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navyguy50's avatar
7 years ago

Your opponent is already engaged in battle

Is anybody else getting sick and tired of that message? I've mentioned a fix in the past that would be mutually beneficial to both EA, and its customers, but it doesn't even get a second look because its "working as intended". Meaning, they don't want to take the chance of milking less money out of us than they already do now. I'm so tired of the clock blocking within 30 minutes of payout time. EA could easily fix this by allowing you to "collect" at any point in time within a 24 hour period. It would save EA boat loads of money because people will go days without collecting, and it would relieve loads of frustration, anxiety, and anger from its customers by allowing them to actually use the arena for what it was intended for. Fighting against opponents instead of watching a clock all night. I just don't understand why you wouldn't want to at least make it look like you care about your customers. No, you flat out refuse to help us. It's awful. In all my years of running successful businesses, I have never seen a business model that actually prefers to screw their customers. There will come a point in time where this will cause your customers to leave you forever. It may not be right now, but I promise you it will happen. The sad part is that it is easily preventable simply by adding a 24 hour active payout instead of a timed payout. The customer simply clicks the payout button once in every 24 hour period whenever they want to instead of waiting by their phone for 7:30pm to roll around hoping that nobody locks their arena team up so they can no longer battle. You know, that thing the arena was meant for? Battling? Who am I kidding lol...You'll never fix it. You're too greedy.

  • "TimmyHutch;c-1655632" wrote:
    Another day, another log jam at the top of my arena.


    Have you tried joining or starting a shard chat. It can clear up some of this issue. I know before I joined mine, I was inadvertently taking out one of the people who had a payout an hour before mine and getting hit back and locked out some. Now I just wait until their payout is over and take 1st or 2nd after they're done with it. The people behind me do the same so I don't get sniped before my payout much and since those in the top 5 have usually already had their payout, they have no incentive to lock eachother out.

    I am lucky and only have one other at my payout so we just let who ever gets to 1st 1st get it. But some of the people in more crowded payouts have a rotation to avoid the sniping and lockouts.

    I know a fix like you mentioned above would be ideal but as you daid it likely won't happen so this may be the best option.
  • "DarkHelmet1138;c-1659095" wrote:
    "TimmyHutch;c-1655632" wrote:
    Another day, another log jam at the top of my arena.


    Have you tried joining or starting a shard chat. It can clear up some of this issue. I know before I joined mine, I was inadvertently taking out one of the people who had a payout an hour before mine and getting hit back and locked out some. Now I just wait until their payout is over and take 1st or 2nd after they're done with it. The people behind me do the same so I don't get sniped before my payout much and since those in the top 5 have usually already had their payout, they have no incentive to lock eachother out.

    I am lucky and only have one other at my payout so we just let who ever gets to 1st 1st get it. But some of the people in more crowded payouts have a rotation to avoid the sniping and lockouts.

    I know a fix like you mentioned above would be ideal but as you daid it likely won't happen so this may be the best option.


    I'm in my shard chat. It doesn't help as there are 37 of us all at the same payout time. Not to mention, organizing the top like that takes the run away as well.
  • "TimmyHutch;c-1664525" wrote:
    "DarkHelmet1138;c-1659095" wrote:
    "TimmyHutch;c-1655632" wrote:
    Another day, another log jam at the top of my arena.


    Have you tried joining or starting a shard chat. It can clear up some of this issue. I know before I joined mine, I was inadvertently taking out one of the people who had a payout an hour before mine and getting hit back and locked out some. Now I just wait until their payout is over and take 1st or 2nd after they're done with it. The people behind me do the same so I don't get sniped before my payout much and since those in the top 5 have usually already had their payout, they have no incentive to lock eachother out.

    I am lucky and only have one other at my payout so we just let who ever gets to 1st 1st get it. But some of the people in more crowded payouts have a rotation to avoid the sniping and lockouts.

    I know a fix like you mentioned above would be ideal but as you daid it likely won't happen so this may be the best option.


    I'm in my shard chat. It doesn't help as there are 37 of us all at the same payout time. Not to mention, organizing the top like that takes the run away as well.


    that sucks to have that many at the same payout. I only share mine with one other so I don't see the issue too much in my shard. Mostly those that had payout an hour or so before me.
  • Yeah, it's such a pain in the ass to have almost everybody on the same payout. It's ridiculous that they run the game this way. It's the most greedy possible way they could have done things.
  • "TimmyHutch;d-182943" wrote:
    Is anybody else getting sick and tired of that message? I've mentioned a fix in the past that would be mutually beneficial to both EA, and its customers, but it doesn't even get a second look because its "working as intended". Meaning, they don't want to take the chance of milking less money out of us than they already do now. I'm so tired of the clock blocking within 30 minutes of payout time. EA could easily fix this by allowing you to "collect" at any point in time within a 24 hour period. It would save EA boat loads of money because people will go days without collecting, and it would relieve loads of frustration, anxiety, and anger from its customers by allowing them to actually use the arena for what it was intended for. Fighting against opponents instead of watching a clock all night. I just don't understand why you wouldn't want to at least make it look like you care about your customers. No, you flat out refuse to help us. It's awful. In all my years of running successful businesses, I have never seen a business model that actually prefers to screw their customers. There will come a point in time where this will cause your customers to leave you forever. It may not be right now, but I promise you it will happen. The sad part is that it is easily preventable simply by adding a 24 hour active payout instead of a timed payout. The customer simply clicks the payout button once in every 24 hour period whenever they want to instead of waiting by their phone for 7:30pm to roll around hoping that nobody locks their arena team up so they can no longer battle. You know, that thing the arena was meant for? Battling? Who am I kidding lol...You'll never fix it. You're too greedy.


    I see those two messages, and I shrug, and do something else for 5 minutes. That's my solution.
  • "TevlodiObight1;c-1666522" wrote:
    "TimmyHutch;d-182943" wrote:
    Is anybody else getting sick and tired of that message? I've mentioned a fix in the past that would be mutually beneficial to both EA, and its customers, but it doesn't even get a second look because its "working as intended". Meaning, they don't want to take the chance of milking less money out of us than they already do now. I'm so tired of the clock blocking within 30 minutes of payout time. EA could easily fix this by allowing you to "collect" at any point in time within a 24 hour period. It would save EA boat loads of money because people will go days without collecting, and it would relieve loads of frustration, anxiety, and anger from its customers by allowing them to actually use the arena for what it was intended for. Fighting against opponents instead of watching a clock all night. I just don't understand why you wouldn't want to at least make it look like you care about your customers. No, you flat out refuse to help us. It's awful. In all my years of running successful businesses, I have never seen a business model that actually prefers to screw their customers. There will come a point in time where this will cause your customers to leave you forever. It may not be right now, but I promise you it will happen. The sad part is that it is easily preventable simply by adding a 24 hour active payout instead of a timed payout. The customer simply clicks the payout button once in every 24 hour period whenever they want to instead of waiting by their phone for 7:30pm to roll around hoping that nobody locks their arena team up so they can no longer battle. You know, that thing the arena was meant for? Battling? Who am I kidding lol...You'll never fix it. You're too greedy.


    I see those two messages, and I shrug, and do something else for 5 minutes. That's my solution.


    So you're content with a bad payout because you get locked out? Well I'm not. My team is capable of taking first place from any team out there, yet, clock blocking and collusion prevent that. You might be content with sucking, by I am not.