sinsolena said:
Hrmm, you play the game for long enough to know how their events work.
I am not saying they played it fair, or nice...
As far as your suggestions that people should have saved up, you do realize that Centurion's cost was the equivalent of multiple sacred shards, right? A person would have had to have saved for months upon months of shards in order to have enough without having to buy their way to Centurion.
And not too far back prior to centurion, maybe a month or so if that, there was another "buy shards" event, where the top reward cost 6 sacred shards as well. Considering non-paying players can only get 1 sacred shard per month (outside of other in-game rewards from missions, etc.), it is not possible for them to regularly participate like you're suggesting without buying shards.
I agree that a lot of people don't conserve, but at the same time, opening shards should not BE an event to begin with. The events would be more aptly named "buy shards and win" event, because that is what it is all about. It would make far more sense for Plarium to just flat out tell people to spend x money on shards and they will give them y in rewards. That's all it is.
But anyway, when people still need certain champions, which most players do, it is ridiculously boring waiting weeks upon weeks to open shards and then HOPE you chose the right event to open them for and don't fall short on a better one down the road. While I am sitting on shards at this time for the next "buy shards" event, it just makes the game less enjoyable. But again, you already know this. My point is simply that they have such a lack of content that they are doing things to hurt their customer base rather than help it.
And again, they made the first Foli fusion champion in the "buy shards" event prior to that ridiculously easy to obtain. It was a systematically planned scam on their part. For you to put ANY of the blame on the players is just wrong imo. Plarium tried to scam them, some were foolish enough to waste a ton of money on an app for Foli, but most knew better. In the process, Plarium chased away a TON of players.
Several people who were regularly making content on YouTube and other social media for Raid stopped after that, making it clear that they no longer support Plarium after what they did. I knew of a few others who were making content along with me on YouTube prior to the situation. I only know of one other player now off the top of my head that still continues making content. Meanwhile, I know three who stopped. Two made final videos flat out saying they no longer support such a "corrupt" and "greedy" organization. The third simply posted a few times in prior videos that he will not make any more video content for Raid because of their actions.
In my decades of playing games, I have never seen a company do something so underhanded, nor did I ever see a company receive such a severe backlash and player drop-off. I can only hope that they learned from it to not bite the hands that feed them. Only time will tell...
They really, REALLY screwed up bad, and the worst part is that they never even had the decency to admit it and apologize to their player base.