Please Change The 5* Featured Crystal - 3 Month Refresh Is Agonizing
Symbiote Supreme is coming! Months and months of patient saving could finally pay off! *Checks 5 Star Featured Crystal Refresh Dates*... Coming January 22th... *Dies*
Ever since the new 5* featured crystal was introduced my excitement and enjoyment of this game has decreased dramatically. One of the things I enjoyed most about this game was that I had the option as a player to save up my 5* shards, passing up short term progression, in order to have a chance at obtaining new champions that I was most excited to play. I had over 70k 5* shards before I opened my first 5*, choosing to go for Nightcrawler as one of my favorite Marvel characters. I was so excited when he was announced because I knew I had a chance to get him on release.
Now, depending on when a champion is released, it can be 3 months after their release before the majority of players can even attempt to get them. It doesn't matter if you do all of the content every month or if you've saved every last shard you've acquired - the option to go for a new champion simply isn't there anymore. There are only two options left: Pay a very large sum of money for a small chance at a new champion or grind for 3 days straight with an already stacked roster and pray you make the top 150. Both of these options are only feasible for an extremely small percent of the player base due to the financial and/or time commitments required. By the time the chance to get these champions rolls around for the rest of us the hype is gone, the meta has shifted, and the cycle continues.
Kabam, I understand you've changed things to better suit your business model for new champion releases and I also understand that it was too easy to acquire specific champions with the old crystal's 20% chance. I'm not asking for the old crystal to come back. What I'm asking for and what I would love to see is a middle ground between the old crystal and the new one. Something that gives you enough time for the exclusivity to drive crystal sales while also giving a saver like me a decent chance to get a new champion in a reasonable amount of time after their release.
Please consider making a change to these crystals. A great fix would be to refresh the 5* featured crystal on a monthly basis with the oldest two champions being removed and the newest two being added in. You could delay the refresh for 2 weeks after the release of the second new champion. This would ensure you maintain exclusivity during a champions release for crystal sales and arena grinders while also giving the rest of us a chance to roll for these champions, at max, 1 month after they are released. In addition it would be awesome to see the chance to pull a featured champion increased just a bit with the champion pool adjusted accordingly, somewhere between 5-10% would be the sweet spot. But if nothing else a faster refresh time on the crystal would do wonders and really help bring back some of the excitement to the game.
