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6* AG is unfair.
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Now, I’ll hoard for progress reasons in case there’s an offer that uses one of my resources as currency.
If people see fit to hold on to these things, that's entirely up to them. I've been using my Gems as I see fit. I missed out on a 6* Gem, but c'est la vie.
Kabam does force us to open our crystals it's called spring cleaning and they do it every now and again.
I had a ton of 5* AGs as well and when I like a champ I use them on that champ, I don't see anything wrong with that. I think with their philosophy, it shouldn't be a 6* AG as a trade in, for 5 generics. Why am I being punished for using my resources ?
It is irrational to hoard a resource thinking that it will
Become more valuable later on when we are on 6* R3 champs. Should I start hoarding my 6* gems just in case we can trade them for 7* gems? I don't explore the EQS besides cavalier because they don't benefit my account.
What do you think Kabams intentions are?
I was able to get up to 3 generic AGs. How will I earn them now? Arena , Variant. Why am I being punished?
At TB we don't need 5* champs , but it's nice to use them. How can we possibly enjoy the 5* champs or trophy champs when it becomes currency for a better resource.
This is an offer I believe that everyone should of had a fair chance to get. No money required or time required. There was no actual currency to obtain this except for hoarding.
Yes, they stopped showing featured crystal previews, because they wanted people to decide whether to buy the current one based on the value in it, not based on comparing it to the future crystals, because that ladders indefinitely: you can keep comparing to the next one and the next one. But they don't stop people from saving up for the crystals, and in fact they can't prevent people from knowing which featured champs will be in those crystals, because that's determined by release order. So if you're saying this proves the game doesn't want you to hoard 6* shards, why do they still *let* people hoard 6* shards? Why not just make an inventory cap on them? They changed the equation for deciding when to use them, but they didn't alter the ability to save or spend whenever players want, and players still save a lot of them.
Kabam also force opens crystals. They do that to flush the older crystals from the databases. They even explained that. This doesn't prevent hoarding at all, this prevents a marginal few players holding on to deprecated crystals from clogging reward table space. It doesn't target the crystals hoarded the most. In fact, it explicitly *avoids* any crystal that lots of people are holding lots of. So saying a crystal clean up that only affects crystals held by very few players, and only has very few instances of it held, is evidence the game doesn't want players to hoard crystals, is completely nonsensical. It doesn't target any of the crystals being hoarded in large quantities by significant numbers of players.
Kabam's intentions are pretty clear to me. I could be wrong, but if so I'm close enough that my misconceptions serve me very well. I use resources when they will be of value to my progress, and I think my progress is fine. I don't generally complain about running out of resources, so I'm not placing unreasonable constraints on them. But I also build up a lot of resources that I can use when opportunities arise. I have a lot of dry powder always at my disposal. I think that balance of spending and saving is something the game rewards, and that is something I've been saying for years: the game rewards good resource management.
Years ago I said I play this game like an MMO, because MMOs are what I know, and I see evidence everywhere that this game isn't evolving like a mobile fighter, it is evolving like an MMO. In an MMO, saving everything and complaining you don't have enough stuff is silly. Spending everything and complaining you don't have enough stuff is equally silly. Balance is rewarded, and everything else is penalized. I have yet to see any evidence that this approach to the game is not optimal.
Two people with 4 generics could have very different experiences. Someone could have opened 3 5* gems and got the same class, and another could open 12 and get 2 of each class. That’s a ridiculous amount to base on RNG, for the rarest resource the game while teaching the player base that hoarding is good
Everything with the game is so contradictory lately.. Don't hoard . But wait here's something you can only get us5 you hoard!
I just don't agree. If we worked to be at the highest peak in the game and have no way of earning a resource that is not available almost anywhere in game , then I am entitled to that. Just like many others.
If they didn't know they were planning this I January then how am I supposed to hoard? Can't plan for what you don't know.
I keep units in my account just in case a deals pop up. I keep revives in my account just in case content comes up. I don't keep 5* AGs lying around just in case I can trade it for a resources that's has only been available 3 times in 3/4 years. And when I tried I could only come up with 3/5.
You deserve this too GW , if you don't feel that you don't , then it's okay, I'll fight for you too. You should enjoy your champions without having this happen.
5* AGs only matter to me if I'm awakening a 5* champ that I will rank up and use now. As in, right now, ten seconds after awakening. If I'm planning to use the champ next month, or next week, that awakening is worthless now. I awaken when that awakening will be put to use, and not before. Because of that, I tend to naturally awaken champs before I get around to using them, which is why I have a lot of 5* AGs lying around. I am not hoarding them. I am holding them to use when a specific need arises. If that need arose, I would burn them in an instant.
The thing is, I don't complain about resource shortages, I don't complain about slow progress, I don't complain about resource availability unless it reaches game breaking levels across the playerbase. I don't complain about what my resource management decisions do to me personally. If you're going to take the position that you're not going to spend anything just in case some future opportunity better comes along, I think that's a valid position to take *if* and *only if* you don't complain about the side effects of that decision.
Most players don't' have the discipline to live with their decisions. They think they have the right to decide to play the game however they want and complain when that approach doesn't generate acceptable results. That's the fundamental reason behind Kabam's discouraging hoarding in general. In trying to play efficiently, players are strangling their own progress and blaming the game for not bailing them out. I don't believe you're one of those players, so hoard all you want. Kabam doesn't really care. But in general, most people who do hoard do so to their own detriment and either don't realize it or won't accept it. They are the targets of the "don't hoard" recommendation.
Now , Imagine we have the same 10 mil in the bank so we are both ready to buy any lambo we wanted.
( The lambo we are discussing only has shown up 3 times)
Let's say Lambo company calls you and says "hey GW it's here come in and get it" You go to the store to pick up your lambo and they say they can only sell to you if you didn't get last years edition, no lambo owner can have 2 years back to back. If no one informed you of that at the time of purchase , how can you prepare in advance?
Now I walk in there and just so happens I skipped the last 2 years of buying a lambo ,so I get the lambo. $$ wasn't the factory so what was? Luck?