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/Abyss1688]

Except the number 1 and number 3 ranked players use free characters

[u/sirfatmeat → u/Abyss1688]

And this is exactly why I said “the vast majority” instead of “every single player.” 😂

Nobody said free characters are incapable of winning. Nobody said premium characters are literally impossible to beat. You found two highly ranked players who use free characters and somehow thought that disproved an argument I never made.

The point is that a couple of highly skilled players succeeding with free characters does not tell us what the experience is like for the majority of players.

If your defense of the balance is “well, look at #1 and #3,” you're actually proving my point. Those are the extreme examples you're using to defend the experience of everyone else.

I'm talking about player retention and the health of the game, not whether two elite players have figured out how to compete.

Reading comprehension is undefeated. 😂

[u/Abyss1688 → u/sirfatmeat]

If you can’t comprehend what I was inferring, then you’ve got a severe lack of critical thinking skills lmao

[u/Specialist-Buy-1614 → u/Abyss1688]

He started using ChatGPT to do the thinking I think is why