**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
On the new 5* crystal announcement
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That specifically was NOT true until 24 hrs ago, hence the request for compensation.
You are right we could argue this forever.
Like derank tickets getting people out of jail for very bad 5* ranking choices.
However as you said, LOL was possible with a 4* SL before but for around 1.5 times the cost compared to a 5*
I actually feel sorry more for the guys that did it pre 12.0 with a 4* SL , they are actually the ones that got screwed the most cause it can now be done with a 4* for close to what it could be done with a old 5*
With these new 5* champs added it should be fair to atleast give us some rank down tickets!!
Plus we now why you guys are adding those crappy new 5* lets be fair.. It's just a way to drop down the change to pull and eventually dupe starlord 5*
This will create more of a gap between the top alliances and medium alliances, so is this what Kabam is trying to do, or is this an unintended consequence?
It will just make it harder for medium to high medium alliances to keep up with the upcoming content. Because we all know that the future content is designed for 4/55 5* at least.
I think they do it to keep the crystals balanced. You can't just have crystals with the best and the greatest champions, we need "bad" champions in the crystals
Totally the point.
5K is large amount of shards to pay for some champ that will be added to basic in days.
At the same time compensation chances are pretty grim, cause Kabam holds complete authority regarding these sort of decisions.
But some level of acknowledgement will reduce the increasing distrust.
Lastly the 5* crystal deal was not a good action, given that these very champs will be added to 10K shards very shortly.
The bottom line is this, yesterday's announcement changed the landscape for the top tier players and alliances. Yet the announcement was made without admission that this new system do you value what people have been working for spending in the last six months.
All I'm asking for is for the game team to recognize this and make it right.
1. You had to figure that sooner or later this was going to happen. There was no way they were ever going to keep all features out of the crystal. I'm happy to see this change, personally.
2. I feel bad for the guys that bought the $500 "deal" last week. That said, we all know that the game is ever changing. Is it bad timing to offer the deal, and one week later make this change? Yes. But over all this needed to be done, whether now, or a month from now.
Good luck on your pulls, everyone. I don't have that elusive 5 star Star Lord, and now, I likely will never see him, let alone dupe him. Lol.
A bigger gap between top and medium alliances?
Seriously you are joking if you think Kabam is doing anything to help top alliances.
Season 4 of AQ proved that dont care about top alliances by lowering our rewards that we get from AQ.
As for featured hero drop rates in high level alliances, i am personally 1 from my last 27 tries, ive actually missed every champ ive gone for since i completed LOL, apart from Dorm. thats one featured in 8 months!!!
And if you ask other guys from other alliances the drop rates are also horrific, we have guys 1/25, 2/33 and the list goes on.
So please don't spout the nonsense that Kabam look after the top alliances cause simply its not true...
If anything they are doing everything they possibly can to help medium alliances catch up.
It's that Kabam keep saying they will be more transparent. They say they have no plan to re-release featured 5* champs, but there is no way this just happened over night. So, they did know and they are still refusing transparency. With transparency we can make better in-game decisions. Without it you get this.
I've also completed LOL and don't feel the 5* crystal changes are relevant to any compensation for LOL. If you took classic Ultron up and awakened him, that is your own fault. New champs becoming available as 5*s was always going to happen, it has no relevance to what you chose to use your resources on prior. They aren't nerfing classic Ultron.
I would say that with the changes to the overall 5* landscape that a few (maybe 2-4) 5* rank down tickets would be fair to give to everyone. I'm sure some people chose to rank up lesser 5* champs due to the thought of a featured 5* never being available again and not wanting to rank it up forever unduped. Also in case anyone is wondering, I am not one of those people. I have 5 rank 4 5*s and I won't be using a rank down ticket on any of them. If anything, this helps my competition and hurts me, but I think its fair.
Kabam promised change, and once again took advantage of the player base by offering a rare resource at a high price only to offer the same resource openly after several players bought into the deal
I'd really hoped Kabam would treat their players better after the Doctor Strange fiasco
When I logged in and saw MORDO is being added to the 5* crystals I almost died. I spent a lot of crystals to awaken mordo and he was a very valuable champ this change to the game will completely jerk around the top tier of players .
I also agree with the poster who suggested that the order which featured champions are added should be the order they were introduced, how is regular venom NOT first!
This is seriously not fair to your players who have grinded and spent time in difficult events for shards which are severely losing value with this proposed update.
Making 15,000 shard value feature champions cost 10,000 is WAY too unfair and WAY too much RNG.
*** If anything this proposed new system should be an entirely new crystal which is permanently available and also cost 15,000 shards. The new crystal will be updated with back logged feature champions and then new features as they are added to the premium. Then the 40 or so original champions can go and be added t the 10,000 cost 5* crystal.
Paying 45,0000-60,000 5* shards for a previously featured champion only to have it appear a few months later in the 10,000 crystal option is NOT a good feeling. It literally took longer to acquire the shards than it took for you guys to propose this change.
You're absolutely right about the timing of deals, but we've all been there before. A player who looks at a special offer through anything other than a "how is this not an effort to monetize something that will shortly be devalued" lens hasn't been around Kabam games very long.
With that said, deals like the 5* one are necessary to stay on top, and Kabam knows it. Just like T4cc cards were necessary for some to rank up certain prized 4*'s just a short while ago, along with quite a few other deals over the past 6 months. No one put a gun to anyone's head to buy those offers, but neither were they tossed out to the player base willy-nilly. They were done deliberately and knowingly. And I think that's the point you are making. To that extent, I completely agree that it's shady and undermines whatever amount of trust remains in the player base.
Whether restitution is actually due is a pretty hazy area, but it realistically has more to do with economics than it does with right and wrong (see 12.0 fiasco). Sadly, restitution now just serves as a tool to head off or dampen a game revolt. But that's beside the fact--none of it changes the principle that "special" offers now appear to be mere preludes to in game asset devaluation. And that's the key takeaway.
Dr. Zola
I fell you. I'm in a top alli with mutiple r4 5* and many more 5* dupped, so I often forget it's getting harder to climb the prestige ladder.
Hopefully they will do the right thing and either give more opportunities to gather 5* shards that are easier for the newer guys to get, or reduce the cost of basic and featured 5* crystals altogether.
I normally agree with muttamat, but on this I don't. I don't know how anyone could have not seen something like this coming. Learn from the past. $500 for a chance at a featured champion. Absurd. I have no sympathy for anyone who bought those deals.
So now you have more chances to raise your Mordos sig ability and you are upset?
DZ
That's not the point. I can already raise his sig ability with the 5* stone opportunities.
Now he has lost all value as a top prestige and defensive champ as he will be spread far and wide in the regular cost crystals.
These were never regular cost champions from the 50% increased cost to even try to get one , to the scarcity with which they were available.
There's no rhyme or reason that makes sense where mordo especially is being added to the 10,000 cost 5* crystal. Not to mention iceman & voodoo, these are high caliber and should be high cost (benit actual money or time spent) to attain champions as they have been.