EA Staff (Retired)
@rifleSim wrote:
@Marine_CorporaII don't know what's the game's price in AppStore, but on PlayStore it's definitely free. My win rate, when still facing beatable opponents, was quite good too - that's after all how I got in Masters, right? But the described by you strategy - loosing on purpose so to stay in low league, just proves my statement that this is a pay-to-win game. If you don't want to pay, then you are forced to lose so to be able to play at all.
As for what is foolish, I'd use this qualification for a matchmaking system that takes into account only the points of the players, bit not their level which is in direct relation to their units level. You can't expect a fair fight between lvl 30 and lvl 60. In any normal MMO game you can attack players only within a given level range from yours. Even in the ELO system used in chess and adopted by many others, if you play with somebody, who is fat beneath you, you can lose points even in case of a victory. Or maybe the ELO creators are fools too?
Mostly all games are free now to download and play with in app purchases. That’s how they make money now. There really aren’t anymore pay once games that are worth anything anymore. It’s the newest model that makes the most money. Even Call of Duty does it. Would I rather pay once? Of course. But I’m not in charge of that.
I agree with you about the matchmaking. The whole league thing and matchmaking due to medal count alone sucks for us. But I understand why they do it. It’s a business. They have to make it where you want or need to spend money. You wouldn’t spend a dime if all you got matched with was level 8 units all the time like you have. Why pay to move up to level 9 when it doesn’t matter?
So if we want to play, we have to play within those parameters or just quit. And those parameters are that we pay to level up now or wait to level up for free. That’s it. Complaining about it isn’t going to make the CEO of EA just make the game totally free and pay his developers and IT guys out of his own pocket for charity.
You can actually control your own matchmaking by losing on purpose when you get to the top of Diamond league and bring yourself right back to Diamond 3 and keep doing it until you level up your units for free. But since you don’t want to do that then paying is your only option if you do not want to keep losing.
