A Letter to the Devs

[Kerzhael]

Hello all,

I'm Kerzhael and this is my letter to the Devs. It contains my honest opinion on the game, as a new player.

I knew about Supernova when looking for a new MOBA/competitive game to play. It was around October/November last year, if i'm not mistaken. I believe i've made 1 or 2 games and drop it until now. I can't remember why i drop it but i just returned and it is really growing on me.
I have played LoL extensively, Dota2, Strife, Dawngate, Starcraft 2, Grey Goo, therefore, i'm not only experienced at this kind of games, but i also love them - especially esports.

Without further ado, i'd like to present the list of my suggestions/criticisms to the game. Bear in mind these are my personal opinions:

1. Movement speed is an issue. Displacement has a long cooldown (as it should, that is perfectly fine), but commander abilities are lackluster. For example: Blaze's W (you can barely feel the movement boost, there's no excitement or possibility for huge plays since it's such a small boost), Itarri's E (Kuro's jump could be longer).

2. The fights feel too static... Either because the movement abilities are lackluster, either because abilities have casting times?? I'm not sure about this but i feel everything has a cast time, everything makes you stop... Might be just me.

3. It's not a good/exciting game to watch. There are way too many passive hidden stat boosting abilities which makes it boring and confusing to watch. I remember reading somewhere you thought about esports and spectator mode... Well, for people to enjoy it and to be accessible to more people it has to be simpler. It needs to be done in a way that a person that doesn't play the game understands. Lots and lots passive boosts are a no no. A huge example of this are proficiencies... Though they add a lot of variety to commander customization (which i thoroughly enjoy), they also make it very confusing to watch as a competitive sport. Maybe instead of passively reducing the armor by 4 to all nearby enemies it could freeze all enemies around you for 0,5 seconds when you're hit (with a cooldown, of course). This might seem silly but it would be much more easy to understand and identify for viewers. I honestly believe in simplifying those to make them more understandable and impactful in the game.

4. I'm honestly concerned about the status of the game as of right now. Open beta are very important nowadays and this game seriously lacks people, it's worrying at this point. How is it possible to not have good community interaction through social networks? All i could find was an old youtube channel and once per week 1h30 streams... Are you guys even trying? Don't you wanna get loads of people playing the game? Goddamn it. Publicize your product! The game is stable and visually appealing. It has already a good selection of commanders so why not advertise it? Make streams with game artists and commander concepts, youtube commander guides, commander wallpapers, idk. There's a billion things you could do. You can make the best game in the world... if there's no community, it's dead.

5. This is not a priority since there's not much people at the moment but i've found no place online with an updated game database where i could see commander's details, stats, abilities ratios, etc. Something like Mobafire where people could have guides too etc. Of course, the game needs more people for this to happen, which is sad (point 3).

I made this post because i really enjoy the game and i would truly like it to become popular. It has the best of intentions.

I hope you understand that english is not my main language and there might be some errors.

Thank you all for the time put into making this. I can imagine how big part of your life this game has become and how much effort did it take.

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines." Robert H. Schuller

[Felipe_2H]

Well u need to know this is a beta (open beta), thats mean is a market test, a test performed with a product or service in a limited region or group to check its commercial viability before start selling. Usually the last phase of the development of new and amounts to a "test" of its final release.

the reason to do this test are:

To know the public reaction to the new product or service.
-Measure Their level of interest, acceptance, satisfaction and repeat purchase.
-Estimar Potential demand in different segments and markets.
-try Different models or versions of the product or service for comparison.
-Detect For improvement in the design, distribution, marketing, etc.
-Ensayar Strategies and marketing materials to be used in the campaign.

Now, it is clear that there are few players in these betas, due to the above exposed.

you wrote Publicize your product!, the betas were advertised in places where there are representative players, for example, I met the existence of supernova due to nvidia.

So, they may have a marketing program, and they know the product supernova will go to a stage of introduction, and in this stage the marketings accions are: usin a lot o publicity = more inversion = more servers, but this requires that generate investment returns.

so when finished the open beta is more than obvious that began marketing actions, but the question is This game has the potential to be a profitable product?, I think so and I hope it is.

I agree with you that you need to use social networks more thoroughly because through them you can get more feed back, not only use the forum, but estendible as players who are giving their feed backs are the open beta and using the forum, so here facebook for example, anyone can write nonsense

do not worry they are aware of this situation and all your suggestions will be a contribution to the game can improve.

It is is what I think about this situation, (sorry my english im latino from chile)