WHAT HAPPENED TO BACK ISSUES?
Fortune
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What happened to back issues? We haven't got one in quite a while. if there's a post discussing this that I missed, do post it.
On a related note, With the way the game economy has been moving, Three and Four stars are borderline irrelevant for most players. I think having game content (e.g. Back issues series) that can only be tackled with three and Four stars will give them some relevance—just saying. Let me know what you guys think.
On a related note, With the way the game economy has been moving, Three and Four stars are borderline irrelevant for most players. I think having game content (e.g. Back issues series) that can only be tackled with three and Four stars will give them some relevance—just saying. Let me know what you guys think.
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The gold is nice, and resources aren’t that bad, but they require commitment to champions you will mostly never use, maybe if they put a Carbondanium core for completion/exploration, that would be a different issue, but you get 2/3 times the quality and quantity of rewards from the monthly side event than from the back issues.
I did a post on same as well, it didn't go viral as some of my other posts:
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/341198/more-back-issue-episodes#latest
I think a big problem was that the original back issues were aimed at Cavalier players but as the game moved on and more and more progression titles were added, things got complicated. The players that originally played the back issues had gotten so much stronger that just more of the same (in terms of both difficulty and rewards) just wasn't cutting it anymore. When the last one came out, it was really weird. Difficulty-wise, it was basically aimed at endgame players. Rewards-wise, it was still very much not aimed at endgame players. That made everyone complain about it regardless of where they were, progression-wise.
I think Kabam just refocused its efforts on stuff like the EOP for endgame players. Meanwhile, there's no longer a need for Cavalier players to complete the back issues in order to progress to Thronebreaker, so there's no real need for any more of those to come out. There is already a hefty chunk of Cavalier-level content in the game to propel them to Thronebreaker, after which they can start doing TB-level content to propel them to Paragon, where you see most of Kabam's content efforts today.
That being said, I did really enjoy the back issues so I wouldn't mind seeing a return of them (with updated difficulty and rewards). But then again, would I prefer a new back issue if it took away development time for the regular story content that drops way too randomly nowadays? No, I don't think I would.
But please, continue to pedal your lies.