**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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Really…? Again.
Jacob72518
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With gameplay issues, not all of us can even properly play alliance modes. Why do we keep getting resources that immediately go into the overflow?
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If you do not need those items then you are not the target of the compensation. I am glad to have extra AQ pots for if I mess up and eat a combo due to the parry bug in map 7 day 5 epic mods. Don’t complain and ask for this compensation not be taken away.
If you are asking for solo compensation that is a different question, and frame it as thus.
We keep getting these resources because you can’t see past your own situation and realise that others do need these revives and pots. If it goes into your overflow then that’s perfect! The compensation isn’t aimed at you. I can’t get over how many times I’ve had to write this post to different people who just can’t get it.
You can prevent things from going into overflow by not claiming the resources in the mail. Those of us grinding out AQ and AW through the bugs need some of this stuff
They could also just be wrong, but there's also the possibility they are seeing that we aren't that overrides the anecdotes we're hearing about potion use. The (vocal) players are not always right about their perceptions of the playerbase as a whole.
-the gameplay issues have affected every mode of gameplay.
-we're only getting items for 1 mode of gameplay.
these are the simple facts.
First, we're getting them for two modes of gameplay, not one: Alliance Quest and Alliance War. I'll assume that was just a minor slipup.
Second, the compensation items are not to "make up for gameplay issues." Compensation by definition compensates. The gameplay issues are affecting different players in different ways, but Kabam acknowledges that many players may be affected in ways that hamper their ability to play certain content strongly enough to be noteworthy. This manifests in different ways, but in Alliance modes there's a recognition that players cannot simply adjust to the gameplay changes because Alliance mode content are consensus modes: a group of players mutually agree to play that content at a certain level of play. For Alliance Quest this is voluntary but requires coordination across many players, and for Alliance War this isn't even unilaterally opt-in: the difficulty you face depends on your historical play (manifested in your war tier). Alliance War and Alliance Quest potions aim to compensate for the fact that many players may be facing much higher difficulty than before the issues arose in a context where they cannot do much to adjust to that change, short of leaving their alliance.
That's not the case for solo content. Solo content is completely under the control of the individual player. In this sense, the gameplay issues are not affecting every mode of gameplay in the same way for all players. They can react to gameplay changes by adjusting what content they play and when. It is a separate issue to consider the opportunity cost associated with changing the content you do, but this is still far easier to control than Alliance content. And while you can argue whether this is a reasonable response, Kabam themselves stated their position on this when they advised players to adjust their play relative to the current gameplay issues. Since we're talking about what the compensation packages are for, Kabam's intent is what matters, not what you think would be appropriate.
The fact that Kabam continues to hand out Alliance War and Quest materials weekly, but have only stated their intention to hand out solo content stuff more infrequently tells me they are continuing to stick to this position: that AQ and AW are a different kind of hardship than solo content, and they may have data that supports this. If they didn't, I don't think they would be sticking to this position for as long as they have.
There's a lot of nuance involved with this situation, and you can choose to view them through a trivial lens, but don't expect them to make sense to you if you do.
They haven't said, but that would be a reasonable guess. Our alliance isn't even a Map 6/7 alliance and we were getting maxed out on glory during those days, so it is possible this was a far more widespread situation and the extra glory became overkill.
That's why there are people actively discussing why stuff like this is still important even if it's not beneficial to the author of the thread.
We'll continue playing normal as if it has been fixed cos we don't know when it'll be. If some of us ask for compensation in these areas as well I think it's a fair ask imo.