Kabam: What is our New Year's resolution this year guys?
Kabam Employee #1: A free four-star crystal in the monthly login?
CEO: No.
Kabam Employee #2: Increase the storage limits on ALL catalysts?
CEO: No. You got anything #3?
Kabam Employee #3: Uh... how about... buffing some useless champions so that they become slightly less useless, but still very useless. Uh...make Sentry a crappy champion so that at the end of the year, we can give him out for free as our appreciation gift. Uh... ruin the basic 6* pool with all the least favourite champions voted by players. And uh... make a 'deal' for £1600 for two-thirds of a tier 2 alpha catalyst.
CEO: You're getting a pay rise.
The point isn't to buy an entire t2a. Not everyone needs an entire catalyst, they just need a little bit to top off, and that's what the store is for. It It's just like how they changed the t4b in glory store, rather than sell an entire catalyst for 1100 glory they broke it up into 18,000 frags so you can buy what you need. Don't complain, the offer is better than nothing
Then why is the limit 30?
Probably to stay consistent with all the other special items? While it might be implausible to buy all 30 of the fragments, I'm sure there are whales out there willing to buy all 30 sig stones or shards. Most likely an arbitrary number
the point is they think we are stupid enough to spend 49k units. They didn't sell 30 because the point isnt to buy all of them. That doesnt make any sense
There is a limit of 30 for all the special items, each starts with a base cost and they use a formula to decide each consecutive cost. The t2a has a high base cost, but 150 units may be worth it for someone who just needs a little bit more to fully form a catalyst. I agree the cost is absolutely ridiculous but I don't think they are really expecting anyone to spend that much
@Kabam Mike & @Ad0ra, please please sort out your forum, why have imposters, get giggy wid it, then when u get a chance, kick ure dev’s butts & sort out this redonkulous offer you’ve put out,
plz
Should be 15 units for 720 T2a shards. 4500 units for ~2/3 T2a feels about right, if not a little pricey. But 45,000 units for 21,600 shards? Lunacy. Megalodons indeed.
Math can be tough. Here’s to hoping the guys who code algorithms and formulae into the game are better at it than the marketing department.
The point here is not to buy all of the Items, but be able to top up on items that you may be interested in. Originally, there was a lower purchase limit, but we decided to raise it for all items to 30. There may be some items that show up that you might want 30 of, but we're staying consistent with all items.
If you don't want to buy all 30, just don't do it. It's up to you to decide how much you want to invest, and what you want to get back for that amount.
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How can the scale of the T2 alpha u it cost be justified? 720 fragments for 150units is a little high I didn't realise that if you hit limit of 30 that total unit cost would 49,566 or in real money terms that's 16 Odins worth if units = £1600
I usually don’t complain about store pricing. I understand these games are expensive and they are trying to make a lot of money in a relatively short time but come on...
Nearly 50,000 units is equivalent to about $1,600 and its only a little bit more than half of an item.
Lol. I liked the idea of these items being in stores, but these prices are insane. They might as well not even be offered
I hope pricing is lowered back down to earth for future items.
In general, I give Kabam a lot more latitude on unit offers than cash offers. Cash is cash, but units are theoretically free with enough gameplay. There are players - and not just whales or top tier players - that can get thousands of units a month just playing normally (mostly from grinding arena milestones, plus other things).
50k units is about $1600 if you buy them, but when I spent 15k units on masteries way back in the day those cost me nothing: I just accumulated them from gameplay. 50k units is $1600 or maybe its nine months of grinding by a player with nothing else to spend them on. Because units can be grinded out with gameplay, their equivalent cash value is a little more nebulous than actual cash offers.
The T2A price is pretty steep, but at the moment it is also the highest pursuit item in the game. Its value and difficulty to acquire is currently so high that most players in the game probably have more of them from login calendars than from their own gameplay and purchases. Outside of things like calendars, they are always going to be expensive. Not just expensive, but always more expensive than you think is reasonable, because of their special place currently at the top of resources you can grind out (only T5B are more valuable and rare, and they aren't as easy to grind out at all).
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can't wait to sell my car to buy 5* sig stones
**** or even this one
Kabam Employee #1: A free four-star crystal in the monthly login?
CEO: No.
Kabam Employee #2: Increase the storage limits on ALL catalysts?
CEO: No. You got anything #3?
Kabam Employee #3: Uh... how about... buffing some useless champions so that they become slightly less useless, but still very useless. Uh...make Sentry a crappy champion so that at the end of the year, we can give him out for free as our appreciation gift. Uh... ruin the basic 6* pool with all the least favourite champions voted by players. And uh... make a 'deal' for £1600 for two-thirds of a tier 2 alpha catalyst.
CEO: You're getting a pay rise.
There is a limit of 30 for all the special items, each starts with a base cost and they use a formula to decide each consecutive cost. The t2a has a high base cost, but 150 units may be worth it for someone who just needs a little bit more to fully form a catalyst. I agree the cost is absolutely ridiculous but I don't think they are really expecting anyone to spend that much
Megalodon
Well played! I think we have our new term!
True they do have office in san fran, which is insanely expensive. Oh here's another slap in the face offer
They are not even smart greedy, they could offer some great offers and make bank, instead...
plz
Math can be tough. Here’s to hoping the guys who code algorithms and formulae into the game are better at it than the marketing department.
Dr. Zola
If you don't want to buy all 30, just don't do it. It's up to you to decide how much you want to invest, and what you want to get back for that amount.
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Legit offer totally worth to buy 21,600 Tier 2 Alpha shards for 49.5K Unites Lmfao who is the guy that thought it was a good value for it ?
This is fun. Get out those wallets.
T2 fragments arrived for a limited time only!!! Kid grab that momi wallet and buy!!!
Just wait until we see what they sell 5* shard for to entice those going for Blade to have "just one more chance".
I usually don’t complain about store pricing. I understand these games are expensive and they are trying to make a lot of money in a relatively short time but come on...
Nearly 50,000 units is equivalent to about $1,600 and its only a little bit more than half of an item.
Lol. I liked the idea of these items being in stores, but these prices are insane. They might as well not even be offered
I hope pricing is lowered back down to earth for future items.
50k units is about $1600 if you buy them, but when I spent 15k units on masteries way back in the day those cost me nothing: I just accumulated them from gameplay. 50k units is $1600 or maybe its nine months of grinding by a player with nothing else to spend them on. Because units can be grinded out with gameplay, their equivalent cash value is a little more nebulous than actual cash offers.
The T2A price is pretty steep, but at the moment it is also the highest pursuit item in the game. Its value and difficulty to acquire is currently so high that most players in the game probably have more of them from login calendars than from their own gameplay and purchases. Outside of things like calendars, they are always going to be expensive. Not just expensive, but always more expensive than you think is reasonable, because of their special place currently at the top of resources you can grind out (only T5B are more valuable and rare, and they aren't as easy to grind out at all).