I think the worst thing about the banquet is that there is rank up materials but I don’t have any good champs we needed some nexus 7 stars titan nexus crystals to allow us to select better champs, they say they don’t want to create a huge divide however in cyber weekend the amount of nexus crystals given for big money shows the divide, I am valiant with 4 r3 7 stars I have never opened a 7 star nexus
It’s honestly amazing, I’ve never seen Kabam get cooked this badly by everyone in a while. If their response is “we’ll learn next year” no one cares and no one believes them after the promises this year, if they actually just ignore it they’re still getting cooked. Just compensate everyone. Do a refund or give everyone more crystals as a sorry to hit the higher milestones. No way you guys thought this event would be good after stuffing the crystals with trash
I just find the messaging so stomach turning. Like they really think of us as dumboneers who should just smile and nod with “everything in the crystal is useful for 7stars” and ignore the filler level quantities.
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.
Gifted guardians… Considering that we’re celebrating 10 years of gameplay, and what that means in terms of the variety of champions whom we’ve encountered over that time, if feels extremely counter-objective to limit such a big milestone event & celebration to just a measly 6 champions. And i got Sentry, so i can tell you that i feel very underwhelmed by this feature. Kabam implemented a feature which THEY thought was awesome, but how many times does something like this not work entirely well and we the players are the ones left with the sour taste in our mouths? Why not actually listen to the community and where something like this is concerned, open the idea up to the community in advance and ask to vote on it so as to try and gauge whether or not it’s a good idea or gets buy-in.
We just wanted to take a moment and address some of the concerns around our Banquet event this year as we see some of you are disappointed with the Superior Banquet Crystals in particular.
We wanted to move more of the rewards to the milestones, while keeping 7-star relevant rewards in the crystals as you build up your tracks in the various milestones between solo and alliance-based events. Our intention was to improve the experience over last year's event, and feel we have succeeded in that goal.
That being said, we want to make sure the game team sees and hears you, so please leave your constructive feedback on what you’d like to see changed.
Did you seriously said some of you?? You guys hyped it so much saying 10th year anniversary and this 💩is what you give us..and now you have the audacity to say some of you ...just shows how incapable your team is to connect with the players..
While the event rewards are decent, those are earned by opening the crystals. And when opening the crystals is disappointing, it takes away from the fun of the event. Opening crystals is what we do and that should be the best part with the event rewards being a nice perk on top of it.
My recommendations are: 1. Better drop rates on the best rewards and less filler. The filler this year is way better than last year but it is still not great. No one wants to spend 300 units for 2x tier 5 class catalysts. 2. Guarantee more best rewards. Maybe every 10 crystals you open gives you a special crystal that just has amazing rewards like 7 star champions, keys, titan crystals, etc. 3. Nexus crystals. Give at least more choice to people in what they are getting. 4. Reduce the spend. Needing 15K units so soon after cyber weekend is too much. The banquet should be about fun and celebrating the year while cyber weekend is where you make your money. The whales will always spend if you give them good rank rewards but everyone rice should be able to hit the milestones for less than 10K units.
This event should be fun and exciting and the current crystals make that impossible unless you get one of the rewards with less a 1% chance.
I think this event is a dream come true....for thronebreaker players of course. For variants (endgame level valiant player here) I'd say I regret spending 15k units because I worked hard to get them and it just doesn't feel like it was worth my investment.
While the event rewards are decent, those are earned by opening the crystals. And when opening the crystals is disappointing, it takes away from the fun of the event. Opening crystals is what we do and that should be the best part with the event rewards being a nice perk on top of it.
My recommendations are: 1. Better drop rates on the best rewards and less filler. The filler this year is way better than last year but it is still not great. No one wants to spend 300 units for 2x tier 5 class catalysts. 2. Guarantee more best rewards. Maybe every 10 crystals you open gives you a special crystal that just has amazing rewards like 7 star champions, keys, titan crystals, etc. 3. Nexus crystals. Give at least more choice to people in what they are getting. 4. Reduce the spend. Needing 15K units so soon after cyber weekend is too much. The banquet should be about fun and celebrating the year while cyber weekend is where you make your money. The whales will always spend if you give them good rank rewards but everyone rice should be able to hit the milestones for less than 10K units.
This event should be fun and exciting and the current crystals make that impossible unless you get one of the rewards with less a 1% chance.
This is a big part of why people are upset, and for good reason. When the way you interact with the event is lackluster, you won’t feel great about the event. Especially when we were told this lackluster part would even be part of the event in the first place. “This crystal has less filler than last year.” Ok sure? Then why have I only gotten a heap of catalyst fragments out of 20-30ish crystals?
On the bright side, normally by now I would have spent a few hundred dollars to buy more crystals. I was so disappointed by the lack of a key, new champs, trophy champs, etc. after the 15000 units I saved that I have no interest in spending real money. If that was Kabam’s goal, they succeeded.
Our intention was to improve the experience over last year's event, and feel we have succeeded in that goal.
Maybe leave out the self-congratulatory back-patting next time. It feels very condescending and dismissive to tell a complaining customer “We think we did great, but go ahead and complain if it makes you feel better.” Of course you feel, from your perspective, that you delivered an adequate experience.
The reality is that the drop rates were too heavily skewed towards T3A and T6B — I, like many others, have them now coming out the wazoo. And after liquidating my Unit stash, the only real positive is that I finished a T4A I was already close to completing, slightly accelerating getting an R3; and I got a lucky Key and pulled Sentinel. Other than that, the event was just very mid. I never had a “WHOOHOO!!!” moment. Feels like an RBI double rather than a grand slam.
I don't think anyone was expect a reliable 7R4 rank up stuff from the banquet crystals, but to get T3A and T6B in FRAGMENTS for 300 units while we can buy whole catalysts in the BG store is simply insulting.
Would have been better to remove the T5CC; T3A and T6B should have only dropped as a full catalyst and shuffled those drop rates onto 7 star crystal shards. At the very least just shower us with shards to open random RNG basic crystals. Could have honestly recalled opening much more champion crystals in previous years.
Our intention was to improve the experience over last year's event, and feel we have succeeded in that goal.
Maybe leave out the self-congratulatory back-patting next time. It feels very condescending and dismissive to tell a complaining customer “We think we did great, but go ahead and complain if it makes you feel better.” Of course you feel, from your perspective, that you delivered an adequate experience.
The reality is that the drop rates were too heavily skewed towards T3A and T6B — I, like many others, have them now coming out the wazoo. And after liquidating my Unit stash, the only real positive is that I finished a T4A I was already close to completing, slightly accelerating getting an R3; and I got a lucky Key and pulled Sentinel. Other than that, the event was just very mid. I never had a “WHOOHOO!!!” moment. Feels like an RBI double rather than a grand slam.
thats just soo dismissive of them and crashed responds like that every time ad other community members are like atleast thats better than miike. but man getting bad in comparison to worst is still not it and crashed has dipped up saying yeah yall yapp i have got medusa imma enjoy myseleves and we shall look into it after holiday so until then let me enjoy myseleves while yall grieve
It’s honestly amazing, I’ve never seen Kabam get cooked this badly by everyone in a while. If their response is “we’ll learn next year” no one cares and no one believes them after the promises this year, if they actually just ignore it they’re still getting cooked. Just compensate everyone. Do a refund or give everyone more crystals as a sorry to hit the higher milestones. No way you guys thought this event would be good after stuffing the crystals with trash
Agree with you 1000%. Will see how they try to save face with this one. But it’s bad. As bad as 12.0.
I hate that these events also line up with the weekend, it’s Saturday now so no response back most likely until next week and they probably won’t even do anything
I have to preface this post by saying I played the game for a year when it first started and then not again until this past June when I started fresh and created a new account. Since then, I have spent several hours every single day playing the game. I have taken part in all of the events, grinded in arenas and such, spent thousands of dollars (willingly) and ultimately pushed to Paragon (a week or two before the 10x10 Supply Drop). I do not do forums, but HAD to sign on and make a post. It's pretty ridiculous that my very post, during a 10yr Anniversary Celebration, during the games (supposed) GRANDEST event of the year AND right before Christmas is to voice my absolute and utter disappointment in the event.
The initial responses from Kabam seem very out of touch and possibly rushed. It is not SOME of the community that is upset, it seems like MOST of the community. Which is super sad to see during this large anniversary celebration.
I must admit this entire Celebration seems like a bust, and in retrospect, not fully for the player. I can understand any other event in any other year being "what it is", but for 10 years - the COMMUNITY needs to be celebrated in the biggest way. Both FTP and PFP players pour crazy amounts of time, dedication and money into this game and deserved something bigger.
I've worked in the Toy/Game Industry for two decades, what i have seen from Kabam over these four months makes me raise some eyebrows, but i will leave those opinions out of this and just state some other points related to this Banquet:
Firstly I echo much of what has been written before me and repeat some of that here...
1 - Players chased tickets for months thinking it was THE thing that was needed to have the best Banquet ever - i feel incredibly misled. I went in on daily, weekly and special deals a bit more because tickets were present. I ultimately amassed 50 tokens from tickets. Not only did I not get anything great from those 50 pulls, but for tickets that had to be chased and/or paid for, their value, when converted to SBCs, was less than if I had waited and spent that money directly on units and bought crystals. So several months of time and money were wasted in what looks to me a very deceitful way.
2 - To say that better rewards were moved to the milestones sounds like a cheap excuse and doesn't hold water to me. Most people's SBCs were filled with catalysts, catalyst fragments and not much else. Soooo the milestones should make up for that... NOPE! 12 out of 23 Solo milestones were catalysts of some kind. 9 out of 19 Alliance milestones were catalysts of some kind And 12 out of the 37 Realm milestones were catalysts of some kind.
3 - Cyber Weekend had WAY better value. I spent a large amount of money there and felt satisfied. I spent about the same here and felt shafted HARD. The amount of units I grinded for, deals and units purchased with money and hours spent in the game do not equal even 40% satisfaction with this event. Cyber Weekend meant a 1000 times more for my account. I definitely regret every bit done for Banquet and the Game Team's initial responses seem to make me not want to really take part in other events or play the game much.
4 - I have seen some players mention upcoming Christmas Unit deals. There was no mention of this in-game, on the site, in any livestream or on any social media. How would the semi-casual player know this? I spent HARD EARNED MONEY on more units and such to get more SBCs thinking THIS WAS THE TIME, but had i known unit deals were coming - i would have waited a few days. So I am shafted again or I am BLED FOR MORE CASH by the game. I lose either way because there was no mention of this anywhere. And no player should be expected to know it because it was done a year ago or 5 years ago - deals and events need to be made known by the company in an easy way.
Yesterday I played about 1 hr, instead of 4 or 5. I am sure I will end up playing less as the days pass or just stop playing all together. I am also fairly resolute in not spending any more money on this game.
Again, as someone who is in the industry, I have seen a lot of stuff over the years and I am a firm believer that you get more bees with honey. Don't trick, deceive or force anyone to do anything. Treat them with respect (because with no fans, there is NO game) and people will spend on their own. I'd be fine whaling regularly, when $$ allowed, if I wasn't feeling like I was being used by the company in such a harsh manner and then disrespected along the way.
Not sure what kind of resolution is to be had here. Sounds like Kabam is closed until the Event's end? Regardless, I doubt the GRAND gestures needed to make up to the community for this event would happen anyway. As a life-long fan of Marvel, a supporter of the game early on, an admirer of it all these years and someone who came back and invested a large amount of time and money back into it - The word DISAPPOINTMENT is just not large enough. The 10 Year Anniversary was a sad joke to the fanbase.
Banquet/gifting Crystals used to have the surprise to contain somthing amazing., Like "yeah Jessica Jones, Kang, WolverineX" and when your Not an endgame Player this was mindblowing awesome! Or some other really expensive/ rare stuff, hard to get for Players one or two titles behind the top title.
Now... I have to 'work' myself with Units to the Rank rewards. I can calculate my Units to get what i want. But cannot expect any good surprise or WOW moment out of the Crystals themself. This is just sad!
My Feeling is not anger. More Like sadness and disapointment.
I get why Vaillant Players are upset. Paragon Casual Players dont get the Chance to close the Gap with some luck. Only by brute buying thru it. And thats Motivation killing.
Kabam is the 10th year anniversary of the game. This is the main important thing. Some people like me have been playing since December 2014. Also 10 years. Milestones are great but if we have to buy these poor crystals to reach them, these makes the event also poor. And it’s sadly to end this 10th year anniversary with all the community upset. Hope you find a solution for fix the event these days before the end of the year. Wish you Merry Xmas and happy 2025!!
When it started, I didn't think it was too bad. However, very quickly I realized why it actually is.
What was the best part of Banquet (for me) in years past was the shiny new toys I'd get to play with, be they a fresh rank up that probably wouldn't have happened for a while, or mostly, a shiny new toy to play with. While the milestones did provide some of this, the crystals themselves, as virtually everyone has said, are terrible.
How to improve? First, every 7* shard drop should be either 1/3, 1/2, or a full crystal. Titan shards should be 1/4 to 1/2 a crystal. And the t6c/sig stones shouldn't be less than what we can easily get elsewhere for just playing the game.
And most importantly, don't try to deflect people's feelings/reactions by claiming an event is actually right where it should be when you've been hyping the 10 year mark for quite some time. It's like telling someone that an economy is actually doing great, their feelings/experience notwithstanding.
Just like last year.They make the banquet terrible,people complain,make a thread asking how they can do better and go on without acknowledging this ever again This **** just gonna fade away ( https://youtu.be/6HPAysN5UGc?si=7U4e_aMMJj3dmpxw )
I have to preface this post by saying I played the game for a year when it first started and then not again until this past June when I started fresh and created a new account. Since then, I have spent several hours every single day playing the game. I have taken part in all of the events, grinded in arenas and such, spent thousands of dollars (willingly) and ultimately pushed to Paragon (a week or two before the 10x10 Supply Drop). I do not do forums, but HAD to sign on and make a post. It's pretty ridiculous that my very post, during a 10yr Anniversary Celebration, during the games (supposed) GRANDEST event of the year AND right before Christmas is to voice my absolute and utter disappointment in the event.
The initial responses from Kabam seem very out of touch and possibly rushed. It is not SOME of the community that is upset, it seems like MOST of the community. Which is super sad to see during this large anniversary celebration.
I must admit this entire Celebration seems like a bust, and in retrospect, not fully for the player. I can understand any other event in any other year being "what it is", but for 10 years - the COMMUNITY needs to be celebrated in the biggest way. Both FTP and PFP players pour crazy amounts of time, dedication and money into this game and deserved something bigger.
I've worked in the Toy/Game Industry for two decades, what i have seen from Kabam over these four months makes me raise some eyebrows, but i will leave those opinions out of this and just state some other points related to this Banquet:
Firstly I echo much of what has been written before me and repeat some of that here...
1 - Players chased tickets for months thinking it was THE thing that was needed to have the best Banquet ever - i feel incredibly misled. I went in on daily, weekly and special deals a bit more because tickets were present. I ultimately amassed 50 tokens from tickets. Not only did I not get anything great from those 50 pulls, but for tickets that had to be chased and/or paid for, their value, when converted to SBCs, was less than if I had waited and spent that money directly on units and bought crystals. So several months of time and money were wasted in what looks to me a very deceitful way.
2 - To say that better rewards were moved to the milestones sounds like a cheap excuse and doesn't hold water to me. Most people's SBCs were filled with catalysts, catalyst fragments and not much else. Soooo the milestones should make up for that... NOPE! 12 out of 23 Solo milestones were catalysts of some kind. 9 out of 19 Alliance milestones were catalysts of some kind And 12 out of the 37 Realm milestones were catalysts of some kind.
3 - Cyber Weekend had WAY better value. I spent a large amount of money there and felt satisfied. I spent about the same here and felt shafted HARD. The amount of units I grinded for, deals and units purchased with money and hours spent in the game do not equal even 40% satisfaction with this event. Cyber Weekend meant a 1000 times more for my account. I definitely regret every bit done for Banquet and the Game Team's initial responses seem to make me not want to really take part in other events or play the game much.
4 - I have seen some players mention upcoming Christmas Unit deals. There was no mention of this in-game, on the site, in any livestream or on any social media. How would the semi-casual player know this? I spent HARD EARNED MONEY on more units and such to get more SBCs thinking THIS WAS THE TIME, but had i known unit deals were coming - i would have waited a few days. So I am shafted again or I am BLED FOR MORE CASH by the game. I lose either way because there was no mention of this anywhere. And no player should be expected to know it because it was done a year ago or 5 years ago - deals and events need to be made known by the company in an easy way.
Yesterday I played about 1 hr, instead of 4 or 5. I am sure I will end up playing less as the days pass or just stop playing all together. I am also fairly resolute in not spending any more money on this game.
Again, as someone who is in the industry, I have seen a lot of stuff over the years and I am a firm believer that you get more bees with honey. Don't trick, deceive or force anyone to do anything. Treat them with respect (because with no fans, there is NO game) and people will spend on their own. I'd be fine whaling regularly, when $$ allowed, if I wasn't feeling like I was being used by the company in such a harsh manner and then disrespected along the way.
Not sure what kind of resolution is to be had here. Sounds like Kabam is closed until the Event's end? Regardless, I doubt the GRAND gestures needed to make up to the community for this event would happen anyway. As a life-long fan of Marvel, a supporter of the game early on, an admirer of it all these years and someone who came back and invested a large amount of time and money back into it - The word DISAPPOINTMENT is just not large enough. The 10 Year Anniversary was a sad joke to the fanbase.
As a 6 million plus rating valiant, there is nothing in the entire banquet event that I was hunting for I was hoping for 1x 7* rank 4 gem in the final realm milestone before the stretch goals cos I want to bring my 7* juggernaut to rank 4
Considering the whining about higher levels getting too many rewards suited for us lower levels, maybe a shift in the delineation is needed.
Although I like TB being included in the rewards for Valiant and Paragon, maybe in future Kabam shift the goal posts and group TB with Cav, and then Valiant with Paragon and adjust the rewards accordingly.
I typed out a lot but I don’t expect them to read everything at this point so I paired it down.
I’d sum it up as:
Saying feedback was heard last year + saying crystals had less filler this year + saying “you don’t know the drop rates yet”+ hype for 10 year event = high player expectations
Poor drop rates+ low minimum quantities + lumping TB, Paragon, and Valiant together = major player disappointment.
I understand that moving more of the rewards budget on milestones guarantees everyone a higher “floor” for what they’ll walk away with. The problem is that shifts the focus to units to hit milestones and away from the Banquet crystals. All the communication was hyping the crystals so when those are well below expectation, no amount of milestone rewards will make opening a 300 unit crystal and seeing 2 7* sig stones feel good.
Some things seem way over valued. 10% of T6CC, 2 7* sig stones, one 7* +5 sig stone, any portion of a T6B/T3A, sig stones for a super limited pool that is set up to ensure we don’t awaken any of them without a huge spend - these are all part of what made this disappointing.
I don’t spend on this game. I’ve considered it many times and was considering it again this year leading up to banquet but this disappointment and the response so far just reinforces why I don’t spend.
The whole tone of the response would be different if you hadn’t said you felt like the team hit the goal. With this much negative feedback that means you went into this knowing the goal would mean disappointment and that’s just sad.
When it started, I didn't think it was too bad. However, very quickly I realized why it actually is.
What was the best part of Banquet (for me) in years past was the shiny new toys I'd get to play with, be they a fresh rank up that probably wouldn't have happened for a while, or mostly, a shiny new toy to play with. While the milestones did provide some of this, the crystals themselves, as virtually everyone has said, are terrible.
How to improve? First, every 7* shard drop should be either 1/3, 1/2, or a full crystal. Titan shards should be 1/4 to 1/2 a crystal. And the t6c/sig stones shouldn't be less than what we can easily get elsewhere for just playing the game.
And most importantly, don't try to deflect people's feelings/reactions by claiming an event is actually right where it should be when you've been hyping the 10 year mark for quite some time. It's like telling someone that an economy is actually doing great, their feelings/experience notwithstanding.
This event started becoming less exciting to me as soon as they removed the gifting aspect of it. Scammers and exploiters ruined it but Kabam could and should have tried to implement measures to mitigate them rather than downright removing it. Without gifting the novelty factor is simply gone. Pulling a portion of T6CC would feel much better if I was opening a crystal sent by my alliance mate compared to me directly dropping 300 units. Also I see nothing wrong with players creating multi accounts to gift themselves, still time spent in game, still effort required. Kabam just didn't like the fact that non-spenders had a way to get more free stuffs.
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My recommendations are:
1. Better drop rates on the best rewards and less filler. The filler this year is way better than last year but it is still not great. No one wants to spend 300 units for 2x tier 5 class catalysts.
2. Guarantee more best rewards. Maybe every 10 crystals you open gives you a special crystal that just has amazing rewards like 7 star champions, keys, titan crystals, etc.
3. Nexus crystals. Give at least more choice to people in what they are getting.
4. Reduce the spend. Needing 15K units so soon after cyber weekend is too much. The banquet should be about fun and celebrating the year while cyber weekend is where you make your money. The whales will always spend if you give them good rank rewards but everyone rice should be able to hit the milestones for less than 10K units.
This event should be fun and exciting and the current crystals make that impossible unless you get one of the rewards with less a 1% chance.
The reality is that the drop rates were too heavily skewed towards T3A and T6B — I, like many others, have them now coming out the wazoo. And after liquidating my Unit stash, the only real positive is that I finished a T4A I was already close to completing, slightly accelerating getting an R3; and I got a lucky Key and pulled Sentinel. Other than that, the event was just very mid. I never had a “WHOOHOO!!!” moment. Feels like an RBI double rather than a grand slam.
Would have been better to remove the T5CC; T3A and T6B should have only dropped as a full catalyst and shuffled those drop rates onto 7 star crystal shards.
At the very least just shower us with shards to open random RNG basic crystals. Could have honestly recalled opening much more champion crystals in previous years.
Every 10th crystal remove all filler trash and the lower end of shards etc
Since then, I have spent several hours every single day playing the game. I have taken part in all of the events, grinded in arenas and such, spent thousands of dollars (willingly) and ultimately pushed to Paragon (a week or two before the 10x10 Supply Drop).
I do not do forums, but HAD to sign on and make a post.
It's pretty ridiculous that my very post, during a 10yr Anniversary Celebration, during the games (supposed) GRANDEST event of the year AND right before Christmas is to voice my absolute and utter disappointment in the event.
The initial responses from Kabam seem very out of touch and possibly rushed.
It is not SOME of the community that is upset, it seems like MOST of the community.
Which is super sad to see during this large anniversary celebration.
I must admit this entire Celebration seems like a bust, and in retrospect, not fully for the player. I can understand any other event in any other year being "what it is", but for 10 years - the COMMUNITY needs to be celebrated in the biggest way.
Both FTP and PFP players pour crazy amounts of time, dedication and money into this game and deserved something bigger.
I've worked in the Toy/Game Industry for two decades, what i have seen from Kabam over these four months makes me raise some eyebrows, but i will leave those opinions out of this and just state some other points related to this Banquet:
Firstly I echo much of what has been written before me and repeat some of that here...
1 - Players chased tickets for months thinking it was THE thing that was needed to have the best Banquet ever - i feel incredibly misled. I went in on daily, weekly and special deals a bit more because tickets were present. I ultimately amassed 50 tokens from tickets. Not only did I not get anything great from those 50 pulls, but for tickets that had to be chased and/or paid for, their value, when converted to SBCs, was less than if I had waited and spent that money directly on units and bought crystals. So several months of time and money were wasted in what looks to me a very deceitful way.
2 - To say that better rewards were moved to the milestones sounds like a cheap excuse and doesn't hold water to me. Most people's SBCs were filled with catalysts, catalyst fragments and not much else.
Soooo the milestones should make up for that... NOPE!
12 out of 23 Solo milestones were catalysts of some kind.
9 out of 19 Alliance milestones were catalysts of some kind
And 12 out of the 37 Realm milestones were catalysts of some kind.
3 - Cyber Weekend had WAY better value. I spent a large amount of money there and felt satisfied. I spent about the same here and felt shafted HARD. The amount of units I grinded for, deals and units purchased with money and hours spent in the game do not equal even 40% satisfaction with this event. Cyber Weekend meant a 1000 times more for my account. I definitely regret every bit done for Banquet and the Game Team's initial responses seem to make me not want to really take part in other events or play the game much.
4 - I have seen some players mention upcoming Christmas Unit deals. There was no mention of this in-game, on the site, in any livestream or on any social media. How would the semi-casual player know this? I spent HARD EARNED MONEY on more units and such to get more SBCs thinking THIS WAS THE TIME, but had i known unit deals were coming - i would have waited a few days. So I am shafted again or I am BLED FOR MORE CASH by the game. I lose either way because there was no mention of this anywhere. And no player should be expected to know it because it was done a year ago or 5 years ago - deals and events need to be made known by the company in an easy way.
Yesterday I played about 1 hr, instead of 4 or 5.
I am sure I will end up playing less as the days pass or just stop playing all together.
I am also fairly resolute in not spending any more money on this game.
Again, as someone who is in the industry, I have seen a lot of stuff over the years and I am a firm believer that you get more bees with honey. Don't trick, deceive or force anyone to do anything. Treat them with respect (because with no fans, there is NO game) and people will spend on their own.
I'd be fine whaling regularly, when $$ allowed, if I wasn't feeling like I was being used by the company in such a harsh manner and then disrespected along the way.
Not sure what kind of resolution is to be had here.
Sounds like Kabam is closed until the Event's end?
Regardless, I doubt the GRAND gestures needed to make up to the community for this event would happen anyway.
As a life-long fan of Marvel, a supporter of the game early on, an admirer of it all these years and someone who came back and invested a large amount of time and money back into it - The word DISAPPOINTMENT is just not large enough.
The 10 Year Anniversary was a sad joke to the fanbase.
Banquet/gifting Crystals used to have the surprise to contain somthing amazing., Like "yeah Jessica Jones, Kang, WolverineX" and when your Not an endgame Player this was mindblowing awesome!
Or some other really expensive/ rare stuff, hard to get for Players one or two titles behind the top title.
Now... I have to 'work' myself with Units to the Rank rewards. I can calculate my Units to get what i want. But cannot expect any good surprise or WOW moment out of the Crystals themself.
This is just sad!
My Feeling is not anger. More Like sadness and disapointment.
I get why Vaillant Players are upset.
Paragon Casual Players dont get the Chance to close the Gap with some luck. Only by brute buying thru it. And thats Motivation killing.
Some people like me have been playing since December 2014. Also 10 years.
Milestones are great but if we have to buy these poor crystals to reach them, these makes the event also poor.
And it’s sadly to end this 10th year anniversary with all the community upset.
Hope you find a solution for fix the event these days before the end of the year.
Wish you Merry Xmas and happy 2025!!
What was the best part of Banquet (for me) in years past was the shiny new toys I'd get to play with, be they a fresh rank up that probably wouldn't have happened for a while, or mostly, a shiny new toy to play with. While the milestones did provide some of this, the crystals themselves, as virtually everyone has said, are terrible.
How to improve? First, every 7* shard drop should be either 1/3, 1/2, or a full crystal. Titan shards should be 1/4 to 1/2 a crystal. And the t6c/sig stones shouldn't be less than what we can easily get elsewhere for just playing the game.
And most importantly, don't try to deflect people's feelings/reactions by claiming an event is actually right where it should be when you've been hyping the 10 year mark for quite some time. It's like telling someone that an economy is actually doing great, their feelings/experience notwithstanding.
This **** just gonna fade away (
I expected it to be bad, but no way I would have guessed to this extent.
The only good news is, I feel zero need to spend money. So thanks I guess.
I was hoping for 1x 7* rank 4 gem in the final realm milestone before the stretch goals cos I want to bring my 7* juggernaut to rank 4
Although I like TB being included in the rewards for Valiant and Paragon, maybe in future Kabam shift the goal posts and group TB with Cav, and then Valiant with Paragon and adjust the rewards accordingly.
I’d sum it up as:
Saying feedback was heard last year + saying crystals had less filler this year + saying “you don’t know the drop rates yet”+ hype for 10 year event = high player expectations
Poor drop rates+ low minimum quantities + lumping TB, Paragon, and Valiant together = major player disappointment.
I understand that moving more of the rewards budget on milestones guarantees everyone a higher “floor” for what they’ll walk away with. The problem is that shifts the focus to units to hit milestones and away from the Banquet crystals. All the communication was hyping the crystals so when those are well below expectation, no amount of milestone rewards will make opening a 300 unit crystal and seeing 2 7* sig stones feel good.
Some things seem way over valued. 10% of T6CC, 2 7* sig stones, one 7* +5 sig stone, any portion of a T6B/T3A, sig stones for a super limited pool that is set up to ensure we don’t awaken any of them without a huge spend - these are all part of what made this disappointing.
I don’t spend on this game. I’ve considered it many times and was considering it again this year leading up to banquet but this disappointment and the response so far just reinforces why I don’t spend.
The whole tone of the response would be different if you hadn’t said you felt like the team hit the goal. With this much negative feedback that means you went into this knowing the goal would mean disappointment and that’s just sad.
Nothing really to show for it. 80% of them gave me t6cc frags that I could have bought from the rank up store for 65 units…
The other 20% were T4A frags, T6B, T3A, and 500 ag shards.
Oh and 17K 7 star shards.
So my 9K units and $50 are good for rank up mats that are cheaper elsewhere and a 7 star champ from shards….
BIG FAIL KABAM.
Over hyped, under performed, and out of touch. It’s where you’re at.
All players who have invested at this level or more should have rewards that match our investment.
You all need an apology compensation package.