Why dropping the 10 gold for 3 wins is a bad idea...

[hollow patio]

I understand 1939 is doing this to help maintain the gold economy, but it makes for less incentive to play

Personally, if I'm close to getting the 300 gold necessary for an Officer's pack, I'll extend my playing session, knowing a few wins will get me to my target. I'm sure it's the same for those getting close to a Base pack (100 gold). If I'm not close, I'll end my session early to wait for the 50 gold 1st win to reset the next day. Getting rid of the 10 gold for 3 wins, will definitely cut down on players playing the game, hence longer wait times.

Instead of scrapping it entirely, how about a compromise of either:

10 gold for only the FIRST 3 wins of the day (nothing after)
OR
10 gold for every 5 wins (instead of 3 wins)

It's just nice to have some incentive to keep playing beyond the 1st win (skirmish is messed up for this same reason as well)
If preserving the economy is important, I'd be all for removing the free card for visiting the Shop (seems unnecessary)

[unique sigil]

10 gold for three wins is so little that it's ridiculous that we're even having this discussion. It's like 1939 saying "this breadcrumb you can occasionally have is too much, we're taking it away. Also, we're raising the prices". Do they think exploitation vibes will make them into a corporation?

[lyric lion]

I’m sure that the 10 gold over 3 games has been looked at as across the board, something like 10k+ players daily, avg wins of 6 wins or something, 20 gold = 200k+ gold handed out daily. Include the first win of the day, missions, and nation rewards, and that’s a lot of scratch to miss out on. Million+ gold a week and I don’t blame 1939 for changing what they can. I completely agree that a replacement to incentivize playing for wins is a really good idea, even necessary

[unique sigil]

You're thinking about gold like it's a precious natural resource that might run out one day, while in fact it's numbers in a database and pixels on the screen.

What is each of those 10k+ players gonna do with 20 gold? Buy 80 officer's packs? Get a fucking full collection suddenly?

[lyric lion]

I understand the company’s reasons to tighten up their gold handouts, as that is potential revenue. That’s all I’ve tried to say.

[winter goblet]

I'm not spending irl money to compensate, I'm just gonna play less though

[gilded pike]

Yeah, I'd be with jzavitz if I didn't already not care. I'm going to continue playing the decks that I enjoy playing. If I stop enjoying the game, I stop playing.

But the more they try and turn this into a skinner box, the more likely I'll be to just walk away. If I'm not enjoying the matches, I won't play, reward or no reward

[winter goblet]

yeah i dont expect them to cater to f2p people, they gotta make a profit somehow

but at the same time dont expect me to stick around if the game is too grindy

people like me leaving increases queue times at least

[hollow patio]

Another idea would be diminishing returns. 10 gold for 1st 3 wins of the day. Then for 4 wins, then 5 wins, etc. It would still help economy while incentivizing longer play sessions (although limited)

[icy moss]

Seems fun. I only need 1289 wins for my next 10 gold

[hollow patio]

I would reset every day of course 😀

[quartz cedar]

with the mission + the daily victory award + progression bonus you can rather quickly make some budget deck but yeah having the whole collection can take a lot of time (i played the game since a year and a half and have 80 % of all the card)

for me the crate mechanics need to be redesign

[ebon oar]

Spoken like a true representative for the company. Or, possibly a 1939 chatBot!👎

[lyric lion]

Thanks for the hate

[ebon oar]

Thanks for taking the the side of a company that is making millions but constantly keeps changing the game payment mechanics for their own greed. You must work for them.

[lyric lion]

I miss the gold too but as I said I understand why a company would make that decision. I also said that there should be be a replacement incentive.

[half mantle]

It’s not like gold can be traded between players so the total amount handed out is irrelevant.

Also this is a digital card game. I like to play it when I have a couple spare minutes but not a couple hours to play a larger game. Making it grindier just makes it more frustrating.

If I can get some more gold as a reward for wins that makes the game more fun and in the grand scheme of things doesn’t hurt the company.

[silk mica]

Lets not kid ourselves saying 1939 is making buckets of money here

[ebon oar]

How many spam-bots can pile on top of me regarding my comments with 1939 being stingy with their game gold? Do spam-bots always get the last word? (let's see what happens to this post)

[silk mica]

note that i never said that i disagreed with the suggestion, you should understand that.
its just very obvious to literally anyone that 1939 is not exactly a multimillion dollar company. its an indie studio with a couple devs working on the game. im pretty sure that money is likely the major reason they launched the mobile thing in the first place

not sure about your idea of botting though, i dont think ive seen any discord botting more sophisticated than spamming one message lmao

[woeful swift]

You were correct, the spam bot got the last word

[ruby zephyr]

lmao y'all toxic af

[lyric lion]

What the angry reactive don’t get is that understanding why the decision was made and accepting it isn’t the same as supporting it. I think the game would benefit from more gold rewards and longer play sessions but unlimited 3 win gold was a generous but poor business decision

[half mantle]

The unlimited three gold didn’t feel like that much of a boon. I wasn’t raking in crazy amounts of money but it was enough to encourage a few more games. Officer pack is 330 gold, A daily is 50 and first win is twenty I think. So you can easy get 70. So then assuming you win every game you would need to win 87 sets of three games. (I might have done that math wrong). For one officer pack which sometimes doesn’t even drop stuff you want.