Negotiations are over ?

[TheWhiteKirby]

I might be in the super minority here, but I think I like negotiations better this way. Instead of being annoyed by the constant person on the hunt for my obvious prize player all season, people have to make intelligent decisions at the end of the season. They can't just pick the best, highest rated player because in a few days that person will lose a star. It makes you consider age, potential, and worth before you blindly harass people other players. I haven't found a negotiation that has peaked my interest since the update but I will admit that before, I would just go for the youngest, highest rated player all season. But I like it this way as well since it makes the auctions worth while.

[Tactician]

I might be in the super minority here, but I think I like negotiations better this way. Instead of being annoyed by the constant person on the hunt for my obvious prize player all season, people have to make intelligent decisions at the end of the season. They can't just pick the best, highest rated player because in a few days that person will lose a star. It makes you consider age, potential, and worth before you blindly harass people other players. I haven't found a negotiation that has peaked my interest since the update but I will admit that before, I would just go for the youngest, highest rated player all season. But I like it this way as well since it makes the auctions worth while.

No offence meant but read the following.

How does the current negotiation help you in terms of making recruits? What is its use in the game for you?

If they removed the negotiation feature completely, people will have zero chance to annoy you the way you said as opposed to now where they still can if they want in the whole of the 4th week. Secondly, restricting negotiation to only the 4th week is not a measure to prevent other users to annoy you by using this feature; a clear, proper measure would be to provide a button to switch the player's status to not accepting any negotiation offer at all (which means the player will have no active negotiation offer button nor will he appear in the negotiation list; negotiation turned off for the specfic player). So, if people were annoying you or abusing of the feature, you could have asked for a 'turn off' option in the suggestion thread.

Are you serious about that part in bold in the quoted area above?

'worthwhile
/wəːθˈwʌɪl/
adjective
worth the time, money, or effort spent; of value or importance'

How does it make auctions more worthwhile? In fact, it makes buying players from the auction more difficult because it causes an increase over the already increased competition (due to having a common list with many different levels on the same server) for the same player in the list as users have less options to make recruits since the negotiation window is closed. Briefly, with the negotiation window closed, you have more chance of spending more money, time and effort to successfully buy a particular player from them auction list, so how is it more worthwhile?

Below are listed some of the effects of having Negotiations closed for the first 3 weeks of the season.
(1) Less options for making recruits in the first 3 weeks, hence less chance for a user to find the type of player he is looking for. Logically, managers should be buying most of their players in the first 2 weeks; so, the user is like forced to use more expensive options like the scout list or recommendation list.
(2) Increased prices of players in auction.
(3) Significantly less chance of selling players via negotiations; so less tokens and cash returned back.

It is a clear loss for many users but a clear gain for the company. It does not really prevent upselling as upselling can still be done in the last week of the season and the user just has to readjust the players quality at the start of next season by using training drills that target the lowest skills.

[TheWhiteKirby]

Negotiations are defnitely not over. Just got a hefty DMC for like 1 token in 100 M from a manager

[Lagloriosa]

Wouldn't been easier to just limit the amount of times a player can be transfered to 1 per season? That would completely prevent upselling and it wouldn't bother the fair players.

[Mirrowka]

I have feeling this is not last step from nordeus regarding asso

[Ποσιδονας]

I have feeling this is not last step from nordeus regarding asso

I have the same feeling and I think the next target is tanking.
The problem is that they don't understand the game and the managers (and why some times you want to stay level), so they will make some wrong choices for sure.
Like this one.
The rule about one nego transfer was ok, the other rule made angry all the people.

[Doors FC]

the number of negotiation players must be x4-x5.
the average players age will go up.
tanking will be eliminated cause there will be no asso rewards.
manipulation will not be an option cause there will be be no nego first 3 days of season.
why am i reading only bad comments?
you all wanted change why be like this now?

[lalexrus]

why am i reading only bad comments?
you all wanted change why be like this now?

Because they destroyed the training system, because it violates the mechanics of the game, because now the winner is not the one who spent time, effort on training players, learning the game... It's a death sentence to the game.

[Kelpie Grant]

Because they destroyed the training system, because it violates the mechanics of the game, because now the winner is not the one who spent time, effort on training players, learning the game... It's a death sentence to the game.

I would offer a counter argument to this opinion. Its a death sentence to those who spent the time figuring out the system weaknesses and manipulated those weaknesses to their own benefit , in short those who produced mutants players ,tanked season after season ruining the concept of League football just so they could exploit the rewards of high level Asso competition.
As for it being a death sentence for the game ,no its not that , just a death sentence for the game as far as manipulators are concerned and to that I say good work.
However I can see no reason for the Nego being limited to the last week of competition , I think that concept is pretty much a dead man walking and is the second worst decision the devs have made in the 25 months I have been playing this game ,the worst being the stopping of the gk training which really was only a time saver for most managers. There was a better way to handle that problem but the devs went for the easy option and not the best option.

[Mart]

the number of negotiation players must be x4-x5.
the average players age will go up.
tanking will be eliminated cause there will be no asso rewards.
manipulation will not be an option cause there will be be no nego first 3 days of season.
why am i reading only bad comments?
you all wanted change why be like this now?

Refueling will not be eliminated, cost rebuilding the team is greater than 100 tokens