With regards to VISA vs Non-VISA. It is at times a tricky thing... Especially during seasons where (like some people have previously mentioned) fouls are over exaggerated when non VISA players play against VISA players. It is hard enough to get the ball and then to lose every single time at the 1st moment of contact.
While this isn't the case now, I can see their frustration as some seasons it very much is as they say and then there simply is no point playing.
I feel that there needs to be money made in the game. And i feel that VISA players need to have some benefit, otherwise why have them in the game and why would people buy them...?
There must be some value to them.
Now there is this new "overall star rating intensity bonus" that was advertised about 2 patches ago.... this makes it so much harder for Non-VISA players to play the game or get anywhere in a strategy/management game where strategy should be the most important thing, not the amount spent suddenly making teams good. Star rating intensity bonus would make it almost as if one is already the game uphill with players who are already near impossible to train to a decent level.
That said, there should be some benefit to buying VISA players.
So how about giving people in the game the opportunity to actually through hard work, get their players to a good level again like it was a few years ago?
In the past, non-VISA players could train an unlimited amount of training matches. So through hard work and effort, at least there was a possibility of developing a good team. And so one could earn through sweat and tactics the right to climb to the top in a management strategy game.
Can't something like this be done? People who spend time making an effort should reap the rewards, not so??
At the moment we are amputated with very little way of competing and so.... like many have said, so many many many people are fuming daily on the verge of quitting.
Your numbers in activity may be up, but not because of the reasons u think. Most people are constantly angry and ready to leave the game. That includes cash players and non-cash players. It is more the communities and friends that are keeping people in the game and encouraging one another to hang in there in HOPE that you improve the game.
It is not the arrogant approach of thinking that development is at its best that the reason for activity is still up there...
I very much feel the frustration and see it constantly about what people have said in here previously.
You have to find a way to get the game running well and "logically" according to descriptions in help pages and so on, where things make sense.
Most importantly it is important to keep BOTH the cash and non-cash players in the game to keep it alive.
Don't have that ugly attitude of disregarding people who have expressed their concerns here previously because of them not being in the guilds that you like or because they don't spend enough.
The game needs everyone. If all non-cash players feel that there is nothing to look forward to or work towards in this game then it will lose them. The community will drop significantly!!
What will happen when there are only a few players left in the game, only cash players??
A few cash players with multiple accounts playing by themselves?
Even they will start to leave as well and your attitide/approach to the game will start to kill the game.
The game may look like it is booming to you but it is hanging on a fragile thread. Countless previous cash players and top players no longer play but their accounts are kept active by others where people have 2-8 or more accounts.
Don't be so naive and deceived by only number and data. But combine what happens in the communities to explain the data.
I believe and have hole that the game can go to new levels and people can really enjoy it!!
I would request, please increase training matches to 30 max per day. Increase training speeds ...
Give people hope to see a reason for staying in there...
As it stands...people are just hanging in there (contributing to stats of activity) in hope, with no desire to actually play
Please think about it.
Thank you for your consideration...