Energy

Man, this game has been my favorite for years. Mobile, Console, PC, never mattered. I love playing this game because how much flexibility and diversity there is within the Marvel Universe. Such amazing animations and art, so many cool and unique abilities, so much awesome story/dialogue stuff. I really try my best to not be too positive or too negative because sooooo many people in this community instantly hate on every little change and every decision that doesn't benefit them directly.

So I've tried my best to stay positive during this extremely rough couple of back to back months. This energy decision is the first thing I've seen that genuinely stunned me. I understand excess energy refills are expiring for a lot of players, myself included. Here's The Thing (It's Clobbering Time), why is that an issue? The last thing the game needs right now is for players to be locked behind 0 energy refills. When quests take 5 energy per tile and there's damn 4-5 tiles in between fights, how is that fun? I understand wanting to keep players engaged and keep logging in to get more, but wouldn't it be better to let players play the content they want based off their resource management?

I'm not sure I understand the logic behind removing the energy refills from 4-Hour crystals completely. Buffing the revive drop rate, great I like that. That's what we use those crystals for primarily that was a correct statement. However, removing refills entirely? Like that just makes so little sense to me. There are dozens of things that could be removed/changed before this. Prime example: Arena Boosts. The amount of shards we get for solo crystals is absolutely insane, and the amount of crystals we can open with them is far beyond any energy refills going to waste. I consistently buy the energy refill card bc it's so convenient and useful to not have to worry about energy costs. That being said, most I ever have in the overflow is 5-10 max. In an attempt to get sig stones for unique 2* champions, I opened a large majority of my lesser crystals and now have 3k+ arena boosts that are going to expire. Hundreds of XP boosts that aren't usable for my account level due to refined XP.

Maybe I'm overreacting but I've tried my best to stay positive during these rough times we've had lately, and just off the initial reading of the post, this makes the least amount of sense of EVERYTHING that's happened in the past 40-60 days. Patiently waiting for more info to hopefully prove me wrong, but if changes like these play the way I think they will, this could seriously be a game ender for the large majority of players still logging on every day.

Comments

Djmags

I woke up on my day off this morning & it’s my 1st day of the week to myself. So I turn Mcoc and complete my last bit of war that I’m assigned to and then run through day 6 of the supply run. It was my intention to run another path in act 9.3 but guess what I only have 11 energy left. So what do I do now? I want to play my favourite game that I have literally spent thousands of pounds on but I can’t because kabam have stopped giving us energy. So what do I do now as I can’t play the game and no I’m not going to spend units on energy as I have already given this company thousands of pounds. The least they can do for the customer is give them energy. Honestly this is going to be the end of the game for many players as everyone is sick of being treated like this.

Ikaliban

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/403535/energy

Just to complete the dailies without using refills, it takes all day logging in and waiting for them to recharge. Imagine doing story mode for someone just starting out. And BG, that is, it becomes impossible to have versatile gameplay. They're forcing the player to wait for refills or buy refills. This will definitely destroy the game. There are missions in story mode, which are 4 energy per slot. There's no point in what they did. And THERE ARE PLAYERS DEFENDING this.

YoungR

KABAM is killing their own game. I've been playing it for over 8 years and it's never been even close to this bad before. It's one thing after another. They have no idea what their player base wants and make horrible changes without even testing them properly. They've become extremely greedy in the last year to with an enormous amount of offers after every single quest and these random "events" where players have to spend $500+ to collect these imaginary rewards they create out of thin air. Kabam has become a joke, this game will be dead in less than a year if they keep this **** up.

Ikaliban

The problem is that even after so many complaints, and various opinions and suggestions, the solution was to make what was already bad worse. I have some experience in the gaming world, and it's rare to see such a lack of control, acting exactly the opposite of what the players asked for. I agree. If the game continues like this, I highly doubt it will make it to the end of the year.

Chiragcool

I really want to know who's taking these decisions. Why would you want to keep giving reasons for players to not be able to play the game both competitively and leisurely. I can't even make sense like what does doing this ultimately achieve in long term. No-one is spending units on energy when we don't like or want to spend units on revives and potions. I'd argue that more refills would enable players to practice more, explore more, restart the quests more, make content, revisit paths already explored, why take away all that and limit the ability to play itself. Let the refills expire, let there be more energy refills, what harm are they doing, how's it affecting the community???

Ikaliban

Imagine starting the game now. and doing the story mode. and the daily ones. New players will suffer. Old ones will abandon. Maybe the goal is to launch another game. That's all that comes to mind.

Super_Cretu90

I do agree that drastically reducing the amount of energy refills will reduce the number of people playing this game, because not many can wait 6 hours or are willing to purchase energy refills with units in order to finish a quest, play Battlegrounds etc.

In my case, i auto-fight the daily quests in the morning, while getting ready for work and eating breakfast, and do it again on my lunch break (although, i have to admit it gets VERY annoying at times). Thus, i understand that some/many can't do that because their job schedule won't permit it, or because they want to only play MCOC after work, as a gateway from the stress they put up with at work and other life related events, not rush in to play for 5-10 minutes every 6 hours. This rips away the fun from a game/activity - it is the same like when wanting to watch a movie, or go out; you want to enjoy that movie or walk outside for as long as you want, not feel limited/restricted to do it for a very limited amount of time.

NguỹnThảo

same, played since it came out a year, playing competitive from 2020 but this really make me sad:(

Ikaliban

I'd like to hear your opinion. Really. Because I feel like the company lacks a broad view of the scale of the problem.

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/403532/energy-refills-the-energy#latest

Soumemiakas1926

The guy who decided that removing energy refills was a good idea I hope he gets the worst life ever