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I think the core issue is tied directly to BGs. Too many players are pushing higher ranks and collecting Radiance without any cost, and that’s clearly not the outcome Kabam wants. By forcing BGs through energy, they want to create a restriction: either players grind less, or they spend units. In practice, that turns Radiance into a paywall.

The revive farming angle doesn’t hold up here -most endgame players already sit with revives in overflow. If that were the real concern, the solution would look very different.

This is about BG control. Kabam could’ve easily kept Elder Marks alongside energy refills, but they didn’t. That choice signals intent: they want the higher brackets occupied by players who are either spending or at least burning through units. With the Radiance store update coming, it feels less like game balance and more like a calculated move to regulate access to rewards.

Can’t imagine there are many of these out there at the moment

Your expectations are way too high, prepare for disappointment.

This is also why alot of times I'm hesitant on old champs buffs. Sometimes you need an OG with a super simple kit to fly through a path. For example, gamora absolutely slayed a few paths in 9.3. Once those champs like say...rhulk are buffed with a new kit, they become ineffective like the new champs do.

Think I can agree with you on the sacrifice things now to get better experience later on bit. I am ready to sacrifice my in game time to get better real life experience later on. Thanks for the insightful post.

I think this is a much bigger issue internally at kabam.

Crashed is a dev and wants to treat the community like adults and conducts both himself and the ways he interacts as such (aside from a could goofs on cheaters)

However the actual community managers do not hold tbay belief or standard and prefer to treat their playerbase like children leading to a massive disconnect where most of the time we feel disrespected since we have a shining example of the kind of communication we are looking for however the people whose job it is to bring that to us refuse to do it.

I think if the roles were flipped and crashed was the community manager we'd all have a different feeling but unfortunately that's not the case.

Say what you want about Miike and Jax but at the very least they were alot closer to how Crashed handles business than how the current community team does

I was on my last fight in 9.3 for a 100% completion smh

It just had to go down in the middle of my fight against cerastes in 8.3.6. I was so close to finally getting valiant.