Kabam updated this but still no update on the other pending changes!
Gogeta91199
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So we got the changes to cooldown timers for arenas and incursions and that too are not what the community specifically asked for after the side quest… the community was very clear with their suggestions to keep the timer to 5 minutes or make the timer shorter like an hour or a day but the game team still didn’t listen and barely made a difference to the cooldown timers; the game team didn’t even listen to the community when they asked for the ability of have permanent or refreshable hacks but still no change to that and now we just have to choose from 4 options.
This change according to me is pretty useless when we have bigger concerns! We still don’t have a change to the amount of iso received from higher rarity crystals, no higher rarity gold crystals, no sigil update( I’m f2p but still it’s pending), no update to solo crystals, TB and paragon still receiving 3*s from cavs, and so many other concerns that the community have but the game team has totally given no update on these.
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As much as I would love for incursions to be like they were for the side quest, which is the most fun the game mode has ever been, it is quite a bold thing to suggest that it is unacceptable for Kabam not to give the community what they want. They clearly listened to some degree and your kicking a screaming isn’t going to make the changes they made any more of what you wanted them to be.
These changes also don’t impact the other things that clearly need work, they’re simple and easy. Plus, they didn’t say that they’re making this change instead of addressing other things, whether your perception is valid or not they’re definitely working on more than you’re aware of at any given moment.
You also don't know if there's more changes coming or not either. This is strictly about refresh timers. Again, your suggestions are required to be implemented. I can 100% understand why they aren't 5 mins or even an hour for incursions.
For the other changes i still think they might have them in the back of their head but it’s been way too long and they still haven’t delivered on them. Biggest one being the iso and the gold crystals. The other ones i mentioned are pretty apt as well and the community needs changes to these because the players have progressed to higher titles, and still are not getting what they should.
They might be working on them but I think they are really running behind. So many thing in the dev diaries a few years ago weren’t implemented and are now most probably scrapped.
Yea i agree that suggestions don’t always result in things, but i think some of the suggestions were good and reasonable enough to be implemented.
They have made changes to iso and gold in adding more iso to monthly content and adding more gold through incursions. So they’ve made changes, they just might not be perfect yet. If they flood the market with both of those resources then there will be a complaint that there aren’t enough catalysts to use the gold and iso and the iso will start expiring. Small incremental changes to find balance isn’t bad, if anything it’s good. If they flood things, then they either need to revert changes (grab the torches and pitchforks) or increase other resources, resulting in players being able to develop their rosters at an absurd rate. Another thing to keep in mind is that the gold and iso issue is not a game-wide issue, but is most concentrated (though not exclusive) to players that both do not spend money and are uninterested in investing in areas of the game where gold and iso are reasonably farmable - arenas. The game shouldn’t cater solely to players that pay, but it also shouldn’t cater to players that want more for less effort. Arena is a grindy game mode that a lot of players don’t enjoy, but players that put the time into them are less likely to be impacted by gold and iso shortages than players that don’t.
Yes, they still need to increase gold and iso to match the severe inflation of 6* rank and level costs, but they’ve been making small adjustments to bring balance and are headed in a hopefully good direction.
This is me doing arena back to back. This is from 20k golds into 5+millions golds and that is from opening the arena battlechips, but the majority of those golds came from selling ISO. I have no more iso but I don’t feel it impact me in any way as I can farm again if find the need to start ranking up then arena is there to help. This post might be off topic, but since majority of you were talking about golds and ISO then I figured I share my one cent.
I acknowledge we've had a issues lately, weird AI, occasional missed inputs (i still think we blame input issues to simple mistakes), missed rewards, etc. But we've also had some very cool changes and additions and Kabam has definitely shown their capacity to listen, learn and improve, sadly we are too butthurt and have this weird "anti-establishment" way of thinking lately to commend Kabam for the things they are getting right.
The change to arena is amazing, the change to incursions is a step towards the right direction. I don't think we should go back to 5 minute timers, it would mess up economy, but I still think incursion cooldowns can be shortened a little bit more.
I encourage people to think objectively and stop blowing every little thing out of proportion.
If they were to change Incursions Cooldown from 5 days to a (why even bother having a timer then) 5 minutes, they would be right to also change the costs in Incursions Store.
(or at least, the amount of Incursion Artifacts you could earn as rewards from doing Incursions).
Such that you would probably HAVE TO run Incursions about 10 times (or 20 or 50 times) more often as you would run them before, in order to purchase the same amount of prizes.
I would venture to say nobody would want that.
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Just like, although they didn’t say anything about Arena Milestone points, I would venture to predict that the Points for each Milestone will probably be increased.
6*s are very expensive to upgrade and rankup.
They're not even trying to stop people from exploiting the game mode
The incursions change is most welcome though.