Banquet 2024 Retrospective

I wanted to create this thread as a constructive yet respectful place to discuss the Grand Banquet.
After spending around 15k units on SBCs as a mid-level valiant player, and after seeing many responses from friends, alliance mates and people on the forums. I can confidently say this event was a disappointment.
This message is not one to slander the community team and community members should always stay respectful.
However, certain aspects of this event must be addressed.
Key factors being - lack of timely information, the sub-par drop rates, the absurd increase in personal unit spend and finally the overall disappointment of the 10 Year anniversary celebration event.
Please keep this thread respectful and a way to feedback to Kabam in hopes for some light.

Comments

Korb12

As a paragon pushing for the rank 3’s required for valiant, I was excited about the event. F2P player that saved all my units for the event. I appreciate the comments from Kabam and acknowledge what they were trying to do, however the mega whales already separate themselves during this event. The top rewards vs the lower tiers where the majority of players land respectfully do create that gap. In the 28-35 crystals I opened I got a total of less than 2500k 7* shards and felt very disappointed. Also trying to obtain the milestones when the points are so high for f2p players is very discouraging. I do appreciate the feedback from the game team but overall am very disappointed and disheartened

GalioCube

Hey everyone! I thought I'd try to put in some input that I see:

1. I see some people stating that the Christmas event is the way it is because we want to lessen the gap between whales and normal players. This argument is really invalid because its clear in cyber weekend for the past 2 years and most events anyway, the gap just gets bigger and bigger. But I don't really see this as an issue, we all clearly know that if you pay to win.... you "pay to win"? Not really a head kicker there. But getting those champs that all the whales can get easily gives a feeling of " I can take on anyone" And I don't feel that anymore.

2. Personally I don't know why I pushed so hard to Valiant if Thrownbreaker and Paragon are getting the same stuff as me. Sure maybe less of it, but they are still getting 7*s and the same crystals and offers as me... Like why push? I really need to see Paragon and Valiant gaps because that is what the push is for! For example in this event, why not make super crystals available for Paragon and Valiant only? Why not make drop rates better for Valiant? I know thats a coding issue, or moral whatever. But I'm just spatting ideas! Why not make Super Valiant Crystals? Where if you are Valiant you get these crystals! Feel left out? Not to worry! You can get one for free in this event just to see how good Valiant really is!

- To me there needs to be a change here, I keep pushing because I thought rewards were better, and clearly they aren't anymore.

3. I see that a lot of the champs we are getting are very sub-par and just not what we need for the content Kabam puts out. For exmaple, what are we pushed to do this month and last month? Necropolis! And Autumn of Agony, this is hard content that only specific champs can do. Although I was happy for the 10 free 7* champs and now if we pay we can get keys to get even more champs... but the question for me is which one of these champs can actually do the hard content? Not really any of them... Now lets say Kabam decided to put a 7* Abs man, or 7* Zeemo, or even a 7* Aegon (just an example guys), I would 100% try and get ONE of those champs. But guess what? They need to be awakened AND high sig. What does that mean? Spending, grinding, or waiting for a dupe, etc.... however I remember when I got herc the first time and was like "BRO! I GOT THIS CHAMP!!!! I knew he needed to be awakened, and high sig to be broken, but guess what? 1 step down (hardest step) the rest I'll get soon. This mentality kept me going! And kept me playing

- In this event I get a free guillotine 2099 which is not bad at all!, but I'm not going to use her in necropolis, because 1 there are no carina challenges that I would want to use her, and 2, is a champ that takes a while to ramp up, and just takes a LOT of time like in necro that already takes forever.

So in my opinion, the champions we are getting, are not really what we want for the content that is being made. We don't need every champ to be a banger for content. Just throw 1 or 2 in these events with the rest being sub-par, its a chance I'd be willing to take. But not right now.

Herbal_Taxman

Miniscule amounts of t7b and 7 star generic stones are also filler, for a crystal that costs 300 units.

Nameless_IW

20k units down the drain and nothing to show for. I've got the message loud and clear. Next year i won't be this dumb anymore Will blow all my units in cyber weeekend and 4th of july offers. not this banquet LMAO

Buzerk1969

So, they added rewards on some milestones. So, they read but still don't get it. You want people to open more SBC, make them more interesting (too late for that I know). People don't chase those milestones. they open SBC to get something interesting, milestones are a nice cherry on top. This Realm event is on track to be a flop.

GrabmeMCOC

Average_Desi

t6cc no give dopamine.crystal give dopamine Moneky need dopamine to be happy. Yes. I am also a Moneky. One sentinel pull salvaged it for me

hurricant

Replace like 80% of the catalysts with champ acquisition shards. Titans, nexuses, dual class, 7* shards, maybe a 7* abyss nexus. The game is about collecting champions, not collecting t5c. Get rid of all those sign stones which are next to useless because getting more than 6 keys for that box and getting a champ you want duped is near impossible for the vast majority of players. More champion selectors. It's not hard y'all

Luigihulksmasher

They robbed us bro

EgyptOverseer

When daily crystals have better rewards than a banquet crystal, nothing more needs to be said.

At the core, the absurdly low amount of hero crystal shards and ISO is nothing short of insulting.

Midnightfox

The problem is again it’s pay to win. Even with the “compensation” they still want you to spend. Putting it in realm rewards to open more junk crystals is not a solution. This event was overly hyped, completely horrible, not thought out, and a pure money grab. 10 years and this is the “grand” banquet. The banquet is kabam trying to line their pockets. The realm events should have been lower and more should have been in solo and alliance events to make a dent. The bar was way too high in realm events and putting the “compensation” above 15 k units is just pouring more salt on the wound. I’ve done what my plan is and I hope others follow suit. 1 star reviews in the App Store and a closed wallet. “Real compensation” needs to happen. Not the junk that has been offered again as has been said to the spenders. I thought this event was supposed to not create more distance between the whales and the average player. Wrong.

Bulmkt

All I will say is this is just another event and no one is forced to participate in the event. If you don’t see any value in it then don’t participate.
Just for the love of Christ pls stop the whinging and moaning about it. Be an adult and not act like a toddler having a dummy spit!

Bendy

But there is value if they had better rates 7 shards t6cc t4a which people to r3 7s but they instead made it 10% lowest amount which is terrible

Twist1298

I agree with absolutely everything you said here and unfortunately yes the Kabam economist definitely thought this was a excellent idea, but I have to admit that last line made me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Amaral_Prime

“We spread the rewards out so the whales couldn’t further separate themselves from the player base”
One day later..
“We hear your criticism with the SBC’s, so the game team has decided to buff the rewards at the whale level, so whale out to receive this excellent bonus”

The Kabam response now makes Crashed look hypocritical, the rewards buff will only affect those who whale’d out….. further separating them from the majority player base. If you were disappointed in what you received for spending 4k-8k units in SBCs, now spend 12k-15k for them to make it up to you. Be weary of whales though…

MLJ

I think we need new worker at KABAM or in the Developement. So they can do something for the Player base, the last 10 years was not so good…. disapointing this Event and this in the 10th year :-(

BringPopcorn

I like seatin... He takes breaks and when needed comes back swinging...

https://youtu.be/fWBOEQIARfs?si=uCxh3KfQ9UmHiKdN

The solution for this trash crystals is making us open more... 🤦

MakhdoomAJS

I also spent 15k units to get hardly things which are exciting,n which can be only bought in banquet n nowhere else ..but nothing i can say abt except of gaccha box which again was rng not a selector to atleast soothe the wounds given by medicore rewards...rewrds are basically things we even get from daily valiant so what is special a t spending 15k units and get such pathetic rewrds..i understand the concept of rare rewrds but kabam dsnt want to understand abt good rewrds ,we will not great rewrds alwayz but ders no atleast also in their dictionary
I feel that game can make a comeback on things by
1. Giving a plain compensation common to all
2.Give out a compensation to people according to their spent units
3.after the 3 7* added in realm dey can increase the count of last 4 milestones of realm to 5k titan so the last 4 make 1whole titan..people coming so far n getting 4k titan as last 4 rewrds is pathetic

Dtl7714

I think this right here is the major disconnect between Kabam and all the players who are disappointed in this event (including myself).

From Kabam's perspective the crystals aren't filler because we are getting materials to R2/R3 7*s which are the top of the game.

From player's perspective who have R2/R3 7*s the crystals are trash because alot of people feel like they aren't getting anything useful.

For example, for many people who are Paragon or Valiant this event did nothing for you.

MadhanHiphop

I just want better drop rates in SBC . For 9k units I got half of t4alpha,2t3a,3t6b . Got 2k titan shards lol. Only 11k 7star shards.I can get these in bg store for free.

Suros_moon

“It would create an enormous gap between the big spenders and everyone else”

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how spenders get ahead of the pack. The garbage drop rates on crystal shards in the SBCs has ZERO to do with the whale/high end gap, because the whales are literally granted the opportunity (and capitalize on it) to buy every character straight out of the gate on release. The gaps come into play when you create rank up gaps that literally cannot be surmounted in game unless you spend… something you literally did this event:

Look at how quickly those mats drop off. The only thing this structure guarantees is that you will never be any where near parity unless you drop absurd dollar amounts. And in case you want to argue the point history also betrays you as the most infamous spending event in MCOC history was the 4th of july sale that made r3s far too available to whales

404Tired

Kabam logic:

LordVirom

This is 100% the opposite of what you advertised on the last livestream.

The crystals were supposed to be a huge thing and better than last years. Instead you guys bait everyone to spend real money and units to get trash rewards.

Not only that, but you don't care at all about those who are not whales.

If you did, you would buff the lower milestone tiers as well, since you can't change the fact that everyone wasted so many units and money.

Bulmkt

This is the test for me on whether the 2024 Banquet event is a success or failure.

We’re in day 2 of a 14 day event and we have reached milestone 23 of the realm component. If we reach milestone 33 (Isophyne dupe) then IMO it’s a success.
(But I’ll be happy if we reach milestone 30)

As for the SBC’s themselves. I’m yet to open my stash of them. But they are better than GBC’s which is what we had last yr.

I myself don’t care that I have dropped 51,000 units on this event. The majority of them I earned F2P during the yr just playing this silly game. Sure I bought a few Odin’s during cyber to get more units but that was money I had put aside from my entertainment budget so not concerned about that spend.

Bossdeboss

Of course you get a 7 star Medusa

Tryaksha

So,
1. There are whales who are spending thousands on getting the top rank rewards, good for them.
2. There are people who are not yet valiant and yet saved up for the event , spent say about 100 dollars to make sure they reached the final Isophyne milestone in the realm event.
3. From the look of it, we are not going to reach the final milestone as a collective effort.
4. The fact that the option to buy the SBC bundle in store is only for three days and does not go to the end of the event, does not give the option to people to wait and see if we are going to reach the final milestone.

My question is -
Will Kabam ensure that people who have saved for a year, or spent money to reach the final milestone get the realm rewards even if we do not reach the final milestone as a collective? Irrespective of their progression in the game? I know throne breakers and paragons who have spent money to reach that milestone, hoping to dupe the 7*. Give people their time and moneys worth at least.
@Kabam Miike

Awesomep12

When not even the spenders are happy, you know you've effed up big time. If I hear one more time from a dev "iTs A sPeNdInG eVeNt" I swear... you've advertised this for so long, hyped it up so much, straight up lied to us, and then left us falling, pushing us away. And you wonder why so many have quit after banquet

peixemacaco

Perfect!

People just dont understand the realm milestones haha.

And @Kabam_Crashed , @Kabam_Pinwheel ,some summoners here want to censor mine and other summoner words that are ok with Banquet and everything we got.

They even had a memory lapse forgetting the 10 amazing received champs

Everyone is entitled to express his/her oppinion.

Not a bunch of summoners crying over rng crystals will stop me/us

JLordVileJ

THE 10 CHAMPS WHERE NOTHING TO DO WITH BANQUET! ARE YOU GONNA START TALKING ABOUT HOW SIDE QUEST REWARDS 8 YEARS AGO WERE SO GOOD IT JUSTIFIES THIS?

peixemacaco

Being one of Royal Familly Mi 6 agents surprises me the way you answer with big Caps, not polite as your answer is seen as you're yellying, as we can read the same way.

10 champs are indeed part of the festivities.

Maybe if they put the champs on every day now, during banquet, nobody would be crying