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Re: Why is the essentia conversion stuff limited
Imagine if the titan crystal after the rollover tomorrow was limited to 100k shards spendable per week, in order to “reduce competitive advantage from hoarders.” That’s exactly what limiting the conversion feels like.
T1M3_M4ST3R
Re: Why is the essentia conversion stuff limited
the update is a step in the right direction s but it's not enough. You're locking our earned currencies. Let people buy what they want. There are already purchase limits. Let us convert everything we have up to 100k essentia and let us spend it how we like. Whats the sense is drip feeding us back our own currencies that we earned! It's madness. If someone wants to buy out the store, let them! I guarantee you it won't happen because 1) half the items are overpriced and 2) people buy what they need and then wait for the reset the following week. That's why purchase limits exist. It makes no sense to also have currency conversion limits. This is an easy win for you guys. Get rid of the currency conversion limits and take the w
Essentia - In response to Rex's update
What you said
The design of the Trade-In system is intended for there to be a steady drip of Essentia over time, to support the shift to Essentia, so that Summoners with a large stack of outdated resources don't get a major surplus of resources on day 1 compared to those who don't.
My response
Why does it matter? There is a limit to how much Essentia we can hold, as well as a limit to how many of each item is available. Even if someone bought every item on week 1 - how much can they truly progress? And, how many weeks would they be able to continue do this? And once there stashes are converted and spent on Essentia, they're gone - which is something you should want right? Rather than have these old currencies floating around 2+ years down the line, which is how long its going to take at the current rates.
What you said
The trade-in values for Essentia are a bonus on top of the consistent sources you earn from engagement areas where you earned your previous resources.
My response
If this is truly a bonus why take away the existing stores? I earned these resources and should have a choice as, when and how to use them. You've taken that away and are forcing me to convert them to Essentia at an alarmingly slow rate. Therefore I see "no bonus" but rather "no option but to" convert.
For example with Incursion Artifacts. If someone wanted the 7* Artifact Crystal, they would need to save 400K. This is not hoarding. This is a grind which takes time and several incursion events. Someone with +/- 400K now has no option but to convert to Essentia before they can make use of a resource they have worked hard to obtain. How long will this conversion take at the current rates allowed - over a year!!!! That is ridiculous and so unfair!
To summarise -
You're preventing people from using hard earned resources as and when they would like and trying to disguise it as "doing us a favour" by "allowing" us to trade it in as a "bonus" whilst creating a bottleneck in an attempt to throttle how much essentia is being obtained/ spent.
In my opinion -
1) Remove conversion limits or set them way way way higher.
2) Bring back the old stores for next few months, and run them alongside Essentia. This will allow people to spend their resources in those stores now that you've "shown your cards" on Essentia. If people still have resources to convert after this time, they'll be able do so.
RandoS
Re: This fix is a start, but not enough
Could Kabam not have sent out an in-game message weeks ago: “You have until March 9 at 9:00 am PST to spend your artifact, loyalty, glory, and battleship currencies. At that time, those stores will close.”? We would have spent our stockpiles. Like the post states, that remains the problem. I have 517,490 artifacts. I will not be able to trade that in by the time the timer expires.
Maxxtron
Re: Why is the essentia conversion stuff limited
I wouldn’t advocate anyone being fired but perhaps pay them in Essentia for the rest of the year.
DanielRand
Re: This fix is a start, but not enough
I just love how silent kabam is about all this, one announcement mentioning the glory limit and the raids tickets and nothing else they know they fu*ked up 😂
Stonkz
Re: Why is the essentia conversion stuff limited
Their “fix” doesn’t address any issue.
- I used to buy X resources every week with the glory rewards. Now the glory store is gone, and can’t exchange all glory to buy the items I used to buy each week. I understand the logic of “slow drop” of essentia, but if this is the direction you chose to go with, you should’ve keep the original stores available. It doesn’t make sense to remove the stores and put a “slow drop” of essentia.
- There are items that were removed from glory / incursion store that can’t buy with essentia. For me personally, I’m disappointed from the removal the 7* incursion crystal because I’m still chasing some champs, and now my only option to obtain them is wasting radiance.
- The new items in the mysterious store are really useless. Maybe targeting newer players but why can’t throw a bone to higher progression?
Carmel1
Re: Can we get an update on the Jean grey fix?
her damage reach definitely doesnt feel as good compared to before, but I wrote it off as just me imagining it. This would make sense though.
Re: Update the damn community Kabam
that these fixes are getting rolled out piecemeal confirms no one took 15 minutes to consider any implications of consolidating multiple currencies in the game. It’s not a money maker, so no one cares in HQ. Same story, different day. Never changes
