Now that the Banquet Event is over, here’s why I miss the Gifting Event (and liked it better)

ShoNuff29 · January 2023

I love the idea of being able to just buy your own crystals with units, so that part of the Banquet event should stay…. But…. Everything else about it was basically the gifting event minus the camaraderie. Not having gifting took away the fun of “hey you wanna trade 3? What’d you get? Let’s do 3 more!” I opened and spent far less this year because none of that fun was there. People still complained about it being a pay to win event anyway, so let’s bring back the fun you have with your alliance mates and friends.

Some of us use gifting as something fun to participate in all year with the payoff being the event. We do things like pop a 6* crystal simultaneously with an alliance mate and whoever gets the best pull wins a ggc. Or worse pull gets a ggc. (Rules set before opening the crystal lol). Or having challenges like which champ can clear faster by having winner get a ggc. (Had planned on doing the same with BG friendly matches). We keep a tally all year and once gifting would start, everyone would send out their gifts and do even more challenges once it was live. All the fun of the event was gone. It was just opening crystals like any other day. Didn’t have the same vibe or fun factor…at least for me.

DragonMCOC · January 2023

Unfortunately, due to fraud; criminal activities, a good thing has been ruined.

MrSakuragi · January 2023

I enjoy this much better, it was a hassle constantly needing to find people to gift or trade with.

SandeepS · January 2023

Could still do it similar to the title exchanges. Give x amount to everyone to gift for free and trade as they see fit. Similar to the lunar events I guess.

willrun4adonut · January 2023

Gifting actually made me spend more. I'd see someone say they needed to trade in my alliance, and if no one could, then I'd go do some arena grinding until I could trade with them. While it was fun to help others out, I enjoyed this year much more.

ShoNuff29 · January 2023

Zan0 said:
Stopping credit card fraud is more important than camaraderie

Do we think fraud disappeared this year? There’s still rank rewards for solo and alliance, so the incentive was still there.

ShoNuff29 · January 2023

willrun4adonut said:
Gifting actually made me spend more. I'd see someone say they needed to trade in my alliance, and if no one could, then I'd go do some arena grinding until I could trade with them. While it was fun to help others out, I enjoyed this year much more.

Same. I wouldn’t be mad if gifted GGCs earned you less points than just buying them for yourself outright. At least it would still be a fun aspect of the event.

Mackey · January 2023

ShoNuff29 said:

Zan0 said:
Stopping credit card fraud is more important than camaraderie
Do we think fraud disappeared this year? There’s still rank rewards for solo and alliance, so the incentive was still there.

I believe the idea was to lower it significantly, by removing the gifting aspect they're now able to pinpoint and identify where fraud has occurred as the fraudster would HAVE to buy the units etc on their own account, whereas the gifting allowed them to do it all under the radar by gifting them to others. I also did miss the gifting side of it, there was very sharp drop in the fun factor this year

Dukenpuke · January 2023

I'm amused that people conflate "gifting" and "trading" for these events.

Dude17 · January 2023

So what you’re saying is none of your alliance mates gifted you consumables during the banquet event? Awkward.

Chatterofforums · January 2023

I liked this way so much better because it greatly reduced the scamming. I felt like it was the youngins who got scammed most of the time (although I'm sure not all of the time) and I hated seeing children getting scammed of of their units.

I did not miss for even a second the dozens of "ggc for ggc , honest girl here" spamming scam attempts every minute in global this year.

SHIELD4AGENT · January 2023

Banquet is far better than gifting. It made the "trade ggc you send first" scams go away.
Global was cleansed this year, even the random friend requests are gone.

SidDDragon · January 2023

I have always disliked the ggc(or gbc for this season) as their were many trash pulls so everytime I traded the ggc for cores and consumables but this season I had to buy the gbc and as expected they were pretty much trash. Other than the potential rank rewards and the milestone rewards I just felt like throwing units down the drain for scraps,sig stones and t4cc whenever I bought and opened the gbc.

sirderekoflane · January 2023

There was a lot of camaraderie with the accolades. We were all trying to get certain people in the alliance titles and profile pictures. I got all the leader of the pack, we have one guy with 20+ rank 4s who got juiciest roster. It was super fun!

PapaMidnite007 · January 2023

Actually I find Banquet better no pressure to gift

ShoNuff29 · January 2023

Dude17 said:

So what you’re saying is none of your alliance mates gifted you consumables during the banquet event? Awkward.

Consumables aren’t nearly as fun

Now that the Banquet Event is over, here’s why I miss the Gifting Event (and liked it better)

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