Firstly, I think the radiance store is an exciting addition and the structure of what’s in the store and how the currency will be available is really great. However, I think the distribution of radiance is too heavily skewed towards a very low percentage of players. I’m worried the same will be the case with AW and AQ. To put it in perspective, it’s like giving 4x more rewards to Masters tier alliances than P1 or lower.
Here’s the breakdown.
Once you’re out of mysterium—and bear in mind these are still some of the top players in the game in Quantum ranks—the difference in rewards between you and the top players can be over 300k radiance. It’s almost the difference between a whole extra R4 7*, every BGs season.
Think about how that plays out for you if you’re chasing higher ranks in BGs. The gap will get larger at a faster rate than we’ve ever seen before.
I love the store but I think the distribution of radiance is far too extreme between the ranks. There are tens of thousands of players at a decent level in this game. Top 1000 players should not be getting triple or quadruple the rewards of top 10,000 players. Kabam themselves said there’s over 100,000 valiant players.
If the reward distribution stays like this, I expect we’ll see disillusionment amongst the mid/high level players that will have absolutely no way of keeping up.
