Rating-free arena

Sergth 2017-01-20 18:38:44 UTC #1

Hi again,
I was wondering … can you make a rating-free arena?
The thing is quite easy. You come, you want to try new curve, new playstyle, or you are just tired after work and you know your senses are not so sharp, you just want to relax, you don’t care, if you win or loose, and so on …

For theese purposes, there should be a rating free arena, only with a minor reward, like 10 coins and 1 gem for first two od three …
Now … I know there are custom games, but … setting up the room, waiting, if your room actually will be selected … well, it is uncomfortable for situations like I metioned here before…

So … is it possible?

Laura 2017-01-20 21:50:39 UTC #2

Well knockout is free.

Sergth 2017-01-20 22:22:56 UTC #3

but not ranking-free.

Rojoss 2017-01-20 22:41:41 UTC #4

Even though I think this would be kinda nice to have we’re probably not ever gonna make this.
The reason is that the more variation we add to arenas to more it would split up the users.

If we had 10x as much users it wouldn’t be a big deal but right now it is and we’re not really working on marketing right now to get more users because we don’t feel like the game is in a state that we want it to be in.
There’s still quite a lot of more important features missing and some core functionality is quite unstable.
Going a bit off topic though but basically what it’s all about is that we don’t have enough players to add more variation.

Also, soon we’ll be adding teams so then people would wanna have a rank free arena for teams, ffa and maybe even knockout so you can imagine that it would split up users a lot and I doubt a lot of people would choose for rank free arenas people just join the one which has the most users for less waiting time and more accurate matchmaking.

Sergth 2017-01-20 22:49:06 UTC #5

This is true, but consider one thing … If you look on almost any online game, the ranking competition is only as an advanced feature. Like … you play. Ok, you want some rewards or just a good feelings? Fine, try ranked…

In here, there is all-time ranked, and personally, I am very often considering, if I will play, even if I want to play, but I dont feel like I am in 100% shape to not loosing ratio.

And this makes me sad about the game, that you really need to play only when you at least feel you can win, or you will be calld a lame by community through everywhere seen ranks.

Many people is here just to play game, not taking challenge everytime you log in …

Just think about it for future development…

Rojoss 2017-01-20 22:56:46 UTC #6

You should just not care about rank too much.
Or you could play with 2 accounts I suppose one for fun and one for serious.
We do think about it during development but as I said in my previous post it’d split up the users which is a big downside.

Regarding other games that’s not really relevant haha.
Each game does things in it’s own way and none of it is really better than something else just because more games do it.
I don’t even think this is the case in most games you get to choose to play ranked or not but because of the multipl game modes and the arena system we have it’s not really an option for us with the current amount of users.

Eliasss 2017-01-21 17:25:37 UTC #7

‘Custom Rooms’ is the answer.

Sergth 2017-01-21 18:07:59 UTC #8

@Eliasss you didn’t read my first post carefuly, did you?

Eliasss 2017-01-21 22:43:24 UTC #9

Oh… I didn’t notice this one. But I don’t think that a rating-free-arena would be more fast than waiting in a custom game…
I though about it too couple weeks ago so I opened a second account and played with him for fun… right now I don’t have this account since I gave it to my friend, but I recommend you to do it if you’re not interested in Custom Games.

Team Arenas are coming soon, and God knows how long it’s gonna take for a game to start after adding Team Arenas. I think that having a rating free arena moreover these arenas will be too much.