As someone who hasn't spent in years (and it was like 10$ total) and doesn't plan to spend again, I definitely get why free to play players and lower progression level players always seem to get annoyed when deals come around. They see it as other people getting more things than they do for no/less effort. There are most certainly aspects of the game where there is competition and other players doing better literally does impact you in terms of events and rewards in those competitive modes.
The perspective that I don't see often on forums as much is the positive one of being excited for people who enjoy spending on their accounts to open cool prizes, progress their accounts, and enjoy playing the game. People who spend on big deal days could have spent any other day, they just literally get a better deal when something like this comes out. In any game where you can pay to get better rewards, something like this happens.
Now sure, its always interesting to see how worth it the deals actually are, and it makes sense to complain when Kabam makes what seems like a ridiculous decision when it comes to the level of rewards that can be bought with units (and therefore money, since most people don't usually have free time grind up to 30k units without spending, though congrats if you do) as opposed to rewards offered for completing in-game content. I just hope I don't have to read through a million posts complaining about how unfair everything is for F2P or for lower progression players. Be happy for people who are getting new things (legally), use it as motivation to push you to finally reach the next level, be constructive when someone else gets that dream pull that you have been looking for. There are positive ways to do things that can make it a fun weekend for everyone, or it can just be an explosion of regret and annoyance.
Never understand the f2p gripe when it comes to things like July 4th. They are called OFFERS. Kabam OFFER you something and you have a choice whether to spend you real life hard earned money or not. For the people that choose not to, great, that's your choice. But don't complain about the people that do. The f2p players wouldn't have ANYTHING to play if it wasn't for people that take the OFFERS keeping the game running. I get that there is a sense of achievement in grinding your account and earning everything through playing. But that's all it is an achievement. It doesn't make the people that spend any worse than them.
As a f2p TB , I don't care 😂😂😂😂 because if unit deal is good I will try to grab it or otherwise going to focus on act 6 exploration with same units or maybe 7.2
Never understand the f2p gripe when it comes to things like July 4th. They are called OFFERS. Kabam OFFER you something and you have a choice whether to spend you real life hard earned money or not. For the people that choose not to, great, that's your choice. But don't complain about the people that do. The f2p players wouldn't have ANYTHING to play if it wasn't for people that take the OFFERS keeping the game running. I get that there is a sense of achievement in grinding your account and earning everything through playing. But that's all it is an achievement. It doesn't make the people that spend any worse than them.
I agree in principle, but I wonder if what Cavs saw on Black Friday continues as a trend. TB is the first title tied to a roster requirement. Cavs didn’t get any t5cc - you could spend 50 bucks for 5% or 100 for 10%. You could buy every unit offer for 18,000 units and it would’ve earned you 0 t5cc.
If it continues July 4, it’s a pretty clear indication that they’re willing to sell the title via selectors, willing to let f2p clear content for it, but they aren’t going to make unit offers part of that progression.
Now that it is much harder for me to get units I'm not sure I will be buying the unit deal anymore with all the units I been saving. Based on the spring cleaning sale I feel the the 4th of July sales are gonna be insane. Anyone who drops some cash is gonna be very happy with their purchase.
The perspective that I don't see often on forums as much is the positive one of being excited for people who enjoy spending on their accounts to open cool prizes, progress their accounts, and enjoy playing the game. People who spend on big deal days could have spent any other day, they just literally get a better deal when something like this comes out. In any game where you can pay to get better rewards, something like this happens.
The perspective I've been touting for years is that from my perspective, spenders get stuff they can use in the game, and non-spenders get a free game. I think in general that's a fair trade. F2P players need to remember that in the days when all online games were supported with subscriptions, games typically cost $120-$250 a year. That's the value they are getting when they play completely for free. The spenders are more than making up the difference, and in return their game is not really, in practical terms, all that much better than the F2P experience.
If you're a highly competitive player, spending can even be a double edged sword. A lot of their spending doesn't go directly towards improving their overall game play experience. It goes towards keeping up with other spenders, and doing things they wouldn't otherwise do except for the needs of competitive play. In other words, they are spending just to neutralize the spending of other spenders.
If you're F2P by coincidence, in other words, you don't spend because you don't want to spend in general, you might get jealous of what spenders get. But if you are F2P because you're explicitly trying to see how much game you can get for free, I don't think spenders bother you. In that case spenders aren't making your experience worse, they are making it better, because they give you something to compare yourself to, to see how much game you're getting away with playing for free compared to people spending huge amounts of cash. Everything an F2P player earns in the game is something someone somewhere probably spent a lot to get. And the more they spent, the happier I think those kinds of F2P players are.
TBs: Incredible, show-stopping Cash and Unit deals.
Cavs: Passable but underwhelming cash deals, with unit deals that are slightly improved but still treat all Cavs like they're fresh off 6.1. In other words, trash.
UC and Below: Gently Caressed.
Kabam could surprise me. Gutting the "middle-class" didn't particularly help their bottom line. TB might've been a decent game-balance hotfix, but it's been pretty terrible financially it seems.
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The perspective that I don't see often on forums as much is the positive one of being excited for people who enjoy spending on their accounts to open cool prizes, progress their accounts, and enjoy playing the game. People who spend on big deal days could have spent any other day, they just literally get a better deal when something like this comes out. In any game where you can pay to get better rewards, something like this happens.
Now sure, its always interesting to see how worth it the deals actually are, and it makes sense to complain when Kabam makes what seems like a ridiculous decision when it comes to the level of rewards that can be bought with units (and therefore money, since most people don't usually have free time grind up to 30k units without spending, though congrats if you do) as opposed to rewards offered for completing in-game content. I just hope I don't have to read through a million posts complaining about how unfair everything is for F2P or for lower progression players. Be happy for people who are getting new things (legally), use it as motivation to push you to finally reach the next level, be constructive when someone else gets that dream pull that you have been looking for. There are positive ways to do things that can make it a fun weekend for everyone, or it can just be an explosion of regret and annoyance.
it be like that.
If it continues July 4, it’s a pretty clear indication that they’re willing to sell the title via selectors, willing to let f2p clear content for it, but they aren’t going to make unit offers part of that progression.
If you're a highly competitive player, spending can even be a double edged sword. A lot of their spending doesn't go directly towards improving their overall game play experience. It goes towards keeping up with other spenders, and doing things they wouldn't otherwise do except for the needs of competitive play. In other words, they are spending just to neutralize the spending of other spenders.
If you're F2P by coincidence, in other words, you don't spend because you don't want to spend in general, you might get jealous of what spenders get. But if you are F2P because you're explicitly trying to see how much game you can get for free, I don't think spenders bother you. In that case spenders aren't making your experience worse, they are making it better, because they give you something to compare yourself to, to see how much game you're getting away with playing for free compared to people spending huge amounts of cash. Everything an F2P player earns in the game is something someone somewhere probably spent a lot to get. And the more they spent, the happier I think those kinds of F2P players are.
Cavs: Passable but underwhelming cash deals, with unit deals that are slightly improved but still treat all Cavs like they're fresh off 6.1. In other words, trash.
UC and Below: Gently Caressed.
Kabam could surprise me. Gutting the "middle-class" didn't particularly help their bottom line. TB might've been a decent game-balance hotfix, but it's been pretty terrible financially it seems.
With a few t5cc fragement offers.
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That TB deals are even better than ever..
Because they should be of course.
If cav reward are better TB's should be amazingly better as well.
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Uncollected deals should help progress them to cav
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Everything else is a welcome to the game package.