Why promote a Custom Portal Game Mode

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@DominickB3 wrote:

Am I the only one who finds it tone deaf to promote a new community portal mode on Fridays? I mean you can't even progress anything and there's still an xp cap on portal mode at this point. They haven't given any updates on a return or progression or full xp to the mode, so why keep trying to push people into it. 

https://twitter.com/Battlefield/status/1479484585247399954?s=20  

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Because the customization is fun and many have liked the content in Portal.  Don't blame DICE on the xp cap, blame all the people who decided on taking cheap shortcuts to boost their status instead of grinding like everyone else.

@DominickB3 

If I'm not mistaken, the official Portal servers will allow progression beyond just XP.  It's the player-created custom Portal servers that don't which is a real shame.

@VBALL_MVP 

How are the devs blameless?  They were the ones who were supposed to have the protections in place to help mitigate this problem but it was clear they didn't.  Thomas Anderson even went over this in an interview months ago with Jack Frags. He obviously couldn't reveal any details but they were aware this could be an exploit and said protections would be in place to handle it.

Obviously the cheaters are guilty of exploiting Portal with their farms but the rest of us have to pay the price for the developers lack of action to put protections in place to help prevent such behavior.  There is a level of culpability on their part here for this particular problem and responsibility of EA / DICE to deal with such issues in their games.  ....cheaters, hackers, exploiters, harassment, etc.

What gets me is that after the fact they implemented an XP cap that is based on minute by minute activity. However, they still won't allow full progression of Mastery, etc. Why they can't apply similar logic to those is beyond me.  It would better than what we have which is nothing.  ....except XP of course. 

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@DominickB3 wrote:
@Kean_1111It's a custom game mode that you enter the code to create and play. So the restrictions are in full effect for it.

The featured game modes at the front screen are full progression, but the one their twitter advertises isn't one of those.

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Ah, I see.  I misunderstood.  Thought it was an official server for some reason.

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@mesterKG wrote:
@DominickB3Because some people play for fun, not progression?

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I think his point is more about why are some so adamant about protecting progression to the point of excluding Portal players from unlocking weapons, etc. 

There are those of us not looking to exploit the game with the purpose of farming weapon unlocks to then use in AOW against other players but to simply use in our own Portal Experiences, etc.

Back to my point about placing protections in place like the XP cap.  Why can't they just do that with Mastery, etc.?  Limit kills per minute to a reasonable level for example.  Only so many would count toward a Mastery unlock for that weapon and so on.  Again, it would be way better than not having the ability at all to level up Mastery unlocks which is where we are at currently.

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@DominickB3 wrote:
@VBALL_MVPMy only issue is, why does it matter if people waste their time doing that? It doesn't make them any better, the challenges in this game are not difficult just time consuming. Does anyone at this point really brag about their rank or mastery as a way to feel better in this game? They have lost so many players, they may as well open everything back up. It might increase the player base again even if it leads to farming.

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So if it doesn't matter so much about progressing, why you complaining about it?

Here is why it matters: since progression unlocks guns, people can have all the top guns and attachments ahead of everyone else.  We saw that with people melting the competition using better unlocked guns on day 2 when others are still trying to grind it out.  What a great way to keep the player base.