Pay to win is coming, kids.
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Well there's a big difference between the option of paying for cosmetics (that can also be earned through play), and the option of being able to buy sticker packs that not only unlock new characters, but also give you skip challenges to raise your rank. To be honest I even despise the route of paying for cosmetics, especially that can't be earned through play, however when you start getting things like skip challenges to raise your rank what's the point of having a rank showing in the first place? Exactly.
And RaineyKins, this isn't about maturity level. If I want to play in the welcome mat I could do so and do even better than I already do in GaG mode. This doesn't affect player skill I'm aware of that. I am good enough already to be competitive in the game. What bothers me is that it allows you to skip your way through the ranks, completely undermining the ranking system.
@KidDavey wrote:And RaineyKins, this isn't about maturity level. If I want to play in the welcome mat I could do so and do even better than I already do in GaG mode. This doesn't affect player skill I'm aware of that. I am good enough already to be competitive in the game. What bothers me is that it allows you to skip your way through the ranks, completely undermining the ranking system.
So NOW your arguement is that "Winning" is dictated by a ranking system that has absolutely no bearing on whether you win matches or not?
Skip Challenge stickers already existed. Rank is no more accurately measured in your head now than it will be later, because people are using skip stickers right now anyways, and I will reiterate, High Rank /= "Winning"
And lastly, in a game like this, what does Rank even matter? If your "Naturally aquired rank" so important to you that you'd demonify the ability for others to get to the same point easier?
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No that's not my argument. Winning is dedicated by skill and if you read my post you'd see I mentioned that being able to buy packs won't affect skill. The ranking system is now just pointless because you could easily have just outright bought it. And yes, rank does matter. Maybe not to you, but to lots of people it does.
- I can't wait I'm going to buy $30 worth Of coins and enjoy the boost . I only have time to play maybe 2hrs a day
Well this sucks, all the hours I've spent to reach max level all goes to waste because people can just pay their way to max level. Sure we pay the developers to give us better content, but I hate the fact that now the people with barely of time put into this game and have very poor skills are able to reach high level. I think that EA should awards the people that actually play the game to achieve a very high level with something. I don't really care what it is it could be an in-game clothing for your plant/zombie characters just give the people that play the game for hours on end something...
To unlock the clothing, there should be certain circumstances for it like: play for 20 hours or play this mode 3-5 times in a row or something that could benefit us "normal" players (Note it doesn't have to be clothing).
Well at least for sure we know 9/10 times who is the adult that's playing the game.
Adult = more money = higher rank
Kid = less money = lower rank
@KidDavey wrote:No that's not my argument. Winning is dedicated by skill and if you read my post you'd see I mentioned that being able to buy packs won't affect skill. The ranking system is now just pointless because you could easily have just outright bought it. And yes, rank does matter. Maybe not to you, but to lots of people it does.
In this game, winning doesn't mean you're skilled. I've played numerous G&G games which were lost because of selfish gameplay. Zombies should easily win 99% of the time if people play the objective. Unfortunately, selfish gameplay is the cause of numerous zombie losses... whether it's due to worrying about kill/death ratios, trying to complete challenges, or whatever the reason is that zombies aren't in the objective.
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@KidDavey wrote:The ranking system is now just pointless because you could easily have just outright bought it. And yes, rank does matter. Maybe not to you, but to lots of people it does.
Rank is and always has been pointless. Sorry, just stating the facts. The intended point to rank, I'm guessing, was to show compitency in various aspects of the game. Things like boast awards, tactical vanquishes (x2 with a single ability for example), overall vanquishes and strategic environment vanquishes (Like elevated). In the beginning a player might get 20 skip stars in the natural progression to lvl 20 with a single character. The moment they increased skip star drop rate, rank became worthless. It doesn't matter if they are purchased with cash or game time, any player skilled or not can skip to max rank with minimal effort. By all means I understand why skips exist, for the harder challenges that don't agree with players. But, at this point it is faster to play normally ignoring all form of challenge and just buy your way to max. If they wanted rank to hold meaning skips should have stayed the way they were.
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