GAC “Make good” lol

"UdalCuain;c-2338045" wrote:

"Aachthor;c-2338043" wrote:

"Ultra;c-2337760" wrote:
You missed 2 rounds and you ended up getting the entire week again (3 rounds)

So you are earning more this season (13 round season) than any other

To clarify without the need of doing "correct" math: This GAC season has a length of 6 weeks (one extra week delay!) but we only get the rewards for 3 weeks + 1 Fight + 1000 Crystals

And you really "dare" to write, we will own more than ever?

I really don't understand why people such as yourself are struggling with this.

We had two full rounds of three battles.

In round three (of four total) we got one battle, then it hit the fan.

The restart gives us the remaining two rounds.

So we get four rounds (as is the norm) plus one battle.

The thing here is "delayed". CG calls it delayed because then they can get away with lower compensation.

But if I stopped playing right now then I will have lost the crystals I was supposed to gain. So by defining this as a delayed event they are trying to keep us played in order to always get the delayed reward.

Because the reward is only delayed as long as you keep playing.

What I don't get is why they aren't actually using this to score some goodwill.

They should have assumed max rewards for all players and given everybody that. It would have made us all happy and put them in a positive light.

And the happier we are the more likely we see to keep/increase spending.

When they define this as delayed rewards instead of lost, and the lowball the rewards, they are pissong off people, and also decreasing their will to spend.

Sure some people will spend now because they are lacking crystals for the Executor event, but that will likely be a one off.

"UdalCuain;c-2338045" wrote:

"Aachthor;c-2338043" wrote:

"Ultra;c-2337760" wrote:
You missed 2 rounds and you ended up getting the entire week again (3 rounds)

So you are earning more this season (13 round season) than any other

To clarify without the need of doing "correct" math: This GAC season has a length of 6 weeks (one extra week delay!) but we only get the rewards for 3 weeks + 1 Fight + 1000 Crystals

And you really "dare" to write, we will own more than ever?

I really don't understand why people such as yourself are struggling with this.

We had two full rounds of three battles.

In round three (of four total) we got one battle, then it hit the fan.

The restart gives us the remaining two rounds.

So we get four rounds (as is the norm) plus one battle.

Four rounds in how many weeks? Hint. Round 1 started Jan 17th.

"Dreapool;c-2338054" wrote:

"UdalCuain;c-2338045" wrote:

"Aachthor;c-2338043" wrote:

"Ultra;c-2337760" wrote:
You missed 2 rounds and you ended up getting the entire week again (3 rounds)

So you are earning more this season (13 round season) than any other

To clarify without the need of doing "correct" math: This GAC season has a length of 6 weeks (one extra week delay!) but we only get the rewards for 3 weeks + 1 Fight + 1000 Crystals

And you really "dare" to write, we will own more than ever?

I really don't understand why people such as yourself are struggling with this.

We had two full rounds of three battles.

In round three (of four total) we got one battle, then it hit the fan.

The restart gives us the remaining two rounds.

So we get four rounds (as is the norm) plus one battle.

Four rounds in how many weeks? Hint. Round 1 started Jan 17th.

I'm not arguing the timescale. The person I was responding to is flat out wrong that we are getting one less round this GAC.

Dismissing complaints because the event was pushed back and will still be played is wrong and doesn't mean players weren't adversely affected by the delay. This is all about the time value of money (crystals in this case) and the notion that crystals today are always better than crystals tomorrow.

For exmaple: if the delayed crystals meant I couldn't refresh cantina enough to relic a character that is used on this weeks GC it will cost me the difference in rewards from the 8th crate to the 10th. The same is true for Assault Battles, Omega Battles, Special Events, etc. Once those are missed this week there is no way to ever get them back and there are often sizable differences in reward tiers.

"UdalCuain;c-2338057" wrote:

"Dreapool;c-2338054" wrote:

"UdalCuain;c-2338045" wrote:

"Aachthor;c-2338043" wrote:

"Ultra;c-2337760" wrote:
You missed 2 rounds and you ended up getting the entire week again (3 rounds)

So you are earning more this season (13 round season) than any other

To clarify without the need of doing "correct" math: This GAC season has a length of 6 weeks (one extra week delay!) but we only get the rewards for 3 weeks + 1 Fight + 1000 Crystals

And you really "dare" to write, we will own more than ever?

I really don't understand why people such as yourself are struggling with this.

We had two full rounds of three battles.

In round three (of four total) we got one battle, then it hit the fan.

The restart gives us the remaining two rounds.

So we get four rounds (as is the norm) plus one battle.

Four rounds in how many weeks? Hint. Round 1 started Jan 17th.

I'm not arguing the timescale. The person I was responding to is flat out wrong that we are getting one less round this GAC.

Ok, well the timescale is the main issue.

We are getting one less round (minus the 1 attack) by 2/28. the start of the next GAC.

The question remains if this delay affects all future seasons or if they will compress the off-times a little to get back on schedule within some months

I think this comment on Reddit is the best take I've seen on the compensation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/stjc2w/grand_arenas_reschedule_update_inbox_this_week/hx4p2vo/

tl;dr - For a 0.500 K1 player, the loss of crystals after the make good is about 400-500 in total.

I'd like to add, as others have pointed out, that the delay in the compensation did negatively affect some folks grinding for Executor. Also, when CG messes up hard like this, why are they so calculated in their response? Okay, it's probably EA shenanigans. But just throw some crystals out there on top of the calculated compensation to garner some good will, if EA will let you.

"Ragnarok_COTF;c-2338067" wrote:
I think this comment on Reddit is the best take I've seen on the compensation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/stjc2w/grand_arenas_reschedule_update_inbox_this_week/hx4p2vo/

tl;dr - For a 0.500 K1 player, the loss of crystals after the make good is about 400-500 in total.

I'd like to add, as others have pointed out, that the delay in the compensation did negatively affect some folks grinding for Executor. Also, when CG messes up hard like this, why are they so calculated in their response? Okay, it's probably EA shenanigans. But just throw some crystals out there on top of the calculated compensation to garner some good will, if EA will let you.

That is a nice calculation, thank you for sharing. A shame that CG didn't present such kind of explanation how they estimated their numbers.

"Ragnarok_COTF;c-2338067" wrote:
I think this comment on Reddit is the best take I've seen on the compensation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/stjc2w/grand_arenas_reschedule_update_inbox_this_week/hx4p2vo/

tl;dr - For a 0.500 K1 player, the loss of crystals after the make good is about 400-500 in total.

I'd like to add, as others have pointed out, that the delay in the compensation did negatively affect some folks grinding for Executor. Also, when CG messes up hard like this, why are they so calculated in their response? Okay, it's probably EA shenanigans. But just throw some crystals out there on top of the calculated compensation to garner some good will, if EA will let you.

Great breakdown!

I agree, the crystals should not match up to what was lose to break-even, but should include more stuff for the downtime and trouble

"24_Tuesdays;c-2338055" wrote:

"TheDude420;c-2338048" wrote:
We wouldn’t be so frustrated if they didn’t make GAC our main source of crystals instead of arena.

We were told there would be minimal disruption to our income due to this switch from Squad Arena to GAC, but as this “make good” shows, they are misleading everyone.

Did you forget about this statement, CG? The minimal change in crystal income you said we’d experience due to the change to GAC?

For those of us in K1 who used to take 1st in arena every day, that’s turned out to be a crock of ****. This “make good” only reiterates that.

If you are in K1 you are earning more crystals than you used to just by winning half the time

That’s true, except for the week in question where we didn’t get any rewards.

Don’t you guys see that if the next GAC is delayed a week, we’ll still be missing a week of rewards?