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Dear Wizards

So far the battle pass has exceeded all my expectations. I was expecting it to stay in it's initial form and I was pesimistic as f**k that it would be a shitty exploitative product but the change from daily to weekly xp rewards led to me purchasing it immediatley and I haven't regeretted it for a second.

I do have a request though. In the final weeks of the battle pass please give us a repeatable way to grind out xp. It doesn't need to be much, but giving us the ability to achieve the final few levels we might have missed for whatever reason (life happens and sometimes as much as you want to play you just can't). It would feel really shitty to go so far with the pass and only just miss out on the rewards we've been eying off since the pass first came out.

Thankyou in advance WotC, I've seen you take in fan feedback in really great ways with Arena, please help us out by continuing to that so we can all help make this great game amazing.

A long time and now thankfully less jaded Magic player

  • Wizards Jay
    Posted 6 years, 4 months ago (Source)

    Hey Jay! A bit of constructive criticism, I feel like some of the rewards in the premium pass aren't exciting enough... particulary ones that hand out 6-mana PW's that are basically unplayable, even considering it's one of the very few ways to obtain them. I'd like to suggest adding some Rare/Mythic Wildcards in the mix for the upcoming pass, it could even replace the random Mythic card drop... though I'm afraid Eldrain pass content is probably already decided, but hopefully in the future :) Also, unrelated, I would love to see Wildcards for styles someday, so I can get the style I want instead of earning styles for cards I'm never going to use. Cheers and keep up the good work my man!

    Thanks for the thoughts. On the 6-mana planeswalkers (from the planeswalker decks), we didn’t think of those as a big reward, just a nice extra thing to throw in to fill out players M20 collections. In retrospect, I wish that was more clear in the presentation. I’ll think on the other suggestions.

  • Wizards Jay
    Posted 6 years, 4 months ago (Source)

    Wow, thanks for the reply! I've got to say I'm pretty blown away that a game I've been playing for 20+ years has someone who listened to my feedback. Keep up the good work and pushing for what the players are asking for. I know it can't be easy trying to advocate for the community when people (like me sometimes if I'm honest) are giving you hell, but you've done right my me and I appreciate it a lot.

    I've been playing for 20+ years myself, and, as someone with a pretty busy job, Arena has made it much easier for me to play the game I love. So you can imagine I'm pretty motivated make sure it stays great. Keep up the feedback (even if it sometimes means giving us hell). We honestly are always trying to do right by you and all the players, and it's helpful to hear where we are (and aren't) getting that right.

  • Wizards Jay
    Posted 6 years, 4 months ago (Source)

    by refreshing the quest you mean giving us 3 new ones or getting a new one and losing any uncompleted quest over the new one?

    Refilling back up to 3, keeping any progress on existing quests.

  • Wizards Jay
    Posted 6 years, 4 months ago (Source)

    Will be still 15 levels given out via codes/events as promised? :) thanks for the answer

    You'll be able to get the 15 levels we mentioned through events and codes, yes. By my math we've got 9 out currently (2 codes for 2 levels each, 5 through the Planecation events). There's more coming too.

  • Wizards Jay
    Posted 6 years, 4 months ago (Source)

    Regarding this quote from the July 10, 2019 update:

    As previously announced, we will remove the level purchase button at the end of this month. After hearing player feedback, we are looking at ways to let people who want to purchase levels to still do so somewhere. But this will be surfaced in a natural and not "in your face" way.

    Is that going to happen during the Core 2020 season? I knew that gems-for-XP is contentious, but (much like OP's suggestion) it seems like a safety valve to prevent frustration for people who are just barely short of a desired reward at the end of the season.

    If you've purchased the Mastery Pass, you can click on any level you haven't gotten to yet to purchase your way to it. As we've said, this isn't the way we intend players to get their levels, and we'll be providing several options for players to earn the XP they're missing. But if this is the right answer for you, it's available now.

  • Wizards Jay
    Posted 6 years, 4 months ago (Source)

    quick question, can mastery orbs be saved for future sets or they must be spent on m20?

    Mastery Orbs earned in M20 are only for that Mastery Pass. If you have unspent orbs for M20, the pass will stick around for you to be able to slot them in until the ELD pass ends.

  • Wizards Jay
    Posted 6 years, 4 months ago (Source)

    What's the final day for this battlepass?

    You can earn M20 progress until early in the morning on 9/26; it ends just before the Eldraine pass begins. Also, when the the new pass starts we'll be fully refreshing all your quests and weekly wins, so you can start the new pass with a fresh slate.

  • Wizards Jay
    Posted 6 years, 4 months ago (Source)

    Glad you're enjoying it! We definitely keep an eye on player feedback (wherever it's given). On your request for a grindable XP event, well, we'll see what happens there.

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