lol they added more milestones as if they havent spit at f2p players enough , banquet used to be a fun crystal opening and gifing event wtf is this knock off cyber weekend deal with ranked rewards and realm event where only purchasing matters cuz no way in hell any person with a life can grind above 18k units only for banquet without spending. and the said they didnot want whales to go ahead of rest of the playerbase.
To be fair if you spent 18k units, reinvested the units from the milestones and got all the banquet tickets given out over the last few months including the ones from the accolades event this got you to level 38 which gave you everything except for the titan shards and the stretch rewards (3*7* worth of crystal / shards and a 7* trophy champ) it also got you everything in the solo and alliance event so overall it a hell of a lot of rank materials and 7* hero’s in total. Anyone spending over that didn’t really get that much of an extra jump (rank rewards aside). If I were a top spender I would be vexed that despite my spending I can’t reach all the milestones unless the community on a whole is willing to spend.
I echo the sentiment of some of the other posts on this thread, the milestones were great and gave a big jump if you got to the r3 gem which I managed in this account from units farmed over the year and 1 of £4.99 unit offer for the 20 units a day. I have no issue with the milestones or the fact that those willing to spend on the game got additional milestones above and beyond what I could reach, the only issue to me was the lacklustre crystals. I pretty much ignored them and just focused on what I could get from the milestones.
They say they've given us new milestone rewards like 7 star champions but not giving us any extra time to go for them it's 6hours and 57 minutes left! What's a joke
They say they've given us new milestone rewards like 7 star champions but not giving us any extra time to go for them it's 6hours and 57 minutes left! What's a joke
The stretch milestones after Isophyne unlock automatically as we complete previous milestones. I agree that it feels kinda bad (especially if you can't afford to go further) but it's not like someone is over at Kabam HQ adding new milestones at 3 AM just to spite us.
Instead of getting extra because the community is doing well, you get " extra" if the community is doing well AND YOU pay more.
As much as I've defended the event, I can't lie... Compared to the realm event that was done for revives in necro, this does feel pretty predatory.
I can understand their logic in creating this event, but it does feel like they didn't think it through fully. There was always going to be disappointed players, but I've never experienced a holiday event in any other game that made this many players feel this angry.
Kabam are tone deaf. ignored the actual players but don’t worry they’ll keep adding milestones stones for the whales. SuperbroZ will have more r4 than many variants players (not counting ones who’ve just become) have r3’s
Kabam are tone deaf. ignored the actual players but don’t worry they’ll keep adding milestones stones for the whales. SuperbroZ will have more r4 than many variants players (not counting ones who’ve just become) have r3’s
As its been said on another post but another forum member its most likely automatic they were added and not kabam since of hitting x milestone it would be added
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.
This event is great way for accounts to expand and grow. However, by constantly adding new tiers of rewards when the community has little time left to get them makes no sense. This event always caters to the whale's or big spenders which is known every year as it happens every time.
The use of the realm event, fantastic idea. Maybe try and see if the realm event can be implemented in battlegrounds so those who are having a horrible time of miss-match ups can get rewards as well. There are plenty of players who are not at the growth point of valiant and it isn't fair for those who have very few 6* champs at r3 or higher to face off with someone who has say 15+ champs of 7* r3. Cause right now the battle grounds only takes matches you played into consideration and dolls out the rewards based on it.
There were some things done right in this event such as the use of the realm event which opens the door for usage in other aspects of the game. While others where done horribly such as the bad drop rates in these crystals that are only around for this event. So what I am saying is consider reworking crystal drop rates to make them better matched for their price point and utilize the realm event in battleground so the players that aren't valiant can get rewards to reach that point.
Kabam why did you extend the realm milestones with literally hours left? I hope it's your plan to reward everyone with these final milestones like you did in the realm crystal opening event
The last 2 Realm events have been designed around monetization first and game enjoyment and skills development second… and it shows and feels manipulative.
The BGs Realm Event should have been about participation, not Elders Marks and farming wins. And this realm event did the exact opposite of what we were told in stream taking from end game reward budgets to make the realm event look spicy. Being told that it’d be game breaking to make the SBCs any better but giving away R3s and 7stars to newer and undeveloped accounts just feels as hypocritical as it gets.
I’m also not sold on the narrative of the added milestones mean this event was enjoyed by a vast majority of the community when there is a smaller majority of the community injecting millions of points on their own in a chase to outspend each other. While this event looks financially successful I wonder how much more successful it might have been if the SBCs were designed more for valiant players than the TBs that got to benefit from design laziness.
Road to Necro was about playing the game first with rewards targeted to those who had progressed enough to partake. It’s why that realm event is the gold standard we keep asking for. I can only imagine, based on the positive vibes this first realm event created, that if a future realm event mimicked this design it would only increase goodwill, play and as a result spending.
This isn’t a community that has to be sold on the product. Many of us are happy to invest in it even if it’s driving us a bit mad.
Aside from the obvious complaints about the quality of the crystals, which has been beaten into the ground long ago, they really should have set the realm event so that if you hit all the solo milestones you are unlocked for everything in the realm event, regardless of how many stretch goals get hit.
Kabam why did you extend the realm milestones with literally hours left? I hope it's your plan to reward everyone with these final milestones like you did in the realm crystal opening event
As I said before, we need the @Stark_Foundation to support us if we want the rewards
On the flip side, it would also piss people off of they just give everyone all the remaining milestones. It would still need to be proportional to how many points you have somehow. Imagine spending $200 to get more milestones in the last few days, only to find out they give them to everyone in the end. Would definitely dampen future spending imo, would make people feel like they spent money for nothing.
Overall the crystal was underwhelming. Yeah it topped up my t6 cc stash sure. But that feels awful when a daily crystal gave more. I did have decent luck with keys and a some minor things.
Amazing: Starting us all with a good chunk of crystals to open if we put the work for the months leading up to it. Plus the fact that opening those put you at the units milestones.
Good: The overall make up of the crystal was on point for me as a valiant. Milestones were good for solo and alliance. The realm too.
Meh: Majority of my “banquet” was t6cc. That feels awful for 300 units
Bad: Drop rate of t6cc and t5 cc. Amount of sig stones per drop. 300 units for 2 generic sig stones is not ok The atrocious point value for buying and opening crystals
Suggestions: Firstly, the points. Last year was far superior. The lower end spenders and ftp could go far in milestones. Whales buy and spend regardless so making it nicer to the lower end of the spectrum is a great gift to the community for us to all celebrate for real. The lowest milestones with t5cc that’s where the 7’s shards should have started. More motivation for us to go a little in. More units mixed in so that those who did not have enough can strive to grind a bit and achieve units in the event and reinvest. That was something I enjoyed last year that it felt like a discount or compensated for opening if it was bad. The t5cc should not have been in T6cc T6B and T3A should be half to fully formed and include selectors for the cc as a rarer drop Increase the amount of crystal shards dropped at baseline. The Christmas week unit deals start with it and last through the first week. Last thing the additional milestones added to the realm event. Those could have been included earlier and the things added in would have been better at lower milestones to encourage people to participate as a whole community from the start.
Kabam why did you extend the realm milestones with literally hours left? I hope it's your plan to reward everyone with these final milestones like you did in the realm crystal opening event
As I said before, we need the @Stark_Foundation to support us if we want the rewards
Unfortunately, It helps only people who reach enough points for all milestones, but those above this level do not receive anything even with the Stark Foundation help.
It’s still in poor form. Even if already coded, it makes it appear very money grabby. All F2P have already shot their wad. Normal regular spenders already feel burned with the atrocious amount of filler in the SBC. Blubbers, planned charge backers, addicts, and that’s about it right now are the ones pushing these # higher.
I can see how this adding milestones is quite infuriating. Had they added some communication about their intent to remedy or right size the distribution of actual items in the SBC, they may get more folks willing to open their wallets. Like 2-3k more spenders vs 50-100 only.
Those SBC contents have really held me back from doing more than $500.
Even a communication they have a plan to make it right would have changed my mind to spend more.
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I echo the sentiment of some of the other posts on this thread, the milestones were great and gave a big jump if you got to the r3 gem which I managed in this account from units farmed over the year and 1 of £4.99 unit offer for the 20 units a day. I have no issue with the milestones or the fact that those willing to spend on the game got additional milestones above and beyond what I could reach, the only issue to me was the lacklustre crystals. I pretty much ignored them and just focused on what I could get from the milestones.
I can understand their logic in creating this event, but it does feel like they didn't think it through fully.
There was always going to be disappointed players, but I've never experienced a holiday event in any other game that made this many players feel this angry.
I fear that this is wishful thinking on your part.
The use of the realm event, fantastic idea. Maybe try and see if the realm event can be implemented in battlegrounds so those who are having a horrible time of miss-match ups can get rewards as well. There are plenty of players who are not at the growth point of valiant and it isn't fair for those who have very few 6* champs at r3 or higher to face off with someone who has say 15+ champs of 7* r3. Cause right now the battle grounds only takes matches you played into consideration and dolls out the rewards based on it.
There were some things done right in this event such as the use of the realm event which opens the door for usage in other aspects of the game. While others where done horribly such as the bad drop rates in these crystals that are only around for this event. So what I am saying is consider reworking crystal drop rates to make them better matched for their price point and utilize the realm event in battleground so the players that aren't valiant can get rewards to reach that point.
The BGs Realm Event should have been about participation, not Elders Marks and farming wins. And this realm event did the exact opposite of what we were told in stream taking from end game reward budgets to make the realm event look spicy. Being told that it’d be game breaking to make the SBCs any better but giving away R3s and 7stars to newer and undeveloped accounts just feels as hypocritical as it gets.
I’m also not sold on the narrative of the added milestones mean this event was enjoyed by a vast majority of the community when there is a smaller majority of the community injecting millions of points on their own in a chase to outspend each other. While this event looks financially successful I wonder how much more successful it might have been if the SBCs were designed more for valiant players than the TBs that got to benefit from design laziness.
Road to Necro was about playing the game first with rewards targeted to those who had progressed enough to partake. It’s why that realm event is the gold standard we keep asking for. I can only imagine, based on the positive vibes this first realm event created, that if a future realm event mimicked this design it would only increase goodwill, play and as a result spending.
This isn’t a community that has to be sold on the product. Many of us are happy to invest in it even if it’s driving us a bit mad.
Amazing:
Starting us all with a good chunk of crystals to open if we put the work for the months leading up to it. Plus the fact that opening those put you at the units milestones.
Good:
The overall make up of the crystal was on point for me as a valiant.
Milestones were good for solo and alliance. The realm too.
Meh:
Majority of my “banquet” was t6cc. That feels awful for 300 units
Bad:
Drop rate of t6cc and t5 cc.
Amount of sig stones per drop. 300 units for 2 generic sig stones is not ok
The atrocious point value for buying and opening crystals
Suggestions:
Firstly, the points. Last year was far superior. The lower end spenders and ftp could go far in milestones. Whales buy and spend regardless so making it nicer to the lower end of the spectrum is a great gift to the community for us to all celebrate for real.
The lowest milestones with t5cc that’s where the 7’s shards should have started. More motivation for us to go a little in.
More units mixed in so that those who did not have enough can strive to grind a bit and achieve units in the event and reinvest. That was something I enjoyed last year that it felt like a discount or compensated for opening if it was bad.
The t5cc should not have been in
T6cc T6B and T3A should be half to fully formed and include selectors for the cc as a rarer drop
Increase the amount of crystal shards dropped at baseline.
The Christmas week unit deals start with it and last through the first week.
Last thing the additional milestones added to the realm event. Those could have been included earlier and the things added in would have been better at lower milestones to encourage people to participate as a whole community from the start.
Pour some gasoline on the fire guys… a quick live message probably woulda been a smart way to kick it off even if it was just platitudes
I can see how this adding milestones is quite infuriating. Had they added some communication about their intent to remedy or right size the distribution of actual items in the SBC, they may get more folks willing to open their wallets. Like 2-3k more spenders vs 50-100 only.
Those SBC contents have really held me back from doing more than $500.
Even a communication they have a plan to make it right would have changed my mind to spend more.
Kind of crazy as they clearly like money.