**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Comments
1) It gave hope to players, who have not been lucky with the champs they have pulled so far, As you know, the crystals are totally random and odds are that many of them, don’t have 1 top 20 Champ. There are also players who have 4 God Tier 5* Rnk 4 and they just need to dupe Blade and R5 him. That player might view the new crystal as being not so bad.
All of the featured champs need to be duped or require synergies to be playable against the current game content. They can’t wait 3 months for the champs to reset. They look at Storm and Ronan Antman and They don’t get why you wouldn’t at the very least choose champs that have a bit of utility.
Rarely do I reference 12.0, simply because it's used so much, but it comes to mind in this sense because it was the best example of not anticipating the reaction. I don't think this is the same extremity at all, or even close to the same situation. However, they didn't anticipate the effect that the extreme changes would have. I have no doubts that they are more cognizant of pretty much any large change now, and they have taken steps to include Players in the process. I think ultimately, there will be changes from time to time that people don't like. That is part of having to make decisions that are optimal for the present and future of the game.
I am opposed to many Kabam decisions but I never object to them trying to make a profit. All of the "money grab" posts I find to be short sighted. Free to play only works if others spend and if no one does there is no game. I like the game so I am in favor of decisions that make them money as long as they aren't detrimental to the game. Having said that, this crystal is garbage and it won't make them money because no one will buy it.
I'm still trying to figure out why someone with zero 5 stars in his IGN profile would have such a lengthy discussion about 5 stars. Can you help me understand why you have such a strong opinion on something you don't have? I'm not trying to be a jerk here, it's just odd to have such a strong opinion when 5 stars aren't what you play with.
For me it's an endless wonder.
Here is a link to the rules:
http://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/54/forum-rules-please-read-prior-to-posting#latest
To the person who wants to flag every post I have please point me to the rule being violated. Sigh. I have to guess they have over 5000 posts here based on what I'm seeing.
I think we are on the same page.
It’s no different to when perfect block teams were removed, the top champs were nerfed, 2* alliance wars were disabled and defender kills were removed. On each and every one of those occasions Kabam came out with a half-arsed justification that the playerbase saw right through.
Most people I know as well as the youtubers all seem to be in agreement that the changes were made because it was becoming too easy to get the featured champ therefore you effectively build your own roster and that they also want to push people more towards the 300 unit featured grandmaster crystals.
I’d have a lot more respect if they simply came out and said that rather than trying to sell us a line about cyclops and ant man being high performing champs.
They didn't feed us anything. That was a response to a question asked about the Champs included.
I meant to say sell. I was focused on the game when I started commenting.
I think the conversation focused on that somehow, but it wasn't a complete statement in most cases. What he meant was among the number that use him, they use him very effectively. At various points, that became mixed with the opinion on Cyclops.
That's the difference between the data and the Players. The data doesn't have a partial opinion. People at the Top Tier may have an opinion on him, but the datamining looks at the actual usage.
To be fair, it could be because every time he went for a featured crystal he didn't get it and every basic he pulled has been junk, in which case you wouldn't rank past r3 and therefore your 4*s would still be higher. For him this could actually be a good thing.
I have 9 5*s and only one appears on my profile because the rest are junk, but it could double that just by opening all the shards I've stockpiled. RIP 5* featured crystals and all my self control in hoarding.
I am by no means defending any of the points he has made here so far, just posing a possibility.
It's just to rile me. Been posting the same comment over and over. Luckily, I don't care. Lol.
I've had my share of rolls I wish went better, for sure, but for me it's about building a Roster. It all goes into it. I'm not so focused on getting the Top Tier. I take my chances, roll for what I want, and accept the outcome. Still waiting to Dup. Anything, really.
I'm not questioning the validity of their statements.
At the same time, I think it's redundant for us to continue stating that. We're here to discuss ideas and thoughts on topics. Technically, none of us know. We can still have opinions and theories formed from our own observations and experience. I feel like it becomes a bit too political. I'm a proponent of saying what we think, within the respectable limits of the rules of the Forum. None of us know beyond a shadow of a doubt, and that fact won't change because we don't work for them. Might as well just say what we think. Lol.
Also, this new crystal isn’t meant to be a money maker for Kabam, directly. It’s meant to push spenders toward the Grandmaster Featured crystals and thus increasing their profit. The spenders probably weren’t buying as many of the GF crystals as they would like so they had to do something to change that.
I can't say I agree that it's based on a total number that use him, at least for the most part, simply because the comment referenced the small number that use him, use him very well. I think that's the misunderstanding about the data. I don't believe they're looking at the most popular as an indication of effectiveness. I believe they're examining all Champs and how effectively they're performing. My view is that it's not really about who is used the most. It's about identifying the Champs that perform poorly. For that, you would have to examine all Champs individually, then look at the collective data and make some type of comparison.
Not conjecturing on the GMC myself so I will just say that's an agree to disagree.
I understand what you’re saying. But do you think, honestly, that ANY of those 18 is more effective than Dorm, Magik, Spark, Iceman, AA, GP, Hyp, Rogue, Quake, Ultron....?
It depends on how Kabam is looking at certain data.
Let's say, for example, there's a few players with not as deep rosters that have to use Cyclops. These players are not running higher tier war and are running lower level AQs, but if still using 4 and 5 star Cyclops, they may be running through the lower level content. This would show up, when looking at the data a certain way, that the champion Cyclops dies the least/wins the most out of a certain pool of champs. It's not necessarily incorrect, as people with Stark Spidey, for example, may be pushing higher tier content, and dying more than someone running Cyclops at a lower level. This could be an argument for Cyclops being "more effective."
It'd still be a poor way to hand the data, and kind of disingenuous of Kabam to suggest the Cyclops can be considered more effective......but it all depends on what and how they're looking at. They could probably run numbers a bunch of different ways to come up with an argument for most champs. Unfortunately I doubt they're going to ever explain what they mean/look at when looking at champs' effectiveness.
No one can blow their load of saved crystals on sub par champs like sentry and carnage, before knowing if they are any good or not. Instead we are going to have to blow units saved ( or, let’s be realistic, units brought with money) go aquire these new champs.
Now imagine the uproar, when someone spends thousands of dollars to acquire a new favourite champ (Sabretooth, doom, FF4....) and they are as rubbish as Carnage was...,
Kabam has better start getting these champ releases sorted.
In the context we're discussing, those champions can't "seem" effective. What you are trying to say is that a particular champion may be used effectively by a particular player, but they would be more effective with another champion they simply don't have. And that's certainly possible. But any reasonable analysis would account for at least some of this, because it would separate two different factors: how much a champion is preferred verses how much a champion generates. Preference would measure how often a champion is used relative to the number of players who even have that champion. For example, Blade is probably highly preferred even though it is also likely that is isn't used very often on an absolute basis - not enough players have him. Effectiveness has to be judged relative to usage.
If Blade is more effective than, say, Colossus, that would be analytically true even if only one person played Blade and everyone else played nothing but Colossus (I'd be statistically suspect of data with only one person in it, of course). For the champions in the curated list to show up as "effective" it only needs to be true that there exist many other champions that are played by players that are less successful. That would then make them more successful regardless of whether or not there exist champions even more successful.
If you are asking yourself why the champions selected in the featured crystal didn't get votes for the $1 crystal, then you are making the assumption many players are making that those champions in the crystal are the champions that Kabam believes, or is claiming, that players would vote as the most desirable champions to possess. Nowhere do they make that claim and it is not a reasonable extrapolation to make.