Good morning, you wanted feedback, well you've got it. I have signed up to share my displeasure with the decision making behind this latest update.
Are you trying to completely alienate your target audience? How is it so hard to keep a game like this viable to attract new players and ultimately new customers? Decisions like this make no damn sense and serve to drive away anybody who might one day stumble across this title and want to play it.
I have been silent during updates in the past that hindered my ability to make any real progress, as a free player I didn't feel it was my place to complain against things since I'm not giving you any money for this title, I was content to keep chugging along with my limited ability and manage my deck based on what I could do during events. Without Pussy Market I never would have gotten some of the Legendary or Mythic event cards and even then I'm still missing quite a few, but that's not a real big problem for my play style. I just want to make some progress and enjoy my time spent with the title, I'm not trying to complete everything.
That being said, this update is going to drive away all of your free players, I can't do enough damage to win anymore even with my cheap ass Water Deck set up. I know it's a cheat, but it's the only way I could get into League 1 in the Tower, still haven't cracked the Dirty League yet, and it was the only way I could amass enough items in the Coliseum to help with event quests.
Now I won't even be able to manage that, no more keys for early chests, no more items to revive monsters to get through the tedious events faster so I can maybe get to the Legendary Girl, never mind the Mythic, I've never had enough time to open one of those rooms even when I was playing as much as I could.
This decision is extremely incomprehensible. If the goal is to attract more big spenders then you are going about this the entirely wrong way, you have a decent basic start for the game, but rather than upgrade and add new features in a smart and practical fashion from a business standpoint, you follow the cookie cutter guide to AAA loot box style games in the hopes of attracting more sheep to be fleeced.
It would have made more sense to add some kind of subscription Premium membership that added new features only paying members could get access to, something like alternate towers for the tower fights, the option to actually interact and manipulate the hero and 'his girls' the ability to incorporate specialty cards that involved fighting monsters that match your character's level so you have to develop better strategies than just spamming water deck all the time and hoping for a victory. I've seen that you can make event monsters match player's levels in the Pussy Market fights, so don't tell me you couldn't adjust the game to include something like that.
Throw in the option to have girl heroes and I might, might have been tempted to pay for a membership, because hey, us dirty league folks have a reason for being here besides the basic puzzle game on offer here and I'm not ashamed to admit that.
There was a lot of ways to get people invested enough to actually pay for a game like this besides the stupid pay to win style and if I had half the programming ability as the folks in charge of this title I'd make that game for myself, because as it stands now your title is sorely lacking. Nobody in their right mind is going to dump thousands of dollars into this just to achieve even one victory against a player who does 400K damage with all abilities when you can only manage a measly 70K with your deck. And if this is some way to get people switching out of the all water strategy and using stuff like the Earth Girls or others with abilities that nerf water girl damage you have definitely missed the boat on that one.
I can't make a single victory in the tower anymore, my damage output is crap and I'm not going to suddenly decide to pay money for more in-came cash and more in-game girl cards just to bump up my decks. I've got better things to spend my money on that involve, you know, actual progression.
Unlike other games this one captured my attention for far longer, as it stands now, I might keep jumping on to receive my chests and my free 250 G every four hours, but I don't think I'll be making much progress through any future events.
Speaking of which, another thing only for premium members could have been a different type of quest, something more rewarding that gives you larger numbers of legendary cards for more challenging notions than merely boring and cheap grindfests.
Overall that is my opinion on this latest update, I am extremely displeased with the state of affairs and find your choices perplexing and extremely not business saavy for attracting new customers. Take it or leave it as you see fit. Good day.