**UPDATES TO ENLISTMENT GIFTING EVENT:**
To prevent exploitation, we will prevent new Accounts from being able to Gift enlistment crystals. We will also be taking action on those who are using 3rd Party Sellers, Bots and other farms to gift themselves mass amounts of Enlistment Crystals. Lastly, we will be adding an expiration timer to Enlistment Crystals. All unopened Enlistment Crystals will expire on Oct 18 @ 17:00 UTC. For more information, please see this post: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/346104/updates-to-enlistment-gifting-event
To prevent exploitation, we will prevent new Accounts from being able to Gift enlistment crystals. We will also be taking action on those who are using 3rd Party Sellers, Bots and other farms to gift themselves mass amounts of Enlistment Crystals. Lastly, we will be adding an expiration timer to Enlistment Crystals. All unopened Enlistment Crystals will expire on Oct 18 @ 17:00 UTC. For more information, please see this post: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/346104/updates-to-enlistment-gifting-event
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The new featured crystal's success doesn't hinge on the contents of the first one, any more than the success of the original featured crystals hinged on the contents of any particular one. If you don't want the current featured, you don't buy it and save for the next one. This crystal offers exactly the same choice in a more complex form. If you like the odds of pulling something you want in the current set of 24, you buy that one. If you don't like those odds because the mix of champions isn't something you want, you save for the next one. Because players are different, different players will almost certainly like or dislike different iterations of this crystal.
I think the main problematic issue with them now is that the crystal will only change every three months which is a long time relatively speaking. Its not an immense time to wait and save, but I think as they continue to make 5* shards easier to get that timeframe will become too long. I like the idea mentioned earlier in the thread by someone to phase the featureds in and out. To take that idea and run with it, I think Kabam should put thought into allowing the featured crystal to remain available for three months as currently announced, but introduce a new one every month so that they overlap. At any particular moment there will (eventually) be three crystals available to acquire. In each crystal there will be a different mix of basics and the featured champions will shift by two: the two newest will be in that crystal and the two oldest will drop out.
In other words, say in February the first crystal launches and it contains six featured champions - ABCDEF - and the eighteen announced basics. In March a new crystal launches and it contains the four newest featured and the two released in February - CDEFGH - and a different set of basics. In April, the next crystal launches containing EFGHIJ featureds and a different set of basics. In May, the next crystal launches and the original crystal launched in February expires and can't be purchased any more.
If you like a particular iteration, you have three months to buy it same as now. But if you don't like it, you only have to wait a month to see what the next iteration is, rather than three months. It forces Kabam to create more iterations of the "basic batch" and that increases the likelihood that a particular player will see a set that appeals to them.
It is a very small change to how the announced crystal works, in fact it doesn't change how the crystal works at all. It just changes the schedule of when new ones are released and staggers things to make that schedule work. And it addresses the issue of some players not liking the first version of the crystal. Instead of having to stare at it for three months, they can at least look forward to a new option appearing every month.
Putting any effort into being wrong makes my head hurt.
Well... now I know I won't be trying for this crystal... at least 20/24 of these are worthless 5* champs, and the rest are mediocre at best (Nebula is probably the best, and she's not even a featured champ). I would never in my right mind pay 5k extra shards for a chance at these champs. This idea needs to be redone, or there needs to be better champs in the crystal, otherwise, this has been a waste of our time.
Otherwise, you will get a crystal with 24 champs that nobody will buy for 3 months. Like this 1st batch you plan to release. Having a crystal that doesn't change for 3 months would also be an anomaly. (Your word
That is true, you can pull basics from current feature crystal, but from community testing, the chances are a little bit more favorable to get the feature champ in the current system. And thanks for pointing it out that now we can spend 50K more hard earned shards to dupe Storm/Venompool more selectively. New system should be an improvement over the old one, which we should have more chances to get our hands on the brand new feature champs. Your step is not in this direction, it's actually just the opposite..! Bravo... on trying to justify for kabam. I know community can see through it and stop buying feature 5* crystals all tougher along with 3* feature grandmaster crystals so Kabam will be motivated for a new change
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Thor
OGDD
BW
Black bolt
Etc etc??
I don't think that bet is a good idea. I'm not entirely sure what you're saying, but both options seem wrong. The estimated chance to get the featured in the current featured 5* crystal is about 20% or one in five. You don't want them to make the chance to get one of the featured champs in the new crystal one in five, because the announced version has a six in twenty four or one in four chance to get a featured champion. It is higher.
Alternatively, if you mean the odds of pulling *each* featured in the announced crystal should be the same as the odds of pulling featured in the current crystal, that's impossible. There are six of them, and if each had a one in five chance of being pulled that's 120%. That's mathematically meaningless.
Forgot to mention that we have to potentially wait 3 months now, unless we are willing to fork over 300 units per FGMC for a rare chance at the desired 5-star champ.
Disappointed this is going further and further towards a pay to win system.
Yet again you’re missing the point, by February the 13th, Magik, Mephisto, MorningStar, Dormmammu, Ghost Rider, Dr Voodoo and Guillotine would have been added to the basic, find it really strange that none of those above average 5* champs is in the pool of the mystics, like you really put worst mystics all together. Even if they aren’t bad, they are the worst champs that you can have in the basic pool, that’s all.
Love how they clearly say you can go get the Newly released champs from FGMCs, but how do u get those units and what’s the easiest fastest way to get units, money money money.... so sad and pathetic by kabam...
You know, you may be right with this. Buying crystals with units has to be a better business for them. An those crystals have been around for a couple of months now, so they are pretty sure how much money they can make with it. Which is valid.
Perhaps instead of making this featured crystal so complicated, they should have just applied the same rules as to the 4-star featured crystals. I don't know.
You have to see the silver lining though, a pool of 24 champs should grant more 6-star shards.
Gambit
(New God tier mutant [deadpool])
Colossus
Magneto (red)
(New above average skill champ)
Falcon
Moonknight
Daredevil (netflix)
Joe Fixit
Rhino
She Hulk
Abomination
(New below average mystic)
(New sub par mystic)
Guilotine
Iron Fist
(New below average cosmic)
Venom
Groot
Drax
Howard the Duck
Hulkbuster
Iron Patriot
(New sub par tech)
Oh and all these 18 switch each month back to the previous 18.
Bro, they'll just delay putting any good ones in till the game shuts down. 18 **** champs per 3 month crystal. They can delay this for 2 years
Solemnly disagreeing with something wouldn't prove that anyway, nor is that something worth attempting to prove.
Credibility, on the other hand, is not something anyone is entitled to. You don't have to take any action to earn it, but neither will anyone offer it for free, nor can anyone do so even if they wanted to.
Please Miike, kindly share with us what the state of the game is now, because we must be confused.
I thought this was equal parts free to play and pay to win.
Now, The people with the fattest wallets will be the ones with the most advantage at getting the newest 5-star champs. Meanwhile free-to-play users must wait 3 months for a chance to catch up to them. And a **** chance to boot.
This only further exposes how important the FGMC is to Kabam's bottom line, getting the top tier alliances to shell out more cash.
it all seems filthy.
If Brian Grant is a loser, I'm making it my long term goal to lose at this game.
How can the odds or drop rate for any hero in the basic crystal remain the same when, over time, new heroes are added to the crystal ?
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I didn't say most used, but they are among the most effective. Cyclops actually scores very high on this list. There is a smaller group of players that use him, but they use him VERY effectively. [/quote]
Lol....
I can't even...