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damn… so many people suffering from success

Man you guys were able to decipher all that mumbo jumbo ...

That is an excellent question, its hard to believe it was that many to take this much time....

Sometimes I don't understand their train of thought on compensations.

Elder EQ: we have to comb data, compensate the right people, check everything…

Bugged crystals: just send the crystals back... Give them twice as many crystals, who cares anyway...

Day 35.

When people say it’s unfair to criticize the team for the impression that they hasten to fix things that are advantageous to players while taking their sweet time to fix things that are disadvantageous to the player, it’s important to ask them to recall things like this that feel like they are made to be as slow and foot-draggingly tedious as possible.

As runner up it doesn’t hurt also to mention the Raids shortfall in Radiance that continues to remain unfixed a week later.

Dr. Zola

Not even Stellar Blade is considered ascendable.

I just got it and could not use a gem on it

Boosts make things faster and at times cheaper, but they don't make things possible. You're not going to clear things you can't clear without boosts just because you put boosts on. Skill is required.

I bought and opened enough crystals with USD bundles and in game units that I ran out of champs to use them on, have 10 left that are currently unusable and 7 that will just disappear unless I trade them for a laughable 1/2 a class cat? Nah, it’s just not ethical here man. Hard to feel confident in future purchases having any value if they are just selling you expiring digital bricks

I would really like RoL 2.
Similar format, without nodes, just a larger lifepool.
The rewards wouldn't matter that much, it would be a cool addition.
But maybe they could add some old champions with their 7-star versions.
Champions that I imagine shouldn't receive changes because they have more modern versions, like Red Cyclops, Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel OG.
It would contribute to the collectives and generate a lot of content, it wouldn't be much work to do.
There's no need for meta defenders either.

If MCOC was an old school subscription game and not an F2P micro transaction supported monetized game, I would not release the CCP test maps to the general player population if it was my decision to make, even though in such a situation there would be absolutely no revenue element to that decision.

The fact that you can't think of a good reason why that should happen except "making money" is not a failing of the game. It is the common failing of game players being unable to think like game makers.

There are in fact lots of good reasons, but the one that would decide the matter for me is that doing so would be bad for the content developers and bad for most of the players. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader, although the reason is something I've discussed many times in the past.

it is in kabams interest (to generate revenue) to allow content creators to use and display new champions.
it is not in kabams interest to give summoners near unlimited scope to try out new defenders against potential counters.

This isn’t just some zany conspiracy theory it’s basic business

The best example for this is High Evolutionary. He was marketed as the next crazy meta defender, content creators were allowed to play with and against him to build hype. When he eventually came out a lot of those players who spend to push higher in AW/BGs went out of their way to spend for him (as they do with every new champion) but once summoners realised pretty quickly that he really wasn’t that and, hype around the champion died out as quickly as it grew.

there is a huge difference between allowing content creators to showcase champs, where they have tight time constraints and structural roster limitations (yes the CCP beta has unlimited rank ups but creators are likely to try common/their most used champs rather than outside the box options) when producing content. Given to the community to experiment freely is different to “viewable from our pre determined content creating partners”

at the end of the day kabam cannot produce a good reason as to why a resource like the CCP testing map isn’t just a part of the game, aside from protecting their own financial assets, which speaks to a larger problem with the game in the defender focus on new champ release