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This shouldn't be a one-off but a Normal every time we get closer to the end of the previous list at minimum, or even monthly in the patch notes stating when the new champions being introduced are set to come to the basic pool to let the wider audience know and result in little to no backlash as this has proven to have happened.
I keep seeing this "I picked it because I wanted him before he was in featured" argument. You realize champs have never been supposed to be in basic pool before featured pool, right? Should that not have been a clue to people that something was wrong? There is a relatively normal schedule of when champs are put into the basic pool after the release, which I see as a lot of people's arguments for why this is wrong for Kabam to change that. But following that same logic, champs aren't supposed to be in basic pool before featured, so isn't it wrong for Kabam to not change that? Or is that one okay because it benefits you? Can't use logic only when it fits your side of the argument.
That's the biggest problem I have with these complaints, is most people knowingly picked the nexus because they thought they'd get a champ before they were in the featured, which most should know that is not supposed to be how things work. Kabam is even giving us a better featured that we would have gotten before because of it. We are getting something out of it, even if it sucks for those that planned something else. But also, if you planned something according to expecting the game to not work the way it always has (champs in featured before basic) then IMO you shouldn't be complaining that Kabam makes sure the game does in fact work how it should.
That all being said, I saw someone mention that they'd accept a way to trade their abyss nexus for a different class. I think that'd be a good middle ground - let people that really have a problem with this trade it in and let others that are fine with waiting, wait.
I'm not saying Kabam handled this perfectly. I'm also not saying no one has any reason to be upset. I'm saying the biggest reason people are upset is because they believed a projected date and are now asking for compensation/"Kabam to fix it" when Kabam did not ever give them said specific date. This community **** on Kabam enough, I'd like to see a little less crying on things that aren't fully in their control. But the internet is always going to be the internet, so I'm sure I'm wasting my time saying all of this.
Assume 1 month passes when you get from the 22nd of one month to the 22nd of the next. September to October is 1 month, etc… 5 months later is February 22nd. The day he will be added to the basic.
In assuming a month is 4 weeks in your calculation, all months have 28 days only, which is clearly not true.
Edit: apologies for anyone in the situation, i hope something comes for you to get a resolution. I’m not picking a side here, just want to straighten out the math
Having a month generally seen as 4 weeks makes a more consistent and measurable time frame for both the player and ultimately Kabam. If a featured crystal were to run every 16 weeks for example, they would know how many champs should be in the next featured crystal and when they should be in that crystal, and know that the day the crystal falls on will always be the exact same day of the week. We already have a schedule that a new champ ought to be released every 2 weeks usually, sometimes 3, if they changed it to be every 3 weeks that would fit exactly into their time frame of 4.5 months, being 18 weeks, and have the normal new 6 featured champs entering the crystal. Doing it on a month by month basis is honestly the worst possible way to look at it.
First, it says in bold before the list this is a projection (based on following the champ release patterns). Until Kabam confirmed a bunch of basic pool release dates yesterday, we didn't have any guaranteed info.
I want the info to be as accurate as possible, and for several years it's been really good, but over the summer we had a curveball.
Basically, when there is a two week gap between champ releases, there is a two week gap between basic pool entry. However, if there is a three week gap between releases, there is a four week gap between basic pool entry. It has been this way for years.
However, something got messed up with Hulkling, who was released three weeks after Wong, but went into the Basic Pool two weeks after Wong. This changed the entire release schedule going forward. This occurred on October 18, after the initial release of iDoom.
At this point, I had to guess what they were doing with Titania, the next champ released three weeks after the previous champ. I put in a three week gap in the Basic Pool (which led to the 1/31 projection for iDoom), but that ended up being incorrect as she entered the basic pool two weeks after Quicksilver. So if Kabam hadn't done the adjustment yesterday, iDoom actually would have entered the Basic Pool 4 weeks early on January 24.
So when Kabam says the intended release Basic Pool date for iDoom was February 21, that is correct based on the previous pattern before Hulkling through everything off.
Every champ from Hulkling to Titania went into the Basic Pool earlier than intended. So we did get some really nice champs like Wiccan, Galan, Valkyrie and Quicksilver two weeks earlier than we otherwise would have.
It's fairly obvious that they did this when they did as it coincides with the featured crystal coming out. As I've said before, it has always been the case that champs are not supposed to be in basic pool before featured, that fundamentally defeats the point of a featured crystal.
I'm done with this argument. Because I am more on Kabam's side than the communities, I will not get any headway. People have their sides and that doesn't change. You're welcome to be upset about the change, I'm not happy about it either because I am holding tech nexuses. But I'm also not going to sit here and cry and expect "Kabam to fix it" because I had an expectation that a PROJECTED DATE FROM THE COMMUNITY was 100% certain to happen and then it didn't.
@Kabam Miike Is this a good idea?