I'm not a huge fan of using forums to make major announcements to any application or user experience (or in this case, game) instead either a tracking page or announcement site/emails could be leveraged. I ( and almost all users I've discussed the new TW changes with) found it to be jarring unless they were going through each thread on the forum. "The Next Territory Wars (1/17/19) [MEGA]" thread title while relevent, was not particularly effective in conveying the depth of the changes.
Instead, if these tweaks for TW and Grand Arena and such are going to be a permitent fixture I don't think it is unreasonable to ask for the SWGOH web site's "News" section to be used to make these changes explicit.
Thoughts?
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.. is in the news section?
Do you mean the front page of the website? Lets be honest that thing hasn't been changed since Revan was released.
OK you need a LITTLE legwork, but if it's important to you there are not massively complex ways you can subscribe to forum announcements without checking forums every day manually.
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/categories/news-and-announcements-
here is a link for you to check out what is there.
Here is a link to the post in that section about the update to the TW buffs, which can be found in that section.
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/193152/the-next-territory-wars-1-17-19#latest
on top of that all of these buffs are listed in the game in a very similar way that all buffs are listed for events like this and TB. << not 100% obvious, but if your going to avoid the forums and not have an RSS feed, you will need to be more diligent about what is in the game.
I mean the "Dev Announcement and News" section of the Forums is at the very top of the Forum home page. That's where they always are. Anyone who knows there is a website and forums should know to look there for any announcements. It's not even really on every single player to keep up to speed on this stuff. TWs is for guilds. Are you saying that no one in your entire guild knew about these buffs? If that's the case, it doesn't sound like your guild cares much about TWs anyway. The guild leader and officers should be keeping everyone else informed of what is going on...if they aren't paying attention to what's going on with the game, then it might be time to find a new guild.
While I see and agree with you points, including guikd responsibility, I don't see the harm in creating a one stop shop in a non message board form for clarity on what is likely going to be continual changes to this content, especially if the path forward is to be in a state of flux.
If you dont see a title of TW with the date for the next TW, then TW must not be very important to you and your guild. After all the updates we have seen and things they have stated they are "trying out", i would read any thread with TW in the title. but thats just me.
They have created one, so the harm would be the fact that they would then need to keep 2 place up to date, when they already have one.
I guess that's the difference here, I don't view this as sufficient but hey if it's just me and the people I've spoken to in game then you're right it's our problem.
I play 2 other games similar to this (heavily into Summoners War) and never had this problem while it appears to be a re occuring theme here. I'll have to look into an alternative means of handling this games info.