Posted by MikeT23 on 11/29/2016 6:35:00 PM (view original):
At the risk of being chastised by sweetpapadad and vandydave, the game isn't marketable to the public when all the power sits with a handful of teams. If you have 5 EE, your team is too good. You can say "Well, that's not my fault" and it isn't but you can't sell the game to new users under those circumstances. My expectations is that teams will stop having 4-5 soon enough. The talent will be better distributed and the game, overall, will be better. And I fully understand that it will suck for those used to being at the top and battling each other.
I mentioned this before and the thread died immediately but this might just be a purge. I've seen posts stating "I haven't bought a team in years" and even more "I'll play out my credits and leave." Having customers who don't pay is a poor business model. Level the playing field, **** off a group that doesn't buy teams and start with fresh group who actually spend money. That seems more profitable.
I don't think most are mad that it would be harder to be at the top, but most don't like the idea of being punished for actually being good at the game. Sure that looks nice to a new guy who might stay for a couple seasons before he's bored and leaves, but it serves the opposite effect for retention of guys who might stay years.
I also don't understand why people think purging the game of the good users helps, because they are not paying. They seem to forget that someone is still going to get those free credits. There will just be less paying customers in the end.