Have the latest energy changes negatively affected your gameplay?

CelticSamurai

Have you played less? Do you feel casual players are being pushed away with latest changes? Vote now and speak out!

Comments

Zuro

No energy and a mid titan opening has me hardly touching the game ngl

ahmynuts

Yes, I barely have touched the game lately. I use my energy bar, move in aq,aw if needed, hop off and forget about it for the next however many hours until supply run resets or im pinged on line to move

St3bidy_19

yes it has… I don’t hoard the 4h crystals (and hardly get refills from them)… and with how the game has been this month, I’m playing less

skylight03

No, because I just play daily quests and arena since I gave up on the last 3 Elder difficulty chapters and I wasn't going to waste time on Classic.

eliasshish

No , it didnot . There is no content I can play and enjoy . Since lately every new content is an Everest one

Buttehrs

I only ever hoarded refills for when I really needed em or when a new story chapter drops and even then I still wind up just waiting and not using em anyway because I take that down time to do other stuff like read a book or go birdwatching or something.

JackTheSnack

yeah I’ve been trying to go back and 100% act 8 and I can only do one path + the daily quest. I’m used to logging on, playing once for the day, then logging back in at the end of the day for the calendar, so it’s really cut down my gameplay. I don’t know when they plan to pull the refills out of the 4 hr crystals, but I’m debating opening all of mine I had saved. Only problem is one pop of 50 and I get 0 energy refills and the next pop of 50 I get 10. Never know what you’re gonna get either

Jerichoharris

Yes. I’m not even FTP but won’t be paying any more into a game where access to meaningful content is so limited. I want spend my units on stuff that makes the game fun, not on accessing the game itself.

Mixtapevol02

Yes, it takes me 10-15mins to burn through the energy, then wait for 7hrs and repeat if I remember to. Just the perfect engagement that Kabam is looking for.

Elthan

Doing the dailies at morning and when I run out of energy I'm now out for the day. I log back only when my mates ping me to move in AQ/AW.

Lost all motivation to play this game and went full FTP because of all the bugs and bad implementation that occurred those past months.

By the way, doing dailies, I have no energy left to complete and explore 9.3. I don't even know how I'll manage to play BG.

SandeepS

If energy refills are limited and elder marks go away, I will then limit my BG involvement until I have finished the new monthly content.

If everyone does the same, BG will be quite dead until second half of the season.

In terms of what will give, it will just be the stuff with the least rewards and probably drive me to do some arena more which is an area I don't usually play.

zerodude

Yes, daily quests, side quests and story content (disconsidered eq since I gave up) are draining energy like crazy. The energy cost are too high, making you have to choose which content to do and after that you have to wait for it to refill it.

In my opinion the concept of energy is outdated, it was common in cellphone games but nowadays makes no sense, it restricts capabilities to play, if o wanted to play I would like to be able, not to have to wait for it.

Buttehrs

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876604#Comment_2876604

But...mcoc IS a cellphone game....just sayin. Not that it makes it ok, but still.

SirGamesBond

I'm actively playing

"AT THIS MOMENT"

I was behind on elder, so doing it slowly before it resets. 1 quest left and I'll do it later today.

I did 9.3, in about three days. Slowly, so to use less refills.

Refills are gone, so I ended up opening 100 free crystals, 12 refills and 1 lvl1 revive(lul). Cashed in a little bit before they nerf them.

Overall, I'm planning to keep 10 refills in stash at long as possible.

Next week I'll be doing elder quest one at a time (will depend how many refills will go in overflow after comp).

I don't grind BGs. Still hit A1 just playing ovjetives we all miss 2 day objetives, its not that big... Will continue doing that.

And I'm 100% sure, I will play less than before as I used to autoplay every low lvl eq for units, which I don't have to anymore.

MrSakuragi

TotemCorruption

It has affected my 9.3 run. Usually I would've knocked it out in one day but now I'm only doing it bit by bit.

Otherwise nothing has changed because I still play arena. I guess no one in this thread plays arena though, ok.

BGs will be an issue I thought, but if it's 10 energy a match, I just remembered I only played an average of 2 matches a day last season and still ended in M2, so I think I'll be just fine.

But I can see it affecting the people who play hours of BG a day. Oh well, find another hobby I guess or prepare to pay units for your BG experience.

PT_99

Kabam thinks by forcing players to wait hours upon hours for energy replenishment will tune the engagement up 🤣

ahmynuts

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876618#Comment_2876618

You're an idiot.

Now that that's out of the way.

Im an avid arena grinder but since I no longer have the option to do anything outside of arena, I haven't had the desire to grind it that much. Why would I want to grind to get more stuff if I cant use the stuff.

I used to have a full energy refill stash +15 or more in overflow at all times so I could do anything I wanted in game at any time, whether that be actual content or just effing around with my champions. Now since we're so squeezed I can't do that and dont want to play

SirGamesBond

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876618#Comment_2876618

I dont think you are an idiot, buy you are lying. It's a game.

Hitting M2 with 2 matches average per day is cap.

TotemCorruption

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876709#Comment_2876709

No, you're right, I wasn't counting the slog through VC, just how much I played in GC.

Not sure why "idiot" is on the table here, but maybe I am one. Because yeah, two matches a day counting VC won't get me to M2.

I usually rush through VC then do my optimal GC strategy (only play during a very specific timeframe each day when the competition is weakest).

So I will probably have to buy a few energy refills to get through VC this season in the first couple of days. So probably like 120 units.

But that's why I grind arena I guess, to always have plenty of units available.

SirGamesBond

The thing about refill nerf is that it affects

-the guys who grinds thier lives in bg.

-the guys who can't get thier 3 mins in two days with multiple attempts.

The former will have harder time managing pushes. The later will have harder time managing objetives.

Everyone else who played less bgs wont feel much of a difference now that 2 refills a week are back in the picture.

Ikaliban

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/403541/have-the-latest-energy-changes-negatively-affected-your-gameplay

YES

Searmenis

I used to play the raid daily thing, now I have no energy left within the day to do so. Not a huge deal, since after the first week this thing became boring af, and I really don't know why we need it daily, forever in the game.

But I will have mojor issue when Elder marks are done, I may lose interest in BGs alltogether after that change thought, the mode is going down hard and fast.