Raid tickets just got much more expensive?

With the introduction of essentia, Kabam said our purchasing power wouldn't be going down.

But I usually buy my raid tickets with loyalty. It was previously 2k loyalty per raid ticket. Now, 2k loyalty buys you 20 essentia, and it takes 70 essentia to buy a raid ticket. This means the purchasing power of my loyalty has been cut by an astounding amount - it was just devalued by over 70%.

It was also previously stated that the old exchanges would be around a while to ease the transition. But that is not the case - we are no longer able to buy raid tickets with anything but essentia or units.

To break it down: if I had known this would be the exchange rate, and converted all my loyalty to raid tickets, I would have been able to buy 3.5x the raid tickets with the loyalty I have than I can today.

Is there something I'm misunderstanding here? Have I made a mistake in my math? If not, this seems like a massive purchasing power reduction for the millions of loyalty that I have. I didn't worry about doing this conversion early because I was assured that purchasing power would not be reduced, but unless I'm wrong here, that's not how the reality has played out at all.

Comments

Shawnthemon

Don't worry. Only costs 3.93 weeks of trade ins to join a raid.

Totally normal game mechanic

jdschw

This post is not simply a gripe. There was clear communication that our purchasing power would not decrease. This is a clear case where the purchasing power has decreased significantly (unless I'm missing something here). This is a situation that should be fixed.

There are many ways to fix this situation.

The exchange rate from loyalty to essentia could be changed.
If ^ is not acceptable because it affects how much loyalty could be used for other essentia purchases, you could simply bring back the ability to directly buy raid tickets with the other currencies. Even if this was done for a limited window, now that we know the exchange rates, it would give people an opportunity to stock up on raid tickets at the old exchange rates.