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Might have something to do with the fact that many of Kabam’s own people seem deeply invested in t1 war. It can be hard to separate your own POV when you’re the business and the customer.

My read of this situation is that they want more engagement for alliance modes at all levels of progression. Which makes total sense.

What seems odd to me is how they chose this particular design solution for a test. It doesn’t incentivize or even require anything like actual engagement. I did one sub-60 second fight 48 hours ago and haven’t paid a lick of attention AW since.

What’s also odd is how much AQ is not part of the conversation. If they want more allies playing together, for god’s sake, experiment with AQ. Literally no one is emotionally invested in AQ, even if you’re playing at the highest tiers. It’s actually a nice middle ground because it can be collaborative but it’s not nearly as demanding as AW in terms of planning, champ investments, etc. Seems like you could do something with AQ scoring to make it more interesting. Reward people for using no items, or reward them for using less common champs, or lowest fight time, etc. Find a way to influence the scoring and create variability that is tied to something more than a) did you explore the map, and b) what’s your prestige?

It’s just an inert game mode. That should be the place where Kabam plays around and tried new things. But maybe they know they can’t ever earn incremental revenue from AQ and so all the attention and ideas (however misguided) are pouted toward AW…

1. Keep war the same for Tier 1 and bump Plat rewards to be within strike of Masters.
2. New style can be for G1 and below. Also need to bump rewards up.

Seems that would make the most people happy.

The whole point isn't getting the top alliances to continue to play just as much as they currently do, the whole point is getting the lower ones to engage more. If the lower ones don't want to aim for the top because of how time consuming and expensive it is to play at the top then nothing changes. The only way they make it work is if they revamp AW on all leagues, and that's what they're doing right now, figuring out what works best because the radiance alone isn't enough incentive. I don't think one defender per person is fine tho, it's too little, but five per person is also waaay too much if you don't have people willing to spend hours planning out wars fully which let's face it anyone below Gold 1 doesn't.