I know y'all will hate me for this but... RANKDOWN TICKETS
LeoGnarleyardo
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With the INSANE amount of new champs crashing into the contest in 2018, is there still gonna be rank down tickets available at some time through out the year or shall they for ever remain a memory?
Ive been playing for 3 years, and all my top champs are first or second year, besides my blade. my roster is insane as it is i could completely revamp it with the tickets.. im hopeful.
Ive been playing for 3 years, and all my top champs are first or second year, besides my blade. my roster is insane as it is i could completely revamp it with the tickets.. im hopeful.
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Most of my top champs are first years it would be nice to switch out some OG champs for some 2018 champs. maybe maybe maybe.. a man can dream cant he..
Anything is possible, but Kabam doesn't discuss things they are just "thinking about." It is a recipe for controversy.
I'm pretty sure we haven't seen the last of RDTs. It is just that the arguments players make for why they are either "necessary" or "logical" hold no water. But I'm reasonably sure that at some future date when the developers feel the benefits outweigh the damage they do they'll give them out as a (very) special reward, or maybe as a really big carrot for some gameplay accomplishment. But I'm quite certain they won't entertain discussions about them before doing so.
Let me leave this here.....
These tickets were meant to rank down champions during the 12.0 update who were nerfed majorly. They are not some thing you beg and annoy Kabam for every freakin day. When the majorly nerf champions, then they might bring them back
That's not an argument, that's a statement. The game is different, that's true. It is explicitly designed to change over time, which creates the need to rank up different newer champions over time. That means the need for rank up materials is unlimited over long periods of time.
The game is built on the desire to acquire new champions and the need to rank them up to high levels. What you earn today you use today. What happens tomorrow requires you to earn more stuff tomorrow.
Underlying all of these "arguments" that are really just observations is an often unstated premise: that if a player spends resources to rank up a champion for a specific reason, they have the *right* for Kabam to not change the game to alter or invalidate that reason. But that's a right that doesn't exist, however much people want to wish it into existence.
Here is the argument for why they are a bad idea. No one actually needs to rank anything down. Ranking something down helps no one. What people really want is to respend the resources they spent earlier to rank something else *up*. They want to rank up more things, and they think they can do that by extracting rank up resources from older champions instead of earning them through game play. In that respect, they serve the same purpose as making rank up materials easier to get, minus the invalid justification that I earned it once, I get to spend it twice.
Except the fundamental difference between making rank up materials easier to get and making rank down tickets easier to get is that rank down tickets disproportionately help players with larger, stronger rosters. They are more likely to have more champions ranked up, and more champions ranked up they aren't using as much. They are also more likely to have more of the stronger champions, by virtue of just plain having more of them period. They have the least to lose from a rank down and the most to gain from a simultaneous rank up.
So RDTs take away much of the need to grind rank up materials from the very players in the best position to have accumulated the most rank up materials. This allows them to lock in their top performing rosters at far lower gameplay costs than other players, which is precisely what you do not want to do when designing a progressional game. You want top performing players to experience diminishing returns on investment to keep the playerbase spread manageable, and to force the highest progression players to continue to play at a high level to maintain their relative performance level.
I'm pretty sure Kabam knows this, and they rue the day they ever created them in the first place. But that genie is out of the bottle.
While I would love to rank down my Guillotine (now that I am long past Maestro, and have no need for her to be 5/50 anymore), that doesn’t mean I “should” be allowed to rank her down and constantly swap top heroes for battling the next hurdle in the game.
1. AW is never an excuse for RDT's. This mode will always change which is part of the game.
2. AA- Bug fix and is still one of the best champs in the game.
3. Drax- If you ranked him up because of this glitch, this is on you.
4. MD- Quit crying about MD. We've asked for that change for years.
5. New content isn't an argument for RDT's.
I read your entire post. AW changes aren't a reason for RDTs. Just because they change the AW.mechanics doesn't mean we need to rank down champs. You can still make smart rank ups because of diversity. I could care less if they take it out or leave it. I'm happy with all my rank ups for defense and offense. Trying to justify them is asking for them. You don't have string arguments.