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The statement is “At the end of the day, the game isn’t ready for 7 Star Hulkling, Hercules, or Cosmic Ghost Rider - and we didn’t feel like any other yet to be released Cosmic was in the right spot for this Event. ”

All the arguments you are making are regarding the niche mode of BGs. A 7-star Hulkling/CGR/Hercules would trivialize a lot of different game modes. In order to make difficult content, there would constantly have to be nodes to neuters these champions, which would negatively impact a lot of other champions (ie. Adding armor break immunity would negatively affect Silver Surfer as well)

And even if we just stick to BGs, using the argument of “OP outliers exist” is not a valid reason why “more OP outliers should exist.” Its more an argument that outliers should remain outliers as opposed to being the norm.

It is worth considering expanding this idea even further. When I hear "the game isn't ready for 7* Hulkling" my first thought doesn't automatically run to "7* Hulking is too powerful for the game" regardless of game mode. That's not the only concern the designers have when deciding whether, or more precisely when to release a champ.

It *might* be that, or it might be something else entirely, or it might be a set of somethings. Champion release and acquisition is probably a much more complex thing than most players realize, because so many things are affected by those decisions across the game that involve multiple stakeholders.

Crashed mentioned he "pushed hard" for the crystal to not contain a champ just because, and to only contain champs that were specifically picked to be good champs to include (by some standard). Crashed is the Live Game Lead for the game. Who was he pushing against?

These decisions aren't made by the Emperor of the Known Universe sitting on their throne. Several different people have different opinions and judgments and these kinds of decisions are often made collaboratively, and if there's a lot of different people in the room making this decision, it is a certainty they all represent different interests in the game. They aren't all voting on whether or not Hulkling is too powerful to be a 7* champ.

I know everybody’s bummed out about Dark Phoenix not being able to be pulled from one of the crystals, which I think we have every right to be, especially with how this event was advertised but I do want to say, I think this event still has the potential to be pretty awesome. Reading some of the events they have planned especially with regards to the rewards, I wouldn’t be surprised if just by participating we get a free seven star crystal with the potentiality of getting a Nick fury or a Future Antman, which, when you think about it, is pretty cool and very generous.

Again, I know some people are gonna be pretty livid, which of course you have the right to be…I get it, but from a business standpoint, if all of us get a free shot at these great champions and Kabam gets some cash from the spenders, all in all it’s a win-win for us both… Of course, if it plays out this way, could still be a dumpster fire but I got a feeling it’ll be good.

You don’t like how they handled it, but you’re still going to spend and get Dark Phoenix. No offense but they are getting what they want out of you. Their plan worked.

If she is as strong of a defender as they say then yeah I don't really have a choice if I want to stay competitive in BGs that's the only game mode I play consistently these days.

If you're competitive in BGs now, then you can for sure stay competitive without DP.

If I ban her every single match sure, but I already have to ban r3 Serpents Enchantress and Photons every single match cause I still don't have any of them as 7* I don't want every BGs match to turn into pick your poison lol

I mean bg banning is literally picking your poison, it's deciding which champions you would feel the least comfortable with the opponent having access to them. You could also just like, learn how to fight her? If you're competitive enough in bgs to justify spending on this event then I refuse to believe that you don't have a counter for her in your kit

You can't play around that safeguard without a counter and she's nullify stagger and neutralize immune already so we'll see, there's also the nova flame which requires either poison or high energy resistance, she is by no means Serpent level but she will be meta relevant and the 4.5/5 is fitting. What bothers me the most tho is them locking her behind a massive unit spend, I don't think they should be locking strong 4.5/5 defenders with a lot of potential to be meta behind huge paywalls cause it's just not fair for other people who aren't in a position to spend a lot. If I have to I will, but I know there are people who won't because they can't. They should've just kept her in the crystal, doing what they did was completely unnecessary and makes them look hungry for people's pockets.

Her nova flame specifically gets reduced by hitting into her after a special and she is countered by atrophy after the first safeguard. There's nothing in her kit that is impossible to counter and honestly if you're worried about her meta potential then literally just ban her. She looks easier to counter than serpent was on release and it's hard to look at her shaking up the meta because you can bring counters to her or ban her, that's how the game works. You're also going for her no? So all this talk about her being unfair I hope means your aren't going to be using her lmao

You can count champs with atrophy in one hand and half of them suck in terms of damage 💀
I literally said she's no Serpent but she is a 4.5/5, and me whaling out to get her doesn't change the fact that they shouldn't be locking champs that strong and meta relevant behind paywalls, they had no reason to do so other than milking lol.

And when bullseye came out there were no pursuit characters and now we have a new one every month lmao. Shathra already looks to be a really good counter to her

So they're locking a champ behind a 1k paywall to shut them down every month afterwards? Lmao sure pal, they will definitely do that.

Again it not paywall. For 1k mate yes it what it cost if you need to buying the unit but unit can be gained for free costing time yes