[MEGA] State of the Galaxy: November 2021

"Drathuk916;c-2318213" wrote:

"SiuanPamic;c-2318154" wrote:

"MasterSeedy;c-2318150" wrote:
@SiuanPamic

The only people who stand to lose daily crystals are the ones who have no skill.

You completely ignored what I actually said. Nice job. Well at least now I know replying to you isn't fruitful.

Removing crystals from SA is an attack on whales. I didn’t realize I had to spell that out.

If you’ve studied the changes you’d have seen that these changes don’t harm whales at all. Whales will see an increase in crystals. All players under 5 million gp will see a decrease and most between 5-6 will see a decrease.

Time will tell. My shard sucks and I am not a fan of solo content. I like this change though. Hopefully it pans out. Even if I lose, I stand to gain.

So I won't earn crystals from squad arena anymore but you still expect me to spend crystals to refresh attacks or reduce my cool down?

To have crystals be at the mercy of poor matchmaking (hasn't been fixed yet), disconnects, crashes, "client must be restarted", poorly-balanced game mode (3v3), the decisions of other people (auto deploys), and just randomness (speed ties, misses, resists). What fun.

"Geshtianna;c-2318227" wrote:
To have crystals be at the mercy of poor matchmaking (hasn't been fixed yet), disconnects, crashes, "client must be restarted", the decisions of other people (auto deploys), and just randomness (speed ties, misses, resists). What fun.

The first block of the post was about MM changes. What would you consider to be "fixed"?

"MaruMaru;c-2318215" wrote:

"LordDirt;c-2318209" wrote:

"MaruMaru;c-2318207" wrote:

"LordDirt;c-2318206" wrote:

"MaruMaru;c-2318199" wrote:

"ShaggyB;c-2318195" wrote:

"ScoundrelRui;c-2318187" wrote:

"LordDirt;c-2318173" wrote:

"Mephisto_style;c-2318169" wrote:

"LordDirt;c-2318075" wrote:
Nope, they are pushing everyone to play a game mode most dont care for. Will see if it blows up in their face or not.

You have presented no evidence of that and presupposed CG hasn't made and evidence-based decision to the contrary.

Guess we can take a poll but as you can see by all the angry people in here we know which way it will lean.

Genuine question, why don't you like GAC?

At my level (5.6mil, one GL and working on a second), I find I'm matched up pretty well, I've won and lost some matches by less than 10.

Let me know how you like it when you have 6 gl and your opponent has 6 gl.

If you put your 6 on defense and they put all 6 of theirs on D.... you wont be beating them with anything else as cg nerfed all the good counters.

Comes down to beating the non gl teams, and you wont be taking a zone and moving to the next one.

No fun to be had.

8.2 mil gp.

Not worth my time in its current state. Changes while sounding nice dont really change the underlining problem with it at higher gp.

Are you actually playing gac? I've yet to see an occasion where people put down all their gls...instead the one they throw in the towel and to **** off their opponent. In competetive matches this simply doesn't happen.

I put three GLs up top, three GLs on the bottom every time.

Same question then, are you playing gac competetively or is it as I described? When any of my opponents do this, I %100 win and I also lose many points in that win.

What do you mean by playing? I set my defense. I have won many rounds by doing so as they usually cant get through any of my defensive walls. I just need to win a few attacks. Boring

Ok, my verdict is you are not a competetive gac player but simply play it casually. You can ask any player that you know that fully plays gac what are they doing with their gls.

Anyways, due to this change you might be losing some crystals, but maybe not. Check those tables, you start -by far- in the uppermost league. With this play style you'll fall a bit, but prolly not by much as long as you do an initial fight simply to register yourself in the system. I don't think with 6 gls you can possibly fall as far as to end up getting matched with 5m players who will be earning 340 crystals/day on average.

It's a definite loss of crystals for those with a steady income of 500 daily. It's not sustainable, and it's never a good thing to do more work for the same rewards (5 battles vs 11+2).

@CG_SBCrumb_MINI @CG_Doja_Fett_MINI
For the dec 2nd q&a do a live video stream with real-time comments/questions, a forum q&a sounds like a cop out to not address questions/concern adequately. Too many forum feedback/post get response just sweeping them under the rug, like they were never mentioned.

Plus I’m sure a lot of people would love to see your pretty face cringe and squirm as you try and justify this bad change!

You really want to make your community not mutiny, Keep the SA payouts, just add crystal to GAC, give me incentive to love playing both!

SA I have option to play or not each day with each day being independent and a chance to change rewards.
GAC I am stuck with whatever daily reward for 6 days until next event starts

SA and FA were my incentive to login and play for a hour each day. To do some battles. Now for GAC incentive:-
Sign up day - zero incentive I login to click join, wow fun!
Setup day - zero incentive I login to get 0 banners and click set 5 times, wow really fun!
Attack day - equal 4/5 days worth of SA fights in 1 day, I must spend hours
Review day - zero incentive, I login to do nothing but farm nodes, Whoopi the funnest!

So instead of crystals based on effort each day, it now all rides on how well you do on 1 of the 4/5 days.

At this point any loyal user base you have established over the last 5 years are not just being pushed away from swgoh, but CG, you really think people will want to try any CG product going forward. Even if I saw a really cool game that I wanted to play if I saw CG was maker I wouldn’t even download today!

It took a while, but GLs finally killed the game.

I mean, we all get that GLs are why they're doing this, right? Squad Arena still has people (including me) taking first place with JML. LV clearly didn't drive enough spending. The power-creep-in-Squad-Arena engine to drive spending is barely puttering along. But in conjunction with the nerfs to GL counters, Grand Arena can still drive whales to need to purchase every new big powerhouse, to stay competitive with each other.

As for killing the game? Well, changing the main crystal-producing activity from one with a daily tempo to one with a weekly/monthly tempo is going to cost far more players, in the long run, than the mass exodus this announcement is causing; people who miss the GAC join period will have little incentive to log in during that week of GAC, and once you've gone a week without logging in it's very easy to just stop logging in altogether. In other words: Squad Arena is habit-forming, and GAC is not. The long-term damage this change will do to the size of the playerbase is going to be tremendous.

Of course, that's another, subtler benefit (from CG's perspective) of the shift to GAC over squad arena - the more this game becomes a ghost town, the more the long-term active players are clustered at the top of their otherwise-dead Arena shards, getting too big a crystal payout, too easily. GAC divisions, however, are dynamic and constantly resetting; you'll always, always be up against active opponents (or at least, people who were active enough to click "join" in the GAC period), no matter how few other players there are. Someday, when it's down to the last few hundred active players, those players will still have to put in work and fight each other for those GAC rewards, whereas by then most of them would be alone in an arena shard, sitting atop a mountain of no-longer-actives. Make no mistake: this is partly CG preparing for the end.

What a terrible decision. Matchmaking based on raw GP with no accounting for GLs? That puts me in the worst possible position. This game has really stopped being fun.

Currently I'm mixed when it comes to the changes. It will be nice to not have to climb in arena at a certain time. (Though with the jmk mirrors it is a far better climb than it's been in awhile).

But even at 6.5 mil gp, I am concerned that while I will start in kyber, that there will be 9 mil gp accounts dropping into my league soon enough making it impossible to win. It doesn't matter how skilled you are if you are matched against someone with a ton o maxed teams when you don't have them all maxed.

Spending hours for GAC attack day? Man, some have never even played the game mode....