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Should AM be moved to a Monday-Thursday or Tuesday-Friday time?
Synthwave
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I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on this topic because I'd like to know if I'm the only one who feels this way. To me, it seems like we have a lot of people with families, spouses, or significant others who we would like to spend our weekends with, be it on dates, trips, or just being out and about. It also seems that those same people we love and cherish tend to give us certain looks (you know the ones) whenever the phone comes out to try and sneak in a quick fight to remove a mod for your teammate who is waiting on you. To me, the game is a lot of fun but is honestly, not worth getting these aforementioned looks. To that end, for the sake of preserving one's relationships, life (and limbs) I'd like to see the AM time change to coincide during the week where it's easier to get your 5 fights in over the 5 hour period that your energy is recharging. Most people here work 8 to 10 hours a day and have a lunch break where AM fights can take place and then by the time they are home, can log in again to get more fights in, so the adjustment shouldn't be that difficult. Let us have our weekends be free of other players depending on our participation so we can focus on those around us who are important to us.
Should AM be moved to a Monday-Thursday or Tuesday-Friday time? 32 votes
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AM is nothing compared to the time needed for arena and raids anyway, so the weekend isn't free.
There's also too many assumptions and generalisations about people's weekly schedules here.
The real problem is with how the game is set up and the unreasonable expectations that are put on an entire group of 18 people. The game doesn't offer enough support systems to allow for the extensive co-ordination and time commitments that the game demands, and then on top of that, doesn't reward appropriately for said effort.
The game is global, players are global.. forcing people in to these rigid structures is not good.
You need what.. 14-18 hours of energy per person? It's a bit unreasonable for a 4 day event every week. It's basically a part time job with no reward... oh no wait.. you'll get some T1 and T2 BASIC sparks and some T1A and one T2 class crystal, lol
I gave up AM altogether, and I'm sorta enjoying the game; however, this game has so many issues that is just dissolves into a gigantic time sink, and that's just not fun at all.
Good god man whats wrong with you @Terminal?! REVIVES!! You forgot the unlimited ( but really they are limited ) revives you get from AM crystals. Does your part time job at Wally World give you revives ? No sir, they do not. I bid you good day...................
Who exactly do you think is the target demographic? I'm just curious, cause it doesn't seem like everyone is as happy as you seem to think.
Personally, this game has always been blow off time for me... At work, after work, late night gaming. The weekends I prefer to do actual stuff. Spending time with the family, going out, etc. Really the best schedule was when it alternated, so we would have some weekends off.
I just took the past 2 weeks off from the game, and I was so nice to not have to log on during the weekend and go do stuff with friends instead. I'm going to try playing again, but really not sure how it is going to work out, because this game just demands too much time on the weekend.
This game is best played as a time filler, when you have nothing better to do. When it starts to take up your time from doing more enjoyable things, it is crossing a line and becomes a drag instead of a fun escape.
Young Adults
Eh, that's a pretty broad paintbrush to paint with. Do you have an actual age range because adults of all ages have different attitudes about what they think is "young".
I think there are two points to be argued there, then... the actual demographic of the game and the target demographic.
I would first off argue that young adults are not the demographic to begin with... the Transformers IP is squarely aimed at people that grew up in the 80s, whereas the younger players who watched the movies or some of the recent, but hardly widely popular animated series are more or less icing on the cake. I don't truly know the demographics across the board in this game, but in MCOC is was pretty clearly people aged 26-35. To me that is not a young adult, and I don't think it is to you either, but maybe I'm wrong. In games like Call of Duty or Day Z, it is 18-23 year olds for days, but in this game most of the people I ask are in that 26-35 demo, so I would gather that is probably an accurate guess.
As for the target demographic, there is absolutely zero question that they are targeting the 26-35 crowd. Young adults don't usually have money, plain and simple. People in their 40s less likely to spend money on a game like this as they usually have other priorities. 26-35 is the perfect demo for them, because they usually are just having serious money in their life, and aren't the best at budgeting it yet. Most 26-35 year olds would rather spend money on bots in a game than stash it away in their 401k or invest in stocks or crypto currencies.
So, I don't at all mean that I think your opinion doesn't matter, but I don't think "young adults" are the target in this specific game. What that means for weekends vs weekdays is anyone's best guess. Judging by the poll results, it seems pretty much down the middle.
This is a very good point too, as quite a number of players seem to have jumped ship. Part of it is map 3, but a big part of it seems to have been the first schedule change they made when they moved it from an always shifting schedule to a static schedule locking in the weekends.
Children for the lack of a better word
Michael Bay has said he makes movies for teenage boys.
Original TF is of course, an 80s gen.
Mixing all the different eras is a good way to broaden the target market... but it's a tough balance between 3 eras (original, beast, bay).
For example, I'm original series, the other two don't interest me.. so each month of a beast or bay bot, my interest will start to wane... and without a content update, the gameplay/bug/rewards issues become more obvious.