D3: STOP AND TAKE STOCK

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Someone else posted this in the General Discussion threads, but I feel like it should be added here:

D3, please watch this informative Youtube video on how to do FTP right (and learn why you're doing it wrong): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhz9OXy86a0

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Signed, 100 5deadlies.
My line in the sand was crossed when they refused to give alliance rewards to people who switched alliances a day after event had ended. People quit the game over this, and this lack of customer service is unacceptable.

caprion1

Signed. Mainly to register my distaste for D3's latest changes since I won't be sticking around.

Every. single. change. lately made the game less fun to play and more about grinding and searching for more $$$.

I've enjoyed the underlying game mechanics, just not what has been done to them lately. I haven't been very prolific on the forums, but to everyone, I've enjoyed the comraderie, suggestions and even the nonsense on here. Thanks.

I just informed my fellow Scavengers I will be leaving the game after season 1. Shout out to them for making the game a bit more enjoyable and making me want to stick it out this long.

Good luck to everyone who stays. I just can't see the game getting better, just worse (especially for veterans).

FadeToOne

HailMary wrote:

As for "it's good to work for what you need", a lot of the people who've chimed in here (myself included) are able to still consistently get Top 10 in PVPs (I just took #1 in the Uberdaken event, thankyouverymuch). Instead of strawmanning the core argument here with a "you just don't like it, so you're just whining cuz y'all are all lazy little whiners who whine all whiny-like, whinoceroses," perhaps you might want to actually read the OP, or TU1's crazy-scaling thread, or one of Clintman's recent suggestion threads. While I can understand the newbie-incentivization intent behind the new longevity-based bracketing, calling it a win-win is utterly laughable. Veterans needing to hit 1000, minimum, to get Top 10 while relative newbies can win a bracket with 760 is bulls--- when rewards are exactly the same across all brackets.

I came here to look for something like this. I'm not terribly concerned about individual PvP events, but when you look at season 1 as a whole, it highlights something very wrong with the reward system.

I just had a member of my alliance tell me he placed 24th in season 1. That's good for 2 heroic 10 packs. He had 7510 points. Meanwhile, I had 10794 and placed 129th in my bracket. I get 4 heroic tokens. Certainly nothing against my alliance member, but he gets 16 more heroic tokens for playing less. Let's call that an average of 4 or 5 single PvP events of work in difference. On what planet is that fair?

Clearly the longevity idea only works reasonably (if you can even say that) on a smaller scale. Round robin bracketing would make much more sense, programmatic issues involved with that aside. Alternatively, multiply rewards by number of days played, or something of that nature.

HailMary

FadeToOne wrote:

I just had a member of my alliance tell me he placed 24th in season 1. That's good for 2 heroic 10 packs. He had 7510 points. Meanwhile, I had 10794 and placed 129th in my bracket. I get 4 heroic tokens. Certainly nothing against my alliance member, but he gets 16 more heroic tokens for playing less. Let's call that an average of 4 or 5 single PvP events of work in difference. On what planet is that fair?

Clearly the longevity idea only works reasonably (if you can even say that) on a smaller scale. Round robin bracketing would make much more sense, programmatic issues involved with that aside. Alternatively, multiply rewards by number of days played, or something of that nature.

Whoa, I wasn't aware that Season placement was also bracketed according to longevity. While the actual heroic packs are less important to players well into their 2*-3* transition or already fielding a few L141s (so, pragmatically, I'm pretty "meh" about it), it still sucks that longevity-based bracketing was extended all the way to Season placement.

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That's very sad for you FadetoOne, and really unfair. I ranked 23rd with 13618 points. About the same as your fellow Alliance member.

Thanks for sharing this with us.

Seasick Pirate

FadeToOne wrote:

HailMary wrote:

I just had a member of my alliance tell me he placed 24th in season 1. That's good for 2 heroic 10 packs. He had 7510 points. Meanwhile, I had 10794 and placed 129th in my bracket. I get 4 heroic tokens.

I finished with 10747 points at #100. #1 in my bracket had 16882 points and is a member of S.H.I.E.L.D
Not sure if that info can help anyone decipher this ranking system better.

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I finished with 7774 points, good for 324th... 1st was 17239. I'm a 2 star team, probably in middle of progression. I've been playing a little over 2 months. I worked hard to get there and got an ok reward. My reward is season 2 is virtually unplayable.

Tough pill to swallow.

FadeToOne

Okay, even better example. The guy at the bottom of my alliance had about 3000 points and placed 9th in his bracket. Wow.

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Please keep posts on original topic. This is not a discussion thread. Thanks.

NighteyesGrisu

Signed. I've defended the game and the devs time and again against what I found to be unjustified attacks. But now, even I feel that many of the most recent changes made the game less fun instead of more, like they should. Puny rewards in season/progression, ongoing reward problems with unsatisfactory resolutions, changes to punish successful players time and again...it's just getting more one more work-ish to play MPQ, and that's really sad

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Signed. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.