I see lots of complaints on forum about shard chats preventing people climbing rank.
Doesn’t affect me as I’m only top 100 but top players suffer a lot.
So why not rotate shards periodically, say once a month?
Would freshen all arenas up and add a bit more fun/interest/challenge/competitiveness to the game. Wouldn’t be to hard for devs to introduce either and would reduce complaints/rants/whining on forums
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Would still disrupt the chats as you wouldn’t know which shard they are moved to and probability of say 20 or even 10 people from same chat moving to same shard would be highly unlikely given how many people play the game
Why????!!!
Shard chats kill game, challenge/ interest stimulates game
People who don’t have solid team or mods to climb just like to blame it on shard chats
Check forums plenty people gave solid teams/mods but are targeted due to chats. Should be able to climb 1v1 not 1v10-20
Because arena is badly designed. Huge numbers of players are in shard chats, or there wouldn't be anyone complaining about their existence. Shard chats reduce the amount of pointless frustration and phone babysitting while people are trying to have lives, and eat dinner with their families. If you think the occasional complaint on the forum about them is a big deal wait until you see the flood of rage quitters that upsetting the status quo would bring.
They haven’t yet.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your post but it seems to support my original comment.
Why don’t you deserve the rewards? You farmed/grew your team through strategy instead of buying success.
By regularly rotating shards it would break syndicates.
Then it's all about who has the best luck.
The whole set up needs an overhaul before you look at something like that.
They would need to improve ai so that the best team can actually hold rank 1. At the moment anyone can climb on anyone even with much worse mods. They would also need to make it so you can't be locked. If everyone was climbing for rank at the same time you would spend 90% of your time being locked.
They were saying shuffling shards would kill it, not chats.
I'm a member of three shard chats. All friendly shard chats - mainly maintaining a list of payouts, so that everyone can avoid sewing things up for each other. I believe most shard chats are like this. The 'mafias', when discussed here, get all the attention, because they are so extreme and not the norm. I believe most shard chats are relatively friendly.
Now they've spread to GA!?!??!
That said, it is really funny to see how threads like this reliably bring out those who benefit from shard-chats to frantically defend them. As if anything said here would threaten their status quo...or anything they said would seriously protect it.
You do realise, that it's quite easy to contact each other in-game, right?
Or to alt accounts....
The only way this would work is if they significantly nerfed the rewards for finishing first, and they will never do that because people would no longer spend money to get meta teams. So it's not happening.
Ultra, I have had the teams and mods and have climbed to 1st several times, however my shard chat refuses to let me in.
That doesn't invalidate the fact that lots of people don't have the team and/or mods and blame it on shard chats.