**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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except this isn't always the case. A prime example is quake. She was hot garbage before they fixed her to actually do what her description said, twice. Now she is one of the best champs in the game. Another less important one is KG. They added the fury damage to his poison like it should have been.
I don't always defend kabam. I am critical when they deserve it (pure skill anyone?), I just choose to believe they have relatively good intentions when it comes to their player base. It would make zero logical sense to constantly silent nerf champs just for the hell of it. All that would do is anger the player base and make people quit. Therefore I don't jump to that conclusion like some people do. I would rather see evidence before making baseless accusations.
Did you read the comments? He’s not being changed.
Exactly, as I stated, I'm not personally bothered about compensation, it's more about the damage control.
Stop people crying before they start, it would be easy to just be like "sorry guys, we're holding our hands up, a number of issues within the text descriptions have come to light, we're going to be rectifying all the text over the next month so don't be alarmed, champion mechanics won't change but the text descriptions will. In light of our mistakes, we apologise and here's some free t4b frags"
I'm not saying they should give compensation, I'm just saying a small token of appreciation to the community for putting up with their mistakes would go a long way to appeasing the majority of the community that cry for rank down tickets as soon as the slightest thing goes wrong.
I run a business repairing electronics, and at times in the past I've had to give away free repairs even though I know they've damaged the part, just to keep the peace. It's just what you have to do in business sometimes.
You're playing a game. You can try things out and upgrade based on which champ feels better while fighting. The description is only really good for telling you how a champ works and what you should do while fighting to make the champ as effective as possible
I agree we need as accurate information as possible. I wish mistakes were never made and the world was perfect. The bottom line is, GR did not change. No silent nerf, no loud nerf. no nerf. There was little need to make a big deal about a small text update when the actual function of the champ did not change.
What you’re describing is accountability and customer service. Not usually found here. Kabam usually take a “here’s what we’re doing, too bad” stance on everything. There doesn’t seem to be any sense of what customer service is.
Kabam needs to really hire a community relations manager to address this stuff. Someone who can not only communicate with the community effectively (current forum mods are all we have and are not sufficient) as well as someone who can go back to the “team” and DIRECT them on what is not acceptable and actually affect change.
When a champion is first released they are extremely hard to get, either you have to spend money or hard earned units on RNG reliant Crystals to get them, or you have to grind arena. Now obviously for those who have picked up the game in the last 2 years, yes there's plenty of footage out there of ghost rider for them to see. But when it's a new champion, if that description in the Champion Spotlight isn't correct, people are either grinding arena like crazy, or spending cold hard cash under false pretences.
As I said earlier, I could accept a mistake on one, or maybe even 2 of his abilities, but mistakes on 4 of 6? Thats 66% of his abilities with false information, that's not nothing, that's a serious issue. How do we know that these issues aren't happening to the champions being released in the present? How do we do we know if the info on Havok's, or Mr Sinisters abilities is correct? We could grind out 30-40-50 million points in arena to get one of them, and then find out that his description doesn't quite match his abilities, and then rather than see his abilities matched to the information we were given in the first place, they can just change the text to make him less good and then just be like "oops, our bad, but now you have to deal with it"
As someone else said earlier, and I completely agree, I think this is a dangerous, slippery slope they've started down with changing the text to match performance rather than matching the performance to what we were promised.
Now, I understand that some things could be game breaking, like the Domino text change, if they'd of buffed her to match the description she would of been way too OP. But that just goes to show that whether it be 2 and a half years ago, a year ago, or a few months ago, these mistakes are still happening and people are spending their time, effort and money trying to get these champions under false pretences.
Especially for the statisticians who will sit and look at the abilities and do the math to figure out exactly how good they are before going for them in arena or in Crystals. And this has never been more relevant and important than it is today with the current complexity of the game. The wording has to be as close to perfect as humanly possible.
Slightly off topic but some of you may of heard of a TCG called Magic: The Gathering, for those who know it, you will know exactly the importance of the wording of abilities, one word mis-read/wrong can completely change the outcome of the ability, for example, the difference between 'while' and 'when', something as simple as that can give you a complete false interpretation of the ability. Obviously they are completely different games with different rules, but the concept is still the same.
That's essentially what you get from data mined abilities, and is way too basic for the complexity of the game.
Like I say, there are plenty of statisticians out there that will sit and crunch the numbers. And I would assume, that's how these things get flagged.
This seems to be their MO lately.
Personally I've stopped spending on featured crystals for new champs because I no longer trust that descriptions of be champs are accurate and I also know, firsthand, that when there is an error on their part, they just apologize while refusing to issue refunds. Given this scenario, I see zero reason to spend money pursuing new champs. I also find it ethically unacceptable for a company to behave in this manner.
First off, he hasn't been around for 4 years. Secondly, if all they had to do was search for description errors, I'm sure it would have been much more expedient. However, since I'm sure they have quite a full schedule, I assume they fight fires as they come.