No Player Wipes!
We’ve received a lot of feedback from our player community that they’re bummed we plan to wipe all player data sometime in the future. While this was originally intended so that we could gather your ...
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This is wrong in soo many ways, first off all besides all crying.
Alpha is for test right, to get out bugs and op units before real realase, now... players got their ranks, lvls and stuff with these buggs and pre nerfed units.
Ofc not to mention USA, CA vs Rest of the world imbalance. I was so in to CnC i won many online/offline tournaments, and i was hoping for a good game, a good RTS.
You know what... i wanted to make more reason but why should i. You wont listen anyway.
Good bye comptetive gaming, hey there p2w.
Good thing WoW BFA coming in aug 14 i wont have a hard choice of which game iam gonna play after this statement you just made.
Hi @Hixjohn,
We are listening and taking feedback from all of our players. If there are concerns around this announcement (or anything related to Rivals), I am more than happy to listen to those concerns and help out as needed. I may also be able to address some of the concerns, as needed.
You are correct; the pre-alpha phase allows us to make balance changes to commanders, units, maps, progression, etc and find and fix any bugs that may crop up. We will continue to balance units, maps, commanders, etc. and issue bug fixes as needed after the game is launched.
We are committed to making the matches as balanced as possible. Players will battle others around their same level. This means that new players should not face off against players with a high medal count.We will monitor the matchmaking system to ensure that it is functioning properly, and can adjust it as needed. As players win and earn medals, they will continue to face opponents around their level. Those just starting the game will have a chance to learn and try new tactics as they progress through the game.
Again, please feel free to let me know any concerns or questions that you have.
@EA Dance. I understand that alpha is to test the system you all have in place. But it should also you to wipe the accounts for players that test your system and found bugs and glitches.
So players did not par take in the survey that granted them 1000 gems to forward there advancements. that gives unfair balance to new players and even a few week old players.
With the no wipe system you have no room to test or try things knowing that the game is set in stone now. So players like myself who have tested different units places gems and gold in different upgrades now find our selves at a lose because we could have tested or done things differently.
The no wipe players is wrong on many lvls. We are testers not a live beta. "Live beta" is where players keep the progress of the accounts not a PRE ALPHA.
Players who found glitches and exploited them have an upper advantage over other players. Players who found bugs inside troop balance now have a higher medal and advancement over all players as well.
You cant allow players who are testing and finding the bugs and fixes to keep the accounts that might have exploited these at the time before any fix was done.
I would love to hear good reasons to why you want a NO wipe is not in the future because as a player I would like to have EQUAL opportunity as every other player does when it launches to the world.
- I've given my opinion elsewhere but it occurs to me I never put it here on the forum.
I also think there should be a player wipe, was looking forward to it honestly, it does feel unfair for people coming in at launch or even just later in the alpha.
To spread information a bit on what the devs have said about this decision though since it doesn't seem to have made it here, they have said that the top ranking players will be compressed down in medals so that we're all closer to 2k on each faction, so some things will change even without a wipe. I'll also leave you with a quote from one of the devs on the discord from when this first came up:
"As we let new people into the game, it'll be better for there to already be players distributed throughout the matchmaking tiers, so that people can find more appropriate matches immediately as they rank up instead of it being sorta a coin toss
Additionally, people have put in a tremendous amount of hard work and effort progressing their accounts, and we don't want all of that work to feel like it was wasted, especially since we super appreciate how patient you all have been with bugs, balance, and general early access shenanigans"
