Hi I'm Kam. Ily.

Kabam: The Gifting Event is too much. We're removing it. Also Kabam:

Magus spent about 140k USD to get ONE 6 * R5 during Greater Banquet event. Let that set in.

I think the most diabolical part of this is that it's the most competitive month ever for the highest level of players in battlegrounds. The top players will be going to Vancouver and if you're trying to compete in that buying all of these is mandatory.

Like the co-host of KT1 live said, you can do nothing in the game, spend for this event, and have double or triple the number of R5’s of player grinding in the most competitive fields of the game.

Yo! haven't played the game in a year. Today I logged in for 5 min, spent 4k units I had saved, and got Paragon! EZPZ Great Event!

The only balance Kabam cares about is their own bank balance; summoners be damned.

Next month. July 30th marks my 8th Year Anniversary of playing this game. So what I am tryna get at is "8" years of playing going down the drain by a single 1 WEEK EVENT. This is really beyond imagination. Like my little tiny brain can't comprehend it, it really can't. Being a F2P sure getting 36k units for at least the unit offers is possible but does Kabam have any idea how long it takes to get 36k units just by grinding arena... Not to mention we also need units for Cyber Weekend, and Gifting event. Getting enough units by grinding arena as a F2P to max out on all these unit offers really is impossible unless you have no life and grind 16hrs a day ( Or you're an arena bot) Anyway let's say you do manage to max out in all of these big even offers... but what's the point? Grinding and grinding for an entire year just to get 10% of what spenders are able to get? This is hilarious. Then again, not blaming the spenders, that's totally cool. The ones to blame obviously are Kabam. There is just no point at playing this game anymore, there really isnt. Im a very competitive BGs player and thats the main reason i continue to playing this game. But there is not anymore, i cant keep up, simple. How am i supposed to keep up as a F2P with only 3 r5 when i go against players with almost a full deck of r5s&7* r2s? You cant. Anyway that was a long tangent but this event really pissed the hell out of me. Thanks to anyone who sat through all this and read it.

This really is a sign of a game in the twilight years. Trying to get what they can from it with what is left.

Let me help. The is just a game. It is for WASTING time. There is no such thing as using your time productively here.

Great video Brian. I was thinking about this too. It's weird to think that years back I stuggled for days agaist that Jugs in one of the early quests and now its a 1 to 3 punch, over and out for a roster you start today. When a 4 star was you best champ in the day the world was different. More interesting for sure......

The irony is the limit wasn't for "balencing" but stopping those who often spend money on the game just loading up on units during these events with extra value. Now, you load up on units, but you won't be needing them as much as you usually do as these offers push you so far ahead that you may need as much as you usually would do so. TLDR: kabam is Cannibalizing themselves for massive short-term gains but a Stagnant future

This was a predictable response, we get it, you have issues with people being able to buy what you worked for…if you get bummed out because others buy what you’ve played thru the game for, then I’d say you’re motivation for playing is off.

I’m watching this while I buy every offer. 😂

In economics terms, MCoC has become a hyperinflationary environment. Not unlike the real world.

Let me start by saying I agree with most of your points. The only question I have is, who are these imaginary people that you think just pick up the game and become paragon in a week?? Am I wrong? I thought progression is how you get higher offers. I understand the issue but I think the feeling of your hard work being undervalued isn't the correct focal point. The game might be easy to some but there are still many people that struggle regardless of the champs they acquire. If some one is willing to drop hundreds and then a thousand or so dollars on revives, energy, and other in game items to blast through the content to reach the same point THEN but all these deals, so be it loll. I hate that it takes away balance amongst people of the same levels but its a company that needs money and they will get it. Overall I like this point of view and don't want to come off confrontational. I wish everyone the happiest of holidays and enjoy the game however you deem fit :)

This game is dead, I can't believe people still spend. They just had a round of layoffs, they don't care at all about the product they put out each month which is absolute trash full of bugs. They profit on the bg feature by cheating due to mods and the only way you keep your streak is to use shields you purchase so you don't lose your streak when you get matched up by a mod or by someone that completely overmatches your account. I mean how do people just keep bending over and taking it. It's insane.

I'd have to see it done to believe you can get from 0 to Paragon in 1 week.

In the first five years of this game I missed logging in once! And now I’m paragon and done most content, everything else seems just like a novel of nodes and a slog to fight. I came to the conclusion like you BG, that I can just wait til July 4th or cyber weekend deals and boost the account thru offers. There isn’t a real insentive to play much cos the rewards just become outdated so much quicker than they used to. Keep up the great content BG👍

"he could have started a new account and had a higher top-end power level, uh, within a week's time, compared to everything that he's done in the years past" Every coin has a second side. To paraphrase something from Kabam Jax: "In terms of the players 'hearing Kabam' - the players are astutely aware of Kabam's statements on aspects of their game. However, external actions will always speak louder than words in the forum; the players are constantly monitoring response in this way." New Rule: ALL* game content is now optional for End Game. * - except for Completion of Story Milestones... at least for now.

It’s ʎzɐɹɔ. The rewards for completing the (arguably) HARDEST challenges in the game, the Carina’s challenges, do not even compare to what you can get by just whaling out on these deals. And I did whale out, but I’m self aware at least 😂

We’re in the endgame now

For the love of god spend your glory please it’s maxed out and stressing me out

Chase rank up material for character , then chase shards for character, and repeat. Thats MCOC in a nutshell.

What I don’t understand sometimes, why do you even care? Let whales be whales and so your own stuff. In my Gold1 world, my normal almost F2P roster is quite okay, and I couldn’t care less about what the spenders are doing, I don’t meet them anyway. Especially for a hardcore arena grinder like BG, these deals could be seen as a reward for the effort you put in to get the unit deals. The money people can do what they like, I don’t compare myself to those endgamers

Money over everything !!

I stopped playing over a year ago and I miss it but I was getting hit with every bug plus the money grab without fixing those issues. I had almost 6 years invested but people with new accounts have better accounts is what keeps me from coming back to my original account

4 months ago, everyone around 1 mil and above account rating, ftp or not, had maximum 1 r5, now ftp has maximum 2 r5s and spenders have 20

The games life cycle is coming to an end. Kabam just wants to get as much money as they can out of it

It dose suck for FTP players. But this is a business it’s all about maximising profits. 1 whale or even 1 player buying a Odin is more important to kabam then the entire FTP player base. Remember it’s just a game do not spend unless you can afford it peeps. It’s gambling at its finest

Love your content except when deals come out. It's always the same rhetoric. You are "given" more than enough money to buy some deals like other content creators. You choose to use it for other things. Life, the game, isn't fair. We get it.

I can understand your position on this, I can see how it can make people feel after playing and time invested whilst choosing not to spend. I don't have any R5 6*s, only 3 R4s and I'm ok with that. I use to spend, not to keep up but I was enticed and could afford it at the time. Now I can't afford to do that anymore and I'm fine with that. I enjoy playing the game in a non competitive manner and enjoy it much more not spending.

It is always good to listen to this channel whenever we have this kind of event by kabam 😊

BG you are not even scratching the surface. They also stated you will be able to buy the progression below you when you max out the odins.

Mate.. i’m ftp or almost too.. Didn’t wanna click on this video cause i felt what it was all about.. Too sour of a video, enjoy game, life, they wanna earn, we don’t wanna give it to them.. we’ll never have what spenders have, nor the top allys or the top champs, unit offers which is all related.. majority of players, even some poor ones, peasants as somebody calls them save money for this period and are happy to buy.. don’t ruin it, it’s all about profit, management, there are no feelings involved.. no “oh, you are my most faithful summoner”.. business don’t work like this, it’s all business..I’m rather happy for new accounts getting to my level in months or weeks and whales buy stuff i’ll get in 6 months or less cause all that allows me to enjoy a game more than people commited to it..

After today I’ve gone from 0 rank 5’s to 3 and will go from 6 rank 4’s to 11. I’ve spent no money, I’ve just saved units. It’s been so fulfilling and I almost feel like I’ve cheated the system. Love this game

Tbh it is not about putting a r5 gem in Odin which is an issue. R5 gem in Odin is surely warranted at this point of time in game if you are paying money. The bigger issue is they made 4+1 odins available twice. So 2 kinds of odins that you can buy 5 times. That's 10 odins that you can buy. That's the major problem

It's a for profit game, so spending money will always advance more. Pay to Win.

well spoken BG, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I am likely finishing act 7 to become paragon in the next few days... I realized I could go from --> 3 r4, and a bunch of r3, to --> 3 r5, and no r4 in an instant...decided that would not feel right.

I started a new account in late February. I’m currently lvl 53 and paragon and I have 1 rank 5 6 star champ (herc), 2 7 star champs and once I have enough gold and iso I could have 10 rank 4 6* with minimum spending. I also only run map 5 and no AW and I’ve only done the initial clear of act 1-7 with only 100% act 4 and no other content except monthly SQ and some monthly EQ, So yeah it’s crazy to think how you have been playing MCOC for several years now and I have been only playing for about 5 months and basically have comparable roster as yours. This game has ruined it for anyone that is FTP.

It's not about the account it's about the friends we made along the way 😅🤔😂

This young man doubles down on “Free to Play” as a badge of honor!! I guess I have to “wake up” and take financial advice from some 30 something year old!! NOT.

The other issue is that Kabam has to keep a certain level of challenge in the game to keep people interested and they end up balancing new content toward the whales, making the experience for the rest of us worse. Those who don't spend on these deals also have to spend more in revives because they don't have as developed a roster or as high a rank for the champions. I'm almost dreading what Abyss 2.0 is going to look like. To be honest, this particular sales event with the double dipping on unit deals, the ability to buy thronebreaker deals if you max out the paragon ones, it just kinda feels like the last gasp of a dying company looking to juice as much as they can from players before they put this game on a skeleton crew and just "maintenance mode" this thing until everyone drops off.

Dang, you make a compelling point... I should buy some Odins. Your perspective is always enlightening, great video!

The egg is what makes your account special. U are probably the only person in the world with one

“What has this game become?” Just a worse version of itself. Squeezing the last bit of juice out of the whales

You should def do an account challenge would be super fun to watch

as a cav, I had exactly 3750 units. spend 750 units just to get 15k 6* shards and the nexus cav crystals. Because im f2p imma keep the rest units for christmass event which is worth more for me but, at least 1st tier for f2p is so good

The old and new units packs both equaled out to be 18k units. New one is better, tho. Bc the first 3 are still affordable if you can't get the 4th.

This is the final milking of the whales.

I remember whaling for the first time on cyber weekend, made my account crazy in context to the players that played this game since inception.

Work 8 hrs at a mcdonalds and get a rank 5 gem. Or do 8 weeks arena non stop to get the units and get the offers. These offers are awesome!

A Mircotransaction game using Microtransactions to generate short term wealth oh the shock and horror.

i think its a sign how heavy the shit to 7*s will be.

Did I hear a "NEW ACCOUNT CHALLENGE"????

making my day as always brain

I feel ascension is going to level the playing field for those with experience and time invested I've been a moderate spender just waiting for the economy to shift, it shifted

100% with you BG. This will likely be the last time I spend this way on a day like this. May retire come Cyber weekend. In saying that, I didn't exactly whale like a lot did/do at a high level. 3 Odins and a black panther was more than I wanted to spend. Looking at the steam summer sales and games I want buy, you can get so much and it's basically once a year for your gaming. MCOC wants you to spend more than this 3 times a year.. (spring cleaning, July 4th and Cyber) and then the Christmas event to top it all off. It's ridiculous amounts on a game to stay where you want to be lol. The game survived for over 8 years, perhaps half of that time not having to throw out deals like this. Does Kabam need to do this to survive? Seems like they are more than milking it now- seeing what they can get away with.

I was just commenting something like this with my alliance mates. Left the game for over a year, came back two months ago, during that time I became Parangon and grinded 12k units in arena. So today I managed to get three offers for just 12k, I never could do something like that in previous years, and what's more: In a day I pretty much got the progress of, at least, a whole year 💀 I mean I'm happy to take it, but I also see your point, so I feel like they are rushing to squeeze the profit left off 6* and rush to 7* offers and stuff. You know, the fact that their stats alter the power balance so much and there's still 4 more ranks to see, it's crazy.

Brian i’ve got your 7* raccoon hostage, give me your hulk or you will never get him.

Brian remember when people had at max a r4 the july 4 deals had around 30 t5cc selectors+some crystals, its kinda similar with this event

I agree with you, 100%. However, without the rank5 materials, there is nothing in those offers that would make me buy them. The 7 star pool is meh, the relics meh, paragon crystals are straight garbage, 6 star awakenings are not that rare anymore and at a higher level it's raining with 6 star crystals....

Some of yall are crazy...doesnt this devalue the game to you??? Ten year old mobile game on a STEADY decline FULL of bugs and people are legitimately throwing cash at this game like its a vegas...ummm... ballerina....im not gonna contine complaining about the clouds though...do you everyone. And have fun doing it!

As someone who already has 4 rk 2 7*. Hes kind of right. I basically saved all my resources and only had 2 rk 5 6*. And now i just jumped to 4 rk 2 7* like nothing. Im alreadt ahead of those who rk up so many 6* to rk 5. It is kind of stupid. Since i had so much saved up in resources. I just completely skipped over what everyone elses grind for 600$. Lol

Bro forgot his initial purpose of playing the game. The efforts, the plan, and the time spent on your own account were blessing and its own growth. It also has helped to grow your channel. Truly a marvelous thing. Even if without the channel, you should take proud of your time spent on the game to win those rewards. It should feel satisfying. It should make you feel special. Others will not have the same experience as you. They might get to where you are via monetary means (buy) but they will never get your joy from doing the contents and pushing yourself to clear out the content. So, NO! Your account is precious to you as my account is precious to me. My main aim is champion collection THEN clearing content THEN enjoying AQ/AW Cheer up man

Good example of it is seatin. Dude was not in game for like years and yesterday he whaled out and got 3 times bigger account than mine which I grinded for years (while he was not active in game) in barely seconds.

In their precursor title Underworld Empires, they had events 3 times a year. Or was it 4? Anyway, they took that concept and made it weekly for MCoC. Then twice a week. Then 3 times a week. Harnessing competition. Raking in money at a much higher rate. And look how many millions it has made them! I got off the roller coaster before I earned collected. Things cost 100x too much. Yet. So many other players stayed on. It is miraculous to me that players fail to realize... less than 1% of players stick with the game. I found out by starting new alliances with new accounts. Within 2 weeks, I was the only active player remaining. So. Either leave, or quit. I chose to restart. Over and over. I recommend players start over and play till you hit the paywall. Which is deeper in the game every year. Because Kabam wants to harvest the rare and elusive fresh whales. Thar she blows!

I completely disagree with the argument that in 1 week of playing you can have a stronger acct, you'd be very hard pushed to get paragon in a week and youd have play full time and spend a lot of money. Also to state that everything you've achieved in the game up until now was for nothing is a very sad way to look at it

MCOC is officially pay to win nobody can convince me otherwise, someone can log in once a year on july 4th and whale out and his account would be miles better than a f2p player who grinds his ass off and wastes hours upon hours of his life every single day and this is not even an exaggeration, this game has become a joke i feel bad for you BG thankfully I quit for good a year ago

What I dont get is this massive price they put on 7* shards, yet 6*s are coming in like crazy from everywhere. I was in Abeedo’s stream when the event went live and just massively disappointed to see so little of the 7* shards offered. It was very late/early morning for me in Australia, and I do believe that I have, in my weary semi-delusional state used the words “Time to pull a Brian Grant on this shit” 😂

used to buy all of them evreyyear . Nothing this year I struggle to log in to play aq and that's all I need to say no to spend

Pretty simple really. Less people have been spending money on the game lately, so they need to lure that cash flow back into their pockets. All about the money, they could care less about the consumer. Typical kabam

The game has become something I play while on the toilet.

You summed up exactly how I feel about the game. They have honestly killed it - the raTe at which they devalue your progress is stupid. Regardless of whether you are free to play or spend. Love the game but hate the commercial approach.

GOLD IS THE REASON PEOPLE ARE FREAKING STUCK. people who don’t spent NEVER have enough. i don’t think it’s too expensive to rank up champs but it is when you never have the opportunity to get enough

Lol Brian goes dark. Sad but true… Come to think of it, it feels like kabam is accelerating game progress to maximise the final cash grab before the game finally croaks it. Hmmm

I liked this event!

Are we really shocked about the offers? Games will always be catered to pay to win players. Thats why these games they stay alive for so long. A f2p player asking them not to release these levels of offers just because they’ll make their accounts look silly compared to players who bought/will buy these offers, it’s just not gonna happen. If they stop releasing these type of offers the game will shut down within a year.

I have now been in a retirement ally for 2 seasons, i barely play aq, aw is meh.. ive severely fallen out of love with the game which is shame cause ive played it for 6 years.. i dont wanna quit outright because of the time ive put in, but i dont wanna keep playing cause whats the point now that im not pushing for progress 😮‍💨

You know, Ive been thinking about stopping playing for years, but this video really makes me want to. Picking up catalysts or 6* generic AGs just isn’t exciting. Even if I quit, I wont miss anything that I cant regain very quickly

I've been grinding my butt off to get Paragon, but since I don't have time for AW or AQ, I'm limited to story and event quests to try for my three rank 4s. Seeing stuff like this is so discouraging. This isn't stuff like Abyss where I'll probably never clear it but presumably could; this is an entire event I literally can't participate in because I don't grind arena or spend ludicrous sums of money. And I just get to watch everyone else's numbers go up.

Sound likes kabam wants to milk everyone and shut down the shop 😂

I feel ya brother. I suppose it’s about the journey and the people not the # of r5 or trophy champs.

Welcome to the sunk cost falacy, you have invested too much in the past that you are unwilling to walk away from so you keep spending time/money even though it stopped being worth it a long time ago.

cant wait for the new account challenge

Been waiting for this post

The problem would be getting all the iso to rank up all of the champs imo

100% facts BG! Great video btw👊🏾

Hated to see all this but did pick up 3 of the $29.99 deals vs any Odens. Felt it was better to have multiple new rank 4 6*’s for my account.

Didn't r5 5* resources explode when 6* came out and ppl could r2 6* kinda feel like this is the same thing but x10 😅😊

BG once again showing that he is the master of pessimism...

Im with you brian seems like all the other youtubers are praising these offers but i think its by far the worst 4th of july event weve ever had

if you think this is too much i was cavalier all cavaliers got thronebreaker offers before yestrday i haved 7 6 star champs 3 of them rank 2 and 275 7 star shards after yestrday i spent abouth 500 $ not really proud of that but anyway now i have 17 6 stars i got abouth 10 rank 2 to rank 3 gems abouth 5 rank 3 to rank 4 gems abouth 7 6 star aweakening gems a 7 star champion plus 4000 shards not only that most of the 6 star i could almost hand picked the best champs only missed out on kingping besides that have strongest champ in every class and second best didnt expect this at all in 2 days from scrathing for 2% tier 5 class to full tier 5s being almost worthless to me. I expected to get maybe 20% of the staff i got yestrday

i think we would all agreee to see you on steroids and go in to the the next seasons with a spending account

Iv been f2p sense 2014 when the game came out and I genuinely love the game but it stinks of greed from revive nerf saying it would make content to easy but then everyone being able to double what iv done in the game in a day for the price of money which then is totally fine😕iv currently got two rank fours and can’t even hit paragon because resources are so outdated and now I can’t even progress in battle grounds being diamond 3 to get the extra rewards they added because war is down with everyone having such stacked accounts and so many rank 5s kicking my butt I can’t stress enough how it is a holiday but only for whales feeling like us other players don’t even exist not even a login calendar or some kind of special event for us to do so Appreciate you for the video and speaking for us players

Sad truth Kabam does not care. Something feels weird. Like to milk the last bit out of some thing? There has been a steady progression to more spending, but it looks like it’s been jacked up by 10 the last year. In the fact that they are not trying to fix gameplay in the least. It’s just steadily getting worse, and they are laying employees off. Some thing seems amiss?

I grinded so much to just get to paragon last year. Now are these deals broken. I had 2 rank 5s prior to this.

@5:10 the knowledge of RPGs and RnG is not irrelevant, hence why YOU BG, could make an account and be number 1 in a week :) my 2,000 pvps to max my 2 star sigs was worth it

kabam knew that with an upcoming in person tourney more and more people would want to be playing at the higher echelon, and would pay to get there.

You can really feel the pain in his reactions here ...