1 step forward, 2 steps back.. this is been the trend for a while with this game
Funny you stopped at 2....
So now in addition to everything else, you've made Raids MORE expensive (by the very nature of eliminating this form of currency, and now forcing us to use units - ha - or essentia for this highly outdated rewards content). Just garbage.
Hey, why was it decided? That loyalty helped a lot with buying AW heal potions. It looks like one more round of monetizing every game aspect while showing it as "an improvement".
Apropos of nothing, an old history professor once told me that when people use the word ‘clearly’ it usually means it’s not very clear at all. Politicians use it in that kind of context all the time, so for that reason I try to avoid it. Life lesson for free right there.
A lesson I'd take it to my heart.
What does any of this have to do with Raids?
He probably meant buying raid tickets
Once Kabam takes away the other options, you'll only be able to buy tickets with Loyalty, Essentia, and Units. Once loyalty goes away it will only be Essentia and Units so way way more costly to participate in the mode with garbage rewards
gee golly I’m an avid war player taking 11 fights a war but it’s ok we don’t need that 150k Kabam bosses. Why would any avid war player want an extra 150k loyalty a week what dumb concept lol. Just take it away with no explanation no one will notice gee golly guys!!!!!
couldnt disagree more. This event is objectively worse than before. There's a ton of useless relics and potions and less currency compared to before where we got catalysts, battlechips and more currency. Alliances who don't do war (ass and trash mode) and aq (boring as hell mode) don't benefit. We didn't even reach the last 2 milestones in this new event because we don't do war or aq. Nobody likes BGs either because of all the issues with that game mode. This new weekly event is absolute dogwater. If the intent was to get people to play war and aq well for a meager amount of essentia then that was a massive failure. I can't believe you can't this event is better. Absolutely wild
If you're not willing to play any of the competitive modes, that makes an argument for those Resources moot, really.
This was going to be my response.
Between lack of interest in the fight style (long, boring fights with too few counters & too many nodes, and trash AI) it causes me to skip most content anyways……
we do play them, just not the amount kabam wants us to in order to get every milestone. And that's the point. We don't want the relics and aq potions and revives anyway. We want the old event that gave us better rewards without having to play competitive war and aq
And a pretty bad avid player on top of that....
I won't play game modes like AW and BGs even if the rewards were better (loyalty or otherwise). Most people seem to play to get the rewards, not for the fun of the game anymore (like with those stupid Carinas challenges)
The challenge is the fun
I agree…. when they're fair to the players.
Whatever just give me my weekly 150k loyalty it’s simple
if 150k loyalty means nothing to most players why do we even still have loyalty in the game? Just get rid of it if it’s so meaningless right now @Kabam (Osaurus) Rex
Lets not jump on Mike folks, i dont think he has any agency to this decision making. I'm also not happy with this decision, but it is what it is.
To me, this points to an already redundant and broken crappy AW potion economy where the potions are so old and yet we are using r5s and r4 ascended champs now. The fact that we depend on potions healing 14k hp right now is laughable and the fact that it hasnt been updated even more so.
It seems that what he was saying is that AW potions will be available in Essentia, eventually. They kind of have to be if loyalty is going away. They probably should have transitioned better, but that's old news at this point. Just wait it out and stock up on loyalty in off season.
Here is what is going to happen...
They will put revives in Essentia store, probably mask it under higher HP pots at a higher price in Essentia so people don't notice right away… its what they have been doing with everything lately
The old event had almost twice the essentia after trade-in and was the biggest source of loyalty in a week for war resources. That was replaced with AQ resources which absolutely no one needed so that you guys could say that there's more value? I understand this wasn't your decision but you can't seriously act like this event is more valuable than the last. More valuable to who?
I agree we shouldnt jump on Mike because none of this is his decision but he did invite the jumping on this one by posting his Ill informed take. On another thread he just got done saying that the experience of players on the forums and the sort are not representative of the larger % of the game and therefore things cant be tailored based on that only to turn around and do the exact same thing in this thread giving his experience and why we do or dont need something based on it lol
But also to piggy back on what youre saying. The prices are also extremely high for the ratio of healing and we're still capped on how many heals we can buy. It makes no sense lol
I understand we shouldn’t be jumping on Mike but that answer from the game team is pretty pathetic and that’s the kind of treatment the community is sick of. There is no justification to get rid of the 150k loyalty and I’m gonna need better than sorry that’s just what we decided for reasons. Explain your actions or leave the company
Just come out and say this was about resetting the currency every loyal player had accumulated and we will nerf the rewards, but dont worry there will be plenty of offers to buy what we have screwed you out of.
Mike sells everything for Kabam and defends the decisions to screw us. When people call him out for not being transparent or straight lying to us, whether its his decision or not, it was his decision represent them. That means he gets the good and the bad.
Name checks out.
but you can’t comment on the main issue cuz you hate me that much. You know taking away the 150k loyalty is another scam in the long list of kabam scams against the player base!!!!!