New raid changes

I'm excited based on what was actually written. YMMV

1 raid at a time, yes please! I haven't touched cPit save once or twice in the past year. HAAT and Rancor were on sim. HSR every 3.5 days became too much for me a few months ago. So I've been doing 0 at a time for the most part since last summer.

Participate in the raid at a time of your choosing, er muh gerd, YES! When I started this game, I had one 10-mo kiddo. Now I have a 1, 4, and 6 year old. It's SO hard to get in and do HSR during the small window I have. Knowing I can do my raid stuff on my own schedule will be such a huge QOL improvement for me.

Shift to cooperative rewards. YES!

Faction restrictions... if it means what they said about design space and they actually release a new raid every few months, sounds great to me. Besides, with what GAC is turning into and how little the new TB has inspired me to build squads, I'm looking forward to scratching that PvE roster development itch.

Hopefully CG gets the rewards right (the part in bold and red).

Separately:

First, we wanted to change the way Raids distribute rewards to a system that promotes cooperation and not interguild competition. A guild often needs to really pull together to complete the newest tier or event that they have reached and it feels contradictory to then ask them to compete against each other simultaneously.

I have been saying this ever since HAAT came out, maybe before: Raids are joint endeavours. Rewarding cooperation strengthens guilds and relationships and takes some of the weight off guild leaders' shoulders. Instead of yelling at someone to participate, the rewards themselves provide the incentive to participate. This allows GLs to function less like tyrants and more like cheerleaders, creating better, friendlier experiences for everyone.

I have friends who are convinced this will all be terrible, but when you talk to them it's pretty clear that their fears are based around a distrust that CG will get it right, not that the fundamental ideas are wrong.

Since they make mistakes at everything that they do, I'd rather have them try for something good and mess up than try for something worse and mess up anyway.

I am bummed about the simming rule; that should be the reward of being able to be done with that raid.

Now the rewards are that you get the gear without even having to sim it, just by increasing the rewards for the next raid to include all the rewards from the previous raids.

it's as good as simming without having to actually sim. (As long as CG implements this correctly.)

Excited on the whole by the changes and welcome new raid formats and frequency.

I am however nervous about any reward changes. Guild currency is vital for picking up certain pieces of gear and shards. Accumulating it over several raid sims a week speeds up the lower gear crunch. Cpit didn't reward this, which is potentially telling for new reward systems.

Also sith raid IMO is some of the best rewards in the game, especially for gear 12+ pieces so will be sad to see that go. Equally as worrying is lack of R8 pieces and how they might be gated around harder events.

Defo not a moan though, really like the changes just hope these points have been considered!

I’m deeply concerned over rewards.

Conquest progression scares me. The system where the higher you get, the reward box is changed to give more of what CG believes you need and less of what they don’t believe you need, eg more aero less gear.

I fear they are going to rob me of a source for some of the purple gear I never farm but get exclusively from old pit (I believe that’s the one dropping useful purples) as well as deprive me of most of the much needed G12 gear from Sith raid in exchange for aero and maybe even droid brains (neither of which I particularly need tbh)…

That's how RA's often work. Details to follow.

I personally think the new raid system will cause more players to leave... the game is already hemorrhaging players... getting harder and harder to find replacements... the players with the needed factions relic'ed will not appreciate carrying the others for the same rewards so they will leave to go to guilds that have similar rosters so its more fair for them and get better rewards in the process... which will cause more players to leave the guilds losing the more equipped players... I foresee this causing more issues than helping

IF something like this was implemented before the current state of decay in swgoh it may have worked great... at this point I think its a sharp stick in the eye to the player base

But they won't get the same rewards...

With this change there will be two different ways to earn rewards, a Guild Track and an Individual Track. You will earn rewards based on the amount of points you contribute from the Individual Track and can be claimed immediately. You will also receive rewards from your Guild’s track depending on the amount of points everyone in your Guild earned at the end of the event.

I'm extremely skeptical about this change. For example always every single sith raid I get a fully or partially crafted piece. If they change the rewards to be even between members, that'll mean we get less, and plain garbage, just like the Pit/ATT Raid when skimmed. The medium line rewards which are not exactly a motivating factor at all. I guess we'll have to wait and see but knowing CG's track record I'm not holding my breath on this having a positive impact.

Also, having raids that are team specific is going to cause issues again. CG says "they don't want Guild members to compete against each other" this will cause a lot of guilds to fall apart. As most Guilds will mandate at least one of those teams. We already have character specific stuff in TBs why do we need to implement that in Raids as well? Doesn't make much sense at all.

The game is getting older. I have played since shortly after launch. I came from playing Heros of Dragon Age (Another CG mobile game). The new raid changes are clearly designed to benefit a guild with active, daily players. The "requiring specfic debuffs, and tactics" bit is making me figure we will be needing new teams, which will take time and money to build and learn. No doubt an attempt to breathe life into the game. Ok fair enough. They need to do this. But, will these changes trigger whales to pave our way with their spending, and thereby grease the way for non whales to ride the wave? I doubt it. Following Google Plays list of top grossing shows a steady decline. Last time I checked SWGOH was at 58 and RSL was 20. SWGOH used to be around 14 or so. Most of the dedicated players with the best rosters are long gone.

The game will continue. They need a revenue stream to stay afloat while they work on whatever the new game is. The main thing I see as a result of the raid changes is, stream lining the template so they can bring out new raids in a cut and paste fashion, in a cookie cutter format. Team builds will vary based on the need for new characters coming out.

The number of active players will reduce. But changes usually thin the herd.

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