The main issue was the hype for the event. Isophene is kind a mid level champ. I will be keeping her at R1 even if we somehow manage to awaken her, unless they buff her to crit more often, as of now I rarely see it happening. Making us go back through Necropolis was uninspired and a cheap way out. I am absolutely loving the daily’s though, that and 60p are the two biggest wins from the 10yr. That being said, it is kind of sad that after 10 years of giving money to this game and achieving the highest levels, I feel like they could have done a lot more. I don’t need 7* crystals, the nexus is ok, but it should have been a 2 7* Nexus and a Titan at the very least for the level they put it at.
Again, the main issue I have is the hype around it and I believed it, spent a bunch of money to get units over the course of the last several months, and I feel duped with the crystals. Out of over 80 crystals, I didnt get a single titan shard, special 7* crystal, key, etc. I got 4% of a t7, which I would gladly give back, some sig stones and a lot of t6 and t3, which I got with the Valiant daily and now the super daily. With 10 years of loyalty for a mobile game, you thought they would have really opened up the flood gates, it would not have hurt the economy of the game, especially with the, potential, backlash.
I absolutely love this game and I have so much fun, and I should be excited to spend money. But I guess I am expecting too much from a GATCHA game. Spending use to be fun on this game.
I also think that the idea that whales will get further apart from other players is kind of irrelevant and really should have had zero impact on the decision of what to put in these crystals.
If someone wants to put thousands of dollars into the game, to get the first rank 4, then why not let them have their fun? And at the same time, those of us who put in just our own time (f2p) or only a few dollars , can get our value worth also from the same crystals.
We aren’t unrealistic, no one expects to spend 5 dollars and get something unreasonable from the crystal. But we’d all like something… nice? Something to look forward to?
I’d rather have amazing crystals to open, improving my game enjoyment and everyone else’s.
The fact that a whale gets more is kind of obvious. And has no impact on me at all, or any part of the game apart from extremely high end, where the whales can fight it out.
So yes, let the whales have their fun, and let us have our fun too please.
For all the whales out there, thankyou for supporting the game. I sincerely hope next banquet you get better crystals to open.
On a side note, the event rewards were decent. And it was fun clicking on claim for everything.
But if the realm rewards are based on encouraging people to buy crystals, then the crystals need to have something interesting to make it enticing. Otherwise , no one will buy them and no one gets the realm rewards.
Oh and please separate the reward based on tiers if you are worried about giving cav, tb etc too much. there’s no need to punish valiant by reducing rewards because of this.and again, this should not be a reason to nerf rewards in the crystals. If it’s a concern, find a solution, and one soluiton is…have the crystals reward locked by progression It’s present in other crystals. So should be doable for sbc?
Now I know the purpose of this event, they want to improve TB and below, and Valiant,Paragon stand still & wait for lower levels to catch up 😄 So we will have strong community to play together
Personally I was really hoping to be able to dupe a few of the limited edition 7*s either through the selectors or maybe getting the awakening gem. But with only a .2% chance of the limited edition selector and a 1% chance at an AG and after almost 100 crystals I didn't get either. Just a lot of rank up mats that I already had too much of. I would have loved to dupe my Shocker or Hulkbuster or get some of the loyalty champs etc...
I didn't even get enough 7* shards to get a 7* crystal. And I got 0 titan shards for my first 80 something crystals. And then a paltry amount from the next few.
I guess I can say I was lucky in some way by getting a 7* jessica but I really didn't care for her. And I did get 1 additional banquet key but it gave me a disappointing sentry.
What a massive disconnect with your customers. What a massive disappointing event. A business doesnt last long with this ineptitude. And the excuse, yeah we had this and that for the 10 year célébration and to then put 7 star crystals that for the most are done . Whos running this circuit?
I think KABAM should give all the milesstones for everyone, because the Drop rates are so,so BAD!!! Its 10years of MCOC and KABAM made such an Big mistakes. If I didn’t invest a Big Amount of Money over the years, i quit this game!!!! :-((
As someone who has spent $ the quality of stuff I have gotten for what was spent … I might never spend again on this game smh
Yup, I ground arena hard for 6 months hoping that this was going to be good for Paragon/Valiant, only to have it be this attempt to jump start TB and below. I might just stop saving for these things.
I just want to say, kabam crashed's response might be one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. He talks about how you guys at kabam "don't want to create an enormous gap in between the big spenders and everyone else" but if you take a couple of seconds to think about it, the people who are spending less than 5000 units are getting the majority of their rewards from the crystal themselves right since they won't be able to unlock the higher milestones in the solo, alliance and realm events where the actual good rewards are whereas the spenders, no matter what they pull from the crystals (in the case of this event it'll be mostly garbage anyways) they'll still have the higher milestones with the actual good rewards such as the newly added 7 star nexus and basics. So in reality what kabam have done is actually not addressed the situation of the banquet creating a gap between big spenders and free to play players like they supposedly wanted to at all and have in fact arguably made it worse since all free to play players are getting are some catalysts and a negligible amount of shards from the lower milestones.
I said this in my earlier comment, but will reiterate it once again after keeping a close eye on the Realm Event: Give out a compensation package to everyone based on their Solo Event score and the number of crystals they opened.
Adding those 7* crystals was a tone death response, especially since the event participation is grinding to a screeching halt. People aren’t only at risk for missing out on the milestone rewards, but the sentiment and energy is so bad/negative that I anticipate the whales you rely on to keep the game going also opting out and potentially boycotting.
If you truly don’t want to ostracize your biggest spenders who would’ve unlocked all the milestones while mostly hoarding filler from the SBC crystals, unlock the rewards for them now at the very least. This was by far the worst event of the year in terms of value for Valiant players like myself. We essentially gave you free money for you to spit in our face and as of now, wouldn’t even get those realm rewards we funded.
Also, the compensation package would need to be in line with Black Friday deals. There needs to be 7* r3 materials: shards, GENERIC sig stones and awakening gems, and some kind of selector. I know people who spent over $500 and upwards to $1K and have NOTHING but an overfilled inventory of items they already have to show for it.
Stop with the disrespect and have the courtesy to respond as well.
Our intention was to improve the experience over last year's event, and feel we have succeeded in that goal.
Seems silly to arrive at such a conclusion before receiving feedback. The feedback in this thread suggests otherwise.
As someone who just turned valiant about 2 weeks ago, the resources I received were useful for ranking up my 7* champs and building up my roster of them as well, but when I heard less filler on the stream assumed the drops would be better
And the lack of a holiday calendar this year was disappointing
This. This is what many of us wanted and expected. I don't personally expect the world. But this would have been much better. I did finally get a limited selector after roughly 40k contribution. So I finally got the duck (over duping storm finally) but yes. I'm done there. Maybe I'll take a crack at xmas with my google play gift cards. But unlikely.
I think a quick 7 day calendar with Banquet bundle tickets could make everyone happy. It would give lower unit spenders the ability to get the extra 7* crystals and other bonus rewards and anyone that spent a lot of units can just get more titan shards which I think is what a lot of higher spenders want. Idk just a thought.
Hi Kabam, Constructive comment. I’m free to play endgame Valiant, like the absolute majority of players, was disappointed in the event. Because being a Valiant (end player) I got 90% of the materials for raising champions to rank 2 or 5/65 from crystals and milestones. For 9k units I got only 1.5 T4a. In fact, I can't even raise 1 champion to rank 3. If you would added more materials for rank 3, it wouldn't create any gap between donators and free-to-play players, because we have top-donators with full rank 3 and sig200 rosters in BG for a long time already. And thanks to this event, the gap between the initial Valiant and me has narrowed. And at the same time, the gap between me and the donators has increased.
And it’s 10th anniversary + xmass and new year… people want to open crystals to get CHAMPIONS not a materials. You could add more materials to the milestones and add more crystal shards or something like that to crystals. People wants gamble. That’s it. People won’t spin or pop crystals in holidays to see rank up materials.
Great idea to do a nexus Banquet crystal. To eliminate such disappointment.
When banquet hit last year, I think that I had just made Cav, and only had a few 6* champs. By the end, I had around 20--including a few trophy champs. So I think the prevailing response this time has been because the SBC is providing fewer champs, relatively speaking. Rare ranking mats are great, but they don't register as a win the same way that a sought-after champ does. (I got a tier 6 class catalyst with my last SBC, and for a second I was disappointed. Then I remembered how long it takes to earn one with the daily super, and how long it took before the daily super.)
Personally, I'm in the perfect place to appreciate the banquet. I had around 20 7* champs after the giveaway, and none were above rank 2. So far, banquet got me a handful of 7* champs, and enough mats to get 1-2 of them to rank 3. And I can appreciate the need to limit the rewards: I think that if endgame players had the majority of 7* champs and many or most of them at the highest rank, then you have some of the player base wanting more challenging content and a new tier, while the rest has to grind their way through more and more lower-level content to catch up to where the satisfyingly difficult and rewarding content is. Tradeoffs are necessary, but people don't like them.
What's the solution? I suppose you could make the SBCs more rewarding in terms of champs, but slightly more expensive so as not to flood the game with top-level rewards. The balance is tricky, of course: if people can only get a few SBCs and have bad luck, they'll be upset. You can't please everybody. The other thing is to remember that, the more stuff you give away (the 10x10 supply drop was very generous!) the more people become used to the rewards, and the less those rewards register when they arrive via chance. So having 10 free champs probably (or definitely) spoiled people's appreciation for an event where, realistically, they might get 3-6 champs.
Can we also talk about how the gifting component is atrocious. You can only see 2 of the 10 options of gifts on the actual gifting screen (in terms of availability) and the boxes are identical to several years worth of these boxes that i have in my inventory.
Our inventory of these things need to either be purged or combined into current year gifts and the screen needs to show our current inventory of each box type. How is this a difficult concept? It's been like this for years.
I don't like events where rewards are based on community participation, and especially when that participation involves spending. It feels like a group project in school. The realm milestones are creeping up at this point, and I'm concerned that we're going to plateau pretty soon. Any chance those of us who popped enough crystals to max out our realm points will get the rewards anyway? I'm at 26,400 points out of 25,574, so should get all of that.
Oh we are absolutely already plateauing. And the crystals are such garbage no one's going to waste a ton of units just to try to 'add to the pot' of the realm event.
Complete miscalculation. How "hilarious" would it be if we ended up with 70 signature stones we can't even use because we don't reach the Awakening gem milestone.
I didn't see the announcement from Kabam, but does it sound like they know what a disaster this has been? Does it sound like they know they need to do something to fix things?
I don't like events where rewards are based on community participation, and especially when that participation involves spending. It feels like a group project in school. The realm milestones are creeping up at this point, and I'm concerned that we're going to plateau pretty soon. Any chance those of us who popped enough crystals to max out our realm points will get the rewards anyway? I'm at 26,400 points out of 25,574, so should get all of that.
Oh we are absolutely already plateauing. And the crystals are such garbage no one's going to waste a ton of units just to try to 'add to the pot' of the realm event.
Complete miscalculation. How "hilarious" would it be if we ended up with 70 signature stones we can't even use because we don't reach the Awakening gem milestone.
I would think at minimum they'd need to give everyone whatever level of Realm rewards they have points for. I know I probably won't be saving for the next event in July. Last July's event was lame, and I thought this would be better - just more of the same.
Spent all my units, approx 10k Got absolutely nothing of value. Only 1.5k 7* shards. Is it worth it ? No that’s a total fiasco of an event. Drop rates sucks. This was supposed to be the event of the year. Thank you for disrespecting all players who grinded arenas throughout the year!
This event has been doomed ever since it switched from gifting to banquet.
In the gifting event, the megawhales who were chasing ranked rewards were buying crystals for others, who would benefit from better drop rates in the gifting crystals.
In the banquet event, you buy the crystal for yourself while chasing the ranked rewards as well. Almost like double dipping compared to the old system.
With that said, this event was a total failure and was greatly overhyped.
This is the least I have ever spent on this event and have no desire to open any more superior daily crystals.
I understand that this is a bit of tech restrictions and marketing — but you only have yourselves to blame.
Implicitly, the “grand banquet” event is supposed to be the greatest thing ever.. I’m sure the name or the fact that it’s a 10 year anniversary have nothing to do with it.
But giving people things they could have gotten for free in 2 weeks for 3000/pop is downright silly
Our intention was to improve the experience over last year's event, and feel we have succeeded in that goal.
Seems silly to arrive at such a conclusion before receiving feedback. The feedback in this thread suggests otherwise.
As someone who just turned valiant about 2 weeks ago, the resources I received were useful for ranking up my 7* champs and building up my roster of them as well, but when I heard less filler on the stream assumed the drops would be better
And the lack of a holiday calendar this year was disappointing
Leaving the 7* chase champs in the GBC and out of the sgbc was a straight up 🍆 move. The thought process on that was absolutely some kabam employee wanting to 🍆 players over. Someone doesn't like the player base. I'd like to hear one other absolute reason that would have been done.
On another note I screwed myself over having farmed 83 tickets I wasn't going to buy more 1 and 2 at a time so I blew 6 on the 6* package and turned 20 into 2 sgbc.with 3 left over......just saw hours later in the store.mcoc that the 50$ had 20 tickets....I probably would have bought that deal just to get the 7* mister sinister but since it was never mentioned anywhere, y'all lost out on 50$ more. An event designed to make people spend or get screwed and y'all screwed the pooch on that. How many others don't look there and y'all lost out on a stack I bet. Guess I'll just jump back to the loving the game and not paying attention to events again.
Kabam should let some content creators to design an event. See how that does.
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Again, the main issue I have is the hype around it and I believed it, spent a bunch of money to get units over the course of the last several months, and I feel duped with the crystals. Out of over 80 crystals, I didnt get a single titan shard, special 7* crystal, key, etc. I got 4% of a t7, which I would gladly give back, some sig stones and a lot of t6 and t3, which I got with the Valiant daily and now the super daily. With 10 years of loyalty for a mobile game, you thought they would have really opened up the flood gates, it would not have hurt the economy of the game, especially with the, potential, backlash.
I absolutely love this game and I have so much fun, and I should be excited to spend money. But I guess I am expecting too much from a GATCHA game. Spending use to be fun on this game.
If someone wants to put thousands of dollars into the game, to get the first rank 4, then why not let them have their fun? And at the same time, those of us who put in just our own time (f2p) or only a few dollars , can get our value worth also from the same crystals.
We aren’t unrealistic, no one expects to spend 5 dollars and get something unreasonable from the crystal. But we’d all like something… nice? Something to look forward to?
I’d rather have amazing crystals to open, improving my game enjoyment and everyone else’s.
The fact that a whale gets more is kind of obvious. And has no impact on me at all, or any part of the game apart from extremely high end, where the whales can fight it out.
So yes, let the whales have their fun, and let us have our fun too please.
For all the whales out there, thankyou for supporting the game. I sincerely hope next banquet you get better crystals to open.
On a side note, the event rewards were decent. And it was fun clicking on claim for everything.
But if the realm rewards are based on encouraging people to buy crystals, then the crystals need to have something interesting to make it enticing. Otherwise , no one will buy them and no one gets the realm rewards.
I didn't even get enough 7* shards to get a 7* crystal. And I got 0 titan shards for my first 80 something crystals. And then a paltry amount from the next few.
I guess I can say I was lucky in some way by getting a 7* jessica but I really didn't care for her. And I did get 1 additional banquet key but it gave me a disappointing sentry.
Overall, very unhappy.
The reason why this event is horrible is because there was too many free units out there...
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/221552/either-nerf-doom-or-give-everyone-doom/p1
Adding those 7* crystals was a tone death response, especially since the event participation is grinding to a screeching halt. People aren’t only at risk for missing out on the milestone rewards, but the sentiment and energy is so bad/negative that I anticipate the whales you rely on to keep the game going also opting out and potentially boycotting.
If you truly don’t want to ostracize your biggest spenders who would’ve unlocked all the milestones while mostly hoarding filler from the SBC crystals, unlock the rewards for them now at the very least. This was by far the worst event of the year in terms of value for Valiant players like myself. We essentially gave you free money for you to spit in our face and as of now, wouldn’t even get those realm rewards we funded.
Also, the compensation package would need to be in line with Black Friday deals. There needs to be 7* r3 materials: shards, GENERIC sig stones and awakening gems, and some kind of selector. I know people who spent over $500 and upwards to $1K and have NOTHING but an overfilled inventory of items they already have to show for it.
Stop with the disrespect and have the courtesy to respond as well.
As someone who just turned valiant about 2 weeks ago, the resources I received were useful for ranking up my 7* champs and building up my roster of them as well, but when I heard less filler on the stream assumed the drops would be better
And the lack of a holiday calendar this year was disappointing
Constructive comment. I’m free to play endgame Valiant, like the absolute majority of players, was disappointed in the event. Because being a Valiant (end player) I got 90% of the materials for raising champions to rank 2 or 5/65 from crystals and milestones. For 9k units I got only 1.5 T4a. In fact, I can't even raise 1 champion to rank 3.
If you would added more materials for rank 3, it wouldn't create any gap between donators and free-to-play players, because we have top-donators with full rank 3 and sig200 rosters in BG for a long time already. And thanks to this event, the gap between the initial Valiant and me has narrowed. And at the same time, the gap between me and the donators has increased.
And it’s 10th anniversary + xmass and new year… people want to open crystals to get CHAMPIONS not a materials. You could add more materials to the milestones and add more crystal shards or something like that to crystals.
People wants gamble. That’s it. People won’t spin or pop crystals in holidays to see rank up materials.
Great idea to do a nexus Banquet crystal. To eliminate such disappointment.
Thank you
Personally, I'm in the perfect place to appreciate the banquet. I had around 20 7* champs after the giveaway, and none were above rank 2. So far, banquet got me a handful of 7* champs, and enough mats to get 1-2 of them to rank 3. And I can appreciate the need to limit the rewards: I think that if endgame players had the majority of 7* champs and many or most of them at the highest rank, then you have some of the player base wanting more challenging content and a new tier, while the rest has to grind their way through more and more lower-level content to catch up to where the satisfyingly difficult and rewarding content is. Tradeoffs are necessary, but people don't like them.
What's the solution? I suppose you could make the SBCs more rewarding in terms of champs, but slightly more expensive so as not to flood the game with top-level rewards. The balance is tricky, of course: if people can only get a few SBCs and have bad luck, they'll be upset. You can't please everybody. The other thing is to remember that, the more stuff you give away (the 10x10 supply drop was very generous!) the more people become used to the rewards, and the less those rewards register when they arrive via chance. So having 10 free champs probably (or definitely) spoiled people's appreciation for an event where, realistically, they might get 3-6 champs.
Our inventory of these things need to either be purged or combined into current year gifts and the screen needs to show our current inventory of each box type. How is this a difficult concept? It's been like this for years.
Complete miscalculation. How "hilarious" would it be if we ended up with 70 signature stones we can't even use because we don't reach the Awakening gem milestone.
Got absolutely nothing of value.
Only 1.5k 7* shards. Is it worth it ? No that’s a total fiasco of an event.
Drop rates sucks. This was supposed to be the event of the year.
Thank you for disrespecting all players who grinded arenas throughout the year!
In the gifting event, the megawhales who were chasing ranked rewards were buying crystals for others, who would benefit from better drop rates in the gifting crystals.
In the banquet event, you buy the crystal for yourself while chasing the ranked rewards as well. Almost like double dipping compared to the old system.
With that said, this event was a total failure and was greatly overhyped.
This is the least I have ever spent on this event and have no desire to open any more superior daily crystals.
Implicitly, the “grand banquet” event is supposed to be the greatest thing ever.. I’m sure the name or the fact that it’s a 10 year anniversary have nothing to do with it.
But giving people things they could have gotten for free in 2 weeks for 3000/pop is downright silly
On another note I screwed myself over having farmed 83 tickets I wasn't going to buy more 1 and 2 at a time so I blew 6 on the 6* package and turned 20 into 2 sgbc.with 3 left over......just saw hours later in the store.mcoc that the 50$ had 20 tickets....I probably would have bought that deal just to get the 7* mister sinister but since it was never mentioned anywhere, y'all lost out on 50$ more. An event designed to make people spend or get screwed and y'all screwed the pooch on that. How many others don't look there and y'all lost out on a stack I bet. Guess I'll just jump back to the loving the game and not paying attention to events again.
Kabam should let some content creators to design an event. See how that does.