I think the incident that took place on the 23rd was a freaking fiasco. FS community was used as guinea pigs and because of such I know many players who quit the game. It wast thought out and poorly executed. many players so don't mind some of the changes like the BB are going to vote no simply because many of them lost many levels. when it first went live in the first season open there were many players hundreds of levels above some of their targets. targets which they were allowed to repeatedly get on and still many levels from. in order to get back those levels you needed to take a screenshot then minimize it fit in a ticket but make su and then submit it to the Cows, and have them sort through it and give you back your levels. when it first opened and went live I believe it was the biggest joke out of all the things that I've ever seen them do that I haven't liked. I'm truely surprised that more people didn't quit. sometimes they act with total disregard. I believe it's simply for that fact that a percentage who voted, voted no
To be fair the launch of the PvP season wasn't a big success for non-pvpers. They got targetted and lost a lot of xp during the first days. It does remind me of the launch of the smasher medail and I assumed that this problem would be fixed in a couple of days. Sometimes a idea might look good in theorie, but in practice it won't work. It was also clear that this situation should be corrected in a couple of days, and everyone could see that it was going to be corrected. Those who dropped off due to the launch of the PvPseason might have been on the brink of dropping out anyway.
But lets be fair also, the old system clearly doesn't work. The old bounty board was useless, except for an few guilds... The Ladder was run by a few players who took in all the rewards. I am afraid that the Ladder and the old BB can't really be fixed with the current number of players. There are simply not enough active players who are into PvPing to make the Ladder something that is going to work, adding more rewards won't work anyway. Why? Maybe there will be more players playing the Ladder (that the Titan rewards are getting less valuable every month, doesn't seem to have an similair impact) for a little while, but how long do they last? Or do you expect more rewards every couple of months? Right.
There are some things about the seasons that is really nice, you get to fight off (without an chance of loosing xp) the entire playerbase, not only the few in your own range. The rewards seems to be very nice (for PvPers anyway). Regaining your levels during the seasons might be a bit tricky? Maybe introducing an short time-out which can be activated one or twice per round? Or maybe 3 weeks seasons, 1 week vacation? Anyway, lots of possibilities to make it better, but throwing it out and restoring somethng that doesn't work doesn't seem logical.
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