I never LOVED Grand Arena, but I managed to enjoy it. The updated system is overall a great change and I understand that everything is working as intended, but as of late I just can't have fun with this mode.
The main reason is that while I do win approximately half of matches, none of them are actually fun to engage with. Going against players with 3 + GLs, Executor, Malgus, Starkiller, etc while I only have 1 GL and none of the above is not fun at all.
Winning because the other player doesn't know what they're doing with all their shiny toys isn't fun for me. Winning because they didn't play is definitely not fun. Losing because the other player set 2 of his GLs on defense blocking me from taking any territory isn't fun either (I can sometimes manage to two shot them, but most of the time their back wall is also filled with top tier squads).
I'd much rather lose while having fun battles than going through this every single time. I was OK with this at first because opponents like these weren't as frequent, but I believe that many of the old Kyber players are leaking into the lower leagues, and it's making me hate this mode.
Again, I understand that everything works as intended, that I'm still winning as much as before and that these battles are "fair"... But they're not fun at all.
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Not to mention not having to deal with a 30-40 member shard chat.
1) My opponents doesn't attack
2) My opponent doesn't know how to play this game
For some, sure.
I won over 50 in a row at one point under the old system because I abused the GP matchmaking.
Well, you expressed exactly how I feel about GAC, I keep playing because the cristals are there, but there is 0 fun playing it.
So glad they moved crystals out of SA.
Were there problems with the old top gp matching system? Sure. But I don't think a global ladder was the solution.
I really like that it doesn't matter how many points I score, and I can just do one attack on auto for the round if I don't have time.
But I do agree with others - it's still far better than spending an hour on squad and an hour on fleets timing a climb. And of course shard chats were hugely unpopular for those on the outside..
Appreciate that may still be the case for fleet arena.