Why so many new Hero's

[Ybnormal]

Ill first off saying don't reply or even read if you like to spend to play. Myself and others enjoy playing to have fun and not real hard earned money coming out of pocket to see it disappear in one day of leveling a new toon. Don't get me wrong I like the new Hero's and all, especially the graphic design on them. Very unique and creative to the developers. Give yourself a pat on the back. What I suggest is maybe instead of 20 toons a month maybe let us get the legendary quest for the old toons. Since I've been playing day 1 I've wondered what would the toon be if it had that 5th skill. Some Hero's might not do anything to but others it might make em just as powerful as the new toons. I have more fun not spending as much for a new toon every day. It's like why even make those toons if you can't get the skill. Or is it just a example on what this game is made for, "how deep is your pockets". If that's the case then imo I'll try a new game and that doesn't work like that. More Legendary quest, woohoo

[Sp1tfire]

What is coming in Period 1 (Jan - April) of 2018

New Heroes Distribution

Going forward, we’ll release less heroes and spread their releases over a period of time.

That quote is from their January-April roadmap and it never happened. Abandon all hope that it will change anytime soon. Designing and releasing new heroes is their one and only true purpose, nothing else matters.

[Har_Hausakluiff]

If you have truly been f2p from day 1 then you must have been playing nearly day and night for 2 years in order to be wanting Legendaries. Most f2p folk who have less than a year in ( unless they have no other responsibilities ) are at maybe level 80 p2 . I agree with sticking to f2p, at least until you find the game is worthy of maybe a few bucks.

[Trickster_Orion_III]

I am at level 104 on my f2p account. I only do all my dailies first thing after reset. I log on for my free stamina and fp/coli rewards. I have been playing for a little over 5 months. I made this account to see how hard it actually was to play completely f2p.

[SaiyanPrince_II]

I wont really say i m f2p since i have done one monthly deal 15 days ago as can be seen from screenshots but before that i was f2p and i am only 5 months old on s11.. its very easy to level up now a days with double xp.. with the stamina packs and diamonds i can reach lvl 134 today itself.. and i have 18 cyan heroes fully geared

[Har_Hausakluiff]

Ayyy...and so yourselves fall into that category of having the time available to take full advantage of the freebies. I can only spare about 30-45mins, and not every day, so now I can see how you have done better than many f2pers.Good on you! F2p and guildless is best

[SaiyanPrince_II]

I dont really get wat u guys mean when u say that a f2p player needs to play 15-20 hrs a day.. to be honest it hardly takes an hour to do all the stuff in game.. after that even if u stay online for 15 hrs there is nothing u can do.. for the past 5 months i have spared an hour or may be two on s11.. only hit crypt with one hero each 5 times for xp quest.. nvr do it for gold as it is so boring.. so yeah i spend around 1 hr daily on s11 for past 5 months and result is posted above.. i wud really like someone to tell me wat they do for 15 hrs in a game which hardly takes an hour to do all things..

[Har_Hausakluiff]

The time may not be so much for yourself S P but than as you have said you are not a 0 vip f2per and if you are crypting than you are also guilding which adds another level of feature advantages. The majority of folk who play very casually like myself are level 70-80 Purples ( for their top 10 toons ) after that same amount of time. Now maybe Autoing/FFing through everything can get it all done ( including guildie stuff ) in an hour a day, but than what's the point.

[Baert]

My f2p alt was lvl 80, orange, in about 3 months. I've since stopped using it, because 2 accounts is way too time consuming for me atm, but it is 100% doable.

[Har_Hausakluiff]

Again...as you have mentioned "time consuming" I would understand having much of it to invest and choosing to use it on DS how hitting 80 orange in 3 mo's would be possible. For a 0 vip casual player ( 6-8 hours a week ) stacking 20 toons, not so much.

[Lord_dezal33]

When you say the "majority" and "most" how many people are we talking about approximately because it seems like your taking your personal situation and applying it across.

[Sass_Rexess]

I fall into same category as HH and through chats and observations would agree ( though I am not so obsesed as to pursue stats on any GAME ). I have noticed that folk who are many times yield, albeit bit-by-bit, the true numbers behind their original claims of time and else invested. Mostly the facts speak for themselves,especially if players are guilding ( as it requires more time ). Denial is a part of any addiction, it is what occurs after acknowledgement that varies

[Tar_Vanimelde]

On s11 where some of those toons are new drops?! Mucho tiempo o mucho dinero es necessita por des a possible!

[Rogue_Moss_V]

I guess the main argument is that we were told less and controlled release not a glut of mainly crap tunes and the point about legendaries I completely agree with but I guess our opinions don’t matter!

[Sere]

Let me try to answer your original question.
1. 60-70 % of the revenue is generated by whales (heavy spenders)
2. Every time a new hero is released revenue goes up because whales aspire for every toon it's out there. The release of new toons is considered as content update
3. Every time a lvl cap is raised revenue goes up significantly

You can read about those facts in Gree's annual business report (if you care, lot's and lot's of boring spreadsheets). Same strategy is being applied to numerous mobile games released by Gree and helps them to improve share holder value.
It would hurt this business model if the speed of releasing 'new content' would go down.
Maybe it's a consolation that the last 10 heroes that were being released are crappy.

[Hodor_is_coming]

There are also smart ways to play that can make you competitive without being a whale. Hoard gold chests until a new toon comes out, only spend diamonds on stamina (50 diamonds for 120 stamina), hoard stamina boosts and double drops for contests, etc.

And if you regularly play the game, 3 bucks a month for a few months will get you to a vip level that lets you raid multiple times and have a steady stream of diamonds/raid tickets. GREE is providing an ad-free service; it's only fair to pay something for it if you're enjoying it.

[Lord_Bionitrous]

They are not capable of slowing down because they've turned the game into Contests Online.

In addition to never ending contests, they seem to think the only valid reward for a contest are stones from some stinking new hero.

And by the time 3 weeks have past, we're all at 4 or 5 stars for the latest crap hero. So they think they have to shove another hero out the door so someone will care about the latest unimaginative repetitive boring repeat same old same old never ending haven't we seen this same junk contest.

Honestly, things were better under Per Blue as far as thinking next week might provide something different. At least they tried to mix things up.

[Hero_Arthas_XXII]

Smoke and mirrors to keep the addicts returning to the same mildewed funhouse. Guess it's working

[Sass_Rexess]

Too bad Last Defender is a little underpowered; love watching his hammer slam while Bulwark is doing a faceplant. So yes I enjoy the graphics that come with the new toons as much as or more than the contests and other "content?" that keeps coming. And yes again...there are those too invested to easily let go

[Lord_Bionitrous]

I like seeing new graphics, new animations, new skills as well. Fun to look at.

I can't understand, however, why they spend so much effort on new characters nobody is going to use rather than adding things to minimize the game.

All those man-hours spent on art could have been spent on adding dungeons, random quests, PvM guild boss, older character rebalance, runes 2.0, ...

Isn't 75 enough?

Eventually, the ideas for character skills and abilities will run out and the only way to create an interesting hero will be to have it possess a skill 'Kill or be Killed: Destroys the entire Enemy Team unless killed before unleashing her ultimate power