Final blow to TC20 heroes

[yelnats_24]

@Hello333

Your classic 5 stars can still beat rare quest, challenge event, class event and the introduction of costumes does not change that even if you don’t have a single costume.

You don’t even need 5☆ for that… I previously complete class event and rare quest with non-emblemed 3☆ and I can complete hard atlantis, seasonal event, and legendary challenge event with 4☆ heroes.

What will be changed is tournament. From what I have seen, 3☆ with costume bonus have 20 more TP that without costume bonus, that means the highest powered defense in 3☆ tournament will be increased by almost 100. If today the hardest opponent in 3☆ tournament have 2900 TP, few weeks later, it will be 3000TP. It doesn’t matter how many players have that 3000 TP, even one player is enough to increase that upper limit (he/she will get attacked 1000 times/day). That is how tournament matchmaking works.

@LadySuzanne

but how many of the ‘whales’ that many blame for ruining this game

I don’t see this debate as whale vs F2P.
Anyway, this thread is pitting whale and F2P against each other:

Don't like the whales - don't be a krill

With every new feature I see the same two complaints: It’s just another way to line SG’s pockets. The whales will continue to get stronger and leave the rest of us behind. In response to number one: if I had a business absolutely I would want it to make as much money as possible to pay my bills and continue to provide a quality product that makes some kind of positive difference in the world. Number two there will always be whales and once again if I had a business keeping the whales happy w…

@LadySuzanne

It appears everyone get at least 1 free pull a month. This is F2P, P2P and everyone in between. That’s fair. What wouldn’t be fair is not giving the F2P crowd any free chance at getting a costume. That would be completely P2P.

This conclude that this new feature is not directed towards F2P. If the feature is for F2P, they would have made a building that can produce costume or at least make it available randomly whether via chest or random rare monsters.

Challenge coins is an example of great addition for F2P.

Don’t get me wrong, I never ask for this feature, I don’t mind if it is not directed towards F2P. I hope that the feature is great for F2P but as it is not, don’t label it as more beneficial for F2P, it seems to be more of C2P materials not F2P or P2W. Honestly I hope this feature never exist in the first place.

@SuuriKoira

How it is ever possible even to assume that free players can compete with those who spend money.

I think we should define what is “compete”. If compete is winning an Alliance War, I think SG have done a great job with the matchmaking as we are matched with similiar level, just as @DoctorStrange say:

@DoctorStrange

Wars are matched based on your whole alliance contribution and to just sit there and blame power creep and emblems for losses is just not true.

If compete is entering top 1% in tournament, then as of now F2P can still compete because I often sneak into top 1%.

If compete is top 10 on challenge event, then I agree with you. I am not insane enough to compete in that as F2P.

@FrenziedEye

Certainly not me. That’s ridiculous. I want to grind for my costumes. Gems aside, I want to work hard for them! As it is there’s little opportunity to grind for keys.

True, what I want is a way to grind it, not free. But the term used in this thread seems to categorize grind as free.

We got 5 keys from our mailbox, that is free.
We got 6 keys from quest, is this grind or free?

@TomSnow

If spenders won’t waste gems on costumes and F2P don’t have many gems, who is this feature for then?

Misguided feature?

@Didnt-Get-A-Massage

How can a F2P player hate on someone spending money

Why do everyone is saying F2P hating whales???
This is misleading!!!

This thread is not for bashing big spenders, ask the OP.

@Sidhekin

… so why keep playing?

Hope.