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Arena no longer global? Feedback on prizes
Davien
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Heard from others that the last arena is now worldwide rankings? Will this be so from now on? Everyone seems to be seeing the same leaderboard.
Also what’s with the prize for 3-10% for the new arenas ? Just 175 4* shards while 1-2% gets 500 shards.. difference ain’t fair isn’t it? Hope you close some of that gap kabam. Don’t expect players to farm this much points just for 175 shards. Why not break it further to 3-4%, 5-6% etc like how you do with crystal bounty?
Also what’s with the prize for 3-10% for the new arenas ? Just 175 4* shards while 1-2% gets 500 shards.. difference ain’t fair isn’t it? Hope you close some of that gap kabam. Don’t expect players to farm this much points just for 175 shards. Why not break it further to 3-4%, 5-6% etc like how you do with crystal bounty?
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Just to be clear, I'm going to play the minimum serie to get the step rewards 'cause I feel violated by the ridiculousness of your rank rewards
@Kabam Miike
Now that it’s back to global I’m not [Removed by Moderation] lol. I’m in Asia so global will definitely help me compete.
Just not happy with the rewards for the new arena. Nice to see milestones making a comeback though.
While i see your point, it's not entirely accurate.
There are 3 special arenas this week. If you were to place top 1-2% in each, you'd get 1500 4* shards. It's not that far off from the regular crystal bounty.
Since they are 48hrs, logic dictates you'd also need twice as many points to hit the same prize bracket. This should come as no surprise.
I also don't think this is replacing the crystal bounty, this is a bonus to the players if I'm not mistaken?
So, all the shards here are in addition to what we will get when crystal bounty rolls around again.
Assuming that's correct, I don't really see the payouts as a problem. Just don't participate if you think it's a waste of time. Problem solved.
For the Asia players this is great and yes milestones are nice to see.
Regardless, the current prizes are a joke. It’s all very well leaving the boundaries as they were before, but setting the prizes so low compared to everything else is just stupid. It probably pays as well to spend all day raiding and collect the 2* bots and forge them - you’d probably get more 4* shards that way than from the arena, and with a lot less effort involved!
This raised concern the moment I saw the reluctance to give further infoon this arena. This is the pattern when they introduced Sig Arena and not saying a thing about taking out a Xtal bounty. You see the 2* raid event has been detailed but nothing is said about this 2 day Arena then there might be a problem. Now there is.
thanks.. decided not to invest more time into it.. will just aim for 3%. Points requirements will keep increasing anyway.
I've used the crystal bounty to figure how the rewards are poor. I understand this week are not to replace crystal bounty..but just to remember you something, the first time new bot was available for 5 weeks the 5th weeks we had 7 days of crystal bounty + special mission with scout bumblebee. The next was the shark week where, with always 1-2% and couple of daily raid I have opened 4x 4* shark crystal. This month we have 2* bots in raid and a possible 1500 shards for a week of arenas..So, yeah its a bonus but imho its also a massive step back
don't forget that these arenas have better milestones as well - a decent amount of energon
On the other hand the combining of regions is interesting and for the 1-2% and below appears to be an improvement overall. ~1.1mil in a day wouldn't get you 1-2% in any good arena (i.e. not raider) in the NA region. It would be interesting to see the results from a regionless crystal bounty to get a better idea.
I suspect it has more to do with the milestones (imagine that!) than the globalization of the arena. People who skip arena as not worth it are coming back for the energon and arena crystals.
I feel bad for the folks who got top 30 and then pulled a 3 star bot.
Just play to max out milestone rewards and call it a day. I might spend an hour in arena and still get either 3-10% or 11-25% and still get to keep my sanity.
The rewards below top 30 are not worth the time it takes to get them. But, on a positive note, I do like milestones! And the raid store items including the forge fodder is much appriciated.
Depends which region you were in. If regions top weren't similar it will hurt some and be a benefit to others. This is a good example of why splitting a game based off of physical regions isn't fair.
(The positive bit for me : I'll have some rest, not even trying to reach / stay in top 10 for the most played arenas)
I'm pretty sure we are going back to regional arena after this event end