**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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Battlegrounds match making
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IMO, BGs would be so much better if they lasted 2 weeks and all the rewards were put into the rank rewards. Eliminate the VT and put everyone in the GC. After each season freeze the scores and put a match requirement on future seasons to qualify for rewards, just like AW. It really isn't that hard.
Match making in this mode is screwed. I get that as you get higher there are going to be less player’s equivalent to you to match you to, but how as a Bronze 2 am I not able to find another fricken Bronze 2 and end up against higher rated players. They win fair and square, I don’t mind the fights but the match making is not based on league if even the lowest leagues get screwed
Alliance war as a game mode can survive when only 10% of the players actually participate. It can survive if even only 1% of the players actually participate on a competitive level. But BG is a turnstile mode. It cannot survive in any form if there is less than a critical mass of players. Something like 250k players participate in BG to some degree, but probably less than a quarter of those participate on a strongly competitive level. Once you drop from hundreds of thousands of players to only tens of thousands of players, you start to run into critical problems, the most critical of which are death spirals. If too few players participate it gets harder to find matches. More players give up trying, and this can end up in a vicious cycle of fewer players playing, making it less attractive for those left. It isn't often that games that suffer this problem recover before crashing into the ground.
The VT is there to offer more casual players an opportunity to participate in a less competitive situation where they can earn rewards for participation as well as competition. The hope is that this increases the number of players willing to play, and also allows players who would become active competitors an on ramp to the game mode. In the same way that the spenders of this game that keep it alive come from the free to play playerbase, the competitive players of Battlegrounds also have to come from somewhere. Lowering the barrier to entry increases the chances that the participation level will remain high enough to be self-sustaining.
I also love that the only argument for someone being better than you is that they're modding. Talk about the trophy generation.
Uncollected is the 4th level of progression...
You are in denial if u think you should be higher...
Btw.. i got long time ago when it came out with 3 and 4*...
You are correct that this abrupt change shouldn't happen. Instead, you should have been facing progressively higher and higher accounts as you progressed upward through Silver and Gold. You should have been stopped before you reached Platinum or higher. The game *allows* players like yourself to rise higher than you would ordinarily be able to, so that you can participate for longer and earn more rewards than you would otherwise get.
Complain about it all you want. If you complain long enough, maybe Kabam will fix this. Fixing this would involve relaxing the match limits, ALLOWING you to match against higher opponents sooner than later, so that you get stopped long before reaching those high roster accounts. That's what fixing this "problem" is. You're being handed matches you can win, so you aren't stopped from progressing upwards sooner. That's a gift handed to lower progress players. It is a gift I myself advocated for to some degree long before a single player played a match outside of Kabam. But it is also advocacy I have come to partially regret. I didn't consider the predictable entitlement that gift would engender.
I now think the correct thing to do is to implement a "fairness" flag. Anyone who complains they are getting matched against accounts that are too strong will automatically get this flag. Any account that is flagged with the fairness flag will no longer be protected from higher matches in BG. They will instead see what they should be seeing, if fairness was the only requirement. They would see increasingly stronger match ups as they progressed higher in VT. Silver matches would be stronger, Gold would be even stronger. They would no longer see this dramatic jump in difficulty in Platinum, because they would never *see* Platinum unless they were so strong they were able to climb over Cavs, TBs, and lower Paragons to get there. Everyone else who takes their BG rewards without complaint would continue to get the curated easy match ups until Platinum.
years but you played on and off (and those off periods are multiple periods of 3/6
months to 1 year) then you're haven't playing for 6 years but rather 2 years or something. I don't think you should count the off periods.
Regarding everyhting else - see DNA's response above.