**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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According to the announcement, for the most part players will be buying crystals for themselves. To the extent that they will be able to gift, the gifts will have extremely limited value.
Why does it matter if you buy them yourself or are allowed to gift them to someone else? Because it is the gifting mechanism itself that amplifies the possibility of fraud by allowing fraudulent transactions to launder themselves.
To put it simply, if I use a fraudulent transaction of some kind to buy units, that transaction will be traced back to my account. But if I use a fraudulent transaction to buy units on another account and then gift the resources to my account, the fraud is traced to that other account, not mine. And while the gift exchange might be traced ultimately to my account, I can claim ignorance. I had no idea what that person was doing when we exchanged gifts. How was I supposed to know they were not buying legitimately?
Gifting essentially anonymizes fraudulent transactions. By essentially forcing everyone to buy their own crystals, Kabam can hold them singularly accountable for any fraud associated with those purchases. The likely relatively small amount of value associated with the materials that will be giftable - potions and such - will likely be too small to be profitable to exploit. Or at least dramatically lower the incentive to use the event for fraudulent transactions.
Selling Banquet crystals to players directly is no more exploitable than selling Odins to players directly. It was allowing accounts to gift that created the problem, because it created a disconnect between the account purchasing and the account ultimately receiving the value. To put it bluntly, the gifting mechanism allowed for literal money laundering. Removing that mechanism removes the critical component of the gifting event that made it uniquely vulnerable to scams and frauds.
I’m sure Kabam’s been very thankful, so they will make sure this event be a “fun” one (oh the irony…)
(More of an add-on than a comment to you, DNA.)
2) does doing any of that count toward alliance or solo rewards of any sort?
3) I can’t think of a riskier stance to take than “isn’t it obvious…” given what we’ve seen over the past year or so. There’s no harm in asking for explicit clarifications.
Does that mean it includes consumables such as:
Revives & Potions (regular, AQ, AW)
Refills (small, full, AQ & AW small refills)
Cores (Stoney, Carb, Class Mastery)
Boosts (Health, Attack, Health/Attack, AW versions of such, Class Boosts, 3min AW boosts, XP boosts)
Arena boosts and Arena Stamina refills
Sig Stones / Awake Gems
BG Shuffle Signets
BG Elder Marks
Duel Credits
my opinion is that no gifting allowed of any consumables be allowed, maybe to keep the holiday spirit of giving it could be changed to how the red pocket gifting event was
The backlash was pretty heavy. I think it's fine this way. It will be the last time anyways.
And btw: modders need pots and revives? Nah...
Seems like poor planning if so, we're looking to fill 1 spot at season end, but worry no one will want to jump ship if they have to stay in alliance to get these rewards??
Seriously, it’s a shame fraudsters ruined what was enjoyable for honest players. Even so, I won’t miss the unwanted lesser Gifting Crystals dropped on me by alliance members I neither know nor particularly like, all with an expectation of return. Too bad the game doesn’t offer a virtual holiday fruitcake to send back.
Dr. Zola