Despite trying throughout all odd hours of the day, I am lucky to find even one match in a day. 45 seconds is the time cap before you get a "Match Failed." I cannot even recall how many times I've waited to see that message.
Is this mode just dead? Is it my rank? I see people on the leaderboard with an insane amount of matches and I just have no idea what's going on.
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It feels like every decision they make continues to accelerate fundamental issues with the game's baseline economy. A healthy F2P game avoids most of the trends we have seen emerge over the past few months.I cannot help but feel that their current trajectory is unsustainable.
Bottom line, it just isn't healthy for a mobile game to be so anti-f2p. Everything they do radiates contempt for the average user and exploitation of their hardcore fanbase.
Even peering away from the economy, there are issues in their outward sentiments in managing the community. Acecraft fundamentally has no voice for the players, they do not engage with the community. They post updates but there is no sense of sincerity and that is really only the beginning of their problems. Even disregarding Acecraft's nightmare situation in dropping services in the U.S. for months on end with hardly a peep earlier this year. Their problems are fundamentally present in the game's increasingly poor design choices, both structurally and mechanically.
Without getting into the increasingly poor mechanical design sensibilities... At the heart of the rot is their anti-consumer practices and a game that really only appeals to a dwindling number of players who can spend on them regularly. I've always enjoyed the game in spite of these flaws, but the further things go, the more bitter it feels. The less I see a future for it.
Appealing to whales is great and all, (If you manage their incentives in a way that doesn't harm the average player). But if there is no healthy underlying userbase, then even the whales will become disillusioned.
As much as I have enjoyed this game, I cannot help but feel its rapid acceleration of predominately "premium only" content is a deeply foreboding sign. I'm curious to know what you all think. What does the future of Acecraft look like to you? If handed the reigns, how would you fix it?
I'd like to know if I should hold on to them for a potential re-run? Or will they be auto redeemed? Please lmk, thanks