Deafening silence; where are the announcements on AQ and AW rewards?

Hello @Kabam Miike and @Kabam Jax .....

The huge update to the BG store has already heavily disrupted alliance expectations and as a result, recruitment and retention. The longer the chasmic gap between BG rewards and AW/AQ rewards exists, the more alliances will have to shift and rotate towards BGs.

BGs being a game mode requiring substantially more time in game, than either AW or AQ. So the player who's willing to focus on BGs grind is a very different animal, in many cases, to those happy with AW/AQ grind.

It was originally stated that the cadence for AQ store updates would be more regular; this was nearly a year ago and the glory store and rank rewards are increasingly stale. AW rewards are also languishing behind.

For 5+ years, AQ was the leading means of acquiring high end rank up materials and AW the leading way of acquiring the highest end hero shards.

BGs has eclipsed them both, combined.

Alliance leaders, officers and members, need some clarity from kabam on the direction of reward pacing for AW/AQ and as a result, whether these need to remain key modes in alliance play.

Any comment, but particularly a sticky, would be of immense help, even if it is a death knell to those two historic game modes, rather than an a hint that updates are coming.

The community that has not yet gone all in on BGs, needs clarity.

Comments

Vegeta9001

Alliance war had minor changes but they're still stinky. The Glory store could use a bit of a paragon update and the high end rewards could do with a bit of a buff. But BG is the future of the game in their eyes, it's always going to have comfortably leading rewards.

Demonzfyre

Normally when there isn't any information available that means it's not ready to be presented yet....so...

This is why it's so hard for Kabam to share any upcoming changes. It's posts like this. They didn't give a timetable for those changes yet you're expecting immediate changes and acting like they're behind on making the changes they talked about in the live stream.

I strongly disagree about BGs being better. I'm overflowing in T5B and T2A because of AQ.

AW just had a buff to rewards recently as well.

BGs is a good source but it really is dependent on what you're chasing and it's a slower grind to get it.

Moosetiptronic

Alliance war had minor changes but they're still stinky. The Glory store could use a bit of a paragon update and the high end rewards could do with a bit of a buff. But BG is the future of the game in their eyes, it's always going to have comfortably leading rewards.

That's what I'm asking for; if BGs are the future focus of play and development, then we need that communicated by kabam, so that alliance leaders, officers and members can, if desired, refocus their alliance structures around the future of the game.

While you're a mainstay on the forums, it would be useful for some official Comms on this.

TyEdge

The Glory store could use a bit of a paragon update and the high end rewards could do with a bit of a buff.

Saying the glory store needs a bit of a paragon update is like saying the Titanic took on a bit of water.

If you’re in an alliance ranking around 600, you get 4700 glory. If you want 15% of a t6b and t3a, you’re gonna spend 3900 to get it. You can’t buy t6cc. You can’t get t6b or t3a in rank rewards until very high tiers. The milestones award the same 3400 glory at 250,000,000 as 599,999,999 so there’s almost no incentive to push. Even if you can reach 600,000,000 and get the extra 600 glory, it’s nearly worthless because of the sharp price increases with successive purchases.

If you complete the two-day BG objectives, you can get 4800 trophies in 8 days. That’s enough for 30% t6b and t3a with 800 trophies leftover. And that doesn’t count trophies earned from progression, solo event rewards, alliance rewards or season rewards.

TyEdge

Alliance war had minor changes but they're still stinky. The Glory store could use a bit of a paragon update and the high end rewards could do with a bit of a buff. But BG is the future of the game in their eyes, it's always going to have comfortably leading rewards.
That's what I'm asking for; if BGs are the future focus of play and development, then we need that communicated by kabam, so that alliance leaders, officers and members can, if desired, refocus their alliance structures around the future of the game.

While you're a mainstay on the forums, it would be useful for some official Comms on this.

They need people to want to do BGs because otherwise there’s no motivation to play or rank champs. Story mode can be done with r3 and r4 champs. If war defenders are no longer locked, you only need a handful of champs. BGs will justify having 50 6-stars at r4 and up, because if you know a few metas will make Manthing a monster, you rank him. You’ll literally never use him because you have doom and Rintrah, plus OG SW is so fun. But you can make someone’s life harder and get rewards

Jarvisrei

With the persistent defense update in AW they prolly want us to forget about AW's existence and most of the players are complaining about how boring AQ is these days lol.

SirGamesBond

I can't play serious AW anymore because how masteries are going to work.

Moosetiptronic

Alliance war had minor changes but they're still stinky. The Glory store could use a bit of a paragon update and the high end rewards could do with a bit of a buff. But BG is the future of the game in their eyes, it's always going to have comfortably leading rewards.
That's what I'm asking for; if BGs are the future focus of play and development, then we need that communicated by kabam, so that alliance leaders, officers and members can, if desired, refocus their alliance structures around the future of the game.

While you're a mainstay on the forums, it would be useful for some official Comms on this.
They need people to want to do BGs because otherwise there’s no motivation to play or rank champs. Story mode can be done with r3 and r4 champs. If war defenders are no longer locked, you only need a handful of champs. BGs will justify having 50 6-stars at r4 and up, because if you know a few metas will make Manthing a monster, you rank him. You’ll literally never use him because you have doom and Rintrah, plus OG SW is so fun. But you can make someone’s life harder and get rewards

This is logical.

I just wish they'd communicate on this, if it is the direction of travel, so alliances can adjust.

pseudosane

They are looking at it. The livestream promised that the AQ store and AQ in general would get updates in the next couple months, so be patient, it should be implemented when it is ready.

laserjohn26

They are looking at it. The livestream promised that the AQ store and AQ in general would get updates in the next couple months, so be patient, it should be implemented when it is ready.

Actually that specifically said "sooner than you think". Considering all logical players thought it would be months ago...

Colinwhitworth69

Why speak on behalf of "the community"?

You have an opinion, share it, but do not pretend to know what everyone else wants. Because you don't.

laserjohn26

Why speak on behalf of "the community"?

You have an opinion, share it, but do not pretend to know what everyone else wants. Because you don't.

By claiming to know that he doesn't know what everyone wants, you are implying that you do, or else how could you claim he is wrong about what they want? You know, but he doesn't? Pot, kettle...

Bendy

If people watched the live stream kabam said in couple of months i believe around fall we will get an aq update its like people dont watch the streams where all this info is present of when

Moosetiptronic

If people watched the live stream kabam said in couple of months i believe around fall we will get an aq update its like people dont watch the streams where all this info is present of when

That's correct, the vast majority of the player base, most probably, did not and do not watch the streams.

They also said they'd increase the frequency of updates, nearly a year ago.

Clearly, plans change. I'm just asking for better visibility, so that alliances can prioritise accordingly.

EliOrSomething

If people watched the live stream kabam said in couple of months i believe around fall we will get an aq update its like people dont watch the streams where all this info is present of when

Maybe all the info was mentioned ONCE on a MULTIPLE HOUR LIVE STREAM… is it so wrong for people in the community to want the information to be reliable and easily accessible? How do you propose I go find the info… go to the old livestream and watch the whole thing or scrub through the progress bar? That seems ridiculous, why not just use this crazy thing called the forum. You know where people typically post information and share opinions on the game? No go ahead continue to belittle his opinion because he didn’t commit hours to watching a livestream ABOUT a game, not even playing the game.