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Re: Energy and elder mark changes
Another dagger in the heart of those who primarily enjoy grinding BGs… this is going to hurt my entire alliance’s game play as we only focus on BGs. Without the marks, it’s going to require even more energy for us to play. Such an inconsiderate move.
Madbonė
Units for Energy???
Based on your recent decisions, it would appear yall are devaluing BGs even more. This hurts as it’s my alliance’s primary focus.
Real talk, is your true intent for us to spend units on energy or simply reduce the amount of game play? I can’t really think of any other agenda at this point.
Don’t make me spend units in order to quest daily and be able to grind BGs. It’s that simple.
I’ll gladly spend loyalty as yall clearly don’t care about that store. I’d even spend glory at this point. Here’s a thought, how about you just simply go back to allowing us to have a surplus, especially if you think removing elder marks is the best way ahead.
Answering my question regarding your intent isn’t too much to ask. Please just figure it out and stop upsetting the community.
~Just another loyal, long term PTP player.
Madbonė
Re: Let’s talk crashed
Sorry… I’m typically a very outspoken critic of many of Kabam’s decisions but targeting the one developer who’s brave enough to stand in front of the community and explain his decisions seems like a naive witch hunt. The man has bosses and decisions aren’t made in vacuums, singling him out is just pointing at a convenient target because you are ignorant of where else to aim. Also this is one of the devs that brought us radiance and has overseen the 7star implementation, two massive wins. Very very few useless champs have made the leap to a 7star, and more often than not they get buffed to be made at least interesting before they get the promotion. Selling DDHK as-is is the exception not the rule here.
As for things being so **** tight now… some of the ideas aren’t even the problem but more the details, execution, and dogshit sloppy change management are the culprits. Seems like there is plenty of blame to be spread around to me, singling out the transparent guy is just lazy.
Do better people.
BigBlueOx
Re: Let’s talk crashed
I feel for Crashed here lol - he's been very brave for a while now to face up to the mob (which I am a part of don't get me wrong) but at the end of the day he is doing his job and despite it not being great for us I blame Kabam at the board level more than him despite his role in orchestrating the methods to meet the demands sent from above.
Long monolog…
However the real issue is that it's clear that the board/CEO of Netmarble has basically told the MCOC team they want to milk the cash cow harder than ever. No other reason for having these sales events every.. other.. flipping.. month now, up from 2-3 times a year.
We've gone from expecting to shell maybe $400 twice a year to get the best prizes in these events (July 4 & Cyber Wkd), to some special sales-tied event/saga every month or two (so possibly 6 or more times a year) at increasing costs in each event to get similar value.
The new prestige mechanism specifically is aiming for the same thing - I can see where they are going and why but... Probably shouldn't have changed it in one month so suddenly. Maybe start at top 10 champs then top 20 next month etc until you reach that 30 mark. Coinciding with new daily quests that cost high energy and a removal of energy refills (to of course encourage buying the energy card) has all come too quickly and at once.
The aim of course with the prestige race now is to make as much a cash cow as the sales events, but also make it a steady income source for Netmarble. Before it was a sporadic earner and only tied to AQ - now it is tied to everything.
Normally prestige was about who could buy the most featured crystals and/or sig stone packs when a given champ is released maybe twice a year and suddenly has the best prestige for no real apparent reason. Now it's not just about that but also ranking up 30 champs and 30 relics that you may or may not have already. It was an abrupt change of direction and should've bene phased in stages vs the abrupt change we saw.
You can say Crashed is doing his job well in one sense, though yes they have missed the mark quite a bit and the bugs keep coming (so that is on whatever team is supposed to fix them). He and other senior employees have been mandated to increase revenue and also prolong and consolidate current streams.
As a player himself though he ultimately knows a lot of it won't and hasn't gone down well so he will come in to take the body shots he's been paid to take.
The problem really lies with those above him, who don't seem to get that the harder you milk a cow the sooner it will run dry. They are betting on getting enough calvs to keep the milk flowing, as other dry up/give up.
Bugmat78
Re: Let’s talk crashed
I cameback and yes it’s pretty horrible
remember all those times they changed the store in game to?
another thing that was immediately changed
this game has been a downward spiral lol the past 1-2 years 🤣🤣🤣
Re: Let’s talk crashed
Oh I am not holding my breath at all on this. Just pointing out how treating us like adults would look.
Zeraphan
