Very good post that tackle many of the problem the game has and I agree with the most.
I used to play in top of the Champions, but it's sooo boring that I'm doing just daily quests and that's it (I prefer to play on my lover accounts). Playing against bots and the same teams over and over again it's not for me. I was really looking forward for the Untamed to change things, and it did - for a short moment when playing was fun. Then they nerfed redemption together with the Prince (I don't have one) in worst possible way, so basically they removed it from the game as it has no use anymore. And today we are back to Excel play, where for some rulesets and mana almost everybody plays same color/team.
I also was wondering how new players would ever get on top if they like to? Is it possible with only Untamed cards? I doubt that, so they have to buy Betas anyway? How many betas will be ever on the market? If we want to grow playerbase, new players will never be able to get on top as there won't be enough of betas, and Untamed alone are useless.
I know they saying a lot about new features and plans, but IMO they should step back and fix what is broken in the first place. For example: if for the next year or more (1,107,858 Packs Remaining) the only new cards are Untamed that they need to be fixed somehow and rebalanced.
The mentioned above things are not my problem, as I have full decs - this is problem for the new players that would like to be competitive on higher levels and even if they start buying betas (and rise the prices of them - which seems to be a only goal for most of the hoarders/owners here) - how many full betas would it be possible to buy? Are we limited to just a few new players in the Champion 1 because the lack of useful cards?
I agree that they made Prince Julian card very under powered for what it is. Since this was part of my bonus for investing $80,000 I was highly disappointed. That being said whatever, not the end of the game and I'm not going to cry about it despite feeling I might have been somewhat cheated. I'll post more about all this later one day maybe.
We have wanted to get rid of our names for a while now. People think they play the same bot or the same person all the time when that is untrue. We use to rent out accounts and have humans play many of the accounts. Now however we mostly bot until we can change the names on the accounts. Something we have been waiting for almost half a year now.
About the new players in the top levels that is a tricky issue. But we cant even get them to buy the $10 accounts and if they do that they don't normally last their first daily quest. And then if they do that and get 7 DEC reward from a chest they are not about to spend $ on untaimed let alone betas.
This game has so much broken right now I understand their desire to break it more rather than deal with the issues they have.