release.