**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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Old price: (20 mil gold, 2.5mil battlechips, and 1.5mil loyalty per week)
New price: (366576 gold×30= 10.997 mil gold, 48305bchipsx30=1.44915 mil bc , 37963 loyalty×30= 1.139mil loyalty)
Obviously it still takes some time grinding for, but much better than before.
My guess on why they aren’t returning more donations is because they only decided to make this change a few months ago. They took a snapshot of treasury and started building a database of players donations then.
I may be wrong, but I doubt they keep each players donation and maps ran history over the life of their account. It would be extremely time consuming to return resources if they did though, especially for players who have donated to multiple treasuries.
They can split the treasury up and send 1/30th to each current member either. That would allow the alliances who use loaders to get tons of free resources.
It’s not the best system of reimbursement, at least they did have the foresight to do it at all. I’m disappointed myself that all I’ve donated over the years wasn’t taken into consideration or the fact that it doesn’t appear we can “claim” those donations as being the ones we’ve used for the previous 5 months. That would have been a much better outcome for the players.
Those map 5 donations that went towards paying for map 5, now those went and made future map 5s free. Also Kabam threw in 2 weeks of free AQ. But you also want those treasury resources back.
Sure, I'd also like my map 6/7 donations back. Same for everyone else. Ultimately, you want more stuff for your account, but let's not pretend the majority of players didn't have a net positive from this move.
1) AQ weekly map costs are down 40+% from before.
2) No more loophole for botters, cheaters, etc.
3) Kabam retroactively screwed cheaters/mercs/botters who participated in this. I hope those accounts are marked by Kabam and get retroactively deleted.
The only bad thing for the majority is we didn't get to use the leftover treasury from more than 5 months back. The cheaters wouldn't be punished if those resources were returned to them to use on future maps.
Who's to blame?
The players/cheaters/mercs/botters that depend on loopholes to: 1) make money off players, 2) funnel fraud money, 3) hinder people who play fairly in regards to arena/leaderboards/legend runs.
Now, Kabam can still make money off spenders who don't want to grind, but still want top AQ level resources, players have cheaper or free maps, and cheaters can expect retroactive punishment.
Look at it this way. When you make a Donation, it's to the Alliance. There it stays. You don't get them back if you leave or switch. It's not like a Bank where you can save it for Ranking later. The sole purpose of it is for AQ. We know this when we make deposits. Regardless of what we deposit, we know we're not getting it back. The Leader could boot us an hour later, and we wouldn't get it back.
As for the advanced notice, that doesn't really apply because as soon as they told us, they disabled it. Of course we wouldn't make Donations if we knew Map 5 was going to be free, but it wasn't free until we knew.
2) donations pay for AQ, tickets now pay for AQ
3) the treasury is not a bank nor is it insured
4) donations were surrendered for AQ when deposited, the sole purpose of the treasury
5) if they were the sold as a result of a 3rd party they’re forfeit
6) if they were traded for other resources the value of refunds could be off
Now you're proposing for Kabam to return those resources from the treasury. This would be unfair to players because now you have extra resources that would otherwise not be available to you.
Player A has 2,000,000 gold. He donates 1,000,000.
Player B has 1,000,000 gold. He doesn't donate.
They both now own 1,000,000 gold.
They use that gold to rank up a 5* character.
BUT, Player A gets his gold back, just like you suggested.
Player A now has 1,000,000 extra gold that he had given up.
That gold wasn't available to him before. Now, it's given him an advantage.
Player A can now rank up a second 5*, putting him in a better place than Player B.
Kabam shouldn't return resources like Gold, BCs, and Loyalty that can be used for non-AQ purposes.
They should return in tickets in full, or some other AQ-specific currency in full, but not in general resources.
How is it that when people donate, it’s unfair that they get back what they donated?