I am not sure whether to laugh or cry at "Here’s the really cool part — the top stage of every Challenge will reward you with 100 Tankoins in the Silver Tier" ...
Previously, you get an XT equipment for the silver tier and something special for the gold tier. Now, you are only rewarding 100 Tankoins? In the Vlog, you stated "Tankers will be earning 3 times the tankoins than before!"
Come on... In the shop, you are selling the XT equipment for 9999 Tankoins. If you decide to replace the XT skins for the silver tier for Tankoins, shouldnt it be rewarding players 5000 Tankoins instead?
Secondly, I have no idea why are the challenges being split into 2. Previously, I am able to complete a full month challenge with a battle pass and 7 days premium. Now, you are telling me I have to spend TWICE the money to complete the same month challenge, with the same amount of XT skins awarded as before?! I don't find it worth it to be honest.
A better solution WOULD HAD been keeping the same challenge format to a single one, BUT, at the 1000 stars stage (Stage 50), players would be rewarded 100 Tankoins for silver and XT. For an additional 100 Tankoins for silver tier, perhaps put it at around stage 80? Hence, at 2000 stars, players will get an XT container for silver and a special skin for gold. If not, I don't see a purpose for F2P players on silver tier.
This may be the last challenge I am doing if it is going to be the kept in the new format. The last time I did a challenge was last year where the Final Prime skin (Viking and Thunder) took place. Afterwards I took hiatus till Jan 2020 this year and completed it. I did buy a battle pass and premium for the challenges, but I often did not pay full price because I always use the mobile version to make purchases using the credits given from Google Opinion Rewards (Over the period of 3 years, I have earned $153.08 doing the surveys).
It seems to be you are driving players away from playing the game. Everything is literally so expensive, especially Micro upgrades. I don't find it logical to spend 60-100k (Inclusive upgrade + speedups) for 1 single step of upgrade. Maybe it's time to remove speed ups since I don't get it why the hell is it even needed. I am at legend 21, yet, I only have around 6 Mk8... Obviously, I don't really buy ALOT. I only spend for challenges that's about it. If me buying is still hard, I don't think players who are F2P can even play this game anymore.
Not only that, you need to listen to players. I suggested nerfing hornet OD to only ignore the supplies but not the module (Because it's extremely stupid that hornet OD reloads so fast and players spent so much on modules but ended up getting rekt by just 450 crystals worth of supplies. Other hull OD don't even have such privileged to ignore. I understand Mammoth does the same, but the slow movement and slow reload makes it fair), top 100 ratings should get rewards in the rating, no sitting directly on a flag/cap point. However, those were declined BECAUSE it had already been suggested. If it had been suggested by so many players, I don't understand why the hell is it not implemented yet?
And that's the end of my long rant. Personally, this game is still fun to play once in a while (Not for everyday gaming though), that's why I am taking the time to write what is exactly wrong with this game nowadays so that you can improve and keep the game running. The developers need to start listening to players since WE ARE the ones who are keeping this game alive. (P.S Can you also stop letting player groups with GEAR SCORE 9999 team up together? It literally isn't fair for the other team who have much less gear upgrade)