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What will kill this game

I watched a YT video speculating on what will kill this game. Recently I’ve come across 2 things that may do the trick if not dealt with properly.

1. Hacking heroes- there have been reports of people getting +10 new heroes before release as well as getting impossible heroes like BK+10. I myself have a suspicious guy on my friends list with a +10 legendary Ike at tier 6-8 with no skills other than Ragnell. He eventually put skills like wrath on. He’s since switched to a +10 Effie with DC and Quick riposte 3.

2. AFK GHB Farming - due to GHBs now being 0 stamina, some clever players are using macros to make tens of thousands of feathers per day. This gives them a huge advantage over everyone else in arena. The problem with this issue is how will it be addressed? Will IS alienate their more clever users by banning them for using macros, or will they alienate their casual users by essentially forcing them to use macros to compete in arena? A complicated solution like rollbacks or changing the way GHB or HM works might work, but they must be done ASAP.

In summary, due to the devaluation of coveted heroes and feathers by means of hacking and clever exploitation, people may lose interest in this game, eventually leading to its death.

Asked by Ronin_30008 months ago

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Hacking tends to lead to the decline of players in a lot of games. It does seem, however, that the hacking is more blatantly obvious as of late (seriously, a +10 character before they're even released? Not even trying to be discreet).

As far as AFK GHB farming, I dunno about that one since farming is a thing anyone and everyone can do. How you do said farming is up to each individual, and I really don't think anyone cares to be honest. Sure, people want more feathers for merges, but I can't see people really getting too upset, if upset at all, because there are people that are farming "more efficiently" than them.

I dunno, I think the death of this game would come once they start releasing anything super broken. If they made, for example, an Ayra, but multiplied by 2, after so many months, then that might drive people to quit.

Or if they decide to increase the max rarity to 6*. Can you just imagine how many people would be salty at a 6* rarity? Oh my.

If they add 6* units, then I’m fucking outie, regardless of the circumstances or how much money i’ve put into this game.

Why would 6* units be a dealbreaker? Because of all the time and effort wasted into 5*+10 units?

Simply put, yes.

Precisely for that reason. And not only for that reason, but because of the cost. If turning a 4* unit into a 5* unit costs 20,000 feathers, then what would upgrading a 5* unit into a 6* unit cost? 40,000? In my opinion, 20,000 is already too much. xD.

If they do introduce 6* characters, then I hope it's for something that's not really important, like if you have max Hero Merit and SP on a unit, then they'd become 6* units and have a cool new boarder around them, or something like that.

Not having even more stats and spend even more feathers to upgrade. My feather-wallet can only take so much. Spending more on 6* upgrades would kill me.

The hacking of +10 heroes that are impossible such as the Black Knight and L!Lyn really suck, but I don't think the automated farming on Android should be considered hacking because you are not doing anything illegal in terms of what is impossible in-game. (This is also coming from someone that has iOS instead of Android.) I really don't care if other people can farm feathers faster than I do, with or without modding.

Anyway, in order for the game to really start turning me away, it has to really screw up badly. I think that if any / all of the following were to happen in quick succession, then the game would be dead:

1. Introduce 6-Star rarity without any way to upgrade existing 5-Star Lv. 40+10 to 6-Star Lv. 40+10.

2. Powercreep every single time a new banner is released--meaning every two weeks, an OP unit is released and immediately invalidates most/all of the units before it, only to then be invalidated by the next few banners.

3. Being really unclear / not transparent in what they are doing, similar to the Ayra incident a while back but on a much larger scale and more frequently.

4. Have every new banner / quest / game mode that can give units reward only alternative versions of existing characters.

The lack of new content/power creep will kill this game. It currently is great as an inbetween f2p money sink. But i remember downloading it on release and uninstalling because after around 2 months either you got the best units or you lost, no skill inheritance yada yada, but then they revamped and it got enjoyable again... until mgrima... my bane as I now have to run a bulky red/ ways to drag him out and kill him. But beyond that if we dont get a new fire emblem game then IS will have to be creative and that wont end well insert more robin clones here

They need to address both of this issues ASAP, and take it from someone that's been abusing the crap out of automated GHB farming (because, like you said, if you don't do it you fall behind to much).

Regarding hacking... they need to act switfly and without mercy.
This is by far the worst thing that can happen to a Gacha.

GHB farming can be fixed by a hotfix removing HM gains after the first clear. I'm surprised they haven't done this with the small patch from the other day. Hopefully they'll do it with the may update.