A "WHALE's" opinion

OmarOmar Member Posts: 36
in General Discussion
I am a whale and unabashedly so --I've spent tens of thousand in acquiring and ranking top tier champs, opening crystals, completing lol back when it cost 5k...etc...Myself, along with many others in the big spending community, are particularly upset with this latest announcement that continues a nasty trend of devaluing in game content to promote further spending to compete. Not a bad business strategy by any means, but there is a breaking point for fans and customer's wherein the products and services start to lose all value when they can be easily replaced or manipulated. Sadly, we have reached that point.A precedent has been established where we can not trust that any type of in game accomplishment either through time spent or money spent or both, will have any value in the future. Kabam has destroyed that trust. Investing in 6 star champs just allows this company to gear up for 7 star champs a year from now, and 8 star champs after that. That's not horrible until you consider how these tiers of champs are marketed at the time as being the strongest and most viable content for the foreseeable future. We spend thousands on the crystal and then those same champs became much more easily attained or they get replaced all together. Instead of kabam innovating to keep three star, four star and five star champs valuable, say by adding in new unlockable moves or even further ranks for them to progress, the company would rather release new 200 unit crystals and another star onto future champs. All done not to offer new content (unless adding a star to current champs and allowing them to regen hits taken is very "new") but done to fill money coffers. To pressure the player base into upgrading from what they were told were valuable champs to begin with. Sad day for mcoc. @Kabam Miike

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  • JuggerneyksJuggerneyks Member Posts: 275 ★★
    edited August 2017
    thank you for your perspective, if more of the "whales" express this opinion then we have a decent chance of fighting this.
  • ContestOfNoobsContestOfNoobs Member Posts: 1,643 ★★★★★
    its called power creep. As with any and every Gacha game.

    they "Gatcha"
  • Jac094Jac094 Member Posts: 198 ★
    edited August 2017
    Weeks, months, years, just for max out your dreams champ.. now just take them and flush in the toilet..
  • DNA3000DNA3000 Member, Guardian Posts: 19,676 Guardian
    Omar wrote: »
    I am a whale and unabashedly so --I've spent tens of thousand in acquiring and ranking top tier champs, opening crystals, completing lol back when it cost 5k...etc...Myself, along with many others in the big spending community, are particularly upset with this latest announcement that continues a nasty trend of devaluing in game content to promote further spending to compete. Not a bad business strategy by any means, but there is a breaking point for fans and customer's wherein the products and services start to lose all value when they can be easily replaced or manipulated. Sadly, we have reached that point.A precedent has been established where we can not trust that any type of in game accomplishment either through time spent or money spent or both, will have any value in the future. Kabam has destroyed that trust. Investing in 6 star champs just allows this company to gear up for 7 star champs a year from now, and 8 star champs after that. That's not horrible until you consider how these tiers of champs are marketed at the time as being the strongest and most viable content for the foreseeable future. We spend thousands on the crystal and then those same champs became much more easily attained or they get replaced all together. Instead of kabam innovating to keep three star, four star and five star champs valuable, say by adding in new unlockable moves or even further ranks for them to progress, the company would rather release new 200 unit crystals and another star onto future champs. All done not to offer new content (unless adding a star to current champs and allowing them to regen hits taken is very "new") but done to fill money coffers. To pressure the player base into upgrading from what they were told were valuable champs to begin with. Sad day for mcoc. @Kabam Miike

    I appreciate your opinion. I have a question. As a very long time MMO player, these "level cap-like" increases are a common occurrence for me. The vast overwhelming majority of MMO games eventually do this, and in my experience most MMO players expect it to happen eventually. I've noticed this is a situation that occurs more in the mobile F2P area where many players are encountering this kind of thing for the first time. If Kabam had stated right from the start, and if all MMO development companies were to state right from the start, that the end game would always have the potential for this to happen - for newer higher ranked things to be introduced that were superior to the older stuff - would that have discouraged you from playing from the start, and would it discourage you from playing all such games in general?

    In other words, is this something you must have - i.e. the ability to know where "the end" is so your time and money investments have permanence - and you wouldn't invest significant money on anything in the game that could be superceded in the future? Or is something you would deal with better if you knew it was going to happen in advance of starting to play.

    There's no right answer to this question, I'm just curious.
  • Kabam ZibiitKabam Zibiit Administrator Posts: 7,033
    Omar wrote: »
    I am a whale and unabashedly so --I've spent tens of thousand in acquiring and ranking top tier champs, opening crystals, completing lol back when it cost 5k...etc...Myself, along with many others in the big spending community, are particularly upset with this latest announcement that continues a nasty trend of devaluing in game content to promote further spending to compete. Not a bad business strategy by any means, but there is a breaking point for fans and customer's wherein the products and services start to lose all value when they can be easily replaced or manipulated. Sadly, we have reached that point.A precedent has been established where we can not trust that any type of in game accomplishment either through time spent or money spent or both, will have any value in the future. Kabam has destroyed that trust. Investing in 6 star champs just allows this company to gear up for 7 star champs a year from now, and 8 star champs after that. That's not horrible until you consider how these tiers of champs are marketed at the time as being the strongest and most viable content for the foreseeable future. We spend thousands on the crystal and then those same champs became much more easily attained or they get replaced all together. Instead of kabam innovating to keep three star, four star and five star champs valuable, say by adding in new unlockable moves or even further ranks for them to progress, the company would rather release new 200 unit crystals and another star onto future champs. All done not to offer new content (unless adding a star to current champs and allowing them to regen hits taken is very "new") but done to fill money coffers. To pressure the player base into upgrading from what they were told were valuable champs to begin with. Sad day for mcoc. @Kabam Miike

    Hi there Omar,

    Thank you very much for your perspective on 6-Star Champions. We'll make sure the Game Team sees this. We're definitely looking to get feedback on 6-Star Champions from everyone in the community, but we're also looking to keep the discussion focused and centralized in one place. To that end, I'm going to go ahead and close this thread down, but you're more than welcome to share your thoughts in the 6-Star discussion thread here:

    http://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/16207/6-stars-discussion-thread/p1
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