Re: AW compensation

As a member of an alliance that’s been sitting on the P3/P4 border for a long time (currently at the bottom of P3), the server instability hits us just like everyone else. Kabam’s response to this situation feels twisted — calling it ‘fairness’ is almost insulting.

Kabam logic: when the alliance underperforms, we get a handout. When it overperforms, we should just be grateful to breathe the same air.

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Peregrinus

Kabam’s response to the server outages is absolutely insane and devalues this entire season. Anyone who is ‘holding their spot’ from the previous season, or worse, now has zero motivation. The rest of the alliance pays the price.

Kabam should have either stopped the AW season if they couldn’t provide a stable environment for fair competition, or simply stated that everyone would receive rewards one tier higher than what they actually achieved.

An absolute failure by Kabam.

GroundedWisdom

What are you referring to? They've said they understand how the outages have affected War and other game modes, and are working on Compensation.

Peregrinus

Check out this post:

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Alliance War Season 60 Server Stability Compensation - Marvel Contest of Champions

If your Alliance places lower than your previous Season 59 placement:

You'll receive the difference in rewards to make up for the shortfall. NOTE - this is Alliance-based, and all data will be drawn from where your CURRENT Alliance placed during both of these seasons.

If your Alliance places higher than your previous Season 59 placement:

No additional rewards will be provided, as you've benefited from the season's outcomes.

Peregrinus

I’m honestly afraid Kabam is finding new ways to make the ongoing AW season worse with every move. The latest decision is downright insane and completely half-baked.

@Kabam (Osaurus) Rex , stop making a mess of things and just shut it down before you manage to break it even more.

Check out this post:

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/402362/alliance-war-season-update

Furrymoosen

But they didn't even say we should be grateful to breathe the same air. They say that those who succeed have done so because they've benefited from the server issues - that ain't how game-wide issues work. Everyone is suffering.

Furrymoosen

Even better now with the war rating freeze. Now alliances can just tank the season without any negative impact and those that don't tank or don't lose because they've "benefited" from the game being in a terrible state still get nothing.

Peregrinus

Isn’t this some seriously twisted logic from Kabam?

We fought hard, even won a war on the Expert T2 map while only getting T3 points (great matchmaking, right?). I burned ~800k loyalty on heals, and crashes hit us too. Calling our drop from top P4 to bottom P3 a ‘benefit’ of instability is a joke. Now we’re stuck at a T3 war rating — and every alliance behind us that’s still struck at T2 will blow past us like a candle in the wind, pushing us straight back into P4 with zero chance to stop it.

Penzito

You lose that war, drop a tier. Now stuck at that tier for the remainder which means you can't move anywhere anyways. They did that to us after an off-season war that counted dropped us a tier all off-season, can't image it happening for a live season.

If wins were still 50K, I guess they would be a point to maybe keeping on, but they are now just 5K.

At this point is it just the top allies playing for anything? Not sure who's out there still playing for reals, but if they are its very small %.

GroundedWisdom

I don't think that's what they're saying. They're saying the compensation is based on history. If you did worse, they will compensate the difference. If you went up, they can't compensate for that because they can't compare that to how you did last Season.

I think that's fair enough. What's the other option?

Herbal_Taxman

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2869533#Comment_2869533

cancel the season, give everyone rewards based on last season’s performance and refund all the materials that have been burned over the last six wars. And oh yeah, come up with a real fix for their server issues.

The first part makes too much sense, and the second part they probably aren’ t capable of anyway.

The idea that this season has any competitive integrity left is just a joke.

Peregrinus

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2869533#Comment_2869533

It depends on whether you have some understanding of how the promotion math works now — after the reduction of victory bonuses — at the different tiers. For example, P5 tends to be very dynamic, with the possibility of quickly moving up into P4 but also dropping down into P6. On the other hand, P4 is very static, and with a starting war rating around 3250 it’s very difficult to either fall down or move up.

M_A_D_D_Y

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2869533#Comment_2869533

So what about alliances like ours that just keep bouncing back and forth? One war we lose, next war we win—basically stuck in limbo. We’re sitting in P2 under rank 50, and with these server issues sometimes its other alliances eating the mess, sometimes it’s us.

But sure, Kabam’s plan is simple: promote? Congrats, no comp. Demote? Here’s your tier comp. And alliances stuck in the middle burning units and loyalty chasing? Guess we’re just collateral damage. Makes total sense, right?

Peregrinus

If you know how the promotion math works, look at our alliance and picture the next six AW wars. After dropping 180 units on energy refills and ~18 L4/L5 health pots in the last war, Kabam’s handling of this honestly makes me sick.

Kabam (Osaurus) Rex

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2869535#Comment_2869535

That's essentially what is happening.

You're getting, at least, rewards based on last season - with the possibility to get more if you place higher.

Peregrinus

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2869854#Comment_2869854

Let’s see what your genius little AW season “experiment” does to an alliance sitting halfway through P4, which finished last AW season at P4. According to calculations, they’re among the lucky winners of your AW lottery. All they need to do is lose six times in a row and voilà — straight into P3, shoving aside another alliance that actually fought hard to earn its spot.

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Usagicassidy

and what about that “cumulative compensation” they talked about all the way back in July I think it was?

they say if there’s no new news there’s nothing to say but the continued silence makes it seem like they’re just hoping it all goes away.

Peregrinus

What the hell? New AW season?

Peregrinus

So we just clawed our way through a glorious battle of alliances fighting for the prestigious 185th and 186th spots in P3, and Kabam decides to pull their third unannounced stunt mid-season in AW? What the hell is that supposed to mean? @Kabam (Osaurus) Rex

BringPopcorn

I seriously don't understand Kabam sometimes.. soy they sent a bunch of AQ energy refills a day after AQ was botched.… A DAY AFTER. What on earth are this good for? Stop giving us a mop to clean up the mess that you make.