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The tag change only applies during fights, so I would be sincerely shocked if it worked for something like these tag-based challenges, which probably check for tags outside of fights.

Clear or not it is what it is. Its a paywall? Yes it is; but its not a punishment. Its an early access to ascending. If people are going to be anal about this, its not really a paywall either. Its a pay curtain or whatever you want to call it. You can still have the champ just can't ascend it until its open for everyone.

Yes! I don't think ascension is that terrible of a system but it is really, really complicated… And I really don't think Kabam did a very good job breaking it down for the players. Thus it led to a lot of player feeling really frustrated and thus feeling punished because something wasn't clear and they end up missing out.

Yeah, even I got 7* pavitr from banquet valiant crystal, for some reason champ acquired through this mean don't get Ascension.

Yeah, I agree it is not an actual punishment, that's why I said that people FEEL they are being punished. And that comes from unclear and lack of communication from Kabam. I am simply trying to say that people's frustration comes not from champions being paywalled but that they didn't understand how this whole thing worked due to Kabam's poor communication.

I feel like you are downplaying how important clear communication is. If you look at all the negative posts whether it is regarding Ascension or Essentia in the last few days, many of them becomes a much lesser issue if Kabam just communicate clearly what is going to happen. People might still not like it, but I don't think they will be as angry and frustrated.

I appreciate your post and I did read through it but I think it is lacking in some perspectives and Kabam Mike has explained it in one of his responses.

• First is that it assume we are paying everything with money and it doesn't take into any account of the free crystals that Kabam gave us. Kabam Mike said they are giving around 100 free empowered crystal a month through playing the content. I think that cut down the cost by a lot if we take that into account.
• Second is that I think you are still seeing ascension as a pure rank up. Yes, it sounds absurd if that is the case. But I think this is more like introduction of 8 stars. Imagine instead of empowered crystals, Kabam is selling 8 star shards (15,000 shards for a full 8 star crystal). Since it takes about 120 empowered crystals to get an ascended champ, each empowered crystals is like 125 shards for 300 units. Yes it is extremely expensive but that is not that much different than when 7 stars were first introduced. I remember when 7 star shards first came out, it was really absurb how expensive it was (it was also like 200 shards for 300 units). And honest I never paid money for it, I simply couldn't afford to. So I took the free shards from completing content and I just wait for the price to come down, which it eventually did after about 6 months or so. So I don't see this as much different.

Again, I am really not trying to defend Kabam but I just don't think ascension is that much different than introduction of new star system and that's how Kabam always operated. Making things really expensive in the beginning to do an initial cash grab from people who cannot wait or who has a lot of money to spend. I actually do think ascension is a little more player friendly compare to the introduction of 8 stars. So for me, I don't think I will be purchasing any empowered crystals, I will complete my content and take the free ones, and just wait for the price of ascension to come, which I think will happen eventually.

Yeah ascension is a way better option than 8 stars I completely agree. But it's just a little overwhelming at the moment.

I think a good solution would be to eventually add an extra shard crystal exclusively for ascension materials, and you get shards for that as you pull dupes from Titans.

I don't think you should see ascension as a rank up system, I think it is more like coming out of 8 stars. If you think of it that way it the RNG makes much more sense.