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Update from Kabam:

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/412491/incoming-updates-to-the-essentia-launch

In brief:

• Glory and BG store coming back for one month, will take a week to return
• Trade-in amounts being increased
• Mysterium store legacy items' availability being increased (to be consistent with prior levels)
• Adding Daily event in April that adds additional source of Essentia

I totally understand. What I don't understand is Kabam's "logic" sometimes.

For 6*'s, we get generic ascension dust that we can use for whoever, but for 7*'s, we get 0 autonomy.

Good luck to you buddy. Hope you really can stay away, and hope I’ll be following you soon. ✌️

I’ve played this game for 11 years and made a forum account to respond to this.

Purchases within the stores:

The amount of materials available is not the same as it was prior to the change - not even close in some cases. I am a FTP player and have been working my way through ranking and levelling my collection. I have made it through 1/2/3/4 stars and now have every 5 star at rank 2. I relied on the t4b available through the glory and BGS store to continue to progress, and now have less than half the prior available resources to utilize in enjoying my favorite part of the game. A simple excel spreadsheet could have solved this problem prior to the implementation.

Glory / existing currency:

I’ll accept that this was an oversight. However, the lack of communication and clarity on the changes caused alot of this uproar. “When we release the Essentia store, there will be no way to redeem trophy tokens or glory.” That’s all that we needed to prevent a significant portion of the current situation. I think the community would really appreciate some clarity on what will happen once the conversion timer runs out - many old heads like myself are sitting on more of at least one currency than can be converted in the defined timeframe.

Raids tickets:

This is the nail in the coffin for me. A 4th grader could do the math (not an insult, pointing out that 4th graders in the US know how to use fractions) to see that Essentia conversion rate for raids tickets is a slap in the face to the community. I’d be very interested to learn more about how the economy is designed - again, a simple spreadsheet of “this is what was available before, here’s what it looks like after” would have pointed out this obvious error. Even if this botched rollout was partially to increase spending, the raids tickets conversion rate is so beyond insulting that it’s clear that no one checked it.

@Kabam (Osaurus) Rex - while it would certainly be scary to disclose some of the work that was done to prepare for this rollout, I think it would go a long way towards repairing the damage done to the community to explain not even the rationale for the changes, but literally the process of how these changes were designed. Do you need help managing the ungodly amount of data involved? This community is highly motivated and intelligent, and can help.

Again - this is not meant to be negative criticism. I myself am a software engineer and understand that s*** happens. The true worth of a leader in any capacity is in their ability to enable the success of those they lead, whether that’s the higher-ups at Kabam that some are saying are pushing the game towards increased monetization (and thus causing the team responsible for the game development to suffer the consequences), or those in charge of this community. Let us help you - but first, we need to understand how we got where we are.

I feel like they're just tired tbh

it was good that the cap was removed but what I want to know is why the announcement of that change did not include information about why they didn’t keep the old stores for a period of time like they said?

Luck of the draw, unfortunately.

I was fishing for Strange but this is fine.

@Kabam (Osaurus) Rex @KabamPinwheel any updates on the ascension situation? Lots of people are leaving the game and that’s bad news