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Re: I think Kabam just **** up Ascension...

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2934190#Comment_2934190

To be honest, I don't even know what that means, and I suspect no one else does either. Does that mean every new champ released in 2026 will not have ascension tokens available until twelve months later? Does that means a champ released in December 2026 will be ascendable in January 2027?

Until I see more details about what the significance of 2027 is, I don't really have a problem to worry about personally.

Once upon a time, the new rarity conveyer went something like this. Champ released in special crystals. Then they show up in the featured arena and featured crystals. Then they migrate to the basic crystals where people take their one in a gazillion chance to get them. Some players got them quickly, some slightly less quickly, and then everyone else took anything from one day to ten years to get them depending on random chance.

What does "ascendable in 2027" actually mean? If Kabam simply released 8* rarity instead of 7* Ascension, most of the player base would not be getting 8* champs released in 2026 until long past 2027. Excluding, of course, the players saving a gigaton of Titan shards, which is of course an unsustainable situation.

If you asked me what the proper runway is for new champs, I'd say the current one is way way too fast. It simply dilutes the value of people spending to get new champs at release way too quickly. I say that as someone who is probably one of the biggest beneficiaries of the current system, who gets basically all the new champs the millisecond they enter the Titan, so doesn't have to spend a dime on featured crystals. I should not be able to do that. Whether a year is the right runway, that seems a bit long to me, but if someone had put me in charge of the system it would have probably been six to nine months, probably leaning more towards nine.

Of course, a lot of people would have been unhappy with that, but that's sort of the point. When everyone is happy with how fast champs are becoming available to everyone, that tells you no one sees any real benefit to chasing them any harder than just sitting around and waiting for shards to pile up. And that's an existential threat to the game's existence.

Now, that's just my opinion, everyone else is free to express their own. But whether this is a problem or not is a matter of perspective. Yes, a lot of people are unhappy about it. But at least some of that unhappiness is deliberate. Whether all of it is too much is the question. But at least some of it is intentional.