Arenas nerf incoming?

According to Kabam, players have surplus energy refills so Kabam removed it from everywhere.
That means EQ/SQ were nerfed and just today/yesterday, Battlegrounds will be nerfed from November by removing entry via elder marks.

This all leads to everyone farming energy from Arenas.

So Arenas nerf also coming?

#SaveMCOC

Comments

Lost____one

Shhhhhh....… be very quiet.....…

Ikaliban

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/403527/arenas-nerf-incoming

M_A_D_D_Y

I don’t think Crashed is gonna push it that far… unless he fully crashes out himself. Still, can’t say it’s a 0% chance. And with Netmarble’s track record of showing drop rates higher than what you actually get, wouldn’t be shocking if the next ‘genius move’ is nerfing arena crystals.

Ikaliban

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876480#Comment_2876480

From what I'm seeing, the company's progress is correct. Everything involving energy will be reduced or removed. We'll play like a simple game (Farmville) and wait to be able to do something. Or pay to move.

_Pez_

What energy from arenas? Or do you mean units from arenas for energy or the low chance from arena crystals

Ikaliban

Low chances.

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876501#Comment_2876501

The company's intention is to extract as much energy as possible. Believe it. Read the statement. The glimpse of the future is terrifying.

Ikaliban

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/403478/energy-refills-the-energy-economy

Chuck_Finley

Well, it’s the only FTP option. All other energy based content is P2P. I think that alone nerfs arenas. Even if you blast out all milestones every month, you can do unit deals a few times a year for champs locked in events… and do some rank ups then. But it’s purely for collection and the occasional quest. You aren’t going to be competitive in BG’s.

No one complaing about time constraints is going to flip into arena grinding mode to bank units for energy. That’s the antithesis of arena grinding….

Amanda_Cruze

I think you guys misunderstood.

What I meant is like how they are removing energy refills from 4 hour crystal, we can expect them to remove energy refills from arena crystals too!

#SaveMCOC

Ikaliban

Exactly, not a safe place. The price of energy in the store might also go up. Or it might just be behind a paywall.

Bugmat78

2 Energy refills a week is a ridiculous amount of "giving back". Also nerfing elders marks is also a joke. I guess I won't be doing much BGs.

Searmenis

Nah, they need to deal with the freeloaders who abuse the daily super event first.

Aren won't be nerded, it will just cost one energy per fight.

GroundedWisdom

No.

OldManHop

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876560#Comment_2876560

…freeloaders who abuse the daily super event? What?

Dirty_Dozz

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876560#Comment_2876560

????? What on earth are you talking about?

Herbal_Taxman

i believe the “freeloaders” comment was probably sarcasm.

I had a related question — exactly what is Kabam worried about with regard to energy? What are the players doing with our excess refills that somehow harms the economy? Playing too much of what, exactly?

judging from the matching times from low GC in the last week of the season, I don’t think people are grinding BG nearly as much as they used to. So what’s the mode that is being trivialized?

i guess maybe they want EQ and story to require weeks to finish instead of days so they can point to steadier engagement metrics?

M_A_D_D_Y

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876603#Comment_2876603

I think the core issue is tied directly to BGs. Too many players are pushing higher ranks and collecting Radiance without any cost, and that’s clearly not the outcome Kabam wants. By forcing BGs through energy, they want to create a restriction: either players grind less, or they spend units. In practice, that turns Radiance into a paywall.

The revive farming angle doesn’t hold up here -most endgame players already sit with revives in overflow. If that were the real concern, the solution would look very different.

This is about BG control. Kabam could’ve easily kept Elder Marks alongside energy refills, but they didn’t. That choice signals intent: they want the higher brackets occupied by players who are either spending or at least burning through units. With the Radiance store update coming, it feels less like game balance and more like a calculated move to regulate access to rewards.

Searmenis

Yes, I was sarcastic. Didn't think I had to explain, oh well…

PT_99

I hope so,

Kill the game off at once instead of long extended sad death,

The wound of 3.2.6 revive farming wasn't big as community kinda knew it was OP af 🥴

Banquet fumble two years back to back to back,

Historical record of launching new updates/raids 6+ times (maybe more) in a row with bugs, glitches and what not,

False banning players then blowing whole 10 years compensation budget like it's nothing and then salvaging it by increasing the cost of 36k human torch to 39k units, big yikes 🤣

Messing with AI again and again, to the point that they had to announce it's outta their hand, "but guys AI-2.0 guys, yes, guys guys?"

Wasting big tons of resources on PC release, huge failure, no one was interested and did not attracted any PC players outside the MCoC circle, resources could've been directed towards improving game UI

UI? Goddamn, bring back old forum UI, tf man,

Not making a decision on what EQ format is good despite changing it 3 times and then turning the whole EQ into Mini-WoF because something something adaptive difficulty guys.

Removing units from China year event, promising to give them away somewhere else, yup

Removing more units because why not 💸

Removing energy from little quests, now NO ENERGY, that's right 0, I can't believe it, 0 energy refills will come outta 4hr crystals, Idk what they're thinking but not good, I'd say bad, people will not like that, I don't, no.

Also indicated that they'll hammer down Elder marks 🤡

So my suggestion is, yes, Kill off Arena, introduce some 5 rounds of EQ every hour, also remove Arena points boosters while we're at it and for the good measure also remove help feature in Arena or better, you can't use same hero twice in a single Arena that'll show these filthy f2p players 😡, OPEN BANK !!!!

the_eradicator

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876605#Comment_2876605

What in the heck is BG control ?
You have a competitive mode that players want to play and should be allowed to play. The barrier of entry should be low.
You already have bigger gates stopping F2P and light spenders from pushing too far….the insane amount of r4s that only big spenders are having.
Why should there be a problem with players pushing high using skill and strategy ?
Its complete nonsese to think that too many players have access to the BG radiance, I mean they are getting it by playing the mode and winning.

M_A_D_D_Y

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876683#Comment_2876683

Read it again, maybe slower this time… you're missing the point completely.

Syndicated

The hardest mode to farm actually, nerfed? That could be a very good joke.

Anotherconcernplayer

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876630#Comment_2876630

Ok after reading this, I actually have to agreed.

Let just give the poor old horse a fast and dignified death, and let us hold on to the good memories.

Penzito

Watch DLLs stream from last night about 1:19 mark and how he views the arena grinder.

PT_99

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876860#Comment_2876860

Don't keep us in suspense

Ikaliban

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/403527/arenas-nerf-incoming

I have no doubt, until next year. to enter the arenas it will be necessary the same as BG energy.

Herbal_Taxman

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876605#Comment_2876605

makes sense for the top tiers of BGs, I guess. Feels to me like the rank and file are less engaged with BGs than they were a year ago, despite the introduction of radiance.

TotemCorruption

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2876605#Comment_2876605

"Too many players are pushing higher ranks"?

It doesn't matter how many players push, that doesn't increase the amount of celestial spots or radiance rewards available.

Or do you mean, a lot of players are grinding BG for 10 hours a day everyday?

I think that's accurate. These are also the players buying up all the deals (or at least most of them do).

So if Kabam wants to milk them even further, that's fine by me.

I read somewhere that games like MCOC rely on like the top 1% of spenders for most of their revenue, so it makes sense to exploit these players' addiction and get them for everything they're worth while dangling prestige and radiance and exclusive emote carrots in front of them.

BigBlueOx

if they nerf arena after all this then they might as well kill the game. I

YodaKaj

I heard that next, to play any game mode, you will be administered a small shock through your phone. Removing the electric shock will cost you 20 units.