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This post will be a bit more of a rant than what I usually try to post. I'm just very frustrated and I hate seeing the game I love be ruined in such a blatantly greedy and money hungry way.

First of all, let's talk about Kabam "addressing" the problems with ascension. All we got was Karate Mike going on stream and saying "Hey, we hear your concerns. But deal with it." I hated that reply so much. It felt so dismissive, so tone deaf, so egregiously thoughtless. Claiming that ascension needs time to settle into the contest is not going to solve the problems with ascension. I one hundred percent believe that the whole point of that response was to make the community quiet down and hope that over time we just get too tired of talking about ascension. It's such an incredibly **** way to treat your playerbase and I'm sorry but that's just the objective truth.

Everyone is telling Kabam ascension sucks. All of their most dedicated players, whales, content creators, all of them have on multiple occasions pointed out the massive flaws of ascension. Yet Kabam refuses to listen. They continue to remain stubborn for no reason. Well, not for no reason, I know why they don't want to address ascension in any meaningful way. Money. They want to milk this feature for every single cent its worth. Even if its comes at the cost of the game being made worse.

The conclusion of act 9 and the carina's challenges really highlighted how awful ascension is. Let's not even address the fact that new champions aren't ascendable unless you spend thousands of dollars for a moment. Let's focus only on the base pool of ascension champs. The pool is trash. There are a handful of characters that some people might actually be excited for, but even if your favorite character is in that pool, good luck trying to actually get them. The chances of you actually getting the character you want is so unbelievably low. Of all the ascension rewards I opened from Carina's and Act 9, I didn't pull a single champ I liked. So now a majority of the ascensions on my account are just unranked seven stars. Cursed to eternally warm the bench.

This isn't even mentioning ascension level 2. Which is just unobtainable if you don't spend money. And not just some money, you need to be spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars for that ****. I don't even want to think about what ascension level 3 through 11 is going to feel like. The only level 2 ascension I have is Maestro, because he was the only one we could earn. Is Lizard level 2? no because apparently I didn't pull him enough during his period. Is Pav, a champs I PAID FOR, level 2? No. Is there a way for me to get these champs to level 2 ascension? NO! There is literally nothing I can do to progress my characters.

Aside from ascension itself, my rank five champions weren't nearly as exciting. You know why because they're not ascended or ascendable champs. I considered ranking fiving a character who I had ascended, but guess what, I couldn't pull any of the champions who I would want to r5. It's just loss after loss after loss with ascension.

Like you don't have to be a genius to understand this. Nor do you need months and years of time to realize that ascension is a vile, greedy and detrimental feature in MCOC.

You're taking away all agency from players, you're making the game just a big string of transactions, you're micromanaging accounts, you're making the game NOT FUN! So just stop being stubborn Kabam and please listen to your community.

I know I'm being very harsh in this post, I usually try to keep my criticism constructive but I just can't. We've all been screaming that ascension sucks and we get nothing. Please everyone continue to speak out. Call out Kabam's BS. Don't just let ascension go on because you got too tired of complaining. Make posts, comments, videos and share your thoughts.