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If everyone knew the Essentia store was "better" I wouldn't have spent several hours writing up a pricing breakdown of the Essentia store.

Also, the low conversion limits were not even the problem in my opinion. Someone would have complained about them regardless, but the real problem was the old stores disappeared at Essentia launch which meant the conversion sales were the only way to spend those currencies for several weeks or possiblyly up to a month. If the old stores ran concurrently with the Essentia store launch, the conversions would have been seen as a way to double dip - we could spend in the Glory store and then on top of that convert some into Essentia and then spend there above and beyond normal glory purchases. It wouldn't have mattered as much if it was low, since it would have been genuinely extra anyway. Instead, the conversion was the only way to spend Glory, and that was compounded by the fact the Essentia launch did not factor in normal player behavior which for many players was spend Glory when the counters reset, then claim older AQ rewards before they expire from the stash.

To me, this was the biggest, most obvious problem with the Essentia launch, and it placed everything else - justifiably so - in a bad light. The conversions looked not just low but punitively so, because players were going to a) lose currency and b) be unable to buy anything with what they had. It amplified the pricing differences in the Essentia store because it was much less obvious that the Essentia store had much better pricing, if you had enough currency on hand to take advantage of the lack of Glory store-style escalating prices. It fed into the narrative that Kabam was adding unnecessary and arbitrary constraints that did not previously exist (like the far lower availability of lower rarity rank up materials in the Mysterium store). The Glory mistake was in many ways the Original Sin of the Essentia launch. It was not the only problem, but it made every other problem look worse, and made every other problem look deliberate.

And yet they've made another update announcement, stating that they will re-open the Glory and Battlegrounds stores for one more month… with absolutely no mention of the Incursions store.

It's asinine.

I thought maybe they were going to add them to the basic crystal without announcing it beforehand

I was also pretty sure they said small amounts of t5a would be in essential store. I don’t see that either. It is the usual. Only difference is that now some big names are starting to leave. It’s just a matter of time before the dolphins drop and then the fish. Reminds me of the company who ran my favorite marvel game before mcoc which I came over from. Mobage who ran war of heroes. They did the same an monetized everything and made it to where you could only grow by spending money. 18 months later game was dead and server shut down. Jus like mcoc the friends made on line and other messaging apps in alliances is the only thing that kept it on life support that long. Rethink your plans kabam or your 5 year plan might only last a year if that.

It’s sad really, I hope since they’re doing something about essentia after reading all the complaints and criticism, something is done about the RNG aspect of ascension as well as the new champ ascension situation with the paywall. Probably wishful thinking but if they don’t the game will continue to sink in complains and negative criticism because all of these go against some of the things they said last year after the Torch and Dark Phoenix fiascos.

Everyone knows the Essentia store is better

It's the low conversion limit for old currencies that killed off any goodwill generated by the Essentia store, it's pathetically low

Kabam also gave everyone FREE 30k Essentia but nobody mentioned that when they complained in forums about the bad launch, saying it just to be fair to Kabam

How are there so many oversights? Why didn't anyone check the store before release to make sure everything contained the right number of items? Who came up with the pricing for Essentia raid tickets? How on earth did they mess up the math so badly?

It feels like something is off in the chain of command, or yall need new employees. It doesn't make sense that all these things come out instantly broken. Just like the EQ. Nobody at Kabam checks anything before release and the players are paying the price.

@peixemacaco if they use 7* Nico against your 5* Heimdall make sure you pause, ez wins for days

Take care, dude. It was fun while it lasted!