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Is Shang-Chi not in the “Get Shang-Chi and Spider-verse Champions” Bundle?
Wicket329
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Just going through the mail and it seems super misleading. Shang-Chi’s name is on the crystal but he’s not listed as being in it?
Am I just missing something or is this bad marketing?
Am I just missing something or is this bad marketing?
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It does, in fact, say who is going to be in there. And Shang-Chi is missing.
If Shang-Chi’s not in there, that is some real shoddy drafting.
Edit: I see under the name of the crystal now.
Just posting the mail heading for others to see...this honestly is misleading and very poor on kabam’s part that they would frame the title in such a way
Come on Kabam, atleast release offers without bugs and the need to retune them or something. Improve the quality control for heaven's sake.
The line as written can mean two things, and that's dependant on how you interpret it.
First, Get Shang Chi (champion) and Spider verse champions. This one is the version I imagine people are expecting. Not unreasonable to think that Shang would be in the crystals.
However, and the way I interpret it, is get Shang Chi and Spider verse champions. Meaning champions related to Shang Chi and Spider verse. Now this may seem misleading because there is no explicit "Shang Chi verse" so it's easier to see it as the former interpretation. But we also have to consider 2 factors within the wording. First of all, character limitation within the text, they simply cannot add more letters into the subheading without potential text bleed or other issues with how it presents itself on different devices (this is very common especially when needing to be localised into other languages and since most translations are made based on the English string text it may have to be shortened due to the nature of how other languages character usage differs). The second factor of the wording, is that unless stated as a specific champion bundle (which is usually worded as such) we can naturally assume that Shang Chi will not be in such a limited champion pool, given that he is a new champion and hasn't even entered into a featured 5 or 6* crystal yet. Outside of rare occurrences, I can't think of a time we could easily obtain a new champion from a smaller pool so soon, with the exception of the year based Cavs we got.
So yeah. While it may be disappointing, I don't think their intention was to mislead at all. It's a matter of interpretation and potentially technical limitations.
But the intent is only part of the picture. My issue is that it does convey the message to anybody skimming through it, which, let’s be honest, is more attention than most of the player base gives to the body of text in these messages, that Shang-Chi is in this crystal. And he’s not.
Just something that players and whoever wrote the ad copy for this need to be aware of.