No energy to play the game.

Ok, thats like the 100th post about the issue but its really serious. The amount of energy to play is just enough to finish Daily Quests and thats if you play at least twice daily (and a lot of people with work and families dont have such an opportunity). Previously I was able to log in for like 2 hours in the evening and finish all I wanted in the game. Now its not even remotely possible. But even if I will be playing twice every day (that is already is serious thing for me to consider), I ll just clear the Dailies meaning no energy for consistent BG participation (I managed the last season with the remaining stash of Energy refills that is now mostly gone), no energy for Solo Raids, no energy to do Exploration of the older content or Carina Challenges and probably just a bit to squeeze out for the new EQ (I am skipping it for now, so hasnt been considering the energy requirement for it at all).

So Kabam, is that your vision of the game now? Just the arena grind and same boring daily quests on auto each and every day? In that case I dont want that game and dont intend to play it. And I am confident a lot of community sees it exactly the same. Waiting till the next update and quiting after 4 years of playing if nothing changes. Rant over.

P.S. Stop ruining your game!

Comments

M_A_D_D_Y

They already said comp for that overtuned EQ will have some refills, and apparently ‘refills discussion’ is on the menu for the dev diary… so yeah, looks like we’re finally gonna have a "discussion" about the energy they yoinked from us.

But ‘stop ruining the game’? Nah, that part didn’t make it into the dev diary—guess it’s ‘necessary for the game economy’

ahmynuts

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2875974#Comment_2875974

The discussion in question:

"We're sorry you all feel that way but please understand that we're coming up on 11 years and need to evolve"

M_A_D_D_Y

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2875975#Comment_2875975

Hope this ‘evolution’ doesn’t have the same ending as the dinosaurs.

Chuck_Finley

If the energy issue was going to be resolved, we wouldn’t need to wait a week for a dev diary to explain it. This was planned. And yes it’s ruining the game

SirGamesBond

I don't have much hopes about refill situation. 'The quests are removed, players don't need them anymore.'

I know how much it affects the players as whole, high amonuts of energy is needed for an average Joe to get their BGs done…. I don't even overdo BGs, and I had to pop refills to get my objetives done. I.e. winning three matches.

The low refills wont effect me (personally). I'm one of the ones who despised kabam kids kasino poker for how energy wasteful it was. It took 5-6 full refills equivalent every week, despite me doing just 10k points.

startropics

If we don't need them anymore, I guess that means they're deleting battlegrounds and the poker mode from the game then.

Chuck_Finley

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876025#Comment_2876025

BG’s used to be about skill and roster size. Now we can add “and those who pay for the energy pass”

arifin74

where did you guys get refills previously? I don't think it's the weekly 2 refill that make overflow of energy all the time.

in my case, it's it mostly the free ones, stream/compensation , and solo crystal pop.

I think the issue is usage of energy. I didn't do those lower queust explore, the daily quest explore, and revive farm. But I did this month , and probably first time over a year don't have refills in the inventory.

but really, what was the source of refills before?

kvirr

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876030#Comment_2876030

There was a a lot of places for energy , revives , and all that good stuff a while ago , they took it all away , but it was somewhere in act 3 , you could just do the quests on repeat and you’d get revives . That was the strat before they took it away , for energy i think it was the same , but now i just get energy from literally playing , i always have some unless im doing heavy story content , which times like now leads to a shortage , but i just buy them with units at this point .

BringPopcorn

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2875974#Comment_2875974

Lately it all has been a game of guessing where they are going to screw you or reading between the lines.

They said they will provide energy; now the question is if that energy is enough to re run the classic difficulty and the elder one since they will all reset. My guess is most likely not. Most likely their excuse will make it our fault or our problem since we will be "double dipping"

Unknown5557

”We see you and we hear you, therefore we will be removing energy refills from 4 hour crystals and elder marks from bgs. In return we generously grant you 2 whole refills a week as well as decreased energy costs in bgs and solo raids (you know, the mode everyone was so concerned about using their energy on). We’ll discuss adding more refills with the game team, but in the meantime please direct your attention to our next livestream where we discuss next months big sale.”

Chuck_Finley

”man, we have had a rough go of late. Lots of mistakes, lots of bugs, lots of discontent from the community….

Oh well! let’s strip everyone’s energy away, we will add a couple back and call it good. Can’t get any worse right?! Good meeting. Make sure we have the next sale ready to go.”

Shrodinberg

They responded:

" We heard you, we 're gonna suppress them from the green free cristals 👍" 🙄

Paul_V

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876112#Comment_2876112

The game is in free-fall.

Graves_3

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876112#Comment_2876112

I blame @startropics for this. They said 4hr crystals need to be saved for potions and revives.
just kidding mate!!

El_Professor

At this point, just give us tons of energy refills to solve that problem and then focus on fixing everything else. Kabam needs to re-build goodwill and fast - giving us MORE refills than we need, what’s the downside? Players can PLAY THE GAME more?

Plus, the change to BGs… even if you think it will be a good change, just bad timing guys. You’re changing so many things that have been the way there are for years - and while things are catching on fire? Slow it down

Jatt_Sb

Yeh kabam crash mentioned energy refills in his post but it doesn't mean we stop posting. We il do it until we have sufficient daily energy refills provided.

Searmenis

BGs are going to die fast and hard. Nobody is going to start buying energy refills, since that s what they try to make players do, buy. Everything.

Solvseus

Energy hasn’t been a problem for me anymore. 0 interest in EQ this month, no trying new champs or running auto on lower levels to hit objectives. Nowhere close to hitting the 100k needed for weekly, and I’m now an alliance of 1, so just doing auto on boring dailies to hit the minimum. No need to play after that. Bare minimum with Arena too, still missing those 2 and 3* ones. Already stopped playing BG, no interest in Story or Side quests anymore either. Ran lvl 2 on auto 4x, barely worth it.

Holding out for some changes before Banquet given all the negative feedback, but I don’t have my hopes up. 😔

BloodyRose

It's kinda sh** that doing Supply Run 100% uses almost all your energy. In the olden days, a week ago, you could do 100% 2 dailies and still have some energy leftover