Like I can make a case for ascension even though I know it'll piss off the majority of the players. That I can see why someone would say "we'll take our lumps with this" rather than doing a less extreme step like doing accension but limiting it to "you hit our jackpot, you get to pick someone in one random class rather than one random champions". Essentia though is a completely unforced error.
They probably enjoy the game the same way the McDonalds CEO enjoys his own burgers
I think Mike was that player for a while, but who knows now. In any event, there are people in the CCP who could have said this was all a bad idea that they either
A) Chose not to listen to (bad because it would probably be entirely negative so how else would the fanbase engage with it)
or
B) Didn't feel like sharing with (in which case the CCP is pure promotion which is such a dumb way to handle things)
Was being key word. If you ask Mike from the player stand point on his thoughts of being able to trade 1000 glory a week, there is no way he could say "Its great I love it".
Ask any of them how they feel about grinding a stupid match color card game for 3 weeks … see how many genuinely reply "I had a blast"
Sad really but this is what the game is turning into because of their greed. I understand they need to make money but there was absolutely no reason for champ tokens to be a thing who tf wants an A2 Patriot over an A2 BPCW? The RNG aspect (considering we got over 10 levels in total) is so bad. But that’s not even the worst part, what makes it ten times worse is the fact that newer champs will be ascendable but completely locked behind a paywall, wtf happened to “we don’t want the game to feel too p2w” you’re literally going back to the same **** Kabam what are you doing?