Gannon009
6 years agoRising Rookie
Squad Arena
Squad arena is garbage. It should be replaced with something actually decent, or merged into GA rewards pool
"leef;c-1815403" wrote:"Gannon;c-1815359" wrote:"leef;c-1815350" wrote:
Ofcourse players who pay get a leg up vs those that don't, but i still wouldn't consider arena p2w.
Also, it remains to be seen whether or not spending on DRevan actually gives you a leg up vs those that didn't, it's not looking promissing at the moment.
I get that for some aspects of the game, but many ppl are in each shard? I've seen up to 2,000 ranks. That means that a very small percentage are actually getting the high end rewards in arena, which seems ridiculous to me. Back when there were a dozen competing meta teams it wasn't an issue, but now it's one team taking the top 100.
They broke it a long while back. It's not fun or engaging, it's not competitive at all. It's all about who pays for new metas, and they get all the crystals.
Imo it's quite a large percentage that is getting high end arena rewards due to how arena leaderboards are set up. It's freaking amazing that i only have to compete with a select group of players (around 10k players i believe) who all started playing at roughly the same time i did.
The fact that everyone has the same team makes it even more f2p friendly and less p2w.
"Gannon;c-1814858" wrote:
Yea, all valid points. I just wish they'd do something with it. I don't think it's changed at all since I started playing years ago.
I've never met anyone who actually enjoys squad Arena, they just do it for the rewards.
"Kyno;c-1814833" wrote:That would definitely be a good thing for the health of the game. If there weren't such huge differences between the payout ranks, for example it would reduce the motivation for some of those toxic players; those who constantly ruin other players' fun by teaming up and chain locking people as soon as they hit the top 10-20 before their payout. Such behaviours will only stop if the game mechanics make it less beneficial for them. From a commercial point, think about it this way... why should a player be motivated to spend money on a new meta toon if they have the bad luck to be in a shard that will never let them reach the top ranks, no matter how great their team would be?"Gannon;c-1814732" wrote:
I dunno if it'd be lower tho, really. Cuz there's only, what, a max of 24 ppl per shard who can get first place rewards? If they cycle up each hour, which is unlikely. And that's if they spend insane amounts of time slogging thru revan after revan every day lol. If they equalized it, or made it based on participation, players in the lower and middle end would get much more from it.
As it is now tho is pretty terrible for the average player.
Previous examples of this coming down the pipeline have ended up with less rewards, but yes more spread out..... just not sure if that's a good thing.
"Gannon;c-1815588" wrote:"Tbirds01;c-1815518" wrote:"Gannon;c-1814858" wrote:
Yea, all valid points. I just wish they'd do something with it. I don't think it's changed at all since I started playing years ago.
I've never met anyone who actually enjoys squad Arena, they just do it for the rewards.
I enjoy squad arena.? One of my favorite modes, always has been.
You enjoy fighting revan constantly? Or are you in a lower tier where there's variety? ? just curious, cuz you're legit the first I've ever seen to say that
"Kyno;c-1814727" wrote:
My concern would be that any rework of the current system will end up with lower income of crystals for the players.
Also, GA or any other replacement cant really have a daily PO, so the income being spread out would also be a little different. I'm sure we could manage but would just change the normal cycle.
"leef;c-1814718" wrote:
I don't want to be at the mercy of matchmaking when it comes to crystal earning, so no thanks.
(i've won 21 out of 24 GA rounds)