Banquet 2024 Retrospective

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  • peixemacacopeixemacaco Member Posts: 3,585 ★★★★

    Hello. This right here I think is the main the main disconnect between how the game team sees this event and how disappointed Summoners see it.



    TyEdge said:

    Here’s the sad reality of this event:

    If you build the main prizes into the milestones, you spread the value around more evenly and you keep whales from getting a huge windfall.

    If the crystals are absolutely lit, megawhales will get more separation from the population as a whole.

    We deliberately include as much of the reward package as we can in the events themselves. This year, everything in the SBC can be used on 7-star champions, so there shouldn't be anything in there that is completely useless to players. But the crystals are never going to be the main focus of the rewards, because if they were as TyEdge correctly summarized, it would mean creating an enormous gap between the big spenders and everyone else.

    I will pop back into this thread after the event is over to share more comprehensive thoughts like I did last year. But in the meantime, I encourage Summoners to take a breath and look at the total reward package that was available as part of this event. I personally think there is more here for ~15K Units than there was during Cyber Week, and I'm having a blast with my new 7-Star Medusa.

    Enjoy the holiday break everyone.
    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
  • peixemacacopeixemacaco Member Posts: 3,585 ★★★★

    Hello. This right here I think is the main the main disconnect between how the game team sees this event and how disappointed Summoners see it.



    TyEdge said:

    Here’s the sad reality of this event:

    If you build the main prizes into the milestones, you spread the value around more evenly and you keep whales from getting a huge windfall.

    If the crystals are absolutely lit, megawhales will get more separation from the population as a whole.

    We deliberately include as much of the reward package as we can in the events themselves. This year, everything in the SBC can be used on 7-star champions, so there shouldn't be anything in there that is completely useless to players. But the crystals are never going to be the main focus of the rewards, because if they were as TyEdge correctly summarized, it would mean creating an enormous gap between the big spenders and everyone else.

    I will pop back into this thread after the event is over to share more comprehensive thoughts like I did last year. But in the meantime, I encourage Summoners to take a breath and look at the total reward package that was available as part of this event. I personally think there is more here for ~15K Units than there was during Cyber Week, and I'm having a blast with my new 7-Star Medusa.

    Enjoy the holiday break everyone.
    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
    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?
    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
  • FuzzycatFuzzycat Member Posts: 94
    I’m grateful for the 10 free 7-star champions that were given by Kabam. It’s an incredibly generous gesture, and I appreciate the effort to give back to the community. However, I don’t feel that this can adequately compensate for the disappointment surrounding the Grand Banquet event.

    While I now have 10 new 7-star champions, the reality is that most of them will likely never even be ranked up due to the extreme resource requirements for 7-stars. This leaves the value of these champions somewhat limited in the grand scheme of things.

    Furthermore, I personally spent $200 and 6,000 units on getting 60 Superior Banquet Crystals, and the rewards I received left me feeling underwhelmed.

    I ended up with mostly Tier 6 Class Catalyst fragments, a small amount of Tier 7 Basic Catalyst fragments, less than 5000 7-star shards, a Titan Crystal, and the 7-star Champion Trophy Selector. While these rewards might look good on paper, they fall far short of what I was expecting from an event marketed as a “Grand Banquet.” I thought my investment would yield more meaningful rewards, and it’s disheartening that it didn’t.

    If I feel this let down after what I received, I can only imagine how others feel who spent less or pulled worse rewards. This doesn’t feel like a Grand Banquet—it feels like a Grand Letdown. I hope future events will provide better rewards and truly live up to the hype.
  • Buzerk1969Buzerk1969 Member Posts: 70
    edited December 22

    Hello. This right here I think is the main the main disconnect between how the game team sees this event and how disappointed Summoners see it.



    TyEdge said:

    Here’s the sad reality of this event:

    If you build the main prizes into the milestones, you spread the value around more evenly and you keep whales from getting a huge windfall.

    If the crystals are absolutely lit, megawhales will get more separation from the population as a whole.

    We deliberately include as much of the reward package as we can in the events themselves. This year, everything in the SBC can be used on 7-star champions, so there shouldn't be anything in there that is completely useless to players. But the crystals are never going to be the main focus of the rewards, because if they were as TyEdge correctly summarized, it would mean creating an enormous gap between the big spenders and everyone else.

    I will pop back into this thread after the event is over to share more comprehensive thoughts like I did last year. But in the meantime, I encourage Summoners to take a breath and look at the total reward package that was available as part of this event. I personally think there is more here for ~15K Units than there was during Cyber Week, and I'm having a blast with my new 7-Star Medusa.

    Enjoy the holiday break everyone.
    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
    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?
    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
    Only one of those 10 was worth. The first 9 were there to make you login every day. Those 9 are not worth any rank up/lvl up ressources. In fact they are so bad, Kabam didn’t even flinch to give Spider Man, not once, not twice, but 3 times. They were filler like the fillers we have in the SBC. So go ahead and rank up those subpar champs. I know I won’t
  • TheVyrusTheVyrus Member Posts: 419 ★★★

    Hello. This right here I think is the main the main disconnect between how the game team sees this event and how disappointed Summoners see it.



    TyEdge said:

    Here’s the sad reality of this event:

    If you build the main prizes into the milestones, you spread the value around more evenly and you keep whales from getting a huge windfall.

    If the crystals are absolutely lit, megawhales will get more separation from the population as a whole.

    We deliberately include as much of the reward package as we can in the events themselves. This year, everything in the SBC can be used on 7-star champions, so there shouldn't be anything in there that is completely useless to players. But the crystals are never going to be the main focus of the rewards, because if they were as TyEdge correctly summarized, it would mean creating an enormous gap between the big spenders and everyone else.

    I will pop back into this thread after the event is over to share more comprehensive thoughts like I did last year. But in the meantime, I encourage Summoners to take a breath and look at the total reward package that was available as part of this event. I personally think there is more here for ~15K Units than there was during Cyber Week, and I'm having a blast with my new 7-Star Medusa.

    Enjoy the holiday break everyone.
    In other words, whales and mega-whales will get the rewards no matter what, so maybe we can bleed the average player of any expendable income they may have.

    Typical corporate decision.
  • CattosCattos Member Posts: 3
    The superior banquet feel like slightly altered valiant daily crystals and the fact we can't even chose the champions we want within the glorious guardian key event is incredibly disappointing.
  • CattosCattos Member Posts: 3
    Also giving out sig stones for the glorious guardian reworks in the event milestones without the option to select those champs yourself completely undermines the argument for anti-whaling since you can only get enough keys to use them by whaling on Odins.
  • JLordVileJJLordVileJ Member Posts: 4,971 ★★★★★
    edited December 22

    Hello. This right here I think is the main the main disconnect between how the game team sees this event and how disappointed Summoners see it.



    TyEdge said:

    Here’s the sad reality of this event:

    If you build the main prizes into the milestones, you spread the value around more evenly and you keep whales from getting a huge windfall.

    If the crystals are absolutely lit, megawhales will get more separation from the population as a whole.

    We deliberately include as much of the reward package as we can in the events themselves. This year, everything in the SBC can be used on 7-star champions, so there shouldn't be anything in there that is completely useless to players. But the crystals are never going to be the main focus of the rewards, because if they were as TyEdge correctly summarized, it would mean creating an enormous gap between the big spenders and everyone else.

    I will pop back into this thread after the event is over to share more comprehensive thoughts like I did last year. But in the meantime, I encourage Summoners to take a breath and look at the total reward package that was available as part of this event. I personally think there is more here for ~15K Units than there was during Cyber Week, and I'm having a blast with my new 7-Star Medusa.

    Enjoy the holiday break everyone.
    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
    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?
    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
    @peixemacaco sorry if caps came across as rude lol, not my intention, just wanted to make a point
  • peixemacacopeixemacaco Member Posts: 3,585 ★★★★

    Hello. This right here I think is the main the main disconnect between how the game team sees this event and how disappointed Summoners see it.



    TyEdge said:

    Here’s the sad reality of this event:

    If you build the main prizes into the milestones, you spread the value around more evenly and you keep whales from getting a huge windfall.

    If the crystals are absolutely lit, megawhales will get more separation from the population as a whole.

    We deliberately include as much of the reward package as we can in the events themselves. This year, everything in the SBC can be used on 7-star champions, so there shouldn't be anything in there that is completely useless to players. But the crystals are never going to be the main focus of the rewards, because if they were as TyEdge correctly summarized, it would mean creating an enormous gap between the big spenders and everyone else.

    I will pop back into this thread after the event is over to share more comprehensive thoughts like I did last year. But in the meantime, I encourage Summoners to take a breath and look at the total reward package that was available as part of this event. I personally think there is more here for ~15K Units than there was during Cyber Week, and I'm having a blast with my new 7-Star Medusa.

    Enjoy the holiday break everyone.
    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
    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?
    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
    @peixemacaco sorry if caps came across as rude lol, not my intention, just wanted to make a point
    Ok , you're back at Buckingham Palace, MI 6 agent
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