Highest prestige in the world !! Will the race ever end ?

Just insane . 22k prestige . Will this prestige race ever end ?

I marked up the name and alliance name to avoid any issues here but some people are already aware.

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GroundedWisdom

The "Prestige Race" is manufactured by the Players. You're going to see the ceiling raise from time to time. That's a result of more Rarities and Ranks being introduced.

Ayden_noah1

The only time the race will end is when the game ends. Hopefully it goes on forever.

Buttehrs

The literal only way to stop the increasing prestige will he for the game to shut down servers.

Deacon

what exactly does the "prestige race" do? lol

Furrymoosen

Determines who gets first place in AQ.

BigBlueOx

And they say cheaters never prosper…

Tough for me to take new milestones like this seriously.

Greekhit

Who cares anymore?
Prestige is mainly for flexing reasons now , since AQ due to rewards has become completely irrelevant.
I can’t believe these people throw thousands of $ to raise Prestige in order to place first in AQ anymore, it doesn’t make sense.
They throw these money to raise Prestige , just to be above all others and be on top.

Buttehrs

Yes aq sucks in general in every way including how small the rewards are compared to aw and bgs. But remember, every little bit counts and it all adds up.

Demonzfyre

I don't know why you blocked their name out. You can find them in game easily. It's not like you're calling them a cheater or anything.

Ghost_Fan

By the players? Are you for real?

DL864

Yeah I mean prestige has nothing to do with points in AQ 🙄🙄🙄. Some people

Demonzfyre

Obviously the alliances that compete for Rank 1 in AQ care. Kabam isn't going to get rid of the prestige aspect of that, so until something else changes, those who want to be on top care.

Lovejoy72

The only part of AQ rewards that have gotten a recent bump were the top 99 (or something like that) a few months ago. The prestige race certainly impacts the players in those allies. I would refer to it as nominal in import to everyone else.

GroundedWisdom

Yes, I'm for real.
Prestige was an internal metric. There was even a time where they didn't display it. It was the Players that decided to maximize it and chase after it. It was the Players who also decided to set rules in Alliances for Prestige-only Rank-Ups. That wasn't the design of Kabam. This whole chase for Prestige was Player-made.

GroundedWisdom

*For the record, that's not a judgment either way. Players will do what Players will do. It's more a point of fact.

Lpoo

Did players create the metric?

Furrymoosen

Whether you like AQ or not, those players care. Why else would they push it if not to keep their place at the top?

GroundedWisdom

No, but that's like saying the people who designed the Tickle Me Elmo doll designed the stores being stampeded.

Rap

That is the very reason for prestige Furry, and has been from the introduction of "Prestige," Money.

Bugmat78

They are betting Kabam improves AQ rewards to a tier level with or above BGs (as the store is long overdue an update). We will find out on Friday...

Ghost_Fan

Yeah I guess you are right. It's the players fault that they wanna play the game. It's their fault that they wanna go for the top rewards (which is like the endgoal of this game). I really wonder, do you even think before you say these things?
Arguing with you is just pointless. Like arguing with some other people on this forum.

GroundedWisdom

This argument is one you're having with yourself, I'm afraid. I didn't say anything about fault. I didn't even say it was a bad thing or a good thing. I said the Prestige Race was devised by Players.

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DL864

That's exactly what they designed tickle me elmo for to hopefully be a top selling toy. That's exactly what kabam used prestige for to make new champs more desirable when aq was the top game mode for a while there every new champ was higher prestige that was by design to get top allys to buy up crystals.

GroundedWisdom

Actually, that's not what they designed Prestige for. If you'll notice, it was the most random Champs that had high Prestige back in the day. If they were high in Prestige, they weren't Top Tier. In fact, for the longest time, they turned down requests to display Prestige because they didn't want to further encourage the Prestige Race. Eventually they offered people what they wanted because it was requested so long. At no point ever did Kabam encourage Players to Rank for Prestige alone.

DL864

They created prestige as a metric so intentional or not they created the prestige race. The players figured out the scoring and from there it was a wrap.

GroundedWisdom

They created Prestige. Where Players took it was not their creation. We will have to disagree.

Rohit_316

By the looks of it , it will.

GroundedWisdom

As long as it's a metric that correlates with Rewards like AQ, the push will be there.

DNA3000

That's not exactly true. While prestige was not always readily visible for individual player accounts, prestige was a visible metric for alliances for AQ scoring. The game specifically rewarded high prestige in AQ, so it is the game that explicitly created the prestige race.

And deliberately so, as it gave the whales something to chase. As you point out, the high prestige champs were not consistently the highest performing champs. If the strongest champs were also the highest prestige, there would be no "prestige race" because the chase for high prestige would be synonymous with the chase for the strongest roster. Prestige would be redundant as a pursuit goal. By making prestige orthogonal to champion strength, anyone who wanted to explicitly chase high prestige for high AQ scoring had to chase it deliberately, and independently of chasing a strong roster. This was expensive, and only helped in one place (AQ), which is precisely why it worked the way it did.

How much players choose to focus on prestige is up to the players, but it would not be a true statement in any way to say that the players invented the prestige chase. Kabam invented the prestige chase, and what's more if players didn't take the bait and actually chase it, Kabam would have either added more rewards to it to make it more valuable or they would have replaced it with something else. Kabam invented the prestige chase because Kabam wanted players to chase something separate from natural roster growth, and prestige was the thing they decided to use for that purpose.

If the whales are only chasing what everyone else is chasing, all their spending gets focused into the same direction everyone else is going, and that makes the gap between them and everyone else larger. By giving them a completely different thing to chase that most other players don't chase, the whales have to chase two things at once, and that means the gap between the whales and everyone else for all non-prestige purposes decreases. That's the purpose of prestige. It is in effect a way to do something that seems contradictory and impossible: to give big spenders a lot for their money while also giving them less of what most players care about.