I guess Kabam doesn’t want my money

New singularity crystal offer. Only for uncollected. Guess my money isn’t good enough. Not a great marketing strategy I would say.

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DNA3000

Jaycray81 wrote: »

New singularity crystal offer. Only for uncollected. Guess my money isn’t good enough. Not a great marketing strategy I would say.

Making everything available for everyone moots game progression, which is more harmful to the game in the long run. They want your money. They also want you to push to become uncollected. They are willing to lose the money of customers that decide they don't want to satisfy the progression prerequisites of the game. They are even willing to lose the *customers* that decide they don't want to satisfy the progression prerequisites of the game. Every time you make a game design decision, that decision will cost you customers. Every single decision does that. Handing everyone ten 5* crystals for free would ultimately cost them customers. Every design decision is an exercise in deciding who they want to try to keep, and who they are willing to lose.

chev327fox

People pushing for uncollected tends to net them more cash then these offers I would assume. Also it incentivizes you more to try and become uncollected and thus potentially spend more to get there (and they want to reward people who have already made the push or have been long time players/spenders).

Really though I spent too much on this in my first month or two and cowed to only spend one crazy good deals in the future (I think I spent like $100 in that first month or so and I was shocked to see I had done so... in the 3 months or so since I have only spent like $21... 2 really good $10 offers and the $1 crystal).

If I were you I would look at it from a positive point of view... they saved you money

unknown

chev327fox wrote: »

People pushing for uncollected tends to net them more cash then these offers I would assume. Also it incentivizes you more to try and become uncollected and thus potentially spend more to get there (and they want to reward people who have already made the push or have been long time players/spenders).

Really though I spent too much on this in my first month or two and cowed to only spend one crazy good deals in the future (I think I spent like $100 in that first month or so and I was shocked to see I had done so... in the 3 months or so since I have only spent like $21... 2 really good $10 offers and the $1 crystal).

If I were you I would look at it from a positive point of view... they saved you money

I'm not a big spender, but I am a long time player(over 2 years), and I am not uncollected, so why should I suffer from the lack of rewards also? I play a lot, have been playing a long time, and have spent some money on this game. I'm probably not going to quit unless they pull another 12.0 fiasco on us, but I'm not gonna become uncollected just to get these rewards. I'm not gonna push for uncollected status just to give them more money for more crappy rewards that wont do me any good for the most part.

Jaycray81

I understand they want me to become uncollected and I will get there. I just wish that maybe cash deals like this was added say level 45+ players. I agree with adding all the other uncollected stuff because players at that level needed a boost in rewards. I guess maybe if we can’t spin grandmasters then maybe they shouldn’t offer the other offer to the uncollected guys.

Nerfed2Def

Get on our level. Took a lot of work and time. So much easier to progress as it is now. Then you can get those options.

Flash_Asher

Nerfed2Def wrote: »

Get on our level. Took a lot of work and time. So much easier to progress as it is now. Then you can get those options.

I'm with this dude. You have no idea how hard it was to progress back in the day before crystal shards. You were at the mercy of these pennypinchers with PHCs. Either you spent to have the good RNG or you didn't.

I mean it's still that way, and even more so now with this featured 5* change. But if you have the skills, you can bypass all spending in this game. It's not easy by any means. It's basically RNG if the game decides to let you have a smooth Act 5 run.

If I can't beat it without using items or minimal items, it's not worth playing.

DNA3000

Jaycray81 wrote: »

I understand they want me to become uncollected and I will get there. I just wish that maybe cash deals like this was added say level 45+ players. I agree with adding all the other uncollected stuff because players at that level needed a boost in rewards. I guess maybe if we can’t spin grandmasters then maybe they shouldn’t offer the other offer to the uncollected guys.

That's not how progression works. Putting in a disincentive to progressing in the game by saying you will get this, but you will lose that, is honestly nonsensical except in very specific corner case exceptions.