My F2P non-grinder perspective on deals

Since the cyber Monday, I have seen a lot of people become advocates for the F2P community. There has been a lot of talk about balance being shifted to the P2W with regards to the gifting event and poor deals that were available this weekend.

Let me reiterate what I have always said and believed about deals as F2P non-grinder:

Affordable good deals destroy the balance of the game for the F2P, not the bad pricey ones.

Affordable good deals means that a significant number of people will buy them and since they are good, they will get a pretty big advantage over you.

Whereas an extortionate deal (like the gifting event) does not affect me one bit. Only 30 people are going to get the "broken" rewards. That is nothing. Now if they had put t5cc selector in 4k units or $ equivalent deals, everyone in plat bracket would have gotten it and you as a F2P would have been left behind definitely.

Ideally, I believe the rarest of resource should always be hidden behind content and not sold... but if that ship has failed, I hope that the deals are always very high priced and not very good. Every time a good deal is floated in the game, the content rewards are cheapened.

Comments

Thedancingkid

100% agree.
I’m more or less in the same situation, never been able to buy more than the 1k offer during cyber Monday or July 4th offers, everything else is a very easy pass.
And another reason I find it difficult to get exercised about it is that it’s still possible to be competitive in war (currently p1) and do endgame content, maybe not as quickly as the people to spend to explore things as soon as possible, but given they then spend months without interesting content I’m not sure they come out on top here.

Doctorwho13

I think it depends on the specific content of the deal. Shards for example. So RNG dependent. My alt account is at UC. The lowest unit deal offered 7000 5* shards. That’s pretty good value for a UC in my opinion. Buying 5 have 35000 shards, but that’s only 3 and half 5 crystals (less for featured). I don’t think anything becomes cheapened with three 5*s. Moreover, let’s not forget likely 2 of the 3 will be a cyclops dupe and you’ll get one you actually need; maybe.

AzKicker316

But you are coming from a very particular point of view, F2P Non-grinder. You already are limited in your progression and limited in what you can do for an alliance for events like gifting.

The deals are worth it only to those who buy them, and those are for the cash deals or unit deals. If you want faster progression and a better chance at resources, it's going to cost you one of two things....... time or money. Otherwise, you are truly limited to how fast you progress in this game.

KnightZero

I mean as F2P, the unit deals should be better. Why should F2P grinders suffer? They exist as well you know. You're approaching it as a non-grinder. But for those who spent time grinding units in arena, it was a total bust. Why should they be punished for playing the game because the non-grinders don't want to? I'm not saying that go ahead and put full T5cc selectors and 10 Nexus crystals or whatever. But the unit deals sucked. Simple as that.

Mauled

Usually money offers are pretty poor value for money - in relative terms, I suppose it’s all pretty bad value for money when you boil down to it. Cyber weekend and 4th July are the two times when cash buys you a noticeable advantage - I don’t include the periodic 10% selectors for £50 as that’s seriously expensive when you work out what you’re actually paying for.
This in itself isn’t that big an issue in my opinion, it keeps the game afloat and the top of AQ is already saturated by massive spenders and a very few hardcore grinders who are clinging on. I picked up the 1k TB offer, but didn’t bother with the 4K as it didn’t really tick any boxes for me.
I think that there needed to be another tier of offer between Cavalier and Thronebreaker, the Cavalier offers looked couched towards recent cavaliers, not players who are deep into Act 6 but aren’t quite Thronebreaker. If the offers had been full of T5B and T2A and 6* shards to help widen these rosters and hopefully get that R3 worthy 6* then I don’t think there would have been so much uproar.

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