arktos1971 wrote: Boomer69 wrote: I don't think they should be giving away any 4* covers as alliance rewards. Either that or they need to find a way to block top alliances from continually winning all the new covers. It's not like most of the individuals in those alliances couldn't easily win them in solo events. I would rather them limit alliance rewards to HP/ISO instead of awarding a cover that is unique and you will likely be able to obtain anytime soon unless you are in the top 1% of the alliances. They are basically giving out 2000 Nick Fury covers as alliance rewards and giving out 81 heroic 10-packs as solo rewards. They are also only awarding the heroic 10-packs up to 50th place for the solo portion. They are awarding the Nick Fury cover to the top 100 for alliances. 50 people are going to get one or more heroic 10-packs, but 2000 or so are going to get a Nick Fury cover. Seems a bit backwards to me. If they wouldn't give a Nick Fury 4* cover as Alliance reward, I'm sure 80 % (if not more) of players would leave the Alliance thing or just stop playing Seasons' Events. The Season thing is quite lame at the moment, and Nick Fury is the only thing that motivates people to keep on playing competitively (unless you are in any X-Men Alliance ) What's the use of playing those BORING PvPs (with the same featured characters) if it's not to rank in Season ? Besides, if the whales are important in the MPQ's economy, they have to keep them buying ISO and HP. I hardly could find any motivation if there wasn't a cool 4* cover to win and max over a 3 months time. Guys like us need to dream about what the future can be (with almighty characters in our rosters). And D3P at least understood that.
Boomer69 wrote: I don't think they should be giving away any 4* covers as alliance rewards. Either that or they need to find a way to block top alliances from continually winning all the new covers. It's not like most of the individuals in those alliances couldn't easily win them in solo events. I would rather them limit alliance rewards to HP/ISO instead of awarding a cover that is unique and you will likely be able to obtain anytime soon unless you are in the top 1% of the alliances. They are basically giving out 2000 Nick Fury covers as alliance rewards and giving out 81 heroic 10-packs as solo rewards. They are also only awarding the heroic 10-packs up to 50th place for the solo portion. They are awarding the Nick Fury cover to the top 100 for alliances. 50 people are going to get one or more heroic 10-packs, but 2000 or so are going to get a Nick Fury cover. Seems a bit backwards to me.
I believe the original intent of seasons was to be something extra as an overarching thing for the endless stream of PvP tournaments that are run as opposed to the "grind your heart out for a month and win a fury cover" sentiment that you think it is. I really don't get this suggestion: if fury covers were handed out very infrequently, wouldn't more people be complaining that the game is p2w as the only way you can get the fury covers within a reasonable amount of time is by purchasing them? I think you're overreacting.
Phantron wrote: The only reason why IW and Wolverine are handed out as progression/top finish prizes is because they suck so they know almost nobody is going to pay 2500 HP per cover anyway so might as well be generous. Nick Fury might be a bit overrated at this point but he definitely doesn't suck. Looking at the general activity of the seasons bracket suggests people place a lot of value on his cover so getting 25000 HP out of his 10 covers is not an unreasonable proposition, which is why they shouldn't be offering him as any kind of prize unless it's for emergencies (like if TaT is ever ran again).
Spoit wrote: Honestly, I think people are overselling him, since he's the only decent 4*
nazerith wrote: I wish I had a dollar for every time this guy posted something to deal with the X-men. Seriously Type X[space] Men and u see arktos1971 come up more than me. ROFLMAO do it U'll laugh your A $$ off.
arktos1971 wrote: But in the end, considering the amount of HP you have to use to go to #1, it's close to 2500 HP...
LoreNYC wrote: Well the fact is, the game has been pay to win for a while now. You can play for nothing and do quite well but in all reality you need the people who will pay money for anything without thinking what they're actually buying to support the game the rest of us play for free or close to. If those few who buy every cover and max every character the second they come out disappear, D3 will have less resources at their disposal to give us anything and the game will dry up. What most people don't realize is that the real P2W element is shields, not buying covers. Over the last 6 months you see more people with 'mediocre' rosters doing well because the way the pvp system allows someone to attack real fast, reshield, wait, repeat. Back to Nick Fury covers, I think their approach will in fact be to show him off as season awards then rotate him into the pvp and pve awards both as #1 and 1300. They can't introduce a character that breaks the game outright. . . well ok they can but they've shown they'd rather neuter characters after we buy and level them rather than before. He seems OP of course and he should be to some degree as a hard to get 4* but having such a OP character in the echosystem isn't so bad until he has that instant win - 10k to the entire other team in like 3 turns . . .
Moon 17 wrote: LoreNYC wrote: Well the fact is, the game has been pay to win for a while now. You can play for nothing and do quite well but in all reality you need the people who will pay money for anything without thinking what they're actually buying to support the game the rest of us play for free or close to. If those few who buy every cover and max every character the second they come out disappear, D3 will have less resources at their disposal to give us anything and the game will dry up. What most people don't realize is that the real P2W element is shields, not buying covers. Over the last 6 months you see more people with 'mediocre' rosters doing well because the way the pvp system allows someone to attack real fast, reshield, wait, repeat. Back to Nick Fury covers, I think their approach will in fact be to show him off as season awards then rotate him into the pvp and pve awards both as #1 and 1300. They can't introduce a character that breaks the game outright. . . well ok they can but they've shown they'd rather neuter characters after we buy and level them rather than before. He seems OP of course and he should be to some degree as a hard to get 4* but having such a OP character in the echosystem isn't so bad until he has that instant win - 10k to the entire other team in like 3 turns . . . Fortunately, match green with pheromones into world rupture is at least five turns, so Sentry has slipped your net.
Tonzil wrote: Why? Because, the bait will be set and the "whales" will have a new fish to catch.
arktos1971 wrote: Tonzil wrote: Why? Because, the bait will be set and the "whales" will have a new fish to catch. WHALES DON'T EAT FISH ! They eat plancton !