#Battle Pass, or Why I Won't Support the Devs with Money Anymore

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torpid nymph
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I'm just an average guy with a full-time job and a personal life. I can only play either in the evenings after work or in the mornings before. And it's not like I live only on Rematch—I have other games I enjoy too.

Right now I've got 36 hours on Steam, but only 17 hours of actual playtime. Why? Because the rest is me sitting in the queue waiting for a match.

Currently:

  • Level 37
  • 185 matches played
  • 38 tokens collected

To get those 38 tokens, I had to farm 66,500 XP (1750 × 38). Divide that by 185 matches → about 359 XP per match.

That means 1 token costs ~5 matches. Each match is ~5 minutes. So it's 25 minutes for ONE token.

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Now, to complete the BP:

  • Base BP: 105 tokens
  • BP + Finale: 420 tokens

Do the math:

  • 105 × 25min = 2,625 min = 43h
  • 420 × 25min = 10,500 min = 175h

Let that sink in. 175 hours IN MATCHES.
And the kicker? Buying the BP gave me NO XP boost, no token boost, nothing.

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What if we had XP boosts?
25% XP Boost

  • Avg XP: 448.75
  • 1 token ≈ 19.5 min
  • 105 tokens = 34h
  • 420 tokens = 136.5h

50% XP Boost

  • Avg XP: 538.5
  • 1 token ≈ 16.25 min
  • 105 tokens = 28.4h
  • 420 tokens = 113.8h

Even with 50% boost, the grind is 30–114 hours of pure gameplay. Absolutely insane.

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My conclusion
The Battle Pass is straight-up not worth buying.
Sloclap, you screwed this one up. You're setting impossible grind requirements. You want people to no-life your game 24/7, but guess what—players won't. They'll just move on. And we can already see it: the playerbase is shrinking every week.

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What devs need to do:

  • Give compensation to current BP buyers (free tokens, at least enough for the base BP → ~50–100 tokens).
  • Rework XP requirements and total tokens needed.

I really hope the devs actually listen to the community here. The game itself has huge potential, but this kind of grind just kills the motivation to play. I don't think fixing the BP alone will magically bring back players, but it would at least let the current playerbase actually enjoy what they paid for. Right now it just feels punishing.

And btw — the game doesn't even have proper weeklies or dailies (other than the "first win of the day" which gives a pathetic 500 XP). That's basically nothing.

torpid nymph
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Battle Pass, or Why I Won't Support the Devs with Money Anymore