I have not seen any news about this but what's the deal with Splatfest? I have some people telling me it's over and others saying we are getting another one soon. It's a bit silly that re rolling cost so much money. Yes, in a world of savescumming it makes things much easier but what if we could not even do that!? With how rare Splatfests are turning up now and how high the cost of re rolling with money. I'm having to put more gear on a wait list. I guess in the end the game makes you grind really hard for money to re roll. Giving you something to do but Is this just a personal problem or are other people waiting on more Splatfest for snails?
Splatfest over?
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I'm pretty sure that Splatfests will continue. If we don't get a theme this week, then…I dunno.
I can't imagine they'd do away with splatfests. If they did, they would have to release a new way to get sea snails because there is no way the community will be okay with being forced into choosing either paying huge amounts of money for rerolling or savescumming. I would say they could just lower the price of rerolling (and I still think they should) but they won't do that in place of having a method of getting snails. They've already integrated snails into the system. We all have a snail counter. Spyke's character is focused on being the creepy guy who very obviously eats the snails. If they do away with splatfests, they'll come up with a new way to get snails. There's no reason for them to nix a feature of the game that's already so integrated.
But like I said, I highly doubt they'll do away with splatfests. If they don't have to come up with a new snail source, they won't.
But like I said, I highly doubt they'll do away with splatfests. If they don't have to come up with a new snail source, they won't.
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30k for rerolls isn't that bad. It's pretty easy to get money.
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There are 3 possibilities as to what's going on with Splatfests:
It's very annoying, but I'm not worried that they're not having Splatfests ever again or anything!
http://www.gamezone.com/news/splatoon-free-content-updates-to-end-in-january-2016-3431551http://www.gamezone.com/news/splatoon-free-content-updates-to-end-in-january-2016-3431551
- Superbowl last week, Valentines Day this week, maybe they wanted to space it so it doesn't land with another major event that will keep people busy.
- Last Splatfest was Japan's and the servers went down hard for most of the night as soon as it started. It's possible there's a serious server-side issue they still must resolve before starting another Splatfest.
- All the complaints about the predictable results and scoring for NA Splatfests, it's possible, but unlikely they're implementing rule changes for it to try to address the problems.
It's very annoying, but I'm not worried that they're not having Splatfests ever again or anything!
- Hirashi Nogami, Producer Splatoon.
http://www.gamezone.com/news/splatoon-free-content-updates-to-end-in-january-2016-3431551http://www.gamezone.com/news/splatoon-free-content-updates-to-end-in-january-2016-3431551
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We can confirm Splatfests are still on-going because Nintendo sent out a push notification to 3DS systems today, talking about DLC.
In it, they say, “Splatfests let you pick a side and take part in special day-long ink-blasting events. If your team wins, you get cool in-game rewards!"”
In it, they say, “Splatfests let you pick a side and take part in special day-long ink-blasting events. If your team wins, you get cool in-game rewards!"”
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Just checked and I got that message too.
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Can also confirm I got the notification. As for when they come, we'll just have to wait and see.
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Pokémon Red version vs Pokémon Green!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The US got their own too. This is so cool!
http://splatoonus.tumblr.com/post/139145051315/breaking-news-weve-just-learned-that-the-next
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Wow, wonder if it will be the same for Europe then?The US got their own too. This is so cool!
http://splatoonus.tumblr.com/post/139145051315/breaking-news-weve-just-learned-that-the-next
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if they announce it for europe as well, we might be getting our first worlwide splatfest.
EDIT: okay initially i thought this would be a conjoined splatfest. like all the regions participating in the same splatfest, but looking at it now, this may not be the case since it's red vs blue here and red vs green in japan. they might happen at the same time, but not together. aw :(, and i was looking forward to fighting some japanese in splatfest. it might still happen though (it's all speculation really)
EDIT: okay initially i thought this would be a conjoined splatfest. like all the regions participating in the same splatfest, but looking at it now, this may not be the case since it's red vs blue here and red vs green in japan. they might happen at the same time, but not together. aw :(, and i was looking forward to fighting some japanese in splatfest. it might still happen though (it's all speculation really)
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WOW WOW WOW. Been waiting so long and we get Pokemon! :) So happy.The US got their own too. This is so cool!
http://splatoonus.tumblr.com/post/139145051315/breaking-news-weve-just-learned-that-the-next
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Yeah, it's just going to be region-locked. Still, more chances for Marie to win in the same theme!
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Whats save-scumming?
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Cheating.
Not everyone sees it as cheating, but that's really what it is. It's a method of using the WiiU's ability to back up save data on external storage to revert your game to a previous save state if you don't like your results.
The point of doing this is twofold: Players will "scum ranks" where they keep only their wins and revert to backup to erase their losses, so they climb ranks quickly despite possibly losing more than they win.
The other is "gear scumming" where if you don't like your random slot roll on a gear item, you just keep reverting to the save before the roll until it randomly rolls whatever you wanted it to roll, however unlikely. Most of the tiem when you see people with all their sub slots loaded with the same item, you can bet they scummed for it. Odds would be way to low to do that organically even with buying tons of rerolls.
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