Battlegrounds is a mess! I’m 0wins - 17L in a row
MrShady
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Kabam devs! You guys really need to investigate what is going on in Battlegrounds. I am 0 win & 17 loses in a row!
I never have full access to my battle deck. It’s always the same 10 champions (besides the ones that get banned). I’m also getting thrown against whale accounts that have massive rank 4 7*s. I only have 1 rank 4 7*. Seriously wtf is going on? What is the battleground system doing?
This is also not a skill issue. Being put against accounts that have higher rank champs = auto lose & waste of time. Nothing is balanced.
I never have full access to my battle deck. It’s always the same 10 champions (besides the ones that get banned). I’m also getting thrown against whale accounts that have massive rank 4 7*s. I only have 1 rank 4 7*. Seriously wtf is going on? What is the battleground system doing?
This is also not a skill issue. Being put against accounts that have higher rank champs = auto lose & waste of time. Nothing is balanced.
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It's not meant to be balanced, it's a competition, you have to play what's in front of you.
They don't need to investigate that most likely you are outmatched in skill and deck power.
Which is it?
You forfeit half the time. You're not even trying, you're just whining about it.
How exactly is that not a skill issue?
There’s no “real” competition anywhere in the world, because everything calling itself a competition refuses to prevent competitors from possessing advantages over other competitors.
This season is wonkier than normal due to the defective seeding that shuffled things more than they should. My guess is that should start to sort itself out over the next week. But I don’t see evidence here of wildly unfair match ups. There are wildly mismatched matches going on, I’ve seen them. But this isn’t one of them.
You cannot spend your way to the top, but money provides an enormous advantage, much like in MCOC. And this is Chess we’re talking about, the ultimate “skill oriented” competition. You can’t find me a competition anywhere in the world that more than 1% of the population of Earth has even heard of that fits your apparent definition of what competition is. Which is fine, you can have any definitions you like and apply it in whatever random haphazard way you wish. Just don’t expect anyone else to honor it, or build anything of consequence with it.
And the reason why there’s no gatcha sports is because no one wants to watch it. For that matter, there aren’t many long term successful video game esports of any kind, because the problem is not your own weird definition of fairness, its the simple fact that almost no one wants to spend money to watch people play video games. At least, not enough to support a professional sports league over a sustained period of time. But people still play competitive MTG all the time. Most don’t do it professionally, because as I said no one wants to pay to watch them do it, and everyone has their own house rules on deck construction, but in-person MTG requires people to actually buy cards and use personal decks. Those people seem perfectly happy to treat their activities as real competition.
In fact, MTG is the perfect counter to your assertion that gatcha esports don’t exist because of fairness. If everyone had to play MTG with identical decks instead of constructed decks, that would not make MTG into an esport. It would turn it from mostly unwatchable to completely uninteresting. As a casual competition, you can have any rules you want. But to be a professional sport it is not enough to be fair, it is not even necessary. It must be interesting enough for spectators to pay for. You can watch video games for free on Twitch. But paying to watch people play is a very niche thing. It has nothing to do with gatcha mechanics.
Also, in over forty years of thinking about and discussing game design, you’re the first person in all that time to use the phrase “natural inequality” in that context. Congratulations. I’m not even kidding. And they say there are no new ideas.
I just got to Diamond 1.. Vibranium will be tough but going to try anyway.