Hello, all! I'm rather new to RAID, having only been here just over 6 months, but here's my two cents worth; the monthly campaign battle requirement is ridiculous! I still have 200 left to complete several days after finishing the other requirements. I need that shard reward badly, but not enough to waste so much sorely needed energy to get it.
Depends on what you mean by "Making the game easier" because a lot of quality of life stuff does just that and it helps people progress faster so I'd say 0% is hyperbolic.
Also there's a failure here to realize that people are more likely to spend on a game they're enjoying, if you have to PAY to make the game fun in the first place then people won't stay so "F2P goggles" is a bit ignorant (and assumptive).
I'm not gonna spend much time on this repetitve point "It's not a problem for me therefor it's not a problem" because it's invalid and makes it sound like your experience is everyone's experience, but I will point out that mathmatically the Daily Arena and the Monthly Arena requirements line up. The daily Campaign and the Monthly aren't even in the same ballpark.
Finally, I get that the majority of your feedback is saying what Devs SHOULDN'T do but the track record on that isn't favorable (See recent LA balancing)
EDIT: Speaking of LA Balacing, I wanted to mention that there's been next to zero complaints about unfair matchups in the Discord Cluster for a few weeks now since the new patch went live. I wanted to give props to the Moderators for passing along the feedback from Moored's thread (tho I'm sure it was many other threads and sources that led to it)
Glad you/your cluster had a better experience.
Mine was pretty good as well minus the last 100 fights or so where I had 20+ repeat fights, including one time I fought the same guy 3x in a row. :)
Glad you/your cluster had a better experience.
Mine was pretty good as well minus the last 100 fights or so where I had 20+ repeat fights, including one time I fought the same guy 3x in a row. :)
Gotta love the Best of 3 Series (or Two out of Three Falls Match if you're a dirty mark like me)
Gotta love the Best of 3 Series (or Two out of Three Falls Match if you're a dirty mark like me)
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Glad you/your cluster had a better experience.
Mine was pretty good as well minus the last 100 fights or so where I had 20+ repeat fights, including one time I fought the same guy 3x in a row. :)
Did you notice any real difference in matchmaking?
The rematch is easy to avoid. If I lose badly I quickly do a classic battle to regroup (really just let other guy start his next match without me lol). If I win, I rebattle immediately.
And the point changes hurt me more than they helped. I think? Felt I got more 7/8 wins than 1/2 losses.
Did you notice any real difference in matchmaking?
The rematch is easy to avoid. If I lose badly I quickly do a classic battle to regroup (really just let other guy start his next match without me lol). If I win, I rebattle immediately.
And the point changes hurt me more than they helped. I think? Felt I got more 7/8 wins than 1/2 losses.
I noticed it a lot more in the last few days of the season which leads me to believe there were less people playing than usual, but I could be off there.
I will definitely take a second to rematch if I remember though, lol.
In general I felt like my matches were a lot less top heavy, ran into a lot less of the whalier folks though some of the meta shift has hurt me a bit, Embrys being a big issue along with the stupid stupid stupid HP burn/poison situation.
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iFrom a clanmate of mine. What is going on with these match-ups?
1 fight out of 10 where he had the higher number of points, and almost all of them the other player had WAY more. He says it was the same thing yesterday but didn't screenshot it.
And more than half of the battles the opponent had a 6* Horsey, as well as multiple other 6* blessings.
Conversely, on my own account, my overall score is up to about 9300, and since seasons ended I've had a grand total of 2 fights against an oppenent with a higher rating, most of them have had scores WAY lower than mine, usually down in the mid-5000s
iiFrom a clanmate of mine. What is going on with these match-ups?
1 fight out of 10 where he had the higher number of points, and almost all of them the other player had WAY more. He says it was the same thing yesterday but didn't screenshot it.
And more than half of the battles the opponent had a 6* Horsey, as well as multiple other 6* blessings.
Conversely, on my own account, my overall score is up to about 9300, and since seasons ended I've had a grand total of 2 fights against an oppenent with a higher rating, most of them have had scores WAY lower than mine, usually down in the mid-5000s
Pretty sure it's completely random now that seasons is over.
Pretty sure it's completely random now that seasons is over.
I mean, that's entirely possible, just weird that he keeps getting extremely overmatched, and I keep getting undermatched. Almost as though the matchmaking is bad and should be improved :P
BTW, a couple days ago in a conference with CCs, Plarium devs said they don't think there's any significant player interest in having intra-clan sparring matches just for fun, even though players have been asking for it since day 1, and even though the devs said months ago that it could be a thing if live seasons were successful,
but then they added *another* live arena quest instead
I mean, that's entirely possible, just weird that he keeps getting extremely overmatched, and I keep getting undermatched. Almost as though the matchmaking is bad and should be improved :P
BTW, a couple days ago in a conference with CCs, Plarium devs said they don't think there's any significant player interest in having intra-clan sparring matches just for fun, even though players have been asking for it since day 1, and even though the devs said months ago that it could be a thing if live seasons were successful,
but then they added *another* live arena quest instead
I thought they said they knew friendly battles were highly requested? Maybe I misheard it.
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Every remotely serious arena clan has wanted this for years. YEARS.
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Every remotely serious arena clan has wanted this for years. YEARS.
Hell even non serious clans would love this. It'd be so good for the community too. Could easily have community run tournaments utilizing special rules with knockout brackets and such. You know, all the things LA could be to make it fun.
I thought they said they knew friendly battles were highly requested? Maybe I misheard it.
According to Ash's video, they said their "data suggested most players wouldnt be interested"
According to Ash's video, they said their "data suggested most players wouldnt be interested"
I'm not even sure how they'd know that with any certainty but that's definitely disappointing. Would love it for Siege, if nothing else
I'm not even sure how they'd know that with any certainty but that's definitely disappointing. Would love it for Siege, if nothing else
I'm 99% sure what they mean is "the accounting department pointed out it wouldn't drive sales"
I'm 99% sure what they mean is "the accounting department pointed out it wouldn't drive sales"
Yeah, This.
According to Ash's video, they said their "data suggested most players wouldnt be interested"
That is totally asinine.
Pretty sure it's completely random now that seasons is over.
So just to clarify, you're provided screenshots (that you've asked for) and the justification is there's NO balance in matchmaking outside of seasonal? So then there does need to be balancing for Live Arena I'd say...
I mean it's 2 weeks of Non-Seasonal LA and they want participation, so much so they're trying to change it so you can do LA while running background battles, not sure why they'd make it a free-for-all where ratings don't matter...
That is totally asinine.
I hope you get a chance to watch Boozor or Ash's video about it if you haven't already... my favorite part was:
https://youtu.be/4wxV02xvRP4?t=280
They didn't know CCs haven't been able to max a single relic yet...
So just to clarify, you're provided screenshots (that you've asked for) and the justification is there's NO balance in matchmaking outside of seasonal? So then there does need to be balancing for Live Arena I'd say...
I mean it's 2 weeks of Non-Seasonal LA and they want participation, so much so they're trying to change it so you can do LA while running background battles, not sure why they'd make it a free-for-all where ratings don't matter...
"The first priority for expanding background multi-battles is to be able to do Live Arena while other content is running in the background"
That's... That's catering *specifically* to Crypto.
There's like 5 people super krakens who have teams working in shifts playing thier accounts for them doing 12 hours of live arena every day.
The only thing that could be driving this focus can be "hmm, we've got him spending money on live arena token refills 12 hours a day, and spending money energy refills 12 hours a day, how can we get him to spend money on both at the same time?"
