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There were essentially two options at this time:

1. We release new Statcasts with new Shards
   
2. We don't release more Relics
   

Relic materials have always had their own reward budget and never took away from anything else.

If relics never took away from anything else, the rewards for BGs for over 2 years were worse than I thought they were.

Shoutout to Radiance, amiright

I like how I said over 2 years and your answer is something that was released 2 months ago. When was the last relic released?

The fact that kabam sold crystals last week (and still are) that are worthless in a month as they “have no plans to make any more battlecasts”. Classic bait and switch

Any one that spent $100 buying a Reliquary that genuinely thought they would be able to use them on Statcasts is a fool.

The Reliquary comes with 7 items.

Units, as per the usual Odin - bonus gold...

And then 5 relic-based materials.
4 out of 5 of these Relic items can be used on Statcast Relics.

We found out today that 4/5 items can be used on Statcast, see how time is a very important part of the equation?

Yes, and Radiance fixed the problem of the poor Battlegrounds Rewards, which you pointed out.
Why are we pretending like Relics were the only rewards in Battlegrounds for 2 years?

Criticize everything you want to, but do so objectively.

Are you seriously asking me to criticize objetively? You are the company man trying to push the story of fixing BG rewards that were criticized by a lot players with Radiance that was introduced 2 months ago. How is that objectively from your side?

Do you think anybody would have bought the reliquary deal had thet known this? Do you think they would have used 4/5 mats on relics instead of saving them for statcasts?
Can you objectively answer those questions as a former player and not an employee?

Could you explain to me how it's possibly not?
Radiance, quite literally, fixed the main issue about Battlegrounds rewards.

Enough with the "company man" stuff, dude. I'm sitting here at 3 am my time - way way way way WAY past my work hours having this discussion with you. If you're not going to be respectful, I won't continue.

Do I think anybody would have bought a relic deal consisting of 3,000+ units and 2>3 gems that can be used on the new relics? Yes.

I understand you're upset that Statcasts are using different Shard sources, but you're funneling your anger in the wrong direction.

If you think I am funneling my anger towards you personally, I do apologize. The company man comment was not to attack you at a personal level. You are asking me to be objectively. How am I not? Yes radiance is the new hot thing, and I am happy about it. Doesn't mean it wasn't long overdue. It doesn't cancel the fact that players have been collecting relic shards for way too long.
Do I understand why it can't be the same shards? In a way I do. I know there are way too many battlecast shards out there. I also do understand that it reached a point similar to Solo crystals, it was neglected for so long that buffing them would be counter productive.
Players like me are not asking for the same crystal, not even a 1-1 shard trade off; but at least some kind of trade off that would make the shards worth more than a pile of embers that I have been selling on expiration.
If not even a trade off make it so dupping a battlecast would give statcast shards.

Hello all,
I have been playing the game for almost a decade (!!!!) now, I have been and seen almost all in the game.. since scarlet wich 12.0 Blade dominance, Blade trio and more and more developments.
I understand the game is there the make a profit and this is how it is supposed to be.. The game developpers have added recently this new top content that I really enjoyed inspite of the community's opinion and there are some moves that the Kabam did that were just too much for me to continue playing.
This new pay to win sysyem where the newst and strongest character is locked behind payment method was the final straw for me.. I understand the idea and I support new charachters behind big and juicy challanges (Stark Spidey for examlpe where you really struggle before having him) but it feels to me that the gap that Kabam has created is just too much.. way too much, its not possible that after a sale a player that has been playing for a year or two has such an advantege over someone who playes for almost a decade.. its just not ok in my maybe unpopular opinion..
The offers in the past used to be 15000 units for the final millestone and now its not even a half !! I cant keep up with that!
Red Gaurdien, Dark Pheonix, Human Torch and more and more!! the frustration just keeps pilling up.

you could say that not everyone is supposed to compete at the highest level and that is correct, I think Kabam took it too far and its like I feel completely not fun and yes, Ill even use the word betrayal of the free to play that grind (oh how much i used to grind) but the offers become 39k where it used to be 15k and 15k is doable in two hard grinding months of the game. (that just indicates how much I tried keeping up and how much I used to play (used to as up until 3 days ago)
I hope you all do well but from a personal prespective, Kabam broke my will.
Good luck all.

I whale out, got Dark Phoenix/RG/HT and would go again if another comes up. I like having the rare champs, especially if they’re good enough for BGs so I can show them off. Happy spending a lot of money on that, personally.

I don’t really know why it’s so easy for me to have R4s cos of this though. Rank up materials seem to widen the gap the fastest so perhaps we got too many this year. I can see why F2P players would be disillusioned by this.

Part of the problem is that even if you enjoy whaling out they hit you with a counter for that rare champ right away. Forcing you to whale outa again.
I used to spend heavy and then decrease as I didn't like the direction of the game. Decreased even more when 200-300 a month or 500-800 on special events got you just midway. By midway I mean a bunch of shots at the RNG gods and hope for the best, and almost no sure thing

Another part of the problem is non-trophy champs shouldn't be considered "rare" champs. There should be a reasonable plan in place to allow non-spenders non-guaranteed access to a champ without having to celebrate multiple birthdays in between.

Well I am officially done spending a single cent, call me crazy but I like to spend on things that I enjoy. So I am going to play this thing F2P until I get bored and find something else I can spend on.
People might think its funny; but the relic BS was the last straw for me along with what was mentioned on another thread about the constant defenser/counter sales.

The relic thing… introducing relics that are likely to have higher prestige at R1… I mean that feel like micro targeting of top AQ spenders to the nth degree… and an easy way to bypass hoarders… I completely understand how you feel.

Add in the relic deals during heat wave… just relentless

That is like 75% of the problem, the other 25% is how they gave them as reward all this time while knowing they would discontinue it.
Now they are nothing but a useless source of ember.

Shoot, they are actively selling these mothballs right now…

Well I am officially done spending a single cent, call me crazy but I like to spend on things that I enjoy. So I am going to play this thing F2P until I get bored and find something else I can spend on.
People might think its funny; but the relic BS was the last straw for me along with what was mentioned on another thread about the constant defenser/counter sales.

The relic thing… introducing relics that are likely to have higher prestige at R1… I mean that feel like micro targeting of top AQ spenders to the nth degree… and an easy way to bypass hoarders… I completely understand how you feel.

Add in the relic deals during heat wave… just relentless

That is like 75% of the problem, the other 25% is how they gave them as reward all this time while knowing they would discontinue it.
Now they are nothing but a useless source of ember.

*looks at human torch*
If you expected differently at this point i really dont know what to tell you man. Prepare to be let down by whatever they announce and thay way it'll only feel slightly bad when it turns out worse than that

Certainly can’t argue with that. The “What it costs” by Kabam has grown so exponentially and at such a rapid rate, as of late, that I’m finding my interest diminishing at an almost equal rate.

The first champ I ever earned in arenas was a 3* (yes, you read that right. 3*) Magik. So after all this waiting for a 6* or 7* version of her; the news of “the cost” did not set well with me.

It doesn't sit well with anyone. What kabams been doing has been extremely negative from the player pov