Rovio Devs: The Ultra League

My post has nothing to do with matchmaking at the Nightmare level; it has to do with the knock-on effect that the infamy reset has on the lower levels by having a natural depressing effect on the "infamy economy."

Regarding the numbers, I was using a count from an old meta snapshot, which said 766; if there's 100 more now, the effect is only being amplified.

 

Yep. And if those Ace I players lose enough, they and their upgraded gear sink down to where they're paired with Ace II players. And so on, and so on, until you get Mk5s at triple-digit scores not from seal-clubbing, but just because "that's the natural order of things now."

 

Support. They may be a minority, but there are people who stand at the pinnacle of this game. An ultra league would improve matchmaking, and give Nightmares something to work for. A new endgame. Who cares if it's a minority of players? It'll be fun to see who maintains their position here, though. Maybe a full legendary for the #1 spot in this league?

Edit: Also, guys, in case y'all didn't notice, the league colors are made accouring to item rarity colors. This'll cause a need for a higher item rarity. Or some color wizardry.

 

Well, at one point in the game, you go waaay ahead of the curve. You may say that BB is supposed to be fast paced. But most people who have gone that far up towards the endgame are people who paid a large amount of cash. No offence to them, lol, but these people LED to this game becoming more slow-paced, imo. If they thought this was a nice fast paced game, they should've played it slow and waited for the endgame to heighten. But no. They went ahead and bought tons of legendaries, which brought them to the very top very fast, causing this. And you know what? No matter how much of an "Upper league" the devs bring up, it's just gonna end like this. People reaching the endgame in days and waiting impatiently for more gameplay.

THAT is why matchmaking is too slow. There isn't enough competition yet, due to people getting this far, accelerating progression far more than is healthy. Hope I didn't offend anyone here, but I'm sure I did, but it had to be said.

So maybe slow down progression for those at the top? Bad idea, no? It's a vicious cycle.

 

This ain't what I'm saying. Okay, lemme simplify it for ya.

If everyone had to grind, leagues would be diverse in composition, there would be tons of people in nightmare given enough time, and each "wave" would bring in more and more Nightmares. Nightmares would come in groups. Groups of people would reach thresholds.

What Rovio did was unfair in that they allowed all the early access players to keep all their progress. This means that there's a chunk of elites with tons of battle experience sitting at the endgame. Which means that, to compensate, people have to pay a lot of money, leading to "whales". Due to this situation continuing for SEVEN months, even some "whales" have mad skillz. This makes the problem of lengthened matchmaking times. Simply put, there is a "chunk" of players consistently in Nightmare, not a "continuous distribution".

Don't get me wrong, I'm giving my totally unbiased opinion in the matter. Though I'm F2P and a student. I don't care much for Nightmare, being 2.1k infamy myself, and only want to face off against Nightmares, and being among the top 10 worldwide was never my intention, but, well, I ponder on this stuff because I want to be a game designer later.

As much awesomeness this game has, I would've reset all players on the day of global launch and "trickled" in the IAPs, to make the game fairer. That's my opinion, again, no disrespect meant.

Thanks for reading.

 

I agree. Bad PR hurts a company like nothing else. Look at EA.