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Would you rather for a year?
DarkQuake
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A lot of champs from from a decade ago need a massive rework. Champs like OG black widow, OG Thor, OG captain America, Dr Strange, Elektra, Blackbolt, Iron fist, Moonknight, Winter Soilder. These are ones that deserve it the most. Would you rather kabam focus on a year of og champ and rework them to fit in the current state of the game so they have some use or kabam just keep releasing new champs.
Would you rather for a year? 58 votes
Two new champs every month.
51%
30 votes
Two reworked champs every month.
48%
28 votes
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I've been thinking this a lot after picking up Diablo and Moondragon. Both are really cool champs in their own right (personal opinion) but realistically they were built for the game at a time when it asked for less from individual champs. Diablo is very, very good, but there are a couple of flaws in his kit which make him harder to play, but even when you're playing perfectly there are probably still better options for the fight you're taking. If he had the benefit of a 2024/5 release, I've got no doubt his kit would flow perfectly, BUT (that's a big but) I could say the same of like 40-50 characters who are *so close* to being amazing.
I prefer the familiar faces and when there's now nearly 300 champs in the game, do we need more? Does everyone need to have a similar power level? Kabam need to make money and rebalancing a champ that half the realm already have has to be less profitable than releasing a new one, assuming their power level would be similar.
Releasing new champs is not something the game does. It is what the game is. Everything is built upon it. The content cycle is driven by it, and the monetization of the game is driven by it. Changing that is essentially making a whole new game developed by completely different people in a completely different company. You might think your local McDonalds is dirty, you might think it is hurting their business, you might think they would do much better if it was much cleaner, but if they stop selling food to spiff up the place, there will be no McDonalds to spiff up.
No one at Kabam in any position of power is going to take that wild risk of changing everything. And someone will always come along and say "well, if they don't change it then Bad Things will happen" but that's a completely unpersuasive argument. The kinds of people who would be persuaded by such arguments typically don't find themselves in positions of making important decisions. For long.
If they do a year or two focusing on one half of the 2 champions being a reworked older character whilst bringing in a new secondary then realistically you have big names per month.
Cause overall the ones needing reworks isn't a massive list, and overall you don't even need to do a full year on it, maybe 6 months or just 4 months with them being seasonally released?
In that way, as long as the new champions are good picks then it doesn't feel like any slot is wasted and the game team is actually listening
6 months = 2 new champs, 1 new/1 rework, 2 new champs, 1 new/1 rework, etc.
4 months = Dropping a rework at the start, middle of end of each season (Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn)