Around this time last year the Championship era was in full swing. An era that ended up having 74 mass boosts. If you calculate how much boosting is needed to get to that number, you would come to the conclusion that Tactisoft made anywhere between 40k and 60k USD on that era alone. Net of costs and taxes.

Out of that something like 7.5k USD came from me personally. And for my troubles I asked for one thing - make BD a better game for the next players.

One year later, the second rendition of the Championship era is the worst exercise in marketing and PR I have ever seen, including my "talk to the flowers" seminar in 1st grade.

Clumsy e-mail sent randomly and at different times announcing it, no details on what server they will use, what are the prizes for the winners, not even maximum alliance size or ticks/hour!

6 weeks before the event and if you click on Championship Era on the forum it says it will start on April 1st, 2013.

This is not only an insult to every player that donated hard earned money to this game, but also the signal that nothing has changed since the first time i started playing many years ago. Same incompetence, same lack of vision and professionalism, same disregard for the customer.

If you intend to play the Championship era, don't! Not before they acknowledge they need to shape up and actually do something in exchange for all the money you are paying them. I have been done with this game for over a year but for all those still spending nights and reds playing it, you deserve more. Much more!

Till then Clash of Clans and even playing cards with a friend is a way better option!

Best,

D

I agree wholeheartedly with the general statement you are making here. For an event that grossed tens of thousands of dollars last year, you would think the next event would be created in an even better fashion. More professional with better marketing.

Though I also think that the core Battledawn players who will play the next Championship Era don't care much at all anymore how Battledawn is run and have adapted instead and continue to play for their own fun and ego's.

P.S.
Those of us in DoCE(VND) that did not finish top 10 are still awaiting our green ribbons that we were promised to all members of winning alliance.

lol i never got it i finished rank 11

Welcome to the best free multiplayer war strategy game on the web!

Best forum joke ever!

Classic insult cosmin
ha ha as u said '' even playing cards with friends is better''
I'm not a supporter so I wont say much

Glad to see someone actually used my statistics post to see how many mass boosts were done

But yes, I agree it should have stated tick speed, server, winner prizes and alliance size in the email for sure. It's a very unclear email, and there is no landing page like the championship we had before.

I am still hoping this era is going to get close to being as good as the last CE was, but with the big donator Andrei not playing and both Gaurav and me not playing, I have my fears. The reigning champion alliance sadly will not be there to defend their title, nor will I be trying to go for 2 consecutive rank 1 finishes