Can I at least complain a bit about the system? I don't know if I am even complaining on the right page, but I have no idea how much it really matters. Anyways, the arena right now, it just doesn't work for many, oh so many reasons. (By the way making it clear from the start that I don't have any problems with the moderators here. They aren't the game developers.)

First of all, the concept right now of the arena has so much bad game design if it stays like this. In order to get any other rewards from the arena season you have to first get to Six Paths at least once. It is stated in the game that you should get the rewards for your highest rank in that season, no info about this Six Paths thing. I do not see the benefit of this whatsoever. For many people it can become trial and error to get Six Paths for months and still not do it. They can get Super Kage and it will just not matter at all, because all their progress will go "*" each season. If it is a bug and the devs are just too lazy to fix it, and because of this they made it into a feature, that is again horrible game design and poor choices for the game overall. If the rewards are too good they can just nerf the rewards. Make them all into half, lower them, give lower rates, it doesn't really matter in what way. To me, and maybe to others too, it is far better to get some rewards when they struggle for the high ranks than giving sweat, blood and tears and manage to get nothing for months. If I were to suggest something, from a game design point of view, I would make another shop, where you can just buy random fragments with Arena Rank points. Allow people to get more points and balance it out in a way. Let's say in order to get to Six Paths you will need 300 Arena Rank points. I can spend 15 points on a rare fragment, 5 on an uncommon fragment, 3 on a seal scroll fragment or give certain ninja fragments for sale with rank points, ninja fragments which will change each season and rank points which reset each season. If this means that reaching Six Paths is not worth it, those who get higher ranks can get additional stuff once when they hit that specific rank, and maybe a little 1 week boost towards something when they get Six Paths. This is something from the top of my head. Just the idea of working towards something and see it go "*" and get nothing it is just bad. The cross-server doesn't even work on some servers(S310 doesn't, bundled with many more, and not just arena) and this is again, bad game design for a multiplayer game. Adding a feature which just doesn't work will make people mad, hurting the community and overall all the game. Everybody gets angry in the process which is something that really is not needed. More time was needed towards this cross-server thing, at least have some randomly chosen servers to act like a beta for a couple of weeks or days, to see how something big like this would go. If it works properly then perfect, if it doesn't back to the drawing board for a bit until it is fixed.

Second of all, I see that there is a large lack of transparency between the game developers and us, the community. The whole thing with the "You need to get Six Paths first in order to be eligible for some other rewards" seems like a quickly made up excuse for something that went wrong. No changes were done in the in-game text and this is just fishy. At the very least they could have changed the text so it clearly stats there too. Just shutting something down for a bit to fix something is way more pleasant than spending weeks of people who complain about something that doesn't work. The lack of decent events which seem to actually have a certain chance to give you something is somewhat disturbing. A good example is the fishing event. Those prices are insane. I would much rather spend money to get whatever is in there than to actually use the thing. The wheels also seem extremely rigged. There has to be something that can be done so at least people know what they are getting into. This is in the end an MMO Game, not a fully *n casino. Sure, the RNG (RNG which is plenty often enough) is extremely nice, especially when you see that you won something that seems extremely rare, but not to the point where you feel like you lose regardless of what you do. The lack of information in the upcoming events is again weird, but not to the point that is annoying.

I really like the game, a lot of people do, and most of us want nothing but the best for it. Many poor choices can kill a game and we don't want something like that to happen. We also don't want to start heading downhill slowly but surely, ending in a huge crash. All I am suggesting overall is communication whenever something happens.