**KNOWN AW ISSUE**
Please be aware, there is a known issue with Saga badging when observing the AW map.
The team have found the source of the issue and will be updating with our next build.
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Please be aware, there is a known issue with Saga badging when observing the AW map.
The team have found the source of the issue and will be updating with our next build.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
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2 maybe if someone said that they would avoid breaking the game economy with every update, like giving 7 stars to cavs
You are taking f2p to a whole new level too, you want to get paid units for watching ads lol.
relatively speaking this a nothing/nobody event and this is how much full whaling on the biggest days used to cost. how far have things shifted?
No rants yet. Have to see how this event will move forward in coming days.
TL;DR: F2P players are not being shafted. They get to play the game for free. Which is something that someone has to pay for, if not them. People keep forgetting that. In-game, whales get more stuff. But in the real world, whales pay thousands of dollars to play the game, F2P players pay nothing to play the same game.
All of monetization has to be judged in that light, because it is the only light that matters. It is why in spite of the fact that people seem to think everyone hates microtransactions and the free to play model, the model is still wildly popular. The free to play players can grumble all they want, but at the end of the day they are playing games for free. Without the free to play model they would be back to diving in the bargain bin at Game Stop. The whales are the ones actually spending, and they can grumble all they want but at the end of the day they are the ones supporting the whole thing. Without them spending the model collapses. That's 99% of the game players in the world with a vested interest in continuing the model, even if they enjoy complaining about it.
When the free to play players start spending on non-free to play games and the whales stop spending on the free to play model, that's when things will change. Until then, everyone is voting with their actions, and talking out of their butts.
Many close to whales spenders started as f2p, and stopped whaling out on the free to play model when this got ridiculous. I m one of them. Things didn't change, they got worse.
And while yes it's true that not everyone hates microtransactions, people do have limits with them, limits that aren't enforced on mobile games, and some PC/console games, for that, just look at the mobile diablo game and how their issues with microtransaction threw it to oblivion and disrespect, but yeah that's worth for another different conversation that people already figured out, and while it's true that free to play games need a way of getting money without ads, they can do so without throwing their already broken economy through the window, cause most games that do have microtransactions do so, CODM for example has what you would call prestige items, and they're not economy breakers, they're highly exclusive though but no one cares, the same can be said for every new pc/c COD btw, or most EA games, which is not something that MCOC does, like i said before and even as a cav myself, cavs shouldn't have access to 7 stars yet.
And while whales do keep supporting it, while they're also shafted, that is at the end of the day their decision, and if they keep spending mindlessly on things like this, at some point they'll get tired as well
I don't hide anything homie.
2. F2P still get to participate in the event.
3. Everyone is getting shafted by this event as the cost to value is terrible for these initial offers.
But, AQ and BG's is not the only way to score points either. Those are the 2 of the 3 that OP tried to point out.
And remember: the free to play players are supporting the system just as much as the spenders, something I think most people don't fully appreciate. Whale fund it, but the free to play players are also supporting it by playing free to play games. It is not enough for the whales to stop spending, someone has to spend on something else to have a viable alternative. Every F2P player that plays F2P games is directing their attention towards the F2P market and away from all other alternatives, depriving those alternatives of attention and potential revenue.
It isn't just the whales, it is all of us keeping the business model alive.
Yeah this event is super weird. Because as a *used to be* f2p player for MANY years since launch, you want to have offers that ENCOURAGE someone to splurge and spend on it, to get something of value. And then that encourages them to buy more in the future.
That certainly is Kabam’s desire/incentive, as they want to keep making the game and getting people to pay. But it feels like none of this is of value for the price - not even close.
I’m a “probably spending $5-15 a month on this game and rarely/occasionally will splurge on an offer that is great” type of player - and there is absolutely nothing here worth spending a penny on. And the trade offers in the caps commissary store are grossly underwhelming. Guess we’ll see what the 24th looks like.
It’s a far cry from the event where we traded up quantities of 5 5* AG for 1 6* AG.
This is not the case.
Personally, I prefer to use what I need to progress all year long.
What are we looking at, really? A 7*, some Gold, and some Shards. Which we can get in a few months of playing, if not in a month, or even a week, respectively.