Mental Health
Ironreap
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Can we please chill out with the game adjustments. We know that you’re on a schedule, but so are we. All of the content and rewards adjustments is a bit much for me. I want things to progress, but at a different style, rate
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If the game needs adjustments it’ll get adjusted
We've talked about the topic of mental health in the forums once before, and I think it's an important topic.
Please prioritize your own mental health above the demands of this game. There is nothing that the community team or game team can really do to assist in this capacity aside from telling you to look after yourself.
If you're feeling pressure from your alliance that puts your mental health in jeopardy, I'd recommend taking a step back, reevaluating and spending time in an alliance that more accurately aligns with your playstyle.
Thank you to those of you who have been supportive in this thread.
Take care of yourselves, and remember to have fun.
Quit your alliance, go to a smaller alliance, quit alliance play all together, do half the story you usually do, don’t do event quest.
There is a lot to do to keep up with the very endgame players, but that's not the most important thing in life, and far less important than staying mentally (tbh and physically) healthy. Make the right decisions for yourself.
if its real and a heavy burden, seek professional help. media and chats are not the place for it.
its just not safe. if you are addicted to the game and cant leave it alone to avoid overwhelming yourself,
seek professional help.
Reward from AQ and AW is very limited and outdated. You get nothing exiting from Platinum Season or top 800 AQ. In fact you get more meaningful rewards from one side quest which says it all.
It's the end of alliance stuff if the reward structure stays as of now.
*In AQ, you if you put your phone down for 24 hours, you can screw your whole alliance
*In AW, unless everyone is on board in your BG / no backup, once again you can screw your whole alliance.
*In calendars: nearly every calendar has very few if any days where you can miss a day and not get a heavy penalty. This has got better, but still needs a lot of improvement.
*Some monthly side quests require doing something daily (again, this is getting better)
*4h, daily, and the recent 7h crystals.. you are incentivized to not put the game down.
*arena: you are incentivized to not only never put the game down, but to break terms and conditions / have someone pilot for you while you "have a life" (job, sleep, etc.). Even paying $1000 for refreshes... you still have to put in the time to do the fights. While you can "choose which arenas you do", you are somewhat stuck in that you don't get to pick when that one champ you want is available / put in your grind.
Permanent content and incursions are really the only mode in the game that allows players to progress at their own pace, and doesn't put at least some pressure on the player to regularly check in. Incursions rewards hopefully are about to get revamped / be relevant, and if so, would probably be the poster child for how to do it right. Optional, occasional, but not frequent, no penalty for skipping, and not requiring you to skip a day of work or school to get it done.
It is also on the player to realize... you can skip some monthly content if you don't feel up to it, but basically asking a player to risk being booted from an alliance because they want to take a couple days off... isn't "healthy".
I don't say that to be insensitive. I have mental health issues myself. It takes a daily effort to work on keeping balance for my manageability. Some days are better than others.
Part of that is paying attention to it, and knowing when I need to step away from the game and let it go. I have an Alliance that understands. We're all sensitive to each others' real life situations. We play what we can, and don't pressure each other. Unless that's a gentle Tag in War to move up.
Ultimately, the game can't know my needs. I need to do what's best for me.