Dear Ludia,
Hi! It’s me again. I bet you are tired of me by now, aren’t you?
You know I have to say I don’t actually like writing these letters. I wish I didn’t have a reason to write these letters but we have another problem. Let’s talk about the “new” tournament medal system that was announced today. I’m just going to cut to the chase on this one. This is a terrible idea. And there are 700 people on the GamePress server that agree with me. And seeing the comments on the Forum Thread on the topic most of the community agrees as well.
You said you were listening to us and you said you were trying to improve. Last week, when the new trophy system in the arena was announced (after it was “accidentally” added to the game might I add), there were a lot of people that specifically said to not implement this in tournaments. And yet Monday morning what do we get? An announcement about a change to the tournament medal system that is going to absolutely ruin tournaments for so many players.
Tournaments are already pretty RNG heavy. Between speed ties, crits, stuns, and team draw, players have to spend a lot of time playing to be able to climb and make up for when they go on a bad run. With this new system, you can go on a “bad run” of 4 games, have the potential to lose 160 trophies and it would take you 8 games if you are getting +20 trophies just to reach your top score again. Skills tournaments are equal level and while matchmaking will be determined on trophy count, playing and losing to a player 120 trophies below you doesn’t necessarily mean you are a “better” or “more skilled player” than they are. Not undermining the fact that there is still some skill involved in knowing matchups and what is the best move to make. But tournaments are already 75% based on several RNG factors, that adding this trophy system into the mix just makes those losses even worse.
Add on top of this the fact that this month is a 5-week Alliance Championship month and there are a lot of alliances that plan on going for Tier 10 rewards (especially since there are extra rewards this month). Adding this kind of trophy system in the middle of an Alliance Championship is quite frankly insulting to those alliances and all the work they have already put in to try and reach this goal. Under the new medal system, it will make it much more difficult for alliance members to get the points they need to be able to maintain the pace to get to Tier 10 at the end of the month. Or any Tier for that matter. This is what the players are seeing: Happy Anniversary JWA players here are some extra rewards you can’t have because we decided to change the medal system mid-month.
Please reconsider this change and do not implement this medal system in the tournaments. Listen to the player base. You still have time as I’m assuming the switch hasn’t been flipped yet. We as the player base are literally begging you not to go forward with this. It’s going to ruin the one thing that many people are still hanging on to.
