Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-25571438-20150714123227/@comment-4417029-20150715180548

1Zulu wrote:

TheGollddMAN wrote:

Moonshan2 wrote: I'll break your arguments into parts so that's it's easy:

1. PopCap definitely reads and heras about our complaints but rarely acts upon them. Thousands of players send them emails when they suddenly changed the map design to give them back the star system but they refused. Similarly, anytime you send them an email, they will respond but will never act upon your complaint to actually improve the game (based on your complaints). That makes them listening to us actually fruitless.

2. Lost City; first of all, they slacked off with the map design. The zombies are not fun to deal with and levels feel too repetitive (especially with the lack of Last Stand levels). Still no upgrades and the same less plant count.

3. Since they are a game company and makes profits from us i.e the players, they should listen to us properly and implement stuff we want to see in the game. Seriously tell me this, what is stopping them from releasing a world with 8 free plants and 1 upgrade? Nothing. Honestly, they HAD the right balance up until Far Future (what they released was actually content worthy to us) but screwed it up starting with Dark Ages. The star system is gone for good. Obviously a lot of people disliked that system, because PopCap spent a lot of time (and money) to change it to the current linear map. If you ask me, the linear map is an improvement, and I'd wager more people shared my opinion than yours. That's why they changed it in the first place! Hell will freeze over before they bring that back.

No Last Stand for LC makes a lot of sense because of the gold tile gimmick. Map design is pretty bad. I think they were just rushed. The new 5 plants + no upgrades thing is what all new worlds have. That's also here to stay. There are only so many upgrades you can come up with before they become unoriginal, useless, or otherwise uninteresting.

I think they screwed up there. The upgrades should be available for purchase using in-game currency rather than tied to any specific levels. That way you can unlock worlds in any order and still get the upgrades you need. The Travel Log thing helps but in my opinion it feels like a tacked on feature that attempts to correct a design flaw. I kinda agree with both, mostly 1Zulu. While Lost City Part 2 felt rushed, it's not as unfair as BWB and DA, mostly BWB, even though the zombie amounts are a bit too much, but I think back at what BWB throws at the players.