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Can we ban Peixe already? He took an insightful thread and derailed it completely. Nothing positive ever comes out of his comments. He posts junk threads and clutters up the forums with every comment.

ok. I guess it’s on me then. I’ll try to do better opening my crystals in the future. Your comment makes no sense, clown.

In his defense, normally the countdown is for when quests expire..

For user experience it would be nice if it just appeared on Sunday. Saying that any change is likely to result in more bugs so just leave as is.

I'm trying to steer clear of this whole energy change fiasco, but I am curious as the apparent upcoming change to current 4hr crystals? I have a decent amount stashed & will the refill drop rate change in the old or only affect new crystals once the change goes live?

this isn’t the only game to play, no need to spend all your time here.

Congrats

Lets play a BG match now?

If it is focused on villains my best guess would be a Kabam employee.

I feel for Crashed here lol - he's been very brave for a while now to face up to the mob (which I am a part of don't get me wrong) but at the end of the day he is doing his job and despite it not being great for us I blame Kabam at the board level more than him despite his role in orchestrating the methods to meet the demands sent from above.

Long monolog…

However the real issue is that it's clear that the board/CEO of Netmarble has basically told the MCOC team they want to milk the cash cow harder than ever. No other reason for having these sales events every.. other.. flipping.. month now, up from 2-3 times a year.

We've gone from expecting to shell maybe $400 twice a year to get the best prizes in these events (July 4 & Cyber Wkd), to some special sales-tied event/saga every month or two (so possibly 6 or more times a year) at increasing costs in each event to get similar value.

The new prestige mechanism specifically is aiming for the same thing - I can see where they are going and why but... Probably shouldn't have changed it in one month so suddenly. Maybe start at top 10 champs then top 20 next month etc until you reach that 30 mark. Coinciding with new daily quests that cost high energy and a removal of energy refills (to of course encourage buying the energy card) has all come too quickly and at once.

The aim of course with the prestige race now is to make as much a cash cow as the sales events, but also make it a steady income source for Netmarble. Before it was a sporadic earner and only tied to AQ - now it is tied to everything.

Normally prestige was about who could buy the most featured crystals and/or sig stone packs when a given champ is released maybe twice a year and suddenly has the best prestige for no real apparent reason. Now it's not just about that but also ranking up 30 champs and 30 relics that you may or may not have already. It was an abrupt change of direction and should've bene phased in stages vs the abrupt change we saw.

You can say Crashed is doing his job well in one sense, though yes they have missed the mark quite a bit and the bugs keep coming (so that is on whatever team is supposed to fix them). He and other senior employees have been mandated to increase revenue and also prolong and consolidate current streams.

As a player himself though he ultimately knows a lot of it won't and hasn't gone down well so he will come in to take the body shots he's been paid to take.

The problem really lies with those above him, who don't seem to get that the harder you milk a cow the sooner it will run dry. They are betting on getting enough calvs to keep the milk flowing, as other dry up/give up.