Season Rewards perfectly summarizes the Progression System

The season is coming to end now with the use of the handy dandy calendar and I just realized, I'm second place in Warrior Division III (1551 infamy)Wow, not only am I more lucky find decent teams to carry my severely underleveled enforcer then to find duplicates of items I actually use, it gives me a stark reminder of basically my entire life. (Second place is good right guys?)
Then I realized, the top player doesn't even get a rare item, but an rare item piece.
First place doesn't even get a single rare item, but a rare item piece.
Ok.
Cool.
The only reason to be first place is to get that 200,000 gold and that 300 rare because if you're up there, an uncommon item, 8 uncommon power cells, and a rare item piece means little to you.
To give a perspective to those who don't understand, the infamy I'm at has people with tier 2/3 rares and tier 2 epics on MK3/4 and the occasional 5...and I'm over here with tier 1 rares and tier 2 uncommons on a little MK3.
And no, its not because the matchmaking puts me in matches where I'm fighting against people way beyond my figuratively and literal league (though it does on occasion) I have a tendency to be the highest infamy on the team and sometimes the enemy.
Yeeah, I'm stuck, and my attempts to become better is pointless if my rewards are poultry compared to going ranking down and actually getting stars due to my suspicion that the game prefers damage and healing over stuns, freezes, and distractions, which mind you, is mostly my only use for my teams as my rare blast cannon does the same amount of damage as their rare cannons. Oh and those stars don't even get me alot, just useless uncommons and never rares. I guess that 125,000 gold for second place is neat though. I was born an optimistic fellow to grow up as a realistic/pessimistic prick, just like my perspective of this nice, but incredibly flawed game.

 

I love poultry, especially my ducks.

 

Ya...rewards could be better.

 

Sure, the rewards suck, but if everyone else can progress, so can you! Like all Freemium games, progression through the ranks requires either/both of two things: time and money.
You can buy pearls, or you can do what I do; that is, play, play, and play. Each game gives you resources, resources give you better equipment, and better equipment gives you a higher infamy level. Low level battling, if I remember correctly, isn't quite as fun and far more "grindy." The real fun begins once you get your MK5 and break the 2500 infamy threshold, and the rewards are a lot better! Late game, the focus on equipment exists, sure, but playing as a team is far more important.

 

Not a single league reward gives an entire item. They are all item pieces. Sure, as you progress up through the infamy ladder the pieces become better. But you're not guaranteed to get a specific color. And if you think that we don't care about those parts, you're absolutely wrong. I am always out of common, uncommon, rare and epic parts. I can never have enough to level up my weapons and equipment. So what you call paltry, I call awesome. I am super happy to get those parts every season, just for placing. Those power cells you need to evolve weapons, and you only get them from season rewards, crates and scrapping. You can't buy them either. So yeah, your summary is far from perfect. But good try. Keep upgrading and working on that equipment, you will get there and see what I mean. Good luck and I hope to see you out on the bay.

 

All completely valid. You still could create more competition by top players within a lower league if they saw more payoff from owning tops spots, especially with the new scoring system starting next season.

 

Would you really want those people who are lvl 30 in your league always taking the top spots just because of the rewards?

 

Sure. They would be promoted fairly high then if they are attempting to game it, especially with the new system. I am happy to see competition. Bad rewards are pointless...not going to endorse those.

 

Unless you are already in nightmare league, the point of getting infamy higher is not to claim those rewards, but to raise league so you'll get better rewards every game.

 

I can only hope I have the patience and skill to get there!

 

I agree, I'm in the exact league as you and hit #1 spot multiple times (currently rank 1) but the rewards are really underwhelming and not worth holding onto at the cost of progression. Running around with T1 rares and still using an uncommon weapon, I feel progression is slow at the start but I'm hoping as we progress in leagues, it gets much better. At least more gold rewards from the bonuses to get rare items in the shop quicker lol.

 

The first time I saw the ladder I was super hyped. Then achieving first place in my league I understood the rewards were worthless. If there were no reward it would be the same, they're so worthless it doesn't motivate at all to compete. It's such a shame because I love competition. Please make bigger leagues with bigger and better rewards so that it seems worthwhile, the current system is very disappointing.