Thank You for the Great Event
First let me start by saying this is indeed a sincere thank you and congratulations to EA and CG on a fantastic fun filled 3 day event.
Was this Tournament perfect in its delivery or execution? No. Did it finally do what this game has lacked since the start of guilds? Yes. With the exception of Raids where you jointly play albeit separately from your guild mates, this tournament finally delivered an aspect to this game that I and I'm sure many others have been wanting. This tournament allowed you to play with your guild brothers and sisters towards mutual benefit. After all if you can't work jointly to attain better rewards whilst denying them to others what is the point of a guild? I certainly want my guild mates to get better gear, materials and shards drops than some random from Joe Schmo guild. And before you judge, we all fought our way to the top on day one of the event solo. We utilized teamwork to stay there. That's what smart team players do.
For those of you that took umbrage to the use of teamwork and say exploit, I say sour grapes. After all if you had managed to find a way to team up with a guild mate you would have. But since you couldn't, you say exploit and cheat.
I and one of my guild mates both got a 6 star ShoreTrooper and 3 others got him at 5 and 4 stars with some pretty awesome loot to go with. This was the most exciting, fun filled and intense 3 days since I started playing this game in November.
So once again thanks for the fun event. I look forward to its return and other such events. Although I'm sure they will be somewhat differently structured and delivered than this one was, that's fine. We will endeavor to do our best and have fun with this game we love and guild mates that have become great friends over these many months.
Let the hate, discontent and flaming begin.
Was this Tournament perfect in its delivery or execution? No. Did it finally do what this game has lacked since the start of guilds? Yes. With the exception of Raids where you jointly play albeit separately from your guild mates, this tournament finally delivered an aspect to this game that I and I'm sure many others have been wanting. This tournament allowed you to play with your guild brothers and sisters towards mutual benefit. After all if you can't work jointly to attain better rewards whilst denying them to others what is the point of a guild? I certainly want my guild mates to get better gear, materials and shards drops than some random from Joe Schmo guild. And before you judge, we all fought our way to the top on day one of the event solo. We utilized teamwork to stay there. That's what smart team players do.
For those of you that took umbrage to the use of teamwork and say exploit, I say sour grapes. After all if you had managed to find a way to team up with a guild mate you would have. But since you couldn't, you say exploit and cheat.
I and one of my guild mates both got a 6 star ShoreTrooper and 3 others got him at 5 and 4 stars with some pretty awesome loot to go with. This was the most exciting, fun filled and intense 3 days since I started playing this game in November.
So once again thanks for the fun event. I look forward to its return and other such events. Although I'm sure they will be somewhat differently structured and delivered than this one was, that's fine. We will endeavor to do our best and have fun with this game we love and guild mates that have become great friends over these many months.
Let the hate, discontent and flaming begin.
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Agree, the rewards and event were great. A few tweaks and off to the next one.
You colluded with your guild to gain unfair advantage over other players by abusing the ability to change defense squads to allow easy wins in a way not intended by the tournament. It's an exploit, and you should at minimum receive no rewards for making use of it.
Luckily for you and those like you, EA seems to have little interest in punishing unethical play.
+1
Looking forward to being at the forefront of the new meta with my shiny new legally obtained, legit 6* Shoretrooper.
It's the poor design. I don't blame people for taking advantage.
You just have sour grapes because your guild wasn't able to create the same synergy.
I played the event myself without an alliance, but I did spam the LB, for those sending out soft defenses, and jumped when the opportunity rised. Clearly I was not exploiting the game, but used my noggin to figure out an alternative strategy.
So stop with your characterizations because you didn't think of a winning strategy before the tourny started and implement it.
I suppose if your car gets stolen, the guys who took it were just smart enough to figure out how to beat the anti theft system?????
People paid real money to compete and others used an exploit. This is indisputable.
Please stop yourself. No one stole your Shoretrooper from you bub. F2P and mild spenders who thought they were going to be handed a 7-5* premium toon were kidding themselves. Exploit or not it was never going to happen, period. You've all put your malcontents out there and no one cares. I'm glad the tourney is over so I don't have to listen to your constant complaining through tear soaked keyboards.
You are correct. Wish I could afford to get a decent team on here and thought I could win a good player in the tourney. Can I borrow a Kleenex? Can we please be allies so I can test drive some of your premium toons?
No you can't borrow a Kleenex. That would imply that you would return it to me soaked in tears or something far worse.
Unfortunately my ally list is full. Full of winners, no room for whiners.
Well if any winners quit and there is an opening for a whiner, keep me in mind!
+1. Well said!
As concerns the burning question: was it fair play, Ethical?
A few words here:
The essence of Guilds is teamwork, a single entity composed of individuals.
Games have 3 components: freedoms, barriers and goals.
The nature of SWGOH has 1 more factor: timezones.
I was part of one of the earliest Guilds built months prior to Raids. (Original TNR).
Mates came and went, discontents mixed with joy; all culminating to various Guilds that were naturally woven together.
As the game matured and pressure increased wether to stick with the kinks or bail out, only team spirit driven people prevailed up to today, be it in game or in forums/chatrooms, still attached to this marvel of a game.
I am probably one of the oldest member of the targetted, flamed down Guild in question that is labeled in a most unruly way. And I can tell from, many sources, in and out of this said Guild, that our trademark is teamwork, unconditional one for all and all for one, F2P or P2P.
Unfortunately or otherwise, being too busy to fully partake this 3 day extensive rush, I could not follow my fellowship band wagon and went lone soldier throughout the Event, barely hitting over the 100 rank, to have Shore unlocked.
Having now observed the mechanics of the game, I can only see one answer that would nullify any dissonance in viewpoints and settle any quailms, which would have never come to be in the first place.
There is but one culprit.
This Event has been advertized as Squad Tournament.
The Tournament is a misnomer, or an incomplete name or description. All my top Guild mates did (out of tacit conscent), was add the missing data and went their ways as happy campers and busy bees, all with what I have come to understand, the feeling of having clean hands. And since we were at least 10 of the same Guild who jumped in at the same time, shortly after Tournament was available, it was even more applicable
Had EA/CG provided a complete, acurate name and feature description, the results of this new Event would have been quite different.
Further, this would have leveled out the wide F2P, P2P gap.
It is NOT a Squad Tournament, it ismore of a GUILD vs GUILD Tournament, with the obvious addition of time zones and the obscure shard binding.
For all of you adamant SWGOH lovers, please LOOK at the Tournament mechanics.
And think again, anew.
Now, was this Ethical play?
I will boldly say, it is for some to know and for others to find out. Nuf said!
lol this guy lost all credibility. Check his post asking the devs for clarification on teaming up in arena. Apparently collusion there is an exploit also. But thats only been working that way since the game began...
Man this guy is such role model for his moral and ethical superiority, he even refused to use the retreat button in GW. What a guy! I'm
sure everyone on the SWGOH forums is so proud of you!
You know why I play this game? To have fun. NOT to impress people I will never know or meet in real life with my superior moral compass. Guess what? Getting a shiny new 5* Shoretrooper was pretty fun. And putting him to use to help my shardmates lockout crybabies like you in arena will be even more fun!
Hopefully you find a better way to put your model citizenship to good use in the future. I can't see how exposing my apparent unethical behavior is making the world a better place...Good luck to you!
And for those who defend the guild work I understand your point, but the problem is that not all guilds members were in the same tournament so it was unfair since if you was luckly to be with your guild members you could use the team work but if you dont you just could never get to top raking. If all the guild members from the all guilds had been in the same tournament that may be a diferent thing but since it was not the case your point dont apply, it wasnt that the others didnt do team work, most cases they couldnt.
I will be happy if next is about guild team work, with my guild we can do great thing but me alone against a guild is simple not fair.
In the end it was all over again about RNG...
Same thing here. Kudos to the players that were smart enough to use the system to their advantage; the shame really rests with the developers. They REALLY should implement a team of rule testers. I volunteer as tribute.
So your argument is you threw money at and as such expected to and felt entitled to win....well that didn't go to plan did it for once.
You are griping cos people worked out a strategy to get ahead without chucking cash at it.
Well fair play to them. They broke no rules and played within the designed parameters. Was it morally right....possibly not but their strategy didn't break any rules.
And im not one of them before any says...im F2P and finished in the 500 bracket and was happy to get some free stuff
At op, i realize it was probably cool coordinating attacks like we used to have to in the raid before mods, but it was still a huge d#ck move.
I dont have a problem with events catering to whales, but c'mon. Unlimited defense resets and character refreshes was completely absurd.
Congradulations on your shoretroopers you definitely deserve them. May the force end you in the pit of a sarlacc.
P.S. my grapes are fine
You guys trying to justify it are just sad.
Nice post. I agree most of the responsibility lies w/ devs. And they are about to make the same mistake again w/ given out max currencies to guilds for the next raid. Countless guilds will create alt guilds to jump to and gain and a stupid advantage. When this happens, there will be no excuse anyone from EA can give to justify it.