Main problem wasn’t addressed where grinding is rewarded more over good gameplay. Why is gladiator circuit rankings so undervalued in rewards. Buff that not the events.
Gladiator's Circuit is going to be very important for Relic acquisition. Those just aren't ready for distribution yet.
We get they aren't ready yet. But please release how they will work and everything (or as much as possible). This way we can give you feedback and you can release them properly, not this mess that BGs was.
Main problem wasn’t addressed where grinding is rewarded more over good gameplay. Why is gladiator circuit rankings so undervalued in rewards. Buff that not the events.
Gladiator's Circuit is going to be very important for Relic acquisition. Those just aren't ready for distribution yet.
We are playing this game today, not for future prospects. Don't you think that if you cannot add something today you have to replace it with something similar value? How this supposedly solves anything, that in the future you are planning to add something? what about season 1 that starts today? Why you made it completely irrelevant if someone is top 10 or top 100 players in this mode?
Exactly. That the rank rewards aren't the best is a massive disappointment. You basically destroyed the competition of the mode you created before it even started.
Can we expect arena rewards to be updated? Get alliance rewards for the 6* featured. Makes just about as much sense for the reward structure of this mode. How about incursions, is that your big overhaul you’ve been announcing? From now on we get alliance rewards for top zones? Just get rid of all solo elements
I just find it insane you are actually promoting tanking rating so you can then go and win with elder marks. Boggles the mind. Rewards should have always been off rank. There was no need to add a grind component. This is not crappy arena.
I simply don't understand why you guys had to ruin what you spent so much time fine tuning.
Battlegrounds is the ultimate competitive mode….TREAT it like such. Its really not hard. You have rankings - best ranks get best rank rewards. Get out of your own way for once.
Main problem wasn’t addressed where grinding is rewarded more over good gameplay. Why is gladiator circuit rankings so undervalued in rewards. Buff that not the events.
Gladiator's Circuit is going to be very important for Relic acquisition. Those just aren't ready for distribution yet.
We are playing this game today, not for future prospects. Don't you think that if you cannot add something today you have to replace it with something similar value? How this supposedly solves anything, that in the future you are planning to add something? what about season 1 that starts today? Why you made it completely irrelevant if someone is top 10 or top 100 players in this mode?
Exactly. That the rank rewards aren't the best is a massive disappointment. You basically destroyed the competition of the mode you created before it even started.
In addition they created massive incentive to tank with energy and beat up smaller accounts with elders marks. So its about as bad as before for many and worsefor people with smaller accounts
I'm fine with the reward structure and look forward to having fun with BG.
This thread does not worry me because I've been here long enough to know that there are ALWAYS people who are never satisfied, never happy, and play the part of Chicken Little at every step.
Main problem wasn’t addressed where grinding is rewarded more over good gameplay. Why is gladiator circuit rankings so undervalued in rewards. Buff that not the events.
Gladiator's Circuit is going to be very important for Relic acquisition. Those just aren't ready for distribution yet.
We are playing this game today, not for future prospects. Don't you think that if you cannot add something today you have to replace it with something similar value? How this supposedly solves anything, that in the future you are planning to add something? what about season 1 that starts today? Why you made it completely irrelevant if someone is top 10 or top 100 players in this mode?
Exactly. That the rank rewards aren't the best is a massive disappointment. You basically destroyed the competition of the mode you created before it even started.
In addition they created massive incentive to tank with energy and beat up smaller accounts with elders marks. So its about as bad as before for many and worsefor people with smaller accounts
There should be zero reason I need to tank my rating period.
Remove that incentive to tank and you fix a lot of the issues to start with at least with this reward structure. You cannot hope to foster a competitive mode with that aspect in the game. This mode is the opposite of arena. I dont understand how thats not clear. Winning at all costs should be the goal here.
This isn't even an issue about all the rewards going to the person who spends the most. Even if you are undefeated in every match, you still need to spend a minimum of 685 Units on Elder's Mark to complete the Solo Event Milestone and even that is taking into consideration that there are Whales carrying you in the Alliance Event to get you extra Elder's Marks. The reality is you'll need to spend basically an extra 15 Units for every loss you have. As a FTP, I can barely even earn any rewards off of this game mode in it's current state without massive Unit expense. I basically can only do the Victory Track and maybe the first few Milestones of the Solo and Alliance Events. A massive percentage of the rewards are tied behind the use of Elder's Marks. Playing with Energy is a complete waste once you feel like you've plateaued.
I just finished a match and won 2 of the 3 fights. However, I do not see any update to my solo event or alliance progression. Broken?
No, you might have not whaled out or used ur precious units to buy that "ridiculous" Elder's marks to win and used your normal energy. If no and you used "ridiculous" Elder's marks, then yeah, its a bug.
I find this event to be absolutely offensive. Unless I'm missing something, the only way to get any solo event rewards is to enter matches with Elder's Marks...that can only be purchased with units. Max rewards on the solo event requires winning 240 matches at a cost of 3100 units. Assuming you don't lose any matches, that means playing more than 9 matches per day for the extent of the event. I don't have time for that and wouldn't dare spend hard-earned units on that. Even gaining the trophy tokens necessary to get most of the things in the Battlegrounds story only comes from participating in the Alliance Event...which costs Elder's Mark match wins to do...which means units spent. This is a solo pay-for-play event. There aren't rewards rich enough to make this racket worthwhile. Kabam should be ashamed of doing this to their incredibly loyal playing community.
So if you kept a 50% win loss ratio. The Max amount of points in the solo event is 156750 without buying any elder marks. Like seriously kabam. That's not even enough to get to the top milestone. This whole reward structure should be completely removed and a new one should be made in its place. This is honestly embarrassing. But hey if you spend 100$ worth of units you get more then double the amount of elders marks you can earn. Shameful.
I find this event to be absolutely offensive. Unless I'm missing something, the only way to get any solo event rewards is to enter matches with Elder's Marks...that can only be purchased with units. Max rewards on the solo event requires winning 240 matches at a cost of 3100 units. Assuming you don't lose any matches, that means playing more than 9 matches per day for the extent of the event. I don't have time for that and wouldn't dare spend hard-earned units on that. Even gaining the trophy tokens necessary to get most of the things in the Battlegrounds story only comes from participating in the Alliance Event...which costs Elder's Mark match wins to do...which means units spent. This is a solo pay-for-play event. There aren't rewards rich enough to make this racket worthwhile. Kabam should be ashamed of doing this to their incredibly loyal playing community.
Maybe try reading the first page of this thread as you're a bit off on where you get elders marks and trophy tokens.
What's awesome about them doing all this is that we will not get a response as to why, nor will they intend to address it.
As a community what best we can do is to just not play the mode an maybe they will wake up and fix it. Or not an we just continue doing what weve been doing.
I play everything in the game, I 100% everything. I played every BGs beta, got every milestone and reward, top1000 in last Beta. But I honestly think I'll ignore this mode now. Seems so pointless, so much grinding, lots of wasted time till you get to actual rewards. Or pay to get there.
Kabam announcement - Big new feature: multiple decks. Wow, amazing, can't wait. Oh, by the way, it will cost 4k units to unlock. WTF is that????
Played a few matches. Horrible, horrible experience
This game mode has to be a joke right? It’s basically arena but instead of getting units and other rewards for spending your time on it you have to spend units and time to get anything
So basically:
- You play arena to farm units; - You play BG to spend the units;
- You can't play BG because you need time to play the arena to farm the units; - You can't play the arena because you need time to spend units on BG;
- You don't have time for AQ/AW so you leave the alliance; - You need to be on an alliance to contribute points towards the alliance event.
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I simply don't understand why you guys had to ruin what you spent so much time fine tuning.
Battlegrounds is the ultimate competitive mode….TREAT it like such. Its really not hard. You have rankings - best ranks get best rank rewards. Get out of your own way for once.
This thread does not worry me because I've been here long enough to know that there are ALWAYS people who are never satisfied, never happy, and play the part of Chicken Little at every step.
That’s the massive issue here @Kabam Miike
Remove that incentive to tank and you fix a lot of the issues to start with at least with this reward structure. You cannot hope to foster a competitive mode with that aspect in the game. This mode is the opposite of arena. I dont understand how thats not clear. Winning at all costs should be the goal here.
It's confusing. It's expensive. It's frustrating. It's bugged.
Awful.
Just join bg and i don't know what to do
Soend energy? Buy elder's?
Help/tips please 🙃
As a community what best we can do is to just not play the mode an maybe they will wake up and fix it. Or not an we just continue doing what weve been doing.
Months of working on this and this is the product you release? An entire game mode locked behind a pay wall?
Both Pay to Play and Pay to Win.
Just wow.
But I honestly think I'll ignore this mode now. Seems so pointless, so much grinding, lots of wasted time till you get to actual rewards. Or pay to get there.
Kabam announcement - Big new feature: multiple decks. Wow, amazing, can't wait. Oh, by the way, it will cost 4k units to unlock. WTF is that????
Played a few matches. Horrible, horrible experience
- You play arena to farm units;
- You play BG to spend the units;
- You can't play BG because you need time to play the arena to farm the units;
- You can't play the arena because you need time to spend units on BG;
- You don't have time for AQ/AW so you leave the alliance;
- You need to be on an alliance to contribute points towards the alliance event.