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So instead of doing important things to make everyone happy, like fixing AI issues, bugs, input issues. The gap between f2p and whales. You make events no one asks for. Which is still some how gonna benefit spenders. This arcade mode is so bad it’s funny. Do you guys listen to the community. Or do you only listen to whales. Until it’s a boycott you listen. Until it’s your wallets getting hurt you listen. Just fix the game and make it fair.

Just to be clear, 100% hearing y'all on feedback with regards to Doom Cycle, have passed along those concerns to the team and leadership. However, want to dispel the rumor that this mode's development did not take away from fixing bugs, working on our improvements to ai, input issues etc. It's a large team here at Kabam that all do different things. Completely valid to not enjoy the mode, we're trying out new things. Gotten some pretty strong feedback about it so far which is fair. But it did not come at the expense of those other things.

That’s a stupid excuse I’m sure more then 85% of the community would not care if you guys said “hey we’re gonna hold off on new content like new side quests, events whatever, to focus all our team effort on a fixing issues that have persisted for the longest time. Also don’t ignore the gap between ftp and whales you know you love to cater to whales. Let’s start with bg. I get if you spend your more then likely gonna rank higher. When you make metas that if you have the new 5/5 defender and the counter to it your gonna win. Radiance new amazing currency, oh wait only available via pvp.

Okay lets say you have a car factory. You've got the car designers, the engineers, the sales people, the different factory lines that all do different things that all ultimately results in one finished car sold to you. If there was an issue with the car, saying hey we're having all employees report to the factory floor to work on this particular line is not a solution.

The game team is big and covers a lot of different jobs and specialties. Stopping running side quests, or event new champs, is not gonna result in bg fixes or ai improvements. Its different jobs with different skillsets and knowledge bases. I wish it was that easy to snap your fingers and say hey we're gonna fix this, but its more complex than that.

That all said, this month's build release was rough. No hiding that. Proud of the game team for getting a lot of fixes out the door quickly, but all of us would be the first to say we wish they didn't have to do that in the first place.

Yea yea yea. Whatever I get that. How about you use all the money you guys accumulate from the whales spending on your game and hire more people to help fix the issues with your game… can’t be that hard to hire new employees with the amount of money you guys make.

This is above Pinwheel and literally everyone Pinwheel reports to's paygrade. Netmarble has made a concerted effort to share with shareholders their efforts to manage labor costs while increasing profit.
Here's a drill down in the Q1 earnings report:



This is billions in KRW, btw. As an owner of 10 shares of Netmarble buried in my portfolio somewhere, shaving costs quarter over quarter is great and i applaud the effort in principle but do miss Miike. It's fair to express displeasure with game aspects, but yelling at the survivors about jobs and such isn't fair or productive. Plus, that money you speak of from "whales" is spent already. It's why businesses are so big on quarterly revenue reports hitting projections. Year over year they're already behind, and I'm not optimistic on Q2 improving on that. But i digress...

That said, my 14 year old builds better game modes than this in Roblox. One hit the top 30 trending briefly.

No. one issue: The terrible choice of running this mini-game in browser window - obviously leading to so many wasted runs among the players…
Other major issue: Lack of detailed information. An average champion description in MCoC is now several pages long and has so many ramifications and implications that soon you’ll need to take a week-long vacation just to study it. Contrary to it, this new attempt throws the players into cold water, barely bothering to utter ‘swim’.
Given that the rewards are quite generous, I can imagine that the aftermath of this event will be throngs of players bitter for not getting them due to above listed issues. A plethora of memes might emerge as well to be with us through the late summer - and years to come, possibly.
But I might be wrong and it could still turn out to be quite a successful event; however, I’m afraid that that would require an immediate hotfix - at least some sort of confirmation before quitting/warning about unsaved progress as others have pointed out already…
You might want to beta-test any similar ideas in the future. Properly and thoroughly.