So, your about to change Arena to be just like Crystal League....
I get why your doing it, Arena is the most played activity in the game, Crystal League is the least played thing in the game.
The reason for both is SBI's inability to recognize why it is this way. The reason, why Arena is the most played activity is 1. the ability to get into a match quickly. also 2. low costs of playing the activity. The reason Crystal League is the Least played activity in the game is this (the major reason) 1. Making it inaccessible to almost everybody in the game, (lesser reason) 2. Costs of Gear replacement. By gating the activity into a very narrow window to play it you limit 99% of the population from participating. (for me the times are 6 AM, 2 PM, and 9 PM at night). the Oceanic time (6AM) I am asleep, 2 pm I am at work, 9 PM I can play, however getting 4 other people who can play at this one specific time is very very difficult. The reason I suspect you do this, is to make it appear "Elite". So you have maybe 100 players who Participate in Crystal League. while Arena about 30k a week play Arena.
So NOW, you have decided to make Arena just like Crystal League, in hopes of Gaining players in Crystal League. BUT in your apparent short, shortsightedness, you cannot seem to grasp, that the reason Crystal league doesn't have any participants is because you Gate it behind an extremely narrow window to participate. Are you changing this when you change Arena?
No
Thus you may gain a few more players, but it will always be underwhelming, with a lack of participation, because you cannot seem to understand, that people have lives to live and cannot (most of us) fit into this narrow window of opportunity to play Crystal League
WHAT YOU SHOULD DO/ HAVE DONE WITH BOTH CRYSTAL LEAGUE AND ARENA.
Crystal League:
*Make it so you can Que for crystal league anytime (like arena)
* Allow for random crystal league matches ( LIKE ARENA)
Arena:
You should have attached Arena to Factions, Given us 5 new maps (one for each city), plus the normal Arena match for championship matches at the end of the season.
This would have made Arena much more fun to play, made it individualistic from Crystal League, and provided even more content for players.
Instead, you took the lazy way and just made it to match Crystal League, Thus showing once again, SBI's lack of Imagination. I've played this game over 4 years now, and I have 4 years worth of examples of how Lazy and uninspired half of your changes have been. Every single time SBI chooses to take the path of least amount of imagination/story telling... All you do is create the stage, you can never be bothered to create the story/content, that is left up to us. I wish you were better at your Jobs. I really don't have much hope that this will ever change. Just tell us how great your changes are going to be, then half-Ass it just like you have always done!
I get why your doing it, Arena is the most played activity in the game, Crystal League is the least played thing in the game.
The reason for both is SBI's inability to recognize why it is this way. The reason, why Arena is the most played activity is 1. the ability to get into a match quickly. also 2. low costs of playing the activity. The reason Crystal League is the Least played activity in the game is this (the major reason) 1. Making it inaccessible to almost everybody in the game, (lesser reason) 2. Costs of Gear replacement. By gating the activity into a very narrow window to play it you limit 99% of the population from participating. (for me the times are 6 AM, 2 PM, and 9 PM at night). the Oceanic time (6AM) I am asleep, 2 pm I am at work, 9 PM I can play, however getting 4 other people who can play at this one specific time is very very difficult. The reason I suspect you do this, is to make it appear "Elite". So you have maybe 100 players who Participate in Crystal League. while Arena about 30k a week play Arena.
So NOW, you have decided to make Arena just like Crystal League, in hopes of Gaining players in Crystal League. BUT in your apparent short, shortsightedness, you cannot seem to grasp, that the reason Crystal league doesn't have any participants is because you Gate it behind an extremely narrow window to participate. Are you changing this when you change Arena?
No
Thus you may gain a few more players, but it will always be underwhelming, with a lack of participation, because you cannot seem to understand, that people have lives to live and cannot (most of us) fit into this narrow window of opportunity to play Crystal League
WHAT YOU SHOULD DO/ HAVE DONE WITH BOTH CRYSTAL LEAGUE AND ARENA.
Crystal League:
*Make it so you can Que for crystal league anytime (like arena)
* Allow for random crystal league matches ( LIKE ARENA)
Arena:
You should have attached Arena to Factions, Given us 5 new maps (one for each city), plus the normal Arena match for championship matches at the end of the season.
This would have made Arena much more fun to play, made it individualistic from Crystal League, and provided even more content for players.
Instead, you took the lazy way and just made it to match Crystal League, Thus showing once again, SBI's lack of Imagination. I've played this game over 4 years now, and I have 4 years worth of examples of how Lazy and uninspired half of your changes have been. Every single time SBI chooses to take the path of least amount of imagination/story telling... All you do is create the stage, you can never be bothered to create the story/content, that is left up to us. I wish you were better at your Jobs. I really don't have much hope that this will ever change. Just tell us how great your changes are going to be, then half-Ass it just like you have always done!
