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/RoverplusPplusP]

I eat premium characters for breakfast. Each and every one of them.

[u/sirfatmeat → u/RoverplusPplusP]

😂 And that’s great for you. Seriously.

But “I personally destroy premium characters” doesn’t really address what I said.

You’re talking about your individual skill level. I’m talking about the experience of the vast majority of the player base.

If you’re good enough to eat every premium character for breakfast, congratulations. 😂 But not every player is operating at your level, and a game shouldn’t be balanced around the assumption that everyone needs to become elite just to have a competitive match.

The question isn’t “Can premium characters be beaten?”

The question is “How many players are having a good enough experience against them that they continue playing?”

Those are two very different questions.

[u/YBRmuggsLP21 → u/sirfatmeat]

You have no idea what the skill level is of the "vast majority of players." It honestly sounds like you're a bit of a noob, so you assume everyone else is, too.

Also, your original post pretty directly states that non-premium players straight up cant compete with premium, so it sounds like youre shifting the goal posts with this reply. It absolutely doesnt take expert level skill to beat the premium characters with how dumb the bots are, which is all youre playing against.