Post Holy War Drama

The way Mobage and Cygames have handled the last Holy War is awful. Since many anti-Mobage/Cygames posts have come up I decided it was a volatile enough issue to deserve a post.

Personally, Mobage is missing the mark huge on how they are handling this. The server downtime was hardly the issue they should be attempting to correct (and the way they are correcting it is just stupid). They should be punishing cheaters and just offered some gems/hp to those effected by the server downtime.

The fact that the server was down for many players for the day should have had virtually no effect on their final ranking. Ranking is based on points, meaning that it doesn't matter how many battles are fought, but how much HP is used during a battle. Players can just as easily accumulate a couple hundred thousand points in a battle on day two using HP you would have used on day one. So, Mobage should realize that peoples rankings weren't really effected by the downtime. Do they deserve some HP for the frustration, probably, give them all 25 personal HP for the downtime. Truth is, a day one inability to start a war wasn't that big of a deal for final rankings. (And yes, my order did have this issue, so I know it wasn't that big of a deal, I just started spending 20HP per war instead of 10HP for a while)

Some might ask what about gemstones related to win count? This is legitimate. I would say if any order was within 10 Wins of a tier, give them the gems for that tier. Nobody would complain about this and it doesn't harm anybody. It also serves as a decent apology.

I doubt many people would have problems with these and the downtime would have become a non issue and vanished by now. Now offer me a well playing job in PR, because obviously whoever Mobage/Cygames have working for them have no idea what they are doing.


Instead Mobage/Cygames decided:


1) Lets hold off on giving people the rewards they put their time and effort into getting. This won't make them mad.

2) Lets immediately hold a redo for the event! This will make all the people who spent HP feel that their hard work was for nothing!

3) Lets completely ignore the mechanics that were shown as broken during the last Holy Wars. So far we've decided to ignore: Bluestackers and Account Hackers, now lets ignore people who circumvent the 50AP rule by using alt accounts to attack defense leaders, and lets ignore people who use the 100 attacks rule that was meant to prevent point farming to force wins. Games that constantly have hackers/abusers always last long!


So, what do we do as players?


Some people have called for boycotting Holy Wars, personally, I don't think this method is effective. The reason is it assures lower ranking orders get the top rank. The Holy Wars will go on and there is no real effect to Mobage/Cygames.

The other method somebody posted was to leave negative reviews for the app on the marketplace. I believe this method is best. If people post negative reviews, Mobage/Cygames will take notice. But if everybody does this, it's like shooting your hostage and then asking for the money.

Personally, I say email Mobage/Cygames. Let them know that you are unhappy with their handling of the incident and if they do not make corrections you will make several awful posts not only reviewing their games, but recommending their competitors games in place of theirs on their review board.

If you do email or post. Please reference the two major abuses. They really need to fix those two things and if all the attention is placed on downtime (which really wasn't a big deal), they will just allow people to make this game awful for those who play correctly.