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Kabam’s outlook toward cavalier players
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I hope this is an opportunity to reflect on just how often Kabam announces ”GFY” to the player base.
That was a ludicrous sentiment back then and even more so today after T5c shards have been monetized for months.
Dr. Zola
How many people are Thronebreaker that never even assembled half a t5cc in the 5 unused classes? As many times as they spam the $50 offer, I bet it’s a lot.
You also need to consider the rollout. They announced a roadmap in June with stuff about 2021 updates and content, but they couldn’t hint a new progression title that was two months away? They lied about half of the act 6 nerfs, didn’t reveal to summoners how crucial t5cc would be in progression, and then when Black Friday deals roll around, all premium resources are effectively removed.
Remember - 5000 units on July 4 got Cav players 10, 10, and 5% t5cc. Today it’s worth 0.
So, considering all of that, Kabam clearly tells us “GFY”
Also people that have been complaining about selectors being monetized so much the last couple of months are upset that selectors weren't monetized for them on Friday.
One can be happy for players at the TB level who got enviable cash offers and benefits and at the same time acknowledge that a decent slice of experienced Cavalier players got utterly shafted—and not just by the dearth of T5c.
Whether the Cav deals contained better T5 options isn’t as relevant for me as it is for some (although I think adding a simple T5 selector to one of the deals would have squelched all but the most ridiculous complaining). There are quite a few things short of T5c someone in my shoes would have found useful.
Certainly, better T5c would have been nice, but I’m fine to (in fact, I’m resolved to) form my T5 from playing free, non-Abyss content the next month or so. Surely, the team knows the next 30-60 days will see quite a few players roll into TB without ever setting foot in Abyss or running more than once through Act 6. Others already have.
What is relevant, I believe, is the stark disparity in value between the offers available to the upper quartile or so of Cavs and those available to TB—as well as the fact that there are UC offers that are likely more attractive to Cavs. To a lot of upper level Cavs, this probably feels deliberate and provocative. Whether it was intended to is something I don’t know.
As for why I consider Miike’s statement ludicrous then and now:
I would have been fine if T5c had never been purchasable in any form. I would have been fine if the only way to get TB was completion or exploration of Abyss (@Haji_Saab no way my lower-end Cav account deserves TB via cash deals, but it could have bought selectors to get there already for the price of a few Odins).
But...once you start selling T5c, and then start leaking T5c into the game via content that is something other than Abyss, then TB ceases to be some kind of sacrosanct coronation. Early TBs may want it to be, but that’s just wishful thinking. Decisions over the past few months have turned it into another level up that can be bought by anyone with several choice champs and a credit card.
It is hard for me to believe the decision to monetize T5c (and consequently TB) was not in motion at the time of Miike’s statement above. What do they always say? Offers are planned months in advance. Nothing in this game gets ginned up overnight.
In that light, the statement reads a lot like puffery to me, or something bandied about in team meetings a few times or even something meant to pump the egos of high-end players first in line for TB—and to prime them for the inevitable deals coming down the chute. “100% Abyss-plus” for TB was never a real option.
I am no whale. I am content to be, say, a remora. If the team wants to recognize the very tiptop of player experience, it should do so and keep the terms steadfast. The progression title system has been muddled from the outset, dating back before the shuffling of Breaker of Thrones and Thronebreaker. It looks to me like an ad hoc mess.
If you want, tie something to the “Abyss Stared Back” title or concoct yet another new-fangled title. I neither play nor pay as much as people like @Worknprogress and I do not expect to be treated as well as he and others like him should be treated by the team.
But...and this is key...that doesn’t mean I’m fine with just any kind of treatment.
Dr. Zola
But the cash T5c deals have also been flowing lately. July 4 25%, the $50 10% selector offers (limited at 2/pop), even a couple 5% offers recently. If you want to spend and don’t want to play for it, even with pretty bad luck, there’s your T5c.
Dr. Zola
What’s the most memorable way Kabam has delivered a GFY?
Wish there was more advice I could give there or alliances I could even recommend. All I can suggest is to keep looking. Join line groups and discord servers. Check here and reddit. Talk to other players you know running map 7. That's a tough one but I do hope you have some luck, hate seeing players that are willing to step up and make the effort not be able to.
Your analysis of kabam's continuous "gift for you", or to label it correctly, GFY, to the non whale community is on the money.
Indeed it brings to mind my relationship with my wife and her continuous GFY approach to my amorous approaches. Lucky chap that I am.
Kabam's GFY to each of us, is entirely fair, considerate and measured ;-)
(and had me laughing when I read it through uninitialised /unabbreviated! Got to be said each time, like Hanks/Hanratty character in catch me if you can - kind of Bronx drawl)
Kabam have done some awesome things since June, next month looks great and January is generally a solid month too.
I'm pretty positive about the way things are going. I'm on 6.3.2 and slowly working through, I've been playing since April 2016 and still enjoy the game. Sure there are highs and lows but, this year has seen Kabam make a real effort to improve for the player base.
I'm not trying to be on whatever measure against others, I see no point in comparing myself to whales or the ultra instinct players. Middle of the road is fine.
But to arbitrarily drop it two months ago and then shaft the Cav player base with **** unit bundles/offers on top of that was just dumb. And to be clear, I’m not against TB players and those that spend here, just saying the timing of this new in-game ceiling prior to the biggest spending weekend was poorly thought out and executed.