Impact of Adaptive Event Quest (EQ) Design on the Player Base

777Micheal_Gamal999

Some of Negative points:-
1. Forced Difficulty and Time Constraints
The current focus of Adaptive EQ on only the absolute strongest champions forces players into high-stress, punishing encounters. By ignoring the reality of the average roster, these fights demand a level of effort and time that many players simply do not have. What should be an engaging game mode has become an exhausting chore that alienates those who cannot commit to "sweaty" gameplay daily.
2. Systematic Neglect of Long-Term Roster Investment
The Adaptive EQ mechanics effectively render years of progress obsolete. Players have spent significant time and resources building, ranking, and mastering 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6-star champions. By tuning content to only accommodate the top-tier meta, the game is making these vast collections useless. This neglect treats years of player dedication as if it never happened, forcing a narrow focus on only the newest, highest-rarity champions.
3. Restriction of the Game’s Most Common Mode
Event Quest is the core experience for the entire community. It is the mode where players expect to utilize their full collection. Restricting effective progress primarily to 7-star champions is fundamentally unfair. It prevents players from using the 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6-star champions they have earned and leveled, turning a mode that should be inclusive into a restrictive environment that caters only to the top percentage of rosters.
4. Erosion of Player Confidence and Motivation
The decision to prioritize only the strongest champions while ignoring the rest of the roster creates a deep sense of insecurity within the community. It sends a message that Kabam can—and will—erase years of player effort for no reason. This design philosophy is crushing for player morale; it destroys the incentive to invest in the game when there is a constant fear that hard-earned progress will be rendered worthless at any moment.

Sean0333

While I agree that the adaptive EQ feels like a chore I don't entirely agree with this post.

Forced difficulty & time constraints:

The difficulty you're referring to (elder) isn't 'forced' as there is classic mode, which is what Thronebreaker EQ was before the change to adaptive, so now we're getting better rewards for doing the same content, if you stick with classic mode. We have a month to do the mode, so I wouldn't consider time constraint as an issue. However, I do agree that needing 15 champs a run isn't accommodating to smaller accounts.

Systematic Neglect of Long-Term Roster Investment

Unless you were running every difficulty of the previous version of EQ with 2,3,4,5 star champs and not autobattling it with your top champs then i don't see how this is an issue. 6 Stars are strong enough to work in adaptive EQ. I wouldn't consider EQ as top-tier meta either, the path nodes have been the same for the past few months. I think you mean a 7* r1 (because they can beat an elder difficulty champ), rather than top tier meta.

Restriction of the Game’s Most Common Mode

This is the same as the previous point.

Erosion of Player Confidence and Motivation

I would argue that by allowing us to use 15 champs this allows players to use more of their champs that they wouldn't otherwise use. In the previous EQs players would use relatively the same champs for each path of a quest. You seem more upset about the fact that the Adaptive EQ doesn't let you use 2-5 star champs and that's a valid complaint. But you can't expect to get end game rewards in gamemodes that let players use 5 star champs.

I don't think adaptive EQ is perfect by any means. However, I appreciate having the ability each month to get more than the few 1000 7 star shards that we were getting from the paragon gauntlet.