This is an over reaction all the way around. First of all, BG isn't going to quit MCOC any time soon. The game basically pays his bills via YouTube. Tranistioning to a new game, making videos, and getting the same support he receives from the MCOC community would not be an easy task. For a man that only eats beans, I can't imagine him making that decision easily. Second, I love Brian. He's my favorite, but it doesn't mean I have to agree with him on everything. I frequently disagree with people I love. Ask my wife. This game does not exist without the big spenders, but the big spenders need incentive to spend. Kabam's employees are not going to make this game and get constantly yelled at by the player base for free. In fact, they expect to turn a profit. Does this mean that spending will create a larger progression gap between big spenders and the rest of the player base? Absolutely. Does that mean that you can't still be competive. No! There will always be people around you to compete against. You simply have to compete at your own level and be okay with not having the ultimate rewards. You'll win some, you'll lose some, and you will still have fun.Third, this is only a big deal right now during the shift in the meta between R3s and R4s. People who spend big and get the big rewards are going to have a huge advantage for awhile, but it will even out over time. Eventually, T6B and T3A will become more available and will be sitting in your overflow with everything else. By that time, the big spenders may have way more R4s than everyone else, but it will only be their top 5 champs that actually matter. Beyond that, the games comes back down to skill, knowledge, and preparation.Then we get to do this all again when R5s come around. Then 7 stars going to R2.This gifting event marks a big change in the Battlerealm, and people often don't like change. That doesn't mean this is the end of the Battlerealm altogether. I do share one sentiment with BG. The gifting event is gross. To the people that are going to be spending $20k over the next couple weeks, can you imagine how many people's lives you could improve drastically over the holiday season by donating half of that?
I was hoping for a less scam heavy event. for a "community building" event like the gifting, it's toxic and too easily manipulated. especially for casual gamers who don't exactly have a team of trusted players around them.
An alternate thought. What does one of these whale accounts do once gifting is past? They can potentially get a rank 4 or three out of the gifting crystals, then get a bit more from the event. Then what? Everything else in the game is wildly less remunerative. Is it even fun to be the most stacked account in the game?
He’s already got another video out, opening GGC’s to profit off the event…he’s a hypocrite who hasn’t once supported the game financially.
This literally doesn't affect 99% of the community.
This literally doesn't affect 99% of the community. It affects the top 20 alliances that's all. Who cares if they get an abyss nexus crystal as rewards, you really think people spending 10k alone on gifting don't already have every 6* in the game? LOLToo many people getting pressed over something that doesn't affect them.
This literally doesn't affect 99% of the community. If it affects the top players and spenders, then it will also affect anyone below them
I believe his YouTube videos are what makes him money as I doubt he has a side job with the amount of time he spends grinding. Unless he's able to move on to a different game and have enough followers follow him I don't see him doing it. I'ts not a given he would be able to recover enough subscribers on a new game. Not that I care as I don't see the point of most of his videos. I hate grinding....watching someone else do it is even worst.
I believe his YouTube videos are what makes him money as I doubt he has a side job with the amount of time he spends grinding. Unless he's able to move on to a different game and have enough followers follow him I don't see him doing it. I'ts not a given he would be able to recover enough subscribers on a new game. Not that I care as I don't see the point of most of his videos. I hate grinding....watching someone else do it is even worst. Seatin kinda left the game and didn't make a big deal of it. BG should not even be playing at the level he is playing at currently, he is able to because he is a 4loki OG. This is his business and I doubt he would be able to transition into anything else because Kabam has tried to get us to switch to mroc and the newest revolution game and still no luck lol.
I believe his YouTube videos are what makes him money as I doubt he has a side job with the amount of time he spends grinding. Unless he's able to move on to a different game and have enough followers follow him I don't see him doing it. I'ts not a given he would be able to recover enough subscribers on a new game. Not that I care as I don't see the point of most of his videos. I hate grinding....watching someone else do it is even worst. Seatin kinda left the game and didn't make a big deal of it. BG should not even be playing at the level he is playing at currently, he is able to because he is a 4loki OG. This is his business and I doubt he would be able to transition into anything else because Kabam has tried to get us to switch to mroc and the newest revolution game and still no luck lol. I don't think Seatin left the game completely as I still see him do the odd video but he isn't spending the kind of time he used to. You could also tell this was coming as he started posting non MCOC videos likely as a test to see how many of his subscribers would watch. It's kind of too bad I really enjoyed Seatin's god tier list even if I didn't always agree with it.Your point is well taken though
Brian is a humble guy and not the type to chase status or money. He's the biggest streamer and doesn't even take himself too seriously, he just does it for fun. I don't know why people think he's threatening to quit, he just said he's less motivated to make channel content.
It’s a shame that this kind of thing happens, but if we compare this to a more traditional hobby/sport, such as say running; what is the price of entry to the competitive leagues? What about something more fun, like downhill skiing? How f2p is that? Ok what about… chess?I want to see Brian grant succeed, but any popular recreation has a price of entry.The difference with mcoc is this game also has a built in kill switch, with the chase from 4* to 5* to… 7*s. Will we ever get to 40*s? I suppose I hope so… The game will die either before introducing 7 stars or soon after doing so
It’s a shame that this kind of thing happens, but if we compare this to a more traditional hobby/sport, such as say running; what is the price of entry to the competitive leagues? What about something more fun, like downhill skiing? How f2p is that? Ok what about… chess?I want to see Brian grant succeed, but any popular recreation has a price of entry.The difference with mcoc is this game also has a built in kill switch, with the chase from 4* to 5* to… 7*s. Will we ever get to 40*s? I suppose I hope so…
I like BG. I like KT1. But honestly, I feel like some of these people only truly get upset when something they don't personally like happens to them. They can overlook other issues (complain about them some, but let them slide) when they can deal with the problems thanks to their deep rosters, big allies, bank roll, amount of time available to grind, etc. And for everyone else who can't, well, then it's just not the content for you, right now.I'm sorry for the "competitive" players who feel shafted, but welcome to the club. Honestly, this game has never been competitive. It's never been a contest - how could it be when money is involved and provides an advantage for those that have an abundance of it? Money is king in business - thems the facts. Whether anyone wants to accept it, Kabam is here to make money, not provide a "contest" for the fun of it. I get the entire argument, I really do - folks are upset because someone with little time or skill, can buy an R4 if they spend thousands of dollars.... tthousands of dollars - let that sink in - that is a lot of money and it's a pretty small subset of people willing or able to do it. Anyone allowed to spend that much and willing to spend that much money on a mobile game, so be it. The rest of us, let's be human, budget our money/time for real stuff, and be realistic about the power of money in mobile game that incentives spending. Everyone with an R4 right now already spent money on this game at one time or another. They built their accounts faster by buying CAVs, buying items for AW/AQ to get the best rewards, buying the R4 deals little by little or buying units on the fly to knock out content. But everyone with an R4 right now (up until todays gifting event), absolutely also spent money on this game to be at the top. Someone like CowWhale was spending thousands a month on CAV crystals, ensuring he always had the most current champs . Then, he also spent 10's-of-thousands on gifting, to ensure he had a never ending supply of the most coveted rank up resources of the time that he could dig into at the drop of the hat so he could dupe them, rank them and max sig them from day 1. How was that competitive? How was that different? It wasn't - it just didn't impact a certain subset of player, who now know what the rest of us have experienced for years. Welcome to the club.
I think the most important part, is that with money grabbing events like this one, there's no competition fun anymore. Just like he said, why run abyss if you get the same rewards with money? This is not only affecting ftp players, but a large majority that do buy a few stuff here and there occasionally, but don't spend 3k bucks in a month. It's really sad, you don't have the same excitement anymore getting a cav nexus by working hard on abyss, when you know that lots of other whale-players got it just by spending cash for fun.