xivarmy
Well-Known Member
I think one of the big differences in our perspective is i've already not-enjoyed GBG for well over a year - maybe around 2 now. Ever since the coop BS became commonplace, it's been a "why am I even bothering to play this?" I liked it when it came out and everyone was trying their best - but as the farming meta developed, "fun" rounds vanished and left behind a loot slot machine I can do without.Ive never hated moving up before. I've adapted to all the changes before: ge5, ads - i even watch them, not fixing gbg, not being able to do gvg, not being able to get things by strategy and working harder that paying players get in events, getting less diamonds from ge, etc. Why? I still enjoy ge, events, etc.... I don't enjoy gbg anymore. I got my boosts up so i could enjoy it, 100 attrition was aperk. Id rather be able to only go to 50 attrition without changing troops do often, then to go to 100, changing them. In fact, why would i want to do it long enough to get to 50, let alone 100. So I'm supposed to play so i can give goods to lower age players, that's what is supposed to make it worth it? The value of the goods is totally meaningless to me except i can't trade to get them either. But even if i get extra some day in the distant future, I'm not a seller. I never have sold goods. I've given them away before when in a guild to players that were active players in ge and gbg, but i have no interest in selling goods. So being in a an age with valuable goods hurts me too. It's not a perk. I'm still waiting for enough to place a gb, though i still need a bp. Which are also very costly.
What you like: repeated autobattles without swapping out troops is in fact extremely unfun to me. Not that "but now you have to swap troops!" makes it more fun - but I do like when I have to pay attention to what I'm fighting and pick different armies at least. And I love when manual battle is an interesting option to extend things further. If I could skip through the first 50+ or so attrition in some meaningful way without having to click and click and click and get to the "interesting" range, that would be my dream
The world where i still GBG for fun is a low age one with high age troops in which I can fight on past attrition cap (on manual, primarily). It's great fun to see just how hard farmers will work to contain the guild that won't play by their coop rules Often don't even have to try that hard to make them work their asses off at creating multilayer primes because that small guild of 5 indy fighters is scary to a so-called-top-guild
My high era worlds I play for other reasons. I do some GBG on some of them when i need the loot slot machine. But it's hard to really get invested in a round when you either have to fight an entire coop, or noone's really even trying.