[2020] The battle pass xp per level is somewhat absurd. w/ math

Originally posted by veranthe

I really hope there is a cap to the xp needed for each tier at a certain point. If it constantly goes up by 1000 each level that's just insane. Other games have battle passes that are actually possible to complete without investing 500 hours a week to do. People have lives outside the game, why do they expect us to play so much nonstop after we already paid for it?
Same issue goes with League of Legends, the passes are just insane amounts of grind.

Originally posted by RiotSWAGGERNAU7

Hijacking the top comment for visibility. TLDR: The battlepass will take ~100 hours to complete.

Weekly XP's also scale up in every week to smooth out the experience curves. Just to give you an idea, the first set of weeklies offer 28,350 total XP and the last set of weeklies offer 60,750 total XP. This will help make sure that you're still able to progress through levels at a healthy clip towards the tail end of a battle pass (rather than just stalling out at the later levels).

Originally posted by Swiperrr

They nerfed the amount of xp you got in beta from challenges per week from 70k to 56k. If anyone has played league they'll know what riot has been really bad about their pass system, more recently they've been constantly reducing the time or rewards for it while keeping the price the same. This game also still has a huge problem with how you unlock characters since there's no way to farm for them inbetween releases.

Edit: According to riot the weekly xp will scale each week resulting in more total xp over the 2 months than what you could get from 2 months of challenges in the closed beta. Additionally they'll not expire till the end of the act.

Originally posted by AndThatIsWhyIDrink

We told them in the beta their timescales for level ups were absurd and they just went ahead and did exactly the same thing for the battlepass. Whoever is making these decisions on XP timescales needs to hand that job over to someone else in Riot because their judgement is f**king terrible and they seem intent on making the same mistake over and over.

Originally posted by Gimmedatsuccc

My mans just provided quick mafs for how it’s almost undoable for any average player to complete the battle pass. Why pay for it if I can’t even finish it and get the good stuff? People will still buy just make the right XP requirement changes

Originally posted by LemonyPickle

I appreciate the response, but can you comment on the absurd amount of XP needed to level up the battle pass? Based of the OP's calculations, you would need to be playing this game non stop to max it out AND you do not earn back currency with leveling up the pass. I am loving the game so far and considering buying points and the pass, but this XP problem is concerning.

Originally posted by T_Salesman

This. I've completed my first set 3 times but keeps resetting... u/RiotSWAGGERNAU7

Originally posted by ludwigericsson

Will you be able to reward missed XP/skins and character unlocks retroactively?

Originally posted by AndThatIsWhyIDrink

Not your jobs. The task itself as I said to this guy earlier. It wasn't supposed to imply losing a job over a dumb misjudgement. It could perhaps have been worded better.

This is the same mistake Apex made with its Battlepass pacing and was lightened drastically in later seasons. In season 1 they lightened the load with big bonus weeks of double exp in order to bridge people over the gap.

In essence the thing with these Battle Pass features I enjoy is getting something to work on and progress towards, but not when its outcome is going to never happen. Paying for something you won't get usually only happens on a Battle Pass that has been poorly designed and, right now, without extra ways to earn points, that's where this is at for anyone that actually has to work or has a family.

Originally posted by FocuDengel

Thank you guys for being so active on the sub! any chance you guys are gonna change the time for the dailys? in EU theyre available from (what ive seen) 10PM until 10AM, Im asleep / at work at those times, wouldnt it make more sense to move the availability of those to the afternoon / evening?