Just reposting here what I responded to thepeoplesguild below as another consideration:
"If all frays were wild, for example, then it doesn't really matter what you're playing, but modern card holders will have an advantage with the newer abilities that the old cards don't have and that will encourage people to buy. So having more wild frays would make more sense to me than having more modern, because you can still play in wild with a modern deck, but you can't play in modern with an older deck."
This might be an option to make it easier to fill frays
All wilds would be nice!!
If they go with my suggestion to include a pts based system for using the newer decks, I'd definitely be looking to purchase new cards. Only IF it's all going to be WILD. Otherwise, I'm strongly against making any moves/purchases that would further devalue my ABUCL deck.
I think we do quite well with GF frays, but anything modern (R & Ca) only would screw us up quite a bit, and we'd need to have a meeting to see who can upgrade and swap frays.
If all frays were wild, then players with a complete deck will always have an advantage over a new user with limited card choices. I have added a 3rd option of just modern and wild frays to mitigate the original concerns about filling specific frays, please let me know if you think that will suffice?
For the GF frays, I have seen equal comments for keeping and removing some. At the moment unless there is more requests, that is probably best to keep as is.
Which is why I'm with you on having specific frays. Then there are no surprises coming from outside what you're already graded/gearing up for. I was thinking having mainly wild casts a bigger net, though, if too many people are against that.
My biggest concern with too many modern frays, particularly in the higher tiers, is that I've been seeing even players who were bullish at the start easing off with the Rebellion release. At some point new users coming in now are going to become older users and the same thing will happen, especially if they see the value and use case drop as cards move out of modern.
It's certainly a tough call trying to find a solution that gives everyone a fair chance and I don't envy you all trying to figure that out. That said, there will always be those who have an advantage due to having a better deck. That goes in modern as well. Quite a few of our frays are filled with decks below level for their fray, especially the GF ones. It's a choice we've made knowing full well we could be at a disadvantage, but some of our opponents are at the same disadvantage and making that same choice. As much as many didn't like the idea of empty fray wins going to the ones filling them, I think it was a good move in the end to encourage participation and see what people could find to work. It wasn't easy to fill them, but as a guild we came together to figure it out and that's what the guild is about. Once you're filling that fray you want to improve your chances and will inevitably try and fill the gaps in your deck. Challenge is the draw of gaming and the objective is to overcome that challenge or at least improve to move up through the levels. If things were too easy we'd quickly get bored and lose interest and that's what can happen easily with the whales.
With all gaming that is free to play or play to earn there are the complaints of whales having the advantage, but we still play and enjoy the challenges that are there for everyone. Keeping the whales engaged and challenged is more of a problem for the developers than they are to everyone else, but people are still going indulge in having a whinge. New players to any game are going to have to start at the bottom and build up, it would be pretty boring if they had everything in place to start with.
The thing is, as long as we know there will be some consistency we can grow and expand our cards at our own pace to gradually improve our chances, so whatever is decided I think we need to know that it will stay that way moving forward. We've spent the year in limbo with regards the guild because we didn't know what the changes would be. There was no point putting funds into levelling it up if we couldn't fill frays once Chaos moved out of modern. Even if it's decided to have 50/50 modern and wild, we can at least make decisions as to whether we just play a half filled brawl.
Sorry, that got a bit long. 😅