Daily alliance ISO reward lowered?

elusive

I apologize profusely if this was covered elsewhere on the forums already (did a cursory search with no luck), but I noticed that I received 200 ISO for 20 alliance members playing instead of what used to be 500. I don't see this listed on a changelog anywhere, and wanted to hear what others have experienced today.

I mean, I won't be super pissed if the developers decided a free daily 500 ISO was too much, but it was nice while it lasted. Gotta make that money somehow, right?

Unknown

i heard the same thing. I'll see in about 6 hours when my daily reward rolls around again

Unknown

I was saying Boooourns

But yeah, that's lame imo. Hopefully this season thing is going to be cool.

Unknown

Not surprising. I'm not going to complain, because I've been generally happy with the flow of ISO in the past 3-4 weeks. Especially compared to where it was in early February.

Unknown

Pretty pathetic if true....

Unknown

Yeah, I noticed this too. *shrug* I'm never gonna complain about free ISO, no matter how am amount. Kinda disappointing though.

Unknown

Are you saying the alliance reward is capped at 200 ISO or are you saying it was lowered to 10 ISO per member?

Maybe nothing has changed but only 8 members of your alliance played yesterday and therefore giving you 200 ISO?

Unknown

I got 500 iso when I logged in today, I'll be super annoyed if it's changed tomorrow.

Bacon Pants

CptNoraa wrote:

I got 500 iso when I logged in today, I'll be super annoyed if it's changed tomorrow.

Ditto, I still received the 500 ISO this morning.

mags1587

I got 200. 10 ISO per member who played.

Bacon Pants

mags1587 wrote:

I got 200. 10 ISO per member who played.

That's crazy, we're in the alliance together and got different amounts.

Are we in the MPQ Twilight Zone today?

mags1587

Bacon Pants wrote:

mags1587 wrote:

I got 200. 10 ISO per member who played.

That's crazy, we're in the alliance together and got different amounts.

Are we in the MPQ Twilight Zone today?

The update hit before I got my daily reward. Yours probably updated after you got the daily reward? That's the only thing that makes sense to me...

Unknown

mags1587 wrote:

Bacon Pants wrote:

mags1587 wrote:

I got 200. 10 ISO per member who played.

That's crazy, we're in the alliance together and got different amounts.

Are we in the MPQ Twilight Zone today?

The update hit before I got my daily reward. Yours probably updated after you got the daily reward? That's the only thing that makes sense to me...

Updated before daily, also got 10 per member instead of 25.

Unknown

Bacon Pants wrote:

mags1587 wrote:

I got 200. 10 ISO per member who played.

That's crazy, we're in the alliance together and got different amounts.

Are we in the MPQ Twilight Zone today?

Maybe it's a timing thing? I played around 6-7am EST as I was getting ready for work/eating and I got 500 ISO as well.

NorthernPolarity

So this is a lesson for d3 to always just start off with fewer rewards and then work their way upwards? Free iso is free iso, and 200 iso is 200 more than you would have gotten otherwise, so I don't get what the complaining is about: would you prefer that they started off with 50iso and worked their way up to 200? That's honestly the smarter way to go about this than be generous with starting off at 500 iso, so I guess this is a lesson for them to never start off adding new rewards at a high amount.

I think what happened was just that the values got changed with the update. If you got your reward before the update, you got 500 iso, otherwise 200 iso.

mags1587

I don't mind so much that the reward changed -- like you say, free iso is free iso. But it is a little annoying that it changed without any warning, just like so many other things in the game. Plus, do we even know if it's going to stay at 200 iso from now on? Maybe it's variable -- some days it's 25 per member, some days it's 10 per member? It'd be nice to know.

JamieMadrox

I got 475 ISO today from my 19 alliance members so all is as usual here.

Unknown

Free ISO is always nice, but at this point, 10ISO/head serves no purpose at all. Will that motivate players to play daily? No way. Will 500 ISO/day cause D3 to lose money? Highly doubtful. If I want 200 ISO, I'll just go play 2 matches in Shield training and waste 5 minutes in the game. They do this all the time. They give something, only to take it back after 2-3 weeks. Erratic actions like this don't inspire confidence.

Linkster79

I can confirm it is now 10 iso per active alliance member. I dunno free is free and it is a bonus but 25 iso wass hardly going to break the in game economy.

GumisK

I guess that's simply a tax we're paying for introducing the Seasons. As it has happened previously (Alliance rewards, for example), whenever a new source of income appears in the game, another source gets cut down. That's lame, profoundly lame, to be honest, but seems we need to get accustomed to such actions in the future.

KaioShinDE

Free ISO is free ISO doesn't apply here IMO... because it's not as free as people think it is.

The cost is the psycological pressure to play every single day not to let your alliance down, because if you don't, everyone is going to see it. I find it quite unethical to artificially build up this kind of peer pressure to keep everyone playing non-stop. Before someone comes playing devil's advocate, yes, the amount of ISO lost is utterly insignificant, and no one in a mature alliance would even raise an eyebrow if someone doesn't play all the time. But that's not the point. The point is that the list of shame exists and is there to see for everyone, every single day. That's quite enough, regardless of how severe or not the effects of not playing would be in pratice.