A few days ago, I wrote a post, sharing how I'm done playing Survival with the state that it currently is. And unless the things that were making it difficult for me to play the mode, such as the super-long matchmaking time and the max-level liquidity bots at the earliest rating, were fixed or mitigated, I don't think that I will want to play Survival again. Playing Modern Format alone is already taking too much time, and Survival makes that 2-3x longer, which any decent human with a 9-to-5 job will find playing difficult to make sense of, unless they were using a bot or had a scholar play it.
The team says that they were working on those things, and starting the next season, they will be adding rewards to Survival Mode. What are the rewards they will be adding? Will the rewards be enough for me to want to play? I will try to answer that in this post.
Survival Rewards
Next season will be the 4th season since Survival has been restarted, and they will be bringing a major update by adding rewards to the mode, following what was written in the SPS Proposal, which states that starting Season 4, SPS rewards will be replaced by non-SPS incentives to maintain player participation during the development phase, and for this season, they will be giving Glint as the main incentive, along with a Glint tournament & Champions Cup.
There will be a total of 40,000,000 Glint thaw will be distributed for Survival, with each Bracket receiving a fixed seasonal allocation. The Core reward system used in the previous seasons will still remain, where rewards will be based on the Rshare contribution that a player gets when playing their chosen bracket. Since I usually play at Bracket 5, that will be a 3.6M Glint pool where I will be getting my share.
| Bracket | % | Glint |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1% | 400,000 |
| 2 | 2% | 800,000 |
| 3 | 3% | 1,200,000 |
| 4 | 3% | 1,200,000 |
| 5 | 9% | 3,600,000 |
| 6 | 12% | 4,800,000 |
| 7 | 3% | 1,200,000 |
| 8 | 5% | 2,000,000 |
| 9 | 5% | 2,000,000 |
| 10 | 42% | 16,800,000 |
| 11 | 15% | 6,000,000 |
Aside from getting Glint from playing winning Survival battles, Players can also get Glint if they manage to be in the leaderboard in their respective Brackets.
| Rank | B - 1 | B - 2, 7 | B - 3, 8 | B - 4, 9 | B - 5, 11 | B - 6, 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 25,000 | 50,000 | 100,000 | 125,000 | 250,000 | 500,000 |
| #2 | 20,000 | 40,000 | 62,500 | 100,000 | 200,000 | 375,000 |
| #3 | 15,000 | 30,000 | 50,000 | 75,000 | 150,000 | 250,000 |
| #4 - #10 | 10,000 | 25,000 | 40,000 | 50,000 | 100,000 | 175,000 |
| #11 - #25 | 7,500 | 15,000 | 30,000 | 40,000 | 75,000 | 125,000 |
| #26 - #50 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 30,000 | 50,000 | 75,000 |
| #51 - #75 | 4,000 | 7,500 | 10,000 | 17,500 | 25,000 | 50,000 |
| #76 - #100 | 3,000 | 5,000 | 6,000 | 10,000 | 12,500 | 25,000 |
| #101 - #150 | 2,000 | 4,000 | 5,000 | 7,500 | 10,000 | 15,000 |
| #151 - #250 | 1,500 | 2,500 | 4,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
There will be up to 250 leaderboard spots that will receive Glint rewards, but that is if they can manage to play at least 100 matches. I have no problem with having a minimum number of matches since that was there to prevent exploits, but it really comes down to whether the team can reduce the time needed to play those matches, and what I mean by that is for them to make matchmaking faster.
After that, the top 25 players of each Bracket will receive a Glint Tournament Token. This will allow them to enter a Seasonal Championship Cup that will run for 2 days after the season ends. It does not state whether the tournament will be a Ghost card tournament, but I guess it will be because players of the lower bracket will be at a disadvantage if they play against max-level decks. The Tournament Token will be a single-use ticket that will be burned after the event. It also can't be transferred or traded.
The general rules of the Tournament state that there will be only one entry per human or household, and no bots or automation tools are allowed. The one entry per household makes me giggle a little. I do not know if it's referring to the Soulkeep where they used to be a player claiming that he was not multi-accounting, and the other accounts were played by his family members.
For Scholars playing multiple accounts, I think they can only enter 1 account, so they need to choose which of the accounts they play to enter the tournament. I just don't know how the team will do the distribution of the Token if that's the case.
Survival Bonus Card
Aside from Glint, the team will also be including a new collectible card as a reward. To get this, each player needs to play at least 100 battles with at least 50% win rate. And if a player managed to get to the leadearbord, they can also get additional copies of the card, depending on their bracket and placing.
| Rank | B - 1 | B - 2, 7 | B - 3, 8 | B - 4, 9 | B - 5, 11 | B - 6, 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| #2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
| #3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| #4 - #10 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| #11 - #25 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| #26 - #50 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| #51 - #75 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| #76 - #100 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| #101 - #150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| #151 - #250 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
There will also be a Fortune Draw bonus. By winning at least 25 matches, a player gets 25 ranked fortune draws. It was not clear though if a player will get fortune draws for every 50 wins they have.
Closing
I was fine with SPS rewards being replaced with Glint and cards. Survival for me is like playing extra battle if I ever finish playing modern early and still itching to have some battles. I might still play it, even if I fail to reached the minimum threshold for Leaderboard and Bonus card. But that will be after they make matchmaking smoother and the liquidity bot more balanced. I will probably play a few battles next season, but that is just to observed if my concerns were addressed.
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