I feel that hardly anyone plays the Arena because the prizes aren’t worth the time it takes to play. It’s a rather long game. It’s fun at the beginning, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes a bit tedious, so I feel there needs to be more incentive to play. I feel prizes could be based on the score you have at the end instead of or in addition to being in the top 5 etc. Say if you end with a score of 90 or above, you should get 10 tickets plus 10k pebbles or ms shards, additional food, apparel. And then for a score of 80 - 90 you get 5 tix plus extras and so on. It would make it feel more worth it considering how long it takes to play. I know it would make me more excited to play. And if more people play, it would bring the community together more.

I wouldn't mind seeing the rewards increase for the people that enjoy it, but I think the increase would have to be pretty drastic to incentivize more people that aren't playing arena right now just because they don't like the timed or pvp aspects to engage, which might be kinda unlikely.

Seasonal arena being available year round (maybe with the larger decks like regular arena between seasonals if they want to make the "difficulty" more in line with the normal arena) would benefit people that don't have the time to dedicate spending on regular arena... It wouldn't help people that enjoy playing regular arena and want non-bot opponents, but it would overall make more people engage with it as an activity.

Maybe making it available all year round with the normal decks would also let some people "get used to" playing it at their own pace and they might venture into regular timed arena more often in the future, if they were allowed to grow confidence in the non-timed arena first?

The Arena takes so... long... and the awards are a pittance in return - the only only point in even doing Arena is for achievos, and most of those can be done during the holiday events when things are SO MUCH faster. i don't - can't, honestly - do normal Arena anymore.

While I do agree with this, I recall it being changed because people would start a round, and then not play at all, but still get tickets. That was unfair to those individuals actually playing. There needs to be something in between. Perhaps for every three star you obtain, you can get a ticket too? Would be worthwhile to collect pieces and combine them still and offer a reward for playing more frequently, while also not readjusting the gameplay again to benefit those who aren't playing, or just leaving it untouched in a tab.

I wouldn't mind seeing the rewards increase for the people that enjoy it, but I think the increase would have to be pretty drastic to incentivize more people that aren't playing arena right now just because they don't like the timed or pvp aspects to engage, which might be kinda unlikely.

Seasonal arena being available year round (maybe with the larger decks like regular arena between seasonals if they want to make the "difficulty" more in line with the normal arena) would benefit people that don't have the time to dedicate spending on regular arena... It wouldn't help people that enjoy playing regular arena and want non-bot opponents, but it would overall make more people engage with it as an activity.

Maybe making it available all year round with the normal decks would also let some people "get used to" playing it at their own pace and they might venture into regular timed arena more often in the future, if they were allowed to grow confidence in the non-timed arena first?

I really like the idea of a non-pvp arena available year round (and awarding regular arena tickets) so that you don't have to spend a solid half hour playing something so slow.!

I wouldn't mind seeing the rewards increase for the people that enjoy it, but I think the increase would have to be pretty drastic to incentivize more people that aren't playing arena right now just because they don't like the timed or pvp aspects to engage, which might be kinda unlikely.

Seasonal arena being available year round (maybe with the larger decks like regular arena between seasonals if they want to make the "difficulty" more in line with the normal arena) would benefit people that don't have the time to dedicate spending on regular arena... It wouldn't help people that enjoy playing regular arena and want non-bot opponents, but it would overall make more people engage with it as an activity.

Maybe making it available all year round with the normal decks would also let some people "get used to" playing it at their own pace and they might venture into regular timed arena more often in the future, if they were allowed to grow confidence in the non-timed arena first?