**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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And Kabam know this isn't good for the game, anyone who disagrees with that fact is just ignoring Miike's message that they know about this and are making sure it's not exploitable during gifting.
So if you want me to say a specific length of time that is too short to be able to get 2k units that you can repeat over and over, obviously you will know that it's not as simple as saying black and white that it's... say 24 hours (pulled out of thin air as an example). Because then you say, oh so is it ok if it's 24 hours and 1 minute? But then also, I know that if I were to say a month, then that's obviously too high. So it's clear to me it's on a sliding scale, with lots of nuance.
I will say this though, I do think that it should be somewhere around the amount of time it would reasonably take someone to grind out 2k units on your main account. I don't do enough arena to say exactly how long that is, but I know that you can get around 800 units from all 3 arenas + battlechips. So I don't think that's going to take only 6 hours is it? To 100% each 3 day arena - basic, featured and summoner trials.
It needs to be similar to that, because then it treats making an alt as if it's supplementary to grinding your main. Or as an equal replacement. If you grind 2k units in 24 hours on your main, as an example. Then getting it in 6 hours is obviously so much better on an alt. But if it's pretty equal, then you can either grind an alt instead, or as well as. As it stands now, there is no point grinding it on your main - because there are 0 places on your main that can get you 2k units in 6 hours.
I have no idea how I feel about this. I don’t mind if people have an alt or two and decide to feed their main account with some quick and easy units. It’s the holidays, live and let live. I would mind if a person did this to such an extent as to tip rank rewards in an alliance or some other such nonsense. That would be obnoxious.
This is the same reason we don't get weekly compensation for solo stuff only AW/AQ stuff. They don't want units going out the door (which is what potions/revives would be) because they want people to spend money on those things instead.
The "good of the game" and Kabam's bottom line often are in alignment, because obviously if the game does not continue to thrive then that kills the income as well, but this issue is not at all about the game and is totally about the bottom line.
Why does Kabam likes the gifting event? It historically makes them much more money than usual months.
Making new accounts to send gifts has always been around. Should this be the norm? That's on Kabam. Even for this year 2021, people have been preparing and playing alt accounts to gift to their main.
My main gripe are botters/unit frauders. These bot accounts, mass side accounts, also benefit from the new acts 1-4, because they most likely haven't grinded it to 100%. They can mass bot so on gifting season, they can sell units for cheap.
For people making recently new accounts now to gift to themselves, versus people who already made accounts to gift themselves, that practice is the same. They're trading personal time for potential units/items for their main account.
If Kabam hammers down on just recent new accounts, it won't address the unit fraud/botters.
If Kabam prevents gifting from <year old alt accounts, it'll also affect more low spending players who made alt accounts in anticipation for the gifting event.
If making/owning a few alt accounts to gift main accounts remains unaddressed/seemingly okay, it wouldn't seem right to exclude players who recently have less than a year old, but allow bot accounts who've been around longer than a year.
So based on that, expect 10k shards every 40 crystals. At 7 GGC for 6 hours work, you’re looking at an average of 34 hours of grinding. Hardly an unfair advantage.
Your trading time for the units, which arena users do as well.
Because they will bot anyways. At least until Kabam can reliably stop it. To that end, if Kabam found a way to stop all botters and only legit farming occured, would you still take offense to the event?
Back to botting. Instead of botting for gifting event; they’ll just bot to farm units all year so they can sell the account and transfer the cash to units. Except that way, when the bot is banned, some gullible poor soul is out the money and the main violator is untraceable. This way, if Kabam can identify a bot, all they have to do is see who receives the gifting crystals. Then trace any other accounts gifting, check for botting, etc. Now they know who is violating the rules and can ban the main.
Because of that, I think you’ll find the vast majority of alts used for gifting event are legit farming.
Player A spends tons of their time to get units for free through alt farming and gets 50 6* champs because of it (Totally made up numbers clearly).
Player B spends real money to make sure they get the same number of crystals as Player A and they also receive 50 6* champs (still totally made up numbers).
One of these effects the bottom line for Kabam, but how does only one of these have a different impact on you? The end result from both Player A and Player B is the same on every other player.
My account is still low level should i create a new acc to just gift GGC on this acc?
Instead of comparing the end result of one player grinding and spending the same amount - What you really need to think about is the number of players that would take up the new method instead of doing anything, and how that would affect the economy. You need to think about how many extra units will be grinded out, compared to how much each player would have bought or grinded in the first place.
You’re saying oh well if there’s a spender who would spend £100, but he’s grinded out 3100 units so what difference to the economy does that make? Clearly none, the same amount of units will be spent on the game. But that’s not the situation for every single player is it?
What about someone who wasn’t going to spend, or grind out arena, but now that there’s this easy farming method they’re gonna go and grind out tons more units than they would ever have spent money on, or grinded in arena?
You’re using one specific example to backup your point without looking at the whole picture. You need to look at the entire economy of the game, and think about every player who is going to get more than they otherwise would have. That’s the effect on the economy, not picking out two hypothetical players who spent/grinded the same amount.
There are 2 solutions to this if mass gifting is actually a problem:
1. Don't have the event.
2. An account can only receive X number of crystals as gifts regardless of the source.
Or we could just acknowledge that this doesn't effect players in any way because the end result is the same whether people grind/spend and that the players who will disagree with me right now are just jealous/upset that they don't have the time to grind alts as well.
Your argument about players getting more than they normally would is just a statement that reads "someone spent their time doing this and now they got something for free and I don't like it".
Crystal Opening Whale had the resources to buy every 6* when it came out. I don't have that kind of money, so by your logic he had an unfair advantage and shouldn't have been allowed to do that.
Also, it isn't shady, it is literally the current game design that gives these units. They aren't hacking. They aren't exploiting. They aren't doing anything against the Terms of Service. They are just spending their time differently than you.