One nice, small adjustment would have been to change the gifted guardian keys to selectors. It's still a small pool of champs, so we'd likely still be getting champs we haven't used recently, but at least we could get the one(s) we're most excited about.
There are only 2 ways to succeed in this event. Spend you hard earned units save all year, or spend hard earned cash on buying these crystals. I would like to hear Kabam staff who play the game competitively weather or not spending 15k units equal to 4 months of grinding or 500$ worth the yield. Spending 20k myself earned me a bunch of R2 materials that I get completely free just being valiant or r3 mats that costs much less on the BG store but only half a 7 star and fifth of a titan. Very little r4 to be mentioned and fifth AG. Was it worth it? Not for me...I'm sure TB/ Paragon will not feel as bad as valiant do but still...there was a time this event was an opertunity to build and stack your roster it was a leap ahead. Now it's a bunch of resources that can be earned free and absolutely no new Champs to use it on. As far as I see the r2 mats were overturned and the 7*/ titans were severely undertuned. This event used to be a celebration but year over year a let down with instaregret of any units spent. Now the question is with this letdown is there any chance the community reach realm targets? The top 10 will make or break it.
For brevity, I have earned one key, 70 sig stones for one of the six champions requiring a key, but not enough points for an awakening gem on one of those champions. A second key does offer me a chance to duplicate a champion, so a huge reward to a newer valiant of 70 7* star sig stones cannot be used unless I spend more. Otherwise, there is also no guarantee when I would be able to use them.
Now I get that you don’t always get what you want exactly when you need it. Also, it’s part of the game to save materials until needed, but I don’t understand value being pushed to the realm event and then making I think it’s like 5 or 6 milestones these high value but super specific sig stones that you can’t use unless you hit a much much higher milestone. Obviously 7* awakening gem > 7* sigs, but I spent 6k units and I have a champion I can’t dupe and no idea when I could and 70 sig stones that only work for that one champion. Milestone wise a second key is closer than the gem but that will just be another champion. Maybe im being unfair and the last event with moleman was probably built similarly, this just feels different because I have no chance of a dupe with the new key.
Definitely not angry. It’s just a game after all. Just highly disappointed after saving and grinding for the better part of the year for the banquet event, buying over 20k units during Cyber weekend and the daily cards. I’m definitely scaling back until I see some serious restitution in response to this overly-promoted debacle. Looking for specific feedback? ***Me gesturing broadly***
For something to be hyped up as the grand banquet, well I personally don’t see it, I remember y’all mentioning Banquet on stream at the very start of the saga in September! It’s quite sad unfortunately, I wish something could be done but I don’t think it can be, 10 year anniversary should’ve been a celebration of the game and it’s gonna be overshadowed by the “grand” banquet.
300 units for 2 7* sig stones, that’s just a punch in the stomach really, I was genuinely so upset I pulled that multiple times.
Oh and for a resolution, a promo code would be nice but I don’t know anymore man, not sure if there is gonna be a resolution.
IMO, these are rewards that You can get for free easily, playing modes like AQ and BG.
there's not a good sense about opening crystals, the Main focus to get points and Open more crystals, being Valiant, is a huge step back to out title, Most people spent their units in Cyberweekend, waste +10k units in a event where You just get T6CC as a fill reward is... Dissapointing.
We are actually in a state where a Lot of players have +30 rank 3 7 stars, why hide the T4 Alpha?
TL;DR: Crystal drop rates seemed dissapointing and unrewarding
I don't have much to add to what has been said here already, but I just want to make sure enough people are heard regarding their disappointment.
With this banquet being marketed as "The Grand Banquet" and it being the 10th anniversary I was really expecting this Banquet to be beyond anything we've seen.
When the milestones were revealed I wasn't particularly hyped, but also not all that dissapointed. There's some really good stuff in there and the only thing I can really complain about with the milestones is the lack of Titan shards.
What did dissapoint me however, is the Superior Banquet Crystals themselves. The rewards that are in there sound good in theory, but the drop rates are actually horrendous. It feels AWFUL to spend 300 units and get 5700 T6CC fragments in return. We get more from the daily event and we can actually choose the class we want with those. The same feeling holds for getting T5CC, which also isn't great.
I understand the crystal has to contain some filler, but the 5700 T6CC drop rates were so ridiculous that the crystal began to feel like a T6CC fragment crystal with some bonus gold and ISO-8. I suppose that if the minimum amount was higher, it would be less of a disappointment but probably still not great.
The small amounts being a problem goes for more than just the T6CC. Getting 1500 7* shards isn't necessarily that bad, but even that was incredibly uncommon. I don't think I even formed a full 7* crystal from 50+ crystals. The same goes for 2 7* Signature Stones. It's nice to have sig stones, but even such low amounts seemed to have the drop rates that should be saved for really premium rewards. 1000 Titan shards being the minimum seems fine to me, but again even getting this minimum amount is so incredibly rare. I got 1000 total in 50+ crystals...
Another problem I have is the inclusion of 7* Guardian Signature Stones. They're great to have if you have one of the new Glorious Guardians duped, but to dupe them you need to either: Get 7 of those Banquet Keys at least OR reach almost the final milestone of the Realm Event to get the Awakening Gem, while you get the sig stones way before the AG. I do really like the idea behind the Banquet Keys though.
I think all the dissapointent in regards to the crystals in part may be due to the crystals being shared between Thronebreaker and Valiant. This feels to make like an improvement over previous years, where every progression level got the same rewards, but it just doesn't seem right to me that you bunch people who maybe just got their first 6* R4's together with people who have multiple 7* R3's. I'm sure I'm not the first to bring this up, but I really don't understand why this is a thing. It seems impossible to balance such a crystal correctly for people in such different states of the game. I've seen someone say in the Discord (I wish I didn't forget their name) that they seem more geared towards getting Thronebreakers and Paragon closer to the level of Valiants, rather that actually rewarding the people at higher progression.
All in all, I was left really disappointed by the so-called "Grand" Banquet.
To anyone still reading this wall of text: happy holidays!
My main frustration is that the best rewards in the crystal completely evaded me. I’m up to 63 SBC opened now and my 2 best pulls had 1/4 of a t4A. Nothing else of note. No key, no 7 star selector, no complete t6cc, just lots of fragments and a few 1500 7 star shards. Overall, I’m 8000 units plus $50 from the store and I just wish that at least 1 SBC had something cool. And 62 opened still leaves me 4K pts short of getting a key from the solo event. And still 2K pts from getting a key from the realm event.
As a Valiant player the fact that I’ve invested this much and not even gotten 1 key to the box is frustrating. And unless I spend more, or my ally completes all milestones, I may go the whole event and not get any of the new 7 star Guardians.
But thanks a bunch for the useless 40 sig stones in the realm event. They might be useful in a year when I hopefully get a guardian and awaken them.
I’m just frustrated to feel like I’ve done so much in the event and have nothing monumental to show for it.
I think the rewards are great. You get some good rewards and some normal ones. But we received a boost to help increase some of our champions levels that would have taken months if not years.
Also remember that “if everyone is a super hero, then no one one will be” 😁
So we are all receiving the same types of rewards then everyone is still at the same level. For example, recently we all received either 10 x 6* or 7* champions. Well all your opponents also received the same things. So you are no better off.
I got the material necessary to become Valiant, so I can’t complain, but looking at the new (to me) store prices, the Superior crystals are now very underwhelming. In past years, I always got some wow factor for my account. This year I filled my inventory with rank up material. Useful? Yeah. Worth the 7500 units I spent? Not sure.
To put this in terms you’ll understand: I was ready to drop the $70 CAD on the Banquet bundle. But I won’t, based on opening my first 30-ish crystals. In the past I almost always spent money on this event (once I dropped a few hundreds) so it’s not that I won’t spend. This year it feels like a waste.
I think the rewards are great. You get some good rewards and some normal ones. But we received a boost to help increase some of our champions levels that would have taken months if not years.
Also remember that “if everyone is a super hero, then no one one will be” 😁
So we are all receiving the same types of rewards then everyone is still at the same level. For example, recently we all received either 10 x 6* or 7* champions. Well all your opponents also received the same things. So you are no better off.
It is a perception that makes you feel good 👍
Respectfully disagree, I feel this is calling for equality in a game with several playerstages earned through hard work and accomplishment accelerated often by spending.
Equity should be sought, not equality, a user with 1000+ hours receiving the same rewards as someone with 50 is equal, but not fair.
It’s a matter of definitions, and in this specific case, equality of reward is actually denial of achievement simultaneously.
Spent $0 this year but still saved units just in case this year wasn't a complete waste like last year. Dropped 23k units and opened 90+ SBCs to discover roughly 90% unwanted items.
Next year? Lmfao... Banquet isn't even a concern or a fleeting thought anymore. You've successfully sent the message that we should use our units/money on cyber and ignore banquet. Message received loud and clear.
I’m done whaling personally maybe I’ll start again when r4 material drops are actually worth it because this was pathetic
Cyber event was good value this however was daylight robbery especially if the realm event that you said wasn’t going to effect the actual rewards isn’t completed
Over 27k units plus 200 spent on the crystal deals not to mention the tickets I amassed buying daily’s and weekly’s I feel that it was nowhere near worth it unless you class t6 stuff high value which is quite frankly laughable for me and holds no progression value for my account at all
It is what it is tho I guess it’s done now all the hype about the grand banquet and I go back to my first 3 words of my comment cheers 🥂
For something to be hyped up as the grand banquet, well I personally don’t see it, I remember y’all mentioning Banquet on stream at the very start of the saga in September! It’s quite sad unfortunately, I wish something could be done but I don’t think it can be, 10 year anniversary should’ve been a celebration of the game and it’s gonna be overshadowed by the “grand” banquet.
300 units for 2 7* sig stones, that’s just a punch in the stomach really, I was genuinely so upset I pulled that multiple times.
Oh and for a resolution, a promo code would be nice but I don’t know anymore man, not sure if there is gonna be a resolution.
A promo code would be given out to everyone equally and would only serve to further anger people who spent hundreds if not thousands of they received the same comp as people who spent close to nothing, or nothing at all.
Personally, I'd rather give everything I got from banquet back and get my units back.
The crystals are horrid. I made the mistake of spending 14k units on crystals (not realizing the low shard amounts) and got terrible drops (according to your percentages). According to the game, it’s an 8.76% chance at tier 5 catalyst but out of ten crystals popped at a time, every 2-4 crystals gave me tier 5. So either I have the worst luck in the game, or your numbers are wrong. Useless amount of 7* shards (if I got any) and from what I’m reading from the devs, no ones seems to care other than to say basically “were listening but not doing anything.” I’ve played this game for ten years and I haven’t been this letdown since 12.0 update.
I'm saving my units for Cyber weekend and 4th July from now on. Not looking forward to Banquet crystal event anymore. Hopefully something changes with these crystals. Not the way I wanted to celebrate 10th year of this great game. Appreciate the free 7 stars. Will only really use 1.
You want to put mire in the milestones but make it harder for people who don't spend our can't spend much to get the better stuff. The amount of units needed to get the milestones is ridiculous especially a couple weeks after cyber weekend. Make it more achievable than hey go spend 500 dollars to get to the top.
The grand banquet 2024 : when these details were released, the community was torn, however they gave it a chance, and for the hype, and what it was made out to be, after all it is the GRAND banquet, it was just…bad. The realm events milestones were good, but only in the end. Overall is has an amazing premise, low level/okay rewards for players who are new progression and need the stuff, then better stuff at the end for players who are better and need better stuff. It SOUNDS great, but the execution isn’t all there, the so called non filler, is absolutely filler. However, something not many people have mentioned is that I’m glad there is NO relic stuff, you guys did good on this. The fact that we can obtain things only for 7*/6* is good, but there’s just too much of things that we do need, that makes it not good if that makes sense, do we need t6b and t3a? Yes, do we need so much of this stuff? Absolutely not, there should have been just enough for us to make 2 1-2, or instead of that 1 or 2 2-3, there was no reason to include SO MUCH of this stuff and the t5cc ( looking at you @JLordVileJ haha ) into this event, This logic applies to the solo event as well, I actually LIKE the alliance event, as I feel it actually have less filler, things in the future that can be changed are things like reducing the t6b and t3a, and t5cc, do we need this stuff for rank ups, again YES, do we need so much, NO. Instead of these we can implement things like t6cc selectors, or just straight up crystals. I’m sure so many people struggle with getting t6cc for ranking up 2-3, that this stuff would have been more useful. I’m not saying that there shouldn’t have been any, it is okay to have splashed in there, but too much is just crazy. You guys should have stopped around like milestone 6 or something for this stuff.
The superior banquet crystals : this one pains me, because I REALLY do like the idea of this, to have a crystal made for tb and above, I’m not a fan of including tb into late progression titles, as getting tb is sorta easy. You don’t even need any rank ups. That’s not the point, this is about the sbc itself, which is just BAD, straight up this crystal is just bad, you need heavens sent luck for this stuff to roll you good, or just buy a bunch of them for you to good/ mid things, I see why the drop rates were never released. The player base would have gone crazy. For a crystal meant to strengthen f2p is doesn’t do what it’s meant too. Ways to fix this is just to fix the drop rates, and I know it’s hard, but find a way to compensate, give everyone there units back, would it be near impossible to fix because of the realm event and the solo+milestone ? Yeah…but I don’t think even the 2023 faced this much backlash. Even then you guys stated you would do better, and I see that you guys really did try, it just ended up being disappointing for players.
This event I feel wasn’t as whale focused, you guys tried to buff f2p, but to do so you assumed everyone was a strong f2p, pretty much saying that they didn’t even need buff.
Thats my constructive criticism, and I’ve spent pretty much all day on forums, this is a bit of what everyone says I feel.
Honestly? For any paragon or above player so far, this event is extremely disappointing. The SBCs simply are gold and iso crystals, with some t5cc. It's extremely disappointing and could be called a scam. The "good rewards" have such disgustingly low drop rates I bet that I could count the amount of people who got them on my hand. The milestones are fine (not great), but the unit spending requirement is simply too high, for disgustingly low payoff. The SBCs honestly are terrible. To players who have spent thousands of units and literally gotten nothing, something needs to be done. For paragon+, this really really sucks.
Valiants no need sig stones (most of times in 7 star crystal it open dupe champs), then the 7* shards start from 1.5k it's not reasonable for valiant, & finally the drop rate percent on full crystal (Titan, nexus, key, 7*, selector etc..) Is below below average for valiants.. If improved for valiants it would become great banquet..
I don't have much of a right to complain. I opened about 50 crystals and pulled 2 full titans, the really cool selector, and assembled enough 7* shards to pop 3-4 crystals.
My point of sadness is that out of all of those crystals, I duped Spider-Gwen twice, Emma Frost once, Enchantress once, and Superior Iron Man once. (First world problems, I know).
The one thing I always crave out of these events is a small leg-up on the RNG that we're beholden to for the rest of the year.
I think it'd be cool if there were more nexus/selector-type crystals in the rewards. The rewards wouldn't need a buff per-se, just people having a little bit more choice from the pool than they'd normally get.
I came back to the game 3-4 months ago, after quitting for almost 4 years. Grinded valiant, spent some money, got caught up. The amount of trash in these crystals after all the hype was very disappointing for what players must spend in units, to the point of being insulting. Even the amount of gold is pitiful for a valiant. Out of 90 or so crystals, I got probably 95% junk that I don’t even need, and I’ve only been back 4 months! And I’m valiant! The realm events are cool, and the milestones are solid, don’t get me wrong, but the community is so pissed and disappointed, we won’t hit the milestones. It’s not just about the realm events, the crystal rewards are just bad. In all honesty, this just reminds me of all the same **** I quit this game over in the first place. I’m tempted to charge back every cent I’ve spent and be done with this game for good. At best, I keep playing but go entirely free to play. Either way, I win. It’s clear none of us do when you guys run the board.
Cyber weekend gave me a dozen 7* crystals, and half a dozen titan crystals.
The banquet with same unit investment, netted me 2 7* champs from basic/special pool and 1 titan. Tons of T5c and some T6cc fragments.
The unit investment as a Valiant chasing higher prestige was not worth it in my opinion. Top 90 Realm ranked rewards have sig stones. Nothing else does. That's unattainable for 99% of the community including myself. Cyber weekend netted me 100+ generic stones. Banquet will net me close to 0 for similar unit and money investment.
I unfortunately do feel this Banquet event was an excuse to remove 5* and lower materials from the Valiant BG store. I am not fond of using units for material I was grinding battlegrounds for.
Sentiment overall: Expectations were tempered, but still let down.
Absolutely shambolic I must say... Thoroughly disappointed, wasted around 3k units this year, and I can safely say I'll be spending on the cyber weekend deals next year and not the banquet event.
Quite unfortunate, had so much potential for a GRAND banquet and they've scuffed it.
Stop grouping TB with Valiants We did not put our money, time, effort, and resources to be put in the same reward pool as people who rather spend thousands of units on Banquet instead of beating act 6.
Thanks to the underwhelming banquet now I can save my units for July. Forget SBCs drops, you could’ve at least let us select the reworked champion with the key.
In order to set the tone and add context to my viewpoint I have been playing this game for 9 years now and I consider myself a spender primarily during big events. This time around I opened over 60 crystals (most of them purchased) and the only feeling I can share with you is scammed and disappointed, it’s funny how we always go in hoping we would have a great experience but all it takes is a few crystals to open and bring you crashing down to reality.
1. Those that are happy with the event are TB and Paragon mostly since the reward pool benefits them the most. Valiant your most loyal and committed group of summoners got sent to the shadow realm.
a) 5,700 fragments of T6CC(I can get 25% easy from BG, and you sell a crystal for 65 units in the store for the same amount REALLY! On a SUPERIOR 300 units crystal!!)
b)1/2 a T6B ( I can get a full one again easy from BG/glory)
c) do we need to talk about the ridiculously low shard quantities? In cyber weekend I collected enough titan shards to open 6-7 crystals. You know how many I got in the banquet… 0.
d) for the amount of money we are spending we MUST at least select the one glorious guardian champion. Most of us will only open 2 if they are moderate spenders and 3 if they are whales it would be a shame to get stuck with the one you dislike the most…
e) T5CC in SBC help us understand… why is this even here it’s just disrespectful at this point.
All in all I could continue but the event is and will be one of the greatest failures that kabam has ever done. I hope you listen to your customers and stop making excuses otherwise you will lose valuable people.
As a free-to-play Valiant player since January last year, I’ve spent a lot of time in *Marvel Contest of Champions*, mostly focusing on progressing through content without spending units. While I’ve avoided Battlegrounds due to the increasing gap between accounts and the introduction of new defenders, I’ve made sure to seize every R3 opportunity available without spending money.
The gap in Battlegrounds has become especially frustrating, as newer defenders continue to be added, making it even harder to keep up. The nodes either being extremely unfun to go against due to ai and or defender choice only add to growing frustrations.
However, among this issue that’s become more glaring over time is the rewards distribution, particularly the fact that Valiant players often receive the same rewards as Thronebreakers. To me, this feels out of balance. Thronebreaker players have completed Act 6, which is now three acts behind the current content. Using the ten day calendar leading up to isophene as an example, thronebreakers who log in everyday get bare minimum r1 7* which already surpass the paragon requirement of 1 r4 in terms of power level. The fact that they receive the same rewards as Valiants, players who have put in more work and have more progression, is frustrating and unfair.
This is especially evident in major events like the Grand Banquet 10th Anniversary event. The rewards, such as crystals that often contain low quantities of Tier 6 Class Catalysts (T6CC), are great for Paragon players progressing to Valiant, but they feel like underwhelming filler for Valiants who already need more substantial rewards. T6 cc is a great commodity for valiants but the low quantities make it feel bad whenever acquired. The constant balancing of rewards for all titles in these events results in disappointment for higher-level players, as we end up receiving the same mediocre rewards as lower titles.
While it makes sense to sometimes group titles together for specific challenges, rewards calendars and event crystals should reflect progression. The peak title should always receive more rewarding and relevant rewards. It's like giving the top-tier teams the same recognition as lower-tier teams—it’s not about elitism, but about rewarding players for reaching the highest levels of progression and dedication.
By casting such a wide net over players, it becomes impossible to satisfy everyone, and this inevitably leads to dissatisfaction among the most invested players. The peak should be the peak, and players should be incentivized to strive for it, not lumped in with everyone else.
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For brevity, I have earned one key, 70 sig stones for one of the six champions requiring a key, but not enough points for an awakening gem on one of those champions. A second key does offer me a chance to duplicate a champion, so a huge reward to a newer valiant of 70 7* star sig stones cannot be used unless I spend more. Otherwise, there is also no guarantee when I would be able to use them.
Now I get that you don’t always get what you want exactly when you need it. Also, it’s part of the game to save materials until needed, but I don’t understand value being pushed to the realm event and then making I think it’s like 5 or 6 milestones these high value but super specific sig stones that you can’t use unless you hit a much much higher milestone. Obviously 7* awakening gem > 7* sigs, but I spent 6k units and I have a champion I can’t dupe and no idea when I could and 70 sig stones that only work for that one champion. Milestone wise a second key is closer than the gem but that will just be another champion. Maybe im being unfair and the last event with moleman was probably built similarly, this just feels different because I have no chance of a dupe with the new key.
300 units for 2 7* sig stones, that’s just a punch in the stomach really, I was genuinely so upset I pulled that multiple times.
Oh and for a resolution, a promo code would be nice but I don’t know anymore man, not sure if there is gonna be a resolution.
IMO, these are rewards that You can get for free easily, playing modes like AQ and BG.
there's not a good sense about opening crystals, the Main focus to get points and Open more crystals, being Valiant, is a huge step back to out title, Most people spent their units in Cyberweekend, waste +10k units in a event where You just get T6CC as a fill reward is... Dissapointing.
We are actually in a state where a Lot of players have +30 rank 3 7 stars, why hide the T4 Alpha?
I don't have much to add to what has been said here already, but I just want to make sure enough people are heard regarding their disappointment.
With this banquet being marketed as "The Grand Banquet" and it being the 10th anniversary I was really expecting this Banquet to be beyond anything we've seen.
When the milestones were revealed I wasn't particularly hyped, but also not all that dissapointed. There's some really good stuff in there and the only thing I can really complain about with the milestones is the lack of Titan shards.
What did dissapoint me however, is the Superior Banquet Crystals themselves. The rewards that are in there sound good in theory, but the drop rates are actually horrendous. It feels AWFUL to spend 300 units and get 5700 T6CC fragments in return. We get more from the daily event and we can actually choose the class we want with those. The same feeling holds for getting T5CC, which also isn't great.
I understand the crystal has to contain some filler, but the 5700 T6CC drop rates were so ridiculous that the crystal began to feel like a T6CC fragment crystal with some bonus gold and ISO-8. I suppose that if the minimum amount was higher, it would be less of a disappointment but probably still not great.
The small amounts being a problem goes for more than just the T6CC. Getting 1500 7* shards isn't necessarily that bad, but even that was incredibly uncommon. I don't think I even formed a full 7* crystal from 50+ crystals.
The same goes for 2 7* Signature Stones. It's nice to have sig stones, but even such low amounts seemed to have the drop rates that should be saved for really premium rewards.
1000 Titan shards being the minimum seems fine to me, but again even getting this minimum amount is so incredibly rare. I got 1000 total in 50+ crystals...
Another problem I have is the inclusion of 7* Guardian Signature Stones. They're great to have if you have one of the new Glorious Guardians duped, but to dupe them you need to either:
Get 7 of those Banquet Keys at least OR reach almost the final milestone of the Realm Event to get the Awakening Gem, while you get the sig stones way before the AG.
I do really like the idea behind the Banquet Keys though.
I think all the dissapointent in regards to the crystals in part may be due to the crystals being shared between Thronebreaker and Valiant. This feels to make like an improvement over previous years, where every progression level got the same rewards, but it just doesn't seem right to me that you bunch people who maybe just got their first 6* R4's together with people who have multiple 7* R3's. I'm sure I'm not the first to bring this up, but I really don't understand why this is a thing. It seems impossible to balance such a crystal correctly for people in such different states of the game. I've seen someone say in the Discord (I wish I didn't forget their name) that they seem more geared towards getting Thronebreakers and Paragon closer to the level of Valiants, rather that actually rewarding the people at higher progression.
All in all, I was left really disappointed by the so-called "Grand" Banquet.
To anyone still reading this wall of text: happy holidays!
As a Valiant player the fact that I’ve invested this much and not even gotten 1 key to the box is frustrating. And unless I spend more, or my ally completes all milestones, I may go the whole event and not get any of the new 7 star Guardians.
But thanks a bunch for the useless 40 sig stones in the realm event. They might be useful in a year when I hopefully get a guardian and awaken them.
I’m just frustrated to feel like I’ve done so much in the event and have nothing monumental to show for it.
Also remember that “if everyone is a super hero, then no one one will be” 😁
So we are all receiving the same types of rewards then everyone is still at the same level. For example, recently we all received either 10 x 6* or 7* champions. Well all your opponents also received the same things. So you are no better off.
It is a perception that makes you feel good 👍
To put this in terms you’ll understand: I was ready to drop the $70 CAD on the Banquet bundle. But I won’t, based on opening my first 30-ish crystals. In the past I almost always spent money on this event (once I dropped a few hundreds) so it’s not that I won’t spend. This year it feels like a waste.
Equity should be sought, not equality, a user with 1000+ hours receiving the same rewards as someone with 50 is equal, but not fair.
It’s a matter of definitions, and in this specific case, equality of reward is actually denial of achievement simultaneously.
Spent $0 this year but still saved units just in case this year wasn't a complete waste like last year. Dropped 23k units and opened 90+ SBCs to discover roughly 90% unwanted items.
Next year? Lmfao... Banquet isn't even a concern or a fleeting thought anymore. You've successfully sent the message that we should use our units/money on cyber and ignore banquet. Message received loud and clear.
I’m done whaling personally maybe I’ll start again when r4 material drops are actually worth it because this was pathetic
Cyber event was good value this however was daylight robbery especially if the realm event that you said wasn’t going to effect the actual rewards isn’t completed
Over 27k units plus 200 spent on the crystal deals not to mention the tickets I amassed buying daily’s and weekly’s I feel that it was nowhere near worth it unless you class t6 stuff high value which is quite frankly laughable for me and holds no progression value for my account at all
It is what it is tho I guess it’s done now all the hype about the grand banquet and I go back to my first 3 words of my comment cheers 🥂
Personally, I'd rather give everything I got from banquet back and get my units back.
The grand banquet 2024 : when these details were released, the community was torn, however they gave it a chance, and for the hype, and what it was made out to be, after all it is the GRAND banquet, it was just…bad. The realm events milestones were good, but only in the end. Overall is has an amazing premise, low level/okay rewards for players who are new progression and need the stuff, then better stuff at the end for players who are better and need better stuff. It SOUNDS great, but the execution isn’t all there, the so called non filler, is absolutely filler. However, something not many people have mentioned is that I’m glad there is NO relic stuff, you guys did good on this. The fact that we can obtain things only for 7*/6* is good, but there’s just too much of things that we do need, that makes it not good if that makes sense, do we need t6b and t3a? Yes, do we need so much of this stuff? Absolutely not, there should have been just enough for us to make 2 1-2, or instead of that 1 or 2 2-3, there was no reason to include SO MUCH of this stuff and the t5cc ( looking at you @JLordVileJ haha ) into this event, This logic applies to the solo event as well, I actually LIKE the alliance event, as I feel it actually have less filler, things in the future that can be changed are things like reducing the t6b and t3a, and t5cc, do we need this stuff for rank ups, again YES, do we need so much, NO. Instead of these we can implement things like t6cc selectors, or just straight up crystals. I’m sure so many people struggle with getting t6cc for ranking up 2-3, that this stuff would have been more useful. I’m not saying that there shouldn’t have been any, it is okay to have splashed in there, but too much is just crazy. You guys should have stopped around like milestone 6 or something for this stuff.
The superior banquet crystals : this one pains me, because I REALLY do like the idea of this, to have a crystal made for tb and above, I’m not a fan of including tb into late progression titles, as getting tb is sorta easy. You don’t even need any rank ups. That’s not the point, this is about the sbc itself, which is just BAD, straight up this crystal is just bad, you need heavens sent luck for this stuff to roll you good, or just buy a bunch of them for you to good/ mid things, I see why the drop rates were never released. The player base would have gone crazy. For a crystal meant to strengthen f2p is doesn’t do what it’s meant too. Ways to fix this is just to fix the drop rates, and I know it’s hard, but find a way to compensate, give everyone there units back, would it be near impossible to fix because of the realm event and the solo+milestone ? Yeah…but I don’t think even the 2023 faced this much backlash. Even then you guys stated you would do better, and I see that you guys really did try, it just ended up being disappointing for players.
This event I feel wasn’t as whale focused, you guys tried to buff f2p, but to do so you assumed everyone was a strong f2p, pretty much saying that they didn’t even need buff.
Thats my constructive criticism, and I’ve spent pretty much all day on forums, this is a bit of what everyone says I feel.
Valiants no need sig stones (most of times in 7 star crystal it open dupe champs), then the 7* shards start from 1.5k it's not reasonable for valiant, & finally the drop rate percent on full crystal (Titan, nexus, key, 7*, selector etc..) Is below below average for valiants.. If improved for valiants it would become great banquet..
My point of sadness is that out of all of those crystals, I duped Spider-Gwen twice, Emma Frost once, Enchantress once, and Superior Iron Man once. (First world problems, I know).
The one thing I always crave out of these events is a small leg-up on the RNG that we're beholden to for the rest of the year.
I think it'd be cool if there were more nexus/selector-type crystals in the rewards. The rewards wouldn't need a buff per-se, just people having a little bit more choice from the pool than they'd normally get.
The banquet with same unit investment, netted me 2 7* champs from basic/special pool and 1 titan. Tons of T5c and some T6cc fragments.
The unit investment as a Valiant chasing higher prestige was not worth it in my opinion. Top 90 Realm ranked rewards have sig stones. Nothing else does. That's unattainable for 99% of the community including myself. Cyber weekend netted me 100+ generic stones. Banquet will net me close to 0 for similar unit and money investment.
I unfortunately do feel this Banquet event was an excuse to remove 5* and lower materials from the Valiant BG store. I am not fond of using units for material I was grinding battlegrounds for.
Sentiment overall: Expectations were tempered, but still let down.
Quite unfortunate, had so much potential for a GRAND banquet and they've scuffed it.
We did not put our money, time, effort, and resources to be put in the same reward pool as people who rather spend thousands of units on Banquet instead of beating act 6.
In order to set the tone and add context to my viewpoint I have been playing this game for 9 years now and I consider myself a spender primarily during big events. This time around I opened over 60 crystals (most of them purchased) and the only feeling I can share with you is scammed and disappointed, it’s funny how we always go in hoping we would have a great experience but all it takes is a few crystals to open and bring you crashing down to reality.
1. Those that are happy with the event are TB and Paragon mostly since the reward pool benefits them the most. Valiant your most loyal and committed group of summoners got sent to the shadow realm.
a) 5,700 fragments of T6CC(I can get 25% easy from BG, and you sell a crystal for 65 units in the store for the same amount REALLY! On a SUPERIOR 300 units crystal!!)
b)1/2 a T6B ( I can get a full one again easy from BG/glory)
c) do we need to talk about the ridiculously low shard quantities? In cyber weekend I collected enough titan shards to open 6-7 crystals. You know how many I got in the banquet… 0.
d) for the amount of money we are spending we MUST at least select the one glorious guardian champion. Most of us will only open 2 if they are moderate spenders and 3 if they are whales it would be a shame to get stuck with the one you dislike the most…
e) T5CC in SBC help us understand… why is this even here it’s just disrespectful at this point.
All in all I could continue but the event is and will be one of the greatest failures that kabam has ever done. I hope you listen to your customers and stop making excuses otherwise you will lose valuable people.
As a free-to-play Valiant player since January last year, I’ve spent a lot of time in *Marvel Contest of Champions*, mostly focusing on progressing through content without spending units. While I’ve avoided Battlegrounds due to the increasing gap between accounts and the introduction of new defenders, I’ve made sure to seize every R3 opportunity available without spending money.
The gap in Battlegrounds has become especially frustrating, as newer defenders continue to be added, making it even harder to keep up. The nodes either being extremely unfun to go against due to ai and or defender choice only add to growing frustrations.
However, among this issue that’s become more glaring over time is the rewards distribution, particularly the fact that Valiant players often receive the same rewards as Thronebreakers. To me, this feels out of balance. Thronebreaker players have completed Act 6, which is now three acts behind the current content. Using the ten day calendar leading up to isophene as an example, thronebreakers who log in everyday get bare minimum r1 7* which already surpass the paragon requirement of 1 r4 in terms of power level. The fact that they receive the same rewards as Valiants, players who have put in more work and have more progression, is frustrating and unfair.
This is especially evident in major events like the Grand Banquet 10th Anniversary event. The rewards, such as crystals that often contain low quantities of Tier 6 Class Catalysts (T6CC), are great for Paragon players progressing to Valiant, but they feel like underwhelming filler for Valiants who already need more substantial rewards. T6 cc is a great commodity for valiants but the low quantities make it feel bad whenever acquired. The constant balancing of rewards for all titles in these events results in disappointment for higher-level players, as we end up receiving the same mediocre rewards as lower titles.
While it makes sense to sometimes group titles together for specific challenges, rewards calendars and event crystals should reflect progression. The peak title should always receive more rewarding and relevant rewards. It's like giving the top-tier teams the same recognition as lower-tier teams—it’s not about elitism, but about rewarding players for reaching the highest levels of progression and dedication.
By casting such a wide net over players, it becomes impossible to satisfy everyone, and this inevitably leads to dissatisfaction among the most invested players. The peak should be the peak, and players should be incentivized to strive for it, not lumped in with everyone else.