Why would Kabam need to respond to this? They are a company with making money as a target... I seriously dont understand the point of this post or his video tbh... He constantly is aware that there is a gap between f2p and players who spend...the naive part is thinking that in 6 years that gap would remain the same... Its quite obvious if he didnt spend for the 6 years he played.. people who did spend would make the gap larger and larger...
At this point if people actually believe they're going to remove Rewards, that's entirely misguided. For starters, that would be a sheet storm. Secondly, this isn't a situation that's broken. It's the same as saying, if people can't have the same for free, spenders shouldn't have it. That is a contradiction to the purpose of spending. People wouldn't spend to get what they're getting for free. I respect that people feel a certain way about it, but it's an Event that involves spending. Always has been, most likely always will be.
Why would anyone disagree to this? It’s all true
It's just one disagree. Chill. You aren't new here to be ignorant about disagree spammers
And for someone who keeps repeating they don't care, you seem awful lot invested
Or perhaps he was is very confused why anyone would give it a disagree. It’s not implausible that someone was genuinely curious of the disagree.
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What BG is saying, is said every year. Gifting always sets the precedent for the new year. It’s always too much to attract the spending.
He’ll get over it. We’ve got F2P players and minimal spenders in our ally and we’re placing top 90 and P1/Masters, Christ we beat 4Loki this season and all of us have fun. I mean he did that video with Enzo who spends close to 2k/month as a matter of course and it’s people like Enzo that keep the lights on in HQ and keep this game free for Bg to profit off.
F2P players are never going to be the top of the tree because otherwise what motive is there to pay? Ultimately he’s been able to use his good name and ability to keep in an alliance that has moved beyond him for a good year or two and he’s tearing himself up over his prestige every video it’s kind of hard to watch now tbh.
True His thirst and drive for this "prestige" is going overboard now and its literally too much at this point I feel sick everytime that man mentions "prestige" these days He is just so emotionally invested in the number bump on a few pixels in his mobile game that its actually sad to see
I think what you were calling “thirst and drive” is really just his desperation to not fall so far behind in prestige that he is really left with no choice but to leave his alliance. He won’t be able to earn rank 4 materials in any alliance lower than the one he is in, so that would pretty much be it for anything like competitive play, I think? That’s seems pretty important, given who he is and what he does.
Does it interfere with your ability to drive your own car? No.
Then who cares?
This only works in a world in which prizes are given out at the end of every week for driving that car, the prizes are progressively more valuable based on the points that you earned while driving that car, and the points that you earned are specifically based on how expensive the car is. And, even better, your access to the most expensive cars possible are directly related to those top prizes.
The point is, what whales do doesn't affect you. If they drive a Ferrari or spend $100, 000 on dinner, it doesn't affect you.
They're buying boutique items with 50x the markup just because they're the latest and greatest gadget. If you wait 6 months you can buy the exact same thing at Walmart for $19.99.
It’s not really about me. It’s not even about the whales. It’s more about preserving a certain kind of play, and certain kind of community. And, to be fair, how and why I enjoy the game does rely somewhat on that kind of play, and the community around it.
I want things to be on equal footing too, but what do we know about monetization or running a business?
Let's look at it objectively. The whales spend a fortune, discard 90% of what they get, enjoy the remaining 10%, and we will never run into them or be affected by them. What are 30 Surfers and Thor Rags going to do on defense?
Before gifting, there are players at the top at risk of being booted because their prestige was 14285 and not 14293.
Those teams will get to the point where if you're 1 point behind the max, you're gone. Maybe we should enjoy where we are and even consider ourselves lucky we don't play under those rules?
I mean, in all honesty I do enjoy being far from that. I run critical care units for a living, and have neither the time or patience for that mess. Only reason I can even engage here right now is that I’ve been on leave for my wife’s illness.
Frankly, the game to me is low stakes. While I’m TB and all that, I don’t really play at a high level. Because of what I do, I can afford to spend for progression if I like. I don’t always. But sometimes!
I appreciate what BG does. I’m a gamer at heart, but chose to become a part of something else. The time I invested in training to be this, he invested in learning YouTube and developing his account and his audience. I like to watch the outcome of his choices, a part of me wishes I could just game (not much of me though). It’s not low stakes for him, and I kind of envy the ability to value something small like that. I work in a big stakes world.
I guess, it’s a little offensive that I could buy my way right past him. I have an awakened 6* surfer. I have the resources to buy $30000 in GGC, if I wanted. I could rank 4 a couple champs with that, get 15 k prestige, join NYC. Sure, whatever. But it still wouldn’t mean anything to me. Just feels weird.
Are we still pretending that people who play for free should have everything that people who spend have?
People by the end of this event will have 4+ r4 6-stars. Me, thronebreaker and everything 100% except abyss will not even have a single one. I'm not asking for 4 but by the time people are getting fully prestiged out with r4s I should get to have at least one.
Spending has always been an option in the game. They will always have more than the people who play for free because money saves time. There is NO way to keep up with people who spend. However, spending is not necessary to play. Which is great, considering the fact that spending makes the game possible for those that don't. Moreover, Resource will open up more and more as people advance higher up. It's been that way since the game started.
So I spend quite a bit of money on this game but he has a point…There should be a way to work toward the progression of getting a r4 instead of just being able to spend massive amounts of money on one event to instantly get a r4. I would think for 100% 7.3 with the difficulty level of this game by this point should be able to get you more then half a catalyst and alpha if we are gonna have events that hand out a generic r4 6* gem… THAT is the point of this video… Because let’s remember this is a game. Most games there is spending options to help you along the way, however do you honestly think it’s ok that you could 100% every bit of content that is out and not have a r4 6* but someone that spends thousands on ONE event deserves to get a 6* generic 3 to 4 rank up gem? So basically you succeed by having unlimited amounts of money or what’s the point? Why play this game unless your in the 1%?
The only class catalyst that is equal to its percentage for a rank up is the full catalyst. He calls a % of a random class catalyst an equal % of a rank up when it’s far from it given there are 6 classes.
The guy repeatedly passes up on end game materials during the major unit events and puts off doing content hampering his own progression, he doesn’t have much of a leg to stand on. The guy has lost the plot and can’t look at it objectively anymore.
Kinda with wilson on this one a little. It is true spenders have to sacrifice a grip or 3 to even get the r4s, and have been doing this for a while to be ahead of the game. Which is all this is really, a game. F2p players shouldn’t be able to get a r4 easy seeing as p2p players pay thousands to get their r4s, but there should be some tough content endgame players can do to gradually take a 6* to r4, and I don’t mean throw true focus and unblockable all over the place. This event definitely puts f2p players far behind in alliance events but it’s really not that big a deal. Rich get richer, and they are the ones funding the game for the f2p players. Maybe 2 years from now f2p players will have their first 6* r5 and a couple r4s and gather those rank ups for free, compared to the thousands p2p players paid now. However it is still a little odd kabam would let p2p players already have the option to have 4 6* r4s when they are relatively new. Took a while for us to even get a 6* r3. Prestige gap is gonna be crazy.
How have we still not gotten a Kabam response? Or is it on a different Thread?
As it has been pointed out recently, their silence is not an admission of guilt or a slight against the player base, it's simply that they do not have anything to contribute to the conversation. I understood where Brian Grant was coming from and I agree to a point, specifically that rank 3 to rank 4 gems should not have been a thing however at the end of the day, Kabam don't live to serve Brian Grant or any other specific member of the community.
The problem is that without the gem, the rewards would be worthless to the top whales, so why would they bother spending of they’re getting nothing?
Do you think the rewards would be worthless if it were 3 of each t6b and T3A?
How have we still not gotten a Kabam response? Or is it on a different Thread?
As it has been pointed out recently, their silence is not an admission of guilt or a slight against the player base, it's simply that they do not have anything to contribute to the conversation. I understood where Brian Grant was coming from and I agree to a point, specifically that rank 3 to rank 4 gems should not have been a thing however at the end of the day, Kabam don't live to serve Brian Grant or any other specific member of the community.
The problem is that without the gem, the rewards would be worthless to the top whales, so why would they bother spending of they’re getting nothing?
Do you think the rewards would be worthless if it were 3 of each t6b and T3A?
The only class catalyst that is equal to its percentage for a rank up is the full catalyst. He calls a % of a random class catalyst an equal % of a rank up when it’s far from it given there are 6 classes.
The guy repeatedly passes up on end game materials during the major unit events and puts off doing content hampering his own progression, he doesn’t have much of a leg to stand on. The guy has lost the plot and can’t look at it objectively anymore.
No, Brian made the right moves as a free-to-play heavy grinder. Sigs have been very scarce for non-spenders. I like Brian's most recent video on his perspective: he backs his argument and perspective well, while showing how this game is trending towards pay-to-win. He doesn't just make a statement: "Oh this is how it's always been". He researches and points to historical trends and timing of new content/gifting to show how mcoc's competitive scene is changing.
He grinded 50k+ units (this is already insane for a course of a year for most players), and spent most of it because Kabam has made less content, and more 18k unit spending deals for the competitive players to get the resources for pieces of the next step up (getting the first 6* r4 champion).
Most players didn't even have a 6* r4 before the cyberweekend deals.
There is no way that he knew top alliances will now go from having 0-1 r4s, to suddenly 3 to 4+r4s.
I'm really hoping for new amazing content 2022. Nothing against spenders/whales: spend away.
I just think the gifting rewards this time around was a bit more extreme compared to previous years(watch Brian's vid) with how stingy Kabam has been with r4 resources.
To qualify my position I'm not super comfortable with folks dropping the equivalent of a family car to chase r4s, but if that's what they want to do it's their prerogative.
I don't believe it's as game breaking as BG is making out. @thepiggy makes some excellent points about its impact, you will have 30 accounts with the chance to have 4+ r4s if they also end up getting top alliance rank rewards and maybe 100-150 accounts who will have a chance at over 3.
That may have an impact on the AQ prestige race but generally it's going to be the same folks who are already miles ahead.
I don't see the rank rewards having any impact on AW, as going off past years the leaderboard has generally been filled with accounts that are not pushing for masters in AW (for myriad reasons) The crystals might but that will mainly be down to some chasing their first R4 getting stupidly lucky
Solo competitive mode doesn't exist yet and unless BG has some inside track on it all we don't know how it's going to play out. It could be gated at 5* for all I know (would be the most profitable option). Its also not a given that it's going to appeal to the same whales chasing rank rewards in gifting.
Overall, unless you are in the prestige chase for AQ or aiming to be on the top 100 leaderboard its not going to change much of anything.
That being said, hopefully Act 7 completion/exploration and some future Everest content (when Covid stops buggering up schedules) gives people the chance to get an R4 or 2 by just playing early next year. I'd prefer to grind for it personally and BG has expressed similar sentiments about not enjoying Diablo when being overpowered or finding MCOC content not challenging.
As for all of this arguing and such I think at the end of the day it just doesn't matter. Kabam is dumb with a lot of things, but they definitely know how to control the "economy" of the game. If they didn't, this mobile game would be long dead instead of 7 years strong after all.
In 3 months time or so, t5cc will become very common. R4 resources will start to become increasingly more available. Most likely at a staggering rate compared to know due to the gifting event rewards. It will all even out in a reasonable amount of time. Kabam is good at this type of stuff guys. I honestly wouldn't worry about this event right know, because at the end of the day it evens out as Kabam has intended it to.
Kabam didn't do this on a whim, they have a plan. And I for one have faith that Kabam has the common sense to not trash their game.
I just think the gifting rewards this time around was a bit more extreme compared to previous years(watch Brian's vid) with how stingy Kabam has been with r4 resources.
That’s the point I was making with t5c % crystals not actually being equal to that % of a rank up like he portrayed in the video. It’s far less than what he portrayed them to be worth towards a rank up and closer to what we actually see with the rank 4 materials.
Those parts of the video where he’s like look at all this t5c in act 6 and war rewards, they’re worth far less than what he is saying they are. So no I don’t find the video to accurately portray the evolution of end game rank up material.
I watched the video and he made valid points, but a lot of them hold less weight due to him not addressing the fact that t5cc rewards in the past were were 6 class random compared to current t6 catalysts being a one class thing. This makes the calculations finicky
Poor fella’s lost the plot a little bit with this I’m afraid. Game was dramatically different in 16/17/18 compared to now in terms of user base and complexity.
IIRC last year he chose to forgo the 6* rank up bundle because he was still content with 5* yet was allegedly playing catch up for prestige etc. I respect that he plays the long game but I don’t think that he plays the long game particularly well, he’s just got a 4 year head start on half the player base, is good at the game and sinks 8 hours a day into arena.
There also has to be a motive to buy these GGC and the only real motive to do that for someone such as myself who spends little money across the year - £50 max - and has 22 R3 is to make the next power level a possibility from the rewards or what on earth am I going to spend my units on it for?
The 4th July, BF and Gifting are designed so that unless you’re grinding an obscene amount of arena you can’t naturally max out everything for free so that P2P players do gain a net profit.
Honestly most of this comes across as him being but sad that the penny’s finally dropped. I’m guessing he’s been given an ultimatum in his ally and told he’s gotta catch up or step aside. Despite what @danielmath says about his rep etc. which believe me, I’m not disputing, I think the scales might start to tip the other way for the next few months until the low spenders/F2P can have a team of R4 as well.
How many GGCs would you need to open to get the mats for a single r4?
I believe the technical term is a lot.
I randomly got a T6B and T3A drop on an alt - typical, and it was 10% T6B and 5% T3A so you’d need 300 T6B drops and 600 T3A drops to make a single R4. Assuming you got god-like RNG and got exactly what you wanted each time you’re looking at 900 crystals so 270,000 units. Which is ~£7800 depending on where you are in the world. At the 1/50 drop rate that they’re listed at in the crystal you’re looking at a hell of a lot more.
Of course that’s assuming that 10% and 5% are the only values in the T3A/T6B.
I like BGs contents but I don't understand this exclusivity regarding F2P. He is earning money from this game but is unwilling to spend money to support the game. He is basically leeching on Kabam for years. Ok, he wants to showcase that with enough time and dedication this game can be played on high level without spending any money. Using something and not paying for the service for me feels ethically and morally wrong. I am nkt saying whale out but spend few €¥$£ here and there maybe it is sigil, maybe it is offer for 4 of July it does not matter.
Point is. Every activity that is played on high professional level asks for a money investment.
I'm one day shy from my MCOC birthday. I had pretty great time playing this game minus dex/perry issues and awful content like Act 6.1-6.3] and Alliance Wars . Few days ago I completed 7.3 and now want to focus on the rest of Carina's Challenge and later explore Act 7. For every story content money expenditures are unnecessary or are relatively low. He wants to play in Final 8 of ChampionsLeague/NBA whell he should invest in it. If not he should come down to us amatures and play casually.
One more line or two and I'll bring this post to an end. I think Kabam are making horrendous errors in judgement regarding future of this game. Alliance War and Alliance Quest are such boring feast of self punishment and time wasting for them to be pinnacle of competitiveness is mind boggling. Technical issues can be solved and will be but ideas fire and propel every human action and ideas coming from Kabam are stale.
I like BGs contents but I don't understand this exclusivity regarding F2P. He is earning money from this game but is unwilling to spend money to support the game.
Some people just aren't able to spend money, for some reason or another. I myself am F2P not because I'm broke, but for those reasons. Is not his case, but morally he might feel restricted to do so as well
Guess many of us will have to agree to disagree. But I'll pose the question again... -Why should Kabam cater to F2P in any way shape or form? How does that bring money to Kabam and allow them to make the game better? - How does Brian Grant have any actual contribution or influence to MCOC (the game), outside of his fan base who is rooting for him?
Let's put personal antics aside and look at it realistically from Kabam's perspective - a business perspective and not a F2P players perspective and use some common sense.
I'm sorry, I still like BG and some of his YouTube content, but he is living on the moon. Regardless of what Kabam has done in the past with the game or chooses to do in the future, his personal opinion is just that - his opinion. Unless he works for Kabam and helps make the financial decisions, he doesn't have a pot to piss in regarding the matter. Can he bring in the same type of money for Kabam that Kabam's gifting method this year is doing? I'm all years Brian Grant - how would you get the whales to spend tons of money and keep doing it - even if it doesn't benefit you personally?
The game is what it is for top spenders. Let the whales be whales and "compete" for that "coveted" top 30, top AQ and top AW rewards - they're paying for that privilege in spades. Whales are paying for the game - Brian Grant is not. The fact that any FTP or low spender wants to be at top of the game (or darn close to it), which means getting there as fast as people throwing thousands (and let's be real - 10's of thousands) at the game on a regular basis, is beyond absurd.
Brian Grant is not part of the game economy - he thinks he is, but he isn't. Doesn't matter how respectable he is on YouTube or how respectable his alliance is. He feels pressure because he's at a point where he can't keep up to be there and is floundering over it. This is something many of us have felt before (often more than once). At some point, if I can't contribute to the overall alliance needs (not enough game time, not meeting event requirements, not enough prestige), I would personally step down from the alliance instead of dragging the rest down with me.
He's a non spender who makes that choice and sticks with it. He gets to play for free because he likes the game (or at least likes it while it has allowed him to be at the top), gets to earn money from YouTube as a side business while playing the game, but has an expectation that he deserves to be at the top with the folks dropping fat cash. It's absolutely bonkers.
Why is everyone acting like Brian Grant or anyone else is saying that spenders should not have an advantage or that spenders are not needed for the game?
The only point raised by BG is that the advantage spenders have is too much and not good for the game. Sure disagree with that if you want. There's only a couple people in here that actually addressed this . Everyone else is just bashing on BG because he doesn't spend and his opinion is naught
I like BGs contents but I don't understand this exclusivity regarding F2P. He is earning money from this game but is unwilling to spend money to support the game.
Some people just aren't able to spend money, for some reason or another. I myself am F2P not because I'm broke, but for those reasons. Is not his case, but morally he might feel restricted to do so as well
I don't want to be rude but what does "morally restricted to spend money" mean? Is it like entering car dealership and saying: "Listen guys I am morally restricted to spend money I'll take the keys of this nice coupe and drive to the sunset. "
From my perspective BGs is like some compay that acquires inputs does not pay for them makes final product and earns revenue, rins and repeat. Once more, I like his content he is doing awesome job but truth is truth.
Kabam should make entirely skill based game mode with random champions where everyone could compete on mothly basis. With decent MMR.
Why is everyone acting like Brian Grant or anyone else is saying that spenders should not have an advantage or that spenders are not needed for the game?
The only point raised by BG is that the advantage spenders have is too much and not good for the game. Sure disagree with that if you want. There's only a couple people in here that actually addressed this . Everyone else is just bashing on BG because he doesn't spend and his opinion is naught
I agree with you. It’s almost as if there is so much emotion around this, folks can’t parse out how to address the actual argument away from their feelings. I’m not sure if there was pent-up anger towards Brian I never saw? One of the big spenders from a top-five alliance was in his comment section earlier seemingly rooting for him to get kicked and the decline of 4Loki. It was super aggressive, and weird. I’ve rewatched the videos in question a few times now, and I can see no point in which Brian is attacking any individual, or even spenders at large. But the same courtesy has not been returned.
I like BGs contents but I don't understand this exclusivity regarding F2P. He is earning money from this game but is unwilling to spend money to support the game.
Some people just aren't able to spend money, for some reason or another. I myself am F2P not because I'm broke, but for those reasons. Is not his case, but morally he might feel restricted to do so as well
I don't want to be rude but what does "morally restricted to spend money" mean? Is it like entering car dealership and saying: "Listen guys I am morally restricted to spend money I'll take the keys of this nice coupe and drive to the sunset. "
From my perspective BGs is like some compay that acquires inputs does not pay for them makes final product and earns revenue, rins and repeat. Once more, I like his content he is doing awesome job but truth is truth.
Kabam should make entirely skill based game mode with random champions where everyone could compete on mothly basis. With decent MMR.
he just enjoys playing the game HIS way, he even talks about how silly and arbitrary his rules are, but it's the way he enjoys playing. Nothing wrong with that, it's not a moral issue from bg as he has spent money on alt accounts when doing challenges
I like BGs contents but I don't understand this exclusivity regarding F2P. He is earning money from this game but is unwilling to spend money to support the game.
Some people just aren't able to spend money, for some reason or another. I myself am F2P not because I'm broke, but for those reasons. Is not his case, but morally he might feel restricted to do so as well
I don't want to be rude but what does "morally restricted to spend money" mean? Is it like entering car dealership and saying: "Listen guys I am morally restricted to spend money I'll take the keys of this nice coupe and drive to the sunset. "
From my perspective BGs is like some compay that acquires inputs does not pay for them makes final product and earns revenue, rins and repeat. Once more, I like his content he is doing awesome job but truth is truth.
Kabam should make entirely skill based game mode with random champions where everyone could compete on mothly basis. With decent MMR.
he just enjoys playing the game HIS way, he even talks about how silly and arbitrary his rules are, but it's the way he enjoys playing. Nothing wrong with that, it's not a moral issue from bg as he has spent money on alt accounts when doing challenges
It seems to me that it’s even valuable information. His account is the extreme end of what’s possible for free to play. How else would Kabam ever know that? Has anyone else invested as much personally in the game, sans money?
Why is everyone acting like Brian Grant or anyone else is saying that spenders should not have an advantage or that spenders are not needed for the game?
The only point raised by BG is that the advantage spenders have is too much and not good for the game. Sure disagree with that if you want. There's only a couple people in here that actually addressed this . Everyone else is just bashing on BG because he doesn't spend and his opinion is naught
I agree with you. It’s almost as if there is so much emotion around this, folks can’t parse out how to address the actual argument away from their feelings. I’m not sure if there was pent-up anger towards Brian I never saw? One of the big spenders from a top-five alliance was in his comment section earlier seemingly rooting for him to get kicked and the decline of 4Loki. It was super aggressive, and weird. I’ve rewatched the videos in question a few times now, and I can see no point in which Brian is attacking any individual, or even spenders at large. But the same courtesy has not been returned.
Yeah, I'm not a BG fan but he never said anything like what most of the commenters here have said. He just outlined his view that the advantage spenders have seems to be getting too insurmountable AT HIS LEVEL, which is a valid concern. Ive seen some higher alliance folks here bashing him on other points, jealousy perhaps? Regret after seeing that they spend thousands on pixels perhaps? idk. Lots of vitriol in the comments.
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They are a company with making money as a target...
I seriously dont understand the point of this post or his video tbh... He constantly is aware that there is a gap between f2p and players who spend...the naive part is thinking that in 6 years that gap would remain the same...
Its quite obvious if he didnt spend for the 6 years he played.. people who did spend would make the gap larger and larger...
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What BG is saying, is said every year. Gifting always sets the precedent for the new year. It’s always too much to attract the spending.
Frankly, the game to me is low stakes. While I’m TB and all that, I don’t really play at a high level. Because of what I do, I can afford to spend for progression if I like. I don’t always. But sometimes!
I appreciate what BG does. I’m a gamer at heart, but chose to become a part of something else. The time I invested in training to be this, he invested in learning YouTube and developing his account and his audience. I like to watch the outcome of his choices, a part of me wishes I could just game (not much of me though). It’s not low stakes for him, and I kind of envy the ability to value something small like that. I work in a big stakes world.
I guess, it’s a little offensive that I could buy my way right past him. I have an awakened 6* surfer. I have the resources to buy $30000 in GGC, if I wanted. I could rank 4 a couple champs with that, get 15 k prestige, join NYC. Sure, whatever. But it still wouldn’t mean anything to me. Just feels weird.
The guy repeatedly passes up on end game materials during the major unit events and puts off doing content hampering his own progression, he doesn’t have much of a leg to stand on. The guy has lost the plot and can’t look at it objectively anymore.
He grinded 50k+ units (this is already insane for a course of a year for most players), and spent most of it because Kabam has made less content, and more 18k unit spending deals for the competitive players to get the resources for pieces of the next step up (getting the first 6* r4 champion).
Most players didn't even have a 6* r4 before the cyberweekend deals.
There is no way that he knew top alliances will now go from having 0-1 r4s, to suddenly 3 to 4+r4s.
I'm really hoping for new amazing content 2022. Nothing against spenders/whales: spend away.
I just think the gifting rewards this time around was a bit more extreme compared to previous years(watch Brian's vid) with how stingy Kabam has been with r4 resources.
I think he's gone off the deep end with all this.
To qualify my position I'm not super comfortable with folks dropping the equivalent of a family car to chase r4s, but if that's what they want to do it's their prerogative.
I don't believe it's as game breaking as BG is making out. @thepiggy makes some excellent points about its impact, you will have 30 accounts with the chance to have 4+ r4s if they also end up getting top alliance rank rewards and maybe 100-150 accounts who will have a chance at over 3.
That may have an impact on the AQ prestige race but generally it's going to be the same folks who are already miles ahead.
I don't see the rank rewards having any impact on AW, as going off past years the leaderboard has generally been filled with accounts that are not pushing for masters in AW (for myriad reasons) The crystals might but that will mainly be down to some chasing their first R4 getting stupidly lucky
Solo competitive mode doesn't exist yet and unless BG has some inside track on it all we don't know how it's going to play out. It could be gated at 5* for all I know (would be the most profitable option). Its also not a given that it's going to appeal to the same whales chasing rank rewards in gifting.
Overall, unless you are in the prestige chase for AQ or aiming to be on the top 100 leaderboard its not going to change much of anything.
That being said, hopefully Act 7 completion/exploration and some future Everest content (when Covid stops buggering up schedules) gives people the chance to get an R4 or 2 by just playing early next year. I'd prefer to grind for it personally and BG has expressed similar sentiments about not enjoying Diablo when being overpowered or finding MCOC content not challenging.
As for all of this arguing and such I think at the end of the day it just doesn't matter. Kabam is dumb with a lot of things, but they definitely know how to control the "economy" of the game. If they didn't, this mobile game would be long dead instead of 7 years strong after all.
In 3 months time or so, t5cc will become very common. R4 resources will start to become increasingly more available. Most likely at a staggering rate compared to know due to the gifting event rewards. It will all even out in a reasonable amount of time. Kabam is good at this type of stuff guys. I honestly wouldn't worry about this event right know, because at the end of the day it evens out as Kabam has intended it to.
Kabam didn't do this on a whim, they have a plan. And I for one have faith that Kabam has the common sense to not trash their game.
Those parts of the video where he’s like look at all this t5c in act 6 and war rewards, they’re worth far less than what he is saying they are. So no I don’t find the video to accurately portray the evolution of end game rank up material.
IIRC last year he chose to forgo the 6* rank up bundle because he was still content with 5* yet was allegedly playing catch up for prestige etc. I respect that he plays the long game but I don’t think that he plays the long game particularly well, he’s just got a 4 year head start on half the player base, is good at the game and sinks 8 hours a day into arena.
There also has to be a motive to buy these GGC and the only real motive to do that for someone such as myself who spends little money across the year - £50 max - and has 22 R3 is to make the next power level a possibility from the rewards or what on earth am I going to spend my units on it for?
The 4th July, BF and Gifting are designed so that unless you’re grinding an obscene amount of arena you can’t naturally max out everything for free so that P2P players do gain a net profit.
Honestly most of this comes across as him being but sad that the penny’s finally dropped. I’m guessing he’s been given an ultimatum in his ally and told he’s gotta catch up or step aside. Despite what @danielmath says about his rep etc. which believe me, I’m not disputing, I think the scales might start to tip the other way for the next few months until the low spenders/F2P can have a team of R4 as well.
I randomly got a T6B and T3A drop on an alt - typical, and it was 10% T6B and 5% T3A so you’d need 300 T6B drops and 600 T3A drops to make a single R4. Assuming you got god-like RNG and got exactly what you wanted each time you’re looking at 900 crystals so 270,000 units. Which is ~£7800 depending on where you are in the world. At the 1/50 drop rate that they’re listed at in the crystal you’re looking at a hell of a lot more.
Of course that’s assuming that 10% and 5% are the only values in the T3A/T6B.
He is basically leeching on Kabam for years. Ok, he wants to showcase that with enough time and dedication this game can be played on high level without spending any money.
Using something and not paying for the service for me feels ethically and morally wrong. I am nkt saying whale out but spend few €¥$£ here and there maybe it is sigil, maybe it is offer for 4 of July it does not matter.
Point is. Every activity that is played on high professional level asks for a money investment.
I'm one day shy from my MCOC birthday. I had pretty great time playing this game minus dex/perry issues and awful content like Act 6.1-6.3] and Alliance Wars . Few days ago I completed 7.3 and now want to focus on the rest of Carina's Challenge and later explore Act 7.
For every story content money expenditures are unnecessary or are relatively low.
He wants to play in Final 8 of ChampionsLeague/NBA whell he should invest in it. If not he should come down to us amatures and play casually.
One more line or two and I'll bring this post to an end. I think Kabam are making horrendous errors in judgement regarding future of this game. Alliance War and Alliance Quest are such boring feast of self punishment and time wasting for them to be pinnacle of competitiveness is mind boggling. Technical issues can be solved and will be but ideas fire and propel every human action and ideas coming from Kabam are stale.
-Why should Kabam cater to F2P in any way shape or form? How does that bring money to Kabam and allow them to make the game better?
- How does Brian Grant have any actual contribution or influence to MCOC (the game), outside of his fan base who is rooting for him?
Let's put personal antics aside and look at it realistically from Kabam's perspective - a business perspective and not a F2P players perspective and use some common sense.
I'm sorry, I still like BG and some of his YouTube content, but he is living on the moon. Regardless of what Kabam has done in the past with the game or chooses to do in the future, his personal opinion is just that - his opinion. Unless he works for Kabam and helps make the financial decisions, he doesn't have a pot to piss in regarding the matter. Can he bring in the same type of money for Kabam that Kabam's gifting method this year is doing? I'm all years Brian Grant - how would you get the whales to spend tons of money and keep doing it - even if it doesn't benefit you personally?
The game is what it is for top spenders. Let the whales be whales and "compete" for that "coveted" top 30, top AQ and top AW rewards - they're paying for that privilege in spades. Whales are paying for the game - Brian Grant is not. The fact that any FTP or low spender wants to be at top of the game (or darn close to it), which means getting there as fast as people throwing thousands (and let's be real - 10's of thousands) at the game on a regular basis, is beyond absurd.
Brian Grant is not part of the game economy - he thinks he is, but he isn't. Doesn't matter how respectable he is on YouTube or how respectable his alliance is. He feels pressure because he's at a point where he can't keep up to be there and is floundering over it. This is something many of us have felt before (often more than once). At some point, if I can't contribute to the overall alliance needs (not enough game time, not meeting event requirements, not enough prestige), I would personally step down from the alliance instead of dragging the rest down with me.
He's a non spender who makes that choice and sticks with it. He gets to play for free because he likes the game (or at least likes it while it has allowed him to be at the top), gets to earn money from YouTube as a side business while playing the game, but has an expectation that he deserves to be at the top with the folks dropping fat cash.
It's absolutely bonkers.
And we’re pretending that throughout next year and beyond Kabam won’t add those rewards to future content?
Okay…
Have you people ever played any other top mobile games that have been at the top for years? Your heads will explode.
The only point raised by BG is that the advantage spenders have is too much and not good for the game. Sure disagree with that if you want. There's only a couple people in here that actually addressed this . Everyone else is just bashing on BG because he doesn't spend and his opinion is naught
From my perspective BGs is like some compay that acquires inputs does not pay for them makes final product and earns revenue, rins and repeat. Once more, I like his content he is doing awesome job but truth is truth.
Kabam should make entirely skill based game mode with random champions where everyone could compete on mothly basis. With decent MMR.
Ive seen some higher alliance folks here bashing him on other points, jealousy perhaps? Regret after seeing that they spend thousands on pixels perhaps? idk. Lots of vitriol in the comments.