Did you just now noticed this? They've been having offers for new champs for months now
Im F2P, why should i click on the whale store? This game already pisses me off enough
Why so aggressive in your responses. Of course Kabam needs to try and make money, they aren't a non profit charity. If you find yourself dissatisfied with the game or how the company does business, they are other games you can play instead.
If you are getting mad about 45$ for a 4* new champ, you might as well just not log on to forums, social media, or the game itself for about a month after Cyber weekend deals drop.
If you're annoyed at how much it costs, I genuinely have no frame of reference to these kind of deals, and haven't really since ~early 2019. It's not a great offer but guaranteed champs shouldn't necessarily just be given away. That looks okay to me.
Whats the point of RNG crystals and Arena grinds when ppl now just can buy the champ with cash??
You're an F2P player, and you're seriously asking this question? What's the point of having rewards that are difficult to earn with gameplay, when just anyone can just buy them?
Since day one, people have always been able to buy things that are otherwise hard to get in the game. And the people who are willing and able to spend enough have always been able to buy their way to most rewards, including champions. COWhale's whole channel used to center on basically getting every single champ the moment their crystals released, by simply buying an essentially unlimited number of crystals until he landed the champs he wanted.
This is obvious outside of the histrionics of monetization, but the game creates the rewards, creates a desire for those rewards, and then creates opportunities to earn them. And then it offers people who want to spend money to support the game opportunities to gain those rewards faster. This is the point of all monetization in all micro-transaction supported free to play games.
The offers you're seeing in the OP are targeting low progression players. The three star and four star champions also exist as milestone rewards in the arenas. I get them every time in essentially no time at all. They are selling for a lot of money something I basically get for free doing my normal gameplay. Why would I spend cash to buy them? Even the 5* champ is well within my normal grind most of the time, so I'm never tempted to spend cash on that either. I would never buy any of those offers just for the targeted champ, because I can always earn them in the game with what is for me no extra effort.
But those offers are not there for me. They are there for the people who don't have the same time as me, but are willing to spend on them. And when they do, because those offers are progression-scaled, they are never really buying something that has a dramatic impact on progression. They aren't buying what would be for them top-tier stuff. They are buying second-tier stuff that the game can afford to loosen their grip on when it comes to in-game offers.
To put it another way, we're selling 3* and 4* and 5* champs now, because we are also giving away 3* and 4* champs in the arena for extremely low effort, and allowing players to win the 5* champ with only moderate levels of arena grind effort (moderate, for arena grinders). For the people buying these things or winning these things in the arena, they are nice to haves not must haves. This is all part of the normal balancing between availability, opportunity, and monetization.
Only Sith, and online game forums, deal in absolutes. Real games deal in progression, proportionality, and counterbalancing. Selling things in the in-app purchase store doesn't instantly make the entire rest of the game reward systems obsolete.
My point is its 45 pounds for a four star and some 6 star shards
The deal improves with you progression level. For TB and and above, it's a 5*.
Well, the deal maybe more reasonable for those of higher progression. But would you spend 45 pounds for a 4 star and some six star shards if you were uc
My point is its 45 pounds for a four star and some 6 star shards
The deal improves with you progression level. For TB and and above, it's a 5*.
Well, the deal maybe more reasonable for those of higher progression. But would you spend 45 pounds for a 4 star and some six star shards if you were uc
Personally, I don't think that's what this offer is, OP. Sure, you can see the 4-Star as the main draw here, but this is just like every other Preview Bundle that we used to have (which got a lot less feedback before we added the guaranteed Champions )
Now, I know this will remain a matter of perception, but in reality, this offer is a pre-release bundle of 5 Crystals, each one giving you a chance of a 6-Star Spot. This is what the Bundles used to be, and that part has not changed. Now, there is also a bonus of a guaranteed 4/5-Star Spot, and Crystal Shards.
Again, I know this is going to be a matter of perception, and different to everybody, but this is how we originally envisioned these updated bundles.
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If you're annoyed at how much it costs, I genuinely have no frame of reference to these kind of deals, and haven't really since ~early 2019. It's not a great offer but guaranteed champs shouldn't necessarily just be given away. That looks okay to me.
i cant be alone thinking this outrageous, i just gotta believe that lol
Since day one, people have always been able to buy things that are otherwise hard to get in the game. And the people who are willing and able to spend enough have always been able to buy their way to most rewards, including champions. COWhale's whole channel used to center on basically getting every single champ the moment their crystals released, by simply buying an essentially unlimited number of crystals until he landed the champs he wanted.
This is obvious outside of the histrionics of monetization, but the game creates the rewards, creates a desire for those rewards, and then creates opportunities to earn them. And then it offers people who want to spend money to support the game opportunities to gain those rewards faster. This is the point of all monetization in all micro-transaction supported free to play games.
The offers you're seeing in the OP are targeting low progression players. The three star and four star champions also exist as milestone rewards in the arenas. I get them every time in essentially no time at all. They are selling for a lot of money something I basically get for free doing my normal gameplay. Why would I spend cash to buy them? Even the 5* champ is well within my normal grind most of the time, so I'm never tempted to spend cash on that either. I would never buy any of those offers just for the targeted champ, because I can always earn them in the game with what is for me no extra effort.
But those offers are not there for me. They are there for the people who don't have the same time as me, but are willing to spend on them. And when they do, because those offers are progression-scaled, they are never really buying something that has a dramatic impact on progression. They aren't buying what would be for them top-tier stuff. They are buying second-tier stuff that the game can afford to loosen their grip on when it comes to in-game offers.
To put it another way, we're selling 3* and 4* and 5* champs now, because we are also giving away 3* and 4* champs in the arena for extremely low effort, and allowing players to win the 5* champ with only moderate levels of arena grind effort (moderate, for arena grinders). For the people buying these things or winning these things in the arena, they are nice to haves not must haves. This is all part of the normal balancing between availability, opportunity, and monetization.
Only Sith, and online game forums, deal in absolutes. Real games deal in progression, proportionality, and counterbalancing. Selling things in the in-app purchase store doesn't instantly make the entire rest of the game reward systems obsolete.
Now, I know this will remain a matter of perception, but in reality, this offer is a pre-release bundle of 5 Crystals, each one giving you a chance of a 6-Star Spot. This is what the Bundles used to be, and that part has not changed. Now, there is also a bonus of a guaranteed 4/5-Star Spot, and Crystal Shards.
Again, I know this is going to be a matter of perception, and different to everybody, but this is how we originally envisioned these updated bundles.
I still find it funny that a 49.99 deal makes someone a Whale 🤣