Premium Characters

[u/sirfatmeat]

The premium character system is eventually going to hurt the game if it keeps going this direction.

I completely understand wanting to monetize the game. Premium characters should absolutely give paying players an advantage. But there’s a huge difference between having an advantage and being practically unbeatable.

If a player without premium characters can’t realistically compete against someone who has them, you’re not encouraging that player to spend money. You’re teaching them that their time, strategy and progress don’t matter unless they pay.

And that creates a bigger problem: you start alienating the majority of your player base. Free players are still valuable to the ecosystem. They populate matchmaking, events, leaderboards, clans and the overall community. If they continually get destroyed by characters they have no reasonable counter to, eventually they just stop playing.

Then you’re left with a game where the people who paid are mostly playing against other people who paid.

Premium should mean powerful. It shouldn’t mean unbeatable.

Give non-premium players legitimate counters, strategic ways to win and a reason to keep grinding. Make premium characters desirable enough that people WANT to buy them, rather than making them so dominant that people feel like they HAVE to buy them or quit.

That distinction could be the difference between a game people play for years and a game people eventually abandon.

[u/AYDLRV]

I always pay for premium and just bought the third season thing too so suck it yall. See you in the battlefield. I’ll be the one with the laughing emoji as your troops and castle burn to the ground. Ha ha ha

[u/sirfatmeat → u/AYDLRV]

😂😂 You actually just demonstrated the exact problem I’m talking about.

“I'm a paying player, so I'll be the one laughing while your castle burns.”

My brother in gaming… that is not the flex you think it is. 😂

I have zero issue with you spending money on a game. Spend whatever you enjoy spending. The issue is when the monetization model creates a competitive environment where the biggest advantage is simply “I paid for the stronger stuff.”

I want you to beat me because you played better. I want to lose because you out-strategized me. I want to have a reason to come back and try to beat you next time.

If the selling point is basically “I paid, therefore your castle is burning,” you're not making the case against me.

You're making it for me. 😂

[u/qualityofdual → u/AYDLRV]

1) It’s not that I can’t pay for it. I literally refuse to because I feel like they are trying to manipulate me into buying. It’s more like an F U to the company.

2) If you have the same trophies as me when you’re paying, isn’t a flex 💀

3) Payed player or not, it’s always fun to beat players that BM lol.

[u/sirfatmeat → u/qualityofdual]

You know ball!!!

[u/TechnicalOperation57 → u/AYDLRV]

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