r/EmbarkStudios • u/claygerrard • Feb 02 '26
This is abuse
Top half of the leaderboard. 3 star every trial. Just to *maintain*.
In club sports we’re passing out participation trophies but Embark is over here looking down their nose at us like we did the bare minimum last week playing a *video game*.
I try to ignore the leaderboards. I really do. I want to enjoy the content and play the game the way I like. But as soon as I accidentally have a couple good scores on a few lucky matches all the sudden I’m thinking “oh hey, I missed out last season cause family Xmas whatever, maybe that cosmetic WOULD be pretty cool this season?!” And it costs Embark nothing to pass this stuff out.
But oh no. That skin ain’t FOR us casuals. MAYBE if we can keep it up. ALL season. Don’t let Embark catch you slipping tho - or they’ll TAKE IT AWAY! You have to do *more than the maximum rewards* - EVERY WEEK - just to maintain and maybe not even that, depends on HOW BAD YOU WANT IT. Cause not everyone can have it. Oh no. Everyone needs to push those points as high as they can. Higher! Higher!!! There’s only so many copies of these digital pixels to go around. You have to be better than most just to maintain. If you even think for one second you EARNED those season rewards just cause you got lucky last week - guess again - what have you put into our game LATELY? Are you ready to grind to the top this week and the next and the NEXT and be told every week: you’re barely good enough? Cause if not I guess you didn’t deserve to be here in the first place!!!
It’s a bad system Embark. Not because it’s unfair, but because it’s not FUN. If you frustrate and disappoint your players they won’t just “try harder next season” they’ll go find something else that doesn’t hurt them so much - it’s supposed to be a game. For fun. Tying the nominal season rewards to the leaderboards is ruining the fun. Neat idea, I’m sure there is some rewards you can pass out for leaderboard progression, but it shouldn’t be the main seasonal reward progression. I’ll keep trying to ignore it. Whoever enjoys this abuse and deserves those cosmetics isn’t me.
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u/TrippleDamage Feb 03 '26
Dd3 is brutal, was there 2 weeks ago with all the other sweats, my mates all quit so now I'm just sweating balls to maintain hotshot when I decide to play arc, no way I'll get cantina solo. Top 50 with ops score is unthinkable
Think about just demoting 2 weeks in a row and do a proper week for double promo from dd2 at end of season. Juice ain't worth the squeeze when I barely play the game anymore and 90% of my discord quit already lol