Bored… no more fun
I can't get rid of the impression that this game has become less about fighting opponents towns and strongholds, and much more about killing invaders and ghosts. You need to kill invaders for jewels, for materials to beef up your gear, and events now require you to kill insane amounts of them and force a player to revert to one shot kills, which dont help with both jewels nor materials. Only players who spend a lot of money and already completed both celestial jewels and top gear can actually permit themselves to do one shot kills. The other are chasing victories that don't really help much.
i have the impression Plarium is too focussed on the top players who spend lots of money, assuming the rest will follow. That is clearly no longer the case.
let's look for a moment at what the requirements are for a good game :
- First of all, it has to be 'fun', so lets look at that then. We begin with killing 720 invaders to reach all checkpoints. Uhm... not fun. Same goes for most other events. Too high requirements, no fun.
- So lets look at attacking. 99.99% of the players are shielded so... no fun. Many yielding spots are also shielded with domain guards, so no fun. But that makes no difference because the rewards for attacking a yielding spot are not even worth the attack, so no fun. Right, lets look at stronghold siege towers. Well, if you aren't a lot of lvl 40s, you will be wiped away by lvl 40s. Ok, some excitement there, but if you're really too weak, don't do your siege during cvc. It's no fun. Moving to Towers of fury : if you're not fast enough (most likely) or not strong enough (very likely), you will be wasting either time or troops. No fun.
- so, how about helheim? Arguably the most boring part of Vikings, and the way they handled node 10 floor 7 is totally... you guessed it. No fun.
- Holmgang then. This is likely the only still attractive event but if your clan is less than 3T influence, you can't play. OMG. How could they do this.
Bottom line : Make your game fun again Plarium. Killing hundreds or thousands of invaders isn't fun. Same thing with ghosts.