Trips said:
Nobody is saying all is well. I think all perspectives should be allowed to "contribute" to the discussion. Otherwise we would have 90% whiners who just have bad teams. TBH even after they adjust arena (assuming they ever do because they are slow AF at doing anything), these 90% won't sniff arbiter.
1. The glitch (in the players favor) artificially pushed people (myself included) up higher than we would have been. For whatever this went way after a month or so. No more easy full page wins -- YES this happened for at least a month where you would get a refresh of automatic wins.
2. Without the automatic page of wins and food defenses, in 2 weeks a gold4 account will easily drop to silver.
3. The inflation in the game will not be accounted for 100%, just not possible IMO. So arena will still be harder than in the beginning, but hopefully more manageable for newer accounts. Will it be more of a paywall then before. YES. Should this be a surprise to anyone? NO. Plarium, community managers, mods won't acknowledge this but it is the CORRECT business decision. They don't want 90% F2P, paywalls are good for business. But they didn't expect the wall to start affecting P2P as it is now. This is why they will change it. They don't care about 100% F2P, nor should they other than lip service lol. This is a "gambling" game, they want to get you addicted in 30-60 days. Then they want you to PAY or LEAVE.
I have the perspective of my G4 main account and a f2p S2/3 alt account. I can tell you the following from my perspective:
1. Plarium absolutely has SHIT the bed at developing the game over the 7 months I have played. I would give 1* only for BP Season 1. No new content (3v3 is a copy/paste), not addressing basic AI issues for most heroes, event/tournaments are just repeats (1 epic fail attempt with rare dragon tournament -- HEY how about a mino tourney or potion event, at least it would be different). Terrible development, horrid analytics group I would guess, tells me it is an upper management issue.
2. Community managers and mods are doing the best they can with the info they have, we should not berate them. Mostly they are either passing along info or just giving their best advice.
3. Arena got way too hard relative to the mission progression. Plarium, slow to react as always lol, is just realizing this. It is NOT any of the conspiracy theories. INACTIVES are a small part of the problem. All the accounts are just better now -- INFLATION. And most are smarter. 6 months ago, 2 of 10 had good comps now it is 5-7 of 10.
4. The reset to the bottom of division is also problem IMO.
5. SPEED. I understand everyone complaining about this, but speed is not just the meta for arena it is for the entire game. I'm not saying you need 300 speed, I never had anyone over 230. But the Legendary teams in S2/3 are usually stuck there because they are 150 speed. I win by getting at least 2 turns (usually 3) before they get any. This same strategy helps in dungeons, clan boss and campaign farming.
Lastly, if you haven't changed your team in a month you shouldn't expect to be in a higher division... this is directed at myself as I still have 4* Spirithost on arena team. If I took my own advice I might be a step closer to Gold, lol.
So it is a correct business choice to completely lock players out of an aspect of a ADVERTISED FREE TO PLAY GAME unless they spend money? Wrong
So it is a correct business choice to only cater to or care about the ones who spend the most money? Wrong
Every new player can be a person that spends money on this game, if they feel that they are getting their money's worth, and they feel that the devs actually care about the players. Even the whales have seen that plarium doesn't care about the player base and is not spending......hell even their own content creators that they pay through in game currency are starting to not spend money on this game.
Doesn't matter if you spend 1 dollar or 100 dollars, every persons what to know that their voice counts.......because the whales will say everything is perfect, nothing needs to be changed, because for them who spent tons of money, everything is perfect because they have all the champs they need to do everything in the game. While the people who spend less or don't spend are forced to struggle through everything, but plarium ignores them, and won't change anything unless the whales cry.
Hell they even got rid of Void Tower, which was supposed to be ways the get things as rewards for free, got removed for another arena where you gotta spend money to compete.