Elder's Mark Gatekeeping

Why do i need to use Elder Mark's to earn points in Solo and Alliance events? I am free to play and i want to play Battlegrounds whenever i have leftover Energy. Why can't i get these rewards by playing with Quest Energy? Please remove this gatekeeping Kabam.

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Deacon

You can get a few just by progressing through ranks.

FreestyleFetus

You can get a few just by progressing through ranks.

Not a drop in the bucket compared to how many you need to get any meaningful rewards.

Jinx0051

You can get a few just by progressing through ranks.
Not a drop in the bucket compared to how many you need to get any meaningful rewards.

Almost like every other game mode that involves pvp competition

Deacon

You can get a few just by progressing through ranks.
Not a drop in the bucket compared to how many you need to get any meaningful rewards.

oh yeah no doubt just saying there are some from ranking.

Coppin

So f2p should have the same benefits as paying players? 🤔
With the resort example and this BG gate.. its obvious Kabam is starting to make a bigger gap between spenders and not.
It wouldnt have surprised me if they would have charged a monthly card to pay BGs

Colinwhitworth69

There is a middle ground I am sure between the current EM event requirements and what the OP is asking for. Let's see what changes they make now that they know people don't like it as is.

ItsDamien

I think the best solution to the Elders Mark is that you have X amount earn-able for free every week, then for those that buy the Sigil they get the same amount as the free players added into the “Test of the” solo event. That way paying players get double the amount that Free players do without going ridiculously overboard on the monetisation.

I’ve never played a single match of BGs, not in the beta, and not in this release, especially because of the rampant cheating during the beta and now the heavy monetisation. It’s completely disincentivized me from wanting to play the mode at all, and my want to play it in the first place was already fairly low due to the restrictive nature of decks, how masteries are set, among other things.

Something needs to change, or it just becomes another incursions situation.

FiiNCH

So f2p should have the same benefits as paying players? 🤔
With the resort example and this BG gate.. its obvious Kabam is starting to make a bigger gap between spenders and not.
It wouldnt have surprised me if they would have charged a monthly card to pay BGs

That’s not the issue. No one’s saying paid players shouldn’t have access and acquire the top rewards - they should.

But FTP players should still be able to achieve a moderate level of rewards, which they can’t do right now without putting a stupid amount of hours into the game mode.

DarkEternity

So f2p should have the same benefits as paying players? 🤔
With the resort example and this BG gate.. its obvious Kabam is starting to make a bigger gap between spenders and not.
It wouldnt have surprised me if they would have charged a monthly card to pay BGs

There’s a difference (imo) between advantage and a clear unfairness between P2W and F2P players. The main difference is that F2P has a literal CAP on how many points they can earn without spending. If they want to go past that cap by playing BGs they quite literally cannot. There is no system in place to allow F2P players from surpassing that cap.

GunterD_1

Mentioned in my other thread. I think this was their attempt to have a free track and a paid track for participation rewards, like some other competitive FTP games do (but also like Summoner Camp). I kinda wonder if maybe their plan is to transition Summoner Camp over to this, and run it monthly tied to the BGs season instead of three months per year.

But putting everyone in the same track like that just really rubs your face in it, and sticking the big stuff on the rank rewards is very unbalanced.

houndogακι

Hey guys a f2p (like me) can spend units to buy elder's
They're not dollars/euro 💶
Unit via arena monthly quest etc

Coppin

So f2p should have the same benefits as paying players? 🤔
With the resort example and this BG gate.. its obvious Kabam is starting to make a bigger gap between spenders and not.
It wouldnt have surprised me if they would have charged a monthly card to pay BGs
There’s a difference (imo) between advantage and a clear unfairness between P2W and F2P players. The main difference is that F2P has a literal CAP on how many points they can earn without spending. If they want to go past that cap by playing BGs they quite literally cannot. There is no system in place to allow F2P players from surpassing that cap.

Well.. here is the question though.. is this really pay to win?
It takes units.. u dont have to buy them, u can farm them...
Now from that point its your own decisions that make u prioritize the situation..
Do u want to spend the units u can get from farming and FREE in the game on potions? On Cav Crystals? On 7/4 or CM deals?... Or play BGs?

SuelGames

Why do i need to use Elder Mark's to earn points in Solo and Alliance events? I am free to play and i want to play Battlegrounds whenever i have leftover Energy. Why can't i get these rewards by playing with Quest Energy? Please remove this gatekeeping Kabam.

Because they re greedy and everyone should embargo this game mode.

And for sure this coment will be flagged by some madeup censorship of negative feedback

Mauled

This is where the alliance I’m currently in is sitting, bearing in mind this is a P1 team so you’d expect a lot to be quite keen on the mode.

Most of us haven’t a single point because nobody is willing to drop units on this joke.

Searmenis

This is where the alliance I’m currently in is sitting, bearing in mind this is a P1 team so you’d expect a lot to be quite keen on the mode.
Most of us haven’t a single point because nobody is willing to drop units on this joke.

At least your alliance play the mode, in mine I m the only one who does lol

Ea2one

So Elders is the only mode that counts for the battleground solo rewards? Victory track doesn’t give points towards the solo rewards?

GOTG

Hey guys a f2p (like me) can spend units to buy elder's
They're not dollars/euro 💶
Unit via arena monthly quest etc

That's just theory. F2P can grind units, but with great amount of time. Units don't come easy and people have to choose which content and offers are best for them.

I have 13k units which I want to use for Cyber weekend not this failed game mode. If there is no significant change next season it will be the playgrounds for just few whales.

Crine60

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I’ve never played a single match of BGs, not in the beta, and not in this release, especially because of the rampant cheating during the beta and now the heavy monetisation. It’s completely disincentivized me from wanting to play the mode at all, and my want to play it in the first place was already fairly low due to the restrictive nature of decks, how masteries are set, among other things.
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This is exactly my situation and feelings about the mode. I also find it off-putting that they relied so heavily on getting regular players to test the mode for them and to generate the data they wanted/needed and the "reward" to the player base for helping them was this gated content.

I know we "test" most of the content for them, but this being a completely new mode to the game makes it seem like they needed the beta players even more for this. I also know the players could get some rewards from doing the beta but I don't think they were anything like what they apparently plan to release with this mode (relics), which if things remain the same will potentially be mainly for paying players.