New players have no chance....

"Eddiemundie;c-1715203" wrote:

"Liath;c-1715193" wrote:
Where are these irrefutable facts of yours? What data do you have regarding player retention rates and how they have changed over time?

Well regardless, i think he has a point that it is ridiculously difficult for a new player to catch up.

Even worse is now with traya and revan, if u are in a young shard and didnt buy revan, u are effectively out of the arena. This is unless u had the foresight to rush for traya farm and unlocked her. Even so, it took my alt (started in dec'17) about 10 months to unlock traya with dedicated farming strategies.

But who do they have to catch up to?

They are paired to face players that have been in the game roughly the same time as them.

Or paired with player that have put in a similar amount if development.

Not having revan does not take you out of arena. The top arena spots are always filled by those who are more invested, but people always find a way.
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Its been said the average life of SWGOH gamers now is between level 40 and 60 levels that's generous

Where?
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On my alt I have unlocked all nodes, GW simmable, and was in a guild raiding in less than 6 months, why would it take 2 years to have a shot at any of those toons?

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As you said, they have done this. It is easier to get started, and keep going. They have now moved marquees further out so new shards are not so effected by those releases (as an example). I'm sure they have the actual data and are not going to let the pace of the game get those numbers out of balance.

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I can yell you from conversations with the dev team that every new game mode and character/faction release leads to a push of new players and/or uptick in player traffic. Most of which have had their own issues, but none the less none have been a PR disaster when you look at the actual data.