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I'd almost argue that Kabam is following a WoW model. I loved WoW 15+ years ago, but as the game continued to progress it became less challenging, gave more shortcuts to new players, lost its sense of community by ineffectively merging servers, and added a bunch of stuff that you could purchase.

Kabam doesn't know how to make a game challenging without making it frustrating, they give endless shortcuts to new players to the point where those players don't actually have to run progressing content, the sense of community is being lost as they've given up and let the forum provider have their way (plus many players opting to no longer do alliance content), and of course every month is a sale for the whales to get ahead.

Biggest glaring difference though - WoW was always pay-to-play, but never pay-to-win, so when they added cosmetics, mounts, pets, etc., that players could buy, it was just for fun. The options to buy things aren't frustrating because they don't put you behind if you pass. You get out of the game what you put in.

Kabam, however, is the opposite. Kabam has always had a pay-to-win aspect, but it has always been palatable and under control. Just in the last 6-8 months we have seen the gap between paying players and poorsies explode to insurmountable heights. Players that don't want to or can't pay can no longer make up the gap by putting more time into the game, and there's no real hope of a FTP player that hit Valiant today being where a whale is now, but a year from now. They won't get close, and by then the gap will be even worse. And to add to that, Kabam is now actively moving towards a pay-to-play model by limiting resources that allow players to play as much as they want whenever they are able.

WoW shot itself in the foot by being too friendly to kids, but paying to play the game was never the issue because everyone paid the same to access the same. This game is being far too hostile towards anyone that doesn't want to, isn't willing to, or more importantly isn't able to spend and as it moves closer and closer toward PTP it takes the spending gap that already exists and begins to ask the players "how would you like to pay to play a game you have no hope of ever being competitive in?"

Kabam is on a bad path and they just don't seem to care. Mr. Krabbs must be running the show these days.

Comspiracy theory number 726494924

They lost the micro transactions, no one buys units outside of special sales, they can't encourage you to do it, so they will make you spend units.

No more revive farming, well there was too much energy left, now they gotta target energy. Specially since eveything nowadays has become a gaunlet (yes Kabam is over using it by now), reset a quest and try again? With all that free energy? Nonsense!! Take away energy now!

Well now some people can think.. oh well a peter parket wallet, thats almost 5 energy refills i can finish my quest for 5 bucks...

At this point I seriously question how well they are doing, cause it seems like they are trying too hard to make some money. Its starting to look desperate.

I have nothing to say about the rewards since i had 0 expectation for them to change them.
I will say the classic difficulty still looks absolutely bonkers lmfao.
Kabam is a joke this month

I am genuinely curious what’s wrong with expiring energy refills? When we don’t even have the agency to sell expiring high value items, what’s this fascination with reducing energy refills because it expires from stash?
Who is it hurting really if a refill or 2 expire from my stash? Is it hurting me? The gaming community? Or the developers? No matter how rationally I think about it and be logical, I am clearly not understanding the ill effects of expiring energy refills.

Hearing is one thing, actually doing something about it is another. Look at World of Warcraft who didn't do anything for years. A lot of companies don't change to help their players and it hurts them in the long run. Pride is a dangerous thing.

I think he was a little too nice. Not because he isn't angry but because he's just tired (and sick)

Less energy = less people online = less bandwith used = connection problems solved.

They are fixing the server disconnection issues by being disconnected with the people.

They’ll say ‘we hear your feedback,’ but - the only feedback that actually makes them move is revenue loss. No forum post, no survey, no wall of text hits harder than numbers dropping on their end. That’s the only feedback they truly value.