User blog comment:Docfreeze/Alliance Duels - the beginning of the end?/@comment-25410335-20141026075241/@comment-9777304-20141027021034

Hi Frostknight! Thanks for your thoughtful feedback!

Indeed, we have considered this, and our general consensus is that NUBEE needs their playerbase to be wide and plentiful with sufficient players (both paid and f2p) to make their duels work. Now, I must say that our collab are not made up of just F2P gamers... we do have folks from alliances who do spend $$$ on diamonds, but used their diamonds on other things, like building up their kingdoms, for special summons, etc.

So our primary beef that Alliance Duels' scheduling and methodologies are just tough to digest. We aren't against Duels' existence, but they need to make it so that it is more reasonable for a larger portion of us to participate without sacrificing our time to sleep, study, work, etc. Hence the suggestion to keep Duels, but make it so that paying gamers can tough it out if they like to earn rewards/emblems, but don't make it so that it affects the ranking of those of us who simply cannot commit so much time!  :(

For those of us who are long-time VC players, we enjoy the game for what it is for the longest time (we know some players did complain it's becoming a grind, but it's ok for us - we still enjoy that aspect, as long as we get to control when we play!) ... the way duels are run, it essentially forces a bunch of us to miss what is supposedly a "team-building exercise" and makes some of us within our alliance look bad because, hey we have a life outside of our games, due to our own commitments with family and loved ones? GARGH.

I'm just lucky that my alliance is made up of a team of good people who can understand why some of us simply cannot make it to EVERY duel. I've heard lots of conflicts in alliances that were forced to kick out some members (who were strong participants in the alliance) just because they simply were unable to commit enough to duels. :~(

TL;DR version - Duels aren't the big bad, but their scheduling and methods need be rethought/revamped. Hence we want to stress this onto NUBEE! Thanks for reading!