A Note To Kabam re: rank down tickets
Dear Kabam,
First and foremost, thank you for making a truly outstanding game. Your ability to create new content and add new characters without it becoming overly stale or too complex is quite amazing. I downloaded this game years ago, thinking it would be like any other game that I would play for a while to kill some free time and then it would ultimately become one if so many games that fall by the wayside. However, over three years later I still log in several times a day for AQ, AW and a variety of other content.
All of this is great, but I do feel there is an issue that needs to be addressed. With the addition of all the new character and new abilities, it seems like players like myself who have cleared all the available content in the game (quite a long time ago or directly after release of new content) are struggling to keep up with players who are just coming into end game content. When I completed Labyrinth or Legends, the roster choices were much more limited than they are currently. So the champs that were leveled were not the best for end game in its current state. We have seen the rise and fall of the Mystic class, the addition of truly elite champions that are Swiss Army knives for end game content and many other new types of champions all together.
However, with these changes there has almost been a complete shift in the type of Characters needed to stay competitive. Those champs that we leveled early in our progression are now effectively having to be shelved for superior champions that we cannot rank to the same level.
I have several examples of this on my roster that are rank 4, 5 star champions. With the slow power creep of the game, characters like Drax and Starlord which were among the best of the initial 5 Star crystals lack the utility to compete in end game content. Likewise, Juggernaut and Spider-Man (Classic) were once truly elite champions for defensive placement in Alliance War, but now they sit on specialty nodes or on the bench.
My point here is that the need for rank down tickets or more widely available rank up materials is needed in the game to keep your longest active veteran players active and engaged. The new alliance war is a good start, but ultimately will separate the haves and have-nots even further in this game.
In the past, rank down tickets have been specifically reserved for when characters are fundamentally changed. This time, I think they should be available for free or for purchase, because the game has fundamentally shifted to make the newer characters more vital and those of us that were in the position to level champs prior to the creep becoming a sprint fan ether behind.
Thanks for your time and keep up the great content!
Jelam