Urgent: Community Challenges Update

[HustlinOwl]

http://forums.theshownation.com/forum/mlb-the-show/news-developer-journals/393981-urgent-community-challenges-update

In the past weeks, it’s become very obvious that the culture around Community Challenges has strayed from what we had hoped it would be. When we implemented it, we envisioned a place where users would thoughtfully craft interesting bite-size play sessions for their peers to test their skills against. It was always important to us that when someone took the time to sit down and create something compelling, they better be rewarded for doing so. We thought it would awesome to add a currency component to raise the stakes of the competition.

Community Challenges has evolved to a point where for every well thought out challenge made, we see an overwhelming number of very dull challenges and even worse, clickbait titles and descriptions attempting to confuse users about how the system actually works. We wish we had made some aspects of the mode more easily understood.

For now, we are taking steps towards revitalizing Community Challenges. A couple weeks ago, we put a restriction in that prevented users from creating challenges with Stub Buy-Ins. We immediately saw a huge increase in the average quality of challenges created. Today, we updated all active challenges to be free to play. In the upcoming patch, we will be updating the User Interface to reflect our decision to remove currency integration from the mode for the time being. We remain open to integrating currency into the mode in an interesting way moving forward. A big thanks to everyone who takes the time to create cool stuff in our game.