I have missing mods on my JKR team, and pilot mods on my pilots for fleets when I hit join. It strikes me as a poor and unnecessary negative player interaction when changes this vital to my success in the next GA are buried in an obscure thread on the forums that directly contradict the wording in the game.
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Not anymore: https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/217926/updates-on-current-issues
What a terrible idea. Is a second's delay really worth making this more complicated than necessary for the player? The inconvenience? This is just going to result in more people missing out because they forgot to sign up after they finished tweaking their roster, or people who decide not to bother at all (especially in conjunction with the current rewards).
Ohhh, such a fat troll showed up at our forums. Go away
Lol I love ur username
To be fair the devs can say whatever they want but even the devs dont know how its gonna work...
Dont beleive me just look at malak event
They still haven't fixed it properly. There are now people with 0 Malak shards who have the event showing as already completed and are now permanently prevented from ever acquiring the character.
I read the forums. You also do. The OP even does. But can you even fathom how many people don't and as of right now (setup phase would have just kicked off minutes ago) have no clue their roster locked when they joined?
I happen to know my boss plays and told me he dropped 50 bucks this afternoon for some crystals to bump his Padme to g12 for the GAC. I guarantee when he sees that she's still a g11 in the GAC he's going to be aggravated beyond belief. He's one of those who's been playing for 3+ years, used to spend on a regular basis and told me this was the first money he's spent on the game in 6 months plus. Because he's been dissatisfied with the bugs/glitches/inconsistencies as of late.
My guess is that this may be his tipping point to quitting. I have spent 25 bucks total in the 2 years I've been playing, so honestly it (and the weaker GAC rewards) doesn't bother me. But people like me don't keep the game going. Regular spenders, like my boss did formerly, do. And moves like this with zero in-game direct communication from CG do not do the game any favors.
They've sent us inbox messages before, there's not a valid excuse for not doing it with such a major change in how TW and GAC work.
I do have sympathy for those as tunnel-visioned as you, because apparently to imagine other scenarios beyond your own is just too much to fathom. If everyone had your disposition when it comes to forum posts about in-game changes, this game would crash and burn incredibly fast. I'd bet less than 10% of players have even looked at the forums at all, let alone check them regularly.
I dont read forums... sorry but this is messed up. I dont mind the change to TW cause you and leave and rejoin. I just joined cause didnt want to forget and was only made aware after guildies brought it up. Definitely should have been a push notification or something prior or at very least a leave and rejoin like TW.
Edit: and why the hell did it count down player lock if player lock already happened?!?!?!
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/217926/updates-on-current-issues#latest
There was also a post previous to this saying they were working on this and that it would be coming.
When did I say it was stated in game?
They said they read all the updates to stay on top of things and this was one of them.
and it doesn't mention GAC, after mentioning tw and gac and how it's ok to leave tw. SO we either have to do all mods just to join gac, then redo for whatever we are going atm, or risk missing gac.
A rational response to this "issue" (which I've heard no one complain about) is to lock rosters 5-15 minutes before gac starts, or start matchmaking an equal time after it starts. We can't do anything for 24 hours anyway so what difference could it make? I mean, how long does it take their one computer to do all these snapshots that we have have things messed up for us instead. Does it take longer than 15m to take snapshots? Do they need the full 24 hours to matchmakem or whatever the heck it is we are waiting for?
Not to mention no in-game announcement AGAIN. What a joke
ps have them fix the garbage rewards too plz
Epically wrong. I read game updates. You know, where they are supposed to post ALL the changes to the game. They posted this in dev announcements. Regardless of any of that, it should have been communicated in game. But I dont know why we expect any better. That's the CG way.
Dev announcements are also about the game. I'm not saying it shouldnt have been in game also, but it's not wise to ignore a place where the devs post information and state that ALL of that should be where you want to look.
Quit being an ****. GAME UPDATES is the logical place where GAME UPDATES should be posted. Not buried in a topic about updates on issues.
And furthermore it's irrelevant. It should have been an in game notice. They changed the way it's always worked.
See the forums tab? That's IN GAME.
People complain it needs to be in game (which I pointed out it is), and you cite 2 other sources (discord and reddit) where people are talking about, yet at the same time there isn't enough communication?
Ignorance isn't an excuse.
1) How could players who don't speak English know about it? (game clients are localised in many countries but the official forum is English only)?
2) Isn't the countdown timer that says 'Players lock in ... hours' a lie? (because it's already locked)?
Please, answer these two questions.
Is this a descrimination of all non-English speaking players?
There are plenty of non English speaking players on the forum.
There is no intent to deceive, therefore this is not a lie.