The Problematic State of Pokemon Masters EX

#pokemonmasters #pokemonmastersex
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If you agree with the points made in this video, I encourage you to share this video to others, as well as send the link in the feedback section of Pokemon Masters EX. I don't ask for this because of "clout", I ask so that the development team has a higher chance of listening to what was presented.
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If you are someone directly affiliated with DeNA or Pokemon Masters EX, I hope that you can understand and interpret the points made in this video so that the playerbase can continue to enjoy Pokemon Masters EX, as well as boost the popularity of Pokemon Masters EX as a whole.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
2:25 Ch. 1 Limited Sync Pair Reruns
9:13 Ch. 2 X/Twitter Rally Rewards
14:06 Ch. 3 Sync Pair Pull Rates
24:16 Ch. 4 Monthly Gem Counts
27:08 Ch. 5 Returning Events
30:31 Ch. 6 Spotlight Sync Pair Scouts
36:41 Ch. 7 Move Candy Coins
42:16 Ch. 8 EX Roles
44:53 Final Inputs & Outro

This video took me roughly two months to script, narrate, edit, draft, and review. All of the work was done by me, and the credit list for assets is down below.

I hope you all enjoyed the video, and I hope that us as the playerbase can come together to speak out on persisting problems with Pokemon Masters EX, so that we can look forward to more communication with the development team and see this game grow into something even greater.

CREDITS LIST:

All assets and promotional imagery is owned by DENA CO., LTD.:

All assets were taken from Bulbapedia and the official r/PokemonMasters Discord server.

Poryphone Discord Bot made by Quetzalama:

PoMaTools made by StDk:

Sync Pair List made by Sages:
sages on Discord

Monthly Resource Count made by Tlim:
tlim_ on Discord

Monthly Timeline of Events made by Shiro:

Thumbnail made by Eriott:

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Contact me:
salamencelvx on Discord
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[salamencelvx]

As stated at nauseum. PLEASE send this video in the feedback section of Pokemon Masters EX (Poryphone -> Other -> Customer Support -> Feedback). It is the only chance of the development team listening to it.

[ashoush]

The biggest problem is locking every sync pair behind a limited sync pair
Even pairs as old as Cynthia lance Steven and SS Red are still limited

[galactic]

Im surprised you didnt bring up how minimal effort the new pairs feel now, characters used to have a ton of dialogue in the lobby and detailed sync pair stories, now they have like 4 lines of very simple dialogue. Not to mention the extremely lazy variety scout pairs that dont even have EX colors, which is sad because I wouldve loved to see full-on alt costumes for these pairs, but its just the same pair with a different kit and no other differences and its so insanely lazy and uninteresting

[maxsantillana]

Some people said me: "Man, you have more than 200k non-paid gems, why don't use them?". Some people I now that play the game pull in a lot of banners, but with the small amount of gems they have, many times they don't even get the one they want, thats the reason I saving gems, to ensure some character that I really like doesnt matter if cost a pity. The game is good, but it fails in many things, I hope it corrects them soon.

[FRAPPEFIZZYY]

i know you told non Pokemas fandom members to click off, but as a non fan who sees complaints online about issues a lot, this is genuinely a really well structured video

[ricocav]

The biggest problem this game has had for the last few years is the lack of new content, especially end-game content. As a veteran player, there isn't anything to do that I haven't done before. Some sort of new community-based game mode or feature (such as clubs) would really give more reason to play this game every day.

[hildafan]

The sync pair reruns are spot on! We had so many VAs rerun but they didn’t even rerun the units for the said VA. They did it right with the UnoVA banners and I hope other rerun will get the same treatment.

[catalyst]

SS Steven also has not reran on a normal banner since release.
Sad.

[rob.ot._]

Thanks for discussing all of this, buddy. Everyone has the right to express their opinions about all of this, and I deeply agree with all of yours voiced in this video. I hope we see some changes in the future of such a great game that is starting to feel really messy day by day. 😊

[김지원-vo]

It’s really outrageous that now 5 star gen pool sync pairs have generic sync move animations

[blackglurakx]

30:24 this is my biggest complaint. I‘m a Completionist and I started playing this game around the first year anniversary. Since then I have been playing it almost everyday so I haven‘t missed stuff since then, but I‘m still missing many of the medals of the events that where held in that first year like the Aether Family one, the first year anni one, the one with Volkner and one that where only held when I was new and figuring stuff out so I didn‘t get the fourth medal like the Gloria Zacian one or the Tony one. It‘s really annoying.

[Sononono]

This is a very hot take but imo they should just remove all candy coins and replace them all with the all type candy coin but don't change the amount given, meaning for the period of September 29 -> October 29 for example, we would get 40 all type candy coins instead of them being separated into categories aka 7 strike, 9 tech, 11 support, 7 sprint, 3 fields & 3 all type

Some other gacha games have that system and it works pretty well, World Flipper for example gives the equivalent of at least more than 5 all type move candy coin PER MONTH as long as you keep farming the levels to obtain them and their importance is fairly close to what move levels in Masters EX is

It's clearly evident that every gacha game only wants your money and use predatory systems but Masters EX reached a point where they literally don't even care anymore and straight up tell you that without spending hundreds of dollars each month, you'll barely get anything at all

[StarKarma]

One “mostly” absent feature that I wish was acknowledged in this video is the lack of multiplayer and community modes. We rarely get any multiplayer events, and when we do, they’re not very great (it’s usually just mindless grinding for type equipment). Community features would be cool too, like discussion tabs or replay tabs for battles that may be pretty difficult. There’s a lot of missed opportunities here with multiplayer, but they just completely ignore it.

[the-sillycate]

This is a personal issue more than anything else but my cycle of gacha-game-playing consists of:
-not having enough in-game currency
-saving/grinding in-game currency as I get the units I wanted from the start
-having a bunch of (in this case) gems ready for an interesting character
-dropping the game after some months of not releasing characters I actually care for (it seems I'm not part of the target audience)
The last time I actually cared for a character was SS Steven and Anni Cynthia, the rest of the characters released have not piqued my interest thus my interest in the game plummets as well

[farannazar]

Very nice video, I can tell you worked hard on this. I hope the devs listen to us and implements changes. One thing I would want is longer story content becuse in recent years there has been a shortage of it.

[RainyGhost]

I feel as though the new ultimate battles are much too limited in which sync pairs are available. For example, if you had an on type, fire team against the Thorton ultimate battle, you essentially NEED champion Leaf and Moltres, not even Sygna Suit Hilda with Sygna Morty is enough with each at 3/5. It's insane.

[sergcm]

Thanks for your take on the actual state on the game, as a player who has played Masters since release I've seen a lot of improvement, but right now I feel like they've change direction and the community isn't happy. Hopefully DeNa listens so they can improve even more the game. I would like to add that they should also try and create new original characters for the game it would add more personality and give them more freedom.

[Zenithal]

I will say I’m surprised you didn’t mention Bugsy and Scyther in the first part. It’s been almost 1000 days since he first dropped and no rerun. They’ve released 4 other units like him and they were all available during 4th anni besides him. There’s also the fact that he got his EX unlocked with other “cheap” pairs like Lodge & BP earlier this year so clearly it’s not like he was forgotten.

Ok so it’s not just me feeling a bit…out of it(?) recently with this game. I still haven’t touched Gauntlet despite loving the mode and sometimes I just rush to do dailies before reset. Still love this game and it’s my favorite spin off so I really hope DeNA will see this and take your points into consideration. Good video and great that you didn’t just dismiss others in the fanbase or ignore when DeNA has gotten things right/improved. Only thing I’d add is I’m not a fan of them drip feeding EX styles. At this rate it’s going to take years for every character to have the mechanic literally in the title. Adding on EX Roles and grid expansions feels a bit much but at the very least they could stay for something to look forward to on Masters Day (like today) but please introduce them in waves like the 3/4* grids.

[usatoday]

I’m actually surprised the 4/5, 5/5 pokefair sync grid tiles never got mentioned.

[tempertenchi]

I agree with all of this.
also a little bit of a side note, some characters like Bianca havent gotten any love at all. my friend has been a huge Bianca fan since he was like 14 and she's the only character he really cares about. no alts, no events not in the lodge. and I personally feel there's not enough characters available in the lodge either. I would love my fav pink man Bede to be in the lodge. I wanna be his bestie not Silver's bestie lol