Please fix the grand arena matchmaking

"Waqui;c-1856116" wrote:
Players, who built a strong roster (strong for GA) have an advantage, which is fine. There really isn't anything to fix.

"Krjstoff;c-1856529" wrote:
There is nothing wrong with matchmaking.

The entire gamemode is based on having the strongest possible roster for the GP you have.

So, it's perfectly fair that somebody who focused intensely on being efficient with his GP have an advantage, and another player who has just being horsing around and "having fun" with the game (I never understood why being competitive and efficient couldn't be fun), instead has a clear disadvantage.

I'm assuming you are newer players, but the way GA currently works is actually not fair, especially for those of us who have been playing since launch.

Here's the thing, before GA existed, there was a little game mode called Territory Battles. Territory Battles was billed by EA as a game mode where "every upgrade counts". As a result, many of us who have been here for a long time leveled trash toons (CUP, Ughnaught, etc) to 85 and took them to gear 8. This was done specifically done to help our guilds with platoons and deployments for that particular game mode. Further, don't give me some B.S. about "building your roster smart", because leveling the trash was done (at the time) without an opportunity cost. Credits at end game have been plentiful for long periods of time (I have had 300M banked forever), and gear below level 8 is plentiful and not a roadblock.

So let's now illustrate why the current GA mode is not fair.

I am in the 4.9M GA bracket. I have 90 g12. My last GA, I had to play a new Kraken in the finals. Based on his swgoh.gg account, it looks like he started mid last year. This means, he built his roster with the knowledge that he would have an advantage in GA (if it was his preferred game mode) if he did not level or gear trash toons for TB. Basically, he could prioritize the individual game mode over the collective game mode. He was given the opportunity to make a decision that I was never given.

This Kraken had 140 g12 and the rest of his roster was sitting unleveled, ungeared, and unstarred. He had the luxury to put most of his top meta teams on defense secure in the knowledge that he could throw additional solid toons at any of my teams to whittle them down and clear them if he failed his first attempt. This is pretty clearly an unearned advantage given to him by his game start date.