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Re: Are you skipping EQ this month?
I like the valiant eq they introduced in last few months. That was barely time to gage its success and now they blow up EQ with this…
doctorb
Re: Kabam should take a (month off) break
For a long time, I've been all for the game taking a break to fix things…but I also know they'll never do it because they would lose so much money and there's no guarantee everyone (or even a significant enough amount of everyone) would return.
MoeyTehr
Re: What’s the most beautiful woman in the game?
Seems that Mike made an account just to distract people from the main issues at hand, crazy work 👍
Re: Are you skipping EQ this month?
To answer the original question, I don’t know what I’m doing with EQ this month. Not that it looks super difficult but I agree with the people saying chunkier defenders for less (or same) rewards. Makes me wonder what surprises are lurking for us in Elder difficulty.
The nice thing about the Valiant Gauntlet was that you would do that and do less fights overall. Right now, having to do a completion run at classic difficulty + the Elder difficulty makes me wonder if we’re going to have more fights overall for those rewards. Not very appealing of an idea and goes against the original idea of the gauntlet. That is potentially what will hold me back from doing EQ this month, that felt like a bait and switch when they announced it in the stream. They also said Elder difficulty would be harder so what does that mean.
A neutral ground in the midst of darkness
On a serious note. I did want to invite genuine neutral discussion here that is removed from the stream of negative threads.
I'm going to start by saying something so controversial yet so brave. ON PAPER the changes to prestige and eq have massive potential and is interesting. But its something that needs to be handled with care.
However this is Marvel Contest of Champions, so we of course have the worst version of the idea with the worst way possible to implement it.
In theory, tying rewards and eq to prestige provides both kabam and the players with a simple means to implement and receive infinitely scaling rewards. In that system, no reward or player would get left behind.
Therefore i can see why they expanded prestige to more than 5, it would have been way too easy and fast for players to hit the maximum for rewards. But for the life of me I dont know why they jumped to 30. 10 or 15 would have made more sense for the first iteration of this. Maybe it could have moved to 30 later down the line. But off rip it was too careless.
I'm not so ignorant as to think they didn't think about this but I am however skeptical that the version of this we received is what they envisioned. Id like to have faith that this idea was more thought out and just poorly implemented.
For the eq, at minimum, they should have found a way to have the valiant eq rewards be the floor for the valiant progression.
For the eq design, it makes no sense to force players to go through a worse version of thronebreaker eq just to get to the valiant gauntlet. Kabams marketing the past few months has even been leaning into that as a positive for the valiant players. "Look at all the stuff you dont have to do!" To "now you have to do it and it's so much worse" is a really bad look.
I do also have a couple suggestions and after I'm handing the mic over to the community.
- I doubt they can reverse the top 30 prestige at this point. They're too deep in. But what they can do is adjust the scaling and thresholds. Maybe it cant happen this month but it can be done next month.
- Remove the classic difficulty requirement. You guys prided yourselves on moving away from that only to backpedal and make it worse.
- find a way to make the floor for valiants the rewards for valiant eq.
- Shuffle prestige values to make the unbuffed, almost unusal champs the lowest and raise the prestige values of champions people use relative to however prestige scales. (This one wont happen but would be nice)
Again. The potential is there and I can see the vision. But currently, it sucks. No easy way to say that. But it can get better. Kabam really should have kept this one on the stove until they were SURE it would land
ahmynuts
Re: Are you skipping EQ this month?
I think they should have kept old EQ format and the different tier. If they then want to ADD this format, then so be it. I believe if it ain't broke, don't mess with it. Just leave the old and add new.
doctorb
Re: What even is this eq!!
This has to be like the worst unnecessary change they did ever lmao
DrWooper
Re: What even is this eq!!
This is finally undisputed proof that they want to decrease the quality of this game. They had it right finally, then they tear it all down the next month and replace it with bullsh
