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As I said: you don't understand how the mode works.

No, the problem isn't that I don't understand the mode. The problem is I don't understand the fixation on actually believing what we have currently is competitive, represents the competitive spirit in anyway, or contains an ounce of integrity beyond the players who engage honestly instead of modding. I don't understand the point in creating an unbalanced mode and defending it as balanced just because the accepted vision is to balance it around it being top heavy over offering an equally competitive experience in ANY capacity anymore. And thats after we get bombshell data saying that the overwhelming complaints made about the mode across the board has been reflected in the data gathered

Look how hard you have to talk around what is actually a fair experience just so you can prop the meme we have now as fair. "Similar strengths and roster sizes" "equal competition" yeah, you mean a bloody fair matchup? The mode is literally so broken, that offering a fair matchup experience not only broke the illusion that what we have moved towards since is fair, but it also turned the illusionary ladder system into an actual ladder system. So the illusion of the path for lower progression players became an actual path, which is apparently against the vision Kabam has for the mode. Again, the problem here isn't understanding how the mode works, its a complete disconnect between what Kabam wants to define as competitive and fair, and what those words actually mean.

Not even just that,

I have a lot of sympathy for players below Valiant trying to engage with Battlegrounds, and indeed we are looking at options to create a more casual environment so they can match with other accounts with similar strength outside of the competitive experience.

However, as a Valiant player playing on the Gladiator's Circuit, you are always going to eventually run into accounts stronger than your own. How you deal with that will determine how successful you are in Battlegrounds. If you have a deck of mostly R3s, you shouldn't be forfeiting to anybody. Yes, you are more likely than not to lose to an equal skilled player with a row of R4s, but it is definitely not guaranteed. And skill and strategy can often overcome a single rank differential in champion power. The best Battlegrounds players in the world are those with the most skill and the most experience in the various matchups, for the most part they aren't the players with the biggest accounts.

So Cav vs Cav ad TB vs TB is such a problem, those lower progression players should be happy to play mismatches and value the fact that they earn nothing from winning 1 of many. but this is the response a valiant player gets when complaining about the ACTUAL competitive area of the mode, not the participation trophy ladder. Yeah, eventually facing someone stronger is ok and expected keyword EVENTUALLY. Yes, even a valiant with ranked 7 stars is more than likely to lose to an equally skilled player with a row of higher ranked r4s. What does that say about the rest of the playerbase who is left punching up every match as their average experience in their tailor-made ladder/path down in participation track??? "Skill and strategy can often overcome a single rank differential in champion power" How about multiple rank differentials in champ power? What about the players dealing with that for every match they play regardless of seeding thanks to noone taking the mode seriously for dozens of seasons on end? Yeah, thats definitely fair! But I don't understand the mode, so what do I know?

I think you’re misunderstanding the whole battleground is aimed for. While lower ranks are open to play, they are in no way the target for the game mode. This is a endgame competitive mode which is why the radiance store has the best meta rewards.

Lower ranks should not be relying on BG to boost their roster when they have plenty of content outside of bg to do that. And if you’ve done the content outside then you should be valiant by that point. As crash said, he plans to make a mode thats less competitive for those who enjoy the structure of the game mode, however by no means is the competitive side of the original game mode supposed to be what lower tiers look towards when playing the game. If you want a pvp game mode then do AQ or AW.

Lower ranks will run in to a wall. Thats how it’s intended. They then seek content outside of BG to overcome that wall and then get back into BG. Once there is no more content to be done outside. Then you should be at a point where you would easily reach GC.

There’s a lot of pros to this change. 10 people will have to fight and each take a challenging fight. I love that.

I assume each war fight will be similar to an eternity of pain fight. You will no longer be able to just nuke a few fights with a sp1 boost. This is a change for the better.

I also hope you will remove all the war bans with this change. Let us use whoever we deem fit as the best option to fight each specific encounter.

Lastly this is a massive plus for every officer that has to plan. Most alliances can’t even be competitive because there aren’t many people willing to donate hours of time to plan an alliance war. This is a quality of life change.

Kudos Kabam this can be an awesome change. The old war was just stale.

You made a few comments all saying stuff that doesnt make sense. You keep repeating war sucks this is good bla bla. Conclusion: you don't like alliance war as a game mode and appreciate this "thing" as a change to regular war BECAUSE this is NOT war. This is just raids. And again this is precisely why kabam is missing the mark by a lot here. Turning alliance war into alliance raids is not how you make people enjoy alliance war. This is just cancelling the game mode as a whole. And while there may be people who dont care for aw at all, there are some who play this game because aw exists. And thats how these people (me included) will feel like kabam doesnt care for us. Like we said again and again run this thing as a separate test or something. Alliances who invest time and resources into alliance war are getting royally screwed by this mess. We wanna compete and save the multiplier? We need to invest a bunch of resources into this "thing" for just the one season and then next season when we go back to normal it's all gone to waste. We wanna skip next season cause it's absolutely horrible and it kills the purpose of playing aw because its not aw? Great we may very well lose the multiplier and by season 59 we'll be greeted with tier 2 multiplier so we are screwed 2 seasons in a row!!! Awesome thinking!!! The best of the best. Why cant kabam understand that "let's give it a go" has a huge impact on alliances who actually care for aw? Alliances who dont care will think it's much better until they realize what it means to face top 10 defenders on steroids every war for 12 wars. Thats the worst aspect to this. The repetitive chore of doing same stuff all the time. People who fail to foresee this will eventually realize the issue. On top of others we already mentioned.

Therefore kabam if you want to bring back people to alliance war as a game mode you need to rethink you strategy. As long as aw will be this expensive to play and as long as decent rewards will only be for tier 1 players (who are the top 1% (?) of the community) it's always gonna make people from lower tiers give up on the mode and lose the will to make an effort. Make boosts and potion availability better and make them less expensive. You think the game mode is too complex? Create tools for officers to assist them in planning! If a person has the knowledge but no the time it takes to plan, this is the pain point that should be addressed. Make it less time consuming by assisting officers in their planning phase. And lastly, make rewards more relevant even in lower tiers. If they see it's worth the commitment and it's not as expensive and time consuming, people will be more engaged. I've read comments on this post from people who say they love the change because aw was stale and it was same nodes bla bla. These people don't even play aw!!! War map changes 2 seasons ago and I recall around 45 nodes are completely or partially new. Theres only a bunch of nodes who stayed the exact same as before. War map is all new and we loved the change. Surely there are a few pain points when it comes to certain defenders on certain nodes not having a real counter. We could address that to make things better. But overall the change was so welcome and positive. Whoever says aw is stale is people who havent been playing for long because aw had just gotten revamped with a new war map and new challenges for officers and players. When they say they like this "thing" which is basically raids it's because they dont like aw. Which brings us back to the point: do you think you will bring people back to aw by turning it into something else? You may as well just cancel the game mode and say goodbye to the players who are playing the game for that. Cause lets be real: nobody is playing the game cause they love aq, raids, arena... Dont make me even mention eq. Most of the people I've been playing with dont even bother with that. Whats left? Story mode? You get a chapter every few months. So what's left then? Bg and aw. This is whats making the game move forwards. People who want to strengthen their rosters for the challenge of competing with each others. Cancel aw and you're left with just bgs. And yeah some people love bgs a lot but some others dont. Bgs can be fun but the rng aspect to them and the little room for planning and adjusting is what makes me less engaged than with aw. If I just dont pull a counter for a champ, I'm losing a round. And that can cost me the match. Ggs. I know whats a good counter, I have it in my deck. I dont pull him. And its a loss. Ggs. Alliance war is way more fun cause first of all its a team effort. I may suck at facing a certain champ, but a teammate is really good at that. So he can take that fight and I can do something else that maybe I'm better than him for. Also the strategy aspect. You have every option in the book available, except for what is banned. The only limit is the availability in the rosters, but you've got 10 rosters at your disposal. While some of the players may not have the right champ, someone definitely will. And so on and so forth there are so many reasons why I love aw way more than bgs. I wouldnt care for the game if it was only aq and bgs, as simple as that. Everything else is just farming resources for me. To compete. Why cant kabam realize some of us actually care? And even just the one season will have repercussions for us. It will affect all of us negatively both if we compete and if we dont.

1000+ words, 74 sentences. No TLDR.

Since you took your precious time to count the words, you could also bother yourself to read and make a comment that would provide some kind of feedback, instead of this 🙂 reading doesn't hurt, let me tell you