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The amount of effort you spent raging about this could've easily been spent getting 825 units and 20k titan shards.

you really thought you did something with that huh? it’s a time-gated, paywalled mode — nobody’s ‘wasting time’ by pointing out how trash it is while we wait for the next drip of content. maybe read how the event works before pretending you’re the productivity police.

You keep saying paywalled for some weird reason, let's actually do the math for a second so you can stop calling it that cause it's not paywalled at all if you strategize properly your masteries, spending speeds up the process yes but it's not 100% necessary. You get 3 entries a day and the event lasts 29 days, that's 87 entries in total, 59 of those entries need to be spent on shatter mode alone for the Titan which leaves you with 28 entries left for the rest of the chapters. This means you have 3 entries in total for each chapter other than shatter mode which if you actually use your brain when upgrading a character with masteries is more than enough, you really shouldn't be dying on the same chapter more than twice if you focusing on upgrading one single character first and then slowly upgrade the rest for the other objectives and even if you are, you will still have 4 more entries left in case you made a couple extra mistakes on a certain chapter.

you’re missing the entire point — it’s not about whether it’s doable, it’s about how kabam is monetizing frustration by time-gating a boring, low-effort mode and selling arcade tickets to skip the wait. the design is built around people getting annoyed enough to pay, not around fun.

kabam didn’t offer paid tickets by accident — they knew the mode was boring and slow enough that people would want to skip it. it’s not pay-to-win, it’s pay-to-stop-being-annoyed. that’s how they monetize frustration, it’s psychological manipulation.

they know people value their time, especially in a mode that feels slow, repetitive, or annoying. so they drag it out just enough that paying to speed things up feels like relief.

so yes it’s an indirect paywall dressed up as a player choice.

No it is not, you can't just change the meaning of words as you see fit lol paywall literally means restricting access to content with either a purchase or a paid subscription, you can't just change the meaning of a word. Nothing here is being restricted to you if you don't pay, the objectives are easy to complete if you just wait and play the way it was intended to play. The tickets you buy are just a shortcut and that's the word you should be using here because they are not a resource you absolutely need, they're optional if you're not a patient person.

no one’s changing definitions — you’re just ignoring how modern monetization works.

a hard paywall restricts access entirely.

a soft paywall — which is what this is — deliberately designs the experience to be slow, tedious, and frustrating unless you pay. that’s not “optional,” that’s psychological manipulation.

kabam didn’t sell us value — they sold us relief from their own artificial grind.

that’s the whole point: the mode was built in a way that incentivizes payment by making the free path annoying, not inaccessible. that is a paywall — just in the form of time, not a locked door.
and that distinction? it's the exact kind of thing games exploit now because players like you pretend it's not happening.

The amount of effort you spent raging about this could've easily been spent getting 825 units and 20k titan shards.

you really thought you did something with that huh? it’s a time-gated, paywalled mode — nobody’s ‘wasting time’ by pointing out how trash it is while we wait for the next drip of content. maybe read how the event works before pretending you’re the productivity police.

You keep saying paywalled for some weird reason, let's actually do the math for a second so you can stop calling it that cause it's not paywalled at all if you strategize properly your masteries, spending speeds up the process yes but it's not 100% necessary. You get 3 entries a day and the event lasts 29 days, that's 87 entries in total, 59 of those entries need to be spent on shatter mode alone for the Titan which leaves you with 28 entries left for the rest of the chapters. This means you have 3 entries in total for each chapter other than shatter mode which if you actually use your brain when upgrading a character with masteries is more than enough, you really shouldn't be dying on the same chapter more than twice if you focusing on upgrading one single character first and then slowly upgrade the rest for the other objectives and even if you are, you will still have 4 more entries left in case you made a couple extra mistakes on a certain chapter.

you’re missing the entire point — it’s not about whether it’s doable, it’s about how kabam is monetizing frustration by time-gating a boring, low-effort mode and selling arcade tickets to skip the wait. the design is built around people getting annoyed enough to pay, not around fun.

kabam didn’t offer paid tickets by accident — they knew the mode was boring and slow enough that people would want to skip it. it’s not pay-to-win, it’s pay-to-stop-being-annoyed. that’s how they monetize frustration, it’s psychological manipulation.

they know people value their time, especially in a mode that feels slow, repetitive, or annoying. so they drag it out just enough that paying to speed things up feels like relief.

so yes it’s an indirect paywall dressed up as a player choice.

The amount of effort you spent raging about this could've easily been spent getting 825 units and 20k titan shards.

you really thought you did something with that huh? it’s a time-gated, paywalled mode — nobody’s ‘wasting time’ by pointing out how trash it is while we wait for the next drip of content. maybe read how the event works before pretending you’re the productivity police.

I was happy with the rewards I got for $7 and minimal effort.
If you don't like it, that's cool, who cares?
I don't like pumpkin pie. But when I go to the pie shop, I don't start yelling at the store for offering it.
I just pick a different pie and move on with my life.

this analogy is hilariously bad.

you didn’t just pick a different pie, kabam made pumpkin pie the only one on the shelf, wrapped it in gold foil, and said “this is the best slice in the shop... but only if you pay extra and pretend to enjoy it.”

this isn't about preference — it's about bad content being padded with great rewards to manipulate engagement, and your "i'm fine with it" attitude is exactly what guarantees we get more of it.

This much outrage on simply a gamemode that you can easily ignore is crazy,
It also gives good rewards for minimal effort so won't advice to ignore.

you completely missed the point or chose to ignore it. it’s not just ‘something you can easily ignore’ — they purposely stuffed it with great rewards so we can’t ignore it. that’s the issue. it’s low-effort, off-brand content shoved into the game with insane rewards to force engagement, not because it’s fun or good.

acting like that’s fine is how we keep getting more of this lazy design.

“We can’t ignore it”?.
I have since last Wednesday when it was released,..did one run of it for 15-20 minutes and I haven’t been back since,.,and I won’t for the remaining tine it’s available.
I don’t think the rewards make it worth playing the mode,.,(it’s that bad),.,so i don’t.
…see?,.., it’s easy.

okay, you proudly missed the point, downplayed the problem, and acted like disengaging makes you wise, when in reality, it just makes you irrelevant to the discussion. here’s why:

i’m pointing out that kabam jammed valuable, top-tier rewards into garbage content specifically to force players — especially competitive ones — into engaging with it, whether they like it or not. It’s not about skipping it, it’s about how this tactic degrades the game design and sets a horrible precedent.

kabam’s entire goal with this kind of content is to test how little effort they can put in and still get engagement by attaching bait-tier rewards. players like you ignoring it does nothing if thousands more cave and buy arcade tickets.

No one is forced to do it.

you're not forced to brush your teeth either, but there are consequences if you don't

Consequences to missing a couple 7*s, some 2* Doombots, a few Units, and a Titan? I'd be curious to know what they are.

They are the consequences lol.

There definitely are consequences but it's not like he's missing out on a r4 or even a r3. Op is acting like he is 100% forced to grind for the rewards even if he doesn't like the game mode, he's not at all, the rewards aren't really game changing. They're insane considering how easy the mode is but I'm sure he'll survive if he doesn't go for them.

it's about not rewarding lazy, off-brand content so kabam doesn’t keep pushing MORE of it. you thinking ‘it’s not that bad’ is exactly why it’ll keep happening.

not whether or not i need to do it to get it the rewards, i don’t think we need any more content like this in the game.

Like I said, you can't fathom the fact that some of us genuinely didn't dislike it and are leaning more towards "it was alright". Anyone who doesn't share the same views as you on this matter is wrong.

okay so let me break it down like this, your whole take hinges on “i didn’t hate it, so it’s fine,” as well as some others like you say. you are completely missing the bigger issue: this kind of low-effort, off-brand content sets a dangerous precedent. when enough people passively accept it — or worse, defend it — kabam takes that as green light to make more of it. that’s how quality erodes.

it’s not about “was it fun for you,” it’s about what it means for the future of the game. if no one pushes back, this becomes the new standard — shallow mechanics, forced time gates, and bloated monetization disguised with flashy rewards

can you understand that?

This much outrage on simply a gamemode that you can easily ignore is crazy,
It also gives good rewards for minimal effort so won't advice to ignore.

you completely missed the point or chose to ignore it. it’s not just ‘something you can easily ignore’ — they purposely stuffed it with great rewards so we can’t ignore it. that’s the issue. it’s low-effort, off-brand content shoved into the game with insane rewards to force engagement, not because it’s fun or good.

acting like that’s fine is how we keep getting more of this lazy design.

“We can’t ignore it”?.
I have since last Wednesday when it was released,..did one run of it for 15-20 minutes and I haven’t been back since,.,and I won’t for the remaining tine it’s available.
I don’t think the rewards make it worth playing the mode,.,(it’s that bad),.,so i don’t.
…see?,.., it’s easy.

okay, you proudly missed the point, downplayed the problem, and acted like disengaging makes you wise, when in reality, it just makes you irrelevant to the discussion. here’s why:

i’m pointing out that kabam jammed valuable, top-tier rewards into garbage content specifically to force players — especially competitive ones — into engaging with it, whether they like it or not. It’s not about skipping it, it’s about how this tactic degrades the game design and sets a horrible precedent.

kabam’s entire goal with this kind of content is to test how little effort they can put in and still get engagement by attaching bait-tier rewards. players like you ignoring it does nothing if thousands more cave and buy arcade tickets.

You're not competitive to begin with, if you were you wouldn't whine about people having bigger decks than yours in BGs 🤡

As for all the whining, if you don't like it don't do it, miss out on the rewards nobody's forcing you to do anything you don't want to do lol.

you’re the same guy who said 'i don’t care if the content is trash, just make it easy and give me rewards' — so yeah, we’re clearly not expecting thoughtful takes from you. some of us actually care about the game staying good.

If it's a monthly quest yes I don't care cause monthly quests have been trash for years regardless. At least the rewards finally improved since they clearly can't keep monthly side quests interesting without making them repetitive and grindy. Also before you take this out of context again, I don't think Doom Cycle is trash I like mini games in general, what I didn't like was how grindy it was.

All endgame content done and you're struggling in Arcane? Like I said, you're not competitive to begin with stop pretending you are lmfao.

you keep obsessing over whether i’m competitive like i specifically even said i was — i never claimed to be. i’m pointing out a design flaw that affects everyone who plays this game seriously. if your only filter for feedback is ‘you not competitive bruh lmfao bruh,’ maybe you’re not actually equipped with the mental aptitude to have this conversation.

Good so we got that out of the way, you're not competitive, you just whine about BGs constantly.

I play this game seriously, so do other people you just can't fathom the fact that some people actually liked something you disliked. You have the mental aptitude of a six year old, grow up and accept that some people will like the things you don't like, which is perfectly fine.

i said competitive players (not just bg players, players who want to stay at the top of the game for wars and join top alliances with all of the new meta characters ranked up) are being forced into bad content with top-tier rewards. you somehow turned that into a bg rant, made it personal, ignored all context, and still think you’re making a point. you’re not.

The thing is, I personally don't think it was bad, it was meh, neither good nor bad. Someone else said they liked it and you told them they have Stockholm Syndrome lmfao you want everyone on these forums to agree with you. You're not looking for a debate or a discussion cause you've already made up your mind.

how do you have a discussion when every reply from someone who disagrees boils down to ‘you don’t have to do it’? that’s not an argument, it’s a dodge. if no one pushed back on bad content, we’d be swimming in it. disagreeing isn’t the issue — refusing to engage with the actual point is.

This much outrage on simply a gamemode that you can easily ignore is crazy,
It also gives good rewards for minimal effort so won't advice to ignore.

you completely missed the point or chose to ignore it. it’s not just ‘something you can easily ignore’ — they purposely stuffed it with great rewards so we can’t ignore it. that’s the issue. it’s low-effort, off-brand content shoved into the game with insane rewards to force engagement, not because it’s fun or good.

acting like that’s fine is how we keep getting more of this lazy design.

“We can’t ignore it”?.
I have since last Wednesday when it was released,..did one run of it for 15-20 minutes and I haven’t been back since,.,and I won’t for the remaining tine it’s available.
I don’t think the rewards make it worth playing the mode,.,(it’s that bad),.,so i don’t.
…see?,.., it’s easy.

okay, you proudly missed the point, downplayed the problem, and acted like disengaging makes you wise, when in reality, it just makes you irrelevant to the discussion. here’s why:

i’m pointing out that kabam jammed valuable, top-tier rewards into garbage content specifically to force players — especially competitive ones — into engaging with it, whether they like it or not. It’s not about skipping it, it’s about how this tactic degrades the game design and sets a horrible precedent.

kabam’s entire goal with this kind of content is to test how little effort they can put in and still get engagement by attaching bait-tier rewards. players like you ignoring it does nothing if thousands more cave and buy arcade tickets.

You're not competitive to begin with, if you were you wouldn't whine about people having bigger decks than yours in BGs 🤡

As for all the whining, if you don't like it don't do it, miss out on the rewards nobody's forcing you to do anything you don't want to do lol.

you’re the same guy who said 'i don’t care if the content is trash, just make it easy and give me rewards' — so yeah, we’re clearly not expecting thoughtful takes from you. some of us actually care about the game staying good.

If it's a monthly quest yes I don't care cause monthly quests have been trash for years regardless. At least the rewards finally improved since they clearly can't keep monthly side quests interesting without making them repetitive and grindy. Also before you take this out of context again, I don't think Doom Cycle is trash I like mini games in general, what I didn't like was how grindy it was.

All endgame content done and you're struggling in Arcane? Like I said, you're not competitive to begin with stop pretending you are lmfao.

you keep obsessing over whether i’m competitive like i specifically even said i was — i never claimed to be. i’m pointing out a design flaw that affects everyone who plays this game seriously. if your only filter for feedback is ‘you not competitive bruh lmfao bruh,’ maybe you’re not actually equipped with the mental aptitude to have this conversation.

Good so we got that out of the way, you're not competitive, you just whine about BGs constantly.

I play this game seriously, so do other people you just can't fathom the fact that some people actually liked something you disliked. You have the mental aptitude of a six year old, grow up and accept that some people will like the things you don't like, which is perfectly fine.

i said competitive players (not just bg players, players who want to stay at the top of the game for wars and join top alliances with all of the new meta characters ranked up) are being forced into bad content with top-tier rewards. you somehow turned that into a bg rant, made it personal, ignored all context, and still think you’re making a point. you’re not.

This much outrage on simply a gamemode that you can easily ignore is crazy,
It also gives good rewards for minimal effort so won't advice to ignore.

you completely missed the point or chose to ignore it. it’s not just ‘something you can easily ignore’ — they purposely stuffed it with great rewards so we can’t ignore it. that’s the issue. it’s low-effort, off-brand content shoved into the game with insane rewards to force engagement, not because it’s fun or good.

acting like that’s fine is how we keep getting more of this lazy design.

“We can’t ignore it”?.
I have since last Wednesday when it was released,..did one run of it for 15-20 minutes and I haven’t been back since,.,and I won’t for the remaining tine it’s available.
I don’t think the rewards make it worth playing the mode,.,(it’s that bad),.,so i don’t.
…see?,.., it’s easy.

okay, you proudly missed the point, downplayed the problem, and acted like disengaging makes you wise, when in reality, it just makes you irrelevant to the discussion. here’s why:

i’m pointing out that kabam jammed valuable, top-tier rewards into garbage content specifically to force players — especially competitive ones — into engaging with it, whether they like it or not. It’s not about skipping it, it’s about how this tactic degrades the game design and sets a horrible precedent.

kabam’s entire goal with this kind of content is to test how little effort they can put in and still get engagement by attaching bait-tier rewards. players like you ignoring it does nothing if thousands more cave and buy arcade tickets.

You're not competitive to begin with, if you were you wouldn't whine about people having bigger decks than yours in BGs 🤡

As for all the whining, if you don't like it don't do it, miss out on the rewards nobody's forcing you to do anything you don't want to do lol.

you’re the same guy who said 'i don’t care if the content is trash, just make it easy and give me rewards' — so yeah, we’re clearly not expecting thoughtful takes from you. some of us actually care about the game staying good.

If it's a monthly quest yes I don't care cause monthly quests have been trash for years regardless. At least the rewards finally improved since they clearly can't keep monthly side quests interesting without making them repetitive and grindy. Also before you take this out of context again, I don't think Doom Cycle is trash I like mini games in general, what I didn't like was how grindy it was.

All endgame content done and you're struggling in Arcane? Like I said, you're not competitive to begin with stop pretending you are lmfao.

you keep obsessing over whether i’m competitive like i specifically even said i was — i never claimed to be. i’m pointing out a design flaw that affects everyone who plays this game seriously. if your only filter for feedback is ‘you not competitive bruh lmfao bruh,’ maybe you’re not actually equipped with the mental aptitude to have this conversation.