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Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
GOLD. Is it really an issue?
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Maybe telling people screw you got it deleted. Anyways this wouldn’t lower the cutoffs. People end up with gold as a after effect because they grinded for the champ. It’s been said a few times people didn’t want their efforts discounted after earning the gold.
Now, I don't mind grinding it out once in a while. But here's another thing, grinding in arena is pain. It's not user friendly at all. You did some changes in arena sometime back. Made it little less painful, but it's not enough to be honest. Arena should be a one touch play as soon as you get into the game. Player should be allowed to lay all champs for fight/ fix all streaks and then play continuous fights. Auto help option should be there. I'm sorry but nobody cares the stats about who threw how many punches or the really cool heroic animation at the end of the fight. even special 3 animations, and fight against summoner choice page is just time consuming when player is on a steamroll in arena. There are many more changes community can suggest which I'm sure are doable on your end. I'll be glad to see those changes made, but sadly we all know the truth.
Hence, because of slow and monotonous nature of arena many people like me can't do it. So, gold realms is the only option left. The other options for gold like aq, aw, other quests, events and selling iso don't give much gold. It's a fast paced game and that much gold is not enough. I don't wish to bring into the light the reasons behind this gold crunch that many including me are facing. Discussion on topics such as aw flip flops, rdt, new champs with insane abilities etc. will throw us off the topic. I'm not the kind of player who wishes to rankup each and every champ, but one has to rank up essential champs for progression and the cost of ranking up a 5* and map 6 is huge. Bottomline is Gold shortage is there and that's the fact and if this is not addressed soon, people will start losing interest due to slow progression.
1) Didn't make anything up. So, you agree gold will change? Then, why argue that it shouldn't?
2) 6* cost more.
3) You have no idea about what is planned or not planned. Neither do I, but the game WILL progress and it is progressing.
4)Feel free to post.
5) I didn't trivialize them. They ARE trivial increases. No one is a victim you've made that up yourself. It's an opinion not a flawed position. Gold realms are great everyone loves them. Why? Because they give much needed gold!
6) I made nothing up, I don't deny reality, I have no false narrative. Map 6 is expensive I agree.
Hmm I guess my sense of responsibility must be bad. College degree,house paid for, car paid for, high Salary, decent life and good profile. All you do is bash anyone who doesn’t have your ideology. I got to where I’m at because I progressed through the game over 3 years. You can’t talk about anyone else especially me. You felt you had to comment because I agreed with @Kabam Miike statement. 👏👏👏bravo. @Riegel I guess he is talking about you also since I did the same amount of matches for 12 mil like you and milestones in 4*.
Never able to post without an insult
I don't agree. I do agree with your description of yourself as a delusion, but there are way better delusions out there.
And I'm donating gold for a teammate too... gold is the last thing I'm short on!
I'm not low on gold I stay at around 2 million. I'm not able to amass gold by current avenues to do anything but afford aq costs, and enough rank ups for milestone 4 of the Level up solo event.
IMO gold should become more obtainable as the areas in which you can spend it increase.
Some wont be short on gold as they will be doing lower cost content. For example map1-5 in AQ or leveling 4* champs.
Brian Grant came out with a good video that showcases how to better use your resources, and that you can sell iso and cats for gold. What this shows me is that there is an imbalance in resources. We shouldn't have 3000+ T3 class catalyst fragment crystals or 300+ T3 class catalyst crystals. We shouldn't have to open those crystals to turn around and sell those materials for gold.
Now some will say it'll be harder for newcomers to rank up if they nerf those rewards. Well that's untrue as well. T3C can easily be farmed in a weekly event quest, gold cannot. Do we need a weekly gold quest? IDK but IMO we do need something. It could be a weekly event quest just like every type of catalyst has, It could be its own arena, it could be as simple as replacing the imbalanced resources in solo event quests with more gold.
You're complaining about the gold posts, but saying the gold post will bring about a gold realm? So, without the gold posts we will not see the gold realm? Sounds like we need more gold posts by that logic lol.
It really has nothing to do with lack of patients. My champs are amped up. I use strategy and skill as well as brute force for content. I have my Blade at 5/50. Now we reach the real point yes, the game is about the grind. The question is how much grind should be enough? What's too much? I grind a lot for what I have. It is my belief at my current rate of grinding I should be getting more (just my opinion).
Nothing happens in a vacuum. People want to rank up their champs because they want to strengthen their alliances. They want to spend less money or units on revives and potions so they can help their alliance score more points.
With the rewards being so skewed in AW some players are being kicked for not having strong enough champs.
So many players are complaining about hitting a bottleneck with gold but the bottleneck is not about gold not being available but the idea of having to spend 2-3hrs per day just to break even and 5+ hours per day to get ahead.
No one saying gold is not a problem is willing to go on the record to say how much time per day is a reasonable amount to spend only doing arena.
I think 2-3 hours a day is more than enough. Again, that's my opinion
2-3hrs a day should be more than enough and before the explosion of 5*s and Act 5 2-3hrs a day would have amassed you a fortune in gold, now it’s about break even and if you do less you’ll go broke.
I just wish that some of these players would put aside whatever ideology they have about life and understand that this game is a social game and if enough players quit playing the game’s internal society will trump the game’s economy and all of their gold will be worthless because the game will shut down.
I’m pretty confident Kabam will come up with something to address the issue no matter what the nay sayers say. Or players will quit. However a simple fix would be to replace the 2400 gold crystal with a 5k it would immediately increase the amount of gold from the arena and cut down on the break even time.
If that's the tone from Kabam on the forums why have a community team at all.
They say they will be more transparent, but that's as non-transparent as it gets.
A simple, "We are looking into it" and "We've decided it's ok as is." or "We've decided to make some changes, and will update you when we know more."
However, we are still waiting on synergies in AW with no update since Jan 9th from Kabam wolf and Feb 26th from Kabam Miike. The lack of communication between Kabam and the community is really turning me off (my opinion). I personally just have a lack of faith in the community team at the moment. So many things slipping through the cracks. Same deal with AW matchmaking leading into the start of season 1.
That's my little off topic rant. I wish there was more discussion between Kabam and the community. That way we'd at least know Kabam's position instead of having to make posts, battle the forum trolls (who side with Kabam no matter what) and getting no real information.
Let me ask this to everyone who posted about the gold issue. How many actually have a gold mastery with a point or two on it??? Maybe if the boost was worth putting a point or two on it would you for gold? Would you sacrifice a critical mastery, parry or whatever mastery for gold? I'd say most would, say no. Maybe Kabam needs to make it worth putting mastery point on it.
@Riegel all this game is a big time waster one big grind no end until you quit or it goes down. What's too much grind is entirely up to you. it is just a game after all.
Best of luck guys!! The struggle is real!
On your reply to me. The question is how much should be needed. Obviously I can play as much or as little as needed, but what does the community feel is an amount worthy of top tier play, or just for progression in general. We all know what's required for us to maintain now, but are you happy with that? Would you rather do 200 rounds in arena as opposed to 300 rounds? Would you want to do more rounds for the same rewards to potentially block others out of top tier? IMO I think 300 rounds in arena should carry me a little further. That's just me though.
Yes, the struggle is real.
@Wayntos
Kabam named the mastery “Pittance” and maxing it out will give you 2% more gold, so in math talk that’s 20 extra gold for every 1000 gold collected, 200 extra gold for every 10,000 and 20,000 for every Million.
If Kabam upped the mastery to 40% people would sacrifice Mastery Points because they could always redo their mastery after they had enough gold. A much simpler fix is to change the 2400 crystal to 5000
As far as your comment about starting my own alliance sympathetic to the gold situation, let me ask you how does that help situation. If a critical mass of players stopped trying to progress in the game, THE GAME WOULD DIE, or even worse Kabam would do something dramatic to even the playing field in the game. People have jobs because we play this game. I’m sure you didn’t think this whole thing through.
Again how much time is reasonable in your opinion for the AVERAGE player to spend in the arena to earn enough gold to BREAK EVEN. Right now it’s a minimum of 15-21 hours per week, that’s a part time job to BREAK EVEN and it’s even more time if you are behind. Maybe you don’t understand but this is not sustainable the end result is people will QUIT.
GOLD IS NOT A RESOURCE BOTTLENECK IT IS A TIME BOTTLENECK
You're using time in two different ways which can confuse readers @GroundedWisdom .
One requires you to wait time, for example you can get two catalysts every 7 days, but spend only a few mins in game for that reward.
With gold you are looking at grinding hours a day. Your in-game play time is much greater.
Both are bottle necks, both take time, but both are very different.
Gold? hours and hours and hours. The bottle neck for gold is not how long can you wait. It's how much time can you throw at it.