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I don't entirely understand the question here.
We consistently release new Champions to the 7 Star pool in various ways.

There are 8 new 7 Star Champions coming in August -

Are you wanting us to just mass drop every 7 Star into the pool all at once?

Quote a simple question really. What’s stopping you from increasing the release cadence of champions not available as 7*’s?

We’re already at the rank 4 progression of 7* and there’s a lot of champions not released in the highest rarity. At the pace we’re on we’ll be moving towards 8* before the full champion pool has been released as 7*’s.

That's exactly how it was with 6* though. We had a ton of 5* left behind for a long time.

It was obviously a few years ago now, but I don’t recall the release cadence being anywhere near as slow as it is for 7*’s currently.

There's a reason for it that Mike already stated. If they give us all champs in-game as 7* right now, what exactly would there be to look forward to? Also, how would you rank any of them up? There's a reason the game drip feeds you champs and rank up resources. You'd play for a month tops, get bored and delete the game. That's basically a console version of mortal kombat.

This thread isn’t asking for all champs to be released in one go. It’s questioning why certain champs who don’t particularly need a tune up or buff aren’t being released.

Its literally why though. They are spacing them out. Not that hard to understand.

Because the pace we’re on it will take another 2/3 years to see some of these champs…

Which fits right in with when 8* will probably start to be seen. That's part of the entire timeliness of how often they release old champs at the new higher rarity. Its all connected. They have all this timed out in advance. They know the lifecycle.

We obviously disagree on kabams approach.

7* were released in May 2023, so over 2 years ago. Waiting another 3 years, (or 5 years in total) for all 6* champions to be added to the 7* pool would be questionable to me.

At that point there’s literally no point in releasing them, because as others have said earlier, they’d be completely out of date.

I don't entirely understand the question here.
We consistently release new Champions to the 7 Star pool in various ways.

There are 8 new 7 Star Champions coming in August -

Are you wanting us to just mass drop every 7 Star into the pool all at once?

Quote a simple question really. What’s stopping you from increasing the release cadence of champions not available as 7*’s?

We’re already at the rank 4 progression of 7* and there’s a lot of champions not released in the highest rarity. At the pace we’re on we’ll be moving towards 8* before the full champion pool has been released as 7*’s.

That's exactly how it was with 6* though. We had a ton of 5* left behind for a long time.

It was obviously a few years ago now, but I don’t recall the release cadence being anywhere near as slow as it is for 7*’s currently.

There's a reason for it that Mike already stated. If they give us all champs in-game as 7* right now, what exactly would there be to look forward to? Also, how would you rank any of them up? There's a reason the game drip feeds you champs and rank up resources. You'd play for a month tops, get bored and delete the game. That's basically a console version of mortal kombat.

This thread isn’t asking for all champs to be released in one go. It’s questioning why certain champs who don’t particularly need a tune up or buff aren’t being released.

Incoming counter point before it gets used against everyone "you guys just got torch, red guardian, nick fury, fam, galan, and dark phoenix"

Like all but 1 of those was paywalled

I don't entirely understand the question here.
We consistently release new Champions to the 7 Star pool in various ways.

There are 8 new 7 Star Champions coming in August -

Are you wanting us to just mass drop every 7 Star into the pool all at once?

Quote a simple question really. What’s stopping you from increasing the release cadence of champions not available as 7*’s?

We’re already at the rank 4 progression of 7* and there’s a lot of champions not released in the highest rarity. At the pace we’re on we’ll be moving towards 8* before the full champion pool has been released as 7*’s.

Again, we're releasing 8 of them into the 7 Star Pool next month, I think that's quite a lot at once.
We need to have somewhere to go and things to release -

There are 300 Champions in the game now. When 6 Stars were released, there were about 150...
Of course, all of those Champions entered the highest rarity quicker than 7 Stars did because there were about half as many of them.

I think the real question they're trying to ask is "what's stopping you from releasing more of the great champions as 7* I.e. Hulkling, Doom, etc."

I don't entirely understand the question here.
We consistently release new Champions to the 7 Star pool in various ways.

There are 8 new 7 Star Champions coming in August -

Are you wanting us to just mass drop every 7 Star into the pool all at once?

Quote a simple question really. What’s stopping you from increasing the release cadence of champions not available as 7*’s?

We’re already at the rank 4 progression of 7* and there’s a lot of champions not released in the highest rarity. At the pace we’re on we’ll be moving towards 8* before the full champion pool has been released as 7*’s.

That's exactly how it was with 6* though. We had a ton of 5* left behind for a long time.

It was obviously a few years ago now, but I don’t recall the release cadence being anywhere near as slow as it is for 7*’s currently.

There's a reason for it that Mike already stated. If they give us all champs in-game as 7* right now, what exactly would there be to look forward to? Also, how would you rank any of them up? There's a reason the game drip feeds you champs and rank up resources. You'd play for a month tops, get bored and delete the game. That's basically a console version of mortal kombat.

This thread isn’t asking for all champs to be released in one go. It’s questioning why certain champs who don’t particularly need a tune up or buff aren’t being released.

Incoming counter point before it gets used against everyone "you guys just got torch, red guardian, nick fury, fam, galan, and dark phoenix"

Like all but 1 of those was paywalled

That’s exactly what I was coming here to say — I definitely don’t want to speak for Zola, as the OP. But since we were asked to make the question more clear, that’s my question/concern:

To be clear, I absolutely want Kabam to make money. Because I want the game to exist. I spend as part of my entertainment budget, always have/will.

Yes, 7-stars are released in various ways. Which is great.

But are we really saying that 7-star Human Torch is “released”? Is that really the best phrase to describe what that is?

If a character is in a one of the Key events — which, again, is totally fine, because the game needs to generate revenue, and scarcity has value — is it really accurate to say Nick Fury is “released”?

Again, the reason I care is that at some point, the older characters that aren’t getting any kinds of buffs or reworks/what-not — like Human Torch — should they really be getting paywalled by rarity?

To be clear, I am not saying that about, for example…Dark Phoenix. New character/kit, make money on the release. Go for it. I get it. I want it to happen.

Same with the Eidols and Deathless. Whatever else. Sell it and make money. Keep the game going.

But the old kits — the Thors and Yellowjackets of the world — it’s kinda awkward when those aren’t released by now. Because we hear it and understand: There is no more capacity for extensive reworks. So…those wouldn’t be paywalled. Right?

It feels uncomfortable to me, just thinking about it.

So, yeah, to answer the question, I absolutely do think there should be a dump of a chunk of characters into the 7-star Basic.

I absolutely there should be 7-star Class Crystals. I don’t understand why those don’t exist.

Because we are in 7r4, and while I totally understand a complete rework like Blue Cyclops being placed on the Platinum track and then the Titan crystal — because again, I do want Kabam to make money! I do! — it felt a little bit uncomfortable when Captain Britain’s relatively minor changes were placed on the track. People can certainly disagree with me there, but that felt like a straight-to-basic kit.

That’s where I am. That’s why I agree with the OP — if there’s not a ton of capacity for reworks, and some of those kits are just “fine,” and the two new releases a month are still going…IDK. The Key system, the 7-star Human Torch…IDK, man.

It’s starting to make even me, someone who spends and wants Kabam to make money, a little uncomfortable.

I don't entirely understand the question here.
We consistently release new Champions to the 7 Star pool in various ways.

There are 8 new 7 Star Champions coming in August -

Are you wanting us to just mass drop every 7 Star into the pool all at once?

Quote a simple question really. What’s stopping you from increasing the release cadence of champions not available as 7*’s?

We’re already at the rank 4 progression of 7* and there’s a lot of champions not released in the highest rarity. At the pace we’re on we’ll be moving towards 8* before the full champion pool has been released as 7*’s.

Well, what reason could there be for them to buff every champ before 8*? If they buff every single champ in the game before 8* come out what will there be left to buff then? Sure you could argue certain 7* like DDHK and Red Hulk could receive tune ups but realistically they would run out of those very fast unless they just start releasing new mid champs every month, and yes this is thinking very far ahead into the future but it's what makes sense.
If they want to keep the game alive for years to come they have to drag this thing out as much as possible, if they buff all the champs we have left right now then 8* won't be as interesting.

I’m not sure where you’re getting buffs from, no one is talking about that topic here?

Why would they release any of the champs that are left without any tune ups when most of them are completely useless and extremely outdated?
Therefore they need to be buffed first so they can actually be released, hence my question if they buff all of them before 8* then who will they buff when 8* come around?

The whole point of the post from Zola is there are a sizeable volume of champions ready to go into the 7* pool without a buff or tune up. He provided a broken down list per class.

I don't entirely understand the question here.
We consistently release new Champions to the 7 Star pool in various ways.

There are 8 new 7 Star Champions coming in August -

Are you wanting us to just mass drop every 7 Star into the pool all at once?

Quote a simple question really. What’s stopping you from increasing the release cadence of champions not available as 7*’s?

We’re already at the rank 4 progression of 7* and there’s a lot of champions not released in the highest rarity. At the pace we’re on we’ll be moving towards 8* before the full champion pool has been released as 7*’s.

Again, we're releasing 8 of them into the 7 Star Pool next month, I think that's quite a lot at once.
We need to have somewhere to go and things to release -

There are 300 Champions in the game now. When 6 Stars were released, there were about 150...
Of course, all of those Champions entered the highest rarity quicker than 7 Stars did because there were about half as many of them.

Curious Mike, what % of the 6* locked champs have you released into the 7* pool this calendar year? Specifically those you aren’t only making available through sales events.

I understand your points, but I get why @DrZola has made this post. There are a set of champs that don’t need tune ups and can be released. If your strategy is to drip feed them in events over the next 2/3 years then ok, at least we know.