A solution to this mess of a month

"Crackling_Doom;c-1840878" wrote:
Is there a tl;dr version of your post?

Literally less than a books page you fat lazy

I think the only solution is to drop yet another Friday announcement and ignore it afterwards

Stop advocating for things like this please. Not sure if you've noticed, but any time rewards get changed they do not ever change in our favor...

Good idea. As long as 3v3 GA gets canned.

"John_Matrix1985;c-1844090" wrote:
Ship arena is where the whales hang out. Why would whales care about $3 in crystals on a squad arena payout. You can't buy zetas

Ship arena is indeed where the whales hang out. Not only do you need to invest heavily (g12+5) in toons that are not needed elsewhere (until the falcon meta which whales all hate because it's easy to win with lesser built up ships) you need to put 6dot mods on all of them to ensure you've got the speed advantage. Ship arena forces you to really expand your roster at a much larger rate than squad arena and still has the same exploitation of spending desire for immediate results. Grand Arena doesn't provide the same kind of immediate spending results that squad arena and fleet arena do in terms of making your teams better and being able to see that immediately, plus you can still lose in Grand Arena as a whale because you get matched up against other whales, so while that makes the game mode more interesting, it doesn't put you at a clear advantage the way spending in squad arena and fleet arena does. Spending for the new hot meta when you're at a low GP will show obvious rewards increase in GA, but at the top end everyone else is already spending. You're just spending to stay where you are relative to them, whereas Squad + Fleet arena can let you spend to actually get ahead of the other people as theres a much larger pool of people to step on.

Then you add in the fact that there's only one thing you really can't buy in this game at that is more zeta materials. Which add to the power of your ships and toons which lets you continue to stomp on the people who don't spend as much. People pay for an advantage, GA doesn't allow people to pay for a clear advantage with the biggest whales, so there's not enough reason for CG/EA to switch that.

As much as I love GA, trying to make that the biggest source of crystals in the game would severely anger many whales and krakens and cut the income that CG/EA sees by a drastic amount.

"Vertigo;c-1844269" wrote:

As much as I love GA, trying to make that the biggest source of crystals in the game would severely anger many whales and krakens and cut the income that CG/EA sees by a drastic amount.

People always doomsay about "angering the whales" but honestly whales are all severe addicts. I'm fairly certain 99% of them will keep playing no matter what. Yes, you'll get one or two that make big dramatic posts and quit the game, but most of them will just grumble a bunch and keep on playing and spending. And of the ones that do quit, half of them will come back.

"Jarvind;c-1844282" wrote:

"Vertigo;c-1844269" wrote:

As much as I love GA, trying to make that the biggest source of crystals in the game would severely anger many whales and krakens and cut the income that CG/EA sees by a drastic amount.

People always doomsay about "angering the whales" but honestly whales are all severe addicts. I'm fairly certain 99% of them will keep playing no matter what. Yes, you'll get one or two that make big dramatic posts and quit the game, but most of them will just grumble a bunch and keep on playing and spending. And of the ones that do quit, half of them will come back.

I'm not saying they're going to quit, I'm saying they won't have as much incentive to keep spending. They won't get as much return on what they buy, now obviously many of them will continue to play and spend at the exact same rate, but a large portion of them will not be spending nearly as much because there won't be as much reason to do so.