**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.
Alliance Wars Season 33 Changelog, Rewards Update, Loyalty Store and Glory Store Updates!
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Not really, you didn’t really address it.
It's just truely tone deaf and bafffling this change went through considering there's already been discussions recently on how the AW mode will be sustainable when the weekly compensations stop dropping, and the fact that Kabam surely has internal data on how many potions the average alliance war player uses per war.
But lets talk about some solutions apart from simply changing the cost/limits of potions for the long run:
1. Restructure the alliance war solo event, you can make it all loyalty / potion based, increase the number of milestones.
2. Add potions to the weekly alliance war solo objective (win 3 fights in AW) and maybe make it repeatable?
3. Increase the loyalty from War victory/defeat and participation bonuses
4. Rework the war victor and war challenger crystals. Remove the signature stones/arena boosts/ISO, make them each give a set amount of loyalty and additional potion or boost
I'm sure your internal data has also shown that player engagement in alliance war has increased ever since the weekly compensations have started and surely you can figure out the correlation in that...
I am not alone in this regard either, if you look through the alliances that finished in masters sure there’s a few whales floating about but ⅔ are out of the top 45 in AQ, most are looking to be scraping the top 90 at best, so for many of these 600 players - some of the game’s most serious - AW is their most important game mode.
My genuine assumption was that the next potion update, if there was one, would be a switch to them being percentage based so that boosting wouldn’t have such a negative impact on healing with an item cap and to make it so that Kabam don’t actually have to consider higher and higher level health potions to keep up with increasing health pools of champions.
When the forum team put this post together they would have proof read this text before posting and they should have immediately flagged this post and sought clarity before posting. They shouldn’t just be the mouthpiece of Kabam but should be a proper conduit between players and staff and should have that level of knowledge by now of what is and isn’t acceptable. Sure there’ll be bits and bobs that’ll slip through the cracks but the total monetisation of AW isn’t a little thing.
"We’re making a few changes to the Loyalty Store which are intended to go hand in hand with the Glory Store update coming with AQ Season 9.5. We’re looking to let players get more access to the AW specific potions,
We’re reducing the store reset from once every 2 weeks to once a week."
Since the Glory store went live... Can you check why the reset for loyalty purchases hasn't gone into effect either? (My purchases I made show 13+ days until reset as of the time typing this)
Am I missing something ?
The shift in how they are purchase with the current in game economy is insufficient to allow them to be competitive and they are not prepared to use real world money. I would have thought this would have been responded to as a matter of urgency.
This announcement just cut their potency down basically in half. Why? Either I'd like a refund back of my loyalty spent or have these converted to L4 potions to at least be close to what I originally bought, since there was no disclaimer that their potency had an expiration date (a la the love juice did).