Best Of

So... Let's talk about poker...

I played a lot on week one for no particular reason, certain that I would be pretty low on the rankings.

It was fun, but I felt like I was done with the mode already.

Somehow, I ranked #168... So, despite my immense burnout and statements to the contrary, I was now committed.

Week two, I placed #80.

3 days into week 3, I'm already nearing 300k points... but I'm running out of resources and willpower. The rewards aren't even worth this much effort, we all know it - but sunk cost has me psychologically trapped.

TLDR: Week one of poker was fun, but the following two weeks felt like work. 21 days was entirely too long for this event and part of me feels like I might need a long break when it's over.

P.S. My thumbs hurt.

Something that dawned on me at the outset of mcoc Video Poker was that if you aren’t going to put in the (insane) effort to rank top 1%, the value of the rank rewards drop off substantially.

Over two weeks I’ve been consistently 40-50K/6-10%, and I’ve had to choke back a little vomit to even do that. That would net me two paragon crystals, 1/6 of a 7* basic and a basic 6* crystal.

I’m not sure that’s worth the value of my time.

Dr. Zola

There are 300,000 total earnable points, so yes you can reach the top milestone, even if you miss a few.

Why do you make everything p2w?

I wouldn't call it pay to win. Sure, spending could be a tie breaker for points, but if you don't do everything, especially Raids, no amount of spending is going to catch you up.

Well, technically speaking $24,000 USD might catch you up. But even among the mega whales I suspect the number of people who will actually do that is very close to zero.

Since about a third of the realm points are in Raids, and my alliance doesn't do raids (much less Nightmare Raids which seems to be required to cap out the milestones) I'm basically out of it. But the event is still giving me a ton of rewards for basically just playing the game more or less as I normally do, so I can't be too upset. I find it ... odd that there's so much emphasis on Raids given their presumptive optional nature - and the fact they are tied to alliances, meaning individual players cannot simply choose to do them just for the event - but I suppose Kabam has its reasons there.

There are ranked rewards, which will be unobtainable unless you pay
I would call that pay to win

They are unobtainable even if you do pay, unless you also basically do everything. Normally the term pay to win refers to games where either whomever pays the most wins, or spending offers an overwhelming advantage compared to everything else. But that's not really true here, except in an essentially unrealistic extreme. Spending offers an advantage between two players who otherwise are tied in all other respects, but having an advantage between two competitors who otherwise do exactly the same things equally well is not pay to win, that is literally all competitions.

I'm sorry but if there's NO way you can place #1 without having to spend, it's called a PAY TO WIN event.

Nothing new really for realm events. Banquet was the exact same.

Last year's Battlegrounds Realm Event was absolutely nothing like this Realm Event. I placed top 4 overall without spending a single penny.

Spenders had an advantage which was being able to purchase Units in order to buy elders BUT they still had to play the game AND win BG matches in order to rack up points.

This "Summoner Fest" is an absolute joke towards competition, it's a PAY to WIN event.

Maybe its because they analyzed data and figured out some people were being scumbags farming the VT for points and didn't want that anymore.

So they put points in the "Win X Matches" objectives, which will result in those same people camping?

If you want the radiance you won't camp...

I dont particularly care about the radiance in the objectives, and I'm not alone.

I won't be camping, but there definitely will be some that do.

There are 300,000 total earnable points, so yes you can reach the top milestone, even if you miss a few.

Why do you make everything p2w?

I wouldn't call it pay to win. Sure, spending could be a tie breaker for points, but if you don't do everything, especially Raids, no amount of spending is going to catch you up.

Well, technically speaking $24,000 USD might catch you up. But even among the mega whales I suspect the number of people who will actually do that is very close to zero.

Since about a third of the realm points are in Raids, and my alliance doesn't do raids (much less Nightmare Raids which seems to be required to cap out the milestones) I'm basically out of it. But the event is still giving me a ton of rewards for basically just playing the game more or less as I normally do, so I can't be too upset. I find it ... odd that there's so much emphasis on Raids given their presumptive optional nature - and the fact they are tied to alliances, meaning individual players cannot simply choose to do them just for the event - but I suppose Kabam has its reasons there.

There are ranked rewards, which will be unobtainable unless you pay
I would call that pay to win

They are unobtainable even if you do pay, unless you also basically do everything. Normally the term pay to win refers to games where either whomever pays the most wins, or spending offers an overwhelming advantage compared to everything else. But that's not really true here, except in an essentially unrealistic extreme. Spending offers an advantage between two players who otherwise are tied in all other respects, but having an advantage between two competitors who otherwise do exactly the same things equally well is not pay to win, that is literally all competitions.

I'm sorry but if there's NO way you can place #1 without having to spend, it's called a PAY TO WIN event.

Nothing new really for realm events. Banquet was the exact same.

Last year's Battlegrounds Realm Event was absolutely nothing like this Realm Event. I placed top 4 overall without spending a single penny.

Spenders had an advantage which was being able to purchase Units in order to buy elders BUT they still had to play the game AND win BG matches in order to rack up points.

This "Summoner Fest" is an absolute joke towards competition, it's a PAY to WIN event.

Maybe its because they analyzed data and figured out some people were being scumbags farming the VT for points and didn't want that anymore.

So they put points in the "Win X Matches" objectives, which will result in those same people camping?