WWE Champions General - Despite his claims, DSP is still spending thousands of dollars on the WWE Champions mobile game

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Saw on TJ's Twitter that there's a Hogan Ghostbusters, so I had to do this.
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Rarity: ★☆ - Common
Coach ability: Pay 200$, cover the board with toxic gems.
Moves:
  • Finisher: Pin your opponent and deal 1651 points of damage for each toxic gem in the board.
  • Axe lariat: 30% chance of stealing your opponent's green meters, refill 1 green MP in addition.
  • Toxic screeching: Deal 2000 damage to your opponent and convert 30 board gems to toxic gems.
 
We Are The Witches said:
Saw on TJ's Twitter that there's a Hogan Ghostbusters, so I had to do this.
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Rarity: ★☆ - Common
Coach ability: Pay 200$, cover the board with toxic gems.
Moves:
  • Finisher: Pin your opponent and deal 1651 points of damage for each toxic gem in the board.
  • Axe lariat: 30% chance of stealing your opponent's green meters, refill 1 green MP in addition.
  • Toxic screeching: Deal 2000 damage to your opponent and convert 30 board gems to toxic gems.
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You actually play this game, don't you?
 
We Are The Witches said:
I did a long time ago, just to get to the League that allows you to search for users on their factions, but it has been a long time since I've uninstalled this garbage.
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Did you ever pay to win at it? Not judging, just curious, since TJ doesn't trypost here anymore due to I assume log in problems after the latest server relocations. In most ways, a poster who is capable of reverse engineering how much estimated spend goes into each sweatyman.jpg pick up is more important than knowing they're being collected to begin with.
 
Very Honest Content said:
Did you ever pay to win at it? Not judging, just curious, since TJ doesn't trypost here anymore due to I assume log in problems after the latest server relocations. In most ways, a poster who is capable of reverse engineering how much estimated spend goes into each sweatyman.jpg pick up is more important than knowing they're being collected to begin with.
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No.
This game is so predatory, the mere thought of spending a cent on it gives you depression. Because you know what'll happen: you spend 20$ to see how it's like accessing its perks, it ultimately sucks, but now those 20$ are as good as burnt away, so you accept the utterly foolish loss or keep spending (like a mini sunk-cost fallacy).
Both scenarios suck.

If you want to be "competitive" in this game, you need to spend a lot, if you don't, then you're just a mediocre player and at that point why are you even playing; I think this is the mentality of DSP, it's all or nothing because that's the only "reward" Champions gives you.

I'll add that even though matches ara against AI (so winning normal matches are no problem, even at a clear disadvantage), to beat a top OP character with full equipment is not likely, fun or even possible in some cases if you have one of the "free" wrestlers, and from what I've seen the game is/was getting more unbalanced, so you need to keep funneling.
This thought should keep anyone that is not making a profit with Champions (due to Scopely sponsors, streaming, etc) far away from the game.
 
We Are The Witches said:
No.
This game is so predatory,...

If you want to be "competitive" in this game, you need to spend a lot, if you don't, then you're just a mediocre player and at that point why are you even playing; I think this is the mentality of DSP, it's all or nothing because that's the only "reward" Champions gives....and from what I've seen the game is/was getting more unbalanced, so you need to keep funneling.
This thought should keep anyone that is not making a profit with Champions (due to Scopely sponsors, streaming, etc) far away from the game.
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All or nothing top bejeweled player, it's amazing when you accurately describe it in that manner. The way I frame the appeal of this game to DSP to the point he's lying about not playing it while caught literally red-handed with it open on the cell phone during a wrap up beg this year is that Phil loves to envision himself the manly, face-tank-capable alpha, due to his narcissism. The game appears to me to be a pay to win jobber squash match simulator from what little I've seen of it in "action." So Phil gets to beat his pigtail raw to the idea of being the buff sweaty man absolutely destroying joke competition, even all the way up to "final boss" legendary main event sweatyman.jpgs, taking no damage and winning each sim match in three moves to a finisher in endless parades of dream match wrestling autism. The fact it ties in to his autistic collector's mentality that he's been afflicted with since at least 1990 or so is just the lock that keeps him from getting out of the assembled financial cage this game is for him.

If someone uncovers a Derich Ip account, we'll know why he always needs a gift membership to Phil's channel though...
 
The Penultimate Warrior said:
You failed us Phil, you failed us. What kind of broke bitch only ends up in 24th place?

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Still, $1409 well invested.

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Dave burning cash he allegedly doesn't have aside, that means 23 people spent more than 1.4K to get a Johnny Knoxville jpeg of all things. What a world we live in. I wonder how many collective bankruptcies there are on that list.
 
Weird for me to go to Reddit, but I saw this post:
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Technically it's worded properly, but it might make it seem like DSP's total battles (since the beginning) are around 20000, which is not true, but that's due to how they decided to word it on the website.

The data seems to be calculated on a "range" of time, even when it says "(all time)", and this can be shown with these 2 archives:
https://archive.ph/ZVetO
16 Feb 2021:
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https://archive.ph/aY0gk
25 Nov 2022:
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As you can see, 2022 DSP has 20291 "Total Battles (all Time)", while 2021 DSP has 51697, so it's not from the beginning of the game, but from the beginning of a time range.
 
We Are The Witches said:
This game is so predatory, the mere thought of spending a cent on it gives you depression. Because you know what'll happen: you spend 20$ to see how it's like accessing its perks, it ultimately sucks, but now those 20$ are as good as burnt away, so you accept the utterly foolish loss or keep spending (like a mini sunk-cost fallacy).
Both scenarios suck.
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The other day I was wondering if there were any scenarios in which Phil admits he's been lying about playing Champions and I could really only think of one.

Hypothetically, let's say a report comes out which proves Scopely engineered WWE Champions to be a predatory, addictive enterprise designed to be irresistible to players who fit into a certain psychological profile. Let's go a little further and say this report implicates WWE itself in marketing the game to that same sector of their audience and helping Scopely exploit those people by sharing data they've collected on their customers over the decades. Now let's pretend there's a class action suit against both Scopley and WWE, put together by whales and their lawyers.

Would the possibility of receiving a payout for being "victimized" by a gacha game be enough for Phil to come out and say what everyone already knows is true? I can't imagine him continuing to lie about his addiction when he could get money and maybe some kind of sympathy (even if it's only from his dents) by fessing up.

Of course, in my dream scenario the case gets thrown out and Phil gets nothing but the fallout of admitting the tractors were right.
 
Miniluv said:
The other day I was wondering if there were any scenarios in which Phil admits he's been lying about playing Champions and I could really only think of one.

Hypothetically, let's say a report comes out which proves Scopely engineered WWE Champions to be a predatory, addictive enterprise designed to be irresistible to players who fit into a certain psychological profile. Let's go a little further and say this report implicates WWE itself in marketing the game to that same sector of their audience and helping Scopely exploit those people by sharing data they've collected on their customers over the decades. Now let's pretend there's a class action suit against both Scopley and WWE, put together by whales and their lawyers.

Would the possibility of receiving a payout for being "victimized" by a gacha game be enough for Phil to come out and say what everyone already knows is true? I can't imagine him continuing to lie about his addiction when he could get money and maybe some kind of sympathy (even if it's only from his dents) by fessing up.

Of course, in my dream scenario the case gets thrown out and Phil gets nothing but the fallout of admitting the tractors were right.
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I think he'll eventually admit it, well that he played, not the lying bit, but not for a very long time. And in typical Phil fashion, it'll probably be completely by accident when he's ranting about something else. Or maybe the game shutting down. There's no chance in hell he actually admits how much he was spending of course, but he'll play his semantics game, probably lie and say he picked it up "recently" so he wasn't lying because when people were accusing him he totally wasn't playing it back then. Just like how everyone who guessed he got Jasper before the reveal were wrong, because they said he was going to reveal he was getting a cat, and they didn't correctly guess he already had a cat. And when pressed for a username, he'll do his nervous lie thing and insist he can't reveal it because of stalker trolls.

And you know what his fans are finally going to do when he slips up and gets caught in the act? Absolutely nothing, because they've all already known at this point and made up their own excuses for why it's okay to support his gacha habit. Really, the only reason he hasn't mentioned it is his pride because he hasn't thought of a good enough lie to justify how he's been playing it while insisting that we were somehow wrong.
 
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