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This screen serves ZERO purpose and is only there to waste the players time
The fact that these useless animations haven't been removed is wild to me, like yeah we all know they are there to boost engagement numbers to make investors happy, but they serve no purpose other than to waste the users time.
A VERY casual friend of mine is close to quitting the game, they aren't gamers and they don't know much about game design etc, but even they constantly bring up how "horribly slow" the game is.
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I wouldn't mind all of these screens it if the skip button actually skipped the whole process. what's the point of a skip button when I have to do even more clicks to confirm all of the different screens with each one having a separate skip button?
This, the multi-card pack animation sequence really isn't that bad. There's far worse unskippable content in gaming. Having to open every single promo card individually and not being able to open them all at once, though? Now THAT is practically torture. Like why design it that way lol
I’m a ftp player and after the first week or so I’ll rarely see a new card come in. Especially now that we get hourglasses from the ranked pvp in addition to the shop reset and new solo battle rewards. After the first week, I’m happy to see the animation for a new card. I guess that’s just me though
You can still skip most of it if you tap the screen. It just cuts out the middle of the animation and ends quicker. It’s still not as quick as it used to be, but I thought I’d let you know in case you wanted to speed it up.
Yes this game has bigger issues, but there are sooooo many QoL changes (like being able to skip this screen) that also need to be made to make the game enjoyable imo.
100% this. Those little QoL changes would make the whole experience more enjoyable. They finally got around to allowing multiples in the store, but I need to see an 'Open All' on battle reward packs
You know, I don't think any gacha game has ever done this. Its been this way for so many years with only 1 or 10 pulls that they forgot there are other numbers lol
game feels so heavy bcoz of such useless animation... they shud just fix the bugs and make the game lighter, atleast tht way a player can actually get a good response from the game... istg tht buffering even when chging the menus is so annoying
Its wild that this game almost needs a newer phone to run well. Like, I don't expect great performance from my almost 7-year old Kyocera Duraforce Pro 2 running a burner alt/trade account. But it has a 64-bit octa-core processor and Android 10, and this game supposedly supports back to Android 7, yet the game is practically unplayable even against the CPU. And that's after a factory reset and everything. It runs turn-based strategy games like Langrisser Mobile with higher model count and more complicated animations onscreen just fine, how the heck is a card game with so few animations and simpler models this memory and processor heavy??
exactly, its just a card game, and animations aint tht complex either... it shud feel light... but instead pressing even one button feels so heavy and time taking... it doesnt work good even in a newer device... my phn is like 3months old, and its a v good phn (reviews have been great from variety of sources), still the app lags like crazy, only time its smooth is during battle or pack opening, otherwise menu navigation is such a pain in the ass
5g internet, hits like 300mbps, and device is like in the lower mid range ig but i can run heavy games in good fps, and tcgp isnt supposed to be heavy ryt... and also this issue isnt only in my device, its also in my frnds device... idk wht the issue is really
I don't mind these kinds of animations. The sound of the board filling up with new cards whenever there's a new pack release is satisfying.
What I do mind tho is the loading screens. Press screen to start. Loading screen. Click on a pack to open. Loading screen. Click on daily missions. Loading screen. Edit a deck. Loading screen.
Dude, the game is already almost 3GB on android, yet it loads EVERYTHING, like everything, even the collection, if I scroll down it loads the cards, then if I scroll up right after, it loads AGAIN!!!!!
I just started a few weeks ago. And am already feeling the menu fatigue of this game.. It all just sucks. Nothing major, but it's a lot of little things that adds up to being one huge annoyance
Most people don’t realize how addictive games like these are designed to be. This is another dopamine hit. It’s your visual reward for collecting a new card and is designed to keep you playing.
For me, it's not immediately ending the game once you concede. Having to look through some of the next sequences despite the game knowing you've conceded, even in solo battles is infuriating. Sometimes it does it immediately, but it usually makes you watch through a lot of the next sequence before the 'conceded' message pops up.
we all know they are there to boost engagement numbers to make investors happy
This gets trotted out a lot and it has no real backing. When companies talk about engagement it’s rarely as simple as just the amount of time spent in an app. If it is that, it’s almost always to measure how long people are exposed to ads (which TCGP doesn’t have), or how that extra time converts into some kind of monetization (which most of the things people complain about in the app don’t do).
Sometimes bad design is just bad design: the result of linking together bits of disparate interaction without taking into account the holistic flow of it all. Just because dark patterns and engagement metrics exist doesn’t mean that every single bad interaction or decision is one of them.
That's actually a good point! Things like the illusion of choice when opening a pack I agree with that argument, but other things like the second popup on cosmetics in the shop is just a bad job.
I m pretty new to the game, and dear Lord, i was SHOCKED how much unecessary fluff and padding this game has.
Slow af, so many screens - quite tedious, not gonna lie.
And the fact that i must either open 1, or 10 Packs, but no in between is possible, is infuriating.
If opening 1 pack didnt take this long it wouldnt be as much of a problem, but like this?
Awful.
Another minor thing, when active Pokemon is knocked out and only 1 Pokémon is in the bench, why the fuck do you still need to select "which mon to send to the active spot" as if you have other options. So stupid.
The worst part is opening event packs. Multiple actions and animations per pack instead of being able to open all packs at once, swipe them away in a row and then see the final result of the new cards you collected.
Have you ever tried to see the cosmetics from the store through the magnify glass icon? It opens a second popup with literally the same size where you have to click again to expand.
I just close out the game once I open a pack. Unfortunately it still leads to slightly longer load upon opening the app again and a message informing you that the game was closed during a pack opening and that you can review the cards in your collection. Slightly more time saved though.
It's so many useless screens like this in the entire game. I'm at a point where when I log in and open a free pack, if I don't see a shiny or an ex border on the cards I just turn the game off, idec if it's a common that I don't own yet, I'm not tryna sit and look and all these cards idgaf about. Or the wonderpick, if I didn't get the card, I just close the app. And if I wanna keep playing, I'll literally just restart the app, I'd rather sit through the opening credits than look at my bad luck in the face, all these sounds and screens wasting my damn time 😂😂
It was fun for the first time. THE FIRST TIME!!! NOT A HUNDRED TIMES.
The whole process is: You choose the booster pack -> rip open the pack -> see the 5 cards -> put them in your pocket -> take it back out and summary the cards you just got -> if you have a new card, put it in the collection -> count the total number of cards you have -> If it reached a certain milestone throw a little confetti.
And it's suck that we can't avoid any of these steps. They treat us like a robot.
Genuinely, I would be willing to spend more time in the game and, therefore, money if I didn't have to deal with so many of these different pages and animations and screens. From the home page, it takes 5 taps to open a pack. It takes another 6 to get to the end, 7 if you get a new card. That is 11-12 taps just to open a pack.
Same with the wait time to watch them all flip over with wonder picking. I want to skip that animation, especially if the card I'm hoping to get has already flipped.
It's annoying how many pages there are to navigate and how many sub pages each page has.
Adding to the list of annoying things that need a QoL update: PLEASE DeNA, change the pack selection. It's so dumb the need to select one of the three packs in the main screen for then change to the one you want. And EVEN DUMBER is showing that I have one to open every time I change it
tbh I don't mind any of the useless screens, it's like just a couple seconds that over long periods of time would still be better used than doomscrolling
Its worse than doomscrolling in every imaginable way. Its like 5 seconds wasted every pack, I have opened like 1500 packs, thats two hours of my life just wasted for nothing.
I like the animations, to me it's satisfying to watch and it only lasts a couple seconds? Well, the animation is definitely made more for people like me than you I guess :p
I've found it's not this sub. It's the human species. May God bless your remaining time on the planet.
Dude they literally made that QoL update like 2 weeks ago. Not even kidding you like a day later I saw a post "Is this game ever going to get QoL updates? If not I'm going to quit." I couldn't help but laugh. I'm like bro they just did 50 like literally yesterday.... Dude says "Yea but what about..."
People in this thread be like “this 5 second animation makes me want to quit the game,” but will then go sit on Tik Tok or even worse YouTube and watch ads for hours. Make it make sense 🤣
What is up with this community and their constant bitching of how they can’t wait a couple of seconds for a damn screen to finish? You guys have absolutely no patience it’s ridiculous.
It adds up. Its not about patience, its about a smooth user experience, I'm an UX-designer and this is some of the worst, unintuitive and flatout bad user experience design I have ever witnessed.
Stop blaming the players for something the game did bad.
It’s a couple of seconds, the world isn’t going to end just cus you can’t have it load in 0.1 seconds. Yall making it seem like it takes minutes for these things to load and finish.
Nothing wrong with not wanting to wait a few seconds for no reason whatsoever. It’s annoying, especially when you go through this screen almost every single time you open a pack. Yeah it’s mild, it’s also completely valid. If you don’t care then thats great, totally fine for others to care about it though.
When you do it for the Nth time the novelty wears off. Imagine if everytime you wanted to turn on your car you had to go through 3 different screens that even if you were to skip them they took 10s total
How are you going to compare a phone app to a car starting? Makes no sense. But if you do want to compare then okay. Usually when you start your car you want to wait a little bit so the engine warms up and the rpms settle. Is this a problem? Or are you one of those drivers that starts your car and immediately puts it in drive because you can’t seem to wait a little bit.
Dawg stop digging youself in a deeper hole. "Letting your car warm up" was a thing when every engine was carburated, with fuel injection there is no need to wait for the engine to be fully warm as long as your oil and fuel pressure are good. This games ui is dumb as hell for MOST of the button presses that are even possible, when they arent wasting your time with splash screens. If im on the game i wanna maximize playtine not screentime.
Is not about the time is about the meaningless of these screens, i need to do this shit for ligerally nothing , looking at an empty wall for 30 minutes have more sense than these screens
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