The New Weekly Alliance event AKA: Yet more specific grind for rewards...

I have been playing this game since 2015 and the weekly alliance event have had several forms, but they always awarded alliances for things they can do in the game without having to commit oneself to more in-game grinding. Sure Arena’s not a lot of fun so rank-up champions instead, or get points. Now for the first-time the Weekly Alliance event is all about the grind…

1. Don’t play Alliance War? ..opps to bad for you
2. Think Alliance Quest is boring? ..another L for you
3. Alliance Coliseum too grindy?.. Tough
4. Still building a roster to compete in Alliance Raid? ..... So sad too bad
5. Getting clobbered in Ranked Battlegrounds? ....Sorry keep playing
6. Mid Roster for Incursions? ....Sucks to be you

Bottom line, this and the other changes Kabam is making (11 levels of incursions, Twitch awards tied to CCP players videos, monetization of “hell” everything) is just one more example of a company either out of touch or unconcerned with their player base.

To sum this up this new weekly Alliance event is "play specific content” rewards indifferent to player rosters, player content preferences or players time in the game, all of which are not winning messages for continued growth of this game…..

For what its worth I would suggest a reset back to its previous format which was enjoyed by nearly all players.

Comments

Woowerinn

I just realise the weekly reward "update" is this serious,another bunch of bulls 90%we got what we dont need.. Also before weekly we got at least t7 but now also canceled😅 So whats the point to change?

Zacharias10719

Weekly alliance event requiring you participate in allliance based game modes shock horror.

If you don't play any of those modes why are you in an alliance at all.

DrZola

The grind is the point.

Dr. Zola

Zacharias10719

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2944684#Comment_2944684

It's hardly a grind to do aq or war if you're in an alliance. That's kind of the point of them. Again if you don't do any of them why are you even in an alliance at all.

World Eater

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2944686#Comment_2944686

who are you to question how anyone chooses to play the game?

BattleWarriar

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2944687#Comment_2944687

People can play however they want, but if they want rewards from an alliance event they are going to have to participate in alliance game modes. That makes sense to me at least

BringPopcorn

I don't understand posts like this. Am I missing something? People who don't play AQ in all variations, AW, and have their difficulties are complaining about an event that gives mostly AQ consumables?

Don't even mention the essentia as a reason since those people don't like playing the Essentia rewarding modes anyway...

Zacharias10719

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2944687#Comment_2944687

You can play however you want but don't complain about not being able to get rewards from those modes you don't play. That's called entitlement

Zacharias10719

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2944689#Comment_2944689

People want rewards for logging in and doing f all seems to be the gist

DrZola

If you like to beat up strawmen, go ahead. But I’m happy to explain.

Of course you have to do ally content to get ally prizes—that’s the point. And if the Essentia I get for the same amount of AQ/AW/BGs effort gets me ahead of where I was previously, then I suppose I’m fine.

But the overall Essentia implementation has been opaque and in many places doesn’t translate 1:1, so it may or may not put me in a better spot. I should know more after this week.

However, I’m not chasing 5* or 6* relics (or even 7* relics for the most part) any longer. If that’s your game, then the event rewards are probably good for you.

Our ally AW play is easy and straightforward, so adding alliance pots to the bunches that already expire each week for me doesn’t really help either. If you need those, then this event helps you.

What disappoints me is that the event structure (1) emphasizes participation in modes that are (a) some of the least popular in game and (b) among those most in need of reward revamp, (2) event prizes other than Essentia appear less useful than they could be and (3) point requirements at first blush seem to require more effort than the previous event did.

First impressions can be wrong, and I’d be happy to be wrong on this one.

Dr. Zola

GroundedWisdom

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2944688#Comment_2944688

This. It's not a novel idea that people get rewards from......playing the game! 😱

Herbal_Taxman

I never paid any attention to the source of the points because my ally does all the game modes at a fairly high level.

For the people who are disappointed, what were you doing to earn points before? Open crystals or something?

DrZola

@Herbal_Taxman I think the main gripe isn’t that you have to do alliance stuff, but that you have to the same (or perhaps more) ally stuff for rewards that don’t appear to produce the same Essentia.

As I said above, a lot remains to be seen and it’s only week one

@SirGamesBond has a post on a different thread re: the conversion of old prizes to the new.

Dr. Zola