Warhammer 40K Lost Crusade has another mishap! Well this subject is a doozy for sure. When was the last time anyone has seen first hand of a mobile game shoot itself literally in the foot with an update and community response thereafter? Ok, so don’t quite answer that. There are quite a few games on the mobile stores that fall into that narrative. However, how often do we see that with major big Intellectual Property licensed games such as Warhammer, Ragnarok Online, and etc?
Warhammer 40K: Lost Crusade in particular is another mobile spin off of the dystopian sci-fi massive war tabletop game by Games Workshop. The game is more or less another reskin of the many mobile war base building games you would have come across. Such games include titles similar to Lord of the Rings: War or Warpath. These games are often heavily “Pay to Win” as you would expect with multiple server domains popping up each week or even every few days.
So what happened?
Without a doubt Monday of this week, Warhammer 40K Lost Crusade by Nuverse, certainly pushes the envelope. After all offering even on accident 1.5 million crystals is a recipe for disaster. This is especially so when a spending player barely gets 30k from 100 US Dollars. Whenever there are issues on development, Nuverse decides to penalize their active spending player-base rather than finding a positive resolution.
Following the two maintenance’s spanning Monday evening to Tuesday morning, chaos ensued as players returned. Players woke up and straightaway found their crystal balances in the negative. Yes, Nuverse reset the crystals of hundreds if not thousands of players into the negatives. Even more disconcerting is the fact that many according to responses in the official discord were set to a blanket -120K crystal amount.
The package was made available from which players purchased. Then by the time the development noticed the game was taken down in the evening where resets occurred. After that they had another further maintenance with which they decided to do what they do best. To push a blanket penalty to all involved players and not own up or attempt to resolve their own mistake. In response to this, the community has been extremely furious.
And of course all across the recent reviews, it only gets worse. With all of the reviews along the lines of the same issues. With some even pointing out similar “mistakes” made by Nuverse in just the past week on other events.
Now keep in mind this isn’t the first time..
First thing to remember is that this isn’t the first for this game title. A major previous update failed just in a similarly spectacular fashion just months prior. As a matter of fact issues had caused players to be able to indefinitely claim major reward packages. This caused an exact similar response from the game company.
Players had been forced to deal with a heavy negative crystal credit balance from this as well. In one case on a certain server there even had been many appeals made for one player who was outright banned when attempting to speak up on the issue with support. This individual was fully ready to commit to getting back to whaling out to continue his progress. The response was, however, as expected they did not want to rectify or even work with the community for these issues.
All things considered, the game lacks many features for a quality war game. There are lack of animated content or even properly working mechanics. Just compare the recently newer Lord of the Rings: War game which boasts even animation for the combat.
My two cents, if nothing is holding you here. Find something better to play. It’s really not that hard in case of Warhammer 40K Lost Crusade.
