Ahoy my friends! Today I am putting out a video discussing my thoughts on Battle Ranking & Lag, along with discussing some reactions to the Wallpapers video, along with talking about overall Fun in Ever Crisis, and how I don't think they prioritize it enough when coming up with content for this game. I am also sharing a community post where players shared their feelings regarding Battle Ranking in general, and it does not have great polling numbers. Hopefully, EC will at least fix the lag problem moving forward and gives us some more fun content to do in the future, including more Dungeon Rankings! Cheers! And as always, Thank you for your support 🙏🏽🍻💯
I absolutely agree what u''ve said here! I'd be more vocal about it, but I haven't spent money, or the hrs on it. But u have my full support for the game! I love FF7, and I want others to have the same xp, and it to succed.
100% agree the lag needs to be fixed asap, it is critical. i think Battle Ranking is their idea of content that is between "super hard" and "super easy", since every player no matter when they started can cater the difficulty and push the limit of their own account. regarding the wallpaper i do agree with you as well, once a standard becomes accepted as the norm, any stepback is inevitably faced with fear and uncertainty, especially with FF fans being so passionate about the success of the franchise, we are always paranoid and fearful of signs of EOS. "omg no wallpaper? are they cutting cost? is the game not doing well financially? EOS?" Please keep raising awareness for Gold Saucer! it solves the "fun" problem as Applibot can simply continue to populate it with more minigames 💖💖
I believe the lack of wallpaper is likely licensing issue. Maybe Capcom dislikes the idea, or Applibot feels the licensing fee for wallpaper is not justifiable. Anyway, I sure hope we get compensation for lagging in battle ranking, I just need more crystal for waifu.
Yes the lag is too damn noticeable even for me! I'm trying to ignore it, but It's more so now than before. I can careless, but I feel for ppl. I won't expand.
Thank you for making this video 🙏🏾 really want applibot to see this because i experienced every problem you mentioned to extremes during that last event . Really dampened the experience because i was in top 10 every frame counts and these problems make it so stressful at that level to play . True manual needs to happen and this lag needs to be dealt with please applibot sort your servers out .
Ryder is right. We need more fun stuff to do in this game. As for the dungeon ranking applibot needs to switch out between that and dungeon rankings. Have one or the other every other week to keep us going! Be that voice for us Ryder I’m with you brother!
I freaking love you for this bro ive been getting pushed away slowly but surely because i felt like the only person that has a problem with all this and everyone else is just drinking the juice but here you come voicing what ive been thinking since the beginning! Thank you so much for not being afraid of voicing your problems with the game and taking notice of the noticeable drop in gaming quality and wallpapers. Alot of creators just kiss the ass in hopes of some kind of recognition from square
Np bro. As much as I would love to have some kind of collab with SE, I'm not willing to part with my own integrity in exchange for it. I want this game to do good, but pretending that its something that it isn't is never going to do that. Better to fight for something, then to never fight at all! Gotchu brother!!! Let's get them to make a change for the better!!
These kinds of videos need more attention! I want this game to succeed and thrive because I love FF as a whole. But there are a ton of QOL and just in general things to do, like you mentioned. I'm a bit of minnow/dolphin (I've spent about $1000 on this game since launch) and honestly I am thinking about stopping purchases. Everytime a new event comes out the fights are WAY too easy, they bring out an EX 3 stage and its still too easy. Then they make a crash battle that is WAY to difficult unless you are a whale/leviathan. I haven't been able to beat the last 2 Crash battles because they are just too difficult for the teams I try out. I'm not a terrible player either, I have beateb some tough fights under the recommended CP. Overall, there just needs to be more things to do with varying levels of challenge.
I’m in the same boat as you bro, considering going F2P or season pass only. Just doesn’t seem rewarding enough to be a dolphin spender since all it does is encourage whale spending
Add a rogue lite mode... Randomised map rooms, randomised fights, fights and chests drop random weapons and costumes for your team. They should add Queens Blood card game multiplayer.
great video Ryder!! Keep being our voice, i agree 100% they are getting lazy. I love this game and i want to see it improve not regress. keep up the great videos!!
Thanks for voicing my concern Ryder, totally agreed. We badly need more things to do. Farming events are literally same enemies/content with different power levels, that I could finish in an hour right after game update. The rest of the week are just logging in and doing dailies. Same with dungeon, I literally cleared sector 5 hard and very hard in first attempt. I think they have tuned down the difficulty of those fights. And I don't consider myself even a dolphin. It's just crazy and disappointing that I waited for a month for the dungeon just to play it only for10 mins. Few ideas. - Add weekly boss(es). Something for us to fight. No need to tie it to any farming. The reward doesn't need to be anything crazy. I would even fight for free lol. They can just rotate elemental strength/weakness, sigils so we can play around with team composition. - Reset crisis dungeon periodically, monthly? adjust power level so that we keep being challenged. - Add tower floors, weekly? bi-weekly? Applibot doesn't even need to develop anything new, they re just group of enemies.
Totally agreed and I feel like all of these ideas would work great. Honestly I think they are just so concerned with new banners and milking whales that they couldn’t care less since content isn’t as important for whales since almost everything is autoable for them in the game. Were the down belows, so to say, though the truth of the matter is that without us, there is no game. Seems they always forget that.
@@BodhiJMSRyder like when your doing story stages, why until now, the game doesn't memorize the team your using or like a retry on premium stages... its just stupid in my opinion!
Finally someone says this openly. Here is hope that between you and Plyio`s latest videos and the brutal downtrend in terms of players/revenue for EC - someone at SE/Applibot will do something to turn things around. Love FF7 and want so much this game to thrive - its just not happening in the last 6 months - they lost 85% of their revenue and continue loosing.
It’s because they don’t prioritize fun content. Sometimes I think they forgot that this is a game first, and then a business, not the other way around.
Honestly, I've been saying that for a while. We NEED more content on the game not just events. After doing my dailies i want to play more but even as a free-to-play player, I've already cleared around 90% of the game already.
Very true with a lot of the things you said. I have no idea why a manual mode exists, when it doesn't mean that at all lol we badly need a TRUE manual mode. The lag and bugs on the last battle ranking were unbearable and made it straight up not fun. I love EC for what it is and the FF7 fanservice but I think dungeons are the closest thing to this game feeling like "a game" tbh 😂 I would like more mini games added to EC, something like Queensblood or Gold Saucer would be nice.
Totally agreed bro. I would love Queens Blood. Anything to make this not feel like a grindathon and something to make it more excitable. And yes for the love of the gods give us a true manual mode 😑😑😑😑
I sent a complaint ticket to them about this battle ranking issue and also the huge difficulty imbalance between crash and EX battles. I asked them if it’s too much work on making dungeon maps, at least switch them between battle ranking every other month. That was probably the most fun part of the game and abandoning it is terrible. It’s sad to see many players leaving the game but I’ve been staying since day 1 purely because it’s ff7. Really hope they actually make this a good game that the legendary ff7 title deserves instead of just another cash cow.
Few things to do when we have done everything is a bad and good thing : - bad because you hardly can do anything else in this game (even helping other in co-op if you don't have enough stamina left) - good because you can do something else (playing, TV, reading, talking with friends... going to school/work 😭) During some fight, I really want manuel fighting mode or turned based one (could be the best). Same for "camera" who should be fixed in order to see what's coming on. Sometimes it's hard to select monsters... Battle ranking will be boring if we have it every 2 weeks... Same when you are looking for a weapon and can't have it due to rng 😢 I started playing original FF7 with mods, it's fun. And I'm planing to play other games too. While watching some movies and readings books. I love too much being alone...
Haha I like the positivity bro! I just beat FF16 DLC and Rebirth, I’ve read 40 books this year, published 2, written 2, lived 6 months in Nicaragua, built an EC community Discord and now just started FF14!
They could try a new thing where they switch it up and move back and forth between dungeon and battle ranking. Say 1 month is battle and the next is dungeon as an example and that way both parties are happy. But yeah as its already been said I think the battle ranking system is lazy and not a lot of effort was put into it. I've been fortunate not to have to worry about the lag aspect but even with that battle ranking is just not fun for me. Also commenting about the wallpapers, I agree with what you said. Its true that many companies will take things away and see if they can get away with less work and see if anyone says anything, super unfortunate that it happens. Appreciate you voicing these concerns!
I’m not hating on the battle ranking, I like it. Not as much as the dungeon ranking tho. Battle ranking relies heavy on the banner before it to be able to do good in it. I don’t feel that the dungeon ranking was as bad if that makes sense either way killer content bro, keep it up
My guy bodi speaking FACTS. Personally I dont find difficult single player content in this game to be fun because you have to fight with and micromanage the AI to do what you need it to do at the right moments. This isn’t casual friendly at all IMO and they need to tune up this experience. For example make it so that the bosses HP and charge meter is always visible somewhere on the screen like ehen the boss does a single target attack and the player who is hit status slides in from the side to show the amountof damage received. I recently caused a promising Crash run to wipe cause I couldn’t see the charge meter and couldn’t switch back to defense in time. You should be able to queue up whatever ability you want to use prior to getting the required amount of ATB which is a feature that is already in the game somewhat but it tends to cause the AI to spam the ability if its laggy, which is all the time during ranking events.
I’ve started logging into FFBE again because there isn’t anything fun to do, lol. The grind is fun, but really that’s all there is lately 😅 I do like the battle ranking over the other ranking we had previously though, don’t have to worry about item usages, lol. Hope the lag gets fixed someday soon though, it really does kill it! The wallpaper issue, even FF9 got the wallpapers, why no MH 😭
Pretty much most mobile games, and every FF mobile game has suffered from lack of consistent content. Especially new content and mini games to keep players consistently interested. Look at what happened to FFBE for example. Even wotv has been heading in that direction. I still like EC above those for sure, and keep in mind it's still relatively in it's infancy compared to the other FF games that have been around for years. I remain optimistic that'll improve and the devs won't fall into the same rut that has plagued other FF mobile games but it's completely reasonable for everyone to worry that might happen. The score battle system is lazy on Applibot's part i agree. The score dungeons allowed players to utilize older weapons and have a shot at top 100 or even top 10. With the new system there's always been a banner with new weapons specifically geared to the ranking event, which is obviously just greediness. However, I still feel EC is the most f2p friendly and accessible of all the FF mobile gachas out there. Let's just see what happens with guilds and the 1st anni. Fingers crossed 🤞
Imo EC was the most f2P friendly and is now slipping away from that :( the game has kind of shifted quite a lot in the last few months and I really hope they step it up. Yeah it’s in its infancy so that gives me hope, but based on the direction the other games went, I’m not sure they ever learn tbh
If love a boss rush event where you need to spec 3 different teams and fight three bosses in order using one team each. They also cant share weapons between teams. It would be interesting.
Although i nearly gave up entirely, i managed to clear solo crash despite all these annoyances, depending on how bad the delays continue i might not even bother getting stressed out for these damned lag events
I agree 100%, feels like they are getting lazy. I hope they listen to the community because I really enjoy this Gacha game waaay more than others I have played.
We should have players send an email to applibot and complain about the crash for one, and the repeats of battle rankings etc. I already did. Hopefully it doesn't just go into the "in" tray
Personally, I prefer Battle Rankings more just because I value time a lot and BR cost a lesser time investment than Dungeon Rankings. In terms of strategy, DR does involve more in that regard because you have to figure out the route. But at the end of the day, there is always going to be an "optimal" route, so if I keep retrying, I will eventually come up with the very same route. So for me personally, looking up an optimal route online cuts out that testing time. The battles are where I normally would spend more time on, I would only look up guides when I get stuck. Ultimately, these events come down to become gear checks in the end since everyone will eventually figure out the route and strategy. That being said, it is good that they are trying new things because I certainly don't want to be doing DR or BR 5 years from now(if the game is still up by then haha). Then there's the lag... yep that definitely needs to be fixed. I'm fine with a little delay, especially for eastern players like me there will always be delay no matter how good the servers are because of server location. But having buttons be unresponsive for too long is a big NO NO.
Well said and I can see your points fair and square my friend. I actually had more fun on this battle ranking as the lag wasn’t as bad, at least for me.
@@BodhiJMSRyder In terms of what challenging content they could potentially add, I'm trying to think of something but it's hard to come up with something since it ultimately ends up being a gear check challenge and you can only do so much with a turn-based game. So, I'll let them surprise me in that regard. Outside of rankings, here's what I would like applibot to improve on: - unique character/weapon mechanics, I've said this before, currently all the characters pretty much play the same way as everyone will get a weapon that can do xyz roles eventually, wish they would make XYZ character a bit more unique - improved screenplay for events, like seriously the event stories are very poorly written, and that says a lot for a Final Fantasy game, I've always played FF for the story. I've recently started playing a very old Gacha Game, Granblue Fantasy, and their event stories are just 100x better written than what EC has. There are 2 that I think were ok-ish, which is the Halloween story and the Limit Break story.
@haruyukiar1ta totally agreed. I feel bad skipping the stories sometimes but they are so mediocre. Honestly they aren’t working with much tho for these events. But yeah would be nice to have chars actually be different from one another
we are all rooting for ever crisis. i hope they release a better array of content so you can in turn continue to release more content. if they stop showing ingenuity with their content, i probably stop playing the game, you stop making content (ever crisis that is, i'm sure you will go in a new direction with something else), and this whole community goes bye-bye. that would be a sad day indeed. hopefully the devs and top brass can figure it out
What I am the most afraid of, when it comes to guilds, is having too much responsibility. I personally dislike when guild systems create too much pressure and demand too much coordination between players. I have friends, family and hobbies IRL and so I won't be able to be there for very specific times and all the time. Right now I'm able to clear almost everything in the game F2P and at the pace I set for myself, so I would love for it to stay that way. I don't wanna miss out on rewards just because I have a life basically.
At least for us, we have different guilds, some that are chill only focused on logins and dailies, while others focus more competitively. So just gotta join the right one i think
I mean, I get it. They're obviously overworked over there and just don't have the time and resources to include everything we want out of the game. Understandably, they're just giving us a bunch of minimal effort events and banners while they're putting all their attention toward these big launches such as guilds. During your datamine video where it mentioned guilds were delayed or broken, it seems that guilds, specifically, are eating all of their resources, more than likely just trying to get them to become functional. It would be nice if they had a bigger team that could focus on every aspect of the game, but I just don't think they have the resources. Pliyo had a great video, talking about the revenue of FF7EC, and it makes sense that they had to cut their budget due to the downward trend of the game. Hopefully guilds, Vincent, and the anniversary event brings in more new players to jump that revenue back up.
Has their revenue gone down? Because it makes sense that it does after 6 month Anni, but I feel like the game is going strong. Well spoken comment thank you for chiming in!
Yes, you guessed it exactly. The game had a big boom during the half anniversary, then sharply fell. I imagine that excess revenue went towards securing a deal with Capcom for the Monster Hunter event. This is all speculation though, they very well could just be lazy like you mentioned lol.
@islandwalk. Makes sense for revenue to fall after a big event like that. I normally make choices based on intuition and my gut tells me they are getting less interested in making fun content. I bet me and you could sit down and figure out something fun in 30 min that wouldn’t take an arm and a leg of developing ya know
@@BodhiJMSRyder my big concern with EC is actually too f2p friendly tbh. it's by far the most generous gacha game i've ever played. you dont need to spend a penny at all to do all content and obtain all the relevant rewards. the whale crash rewards are just 200 crystals and a sticker. theres just no urge to spend at all. the only times i bought a few month passes purely for the wallpaper that i love and to support the game out of guilt. the f2p experience is just incredibly smooth in EC and my tinfoil hat feels Square might even be subsidizing Applibot to use EC to help build the FF7 brand and bring new/younger players into the FF ecosystem
Sadly SE took the way of "game as marathon" as design principle which makes onboard new players the later the game runs - almost impossible as they can never ever catch up no matter what programs they introduce. In addition the game is just a Menu fest - there is no exploration no world map etc - every successful game in the genre has those things. Imagine if EC had world map exploration - i would double down my investments instantly just to support that. EC unfortunately shows all signs that it is just a small side PR project of SE to keep FF7 brand alive until they release Remake Part 3. I want a game to play not hop between ugly menus and i know i am not the only one. They can do so much with the Dungeons, like randomised rogue like runs, EX difficulty, Boss rush etc. It is just a pity how this game is managed.
i hope they fix the lag or update the severs im not sure if it the game or my phone but i get dc from the game all the time i have to relog in each to 4 to 5 fights or i will get dc on the 6 fight as for the games modes let us see what they have plan with the guilds than may re work on how many of the events and battle/dungeon ranking work
Yeah the lag was definitely bad. I had more issues with the Airbuster than Reno😡🤬 What the hell happened to the criterion dungeons? It’s been six months since the last one. I miss running around a map finding treasure and fighting things the most. I would replay the same dungeons if we could get a bunch of gil for doing it
@@BodhiJMSRyder If they didn’t announce that Vincent is coming this month I would much less excited than I am now. Still hyped to see his weapon kit. Maybe year two will be better than year one..
I dont remember co-op being this laggy compared to ranking events. They had fixed most of the lag issues up until the last ranking event and then this solo crash. I only remember 3 or 4 ranking events that the lag was just annoyingly bad. Both the battle rankings being 2 of them
Well the only thing I can say is that we need Gil bad 😂. Plus the game it’s not giving us all we need. I know they’re waiting for the 1 1/2 year so they can start dropping a lot of stuffs. For those who know . All people will be able to catch up later in the game. It will happen so get nervous about it. I was ok with my expending but I saw everyone catching up later in a game that make me think I could wait just a little longer too 😂. Don’t feel you’re getting left behind . You will catch up later in the game. The new weapons will be more stronger then the old ones. All I’m asking from aimbot that we need Gil Bad and break the red crystal to 300k thank you
One thing Applibot needs to do is give new purpose to the dungeons. All the dungeons only need one run and then youre done. You never have a need to revisit a dungeon except for season pass steps. Dungeons should have weekly rewards outside of crisis medals. There is content doing nothing that could be repurposed to give us more to do.
Same with a marriage though, right? We aren't looking for perfection, but we are looking for something that takes care of us in all the ways that we do need. An equivalent exchange, if you will.
It's fine to want more content for the game, but I think think they only want to spend more on the game if sales expectations are being met. I suspect sales expectations aren't being met, so cutting costs is the only option available to them.
That makes no sense because fun for players equates to sales expectations. They keep cutting the fun stuff to save money but all they are doing is sinking their own ship. Sometimes you have to take a risk to get the biscuit.
Combat sistems have no problem with me... The problem for me is stamina sistems, it's hard to leveling characters, alot of my friends quit this game because of stamina sistem and co op sistem, hope aplybot can fix this sistems..
As someone who is disabled, I have submitted so many requests to have a slower version of slow due to the AI even on manual. Even watching people using slow on steam, it’s slower & smoother than iPad, to which I am relegated. I cannot even use the scroll bars, they’ve had months to simply enlarge them. They do not care about the disabled whatsoever. Take me up on that challenge SE/Applibot, I’m a Kraken, not Whale, who might go f2p at this point since you’re doing nothing. I have serious issues with crash battles. There’s no reason for them to be so ridiculous that it causes division among those in a discord to the point where people are yelling at you because they’re frustrated by 1 wrong move and it’s over. 4 hours to get 1 person cleared? Ridiculous. The crash battle is supposed to be fun & hard, not borderline impossible with zero enjoyment. I am not going to spend as much anymore so you lost a Kraken. I almost just quit due to this crash battle. Literally. Even with all I invested I almost hung it up. So take all of the above and realize that when guilds are implemented, it’s going to be so much worse and will be like WOTV. I love this game but things have gotten way out of hand. It was very hard not to use expletives in this post.
You’re in my guild brudda it will be chill just like Farsight don’t worry. And I’m sorry you had that experience. I agree, they need to seriously recap a bunch of things, I just hope that they have the compassion to listen to our voices.
Its not only that. We never got any basic game improvements. You guys get milked with the lowest effort as possible. Not really hard to understand. Its like asking the drug dealer to improve the quality of his product. 😅 This isnt designed to write history. Write a new legendary chapter of FF. You guys are addicted and the game represents the drug. Aweful mobile game trend.
@@BodhiJMSRyder Remember Ryder... Is story telling dead ? Your own question. In the 90s graphics where super bad. So they had to compensate the lack of esthetics with creativity. Lots of good game stories were written in the 90s and early 2000. Also the space was relatively new. Not purely focused on money. As soon something gets the word industry added you know its taken over. Food Industry, Music Industry, Gaming Industry ... Happened to many areas ! Creativity and Industry doesnt go along with each other.
Since we are nearing the end of rebirth, maybe they will finally expand on the compilation that they promised for ever crisis. There is really no reason to not have advent children , before crisis or dirge of cerberus story. Considering we have crisis core and og ff7 at launch.
The main fun thing I’ve found to do is periodically helping people with ex summon clears and M3 clears over on your discord🫡, but that’s also dependent on people needing help showing up when I can play so not super reliable 😂. Totally agree the battle ranking seems lazy and not as fun as he dungeon ranking, plus having to cost stamina for every attempt to improve your score!
Yeah it's a lot of fun playing with other players. That's my favorite part. Like playing crash clears 6 hours yesterday was great. But yeah i hope they do add some improvements, ngl.
