New BG requirements make it harder for FTP.

I have been FTP since i started playing this game in 2019, and never seen a bigger imbalance since I joined.

I love BGs, but the new 40 champ deck requirement and 5 ban is actually a negative for my account and for most casual/non-spending players i think.

I grinded 90% of the game, and still struggle to even touch the roster power of the TOP players.

Currently i have:

7* R4 - 6
7* R3 - 11
7* R2 - 11
6* R5^A - 8
6* R5 - 6

so a total of 42 usable champs, but to be honest, if we disregard the R2 7* and non-ascended 6*, its more like 25 usable champs in BG.

With this roster when it was even weaker i reached gladiator in january 2026 and december 2025. I usually just prayed my opponent was bad at the game and also tried to play as cleanly as I could to outscore them, while placing lower ranked defenders and using lower ranked attackers, and it worked.

However, think about it, now , my R4s will get banned, i will be left choosing R2 7* ??? as defenders and attackers? and they will get lucky reshuffling 3 times in the match? i dont like spending my battle trophees on shuffling signets, id rather buy resources to rank more of my champs, i dont buy cash offers, everything i get is through the playing of the game.

So:

1. this firstly makes it more expensive to shuffle my champs if i wanna have the same advantage. (when it was 1 shuffle, i could take it or leave it, might use it in vibranium brackets)

2. My TOP champions will get banned and there is nothing i can do about it (it used to be only 50% of them).

3. I have to use much lower ranked champions because I don't want to spend $1000/month on a game. Therefore R2 defenders have no way to win, and with attackers i have to be 2x more aggressive , i dont know man.

I was so happy after last season thinking, hey, i only need to rank up 5 more champs, and ill have at least an R3+ power roster to compete now. But no, i have to rank up 15 champs now.

I hope this "experiment" remains an experiment and we can forget about it after. I get it why they want to implement it (players use the same champs all the time, also too many annoying defenders). But guess what, players will still use the same champs all the time, so this only gives advantage to those players who have like 50 7* at R4. and They will ban 5/6 of my 7* R4, and then, im left using my R2s..or spend more currencies to reshuffle.

like..... what? is this fair from a POV covering the entire game community? or is it just fair for the TOP 0.01% of players?

Comments

Osborne

There was no need for this change.... who tells them to do this ****

Sometimes i think they do these intentionally... They force ppl to spend a lot of money otherwise you are out of competition... Kabam please understand... You have a community over 200-300k players or maybe more or less.. more than half of them are ftp or low spenders from point of view...

You are just making "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer"

We understand game needs money to run... But dont create a "big big gap" btw the community.

Please reverse the change in Bg

lucianxvs

a few highlights of last BG season (just in case anyone says I suck lol)

lucianxvs

Current roster power. refference pics

lucianxvs

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2927836#Comment_2927836

very well put, rich get richer and poor get poorer is the literal definition of whats happening currently. Selling more and more resources for cash, and almost no good offers for units, selling exclusive champs, paid events , sales events every other day.. inflating those accounts beyond anything that can stop it at this point.

and if you don't spend, well, have fun dying in BGs because you didn't pu yesterday's offer .

captain_rogers

Please show me one, one comment from any player in any media (forums reddit Facebook global chat yt comments) where they said "guys it would be nice eto have 40 deck size or 5 bans or 3 REROLLS" PRIOR to this update, and I'll quit.

Literally the one thing nobody ask for, and let's do it. Kabam now act like those evil scientists in ww2 who did evil experiments on prisoners to check their tolerance level, and here we are the prisoners.

BringPopcorn

I don't know, there is this weird argument going around that pretty much says "FTP players keep this game alive", I don't think they would do things that would kill the game.

Maybe, just maybe they don't really care about F2P players...

lucianxvs

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2927850#Comment_2927850

perhaps, but I think this also affects their low spending players (the ones who buy the sigil, maybe a $5-$10 offer here an there, the gold track), and Im pretty sure thats a really really big part of the revenue.

if 50.000 players spend $10/month, thats half a mil of revenue, so why not care about them? they're not much more stacked than FTP accounts, they just play the game more casually, and Im sure they want to have some fun in BGs and get at least through some victory track ranks (which is becoming harder nowadays) my brother (he is thronebreaker, with a few 7* R1 and like 2 6* at r5) is getting matched with 30 7* R4s in freaking Silver bracket, and he just gets angry and quits. And this is not fun, lol. Now just extend the deck to 40, and you can get WRECKED a lot more, just encouraging most players to quit BGs, maybe that was the plan all along lol? they're encouraging BG players to stop playing BGs .

BringPopcorn

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2927852#Comment_2927852

Yes, and if 1 million people spend 10 bucks a month that is 10 mill revenue, and so on...

This game is not micro spendiny friendly, and that is why you have a huge base of F2P. Spending 5-10 bucks a month gets you absolutely nothing of value.

You can draw the numbers any way you want, you can pretend there is 10 people who micro spend or 10 million. You can pretend that whatever they make is pure revenue or understand that there are cuts and percentages going everywhere and 5 bucks is not really 5 bucks. Either way, they do not care for F2P.