Who will still be playing when 8* arrives in future

Kabam is stretching the longevity of 7* for the greater good, with more time players can build a roster of 7* that will still be relevant and 6* can be used for longer in the absence of 8*
When 8* are here, 6* will be like 5*, obselete
We all know the loop, we can envision getting 8* Groot out of a crystal LOL

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Darthbane3141

Meant to click playing as spender

JESUSCHRIST

I'm training my hit monkey to play on my behalf, hope it works LOL

kvirr

I'm training my hit monkey to play on my behalf, hope it works LOL

I spoke to him, he said he can barley parry

JESUSCHRIST

I'm training my hit monkey to play on my behalf, hope it works LOL
I spoke to him, he said he can barley parry

I have a backup in case the hit monkey go on strike

Pikolu

6*s are going to be obsolete long before 8*s arrive. With how commonplace 7r3s are getting and with the advent of 7r4s, there really isn't much reason to use 6*s unless the champion is 6* locked, like Kate, or the champion needs their sig ability and your 7* hasn't gotten their sig yet. We got 7r5s and 7r6s left to go in the 7* cycle too, and need I remind you of the absurd stats that 7r6s have. They are twice the stats of a 6r5a.

With that out of the way, I've already seen this happen with 5*-7*, so really won't be anything new. The only thing is kabam did handle 7* release a lot better than 6* release, so I expect they'll do good again at the eventuality of 8*s being released.

Nemesis_17

🤷

kvirr

I'm training my hit monkey to play on my behalf, hope it works LOL
I spoke to him, he said he can barley parry

I have a backup in case the hit monkey go on strike

hey no account sharing 😔

SpiderVerse

I can't vote, I wanna go both ftp and casually

KØNG

Been here since the start. No reason to bail now. 🤷🏻‍♂️

TotemCorruption

6*s are going to be obsolete long before 8*s arrive. With how commonplace 7r3s are getting and with the advent of 7r4s, there really isn't much reason to use 6*s unless the champion is 6* locked, like Kate, or the champion needs their sig ability and your 7* hasn't gotten their sig yet.

Haha, this is such a "let them eat cake" perspective. Not all of us have all the 7s, and many of us use 6s to win fights and get rewards which we use on 7s, or even on 6s, to win more fights, etc.

The time will come for 6R5As to become obsolete, but that's not imminent just yet.

Heck, look at all the random top-tier rewards Kabam puts out; a lot of the stuff is for awakening, R5-ing, and ascending 6s. Now, you can say, those rewards are outdated and Kabam needs to change them, but the fact that Kabam hasn't gotten rid of them should give us some insight into the timeline for the demise of 6R5As. It is not quite as short as a lot of people assume it to be.

Editing to add: I just looked at the new Sigil store prices, and a 7 crystal will cost 260 credits, whereas 200 T2 Primordial Dust will cost 800 credits. If you think Kabam is brushing 6R5As aside, you're kidding yourself.

winterthur

Is there an option of just hanging around the forum?

phillgreen

I'll just keep doing my thing. I'll spend a minimal amount if I want to and play when I feel like it.

I don't have to chase the whales, I just need to stay ahead of "you"

DNA3000

Jesus H Christ, they're planning 8*?!

Last I checked 8 comes immediately after 7, and I don’t think they have the resources available to invent a new counting system.

Crcrcrc

Jesus H Christ, they're planning 8*?!

Nope I heard through the grapevine that next up is 9*

Buttehrs

Same way I've played for the last nearly full 10 years. Daily log in, daily super event. Get my side quest stuff done for the week/day. Buy plat tracks. All you really gotta do.

Ashacekar

I m here till game shuts down
* T & C apply

JESUSCHRIST

Joker1976

“ 8 stars? “,…🤮
Let’s hope they think of new ways to advance the gane.

Terra

Do I look like I have anything better to do

Rudolph_Raindeer

Hope I got rid of this addiction by the time 8 star champs arrives…

JESUSCHRIST

Which is why for every game, it is important to acquire new players constantly

For a new player who starts playing this game and sees 7* champions, it is different from older players who started the game with 4* as the highest and gone thru the intro of 5* 6* 7*

Sw0rdMaster

Will still be here when 10* arrives 🤣

OldManHop

My only question is... where do the star ratings end? There's gotta be something more interesting that can be done than just rinsing and repeating the same formula... right?

Ironwarrior

My only question is... where do the star ratings end? There's gotta be something more interesting that can be done than just rinsing and repeating the same formula... right?

when we get to 8 stars I think they'll double down on the star gimmick that'll have a greater impact than adrenaline and stat focus or they can go down the kabamed route and just gatelock content for 8 stars

Ironwarrior

I m here till game shuts down
* T & C apply

real

Gamer

6*s are going to be obsolete long before 8*s arrive. With how commonplace 7r3s are getting and with the advent of 7r4s, there really isn't much reason to use 6*s unless the champion is 6* locked, like Kate, or the champion needs their sig ability and your 7* hasn't gotten their sig yet. We got 7r5s and 7r6s left to go in the 7* cycle too, and need I remind you of the absurd stats that 7r6s have. They are twice the stats of a 6r5a.

With that out of the way, I've already seen this happen with 5*-7*, so really won't be anything new. The only thing is kabam did handle 7* release a lot better than 6* release, so I expect they'll do good again at the eventuality of 8*s being released.

I was so relived how there’s expansion the 7 star while trying to to maintain a 6 star life space a little bit

spiderknight616

Gonna be playing as much as time allows me to. I've been here since year 2 and I don't see myself outright quitting at all

TotemCorruption

6*s are going to be obsolete long before 8*s arrive. With how commonplace 7r3s are getting and with the advent of 7r4s, there really isn't much reason to use 6*s unless the champion is 6* locked, like Kate, or the champion needs their sig ability and your 7* hasn't gotten their sig yet. We got 7r5s and 7r6s left to go in the 7* cycle too, and need I remind you of the absurd stats that 7r6s have. They are twice the stats of a 6r5a.

With that out of the way, I've already seen this happen with 5*-7*, so really won't be anything new. The only thing is kabam did handle 7* release a lot better than 6* release, so I expect they'll do good again at the eventuality of 8*s being released.
I was so relived how there’s expansion the 7 star while trying to to maintain a 6 star life space a little bit

A lot of people are worrying about or hyping up 7R6 stats when they don't even have 3% of the T7Bs needed to get their first 7R4. This game isn't some hedge fund that you sit back and let grow for years.
Play for today, rank up your 7s and your 6s as necessary or as you wish.

I think some of the "6s are dead crowd" either exaggerates their own decks to pretend to be elite or they are trying to justify their early adopter investments by dismissing the continued viability of 6s as a threatening reality. (Threatening in the sense that maybe it wasn't necessary to spend all that money to get the 7s ASAP because the 6s are still viable and part of Kabam's plans for the game).

DNA3000

“ 8 stars? “,…🤮
Let’s hope they think of new ways to advance the gane.

There's going to be a new rarity one day. There's no "other way" of advancing the game, because the reason why new rarities are added to the game is to periodically restart the champion chase. Once too many players have too many champs, the incremental benefit of chasing the next one drops to the point it no longer matters enough. So a new rarity is introduced that no one has, so the chase can start fresh.

Technically, there's one alternative, but no one likes it and it usually fails across longer stretches of time. Instead of introducing new rarities to keep the chase fresh, the devs can simply decide to make all 2026 champs unambiguously better in all respects than all previous ones, and then again in 2029, and so on. This would be introducing a new rarity every three years embedded within the same rarity number, but having the same effect. This technically works, but it is so much worse than introducing new rarities that there's zero chance the developers entertain that option.

Without this fundamental requirement, the devs could just make 7* champs have 200 ranks and call it a day for the next hundred years. The reason why rarities don't have tons and tons of ranks is because the devs know they won't be able to use them all before being required to introduce a new rarity. Rarity is not just about giving us stronger champs. It is about managing the long term chase that powers the game's existence.

Terminatrix

Kabam is stretching the longevity of 7* for the greater good, with more time players can build a roster of 7* that will still be relevant and 6* can be used for longer in the absence of 8*
When 8* are here, 6* will be like 5*, obselete
We all know the loop, we can envision getting 8* Groot out of a crystal LOL

And currently prepping my account as much as possible for the arrival of 8*'s. Been stacking gold because they're going to be crazy expensive to level and rank up.