Game Incentivizes Conceding

• Adding a daily quest "Play two matches without conceding" is not the solution.
• Game allows opponents to cheat you from getting full Battlepass XP and you to do the same.
• Gameplay is slow when compared to Online that conceding when you have a bad start is optimal

Suggestions

• Have an option to have minimal or no animations, or not have to wait while animations play out
• Only allow conceding on the players turn (see below)
• After resolving the attack, if the Prizes earned is less than Prizes available allow the player to select their Prizes, else select the remaining Prizes for the player and end match.

I played so many games now where my opponent concedes just before I am about to select prizes. I have noticed that I earn around 160 Battle Pass XP in matches where I won by taking all of the Prizes, which has been fairly consistent as the max. But in matches where I either make and attack and during the prize selection process the game states that the opponent conceded, I earn around 60-90 xp less in those matches based on the amount prize cards that I was about to take. I only got 90 something xp despite me about to swing at their VMax and knock it out for the final three prize cards.

The most insulting part is that they could earn more BPxp than the winner because they conceded with only 1 prize card left but about to lose the match because their Vmax is going to be KO. It happens so often that I suggest the easiest solution right now, based on my programming experience*, is to just only allow players to concede on their turn. Then later address it, and come up with a better solution, when the various systems improve.

*It seems like you could just disable the concede button until their turn. Admittedly, the better option would be to push the conceding player to the menu screen, so that they can search for another game quickly, and allow the winning player to play out their final turn.

Another solution would be to not end the game until the attack and prize card selection has resolved, or increase the prizes taken count prior to the player selecting their prizes so that the Battle Pass calculation will take it into account. These are not great solutions as many players will still concede just before you attack.

Rant:

I have so many suggestions for Live, it's insane, and before anyone else points out that it is a beta, beta is where bugs like not being able to select cards when you can or the colors of my avatar items change. These are just plain out gameplay issues, they are working as programmed, it is intended to work like this, which gives the implication that the developers have never played any digital card game ever. It feels like maybe they played PTCG because they had to for work, but also haven't ever played any of their competition like MTG Arena, Yu-Gi-Oh, or even the old Gameboy version of PTCG.