
Top Up Reward NERF Broke the Progression Economy
The issue isn’t just “less rewards.”
Top Up weekly coin rewards were reduced by around 80-95%.
Example:
10000 Top Up Points used to give around 50000 Coins. Now it gives only 4000 Coins.
Meanwhile:
- Upgrade costs remain the same
- Duplicate requirements remain the same
- New tiers continue releasing rapidly
This effectively increases the cost of upgrading cards.
Players now risk not even fully maxing current tier cards before the next tier replaces them.
As a result, many players will stop investing resources into current cards because they know those cards will soon become obsolete.
This change won’t suddenly make F2P players spend more.
It only kills whales’ motivation to keep spending.