I skipped playing Battlegrounds for most of the last year, but the return of quests and the event got me to play BGs once again, and I wanted to explain to the devs why I do not spend money to support the format and I why I do not put any effort into trying to rank up in BGs.
1). As a mobile player, what I can accomplish in a turn is gated behind waiting on very slow animations to resolve before a new action can be initiated. Consequently, mobile players are at a severe disadvantage, especially when playing nagas or any strategy that requires many actions per turn to succeed. For this reason alone, I don’t bother trying to competitively rank up in the battlegrounds.
2). I also strongly disapprove of how obviously significant the P2W advantage is for the Battleground Season Pass is by doubling the amount of Heroes a player has to choose from, since over half of the Heroes are pretty bad by comparison to the best ones.
The F2P baseline should probably be three heroes to choose from instead of just two, and the Season Pass should Just give the advantage of one more additional hero to choose from.
Consequently, since I have no incentives to rank up, BGs for me are about the individual match experiences and not about climbing the ladder. For players with a like mindset, this means that if they are not offered a hero that they like to play, they can just concede the match and go fishing for a better hero. They can do the same thing for matches that don’t include their favorite tribes to play, and they can also concede on turn three if they are offered only bad quests and conditions to complete them, rather than suffer through a very uphill battle they are unlikely to win.
For many players, all of these factors renders BGs into a casual alternative to occasionally
play just to break up the repetitive monotony of playing some of the other modes, and this is very evident by the number of players of that regularly concede before turn one even begins or the number who have conceded before turn 5 is over.
And then there are the periods where the Battleground conditions are so awful that I cannot even be tempted to play them casually.