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Wait for the live stream on Friday. They may just mention this in passing. Or maybe not mention anything but go straight to banquet announcement and distract everyone with how cool it’s going to be and the best banquet it’s ever been. People will forget about this fiasco and open their wallets again. The cycle will repeat with the next mess up.

Did we get some response about the whole situation? You know, after their announcement.

This is exactly the type of moment to someone show up and give some info, if they will change something, proceed the way they said or if there will be a new kinda of announcement.

Those days I'm just tired, really tired of getting no ideia if we are gettin' heard or if it is just a lot of useless insistence, which will change nothing.

Not a word. Meet the new Kabam, same as the old Kabam.

Screw up, Release deeply unpopular decision, ignore the forums, prep the next sale.

Path A: 2k Saga Crystal Shards and 1250 7* shards
Path B: 1260 T7B fragments and 9k T4A fragments
Path C: 3x 10% T6CC, 500 Titan shards, and 500 6* Battlecast Relic shards
Path D: 4x 10% T6CC, 1k Titan shards, and 1k 6* Battlecast Relic shards
Path E: 1k 7* AG crystal shards

None of those are saga champs for incursions.

Why have class themed paths and then a random selection?

I could see that being an option. However, I don't think its technically feasible for reasons related to how Kabam chose to deal with max sig crystals from Titan dups. They said they couldn't just tell the game to give the players something different if the dup came from a Titan, because the game engine doesn't "know" where the dup came from in that sense. It just sees a dup and drops the standard rewards for dup.

I know it is possible to make a champ that doesn't offer dup rewards or different ones, because that was the standard with the basic arena champ. But I think that was the result of making the actual reward different from a standard dup, which would suggest the only way to do this would be to make replacement crystals with completely different reward pools, each requiring the creation of different rewards replacing the standard champion drops.

That would likely a) take a ton of time and b) be itself vulnerable to errors creeping in, which would create the circular problem of having to compensate for broken compensation crystals.

You could also make special compensation crystals with a (rare) chance to drop one of the missing champs, and a large chance to drop nothing - this would in effect "fill in the gap" of statistical probability of losing the chance to acquire those champs. However, I'm not sure how acceptable that would be. A lot of players would not understand why they had such crystals or why they were not dropping anything, or the expected thing (i.e. a 7* champ). Informed players would understand, but there would be a lot of players complaining about the weirdness of the situation.

And to be clear, it is not that I necessarily care about uninformed players not reading messages or crystal descriptions or whatever and then complaining. I do care that those complaints would add a big burden to customer support, flood social media, and create all kinds of weird problems on the forums and discord. One of the things those of us among the more informed and engaged players have to deal with is we often have to make sacrifices to accommodate the more oblivious members of the playerbase, because we're the only ones that can. We can't ask them to sacrifice for us, because obviously we can't ask the oblivious for anything.