**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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When a Netflix user cancels their subscription, is it ok to offer them a discounted price?
That’s not equal, they save money compared to others by “doing nothing”. Netflix just want to retain the customer. But that’s not treating every individual the same
In answer to your question my blunt response is no, it is not OK. Granted, from a business sense it is good practice to keep custom and increase their stature as a going concern. But my fluid point has been about fairness, and the feeling that evokes when it doesn't appear to have been practiced. However, if the same discount is offered to all those who are in the same situation, that would be fair, or equal as I like to think.
Most businesses aren't fair or equal, and as the saying goes "It's a dog eat dog world". So if I saw Netflix do that, it wouldn't bother me at all, for one very specific reason.
That reason is that Netflix subscribers are sole end users, with there being absolutely no competitive implication. So one user getting a discount, only affects that user and nobody else. MCoC isn't that type of business, and the end users [us players] are directly effected by what happens to other users. That's not true in some aspects of the game like story mode, but many of the events in the game involve player vs player competitions, so giving game resources like this calendar improves one player above another. That is unfair.
PS, are Netflix giving discounts?!!!...... I might send them an email JK
Let's say they didn't uninstall it, well if they have notifications on then they'll see they got a message from MCOC prob about a special gift or whatever. Cool. Once again, depending on how long they were gone, you more than likely got more resources than them through that period.
This is is am offer to entice someone to come back playing. Now a reward for stopping to play. The only concern I have is thay if OP really was only off the account for a week, then that's too short of a period of time and it needs to be longer for a package like that. Other than that though. These people miss out on other events, resources, hell even comp packages. But this isn't a game breaking offer to people and it is not them being treated better than players. This is a classic marketing strategy.
Anyway, again, that wasn't my point. The point was fairness and the way it makes some players feel, due it being a competitive game with some players getting rewards for nothing and not others.
It's getting a bit monotonous now this, I'm saying the same thing repeatedly in different ways. No hard feelings but I'm going to move on to a different subject
I mean, P3 rewards gets you 25k for 7 weeks work including off season, which is 14k over one month. P4 is 20k, so 11k per month.
Add in Cav EQ and side quest and you easily get 2 6*s a month.
AQ gets you easily the catalyst rewards.
If a thronebreaker player isn’t getting 2 6*s a month, or 1 every 2 weeks on average then they really aren’t playing the game very much.
They are for players who don’t play very much, lot in every so often just to see what’s going on. The calendar is interesting and provides a reason to keep logging in, once they’re in, maybe they’ll play a few fights. Maybe they enjoy the event, maybe they rank up a new champ. Then they’re playing like normal again.
This pops up...
.. yeah no thanks
Why does the game give Abyss rewards only to the players who complete it? What about the people who attempt it and fail? They also (theoretically) put in the same effort, they just didn't complete it. Should we treat them both "equally?" Of course not. Fairness don't preclude distinction, in fact fairness and equality are almost mutually exclusive.
Fairness is about opportunity, not about equality. Fairness is about people being recognized for what they do, equality is about being blind to what they do. Sometimes you want equality. We don't care who you are or what you do when it comes to, say, voting. Voting is not a meritocracy. But at least in theory we want the smartest kids to get the highest grades, we want the most qualified people to get the best jobs, we want the best competitors to win most often. We want people to be recognized for their accomplishments, and reap the benefits of those accomplishments. And I think it is not reasonable to think the world could work differently, or wouldn't be a living nightmare if it did.
Progressional games are ultimately about accomplishment. They are an infinite treadmill. There's no winning this game. There's no beating this game. There's only relative accomplishment. Anyone can play completely casually, and completely disengaged. But at its core, it is an accomplishment-driven game. It is about collecting champions. It is about completing content. It is about overcoming hurdles, and the only reward for overcoming a hurdle is being handed another hurdle. It is not about equality. It is about fairness, but it is about global fairness, not about situational fairness.
3 t2a
3 t4cc
1 t5b
2,000 6* shards
1 fully formed 6* crystal
You have to log in 7 times over at least 54 days (based on the timer in the picture) to claim those rewards. So no matter how short the timer is on how long you have to be gone to trigger this calendar, it looks like it can’t happen more than once every two months.
As for whether these rewards are attainable in that same period of time, a Thronebreaker player should be acquiring at least those catalysts on a weekly basis from AQ, probably more. I usually can’t spend t2a fast enough and always end up with some in my overflow. I hit 0 t5b this morning during the level up event. I’ve almost formed 1 full already from various other in game activities, and I haven’t even collected AQ rewards yet.
The shards are the area that are harder to calculate. But I could go and knock out the weekly Battlegrounds challenge, collect that currency, spend it on 6* shards, and call it a day. Or I could include the shards I got from AW season payout earlier this week. Or there’s the monthly EQ that I haven’t gotten around to working on exploration of yet.
This game throws resources at Thronebreaker and up through content, it’s just that we consume those resources so rapidly that we’re always hungry for more. So a single 6* or a handful of catalysts looks great because we want it, but in the grand scheme of things we also won’t notice it missing unless it’s highlighted like this.
I would say that 1 T5B, 3 T2A, 3 T4CC selectors, and 12000 6* shards is not too far from the 1 T5B, 3 T2A, 3 T4CC crystals, 2k 6* shards, and a 6* Nexus in the calendar, and to be frank the higher amounts of T2A and T5B I'm actually buying from the store are worth a lot more than the shards are to me. It just isn't as easy to compare apples to apples. To make the direct comparison I had to analyze the costs of what I wouldn't ordinarily buy.
Obviously the answer is better for a litany of obvious reasons. The argument not being made however is how this is actually better for the entire player base as well. More active players (especially players that are not uber competitive thereby not grinding or even logging in everyday hence get this calendar) actually help out the average player far more than if they just didn’t play the game at all. We all love going against lowly ranked players in battleground. Any boost to arena rankings is greatly appreciated and of course, more people that struggle with different areas of the game gives Kabam more reason to incentivize/reward to aid in completion. Thereby more people playing regardless of skill level and commitment level is truly a win win for all with a vested interest in this game.
The longevity of this game is dependent on an active player base. We should all be applauding Kabam for actions like this calendar and hope they continue to have more ideas to reinvigorate the player base as anyone that has played the game for the last years has most likely had many frustrating moments that could have led to their eventual inactivity.
Please tell the team thank you @Kabam Miike!
Now it’s time for something completely different, for those of us that have been TB since the game issues started, will we be compensated the same as the recently minted Paragon players. If you could please tell us if Paragon is having its own compensation package that could at least help some know how hard they need to push and could at least give us some time to let our saltiness out as being TB for over a year and having all of these issues should merit the same compensation level as those who just became Paragon. Especially those TB with 2 rank 4s and close to a third. 😉
I'd like to direct you to my recent post of my carina challenge pull. Def play the game and not an employee. I can disagree with people being upset about this without being on their payroll.