Decline in forum activities

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

They deliver the minimum, but suck the maximum possible from advertisements, special sponsorships, events (gambling games - lucky ball), and make the game increasingly random, where they clearly indicate that the best ones are those who invest more money.

I just returned this season to the game after a few years break and I was shocked by the "gambling" mini-games, I found it very sad.

[RaulLopes]

I just returned this season to the game after a few years break and I was shocked by the "gambling" mini-games, I found it very sad.

It has changed a lot and must have been very successful financially for Nordeus. Gambling games are in their prime, and they couldn't be left out in Top Eleven.

Another quite delicate situation in any type of game, whether virtual or real, is the manipulation of results that occurs in the confederation competition. Lately, several situations have been reported with details of all the matches via tickets, and the responses do not give hope that the support and administrators will do something to intervene. As they take no action, the tendency is for the number of users manipulating results to increase, using this method as a strategy to defeat the other opponents in the top 100 each season in Top Eleven.

[Staggy Stagg]

For goodness sake, you don't have to put money into the game. Just play for fun, watch the ads that will generate income for whoever owns the game now and don't take it so seriously. It's a game and that is all it is. Calm down.

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

For goodness sake, you don't have to put money into the game. Just play for fun, watch the ads that will generate income for whoever owns the game now and don't take it so seriously. It's a game and that is all it is. Calm down.

That's what I am going to do for time being but you see, the issue with this is that these type of players, don't really become active on the game communities, therefore, will not resolved the problem.

[RaulLopes]

For goodness sake, you don't have to put money into the game. Just play for fun, watch the ads that will generate income for whoever owns the game now and don't take it so seriously. It's a game and that is all it is. Calm down.

I respect your opinion. In the game, most users seek entertainment and spend time with the standard competitions of Top Eleven (league, cup, champions, super cup). However, there is another group that plays confederations where there are disputes between large teams. It shouldn't be ignored, as it currently is.

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

I respect your opinion. In the game, most users seek entertainment and spend time with the standard competitions of Top Eleven (league, cup, champions, super cup). However, there is another group that plays confederations where there are disputes between large teams. It shouldn't be ignored, as it currently is.

I agree and I stand with you on this. Maybe this "random" factor can be adjusted a bit at least in certain competition where quality should matter more.

[MARCO CAIA]

For goodness sake, you don't have to put money into the game. Just play for fun, watch the ads that will generate income for whoever owns the game now and don't take it so seriously. It's a game and that is all it is. Calm down.

While I agree with you and think that we all need to take a step back yet I must say that people play games to have fun but part of the fun is winning in that game. Otherwise, no one would play if they knew that they will always lose. Therefore when we examine this game and see that they raise the odds against you and instead of fair play it becomes unfair, then the fun can no longer be had, get what I am saying? The fact is that we play to have fun but if you already know the game is for the most part rigged to favor some over others then all the quality, rest, morale, training and viewing ads and money one can spend become the secondary thing, not the primary. If the game based the results solely on those factors it should base it on then the results would be merit-based not money based. I always said there should be two versions of this game one free with limited spending capacity and another for spenders who are willing to drop a lot of money into it, this way we could maybe have more fair play. In addition, though there are some things that can restructure the game to make it fairer for all but they will not ever implement those changes because they want it to be the way it is

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

Hello everyone,

To be honest I love this thread and clearly generated a bit of engagement.

What happened to this forum? Anyone else remember when the season discussion thread pinned to the top used to have managers teeming with excitement to brag about their team's performances every single day?

I believe there is a cumulus of factors and I can make you a list:

1. Top Eleven moved from a web browser game to a mobile game because is more appealing and easier to access, therefore you will rarely see mobile users on the forum because is not very friendly.
2. Forums are not as popular as they used to be. Sadly is a fact! … and in this very fast moving world apps like FB, YouTube, etc made it much easier and more friendly because people had the power in the groups, they were allowed to speak more freely, they would be able to share exploits, tricks, etc.
3. Haven't played the game in a while so I cannot speak about the gameplay but must be a factor as well.
4. The forum never had a real support from the admins and I can say that with all the responsibility. There were months in the past when I was alone and I used to organize the forum, decide on the structure, engage with all the mods from other groups and everything was done pro-bono. I cannot speak as of today but I guess things didn't change much. The incentives that the moderators receive were not low, but extremely low comparing to the benefits they produced for the game.
People like Khris and me put more time and love in this game than we should, I speak for myself but most likely Khris will agree with me and there might be other moderators as well, there were times when we prioritized the community over our private life and family and is not really OK especially when is just in one direction or most of the time in one direction.

I cannot think of a real solution that Top Eleven would agree with. In order to restore the forum you need people to engage and the only way they can do it in a way that benefit both sides is to pay them and I highly doubt that they will do it because is hard for them to justify after that.

Paid admins will never care as much as the players and people feel that. For them is a job, they will do the minimum (if) and I speak from experience.
I was fortuned to meet in real life a lot of core people from Nordeus from all departments, including one of the co-founder/ CEO Branko but others as well, including 4,5 community / social media admins and I can tell you one thing they all have/had in commune as I have them as friends on FB. None of them really played the game and if they did they were just ticking the box.

That's why for the forum and not only, they have to seek outside their company and reward those people even if it comes as a loss for them (.. but I guess they cannot justify this so most likely will never happen).

[nikolgiorgos]

Hi Pricop, hi guys.

[tomu741]

"Instead, they have only focused on revenue-generating events and aesthetics. Gameplay and team management, which should be central themes of the game, have been left behind" - RaulLopes.
This is the biggest problem of this game. Which continues since around 2017. Game tactics are so simple and havn't changed since the beginning of the game. Im not talking about transfer market which is something ridiculous.
But i dont know what they can do just because the biggest thing becames draw frenzy .