How are Alliance BG Rewards Fair in Any Capacity?
PotatoGod
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This has been on my mind for a minute but I've never really thought too hard about it until earlier today. If you get 12 million points in the alliance battlegrounds event you get a total of 1/3 of a rank 5 resources considering you get perfect rng on the 10% t6cc crystals. If we assumed that every bg game was exactly 6 minutes no more no less, it would take 5.4 hours of all 30 players winning continuously every bg match they play to get 1/3 of a rank 5. During the July 4th deals we were able to spend $100 for a rank 5 gem. In the U.S. the federal minimum wage is $7.25. 5.4x3 = 16.2. If you worked a minimum wage job you'd be able to get $100 to spend on a rank 5 gem faster than you would grinding your precious time on bgs. It would take around 14 hours to get $100. Now of course you get battlegrounds store tokens to spend which you could invest into 6 star rank 5s but it would take you an entire month (4 weeks) to get the catalysts needed. I haven't done the calculations yet but I will post in replies.
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Its milestones 400k per person...
Before this season it was 300k.. and a lot of people where able to hit it.. its just 100k more..
With that in mind, one would be very silly to spend that minimum wage on a game that gives virtual items that serve you zero use in your day to day life.
What was the point in this post?
You can't compare time spent to cash spent for one simple reason. The time a player spends playing the game is not time Kabam receives. Kabam actually receives the cash that people spend on the game. Cash they can use to pay for stuff like rent, salaries, and other operational costs. The time players spend playing the game is not time Kabam can use for any purpose.
This is basically the ham sandwich semantic joke. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore, a ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness.
Players "spend" time playing the game, but that kind of spending is not the same kind of spending as players who spend cash on the game. The cash players spend is a tangible resource that is transferred to Kabam. The time players spend is simply a measure of the amount a clock moves while they happen to be playing the game. Nothing of value is transferred from the player to Kabam. If anything, the time players spend on the game is time they spend on themselves.
The rewards players earn in-game for playing the game are not payment for their time spent, any more than Queening a pawn in Chess is payment for playing the game. The game is not paying you for your time. You spend your time playing if you want to spend your time playing, and if you don't, Kabam has no intention of paying you to play.
Everything in the game, from the champions to the catalysts to the gold has the same value as the cherries in Pac Man. The cherries in Pac Man are not payment for your time. They are a thing you can get in the game that will improve your experience playing the game. The deal is, you can get those cherries by running around the game, or because every game costs money to run you can help support the costs of operating the game by giving the game operator money, in which case the game operator will give you some extra cherries to acknowledge that support.
The only thing you deserve, and the only thing you will ever get, for your time playing the game, is a game experience. That's it.
Yes time is important when playing a game. Kabam would have a harder time advertising if people weren't playing their game over just spending on it and also they are consistently losing their long-term player base as you just cant compete with the money.
The rewards you earn are quite literally the payment for the time spent so you keep playing.
The thing is games like Fortnite that are 100% FTP and doesn't require any money spent to compete, and the game has earned hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions for completely cosmetic items in the game. Kabam is not forced to give players out any resources for money but they do it so they can earn money. They don't care about the playerbase until it will directly affect their pockets. Money spent shouldn't be a requirement to play but rather an option for people who may not want to complete everything or want an extra boost.
They have simply gone way too far with the deals they have made with it not being option 2 but rather the BETTER ALTERNATIVE. This is horrible for the longevity of the game. I genuinely care about the game and want to see it prosper which is why I made this post. This isn't the correct direction for the game and will hurt Kabam if they keep moving like this.
No game experience is not the only thing you can get out of a game. People make livings off of playing games. To say that someone like Seatin isn't making a livable wage off of content creation is just absurd.
Trying to tell me Conq/UC/Cav MUST get them? Good enough they have a shot at getting them; but entitled to them?
They are similar to war rewards if there was a season...
The BG event started almost 2 weeks before the sale...if they matched the 4th of July meta.. the 4th of July sale wouldn't have been GREAT deals...
1- The sale is supposed to be monstrous, not even a meta, they were always there and they were always economy breaking..
2- This are not game engaging rewards, or improvements.. its a 1 time only cause War game mode is shut down and they are similar to the current war rewards... Has nothing to do with the current or past meta or 4th of july deals...Its basically moving war rewards into BGs for 1 season
3- If you don't like them you don''t have to grind them really..
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PS: love that you are bargaining for 2 R5s as if it was nothing 🤣
Carina's Challenge has 1 r5; but you want 2 for BG milestones.. 🤣🤣