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First Quest is more manageable for me, I'll see what the rest feels like.

Going from "energy refills will be more restrictive than before" to "30 extra energy refills per month!" is one heck of a pivot. Like, suspiciously big. I never kept track of how many refills we got per month before, but this feels as if we're not just back to the status quo but are actually getting significantly more now than we did previously.

My guess is that it'll still kind of even out in a way that suits Kabam in the end anyway. For example, I think there was a solid case that the poker game we got a couple of months ago was too energy-draining. While the mode wasn't exactly embraced with open arms by the community, I still suspect that it'll come back at some point. When that happens, it's not going to cost less energy per entry now that we're getting a free energy refill every day. Likewise, I think the new daily quests could have done well with a little nerf to the energy cost, but that's not going to happen now (and to be clear, I no longer thinks it needs to).

Maybe the side quests start costing one extra energy per tile. Same thing with story content. If another EOP comes a-knocking, we'll probably see the pre-nerfed energy requirements again.

I suspect that somewhere out there, another shoe is dropping.

That being said, I still think this is a win of sorts. I think having even a small stash of energy refills gives you the freedom to do things at least a little more whichever way you please. While I can understand Kabam's desire to make sure that there's not effectively endless energy in the game, I also think there's value in letting people play content in the way they want to. I would find new story content significantly less appealing if I would have to sludge through it over the course of a month just because of energy requirements. It's way more fun to play through it alongside a bunch of mates on Line, each sharing various strategies for the different paths and bosses etc., then sharing and comparing your spoils. I think a lot of the magic in there would get lost if everyone just sort of limped through it over the course of a month instead of, say, a weekend.

I'm not opposed to buying the occasional energy refill to keep the momentum going, but I'm not going to buy 15 energy refills to keep the momentum going. I have better things to spend my units on.

Also, as a teeny tiny content creator without access to the CCP server to showcase champions, I also like to have a few extra energy refills in the stash that don't just go towards completing content. That really helps making videos much easier.

So yes, I am happy that we'll be getting more energy refills. I don't anticipate that it will be quite as much disposable energy income as it might first seem, but I do think that being able to choose when to save energy and when to use it is a good thing and that is much, much easier when you can actually maintain a stash of energy.

But you aren't returning a broken product, you're essentially getting a consolation gift on top of what you already used. Getting a guaranteed zola if you were hunting for him is huge

How does this happen? @kabampinwheel

Dr. Zola

I would have to say yes and no.

Did we win a battle? Yes as they are backtracking on a terrible, terrible idea that would have had really bad consequences on both the game and the players.
Have we won the war? No. The problem is that Kabam will continue to think this way going forward. How do I know? Because I’ve played for too long to think their goals and objectives will change.

This changes really no one’s mind about the eq situation.

This changes no one’s mind about the constant errors and fumbles.

This changes no one’s mind about the bugs and ai issues.
This hardly changes anyone’s mind to trust Kabam to do right by the playerbase. They only changed this because of the outrage and everyone speaking up.
There’s still so many more issues the game is suffering from. This is a small grain of sand on the beach.

A step in the right direction on a 150 story building. It's a start.

I've said as much elsewhere, may as well repeat it here.

This compensation package is, in a way, actually perfect. In a technical sense, it's quite literally the best and most direct compensation they could provide as it's overcorrecting and addressing the issue at hand. Zola wasn't in the crystal, people had a 0% chance of getting him; Kabam's response? Giving you Zola directly if you opt for it.

In that sense, the compensation is perfect - and I mean that genuinely.

In another sense, it's quite underwhelming and stops from being perfect because it appears to be limited to a single selector, regardless of how many crystals you opened or when you opened them.

As has been stated, in the past Kabam has issued a 1:1 compensation whenever incorrect crystals were purchased or when drop rates aren't what they have displayed. So … why is someone who opened twenty crystals getting the same as someone who opened one? Similarly, the petty part of me is wondering why people who opened crystals after they were corrected are getting compensated at all. They weren't affected.

I opened twelve Titans and a Nexus - had no desire for a Zola, technically I had better odds at getting the champion I did want and still failed. Is that the point? No. The point is that the crystals weren't as advertised - compensation should be 1:1.

Now, if Kabam were to offer this selector compensation as a 1:1? THAT would be amazing. If their thought or concern is "well we can't do that because it would effectively just be giving away a max sig Zola." … okay, but let's assume that the crystals WEREN'T broken. Then someone theoretically had a non-zero chance of getting a max sig Zola if they were to opening an equivalent number of crystals, correct?

Kabam Crashed, are you Crashing?

Kabam (Osuarus) Rex, are you Rexing?

It's just not good enough…All of it.

Making us do classic eq again..

This misery Scrooge level compensation..

The poor messaging..

Do better.. This is putting lipstick on a pig