Guilds are dying. Thanks!
October 25, 2016 5:43PM
edited October 2016
Dear EA,
I like my guild. The people are friendly. We communicate frequently using Line (because your in game chat is horrible). We chat about the game, sports, life, etc. The guild is one of the main reasons I have so much fun in this game.
I also like to advance in the game. I PAY to advance in this game (even though I recognize this game is one of the worst possible values for my money this side of Movie popcorn).
Soooooo, why are you making me choose between the two with this new joke of a raid that top guild conglomerates even have to guild hop to beat?
At least I have a choice. Since I put a sad amount of money into this game, I have 48 7* and 30 of those are fully geared and modded.
I feel really bad for ftp and modest spenders. When all the whales and dolphins in their respective guilds decide to jump ship and combine in order to keep advancing, the ftp and modest spenders will be relegated to t6 for life. A loong, booring life where a hundredth of a percent comes off of GG for a Biggs assist attack.
I get that .5% of your player base dictates your development decisions with their wallets. And I get that you need to give those people a challenge.
Therefore, instead of nerfing raid difficulty, I propose that you allow Guild Alliances. Basically create a way to allow two or more guilds to team up to jointly work a raid. This is basically what is happening anyway with all the guild hopping. Why not just make it official and save many guilds from abandonment?
I like my guild. The people are friendly. We communicate frequently using Line (because your in game chat is horrible). We chat about the game, sports, life, etc. The guild is one of the main reasons I have so much fun in this game.
I also like to advance in the game. I PAY to advance in this game (even though I recognize this game is one of the worst possible values for my money this side of Movie popcorn).
Soooooo, why are you making me choose between the two with this new joke of a raid that top guild conglomerates even have to guild hop to beat?
At least I have a choice. Since I put a sad amount of money into this game, I have 48 7* and 30 of those are fully geared and modded.
I feel really bad for ftp and modest spenders. When all the whales and dolphins in their respective guilds decide to jump ship and combine in order to keep advancing, the ftp and modest spenders will be relegated to t6 for life. A loong, booring life where a hundredth of a percent comes off of GG for a Biggs assist attack.
I get that .5% of your player base dictates your development decisions with their wallets. And I get that you need to give those people a challenge.
Therefore, instead of nerfing raid difficulty, I propose that you allow Guild Alliances. Basically create a way to allow two or more guilds to team up to jointly work a raid. This is basically what is happening anyway with all the guild hopping. Why not just make it official and save many guilds from abandonment?
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This allows guilds to cooperate to tackle difficult content, but still rewards guilds that have the ability to go it alone. It also removes the guild infighting for rewards while still providing a competitive incentive for performance.
I like it. Allows two or more relatively equal guilds to compete for bragging rights as well. Heck maybe this Raid should have been billed as a guild competition all along....
this makes far too much sense, which is why it will never happen
In my guild we are just me and my alt
I decided that I am not interested of ATT raid - it is too difficult for me - so I don't care
that's why I don't care of problems of guild hopping.
BUT I cannot understand why you people put some moral limit which is honorable and which is not.
This is a game - there are rules - if game allows it - do it.
it is same in real life - what if you get bigger salary than you friends - you got choice - to go to expensive restaurant with people you don't like or to go to cheaper with your friends.
and this choice is not a matter of calculation - it is a matter of feeling
you like your guild - you have fun - what more you want from a game ?!?
1. I never made any statements about something being "honorable" or not in my post so not sure what you mean.
2. It's not the same in "real life". In real life, I can do both. I can go eat at the expensive restaurant for lunch with my wealthy friends and then go to the cheap one with my poor friends at dinner.
3. You didn't read my post. I want to advance and have fun at the same time
Right now, normal is nearly impossible to see progress and takes forever to play, even on auto. Meanwhile, the new currency is maxed because we can't clear it fast enough, and so we might as well not be playing it at all.
When your user base has to decide between completing a feature or not doing it at all, you have messed up the development of that feature, plain and simple, and it should be addressed. If others are enjoying it, great! Leave them be, and make something that we mere mortals would like to play.
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With the raid having been delayed for this long, then it drops and pretty much the entire player base can't beat the first phase, I have to wonder what they were thinking? While yes, whales keep this game funded, I still don't see why this raid was catered right to them. I'm not saying the raid should be cake, I enjoy a challenge. However this isn't that, the raid on normal is a bloodbath for anyone that hasn't thrown a bank account at the game. I can't imagine what horrors the heroic tier holds. My guild has been running the same tank raid since it dropped, on normal difficulty, and we are only at about 40% GeneralG health left on phase one.
+1 Agree completely... I would even add that I think they should do something similar for most of the restricted events.
I think most events should have an "any character" tier that pays out something, preferably something for that event. Credit Heist would give smaller amount of credits but maybe 5 random scoundrel shards. This wouldn't really hurt the economy because 5-10 shards a week isn't imo "too fast" a grind.
One of the most frustrating parts as a recent new player was to have most of the content locked away for a long while, I paid serious $$$$ to get the characters just to participate in the tier I events.
If they would think a little more about the tiers, requirements and rewards they could make a system where multiple levels of players could participate AND get rewards that are useful.
Getting rewards slower by a lower level guild is fine by me its the complete blackout (or so slow it might as well be) that is frustrating.
Yeah, they really just need to create a couple more tiers and add a little more Kenobi shards to the Heroic and reduced Kenobi shard payouts to like Tier 5 and 6.
Let their be progression for less powerful guilds.
On top of that, tune down the normal AAT a bit so that it doesn't take so long to complete. Maybe reduce overall health by like 30%. Its too much of a chore.
I'm seeing this suggestion a lot. While I don't disagree with it, I doubt it will happen as described.
We will be fortunate if they add lower tiers, I definitely don't expect to see Kenobi shards added to lower tiers.
Some gear is about the best we could hope for, so that we can finish the tier 5 raid and use the gear earned to get ourselves to a point where we can now do tier 6 raids, where we will get more/better gear to get ourselves to rancor where we can earn kenobi shards.
I think asking for kenobi shards to be added to lower tiers might just lead to the whole suggestion being ignored. Or at least set ourselves up for disappointment.
+1
Yeah, maybe just add a couple tiers with gold gear as rewards. But also tune down the Tier 6 AAT raid. Too much health in it. The raids need to be able to be completed within a reasonable amount of time for guilds that are like Top 200.
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I'm willing to be patient with this raid but the problem is a lot of my guild is made up of Level 81 players who are F2P and more casual players and not enthused with having this new raid looking like it will last 2 weeks when the Heroic Rancor raid is so easy for us.
On top of that, its hard for F2P players to all of a sudden build up Jawas and Jedis for this new raid.
I actually enjoy the challenge, but a lot of that joy is because its new. Not sure I want to do 2 week raids on a continual basis.