**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.
Options
Comments
The only thing that could move Kabam would be if the total of buyers is significantly lower than what they expected !
That and only that would make them rethink about this subscription and the price they ask for
You see... forums are full of people who say one thing and do another.
#boycottmcoc? “Wow that Cyber Monday offer is swwwwweeeetttt. I’ll boycott after I purchase it.”
Quit the game? “Cav crystals is going to put an end to the game! I’m going to quit the game to show my discontent.” Then proceeds to login after an hour.
People like to exaggerate their statements / threats to make it more believable but doesn’t know it usually works the other way round. If you were to make a list of those who threatened to quit because of ANY issue and their respective igns, then check back a month later, you’ll get what I mean. 😊
Kabam is a commercial entity and as such it will do everything in its power to gain money with their product. They would no more exist if no one spend money on their game. I did too spend money on it in 2017 and 2018 (i decided to stop spending for this year)
But, as these enhancements were largely asked for by a majority of player, they could have made it less expensive. Maybe 1 or 2 $ per month. That would have been great for everyone. Ok they have to pay the developers and eventually make profit to continue, but i am sure that would be possible at a lower price.
Every one would be happy, Summoner by paying less and Kabam by selling this service to many more customers
More than one person has said, in reference to Kabam, that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. Well, this goes for the forums as well. The forums have given feedback many times in the past, and Kabam has seen first hand how the playerbase as a whole responds to the same changes in terms of players playing and player spending. Kabam should weight the credibility of the forums on the basis of their past performance in reflecting, or failing to reflect, the playerbase as a whole.
In my judgment, that correlation is extremely low.
Kabam listens to player feedback. It is just not the feedback you want them to listen to. They listen to how the players react to changes with their playing and their spending. Those things count for more than players posting, as they should.
So I had to make a choice: Let the gear go that I honestly didn't need and probably would never use, or pay for extra inventory slots.
I thought about it for a while -- a few days. Went back and forth.
I finally decided to pay for the slots.
Now, I'm not saying that because I could afford to do so and don't understand that others might not, or might be kids who don't have access to online pay mechanisms.
I'm saying this because your post...see, my opinion is this: People are coddled a bit too much in these scenarios, just because this is a mobile game with fictional characters.
Whereas a lot of this stuff is simply life lessons, and people either don't want to say it or acknowledge the truth.
I don't watch the YouTube people, but my understanding is that there's guys out there with lots of videos who are completely F2P, and there are some other guys who spend a ton of cash.
My point, my opinion only, is that we would all be better served if people understood that's life. That's reality. That's choices.
We can't all do whatever we want. We can't all have whatever we want. Some people figure out ways to do things for free or little expense. Some people pay their way through the same obstacles.
There have been multiple times when I have vehemently disagreed with Kabam policy. I have said so.
But utlimately, the bottom line that isn't emphasized enough is your point: People need to understand that just because you want something or think something or believe something doesn't mean it is going to be that something.
We coddle too many people in life into thinking that just because they believe something that it should matter to someone else ENOUGH FOR THEM TO ACT. When in reality, the courtesy extended is listening to what you have to say, no more.
It's unfortunate that more people aren't going to read your post for the truth that it is -- because people today aren't taught the difference between having a belief/opinion and realizing that their opinion doesn't always change what someone else is going to do, and then you have to decide whether to be part of that relationship any longer.
We teach too many people that others have to change to accommodate them, and while it's great if it happens, it's actually bad that we teach people that they SHOULD get more things in situations where there are reasons that they might not
I mean I've been asking for free Odins for years through the summoners sanctum surveys. So shouldn't it be free by now?
For a game to be able to attract a healthy number of free to play players, those players have to believe that their gameplay is rewarded, and one way to value gameplay being rewarded is to see what the pseudo-cash value of that gameplay is. The cheaper things are, the less value gameplay has, and the less incentive there is for anyone to play the game.
A game doesn't become pay to play when it sells big things for big bucks. A game becomes pay to play when it starts selling everything for very little cash. Because then everyone starts to believe they have to spend that cash, or else they will be left behind by everyone else who will pay it, because it is so cheap. The vast majority of game players don't care if they fall behind the top 1% spenders. They do care if they fall behind 90% of the players, because they think everyone is spending.
I don't know why this is so hard to understand. F2P games do not want everyone spending. They aren't trying to get as many people to spend as possible. They want a lot of people to spend, and no matter how hard they try they won't get more than a small fraction to spend. But it would be a catastrophe if most people spent, if it choked off new free to play players. They'd just become a subscription game, and those tend to do worse than F2P games.
If this was a discussion on a channel in Discord, this post would have immediately been pinned. Let's just say that.
It doesn’t get any simpler than that. Let’s look at the $4.99 offer for 735 units.
I am not seeing anyone crying that they think Kabam should be giving us these extra unit’s for free because...well because we been asking for more units and they should not charge us for those. Or today’s offer for a monthly catalyst card, heck they should give us these for free because we deserve it by golly! I did not buy today’s offer because it did not make sense FOR ME.
Why is the $10 offer any different than any other offer?
Why is a $10 Monthly subscription a slap in the face to YOU?
Because for some reason YOU feel that it should be your right to get These items for free because we asked for it?
Why? I haven’t heard anyone claiming that same thing for any other “offer” that comes out.
And guess what, nobody took anything from you, your game does not change from what your experience was today if you decide not to take this offer. Nobody said unless you start paying a monthly subscription you will no longer have access to the game.
Pay it if it makes senses or don’t if it doesn’t, it’s a simple choice People.
If the Sigil program does well, could it be expanded to where we might see different skins of existing characters or exclusive characters as part of a subscription package?
Because that's what I want. I don't know if it's possible, or if it's even something that would be considered.
But if it's not even something that could ever happen, it would be nice to know. Because I am willing to roll the dice and support a subscription service if it is possible in the future because I believe in putting my money where my mouth is, but I am being honest by saying that the Sigil package as currently structured is less interesting to me if it is likely not ever to expand.
And i already play MFF.