GAC is over and guess what

Whether you believe it or not, BOTH Ahnald and CG are benefiting from this adversity between them. Both of them know it and both of them are enjoying that adversarial relationship because of the benefits from it.

He's got some solid stuff and for the most part I don't mind, it's just occasionally that he goes overboard and I have to turn it off.

"MilHanso;c-2327791" wrote:

"ImaSmakya;c-2327787" wrote:

"Rath_Tarr;c-2327783" wrote:

"Drim;c-2327703" wrote:
One loss from 1st! To my post still no news on the winners from the 1st real GAC from CG talk about tone deaf 1000’s of players we’re watching this 1st round and not a peep from CG.

First real GAC? :D :D :D

GAC is now WAC - Wallet Arena Championship - because the only way to the top is a high GP roster with all the latest toys and the really good players are scattered throughout the leagues, not even necessarily showing up in the top 50 of their current league / division.

Really good players from CG’s perspective are those that spend the most so WAI. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Well, before GAC the really good players from the mafias perspective were the ones that engaged into their little groups to profit from it. So, now the mafias from each arena node aren't happy because they can't bully the others for easy cristal income. For me I've never been happier with the game, since my cristal income has doubled because of that.

Not sure what this thread has to do with any of that. Nobody was talking about crystal income or the “best” in thousands of mafia controlled shards. That horse is now officially dead, move on.

I like Ahnald. He's a whale but classifies himself as a product tester. He does actually test these new characters for us so we know if it worth the time investment. I don't see that as a bad thing.

Yes he does call out CG when they make a mistake but I think the real reason they black ball him is because he discourages people who consider whaling because of the sheer costs involved. At the end of the day, this is a mobile game not a mobile casino. They shouldn't even be encouraging people to spend $350 on new characters as it's socially irresponsible and could lead a lot of vulnerable people like gambling addicts into serious debt.

I'm not saying it is all CGs fault. In an ideal world, everyone would have impulse control. I do personally they should re-think their pricing model though.

"el_mago;c-2327773" wrote:

"Whatelse73;c-2327710" wrote:
Whether you believe it or not, BOTH Ahnald and CG are benefiting from this adversity between them. Both of them know it and both of them are enjoying that adversarial relationship because of the benefits from it.

He's got some solid stuff and for the most part I don't mind, it's just occasionally that he goes overboard and I have to turn it off.

I'm curious about that. I absolutely see how Ahnald benefits from the adversarial relationship, but I fail to see how CG capitalizes on that at all. They are the villain to thousands (and maybe hundreds of thousands) of players (sidenote: i have no idea why players who hate this game/CG will still continue play it and bash it - it's beyond me). How does that benefit CG?

Because they are still playing and he's keeping thousands of fans involved and motivated to play SWGOH. I can't see how people who hate the game would continue to play either. I enjoy the game, it's just certain decisions and parts of the game that frustrate me and/or that I hate. (i.e., Grindquest, excessive RNG, etc.) I'd much love it if they had a common sense checker on staff for them to ask, "is this stupid?" before they implement something, but all too often the beancounters are making decisions instead of the devs creating content for the game.

Competition / adversarial relationships are good for business, especially when you have a huge platform to present your created content to.

"Ravens1113;c-2327342" wrote:
He’s too outspoken against them. He has a heavy following to boot so if they feed into that it’ll be bad for business. Ahnald is without a doubt my fav content creator cause he tells it like it is. Wish MobileGamer was still playing cause they made great collabs together.

I also enjoy Cubs, APGains and Hynsey of course. They’ve got some great stuff rolling out but Ahnald is just in a separate tier as far as entertainment. It’s a shame CG won’t actually listen to content creators like all of them for ideas, since they have such big followings. Oh well, CG’s loss

...My loss too as a member of the player base. ?.

That being said, no one voice should dominate the conversation. There's a lot of great ideas out there and some bad ones too. I don't think the majority always gets it right either.

You are going to get flamed by all the anti ahnald hipsters. He has a big following so everyone is going to try and earn cool points by slamming him.

Ahnald is pretty good from an entertainment perspective and to see what teams the whales use. However itsjustian is more at my player level (even faced him a few times) so in terms of developing my game I tend to prefer to see streamers running teams that i can use.

"Antario;c-2327386" wrote:
From a learning PoV, I prefer watching other content creators, who are definitely better players. Unfortunately, not so many can whale into the bracket he's currently in.

Finish 6th in the new GAC mode does not mean you are among the best players of the world. It just means your are among the best whaling players.

I'm honestly a bit surprised he got up to 6th place. Let me honestly worry about the real skill level among the whaling players :lol:

Link your GAC history for us to judge then Mr High and Mighty

"slickdealer;c-2327623" wrote:

"Antario;c-2327386" wrote:
From a learning PoV, I prefer watching other content creators, who are definitely better players. Unfortunately, not so many can whale into the bracket he's currently in.

Finish 6th in the new GAC mode does not mean you are among the best players of the world. It just means your are among the best whaling players.

I'm honestly a bit surprised he got up to 6th place. Let me honestly worry about the real skill level among the whaling players :lol:

Link your GAC history for us to judge then Mr High and Mighty

LOL What do you want to judge? I'm not the one claiming being one the best players of the world. (But some guy mentioned here did and then lost a match by timing out to a r8 Nest) :lol:

btw. anyone can easily google my swgoh.gg account by searching "Swgoh Antario"

Hell i found out i dropped rank