ACT 7 clearly shows a policy change at Kabam?

When I read all the comments (or watch content maker vids) about Act 7, the comments / reviews are overall seen very positive and looks like most players enjoyed completing (or exploring) the act. Also most of the feedback suggests that ACT 7 is much more accessible and doable, especially compared to the 'nightmare' most had to go through for completing ACT 6 (and becoming TB).

So I am wondering if Kabam has finally started to realize that positive engagement and accessible content is the way to go and that it actually helps improving customer experience / binding and increasing revenue?

I certainly hope this is the case and that Kabam is permanently stepping away from ACT 6-type of crazy difficult content where
the thought process was clearly making people spend lots of money on revives / healing (negative engagement) to become TB.

As part of this (policy) change (obviously if there is such a thing), I would also encourage Kabam to seriously consider nerfing ACT 6 and make it more accessible for the player base.

Thank you.

Comments

AverageDesi

You're like 1.5 years too late

GoddessIlias

I didn’t enjoy 7.4 aside from kang, every path felt the same. Read a Bible worth of nodes -> bring the same 5-7 champs -> steamroll it -> move on. It felt like massive healthpools and the nodes existed just to exist. That said, rewards were fire 🤣. If you don’t like act 6, just don’t do it. Rewards are outdated and actually having to think about team building isn’t for everyone 😘

Squirrelguy

Are you not aware that they most definitely already nerfed a lot of Act 6? Changes to boss fights, overall health and attack nerfs, etc. Honestly, there are still a large number of paths, but the rest of it is pretty on-par for what an account of that level should expect to face. there is only so far that they should nerf content before it becomes a cake-walk. You don't even need to encounter the most annoying part of Act 6 (the sheer magnitude of different paths and nodes) to make it to more rewarding content like Act 7, you just have to complete each quest once.

Your premise is fairly correct, but the changes to Act 6 and the overall shift in design of Act 7 has been pretty evident since they released 7.1 which was over a year ago. I would even argue that the Grandmaster fight marked a shift in previous content to more challenging yet still engaging and fun content.

Demonzfyre

When I read all the comments (or watch content maker vids) about Act 7, the comments / reviews are overall seen very positive and looks like most players enjoyed completing (or exploring) the act. Also most of the feedback suggests that ACT 7 is much more accessible and doable, especially compared to the 'nightmare' most had to go through for completing ACT 6 (and becoming TB).

So I am wondering if Kabam has finally started to realize that positive engagement and accessible content is the way to go and that it actually helps improving customer experience / binding and increasing revenue?

I certainly hope this is the case and that Kabam is permanently stepping away from ACT 6-type of crazy difficult content where
the thought process was clearly making people spend lots of money on revives / healing (negative engagement) to become TB.

As part of this (policy) change (obviously if there is such a thing), I would also encourage Kabam to seriously consider nerfing ACT 6 and make it more accessible for the player base.

Thank you.

6.3 and 6.4 were nerfed. 6.2 champion boss was nerfed as well as 6.2 health pools. 6.1 nerfed some bosses. Act 6 isn't what it was when released.

Act 7 is the way it is because of Act 6 directly. The community overall didn't like Act 6, especially 6.4 and 6.2 with the class/rarity gates. The only good feedback that came from Act 6 was the Grandmaster fight. Kabam took the "feedback" and instead of making Act 7 harder than Act 6, went the opposite direction and made all of Act 7 easy in the name of it being more "fun". They literally announced this before releasing Act 7. It's also why the Thronebreaker title was released early and not tied to Act 7.

Variants also went through this process. That's why you see a massive cliff in terms of difficulty from V1 to V2. Everyone wants the best rewards but few actually want content to match the best rewards. If something is too hard for someone, they'll end up here asking for it to be nerfed etc..

Kabam can't win either way they go. Even as good as Act 7 rewards are for how easy the content tends to be, there were still complaints about them. We need more content like Maze, SoP and Gauntlet.

K00shMaan

Act 7 is far more engaging. I'm a big fan of nodes that can benefit the player if you meet a certain criteria. It is a much more enjoyable experience having content designed in a way that rewards you for having the proper counters rather than just hurting you for not having them. The swap out for the boss is also an amazing feature that makes it always feel like the boss isn't going to be a massive road block. Reward system is also far superior as you actually get rewards for every path you complete. Once of the biggest drawbacks of exploring Act 6 is outside of some paths in 6.4, you are getting just about nothing after completion until you fully explore a chapter. I think they can make the content more difficult moving forward by possibly extending the length of each path as 7.4 in particular was not really all that challenging but a big part of that was the transition to be able to almost exclusively uses 6 Star Rank 3s by that point and how they were buffed for that content. It rewarded roster development in the best kind of way. I agree that we need a little more of the elite challenging content like Summer of Pain or Grandmaster's Gauntlet but I prefer that the most Challenging content not be the Story. There are just too many paths in the content to have it be that way in my opinion.

Daddrieda

what are you on about?

Mobile_P0tat0

I'm really glad they didn't move forward with the initial direction of act 7. That first 7.1 beta was ridiculous.