Upcoming BG Changes

First of all, I think the stream today has been great; amazing job/chemistry/humor by the team.

But as far as the BG changes, the big three are pretty interesting, and I think two of them are easy winners.

(1) shuffle signet: so it sounds like the goal is to change this shuffle system so that when you reshuffle, you keep your original options, and just get additional options on top of that. Seems like a W update there; looking forward to it.

(2) little leagues: so this sounds like a "safe space" for low progression players to play BG without being victimized by lazy/predatory high accounts hanging out in the lower tiers. Again, seems like a W update there.

(3) whitelist/blacklist: Ok, this one I think can go good or bad depending on how it's implemented. Basically, it sounds like this will only apply to GC, and every season Kabam will decide which specific champs cannot be banned and which champs cannot be even in your deck.

I can see how this might be a good thing for creating variety.
But then again: if the unbannable champs will be the P2W ones like Dark Phoenix, Red Guardian, Lumatrix, Torch, etc.
And then the banned champs will be old staples that most modest players have, like Bullseye, Titania, Juggs, etc.
I can see this being another pain point for the normal players and advantage for the big spenders.
But again, that's speculative, but based on the direction so far, it's a real concern for me. We shall see...

Comments

FiiNCH

Agreed, I think the changes for points 1 & 2 are great and have been needed. I’ll see how Kabam implement point 3 for a season before forming a proper opinion. I like the principle but it’s all down to how it’s implemented.

ahmynuts

Personally if I was put into the little league I would be very offended

captain_rogers

Personally if I was put into the little league I would be very offended

You will be put on where you belong, Mr. nuts

TotemCorruption

Personally if I was put into the little league I would be very offended

I mean, this sounds kinda fun. I might play my third low progression alt more if there was actual fair BG play potential.

BeastDad

1 and 2 are excellent, but 3 is probably not going to work out well unless a lot of thought is put into the bans.

SirGamesBond

1 Great
2 They mentioned UC accounts and lower. The new valiants with 2 r3s will still make rant posts about matchmaking.
3- black list, most players rank 4s and mostly old ones. White list will definilty contains newly released cash champs.

SummonerNR

Just a comment about lower progression vs higher (Lazy/Predatory) accounts.

Hope that's just you using the sentiment that other lower players tend to use for that, and not your own feeling (I don't think you would call them that).

As, everyone doesn’t have to play all game modes to their fullest all the time.

If many higher players don't want to actually grind for BG every season, they may indeed tend to be down in lower tiers.
But that doesn’t mean Lazy or Predatory (like some try to claim).

Lazy might imply they WANT to go far in BG, but just don't find the time for it, or delay when they eventually get around to starting it. Some just only occasionally play when they have some extra time to kill, not caring in the end where they end up.

Predatory ?? As in let's purposely stay low so we can grind for SOLO BG points (oops, doesn’t exist anymore), etc. ?

But if Kabam is gonna try and make things more consistent, that would be good. (and maybe less name-calling by a lot of others here in future)

Buttehrs

I think we all know a certain someone who's gonna be relegated to little leagues lol

BringPopcorn

What about the pause issue?
(Sorry had to do it 🤣)

TotemCorruption

Just a comment about lower progression vs higher (Lazy/Predatory) accounts.

Hope that's just you using the sentiment that other lower players tend to use for that, and not your own feeling (I don't think you would call them that).

As, everyone doesn’t have to play all game modes to their fullest all the time.

If many higher players don't want to actually grind for BG every season, they may indeed tend to be down in lower tiers.
But that doesn’t mean Lazy or Predatory (like some try to claim).

Lazy might imply they WANT to go far in BG, but just don't find the time for it, or delay when they eventually get around to starting it. Some just only occasionally play when they have some extra time to kill, not caring in the end where they end up.

Predatory ?? As in let's purposely stay low so we can grind for SOLO BG points (oops, doesn’t exist anymore), etc. ?

But if Kabam is gonna try and make things more consistent, that would be good. (and maybe less name-calling by a lot of others here in future)

Yeah, I was just using the paradigmatic stereotype/complaint about that issue. I'm not implying it's fair or accurate in all or most circumstances, especially these days.