If Kabam cares about transparency, why not show...

ChuckRyanChuckRyan Member Posts: 127 ★★
Kabam has been very vocal this year about increasing transparency. But no one is talking about the lack of transparency with new champion releases.

The past two months, two new featured champions were heavily hyped by Kabam Marketing and user speculation: Wasp and Heimdall. But the champion spotlights didn't show us how lack-luster these champions would be with the current meta of the game.

Showing Health points, Attack, and PI is nice, but why does Kabam hide: Crit Rate, Crit Damage, Armor, and Block Proficiency from spotlight information?

Is it because users wouldn't grind for Heimdall or buy FGMC if they'd known he had a 9% Crit rate?
Is it because users wouldn't grind for Wasp or buy FGMC if they'd known what her block proficiency was?

Probably. And if that's the case, how can we interpret this as anything other than deceptive marketing? Kabam is selling a product without telling us key details about what it can/can't do. And people are getting buyer's remorse on a grand scale because they had a reasonable expectation that the underlying mechanics were average or better. I don't expect every new champion to be god-tier. But I also think it IS reasonable to assume champions should be viable with the meta that Kabam itself has created.

Kabam should post full player stats on Champion spotlights. By not doing so, I don't see how Kabam can profess to be open and transparent with the player base. And players (like me) will only become more disillusioned.

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  • Reaper213Reaper213 Member Posts: 167
    Full stats are available on the home screen when the fgmc crystal comes out. You are able to see the stats of the 3* 4* and 5* champs as maxed out champs as well as their crit rates, etc.
  • Patchie93Patchie93 Member Posts: 1,898 ★★★★
    Also when you fight them in the monthly quest you can see all that info
  • DemonzfyreDemonzfyre Member Posts: 22,366 ★★★★★
    ChuckRyan wrote: »
    Kabam has been very vocal this year about increasing transparency. But no one is talking about the lack of transparency with new champion releases.

    The past two months, two new featured champions were heavily hyped by Kabam Marketing and user speculation: Wasp and Heimdall. But the champion spotlights didn't show us how lack-luster these champions would be with the current meta of the game.

    Showing Health points, Attack, and PI is nice, but why does Kabam hide: Crit Rate, Crit Damage, Armor, and Block Proficiency from spotlight information?

    Is it because users wouldn't grind for Heimdall or buy FGMC if they'd known he had a 9% Crit rate?
    Is it because users wouldn't grind for Wasp or buy FGMC if they'd known what her block proficiency was?

    Probably. And if that's the case, how can we interpret this as anything other than deceptive marketing? Kabam is selling a product without telling us key details about what it can/can't do. And people are getting buyer's remorse on a grand scale because they had a reasonable expectation that the underlying mechanics were average or better. I don't expect every new champion to be god-tier. But I also think it IS reasonable to assume champions should be viable with the meta that Kabam itself has created.

    Kabam should post full player stats on Champion spotlights. By not doing so, I don't see how Kabam can profess to be open and transparent with the player base. And players (like me) will only become more disillusioned.

    Its a spotlight. Doesnt mean its their full bio. They havent done it with any of the spotlights.
  • NamelezNamelez Member Posts: 992 ★★★
    Namelez wrote: »
    Kabam is as transparent as a brick wall.

    A brick wall that has holes showing "Emergency Maintenance". They would be transparent if not for that message.

    LMAOOOOO
  • Feeney234Feeney234 Member Posts: 1,202 ★★★★
    edited August 2018
    Demonzfyre wrote: »
    ChuckRyan wrote: »
    Kabam has been very vocal this year about increasing transparency. But no one is talking about the lack of transparency with new champion releases.

    The past two months, two new featured champions were heavily hyped by Kabam Marketing and user speculation: Wasp and Heimdall. But the champion spotlights didn't show us how lack-luster these champions would be with the current meta of the game.

    Showing Health points, Attack, and PI is nice, but why does Kabam hide: Crit Rate, Crit Damage, Armor, and Block Proficiency from spotlight information?

    Is it because users wouldn't grind for Heimdall or buy FGMC if they'd known he had a 9% Crit rate?
    Is it because users wouldn't grind for Wasp or buy FGMC if they'd known what her block proficiency was?

    Probably. And if that's the case, how can we interpret this as anything other than deceptive marketing? Kabam is selling a product without telling us key details about what it can/can't do. And people are getting buyer's remorse on a grand scale because they had a reasonable expectation that the underlying mechanics were average or better. I don't expect every new champion to be god-tier. But I also think it IS reasonable to assume champions should be viable with the meta that Kabam itself has created.

    Kabam should post full player stats on Champion spotlights. By not doing so, I don't see how Kabam can profess to be open and transparent with the player base. And players (like me) will only become more disillusioned.

    Its a spotlight. Doesnt mean its their full bio. They havent done it with any of the spotlights.

    That's the point of this post.
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  • Jestr54Jestr54 Member Posts: 344
    If it’s not putting money in their pocket they don’t care. Look at the amount of time they spend trying to fix their servers.
  • DemonzfyreDemonzfyre Member Posts: 22,366 ★★★★★
    Feeney234 wrote: »
    Demonzfyre wrote: »
    ChuckRyan wrote: »
    Kabam has been very vocal this year about increasing transparency. But no one is talking about the lack of transparency with new champion releases.

    The past two months, two new featured champions were heavily hyped by Kabam Marketing and user speculation: Wasp and Heimdall. But the champion spotlights didn't show us how lack-luster these champions would be with the current meta of the game.

    Showing Health points, Attack, and PI is nice, but why does Kabam hide: Crit Rate, Crit Damage, Armor, and Block Proficiency from spotlight information?

    Is it because users wouldn't grind for Heimdall or buy FGMC if they'd known he had a 9% Crit rate?
    Is it because users wouldn't grind for Wasp or buy FGMC if they'd known what her block proficiency was?

    Probably. And if that's the case, how can we interpret this as anything other than deceptive marketing? Kabam is selling a product without telling us key details about what it can/can't do. And people are getting buyer's remorse on a grand scale because they had a reasonable expectation that the underlying mechanics were average or better. I don't expect every new champion to be god-tier. But I also think it IS reasonable to assume champions should be viable with the meta that Kabam itself has created.

    Kabam should post full player stats on Champion spotlights. By not doing so, I don't see how Kabam can profess to be open and transparent with the player base. And players (like me) will only become more disillusioned.

    Its a spotlight. Doesnt mean its their full bio. They havent done it with any of the spotlights.

    That's the point of this post.

    Whats it going to change? People are still going to want champs. Plus all the info is made available immediately from the home screen.
  • Reaper213Reaper213 Member Posts: 167
    ChuckRyan wrote: »
    Reaper213 wrote: »
    Full stats are available on the home screen when the fgmc crystal comes out. You are able to see the stats of the 3* 4* and 5* champs as maxed out champs as well as their crit rates, etc.

    You're right. They do appear there. And I should've looked, but I don't find it that reliable since it's still showing me "featured champs" from 2017.

    -Hahaha. Case and point. My home screen right now:

    78pxzc04wup2.jpeg

    If you read my post correctly it says on fgmc release. I don’t remember fgmc being released on a Monday but I’ve been wrong before.
    Wait till release and refresh homescreen genious
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  • RedBaronstrikesRedBaronstrikes Member Posts: 7
    Kabam needs to fix hemidall and then post info on every champion that enters the meta
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