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All OP wanted was to have a small conversation. It doesn't seem to be unrealistic to have that.

I was at the Fest for the entire weekend, and I’m sorry the OP had the experience he did. All I can do is give my own impressions, which are that there was so much happening so much of the time, I can understand if he felt like he was being ignored, because if you were not proactive in trying to engage with people they were not always going to do the same, simply from sheer overload.

I personally chatted with 40 or 50 people over the weekend, between the fest and the extracurricular activities. I had to initiate many if not most of those conversations because however well known anyone thinks I am, no one actually knows what I look like unless they’ve already met me, since I do not have a YouTube channel or other such visual presence. If you stood there and waited for them to approach you, likely most people - attendees and staff - would not specifically engage with you, probably thinking you were taking a break or something. Unless they already knew you.

I personally saw Dave and Mike stop and shake hands with many many many many people throughout the fest, basically anyone who stopped them and held out their hands and say hi. Not just content creators, but just every day players, as did many of the devs. In an event like this, there are bound to be interactions that don’t go smoothly. Sometimes I waited to talk to someone I specifically recognized but because they did not see me and were focused on someone else, they left before I could catch their attention. I’m pretty sure I eventually got to most of them, but in my opinion if anyone there thought they would not have to be the one to reach out and make the effort to connect first, and everyone else should be out looking for people who might want to chat, I think that’s asking for too much. The environment - like every convention I’ve ever been to - is just not conducive to that kind of thing.

Incidentally, those steps to and from the Brawl stage? Yeah when I was going up and down those I was focused on the steps. If anyone was trying to catch my eye while I was going up and down those, I almost certainly missed it, even if it might have appeared like my gaze passed in your direction. Between the lights and the music and the smoke machine and the conversations going on around and my desire to not tumble down the stadium seating like an idiot, combined with the fact I was generally operating on just a few hours of sleep at the time, I could have passed my wife going the other way and not noticed.

If I accidentally failed to chat with someone who was trying to get my attention, and I don’t know how that could happen because I was just an anonymous floppy hat in the crowd, I’m sorry for that. But I did my best, and I’m sure the staff there did as well. But in that kind of environment, you have to be proactive. Not just proactive, but persistent. At any moment in time the dev/attendee ratio was 30 to one or more, and most of them were running back and forth between tasks they had to do.

To the OP, if you’re still reading. I spent about half my time at the actual Fest just hanging out, especially Saturday. I was hanging out at the Beat the Boss area, I spent a little time at the Wheel, I was down by the Coloseum and Dazzler stations for a while. I was willing to talk to anyone who approached me. If you had tapped me on the shoulder and said hi, I would have chatted with you about anything you wanted for as long as you wanted. And then probably continued chatting long past the point you wanted. I’m sorry we didn’t specifically cross paths.

Lol I think its funny a Marvel game with most likely a pretty damn expensive license from Marvel brings in the same revenue a Slot machine game brings.. 🤣

Agreed, and it's even worse when you use champs like FAM who have long reach light attacks, 90% of the time when you go for a light intercept the AI just walks up to you slowly and clips you with a light. I watched it happen to Liam I believe during the Battlerealm Brawl even. The problem is that now this issue is hurting even champs who don't have long reach light attacks it's almost like the AI reverts itself to ROL AI temporarily for absolutely no reason and just decides to do unpredictable **** out of nowhere

I attempted to say hello to many. The looks I got made it clear they were not there to interact with me. I smiled at many. Would have been very happy with a polite smile back.

It was the very least they failed at. A polite smile.

agree 100%. They need to get rid of any nodes that require an intercept until they fix the game. Maybe Enchantress while we are at it.

Sorry to hear you didn't have a good experience. Over the weekend I shared a handshake and thanked many dozens of people, but with over 200 people in attendance it wasn't possible to talk to everybody. On Sunday I actually spent an hour walking around deliberately trying to find someone having and bad time and I failed. I guess by that point you had already left, and I'm sorry to have missed you.

I will also say, Mike and Dave worked tirelessly to make this event happen. I'm pretty sure Mike worked so much that he literally didn't even go back to his hotel some nights last week. It was an enormous lift to put on the show they did, and I promise you if you felt dismissed it wasn't because they intended that and likely they had the production team yelling in their earpiece telling them they needed to be somewhere or do something.

I am not telling anyone to tough up, its just is what it is.

The new EQ has not been well received because its beyond stupid from Kabam to put 15 fights with the same old unimaginative nodes making a bunch of champs useless Its not because its hard, its because champs are supposed to trigger a beneficial node and a lot of champs can't do it.

They took all this time with the prestige based rewards, change the whole way the game runs with a prestige 30 and all the sparks and glitter and left the same old nodes from what? 5 years ago? So the solution is not tuning down or making it easier, is making new nodes that will benefit MORE CHAMPS, making the paths easier.

Not a personal jab, I promised myself I wouldn't attack you on a personal level anymore, and try to keep conversations as civil as possible even if they are heated; but are we seriously going to base the argument on the number of people complaining? We both know that people will complain about anything and everything in this game.