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I'm higher than all of those guys. I've finished top-6 in Banquet several times. Focus less on the money and more on what is pro-player, pro-fairness, and pro-fun.

I’m way ahead of you my man. Stopped spending a while ago. Not even remotely tempted to pony up ever again due to Kabam’s tactics.

Thanks for your help keeping the lights on here for the good years!

I thought my $5k per year for several years was bad…

Kabam's latest MCOC Dev Diary on Spider-Woman is basically a masterclass in deflection, gaslighting, and never taking responsibility. The Kabam Special™. We've seen it a million times: hype up an OP attacker, cash in, then gut them once the sales numbers stop ringing. Spoiler alert: Karolina and Nico, you’re up next.

And really, how hard is this?

• Attacker → Ensnare ON (maybe even as a pre-fight ability?)
• Defender → Ensnare OFF

Rocket science? No. But hey, honesty isn't really Kabam's strong suit, is it? Let's call it what it is: they don't want her strong offensively either. Can't say it out loud, of course, so we get this song-and-dance "adjustment."

"Spider-Woman on node 42 is terrifying!" Oh please. That's only a Tier 1 headache, and it's not even the ensnare that's the main problem - it's the fumble. Meanwhile Enchantress, Serpent, Bullseye wreck half the player base daily, but sure, let's go after SW because… reasons. Truth is, she makes a mockery of their "unbeatable" defender kits - Dark Phoenix's immortality, Serpent's death immunity, Bullseye's evade, the works. And Kabam's fragile egos just can't handle that level of versatility.

They sold us Spider-Woman on the strength of ensnare, then pretend she suddenly "needs balancing." Please. What she really does is break their carefully scripted "buy the new champ to counter the new problem we just invented" cycle. Can't have an older champ shutting down their next cash cow, right?

At the end of the day, I don't think it's Spider-Woman that needs rebalancing - it's Kabam.

There are no positives in that dev diary, just the usual slop that we are used for a few years now.

What about the 30% chance to remove Serpent's immortality? I tell you something, that is more useful than Things failing rock stacks, which you can go around if you're skilled.

And there are other examples where her AAR can be useful in attack. Seatin gave the best example, I would rather have that 30% chance in a fight and risk it.

By and large I presume other CCP creators are not directly commenting on this out of a sense of respect and decorum. Most of the content creators in the CCP, and this includes Vega himself, respect the program and the participants enough to respect the relatively private nature of the discussions and interactions within it. Why Vega decides to do what he does is his own story to tell. No one should read their own interpretations into the absence of commentary, although I suspect most people will.

Here’s what I’m willing to state. My own direct interactions with Vega were less frequent than with some others, but they were generally respectful, and I agreed with some of this stances and disagreed with others. He was not the lone voice of dissent in the CCP by any means, nor do I believe he ever implied he was. I believe the farthest he went in his video was saying he was a minority voice in the specific ways in which he took some of that criticism to logical conclusions, and in that I would agree. I cannot speak for Vega or anyone else for that matter, and I have no insight or knowledge of any private interactions he had with other CCP members or the Kabam people, but there was some definite friction that came about in what I will call here Vega’s style. This happened even in some of my interactions with Vega, although I never took any of it personally myself. I simply understood Vega was often a very pointed advocate. But this does come with challenges in groups.

As far as I am aware, Vega left the CCP of his own accord, and even he states this. He did say that he felt a discomfort that I will paraphrase as feeling “unwanted” but that’s a thing only he can or should elaborate upon, as that’s a personal feeling. To the extent that I know any of those details, that’s wholly not my place to disclose. What I will say is the narrative that Vega was kicked out of the CCP because Kabam didn’t like his feedback is at best ludicrously oversimplified, and I think Vega would agree that’s not the foundation of his issue with the CCP. It is quite a bit more complicated than that.

The opposite narrative going around is this is just Vega trying to farm clicks. I don’t know him personally myself, but I don’t believe that either. As I said, Vega is a very pointed advocate, and I think he’s doing what he is doing because he believes in it, whatever it is. I think he feels what he is doing is the best thing for his own advocacy goals. The fact that how he thinks and what he does is not always obvious to other people encourages people to fill in the narrative with something they find easier to understand. He’s a drama queen, he’s trying to get attention, he’s farming views. These are easy narratives to promote, but I don’t think they capture the complexity of real people.

I’m not saying I agree with his stance, or that I think it even makes sense to me per se in all respects. But real people march to the beat of their own drummer. They do what makes sense to them. They don’t usually care if their internal logic doesn’t make sense to others. If there’s one thing I can say about the CCP, as is true in any group of people, even when people agree no two people arrive at the same conclusion by the same path. The number of times I have found myself in agreement with someone, but could not make heads or tails of how they arrived at the same conclusion as me, is uncountable.

Agree with Vega, disagree with him, take up his cause or ignore him completely, that’s up to others to decide for themselves. The one thing I would say is don’t fill in the gaps in the narrative with easy spackle. It is basically always wrong. I think of all the things we might have disagreed with, this is something for which I believe Vega and I would be in complete agreement.

"We missed the mark. We really didn't want to miss the mark. But we missed the mark. We've heard you about missing the mark and we promise we won't miss the mark ever again. Because we hear you."

"Spider-Woman is super scary on Node 42 in War, i.e. a single component in a massive game...therefore we're going to nerf her and not the node."

"We want to get rid of the Classic requirement for EQ but, sorrynotsorry, our code is so stupid that it'll take up to six months to change it."

"To prevent this from happening again, we're supposedly implementing better review and testing processes that should've been in place in the first place. Honest!"

100% dude, and that’s why we’re going to be tuning down Classic further to act better in line with that.

Think of Elder moreso like a Challenge mode on top of the EQ, not like the whole EQ itself.

Lmao that was definitely a turning point

Insane people will disagree with you