Kabam sold me on Battlegrounds last season. This season undid that completely.
Childofkrakoa
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I'm a fairly sizeable spender in game as a Paragon player. I have plenty of 7* champions, maxed out 6* champions etc. I did all of the difficult content this month. Brutal DLX 100%. Legendary Incursions zone 25 done.
Last season I made it to Gladiator circuit with well over 400k points and enjoyed it. However, this season was an absolutely dreadful experience. I missed Battlegrounds when it went away last season. That was the first time I felt that way. Now I really don't care of it ever comes back. Matchmaking is a mess, The medal system change is way too grindy, and the rewards are not worth the effort. I love this game but when this mode is bad it really starts to change how I feel.
I really hope Kabam gets this mode right because at it's best its a fantastic mode. This season though?..... One of my worst in game experiences in 8 years.
Last season I made it to Gladiator circuit with well over 400k points and enjoyed it. However, this season was an absolutely dreadful experience. I missed Battlegrounds when it went away last season. That was the first time I felt that way. Now I really don't care of it ever comes back. Matchmaking is a mess, The medal system change is way too grindy, and the rewards are not worth the effort. I love this game but when this mode is bad it really starts to change how I feel.
I really hope Kabam gets this mode right because at it's best its a fantastic mode. This season though?..... One of my worst in game experiences in 8 years.
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This season was more grindy; but at the same time it was a bit more competitive, and its the preparation for seeding (to make it less grindy)
Then, on the flip-side, it is a fun more (personally) that shouldn't be so deflating when you are constantly losing.
How do they fix it? I don't think letting you climb further up the ladder, more easily, is the answer.
My question again would be, is it smart for Kabam to have an "easy" season with even better rewards (I realize that was for "AW compensation") only to then have this season?
It was a complete and total turn off after falling in love with the mode and I think its important that Kabam know that. I don't want this to be arena and I do want a challenge. This didn't feel like a challenge. It felt rigged.
I'M NOT SAYING IT WAS!!! That is just how it felt.
They had the string the same ammount of wins, same ammount of tiers and all.
Some "people" can't see the difference between complaints on the structure change (which is the same for every player) and matchmaking complaints from lesser experienced players.
The rewards was a special event because of the lack of war. Which is why the season was completely different. Season 9 had conqueror players in for the first time, also getting into GC was not as important as reaching milestone rewards, there was a lot more participation from all types of players trying to get those milestones.
This season probably had a lot more hard try players due to burn out too.
1. Seeding. With seeding in place kabam had to extend the VT or reduce the effectiveness of it.
2. We had almost 100k or more people in GC last season, which meant people needed almost 200 points just to get out of Uru 3.
Kabam was already extending the VT (I disagree with having 2 medals stop at gold instead of diamond though) for seeding, and they knew statistics-wise that this season would be bad because it was the first to have seeding. I hope they make some changes, but I imagine we won't see any drastic changes until after the next season and they can pull the data to see how everyone does with seeding.
Below is the guys I face
The objective was to keep lower Accounts (Cavs, UC) from having an easier time making it to the GC than Players more advanced. Now we have arguments that even Paragons have had it too easy and don't deserve the Rewards. The exclusivity and elitism never ends.
There are most definitely changes that need to be made, no matter how much people argue that this is a good thing. It's a competition. We all know that. That doesn't mean it should burn out the majority of Players before they even hit the GC.
This current iteration is too much. It's not completely broken, but there is still work to do to dial it back. You want to balance the lowest Players having an easier time, but you don't want to kill the efforts of everyone else that isn't at the very top.
Unfortunately, once that happens, it's hard to pull them back. So that's a priority in my opinion.
Everyone has to go thru the same ammount of tiers, winning and losing rewards or takes away the same ammount of coins.
I feel the main problem is the Win 1 token, Lost 1 token, and I can't see Seeding will fix this, as this problem create a bottleneck problem for a lot of players, anything from 2mil all the way up to 5mil and above. Everyone is stuck in this cycle with some wins and some losts and stuck in the same Tier.
Every players that are in the same Vibranium tier will also be in start in the same Tier together, and all will continue to get bottlenecks next season.
If players (whatever level) can move throw their own level well then we naturally would have less matching issue. I have a small account and below average skills, so not expect to get high as other bigger or/and more skilled. But right now, I actually feel bad when facing much larger accounts than me (who played well), as I feel like they could/should be at a higher Tier, but they are not, because players is stuck in a 1 win, 1 lost loop.
You are argueing the capability of brute forcing and is valid; but adding tiers and changing the coin system didn't make it harder for some and easier for others. Matter of fact when they changed the coin system in season 8 it was made easier for EVERYONE, and now the difficulty was slightly increased for everyone as well.
I don't know why you are bringing other posts and other situations into this one. OP is not a lower or newbie player, the difference about season 9 and othets were explained and you keep your unending senseless narrative about including all players and such.
The medals changed from 2 seasons ago and are the same this season as last the only exception is there are more tiers this season.