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Re: BG rewards have been secretly nerfed
The problem - and in my opinion this was a big mistake on their part - was turning off the legacy stores before launching Essentia in the rewards for in-game content. This created a situation where for a window of time the players only source of Essentia was trade-in. That created all sorts of problems, but one of them was it temporarily strangled player rewards. But that was only going to last for a relatively short period of time. Once Essentia actually launched in the game the players would get all the Essentia from in-game rewards and on top of that the trade in extras. The trade in would have been seen (at least by most players) as extra rewards on top of the normal Essentia rewards. It would be a form of double dip of currency. But as I said, the gap between launching the store and launching actual Essentia rewards changed that temporarily to be a constraint rather than a bonus. Eventually that would have changed so even if this was intended to be a permanent reward reduction it would have failed to do so. But once the initial impression was that the converted Essentia was the primary source of rewards - because for a time it would have been the only source of Essentia - it was impossible to break that impression.
One lesson that I think Kabam has never been able to learn is something I used to say in my old MMO days. You only get one chance to make a first impression. This flies in the face of the traditional game-as-a-service philosophy that boils down to the cinematic catch phrase: "just fix it in post [production]." Games as a service promote almost to the point of being a religion the idea that you can't get it right the first time, so don't try: just launch something that is "good enough" and "iterate" on it. This is not just Kabam, this is the entire industry from the CEOs to the guy working the mailroom. You're required to have this tattooed to your forehead.
It is wrong, unfortunately.
The Essentia store is actually a good thing, and it will only get better. To the extent that there are buying power issues, I think they can all be addressed, and I think in the long run they will be. It is far better for the majority of players that they can earn currency from different game modes and focus all of it on the stuff they want. If you don't like BG or don't do AQ, you're not locked out of stuff. But unfortunately, we're all going to be hearing about how the Essentia store was some conspiratorial attempt to nerf player rewards for the next ten years. People still complain - incorrectly - about the 12.0 patch. And really, while I don't think that is true, I do think this is a problem entirely of Kabam's own making. This was entirely an unforced error.
DNA3000
Re: List of champions not available at 7⭐
Yea i read it wrong the first time lol. Still true though. We're only missing a handful of champs as 7* at this point.
Buttehrs
Re: Webstore Free Daily crystal GONE!
This is a new ui.
Well apparantly I didn't claim todays.... so here's how they appear now. No timers on them.
And once you claim. The icons just vanish.
