So, I missed the showcase deathless piece….
Now, I’ll try to keep this short and to the point, since I’ve been known to write posts that come dangerously close to DNA length, but here we go:
I’m sure this isn’t universal, and this is in fact opinion (you won’t hear me stating this as fact), but I’d hazard a guess that I’m not alone in thinking that the Contest has gotten a bit over saturated lately. I’ll let someone else list off the number of events that are currently available in-game with all the iterations of SQ (there are like 7 going on right now and frankly I haven’t even tried to see what that’s about), EQ (still have to explore TB, which is boring at a Valiant level, just to get to the paragon gauntlet), BGs, AW/Raids, AQ, Arena, Story, Carinas, Special quests like Necropolis, daily quests like Apothecary, special solo events, the new Sagas (with special currency spread throughout the other content in specific time-limited milestones), Holiday solo events (eg Women’s Appreciation, which was cool), Winter of Woe, and there are probably several more that I’m forgetting.
For further context, I’m a Valiant player that spent $10 on the game 4+ years ago and have been playing since the very beginning. With the end of the month coming, I was having a hard time budgeting time for all of these events ending around the same date, partially because I really want a 7* Nightcrawler, which I have just deprioritized around this point. With the end-date for a lot of content coming soon (the middle of this week), I somehow lost that the fairly limited time Showcase was ending on April 1st (a Monday right after a major holiday weekend for myself and many others in the USA and around the world), and missed out on my chance at that Deathless KG piece.
Now, I know that I should have planned to do it earlier. I know that this is meant to be difficult to obtain all of the deathless pieces. But the fact that my only recourse now to still continue in the hunt is to shell out 5k units is wild to me. I can say with some certainty that I’ve never gotten over 3k units on my account, and that was almost always with a crazy amount of arena/luck on Platinumpool crystals/etc. To know that missing a single limited-time event that was crammed in with one of the most crowded months I can ever remember in-game is demoralizing.
Now, I will probably still try to save up units (I’m around 500 now) in order to buy the piece since that’s basically my only way to continue, but I really wish that there was some permanent added 6th option for summoners that could be like a make-up piece for them for each deathless champ that could be a difficult challenge, but wasn’t just a simple unit-wall, and could alleviate a bit of the stress of perfectly achieving all of these unique milestones. I’m sure there are arguments on the other side of this perspective that are more complex than just “just don’t forget or suck it up and pay a huge number of units”, but one piece of each champion was quite literally sent out in an in-game mail, so I don’t know how solid any of those arguments could be.
But maybe I’m just an uneducated summoner who needs to git gud. Maybe it’s maybelline (don’t @ me, I don’t use beauty products). But maybe I’m not the only one who thinks that there could be a better and fun alternative safety net that wasn’t just a massive unit price stapled to a piece selector. Who knows.
