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There wasn't any continue I had to click before, just a tap anywhere on the screen. Plus, I hate those stats.

And I said this is just another straw in a long row of straws and I'm getting close to the last one. I don't think I need to list previous stra

Who wants a 6 star awakening gem?

Heavy disagree. But you’re entitled to feel how you like about it, glad you are liking the update

So we should get on our knees and praise and give thanks to Kabam for simply responding?
We have higher expectations than just that. You should too.

I'm not defending the launch state of Essentia, but the idea that the currency is "ours" so we should be able to spend it however we want is never true in a game. The legacy stores had spending caps, and the glory store even had price acceleration, in effect a kind of progressive tax on players where players who were poor and could only buy a few got lower prices but rich players with tons of currency who wanted to buy lots would see much higher prices. We are always operating under those kinds of rules, all games have rules like that when it comes to spending currency.

The conversion to Essentia was trading currency from one store to another, and those stores had different price schemes and different spending caps. The way spending was incentivized or pressured was different, and when we switch from one store to another the devs did not want that switch to happen abruptly. The glory store promoted and rewarded currency management, where players took the long term into account and purchased a few of many different things. The Essentia store doesn't: it doesn't care if you buy one or ten of anything. Slowing down the conversion of stockpiles of currency so players aren't overly rewarded for having higher stockpiles is entirely at the discretion of the game's economy designers. In principle, having a limit on conversion is no different from having spending caps or price escalation.

My own objections were related to the fact that the conversions did not account for incoming currency (and thus we have the case of players being forced to let glory expire) and pacing (under the original numbers some conversions could literally take years). The system should never force players to lose currency through no fault of their own, and no currency conversion should take that long. But those are not issues with the idea they are issues with the fact the numbers involved were, in my opinion, completely wrong.

@GroundedWisdom

The problem is that Kabam is both lighting the match and pouring gas on their own mistakes.

Don’t blame the playerbase for Kabams horses*** communication and misleading tactics to the playerbase.

Be up front and honest and communicate with some of that transparency they promised us so when they do punch us in the gut, we will at least be ready for it.

yep

Their “fix” doesn’t address any issue.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. The new items in the mysterious store are really useless. Maybe targeting newer players but why can’t throw a bone to higher progression?