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I think that Kabam Crashed mentioned that there would be another way to get them either later this year or early next year. I'm not sure if Radiance is the way that he was referring to but I suspect that it wasn't and that there'll be a quest of some sort later down the road.

That being said, if you genuinely want the Deathless champs then I think buying from the Radiance store is fairly reasonable. The high unit cost was always something I had a little bit of a problem with, even if I understood why they structured it that way. However, I have much less of a problem with a high price in Radiance. As long as you don't have to spend units (which prohibits you from doing all kinds of other things in the game), I think it's fair.

That being said, it all depends on which pieces/champs you are missing and what your intentions are. The only Deathless champ that I think is worth getting is She-Hulk. She's genuinely amazing. Thanos is worth getting as well, but you need all four previous champions for that and besides She-Hulk, I wouldn't actively hunt any of them. However, if you really want to do the Deathless Necropolis run, you obviously need the whole team and might either have to bite the bullet and use all of your Radiance for the foreseeable future to obtain the first four champs, or just wait and hope that a third option besides units or Radiance materializes.

However, while I was confident that a second option would come to the game, I'm far less confident that we'll see a third option. It's possible, but I wouldn't count on it.

My first path cost about 70 revives and I went in completely blind. Didn't really read threads here and don't watch YouTube.

Not sure I'll ever get the hang of Ares specials.

Remember when you could just play video games without doing a semester of research before each new level?
When did games become PhD programs? When people started pouring their entire identities into their video game achievements?

Probably some time in the 80s.

Before this, I was a player of MMOs. City of Heroes, Star Trek Online, the Matrix Online, DCUO, SWTOR. I did not get sucked into Eve Online personally (I backed out with my soul before it was too late) but that game makes MCOC look like FarmVille. Or rather, the hard core players of Eve Online make what I do in MCOC look like a second grade book report. And to be honest, nothing I’ve done in MCOC compares to the stuff I did in Champions Online or CoH.

Before that, RTS was my thing. I spent a lot of the 90s playing StarCraft, Total Annihilation, Command and Conquer, stuff like that. Those games also make MCOC look like Bejeweled.

And before that, RPGs. You really haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen the diary of someone playing through the Ultima series, or the Dragon Age series, or Elder Scrolls.

And before that there were arcades. I remember trying to be one of the first people in my neighborhood to do a complete Dragon’s Lair run on two quarters. I remember owning the leaderboard of the Galaga in the 7-11 near my high school. There’s a guy I only know by three initials that I got into a duel with over a few months to wallpaper the Tempest leaderboard at Tilt.

I wouldn't say I “poured my entire identity” into my video game achievements then or now, but there has always been, going back a very long ways, people who spent a lot of time figuring out video games and working very hard towards video game achievements, and however complex MCOC appears to some, it doesn’t really stand out to me as a particularly complex game in the grand scheme of things. It is less complex than every MMO I’ve ever played. It is less complex than most RPGs I’ve ever played. Heck, there are text adventure games that might be more complex than MCOC is now. And to this day there are players trying to speed run games that are three times older than they are, or trying to learn new things about games you’d think were so simple there was nothing new to learn about them. Recently, someone figured out the secret to break the seemingly unbreakable limit to Donkey Kong: the point where it was thought no one could continue the game, because the game timer reached the point where it was impossible to complete a level before it expired.

Incidentally, the first game you could say I became somewhat obsessed with, and to this day I still think about, predates almost all of the video game industry. It was Ogre, a hex board game. I’ve spoken about Ogre here and there, but Ogre is the game that first got me interested in game design. I first played that game in 1978.

There have always been simple games and complex ones. For every checkers there’s a chess. And that has generally been true for video games as well. For every Asteroids there’s a Sinistar. There’s Rogue, then there’s Dwarf Fortress. There’s Excel, and then there’s Eve Online. This has been going on for a very long time.

What really sucks is that this isn’t even a key : boxes eventually you have to open crystals to maybe get what you want. All those rewards and you get 2 7*s and a selector? Will the web store milestone have another 7* selector? That would make it more worth it. We all know that the crystals won’t give you anything so those are all worthless. And the likelihood of pulling who you want from. The 7*s crystals is next to 0. So it comes down to the selectors. For 45k units you’re giving one selector ? That sucks.

You're also getting a lot of other stuff including a r4 gem. It's not just 1 selector.

When you look at it compared to every other event like banquet and july 4/cyber the other items you listed are minimal compared to what other events have. This event just has exclusive champs as its appeal and nothing else. I get that exclusive is a big appeal but to make it cost as much as july and cyber (and more than banquet) is a low blow to most .

Banquet gave you 3 chances at 6 exclusive champs and a bunch more resources at half the cost of 15k units (less than half)