Are you happy with the She-Hulk rank down compensation?
Justin2524
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What are your thoughts?
Are you happy with the She-Hulk rank down compensation? 263 votes
Ecstatic they are starting to listen
14%
37 votes
It's fair should have come sooner
26%
70 votes
Indifferent happy either way
11%
29 votes
Still unhappy but a good sign
30%
81 votes
Will never be happy with Kabam
17%
46 votes
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Comments
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/156695/she-hulk-heavy-attack-fix-compensation#latest
Is Kabam going to fix all the others that can end a combo with a heavy too?
It is very important that resources that are spent can't be respent. This acts to counterbalance the otherwise overwhelming advantage veteran players have. Once you have enough resources to fully rank up a few full teams of champions you'll pretty much always be ahead of everyone else forever. A free to play game that allowed that would literally die by making it pointless for new players to join.
RDTs are extremely dangerous for that reason. But they have to exist to be the solution of last resort, because sometimes allowing this respending is unavoidable. Specifically, when those player decisions were not made under properly informed conditions. That's why there's no "consistency" to them: they have to be given out on a case by case basis when all other options don't work. In this case, in my opinion the situation warranted them not because a champ was nerfed: champs get nerfed all the time. The problem here is that the champion update explicitly intended to make the champion more attractive added abilities that were entangled with She Hulk's ability to combo into heavies. In that that connects to two separate abilities: her ability to maintain passive furies (by allowing combos into heavies you significantly improve the ability to pace defender power increases and special baiting) and her ability to shut down unstoppable. Combined with the fact that there's no specific reason to believe this interaction was unintentional and the fact that it was publicly demonstrable made She Hulk rank up decisions tainted by misinformation.
You're explicitly told when you play the game that the game will change. You're supposed to factor that into your rank up decisions and you have no guarantee those decisions will always be optional. In fact they are very likely to be superceded eventually. But there's a difference between the game changing organically in ways that can't be predicted, and the game changing because of a developer error that encouraged the players to make specific decisions. That's the line that is crossed here and makes RDTs the only reasonable option to address that issue.
Edit:
@Mathking13 yep those are exactly my thoughts
But yes I am also very happy with their response. They explained exactly why they're 'fixing' this, expressed that they understood the impact it had on players and their rankup decisions, and said they were looking at RDTs.
I also liked how they briefly mentioned 'hey this whole thing about RDTs is the exception, not the rule'. Should lessen the amount of people that complain and ask for RDTs in the future.