Can Someone Explain This "Sandbox" Mode You Seem To Want So Much?

"Scuttlebutt;c-2097324" wrote:

"ZAP;c-2097312" wrote:
So people actually believe that highly professional degreed data analysts and management, especially the caliber that EA/CG hires, believe there is a relevant correlation between the replay able PVE content we have and a possible sandbox mode?

I say hogwash and don’t believe that excuse for a second. These are extremely intelligent people and there’s very little chance they believe that data is truly relevant in this case and if so, just wow.

I think the truth is that not only can they not monetize it like they would want to, they probably believe it would negatively affect income.

I could believe this. I mean the ability to test all different combinations of characters would give people the ability to find cheap and potentially undergeared counters to meta teams. It would really upset the balance at the top of arena shards.

This and the above. Indeed, this is why they won't do it. They probably realized that and backtracked from that idea.

• no ROI at all from this game mode (as suggested, even possibly negative)
  
• the average playerbase will become "too smart" to do more with less too quickly -- to find all kind of counters without spending any crystals (or $$ on crystals for) on refreshes and not spending extra on gear, etc, if less would do. They don't want the playerbase at large to get involved in this kind of "testing" indefinitely.
  
• this may throw off-balance as well the way people play GAC, and TW, etc. constantly going back to sandbox before each potentially difficult match. The Sandbox would have been used heavily I am sure, but, there will be other sources of complaints in return related to balance upsets mentioned earlier
  

In no way they'd want that, so we won't see the sandbox mode :( I am sure it's not related to implementation difficulty or resource availability to do so. At the company of this scale I am sure they must have some internal testbed sandbox-like setups to test squads and interactions, but releasing a playable version of that will hurt their bottom line in the long run.