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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

Yeah, that was my point. If CAIW was the first fight, we'd probably have been hyped to clear 10 health bars per minute. It's only in comparison to the other three fights that 50 bars actually feels slow.

(It's also only 5 energy, which is basically nothing. This whole Coliseum has been a win for players IMO.)

I'm also an endgame player and the only things I could really use more of is higher quantities of Basic catalysts, and maybe T5 Basics and T4 Class catalysts for Elder players. I can get a full T3 Alpha from buying up all the T2A and selling them. I can't even get one T5 Basic from the T4Bs in the store, let alone a T6B.

It seems like they tuned the dust and class tokens for how many A2 champions they expect an average player to have for a given engagement level, but have not accounted well enough for the RNG in the regular or greater empowered crystals. Either way the amount of dust does not seem to match their stated intent of roughly 1.5 A1s per month, which also doesn't account for getting enough same champion A1s to get an A2 to use dust. As others have said, there are not enough crystals available in content to pull enough champs 3 times to use the dust for A2. The 2k dust that many people have in overflow is 4 A2s, which is 12 A1s of 4 of the SAME champions, not including all the other ones that you'll inevitably get. That's 1920 empowered crystals, assuming you only got the same 4 champions the correct amount of times using the grace system. BTW i don't think more crystals is the solution, I already have more ISO than rank up materials to use with because we now don't need ISO for the new "rarity" of champions. Never before have we had more "rank up" materials (dust, class tokens) than champions we can actually rank up even if we wanted to. The only A2s I have are Maestro and Lizard because I was explicitly awarded enough of those specific champ tokens to do so. AndrewTheRuff hit on all of this weeks ago in his goodbye video, the amount of RNG built into ascension is crazy. Never before have we had to essentially get a champion to sig 40 (traditional rank up vs ascension comparison) before we can rank them up. My first 7R5 was unawakened, it didn't prevent me from ranking him up, I only had to get him once. There is no choice for rank ups in the new rarity unless you buy enough of them, even for the base pool or super duper box. It's a completely separate discussion that for the first time, all newly released champions are not available to everyone in the new rarity from something like the titan or featured crystal (5/6 stars), earned by duping champions of the previous rarity.

I have 4850 t2 primordial dust (2350 in overflow).

I don't have any 7* that i can ascend to lvl2, and it's not like I'm hoarding empowered crystals… I opened all the empowered crystals I got from collective, but had really bad RNG… only 7* were from the guarantee grace ones, but not enough to take someone to lvl2 ascension.

So rush in through Carina challenge was designed for whales? it sucks to earn a reward that you cannot use, not now and not ever.

Oh because Netflix shut down their version of the game earlier this month?

If the license reverts back to Kabam or if they can re-aquire, maybe they could figure out a way to leverage the core of the Contest game to make it cost less to run.

Or if Kabam can add Optimus Prime and others to Contest? Transformers comics were published by Marvel and so there are comics that have transformers with Marvel characters crossing over

Unlikely to happen I know but whats more likely is that we could get the Marvel character Death’s Head in Contest. He’s a transforming robot bounty hunter!

Of all the vanilla defenders you chose the one who has defensive ability accuracy reduction and can prevent your parries

THere is still reasons/ability to buff the store, including:

Add more t4b

add 2, 3, and 4 star sig stones

add 2 star crystals that can get non "premium pool champs" (either generic ones, or ones for the monthly event)

add a means to get 3 star thanos, and other rare low star champs