Are new champs breaking the game? I would say yes they are, but not perhaps for the same reasons as many people have expressed in the forums. I believe new champs are breaking the game because they make all of our older champs illegitimate. Kabam cannot keep coming out with new characters that continue to widen the chasm that exists between the new and old champs. If they want a balanced game (and they have said they do) they need to update many of the current playable characters who have been around for 2+ years.
The problem here is that this game is rapidly moving to the point of refreshing itself from the old content. Let me explain what I mean by this. Essentially all of the old classic characters, Iron Fist, Colossus, Iron Man, Abomination, DPX, and many many more have become useless except if you are just looking for champs to fight the old content that existed without buffed nodes. These days almost none of the old champs are ever used in the real competitive game modes and the harder story and event quests because the old champs have no utility against all of the complexity that the nodes these days throw at us.
What this has essentially done is penalize those of us who put resources into ranking these champs back when they could actually be used. I am not asking for rank down tickets, nor do I expect they would ever be given for a shift in the meta of the game, however, I do think it is not unreasonable to question if this shift in the meta should ever make our previous choices in this game null and void, such as ranking older champs. I think it's time that Kabam do something about this. I realize that this kind of update to old champs doesn't directly benefit the wallets at Kabam, but I would hazard a guess that in the long run, more players would be more willing to spend money on a game where less of their favorite champs aren't old and outdated by newer and likely less well known champs.
One of the things that really bugs me is that there are a lot of these old and useless champs in the 6* crystal. I don't know about you, but there is nothing worse than saving 15k 6* shards only to pull an Iron Fist who you know is completely useless to you because he is an old champ that has been outdated by the newer champs in the game. Aren't we supposed to be able to actually use our 6* heroes??? At what point has it gone too far? Kabam can't keep releasing new champs without first making sure that the old content in the game can still be used.
@Kabam Miike I know you will probably see this, and I'm not asking for a response, but please consider addressing this topic with the team. This has to be an issue that even moderators who play this game for fun can see and relate to. It makes this game much less enjoyable to see all of the awesome comic book characters of our youth underrepresented in such a cool game. Many of the players in this game can't even use the old champs because the level that we play at demands the latest and greatest champs. This is something that really demands more direct attention than just a beta test of a couple champs like what happened with Rulk and LC. It needs to be something that we as the player base can see you guys actively working to improve and not at the slow pace of once every couple of months.
There is so much more that I could say on this topic and so much more that needs to be said by the community, so hopefully we can get some attention to this issue.
Last thing before I post this... I realize that compared to some of the current bugs with the app and the game itself this is quite insignificant. But perhaps once all of that is fixed we can get back to some of the most important things that need to happen in the game, outside of bug fixing.
