Victory Track in BGs is horrible

Not your usual BG whine post.

I'm only playing BGs for Summoner Fest and Shatter Essence. I have no problem with the match making.

TLDR
Why incentive me to play battlegrounds and then present me with this completely unrewarding experience?

About me
* I got Valiant from Necro, maybe three months after release
* I don't like playing BGs, mainly due to the time it takes to get into the action
* I solo bosses in Tier 4 war. I understand a lot of the mechanics and interactions in the game
* I have 3 R4s (including IH, my AW Queen), and a deck split between mainly R3s/R2 and some 6 star ascended
* I spend a bit of mony. Always the double track, never on the big spends such as torch or dark phoenix
* I completed most of the end game content

This describes my rise from Diamond whatever to currently Vibranium 3.
* I get the battle grounds objectives
* I find a match (10-30 seconds)
* Opponents looks at my roster, forfeits before I finish my bans
* I find another match (10-30 seconds)
* Opponents looks at my roster, forfeits before I finish my bans
* I find another match (10-30 seconds)
* Opponent is a bit weaker but not too bad, start the draft stage
* Oh, they're not picking and letting the timer run down. Most likely put their phone down
* Play 2 fights, watch lots of timers run down and pick up my win
* Collect my 4 objectives

I don't enjoy this. This is not a positive gaming experience. I like AW becase it means something. This does not mean anything.
I'm sure the guys who came up with Battlegrounds did not envision this as a player's experience with the mode.

I don't know the fix it but I do know the current reward structure incentives me to run through this ground-hog day like activity.

Comments

ahmynuts

I wish I had your experience wtf

VanillaCoke

You want “competition”? You want people to hope you quit against them? Get into the Gladiator Circuit

SirGamesBond

LordSmasher

You want “competition”? You want people to hope you quit against them? Get into the Gladiator Circuit

Nope. I don't want to even play the mode.

LordSmasher

Nice one, but as above I don't want to play the mode.
Do you honestly think this is a fun experience? Like what's the point of the game?

SirGamesBond

Nice one, but as above I don't want to play the mode.
Do you honestly think this is a fun experience? Like what's the point of the game?

It's a mode, if you enjoy then play it.
From your standpoint, you are getting free wins....
Move forward.... not all people forfeit.

I enjoy BGs will be an overstatement.
I enjoy BGs in limited quantities now.
As long as I'm getting ovjetives it's ggs.
Time investment was big factor why I stopped competing higher.
I'd never compalin about forfeits. I welcome them lol, less time needed to get 3 objerives.
But I went for gc week 1, at 200 or even 100 points you won't see any forefirts and you can enjoy the game.
Mate, you have created this problem for yourself.
There's easy solution, go forward. Leave the VT gremlins alone.

Sunstar19

Would love to have your journey

captain_rogers

Waiter my steak is too juicy nd my bread is too buttery

JESUSCHRIST

Same experience here, my account is now 8 million, I'm in GC by now

That's why I been saying don't throw all the GC players back to diamond 5 together

The weaker players are the ones suffering in diamond 5 on day 1

They have to wait for the stronger players to leave each tier before they have a fighting chance

Kabam can put GC players in diamond 5,4,3,2,1 vibranium 5,4,3,2,1 etc to have a better dispersal

JESUSCHRIST

Kabam should consider the following

Celestial placed into V2
Mysterium placed into V3
Quantum placed into V4
Arcane placed into V5
Gamma placed into D1
Uru placed into into D2,3,4,5

Chuck_Finley

It’s the stupid reversion of point farming. They took away the solo event, added competitive radiance objectives… and the BG journey felt sort of how it was supposed to be.

Then they stuffed summerfest points in solo objectives that involve winning, everyone who isn’t a high ranking BG player realizes life is easier staying in VC for those… and the radiance differences in the lower ranks of GC where they end up anyway don’t really matter.

So the whole experience is jacked again.

Squidopus

Nice one, but as above I don't want to play the mode.
Do you honestly think this is a fun experience? Like what's the point of the game?

I don’t get it, by your own admission you don’t like the mode so you probably wouldn’t have fun actually playing out the matches either, so why complain about people handing you free wins so you can move on with your life? That seems like the ideal outcome.

If you want competition, or as you describe it “matches that mean something”, you climb until you hit competitive tiers (should be easy if people keep forfeiting against you). If you don’t want that and are just grinding the objectives, don’t rush things and take the free wins as a blessing. Feels like you’re of two different minds here and haven’t reconciled that.