Continuing on the Fair Game topic

I still need to read up but addressing the starting concern:

I mentioned in my post in the thread you quoted that we do not have a hot seating problem in Gems of War currently.

I’ve definitely seen cases of account sharing but never hot seating.
Also the account sharing thing is really not giving those players a real advantage as I’ve not really seen one competing at the level of those top solo players.

If hot seating does become a problem we’ll definitely look into it.
But my main message was, account sharing isn’t happening on the level anyone should be concerned about currently - we don’t have a hot seating problem unless suddenly a whole bunch of people started hotseating in the past week while I was on Xmas/new years break, because no one was really doing it before Christmas.

The solo players are playing a lot more hours than the account sharers and it’s usually these solo players most people are concerned about when talking about cheating/account sharing.

If there was a bunch of hot seating going on in game then these concerns are absolutely valid and something we’d have to work out, but currently based on everything I’ve seen this is a concern for a potential future and not a concern that is based in the current state of the game.

Hopefully this offers some reassurance.

By hot seating, I think originally it literally meant different people jumping into the same PC chair to continue playing/doing something on the PC without pauses.

When I use it I mean players taking turns signing in to keep an account actively playing.

I am being looser with the term though because I would consider it hot seating even if it wasn’t 24/7 play, because obviously it would be a problem well before an account managed 24/7 play in GoW that we’d want to address before we had accounts getting to that crazy stage.

So we do have some players sharing logins (we super don’t advise this as it often ends up in account ownership disputes). But I haven’t really seen anyone playing competitively that way and I don’t often see it. I would definitely raise it as an important thing to address if it started affecting other players, and I know the team would agree with me because I remember having a conversation with the Producers about our stance on account sharing ages ago.

Side note: we do have solo players who will go through spurts of playing for a 24 hour period because gamer life We do have some quite hardcore people in game.

I’ve cleaned up the callouts, thank you for the majority of people having this discussion without breaking community guidelines.

Just wanted to also let you know I’ve got this thread on my reading list as I’ll be doing a full report for the team about the feedback regarding PVP scoring, matchmaking, bubble match ups and leagues etc soon.

The general sentiment and feedback has already been getting passed on.

I’ll pass that feedback on @Kezef but I believe it’s highly unlikely that the bubbles will be made symmetrical like the Guild Wars brackets.

It’s more likely the rules around how players are assigned to buckets will be reviewed and refined.

I think there’s a shaking out period here as well while the more active players get separated from the more casual ones by their performance as we go, like we had in Guild Wars originally. I’ll be asking about how long the shake out is predicted to last and if it will take awhile I’ll ask if there’s any additional changes that could be made to speed up that process.