Pay To Win Daily Offers vs Top 10 AW Season Rewards

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Maybe I’m being naive here, but everyone is talking about imbalance when it comes to AW. I don’t do war, so I legitimately don’t know, but just about everyone’s comments here indicate it somehow makes you less inclined to push in war. Why? Keep doing what you are doing in war AND get these offers on top. You’re basically doubling your rewards/progression at that point. Am I missing something?

Macheneso

Maybe I’m being naive here, but everyone is talking about imbalance when it comes to AW. I don’t do war, so I legitimately don’t know, but just about everyone’s comments here indicate it somehow makes you less inclined to push in war. Why? Keep doing what you are doing in war AND get these offers on top. You’re basically doubling your rewards/progression at that point. Am I missing something?

I’d agree with you if it wasn’t that you’re basically putting on the same level people with actual skills, who organise strategy in game with someone who just pays 35$ a week.
That’s where the community I think it’s a bit on the fence with the offers, personally I’ve seen too many people around with great profiles all R3/R4 top tier champs with no ability to play at all.

Deacon

Maybe I’m being naive here, but everyone is talking about imbalance when it comes to AW. I don’t do war, so I legitimately don’t know, but just about everyone’s comments here indicate it somehow makes you less inclined to push in war. Why? Keep doing what you are doing in war AND get these offers on top. You’re basically doubling your rewards/progression at that point. Am I missing something?

nope you're just about right as was @DNA3000 .... neither has anything to do with the other really. also like @GroundedWisdom said, this really shouldn't be a thing every time a paid offer comes. was there this much uproar when July 4th deals came? did anyone throw the disparity of war rewards out there and ask for war reward buffs ?

so nope, you're spot on mate ... there's really nothing wrong with these offers at all imo.

xNig

July 4th was one off per year.

This is daily/weekly/monthly.

I’m not against it though. No rush and no such thing as “catch up”. Whales will always get there first, wherever “there” is.

Mauled

Maybe I’m being naive here, but everyone is talking about imbalance when it comes to AW. I don’t do war, so I legitimately don’t know, but just about everyone’s comments here indicate it somehow makes you less inclined to push in war. Why? Keep doing what you are doing in war AND get these offers on top. You’re basically doubling your rewards/progression at that point. Am I missing something?

The point is that top 10 in AW means you’re one of the top 10 alliances in the game at war. As a member of a masters alliance I can tell you just how good consistent masters level alliances, and how much effort goes into planning and the execution of wars to place that highly. I find it a bit demeaning that for a month’s hard work - our planners take hours out of their evening to finesse the plan, talk with members to ensure we all understand what the plan means for us - that you can simply buy these rewards in a week.

One of the expected benefits of being in this elite is that you are rewarded as such, or at the very least, the rewards are giving out resources that you can’t easily obtain elsewhere. This has been undone on 2 fronts now - currently there’s nearly double the R4 materials from EQ and SQ than top 20 AW, and now you can just drop £35 a week for even more.

Being competitive can only carry a game mode so far.

pseudosane

The issue, in a nutshell, is that hours of playing/planning/fighting, over a WHOLE month is devalued to 35$. This is an entire gamemode that takes real units/money to play, devalued to 35$.

if Y'all cannot understand that, too bad. They negated an entire gamemode with this offer.

GroundedWisdom

The issue, in a nutshell, is that hours of playing/planning/fighting, over a WHOLE month is devalued to 35$. This is an entire gamemode that takes real units/money to play, devalued to 35$.

if Y'all cannot understand that, too bad. They negated an entire gamemode with this offer.

If the entire month of War was played with the sole Reward of those Frags, you may be close. Barring the people who actually play because they enjoy it.
However, there are Rewards along the way, and much more is included than just the Frags.

Mauled

The issue, in a nutshell, is that hours of playing/planning/fighting, over a WHOLE month is devalued to 35$. This is an entire gamemode that takes real units/money to play, devalued to 35$.

if Y'all cannot understand that, too bad. They negated an entire gamemode with this offer.
If the entire month of War was played with the sole Reward of those Frags, you may be close. Barring the people who actually play because they enjoy it.
However, there are Rewards along the way, and much more is included than just the Frags.

Not enough to ‘revalue’ the rewards though. If you’re in a T1 alliance and go 12-0 which only GT40 are doing, you’re getting ~10k 5* and ~4K 6* shards along the way and then the blob of season rewards at the end which most felt weren’t exactly stellar in the first place.

pseudosane

The issue, in a nutshell, is that hours of playing/planning/fighting, over a WHOLE month is devalued to 35$. This is an entire gamemode that takes real units/money to play, devalued to 35$.

if Y'all cannot understand that, too bad. They negated an entire gamemode with this offer.
If the entire month of War was played with the sole Reward of those Frags, you may be close. Barring the people who actually play because they enjoy it.
However, there are Rewards along the way, and much more is included than just the Frags.

those are included in the 35$

Worknprogress

The issue, in a nutshell, is that hours of playing/planning/fighting, over a WHOLE month is devalued to 35$. This is an entire gamemode that takes real units/money to play, devalued to 35$.

if Y'all cannot understand that, too bad. They negated an entire gamemode with this offer.

To be fair, AW rewards haven't been good in years when you compare effort to return. That's why the only people that push it are the ultra competitive who just want to be competitive for the sake of it. These offers don't really change that. People who spend a lot are already much farther along than those that don't and that's never going to change bc that's how they incentivize spending in games like this.

Am I saying they shouldn't bump rewards? Definitely not bc I already thought that way before these offers. Basically nothing has really changed. Just people overreacting about stuff being sold that they won't care about 3 months from now just like gifting.