Here's what CG
should say:
1. We've known about this issue since before the launch of TW. As you know, we have relegated our beta-testing to the player-base and told them to post any bugs to the to Answers HQ. Here's one from
March 2018 https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/TW-player-lock-in-not-locking-mod-stats/m-p/6673870/highlight/true#M9968. Thanks for letting us know! Still, we decided to ignore this problem while we rolled out JKA re"tune" #1, JKA re"tune" #2 / nerf, along with a host of things that will make your experience more annoying.
2. Will we be compensating the player-base for our screw-up? Not. A. Chance. We do not consider this an exploit of the game because it doesn't result in players getting more gear without paying for it...in fact, it may result in players spending crystals to get credits so that they can swap mods back and forth. The only exploits we have found lately include C3PO making the Sith Raid too easy, JKA making Malak too easy to beat, etc. ALSO, swapping mods is, in fact, permitted in the game.
3. Yes, we will overreact now that someone has livestreamed how to do this. We will threaten the ban hammer on people who swap mods in and around lock times for TW / GA. Of course, since TW / GA locks sometimes happen on the same day but at different times, your normal swaps might appear to us to be consistent with the now prohibited mod-swapping. For you krakens out there, beware of your $20,000+ investment in this game getting erased because of a few errant mod swaps.
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The issue in here isn't mod swapping... is roster lock. GA and TW should have ROSTER LOCK... and that includes mods.
Well I mean coming in second isnt that bad. Considering, you get 1 less zeta and like 7-8 less gear pieces
Now multiply the 1 less zeta and 7-8 gear pieces by the amount of wars and grand arenas since squad management was released... that’s quite a lot
That’s insane. Don’t fix it in TW... then role out a new game mode with an identical problem? Yeah my trust is way down for this game now.
I noticed this yesterday. My opponent had no mods on a number of his G12 zeta characters (like Carth). I thought it was just a mix-up on his part (maybe moving mods for the Padme event), but now I'm thinking he's just using the same set of mods over and over.
Is still money in the game.
And others cheat themselves through the game.
I do not have a single € more.
That is confusing in itself. It does not however explain the toon apparently having the incorrect speed in combat.
I can’t see how they can track that many ppl doing it over that long of time.
Also no compensation will come close to if all the planets aligned and someone lost multiple times to ga and tw due to this.
I see it being like one of the modgates where people brought mods to 15 for no charge and sold them.
Atleast there is a merged thread for venting and yelling now.
If you play him, ceck to see if his defensive toons have mods. If so there’s a good chance.
With that said, in all fairness that linked bug report does not correctly indicate how to reproduce the issue. There is nothing in there that says using the squad presets is necessary to reproduce the issue. If they tried swapping mods then selecting their team from the left hand side they'd say 'works for me, no bug here' and move on. With the sheer number of false bug reports having one that doesn't have EXACT steps to reproduce is asking for it to be missed
What they really should do is immediately cancel the current GA and TW until this is fixed and give everyone first place rewards...wait this is CG, they'll give everyone less than second place rewards as "compensation" if they did that.
Could be for Padme....like a dummy, I moved mods for the event about 15 minutes before the GA lock....wasn't even paying attention to the lock time. Not missing huge amounts of mods but have at least 1 missing on like 8-9 of my best characters for this GA....dohhhhhh.
They cant. They cant even do the game works properly.
This has been sweep under the rug for so long. And Darth Microtransaction deserves a massive thank you from this community for posting that video. So thank you! I will be subscribing to his channel.
Just a heads up, a comment posted by Carrie in a Discord channel about this:
Probably not worth risking a ban for some slightly better but still underwhelming rewards, lol.
I'll take some of that action. I predict that it will be like the other GA megathread with 94 pages, the one I stopped reading at 34 pages. No replies. I'm really surprised that THIS one hasn't been moved to bug reports.