Gifting being “bad”
I have seen a lot of people including YouTubers complaining that the gifting event is bad for the game. I don’t think so personally. Lagacy pointed out that this would be start of rank 4 materials being more common which does give players a chance to catch up. 7.4 is coming and that should give endgame players more of these resources, but not from 7.4 completion. I don’t expect it to be any different from the other chapters. However, we will see act 7 completion and exploration rewards for the entire act. That should give players a bunch of rank 4 materials of Kabam does it right.
Gifting is necessary to give Kabam the funds to keep the game going, who cares if it bumps 100 players over the rest? They are the ones that spent thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars on the game and a crappy reward is not worth it. There will always be a gap between free to play and non free to play players. If that gap is minimal, Kabam won’t make enough money to keep the game going, but if there is a decent gap with good payoff for spending, Kabam can keep the game going. So what if it is 1 or 2 extra rank 4s. By the end of 2022, people could have much more. When rank 4s are the new rank 3 and just as common.Those 2 extra won’t matter anymore.
What gifting does do well is help players who are mid game reach endgame. Last year’s gifting got me from just a beginner to having my first 6* and first rank 5 5* champion. It was huge. Sure, I lucked out on this one and didn’t get as much but this event could get me much closer to my first rank 3. I understand how players are upset, but in the long run these rewards won’t matter much. As for weapon x, not many people will ever have a chance to get him and I think it is a great idea to give a few players a rare chance at getting him. I unfortunately did not as I would use him as our alliances war boss, but that is fine. We need to stop looking at the gap this creates now, it will surely change down the line.
