Meehhhh... live arena matching stinks and they know it. Worst yet is when they gaslight you and they said they "improved" it several months ago. Look at the other posts here complaining about it. There's some prime examples of people posting about it. My record is 7 losses in a row. Somehow, when you get paired down, somehow the game matches you to a level 100 or a kraken and then you get put up again in the same bracket where the whales are.
I'm honestly surprised more people don't rage quit about it. I think Plarium's idea is that by doing this, it'll make you want to spend money to get better but instead it drives more people away.
I think i might have to just walk away. My anger and disappointment levels are reaching ridiculously dangerous and disgustingly damaging levels. I think I used to have fun when I played, and looked forward to playing while I wasn't. Now however, I experience anxiety, stress and blatant anger at the absolute absurdity of the the quality and satisfaction I experience during current generation game play. Who is in charge of setting up the LIVE matches? Who's in charge of setting the number of failed equipment upgrades? Sure, thanks for the 'FREE' gear removal...please, you think we haven't noticed the increase in failed upgrade attempts?? You are ruining a really good game that used to be fun, and maybe could be again. Stop stuffing your already full pockets and make the gameplay more affordable and fix the match ups to be more even. Maybe think about two versions, one for the whales which are unbeatable because their daddies paid for everything as they have more dollars than sense, and a version for normal poor regular people that must choose to eat or buy 9 million fake silver coins that you instantly take right back after 1 successful, and 19 failed artifact upgrade attempts... nailed it!