Why is there an abyss nexus in the rewards? That's insulting and takes away one of the main things abyss had.
Also weapon X? I know he was just an extra for legend runs but still, putting him in the crystal and rank rewards is a bit scummy and devalues having him a significant amount.
The weapon x makes sense because they no longer will be doing act legends runs and kang and thanos who were previously acquired the same way have always been in the crystals too. The abyss crystal is an odd choice tho.
Why is there an abyss nexus in the rewards? That's insulting and takes away one of the main things abyss had.
Also weapon X? I know he was just an extra for legend runs but still, putting him in the crystal and rank rewards is a bit scummy and devalues having him a significant amount.
The weapon x makes sense because they no longer will be doing act legends runs and kang and thanos who were previously acquired the same way have always been in the crystals too. The abyss crystal is an odd choice tho.
Yeah the abyss crystals especially I'm disappointed about
People are overreacting to this event, it really won't affect people unless you are fighting for the top 3 ranks in aq. Once they add honor rewards to map 8 and drop 7.4, we'll be seeing a lot more r4s and that's not too far away.
An alternate thought. What does one of these whale accounts do once gifting is past? They can potentially get a rank 4 or three out of the gifting crystals, then get a bit more from the event. Then what? Everything else in the game is wildly less remunerative. Is it even fun to be the most stacked account in the game?
Not sure how familiar you are with BG.. but this is the 3rd time he's suggested he'd quit the game.. first time was with the cosmic boost for act 6.. i think 6.3.... next was the pre fights with odin when you could apply them from more than one odin.. i'm sure there will be something later on that he doesn't like and once again insinuates he's thinking to quit the game..
Not sure how familiar you are with BG.. but this is the 3rd time he's suggested he'd quit the game.. first time was with the cosmic boost for 7.1.. next was the pre fights with odin when you could apply them from more than one odin.. i'm sure there will be something later on that he doesn't like and once again insinuates he's thinking to quit the game..
Don't worry.. he's not going anywhere..
Yup, he is not quitting. Between YouTube and the donations from his stream, he make a decent living.
An alternate thought. What does one of these whale accounts do once gifting is past? They can potentially get a rank 4 or three out of the gifting crystals, then get a bit more from the event. Then what? Everything else in the game is wildly less remunerative. Is it even fun to be the most stacked account in the game?
Same thing people do in real life when they buy a Lambo when it does the same thing as a Honda but looks cooler
kabam should appreciate the time spenders to this game. bg is a great example. guy is literally streaming every piece of arena he does. he helps community. he shows the enjoyment to the people. as a f2p. he’s by far one of the best voices of the community. sure i had some disagreements with him but that never went to disrespect him. a lot of players owe him their progression. so no need to be disrespectful here.
if kabam keeps doing this they won’t have players playing the game. only 1% of spenders are gonna do things. it’s just not cool that they completely ignored non spenders here. but hey we’re spending our time to this game and if we’re just ignorable assets just say it to our faces.
as for me i traded some ggcs with alliance and looking to have fun. don’t expect to be on top even tho i’m in high level endgame player. but i really hear what BG says here and he has my full support.
Not sure how familiar you are with BG.. but this is the 3rd time he's suggested he'd quit the game.. first time was with the cosmic boost for act 6.. i think 6.3.... next was the pre fights with odin when you could apply them from more than one odin.. i'm sure there will be something later on that he doesn't like and once again insinuates he's thinking to quit the game..
Don't worry.. he's not going anywhere..
The cosmic boost and Odin prefights were changed though?
Also, the drops aren't that advancing. If someone shells out tens of thousands of dollars, sure. They might get enough to R4. I've opened a dozen or more and gotten 2k T3A Frags. Mathematically speaking, that's going to be a feat. (Incidentally, if someone drops 50k on this game, let them have the damn R4. That's a moderate car.)
Not sure how familiar you are with BG.. but this is the 3rd time he's suggested he'd quit the game.. first time was with the cosmic boost for act 6.. i think 6.3.... next was the pre fights with odin when you could apply them from more than one odin.. i'm sure there will be something later on that he doesn't like and once again insinuates he's thinking to quit the game..
Don't worry.. he's not going anywhere..
The cosmic boost and Odin prefights were changed though?
They were.. I was just pointing out to the OP that this isn't the first time he's suggested leaving the game..
Not sure how familiar you are with BG.. but this is the 3rd time he's suggested he'd quit the game.. first time was with the cosmic boost for act 6.. i think 6.3.... next was the pre fights with odin when you could apply them from more than one odin.. i'm sure there will be something later on that he doesn't like and once again insinuates he's thinking to quit the game..
Don't worry.. he's not going anywhere..
The cosmic boost and Odin prefights were changed though?
They were.. I was just pointing out to the OP that this isn't the first time he's suggested leaving the game..
I absolutely get BG’s point. It must be a sucker punch every year to see the gap widening in prestige and overall PI.
I would say there’s lots of content he hasn’t completed yet that could bridge a small part of this gap. KT1 has made similar point. It’s impossible to stay competitive at the very top of the game unless you are dropping thousands of £££ on this event. As someone who is Thronebreaker but not good enough to play competitively at the top, if I won the lottery and money was no object, I drop mad stacks to get into the top 30. Mad stack bro!
Personally I don’t think it’s good for the game economy. I think when you look at the recent buff to SA rewards only adds 250x 6* shards for the top milestone but you can buy out resources to take multiple champs to rank 4 I do think Kabam takes us for fools when it comes to rewards. We need to start seeing a very quick trickle down of R4 resources that we can earn through playing the game.
It's hilarious to see all these content creators crying like babies especially considering their audience. It's like Jeff Bezos whining to his minimum wage employees that Elon Musk has a few billion more dollars.
I'm not that fussed about it but I think he does make a good point. Of course the 1st r4s were going to be bought. Spenders will always spend to stay at the top of the prestige race. But it doesn't make sense to allow people to buy 3-4 R4s before the most hardcore FTP grinders can get even 1.
First of all, BG isn't going to quit MCOC any time soon. The game basically pays his bills via YouTube. Tranistioning to a new game, making videos, and getting the same support he receives from the MCOC community would not be an easy task. For a man that only eats beans, I can't imagine him making that decision easily.
Second, I love Brian. He's my favorite, but it doesn't mean I have to agree with him on everything. I frequently disagree with people I love. Ask my wife. This game does not exist without the big spenders, but the big spenders need incentive to spend. Kabam's employees are not going to make this game and get constantly yelled at by the player base for free. In fact, they expect to turn a profit. Does this mean that spending will create a larger progression gap between big spenders and the rest of the player base? Absolutely. Does that mean that you can't still be competive. No! There will always be people around you to compete against. You simply have to compete at your own level and be okay with not having the ultimate rewards. You'll win some, you'll lose some, and you will still have fun.
Third, this is only a big deal right now during the shift in the meta between R3s and R4s. People who spend big and get the big rewards are going to have a huge advantage for awhile, but it will even out over time. Eventually, T6B and T3A will become more available and will be sitting in your overflow with everything else. By that time, the big spenders may have way more R4s than everyone else, but it will only be their top 5 champs that actually matter. Beyond that, the games comes back down to skill, knowledge, and preparation.
Then we get to do this all again when R5s come around. Then 7 stars going to R2.
This gifting event marks a big change in the Battlerealm, and people often don't like change. That doesn't mean this is the end of the Battlerealm altogether.
I do share one sentiment with BG. The gifting event is gross. To the people that are going to be spending $20k over the next couple weeks, can you imagine how many people's lives you could improve drastically over the holiday season by donating half of that?
Do what millennials do instead. Tweet about it (caring about homeless).
I was hoping for a less scam heavy event. for a "community building" event like the gifting, it's toxic and too easily manipulated. especially for casual gamers who don't exactly have a team of trusted players around them.
I was hoping for a less scam heavy event. for a "community building" event like the gifting, it's toxic and too easily manipulated. especially for casual gamers who don't exactly have a team of trusted players around them.
Then this event isn't for you. Go look forward to the free event Kabam is going to give everyone later this month
An alternate thought. What does one of these whale accounts do once gifting is past? They can potentially get a rank 4 or three out of the gifting crystals, then get a bit more from the event. Then what? Everything else in the game is wildly less remunerative. Is it even fun to be the most stacked account in the game?
I’m not a whale, but I do have a pretty well stacked roster and I got to say that after reaching a certain amount of high end rank ups, the game loses a lot of the fun because you’ll have every possible node combination/encounter covered. I rarely get excited for new champs too since I have every piece of utility that I could possibly need in my roster already. The only possible utility I could use is a Peni Parker counter but I’m sure that I already have one in my roster that I’m overlooking—(other than Magneto)
He’s already got another video out, opening GGC’s to profit off the event…he’s a hypocrite who hasn’t once supported the game financially.
He literally said in the video that he was still going to do his GGC trades. Doing what he said he was going to do makes him a hypocrite? lmao. Also I would argue that having a popular YouTube channel about the game supports the game. Your criticism is essentially that he did what he said he would do, and that he is a FTP player.
This literally doesn't affect 99% of the community. It affects the top 20 alliances that's all. Who cares if they get an abyss nexus crystal as rewards, you really think people spending 10k alone on gifting don't already have every 6* in the game? LOL
Too many people getting pressed over something that doesn't affect them.
I feel the worst for the players that spent moderately in this game to remain competitive. This event makes it pretty clear that not even moderate spenders can be competitive, only massive whales, and that's pretty sad. Those players that spend, but don't have a bottomless wallet are getting massively screwed.
This literally doesn't affect 99% of the community. It affects the top 20 alliances that's all. Who cares if they get an abyss nexus crystal as rewards, you really think people spending 10k alone on gifting don't already have every 6* in the game? LOL
Too many people getting pressed over something that doesn't affect them.
The game is, at least in part, aspirational. Since we all participate in the game it’s different than, say, passively watching a sport. I remember working with athletes who played in international basketball leagues, and they would watch NBA games with the intent of someday being there and doing the same things those guys were doing. Even if a lot of them knew in their hearts that they were journeyman who weren’t moving up, there was always the hope and the motive.
But when the top players are just getting things the rest of us can’t have because we don’t have the financial resources? You can’t aspire to be a whale? So, yeah, some of this is just perspective and having realistic goals. But some of this is also the game setting strange and unrealistic standards for success.
This literally doesn't affect 99% of the community.
If it affects the top players and spenders, then it will also affect anyone below them
It affects the leaderboard of Top 20 AQ and Plat 1 and above AW. It literally doesn't affect anyone else at all. I'm in a Top 20 Alliance and don't spend crazy on this event and could barely care lol
Doesn't matter much . BG always insinuates he is leaving the game whenever something major happens. Top 30 will always have the best rewards. If you spend 15-20k you should get whatever you want in this game.
Most people are paying to be the first , but it all evens out eventually.
I believe his YouTube videos are what makes him money as I doubt he has a side job with the amount of time he spends grinding. Unless he's able to move on to a different game and have enough followers follow him I don't see him doing it. I'ts not a given he would be able to recover enough subscribers on a new game. Not that I care as I don't see the point of most of his videos. I hate grinding....watching someone else do it is even worst.
I find it kind of ironic he mentions the spenders are going to have an advantage as he has an advantage over the average f2p players because he does it for a living...most players don't have the same kind of time he is able to put into the game.
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As far as the gifting rewards - have at it. I can’t compete so I’m realistic about my spending.
Don't worry.. he's not going anywhere..
This event has always brought out the whales, so... uh...
if kabam keeps doing this they won’t have players playing the game. only 1% of spenders are gonna do things. it’s just not cool that they completely ignored non spenders here. but hey we’re spending our time to this game and if we’re just ignorable assets just say it to our faces.
as for me i traded some ggcs with alliance and looking to have fun. don’t expect to be on top even tho i’m in high level endgame player. but i really hear what BG says here and he has my full support.
just sad.
I would say there’s lots of content he hasn’t completed yet that could bridge a small part of this gap. KT1 has made similar point. It’s impossible to stay competitive at the very top of the game unless you are dropping thousands of £££ on this event. As someone who is Thronebreaker but not good enough to play competitively at the top, if I won the lottery and money was no object, I drop mad stacks to get into the top 30. Mad stack bro!
Personally I don’t think it’s good for the game economy. I think when you look at the recent buff to SA rewards only adds 250x 6* shards for the top milestone but you can buy out resources to take multiple champs to rank 4 I do think Kabam takes us for fools when it comes to rewards. We need to start seeing a very quick trickle down of R4 resources that we can earn through playing the game.
Too many people getting pressed over something that doesn't affect them.
This event makes it pretty clear that not even moderate spenders can be competitive, only massive whales, and that's pretty sad. Those players that spend, but don't have a bottomless wallet are getting massively screwed.
But when the top players are just getting things the rest of us can’t have because we don’t have the financial resources? You can’t aspire to be a whale? So, yeah, some of this is just perspective and having realistic goals. But some of this is also the game setting strange and unrealistic standards for success.
Most people are paying to be the first , but it all evens out eventually.
I find it kind of ironic he mentions the spenders are going to have an advantage as he has an advantage over the average f2p players because he does it for a living...most players don't have the same kind of time he is able to put into the game.