The relic event should have been a realm event

I know people have complained about there not being enough events which focus on alliances, but an even that involves spending, whether it be real money or accumulated units, on something that the player base doesn’t care that much about is not the way to go. It has the effect of locking many players out of rewards they should receive based on their participation. On the corporate greedy side, it also hugely discourages spending actual money on the game because who’s going to want to spend $30 - $300 after they’ve made the calculation that they’re not going to get all the milestone rewards, or even half of them?

I realize I’m writhing this before the event calendar comes out which may help players get a bit further through the milestones but I’m doubtful it’ll have any meaningful effect - though I do hope to be proven wrong

Comments

TotemCorruption

Sounds like you need to find a better alliance.

PRITORNER

Not better , Spending aliance .

Trafalgarwar96

Kabam can t do nothing?

Darthbane3141

Personally, I don't think an event like this should have anyone to do with an alliance, because the majority of the player base isn't in a top your spending alliance. It's the same with the Summoner's Fest realm event, because my alliance doesn't do raids, which means I didn't end up getting it even though I did everything else

Giantwalrus56

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2864363#Comment_2864363

What a douchy response. Just because an alliance doesn't go "All-in" on a poorly executed mediocre event, they need to find a better alliance? You must be really fun...

CheeseMaster482

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2864424#Comment_2864424

He's a spender that doesn't know how to reparry and only posts on the forums to brag.

TotemCorruption

I'm just saying, if your alliance doesn't care about these new relics and you do, you should find a new alliance instead of pointing the finger at everyone else.

It's not just a spending event either.

You get points for doing the statcast clincher objectives and ranking up old relics, and those give enough points to get milestones and get new relics which then you can open to get points and resources for more milestones.

I highly doubt your alliances are doing any of that. You snooze you lose.

This isn't the only event where you get punished for being in a crappy alliance.

One of my two accounts isn't in an alliance; I miss out on a lot. It's the price I pay for not having to do alliance duties.

Make your own choices like an adult and stop blaming everyone else.

BringPopcorn

It's really not the first spenders event to have alliance rank rewards. This type of events have been in the game forever and yes high spending alliances do a lot better.

CheeseMaster482

What they should have done was give points for winning fights with stat casts relics. At least then, people can grind points for free even if it's going to take a long time.

Regardless, people were already buying 70 crystals as soon as the event dropped. Spenders will keep spending and Kabam will keep making more paywalled events

Hmv

Agree. I thought it was great but then I found out the milestones were locked depending on how the entire alliance was doing and well... I really love relics, I even wanted to get the valiant bundles from the store, but I know I won't reach the since I'm in a non-spending alliance for the most part and the fews that spend aren't really interested on relics, so yeah, that's really discouraging (for me at least). Still, got some of the 5* crystals and maybe I'll end up purchasing the 10 valiant ones with Units but that's it):

BringPopcorn

They increase prestige, relic prestige matters now. Of course it was going to be heavily monetized.

The only thing that really bothers me is the 10 crystal limit on the Valiant ones for units.

Suros_moon

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2864431#Comment_2864431

Lmao, I know you didnt just imply the 150 points you get ftp somehow makes this “not a spending event”. Lets be REALLY generous and say you were even gifted all the crystals available in the milestones up to the rebirth token without needing to buy crystals to reach them: that is 10tb crystals bringing your point total up to… 400. Enough to claim milestone 3. Gtfoh

TotemCorruption

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2864451#Comment_2864451

There is no limit on how many old 5 and 6 star relics you can rank up for additional points.

Anyway, I didn't say you can get all the milestones without spending anything.

I was just saying even non-spenders in an alliance can contribute points.

BringPopcorn

I don't think a lot of people actually weighed in the importance of this event considering the future of prestige.

For some people this is just relics, combo extenders, stat boosters, for the people at the top this changed everything on the prestige race and they will be spending a lot.

WhatsGoodEnglish

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2864432#Comment_2864432

I don’t care about the rank rewards and high spending alliances getting better stuff. I’m used to that happening every year many times a year since I started playing over 8 years ago. I’m specifically talking about the normal milestone rewards you unlock. For example it doesn’t appear possible to achieve the 9th milestone with the rebirth token without some kind of spending (money or units saved for cyber/banquet/etc). The rank rewards are going to go to the top dogs, but the normal milestones should at lest be achievable which they don’t appear to be without spending. Again my only problem is that it isn’t a realm event. Even with the change coming next moth for top 30 prestige am I supposed to beg everyone in the alliance who’s holding units for cyber weekend to spend 1500 of them getting something they really don’t care that much about?

BringPopcorn

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2864483#Comment_2864483

Unfortunately yes, all alliances events have been this way. The only difference on this one is that there is a limit on the valiant crystals.

Even if it was a realm event you would probably be in the same situation, this event is targeted to a different crowd.

BringPopcorn

@WhatsGoodEnglish I think you are ignoring a big flaw on your thinking in this event. Whatever the number is to clear all Alliance milestones and claim prices wouldn't be the same number for a realm one. Doubt Kabam would make a minimum requirement low enough for mid spenders to clear all milestones at the expense of their whales.

WhatsGoodEnglish

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2864497#Comment_2864497

I’m fully aware that a realm event can also be bad and more geared towards whales when it comes to the higher milestones like the banquet is every year. The difference is that in a realm event I’m held back by however much I’m willing to spend/contribute. In an alliance event I’m held back by what 29 other people are willing to spend/contribute

Montycarlo

This was a **** event from the get go. Stupid stupid stupid. Forcing players to spend and my whole alliance is sitting at 3k points with me being at 500 now Iv already wasted my points since my alliance won't be reaching 24k milestone anyway and all my effort was in vain. F you kabam F you for putting it in alliance event.

BringPopcorn

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2864505#Comment_2864505

It would be exactly the same, and the minimum requirement would probably be higher. Unless you think you are in the only alliance with the only 29 people that don't care about relics.

BringPopcorn

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2864509#Comment_2864509

If it makes you feel any better at 500 points you wouldn't be able to claim the 24k milestone anyway....

O_Deadpool_O

Yeah, realm event or solo event would be much better. My allies also mostly do not care about this event. We are at 13k points, 2500 of which are mine. Only a few players who invested in new relics. No hope to get to higher milestones…
No any single reason to buy some store bundle, as it will not help to progress at all if other players in alliance do not do bare minimum. I am also not a millionaire to spend so much money or units to reach these milestones just by myself.

Super_Cretu90

I do agree it should have either been a solo or realm event.

It is not my fault 75% of my alliance colleagues decided not to spend units or real money on relics. They don't value relics much and said they can always switch old relics between champions.

I have spent 6,000 units and only claimed the first two milestones. We should be able to collect milestones individually.

TotemCorruption

Such a dumb thread, and only keeps getting dumber.

(1) "You need to be a millionaire to spend 1k units on relics or do the statcast finisher/rank-up objectives." - Even kids don't say dumb stuff like this.

(2) "F Kabam because the rest of my alliance doesn't care as much as I do." - How about F your crappy alliance and find a new one instead if you care that much. It's like, this thread is full of people saying the same thing (I did my part but my alliance sucks), so maybe you guys can all team up and form a new alliance?

BringPopcorn

If this was a realm event all the sucky people in your alliance would still be in the pool doing their sucky scores and a lot of people would be mooching off whales... Meaning you guys would be the sucky people for the whales… its a vicious circle.