Putting the game on probation
Following the recent surge of threads from players leaving the game, I felt compelled to post something similar. While I’m not quitting just yet, I am officially putting the game "on probation.".
I am deeply concerned about the current state of the game and what it has become. My primary issue can’t be calculated by in-game resources, measured in time, or counted in a wallet. The core problem is simple: I am no longer having fun. At all.
I don’t feel any sense of achievement from my in-game progress. At best, I feel a sense of "Okay, fine, let’s move on." More often, I feel rushed, stressed, and pressured to manage a million things perfectly across a million game modes. I find myself either bored to tears with mindless content like Dimensional Arcade, Poker, or Arena—literally falling asleep—or extremely stressed because I have to play Battlegrounds to hit an objective.
Many things have let me down over the past six to twelve months. Looking at 2026 so far, I feel Kabam has broken every promise made during the Brawl event. Here is a summary of the issues weighing on me:
1. New EQ Format. We are still waiting for the promised optimizations.
2. The "Balance" program being nuked by DP and Nico.
3. Nerfs, specifically the Spider-Woman nerf.
4. Side Quests and the introduction of "web browser" style games as side content.
5. The grindy events like Poker or Alliance Coliseum.
6. Lack of innovation. Endgame content is just "copy-pasted" (Solo Coliseum) or recycled as new objective sets (Carina’s Challenges). Where is the actually new content?
7. The decline of battlegrounds. Engagement is clearly dropping every season. The metas are poor, and recent changes are making it worse. I was never a fan of the format, but I played for the rewards. Now, it just feels extremely stressful and toxic.
8. Aggressive monetization of every single aspect of the game.
9. Paywalled champions. Some champions are essentially unobtainable otherwise. While I have DP and Punisher, I’m still missing Torch and Red Guardian with no clear understanding when to get them.
10. Exploit management and rewarding those who exploit bugs (willingly or not) while others suffer - specifically the 7-star base pool compensation. That really hurt my trust.
11. AI Behavior. We were promised "AI 2.0," but there’s been no news. No attempts to fix current AI. During the Brawl event somebody from Kabam said "Oh, do we have issues with the AI?"
12. Quality assurance. New builds and features feel untested. The Essentia launch, for example, felt completely half-baked.
13. Stubbornness. It takes an exhausting amount of community effort to convince Kabam a bug exists. The default response is usually "everything is fine" until the evidence becomes undeniable.
14. Currency inflation. We have a million different currencies. We’ve been promised for consolidation for years, yet you keep adding more like Essentia. Why not use Radiance? Categorizing everything into "premium," "normal," and "low-level" just creates unnecessary clutter.
15. Champion oversaturation with two new champions each month. The roster is becoming impossible to track. Now you also do a bunch of tune ups, which also increases the pressure from balance changing.
16. The ascension feature. By now this is the largest concern. I agree with players like andrewtheruff. Ascension feels worse than the 8-star launch. RNG now controls not just who we pull, but who we can rank up. Champion-specific tokens are a terrible idea. Ascension should be the player's choice.
17. The smallest by value, but it was the last small piece which got me. Rigged RNG. We know about the RNG patent. It feels incredibly weighted and stubborn sometimes. This Lizard celebration was the final nail in the coffin. I opened 25 Titans, 3 Nexuses, and a Colossal Nexus. I farmed 4 Titans in one day. Out of 18 champions in this crystal, I couldn't pull the one Lizard I needed. I did everything possible and still failed.
Because of this, I’m stepping back. I’ll still play, but much less. I want to see where this is going. Right now, it feels like a dying game being squeezed for every last dollar. I’m done spending. My $50–$100 might not matter to Kabam’s bottom line, but it matters to me. I’m choosing to reclaim my free time, my mental health, and the "real world." I’d rather touch grass, read a book, or finally play the PS5 games I’ve ignored while grinding this game.
