LIMITED-TIME CONTENT Beauty and the Beast Story Pass 🥀

👏🏻Long👏🏻Rant👏🏻Ahead👏🏻

I'm on bronze subscription so there's already a boost to the royal ring drops and two box slots which SHOULD help get it done in the ending parts of the storypass but apparently not by much?

I completed the 26,400 score sp task only to see that I had two more tiers to finish within the next 8 days. (at 105 silver coins out of 125), with ATA explicitly adding that there's no extention coming in for the SP completion date even with basically pages after pages of complaint and feedback from the users.

It's a testing phase, and changes can be done during testing phase as well.

I haven't joined flashes, but I am also in a dog club full time, used up all the PIM keys I had stored up and solo-ed a few EC parties to up the score on the DN usage. I've used basically quite a lot more ECs in value AFTER already spending ECs on the SP.

Now I'm booking myself into flashes just so that I can speedrun these two weeks' tasks into one singular week. Honestly? Not great.

So we get to spend on storypass, spend MORE not just bentos, but also in DNs, ECs for PIM boxes or premium drops, and still not complete the SP on time unless we join flashes in this last stretch anyway? (slowclap)

Please ATA never do this again.

Just some things I can think of for next time you want to do anything like this (but please, for the love of god, no). Here's some constructive feedback from me:
  • Rebalance story pass completion timeline. EC players don't need 1 week for the first stretch. It can be 3d, 4d, 5d, 6d, 7d incremental up to 7 days per stage. This balances it out for EC players who are, well, your 'paying customers'.
  • Add time extension. if you still wanna cash grab anyway, make this, idk, doable with DN exchange or whatever other cashgrab method you want, instead of none at all even after 14 pages of complaint.
  • Reduce reliance on flash participation. I'm usually 0 flash unless it's BF or 4oJ but this SP is forcing my hand.
  • Scale score requirements with SP tier. It gets too steep towards the end to the point where only your whalers consistently selling dogs or cats are able to complete them easily. Cater to the bell curve, not to the end of it.
  • Include in-app progress warnings. Do we have 3 more weeks of SP task to go at 10 days left? Are we lagging behind and somehow didn't notice? Add something like "estimated daily score need to finish on time" if you're hellbent on sticking to the current range.
  • Give better DN/EC value tasks. Using DNs and ECs is a big, unwanted investment on top of our SP EC purchase. At least double the points/contributions for those items.
  • Add free/low-cost catch-up mechanism towards the last 2-3 stages of the SP task. I'm an EC player, imagine those who just don't do EC parties because they can't afford it? I don't think they can even complete the first 5 or 6 stages without any EC involvement. Maybe make party completion an additional contributor, for example.
  • Make testing phase feedback actionable mid-SP. If it’s a test pass, ATA should be open to mid-event tweaks based on community feedback — not just post-event changes.

Lastly ---
Respect your player investment across the board. If your players have already spent ECs to buy the SP and invest further with DNs, PIM keys or more ECs, ensure there's a fair path to completion without needing MORE big spends just to finish it.

Everyone else has said their pieces which more or less sounds the same anyway.
 
My whole thing is why ATA still releasing stuff but haven't replied to the complaints on here. Like I know you see these comments.. they just don't care. The least you can do is give it an extension..Which should've been done, when they story pass got put back in the store. The other new content should be spammed or something to get their attention on here. I was in an ec club as well which worked and was working but I wasn't as active this hunt. Which isn't they're fault but even then it's like you have to be on constantly in order to complete in a matter or days. #LIKEWHYATA .
 
Tatoru said:
👏🏻Long👏🏻Rant👏🏻Ahead👏🏻

I'm on bronze subscription so there's already a boost to the royal ring drops and two box slots which SHOULD help get it done in the ending parts of the storypass but apparently not by much?

I completed the 26,400 score sp task only to see that I had two more tiers to finish within the next 8 days. (at 105 silver coins out of 125), with ATA explicitly adding that there's no extention coming in for the SP completion date even with basically pages after pages of complaint and feedback from the users.

It's a testing phase, and changes can be done during testing phase as well.

I haven't joined flashes, but I am also in a dog club full time, used up all the PIM keys I had stored up and solo-ed a few EC parties to up the score on the DN usage. I've used basically quite a lot more ECs in value AFTER already spending ECs on the SP.

Now I'm booking myself into flashes just so that I can speedrun these two weeks' tasks into one singular week. Honestly? Not great.

So we get to spend on storypass, spend MORE not just bentos, but also in DNs, ECs for PIM boxes or premium drops, and still not complete the SP on time unless we join flashes in this last stretch anyway? (slowclap)

Please ATA never do this again.

Just some things I can think of for next time you want to do anything like this (but please, for the love of god, no). Here's some constructive feedback from me:
  • Rebalance story pass completion timeline. EC players don't need 1 week for the first stretch. It can be 3d, 4d, 5d, 6d, 7d incremental up to 7 days per stage. This balances it out for EC players who are, well, your 'paying customers'.
  • Add time extension. if you still wanna cash grab anyway, make this, idk, doable with DN exchange or whatever other cashgrab method you want, instead of none at all even after 14 pages of complaint.
  • Reduce reliance on flash participation. I'm usually 0 flash unless it's BF or 4oJ but this SP is forcing my hand.
  • Scale score requirements with SP tier. It gets too steep towards the end to the point where only your whalers consistently selling dogs or cats are able to complete them easily. Cater to the bell curve, not to the end of it.
  • Include in-app progress warnings. Do we have 3 more weeks of SP task to go at 10 days left? Are we lagging behind and somehow didn't notice? Add something like "estimated daily score need to finish on time" if you're hellbent on sticking to the current range.
  • Give better DN/EC value tasks. Using DNs and ECs is a big, unwanted investment on top of our SP EC purchase. At least double the points/contributions for those items.
  • Add free/low-cost catch-up mechanism towards the last 2-3 stages of the SP task. I'm an EC player, imagine those who just don't do EC parties because they can't afford it? I don't think they can even complete the first 5 or 6 stages without any EC involvement. Maybe make party completion an additional contributor, for example.
  • Make testing phase feedback actionable mid-SP. If it’s a test pass, ATA should be open to mid-event tweaks based on community feedback — not just post-event changes.

Lastly ---
Respect your player investment across the board. If your players have already spent ECs to buy the SP and invest further with DNs, PIM keys or more ECs, ensure there's a fair path to completion without needing MORE big spends just to finish it.

Everyone else has said their pieces which more or less sounds the same anyway.
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I agree with all of this. I sent a ss to Jordan so hopefully he can take a look at it. This story pass has been stressful and having a set time to finish each week before falling behind has been super detrimental in these later weeks. I’d be surprised if many people who casually play, even in ec clubs, are able to finish without rush wasting dns, drops or ecs.
 
I won’t complete. My club isn’t a cat club so nobody at ATA cares. I’ve played since the beginning, am quite active and understand mechanics. This was not designed to be completed by anyone but leaderboard players. I hope someone at ATA remembers GAW. And that a game can run with only leaderboard players, for a very short time.
 
All this work and stress just to not even be able to have the opportunity to buy all the avis and misc related to the SP in the shop. You have to pick and choose what you really want.

I have 35 gold coins left over after getting the female avis and misc items. I need 75 more if I want to get all the male avis. After spending 199ec, just to get the pass, along with thousands of ecs in DNs/keys, timer speed ups, and ec party items. After completing it, I should be able to buy all the SP reward items in the shop if I want. But I can’t!

Even if you didn’t get the misc items and choose to get both female and male avis, you still can’t do that cause, you’d be short 5 coins. You’d once again have to choose which one you want more.

Personally I don’t want the male avis, but that’s not the point. Some players do want both and you can’t even get th bc you’re not given enough coins.

I, and every player that’s bought this SP, should have the option to get ALL female and male avis AND all the misc items, after how much we’ve been through to finish this SP.

This is the last SP I ever get.
 
V_Witchy_101 said:
I won’t complete. My club isn’t a cat club so nobody at ATA cares. I’ve played since the beginning, am quite active and understand mechanics. This was not designed to be completed by anyone but leaderboard players. I hope someone at ATA remembers GAW. And that a game can run with only leaderboard players, for a very short time.
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Honestly the rewards don’t even seem worth it. Even more so when you try and calculate the value of the rewards to how much ecs you’d have to spend with keys/dns and speed ups would have to use per week, you’ll be lucky to break even.

And the fact that you can’t even get all the rewards in the shop just adds to show crappy this SP is.

And what sucks is you’re right, ATA doesn’t care about the majority of players bc we’re not on the leaderboard. Since we don’t drop cash like them our opinions are irrelevant.

I’m also 99% sure the reason they did this weekly wait thing was to push/test leaderboard player and adjust it to them to make them spend the maximum amount possible. Hence why they made cats and dogs more valuable point wise and convenient than anything else.
 
443 extra points needed to finish the last phase of this story pass.. Jesus christ what the hellyante you all doing apes 😂😂😂

Let us breathe for the love of god.. We paid for this story pass like 199ecs / 10-15bentos / $20 not to be tortured like this.

Okay if we have hoarded shit tons of speedup timer boxes or spinner tokens or cats/kini/dogs to be dropped then great..
But what if we don't ???
So we gonna suck it up & let us not finish this story pass that we paid for, with 6 days left??

To note that we all have real life, collecting 32K drops is painful if you're not in EC club. Let alone collecting the extra 443 points? 😂😂😂

Thanks apes.. This story pass is hella rigged til the end. You all take our cats/kini/dog/pimkey/dns that we got from this story pass back, just for us to finish it . Hahahahaha 😂😂😂
 
443 EXTRA DROPS?!

I’m so done.

I know y’all didn’t care about the majority of players as much as leaderboard player. But this feels like a big SCREW YOU, especially after every we’ve said about this SP. And right after y’all lowered the non-drop requirements for the week prior, I really thought ya’ll were listening taking what some of us said it into consideration.
 
At the beginning of the pass, I pessimistically estimated that week 12 would require 21k drops to complete. Turns out that I was way off, and I seriously underestimated how willing ATA was to screw over normal players to milk the whales. Most revenue probably does come from whales, but games start dying when the devs shift their priorities from satisfying the player base to extracting as much value as possible from them. When all the minnows have been driven out, the whales will start leaving too and won’t be replaced.

ATA definitely has been paying attention to this thread, which is why it’s one of the only threads to be unpinned while the event is still ongoing. They’re fully aware of the flood of criticism and could’ve changed course at any time in the past 12 weeks, but they chose not to. They know what they’re doing and don’t care about any of the opinions expressed in this thread.
 
Lady_Kay said:
Hi I just finished and you do get enough coins to get ALL the Avis and stats.
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TY for doing gods work & completing this impossible last week!!

I do frequent an ec club and I try to flash but it's still hard to complete. @F2p players, even if you spend it's not easy lol

ATA i'm on vacation this week i do not have the TIMEEE to no life this game just to finish the SP. GIVE US MORE TIME
 
Bashful said:
My whole thing is why ATA still releasing stuff but haven't replied to the complaints on here. Like I know you see these comments.. they just don't care. The least you can do is give it an extension..Which should've been done, when they story pass got put back in the store. The other new content should be spammed or something to get their attention on here. I was in an ec club as well which worked and was working but I wasn't as active this hunt. Which isn't they're fault but even then it's like you have to be on constantly in order to complete in a matter or days. #LIKEWHYATA .
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It’s crazy that they presented this as a test, acted as if they were open to feedback, then didn’t interact with anyone at all this entire fiasco of an event. The story pass is coming to an end and people are realizing that the last few quests have impossible tasks with little in the way of adequate reward. I’m frustrated that ATA thought any of this was fine with how active everyone has been in showing their unanimous dislike of the changes.
 
CapedClown said:
It’s crazy that they presented this as a test, acted as if they were open to feedback, then didn’t interact with anyone at all this entire fiasco of an event. The story pass is coming to an end and people are realizing that the last few quests have impossible tasks with little in the way of adequate reward. I’m frustrated that ATA thought any of this was fine with how active everyone has been in showing their unanimous dislike of the changes.
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Yeah..you'd think we'd get an response but no.. Well at least I got to get a couple avis and some misc .. Just thought the rewards would be worth it ya know.
 
Tatoru said:
Now I'm booking myself into flashes just so that I can speedrun these two weeks' tasks into one singular week. Honestly? Not great.
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This alone tells ata they dont need to add extentions. Coz even while complaining, people are still willing to spend extra money to flash and get it done. Why would ata choose to not get the extra money people are willing to spend?

The way to get ata to listen is for everyone to not spend a cent. To prove its not worth it in its current state. The more people keep flashing to rush thru it, the more it just confirms theres enough people with enough money willing to spend it all to get the items. And unless that changes then ata wont change a thing
 
DinosAreTheOldestCars said:
This alone tells ata they dont need to add extentions. Coz even while complaining, people are still willing to spend extra money to flash and get it done. Why would ata choose to not get the extra money people are willing to spend?

The way to get ata to listen is for everyone to not spend a cent. To prove its not worth it in its current state. The more people keep flashing to rush thru it, the more it just confirms theres enough people with enough money willing to spend it all to get the items. And unless that changes then ata wont change a thing
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vote with your money people
 
DinosAreTheOldestCars said:
This alone tells ATA they don't need to add extentions. Coz even while complaining, people are still willing to spend extra money to flash and get it done. Why would ata choose to not get the extra money people are willing to spend?

The way to get ata to listen is for everyone to not spend a cent. To prove its not worth it in its current state. The more people keep flashing to rush thru it, the more it just confirms theres enough people with enough money willing to spend it all to get the items. And unless that changes then ata won't change a thing
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I completely agree with this statement. There have been many times where ATA has repeatedly requested for their players to post in Forums to see if anyone else agrees whenever feedback and suggestions is reported directly to them, but despite whether our community supports these ideas or not, the developers will disregard our opinions completely without giving them a second thought. Entertainment from a game shouldn't be hindered behind a paywall, and if we don't fight hard enough, then ATA will continue through their neglectful behaviour from having a mindset that nothing will be at steak. Now, I understand that everyone has a right to spend their money for their own benefit, so please don't take this list the wrong way, but it's injustice that so many players have spent so much money to tremendously support an organization, that has absolutely no respect or appreciation of their community. I am sympathetic to the people who've probably spent a lot of currency to purchase these Story Passes, all to be completely disappointed, which is understandable. For players who don't mind spending money, then please feel free to continue with your own free will. But, for others who are honestly frustrated and tired, then I strongly encourage that you don't spend any more money because it'll just work in ATA's favor. Hopefully, everyone manages to make further progress and complete the Story Pass in time.🙏
 
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