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Agatha or Deathlok

Because we spent our freaking butts off.

What we're seeing now was pre-programmed for the event well in advance. We had the selector in a spot where the devs felt comfortable we'd reach it, because they didn't want us to fail to get it. Then there were a bunch of stretch goals that were also most likely going to be reached that were visible to us, up to 4.5 billion.

Then there were batches of stretch goals higher up that the devs were reasonably sure we'd get to, but they were not sure how many we'd reach, which they decided to unveil in batches of five.

We've blown past all of that and are now into what the designers probably felt was improbable territory. To be safe, they created super-stretchy milestones way out there that we were most likely not going to reach, but just in case they made them, and set them to be unveiled one at a time. We are basically in Undiscovered Country territory.

There are discussions going on about what, if anything, to do about it. We are in the Here Be Dragons part of the roadmap. For some perspective, we did 5.2 billion last year. I was predicting 6.2 billion after day one. I revised upward to 6.8 billion as we got rolling and we were sustaining a far higher pace than last year without slowing down. And then I had to revise upward again to 7 billion when the sales opened up. And now we might still reach 7.2 billion. We had a legitimate shot at 7.4 billion. Enthusiasm for the banquet is not just higher than last year, it has actually grown over time. Even with the Titan shards in the milestones. Even with people saying it should have been even more than that. The nay-sayers are such a tiny minority this year almost no one is even paying them any attention at all. They just keep buying and opening crystals.

We're doing so much this year the whales are getting nervous about their rank scores. So many players have opened so many millions of crystals this year it makes them wonder what their fellow whales are doing, if the players with only $20 to their names are opening their wallets.

Now that's something.

Things it will never be:

Another Kingpin/Abs Man selector

Another Key

Another Deathless

CCP Stark/2099/Masacre selector

Titan Selector

Things it could be:

Rare Champ selector

Another 7 Star limited pool selector?

Another Colossal Titan nexus?

Things it probably will be:

More Titan shards

SBCs and maybe a Jubilant

And the final milestone - 2 Star Dark Phoenix

I would really like a rare champion selector; I don't have Jessica Jones or Weapon X.

I do think it’s surprising and a bit of a bummer way to end what has been a fantastic event. I could absolutely see that they’re at risk of breaking the game’s economy and they needed to cool the “inflation” rate. If that’s the case, it really would be good for Kabam to make a forum post and acknowledge that rather than just turning off the spigot with no explanation.

Ingenious move. Pique the curiosity of the junkies with crumbs and then watch as they pick at it with a fork and resentfully eat it all the way to a final reward while they complain the entire time. Humiliating and hilarious.

Eat your vegetables, u degenerates!

Love it, another SBC! Let the tears flow! lol

Another same crystal… ok thanks for all Kabam I won't spend another penny on this banquet. Gg

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All I can say is thanks @DNA3000 and I'm enjoying the ride 😆