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I think now I'll just play daily quests and not bother with bgs anymore. Whoever is making these decisions at kascam has lost the plot

They are so focused on "maximising opportunities" (💲💲) I think we should all prepare ourselves for an arena rework in the next year.

We all know why you're making these decisions tbf, Net marble wants more 💲💲. I don't blame you, you're just doing what they tell you to do, but sorry, you can't turn the clock on the game economy like this after YOU let it get out of hand.

"You know all that energy we gave you for free for years, well we've decided we don't like that now, sorry, pay up"

It's just greed plain and simple.

And what makes it worse is despite all this monetization, the game is still constantly bugged to 💩 on the weekly and you can't launch an event/content that runs well out the box to save your life the last 3 months. Maybe have a word with your bosses to fix that if they want to bleed us all dry.

Well it wasn’t Miike’s choice to leave. But it was for Jax.

The Titan MISTAKE message was not speaking to people who spent TIME and MONEY as they were adults. It was as wrong and condescending as Vega states in his video.

every month or 2 you have a new sale. Add to that the gradual lowering of in game items we have been able to get for free for 10 years, it seems to be a push to get us to spend more. Everything has been about having to buy to keep up or get left behind. That is monetization. In the past 9 years before all of these decisions started getting implemented I could spend as I wished and feel like it was a choice I enjoyed and benefitted from. Now it seems if I want to keep up I have to open my wallet. Especially with the prestige flip. Also that prestige flip has taken the enjoyment out of one of my favorite parts of the game outside of being a collector. I enjoyed only having to worry about my top 5 champs and make any silly choices I wanted on the rest of my champs. I’ve found some real gems this way that no one else looks at. Now I have to choose what you set as the top 30 prestige champs in the game to stay on top of if I wished to do so. Relics when they were introduced were never supposed to be deciding factors in prestige. They were promoted as an add on not a necessity. Now between prestige and nodes dependent on strikers they have become a necessity. The decisions may have good intentions behind them, but they have all been failures. I’m not even worried about cyber Monday or banquet this year because it’s already been made evident it’s gonna require a spend fest. The game was fine as is. It needed some tweaks to refresh it, but you sir have flipped the game upside down from what some of us have been playing for a decade. I’m trying to stay constructive and be respectful. I’d like to see success from changes but so far since you took over every change has been laid behind a paywall. There has always been paywalls but it’s been horrible under your tenure running as head dev sir. Also to your edit I know you don’t own the game, but you are the face right now. As the face you tell us one thing and when things get dropped it’s completely different than what is related to us in advance.

On one hand you talk about treating us as adults and on the other hand take away the freedom to play the game as we need or when we need? Energy refills were allowing us to play when we have free time. Now we are forced to login when energy refills. You know what this will do? Make the adults play less. If that’s what the desired outcome from the game team is then mission accomplished.

Yeah and you think the % chance of getting a energy refill will be directly increased on revives? Rofl

It will probably increase 2% on Level 1 revives, 1% on Level 2 revives, and the remaining will go on the useless **** that flood your inventory and the reason why you hoard those crystals.

My boss told me if I talked honestly with the community about the business side of the game I would paint a bullseye on myself. Most devs don't do this, but I think treating a community like adults is the best approach.

A lot of the criticisms are fair. I work hard to try to make the game better. A lot of what me and my team have worked on has gone well, but there are also decisions we have to make that players don't like. And yes, when it comes to the energy economy and prestige 30, I'm one of the most senior people involved in those decisions. I'm working on a dev diary that will explain why we have made those decisions. I'm sure many will disagree with the choices, but at least you will all know why.

Having said that, I don't think it's fair to say I have made the game all about monetization. I don't get to set our revenue targets, it's not my call how much money we are expected to make.

Edit: Also, I'm one of the more senior people who is visible to the community, but you seem to imply I'm in charge of the game. I am not.