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You need to think very clearly what your end goal is, is it to get the developers to change their behavior, get the game de-listed/banned or something else. I am not suggesting to you what to do, one way or another. But here's my 2 cents on the matter...
Unfortunately one person or a handful of people telling other people not to spend money on the game is rarely an option that changes the behavior of developer/publisher. It's usually just seen as noise by your target audience and pretty much everyone else. So it has little impact. If you can draw a huge amount of attention on the matter, that's a different story.
Your other options are risky if you want to continue to play the game, but if you don't care about that, then pursuing the de-listing option is perhaps the easiest, but you would then need to be able to prove to the relevant people and/or entities of the bad practices. I'm no legal expert, but if the only evidence is your own, it becomes a case of what you said vs what they said. You also got the added problem of evidence can be doctored/edited. I'm not saying you did or not, I'm just saying in a court of law, that is a possibility you need to be able to defend against.
If compensation is something you are after, then that is probably a similar issue to what I just detailed about de-listing.
All that said, in regards to match making, you need to be cautious; as dynamic difficulty is something that has been in computer gaming for a long time (i.e. 1980s space invaders), it's not something new, and could complicate any claims you have against the developers here.
Yeah true. Devs are gate-keeping leagues so ridiculously in both AI opponents and match point calculation. Why do we lost x2 points when losing and only gain half when winning ?? I always check my opponents team to plan my play, and my opponents usually have higher level mercs (?????) than me despite they are at lower league than me. Either those opponents are cheating or its the devs who are cheating us.
What I said vs what they said is all documented. Never deleted an email. I take screenshots and I always record my screen when I am gaming (any game). I also have many friends who play the game and are experiencing the same things, and are willing to support whatever happens on my end. Realistically, if I took legal action I would bring everyone I know, and those who want to get involved with me. It would not be only me.
If I post my review video on my YouTube alone, I am certain it would be spread around enough to affect their income. But I would not only post it on my YouTube. As I would most definitely get others involved. Banning me because I am making a review video would only add fuel to the fire (so to speak).
Compensation would be good, but the issue with that would be - these devs do not care about the players. Proven countless times with emails back and forth. Just like they sent me a copy/pasted response 99.9999% of the time, but what really is interesting is when they send a copy/pasted response that refers to something never mentioned. (Which happens all the time) Proving they do not care about the players.
The game is fun. Devs are crooks and have everything rigged. They gatekeep big time. They lie about their matchmaking because it is without a doubt rigged to force you to spend more. Also proven with my footage. I have hundreds of hours of footage (external harddrives are amazing). I never delete them when I catch issues, because of things like this.
Players can not cheat except by getting maxed characters / outfits. (I did some research)
The match making seems to be 100% controlled by the game cheating.
So if you are L6, put up against L8 and get a maxed out lilith on the first round...... As they go first as well. That definitely made me go look at their team. I screen record it all, so there is evidence.
The biggest issue I have found is when you search the players, they end up with different team strength. (Squad power). Same characters but way stronger.
So, they have the match making rigged to where you are fighting someone 2+ leagues higher than you, but their power and league is masked over.
So for me to enter L5. I have to spend. I just went back to L7 and it keeps see-sawing from 7-6. When I was coasting at the end of 6 and almost 5 for weeks. I send an email, now I am sent all the way back to halfway through 7.
They're cheating the players. Sad thing is, me and my alliance have spent quite a bit. Some are still spending, and waiting for me to say something. We are all in our discord discussing all this with ourselves.
Definitely fun when a game's devs are robbing people, lying, scamming, etc. because they are money grubbing hard. Is what it is though. I wont be supporting them financially anymore. Most of my alliance will not either. Some still want to spend because they burn money on "gotcha games" lol But if everyone else stops spending, we will end up just playing another game and releasing multiple review videos, unveiling the truth about this game, the design of it, and especially the devs.
There is the general artifical barrier that keeps you from progressing. They keep me stuck on the same level for 1-2 weeks, even though my squad has 1.000 points more than suggested for that level.
Every "normal" game I face, I roflstomp the opponent, because my squad is way too strong for the league. But the game keeps me there. How so? Various things:
1. Putting ridiculously strong opponents against me just when I'm about to advance a league, where I already know before the first attack that I can forfeit the match. These opponents obviously are not from my level.
2. Should I nonetheless be about to win against such a stronger opponent and am about to progress to the next league, the opponent's team suddenly gets "lucky" with their spawns, and for example get the same yellow fighter twice in a row, turning around a theoretically already lost game.
These two are things which might be within the fair ruleset of the game. On top of that I witnessed two different scenarios which clearly indicate that the game engine is cheating:
3. If I'm about to win a fight which the game engine doesn't want me to win, some opponents suddenly get "help" with their attacks. Just today I witnessed a simple RAM without any buffs, neither from themselves nor from another fighter (it was the only opponent's fighter on the field) nor from the commander (it was Ethan who had used all his special attacks already). I had calculated everything just about right, because my commander was almost dead, something like 12 HP left and that only RAM on the field had an attack of 10 (I don't remember the exact numbers). I would have won that game. However, the RAM decided to attack me twice and thus I lost. And yes, again: It was the only fighter on the field, had no buff, and the commander had no special bonus or attack left either. The RAM just did a double attack. The reason for that is that it would have been a surprise victory and I would have advanced a league - probably too early for the taste of the game engine.
4. Now I'm coming to the topic of this thread. At the beginning of every fight, I check the opponent's squad. During the last days, I had a couple of fights that looked like I would win, but suddenly there came strong opponents that overwhelmed me. For a while I was confused. What did I miss? How did this happen? Several times I had the feeling that the opponent would suddenly throw yellow fighters on the map, although they had none in their squad. And yesterday, I finally witnessed it while paying close attention: The opponent only had purple and blue fighters in the squad, and it looked like I would win. But then they dropped a yellow Madeleine on the map, clearing the field of all my remaining fighters! I checked their squad again and there still was neither a yellow Madeleine nor another yellow fighter included. And the commander was Melissa, and as far as I know, she can't just drop a yellow fighter out of nowhere either.
So there you have it. I personally am a witness for the game dropping a yellow fighter who was not in the squad for the fight. And that fighter turned a tight match around. This is obviously rigged, because the game engine didn't want me to win this match and progress in the league. Whether you believe me or not, is of course up to you.
What to do against this? Nothing. It's how the game works. The sole purpose of this game is to force players to pay money on it. It says nowhere that they provide a fair or truly random game experience. Do I like it? No. Will I keep on playing? For now, yes. Will I pay money for this game as long the game engine is rigged like this? Absolutely not.
CyvusVail, if your not only a loudmouth bragging about how much reach you have: go for it, put your heart where your mouth is and publicate what you have. "I'm so going to do something" impresses no-one, do it.
Again, I like the strategy of it, and the idea of it. But... highly rigged game.
You will find all the information you want, good and bad.
Just a FYI.