Best Of

I’m undecided. With a couple of exceptions, I have good counters at R2 or better. But…

I need to guard my time. With events like this, I sometimes find myself sucked into particular fights I know will be painful. While I’ve always finished those type of fights, what accompanied the post-euphoria feeling was a sourness that turned me off to MCoC as recreation or leisure activity.

Time is my most important resource. Ten minute-plus fights (if that’s even accurate) in the face of the current rewards very well may be more than I’m willing to give up.

In a strange way, I’m pleased the prizes for Wheel are as underwhelming as they are. That makes it feel 100% optional and, if that was an intentional design choice, then I think it may have been the only respectable one here.

Dr. Zola

They created highly skippable everest content. I'm not interested in that level of time commitment in a style of fights that I hate (several long, annoying fights and then do it over again) for rewards that are less than interesting (FOR ME), even if I do actually have the breadth of roster for it. I don't feel like I'm giving up anything by skipping it.

I’ve been playing Marvel Contest of Champions since December 2014—yeah, nearly 11 freakin' years. I’ve stuck around this long because I’m a die-hard Marvel fan and love the combat mechanics. But man, it hasn’t been easy. There were times I wanted to rage-quit after getting destroyed by insane quests, losing progress because of cheaters in BG mode, or dealing with endless bugs and connection drops mid-fight. Still, I never gave up. I wanted this game to thrive.

Over these 11 years, my life changed a lot. I moved countries, built a family, and my daughter literally grew up watching me play this game. It’s been part of my freakin’ DNA.

Then yesterday, I logged in and boom—my account was banned.
The reason? "Using a modified client." ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I’ve been clean for 11 years. I don’t even sideload apps—my APK’s straight from Google Play. Whatever new "detection system" you’re testing clearly messed up. Check the logs again. Check my play history. Check literally anything.

If you’re gonna mass-ban longtime players over false flags, who’s left to keep this game alive? We’re the ones funding it, grinding it, breathing life into it. Fix this. Don’t make loyal players like me feel like our years of support mean nothing.

Let's see 10k players out of what 600k I think the game will be alright

Yep burn the whole village because there are some criminals in there. Let's kill 200ppl in one village cause there are 5 thieves and 3 murderers hiding amongst them. Lets finnish off 192 innocent people to get rid of the 8 criminals amongst their midst. In general it'll be better for the community of all neighbor villages/cities. Screw those 192 people. They should have known better!

To be clear, Kabam is not banning 10,000 people randomly hoping to catch a hundred cheaters in there. Kabam is banning players using unauthorized game clients because unauthorized game clients are extremely difficult to police, and thus they are prohibited. If they allow players to play with unauthorized game clients, they will essentially be unable to catch almost any cheater with the foresight to use those clients and not do anything ridiculously obvious.

These unauthorized clients and unauthorized distribution channels were *always* prohibited. They didn't just make up that rule. They just didn't have the ability to consistently catch and ban them until now. But they are not banning lots of innocent people hoping to catch cheaters. If you're running unauthorized clients, you aren't innocent. You're doing something explicitly prohibited. You're breaking the rules.

If you want to argue against the rule, feel free. But the recent ban wave is not targeting cheaters and generating lots of collateral damage. The ban wave explicitly targeted unauthorized clients. It is targeting them deliberately, not accidentally. If someone was banned who wasn't running such clients, that's a separate issue. But the vast majority of them were, if not all of them. They are not innocent bystanders.

WRONG! I was banned, and i have, and always had my game from google play. Is that unauthorized source? They were doing it blind, and on friday afternoon just before the end of work. My ban was lifted after 3 days. Lost tons of resources from my overflow

I never seen a game developer fail so bad and the stash system makes it worse when players lose resources bcos they were unjustly banned for days

I hope the compensation makes up for the terrible mistake

Titan crystal at least

As has been said, no distraction tactics, just a swing on some content that's not connecting with folks currently. The ban wave was intended to counteract cheaters, and with the number of reports in BG prior it was a top community concern we wanted to address. We've acknowledged there were issues in the implementation and the review for that is ongoing, we want to make sure it doesn't happen again. But the through line through all this is there is no conspiracy, just two different things that both happened in the past week. Timing is coincidental.

Also, jokes about Miike vs Mike aside, please do not spam posts, of any kind.

I'm waiting 4 more days to have my ban removed and no answer at all. A lot of stash probably gone already. Whole alliance have 3 wars ruined. Raid - ruined. No answer from the team at all apart from generic response from support.
It really looks like distraction tactics - first couple of bans removed but a lot of them left, than WoF... really dissapointing behaviour.

Do you know how standings work in G.C. ?

Different from Victory Track where you progress thru ranks needing certain # of wins each and every time.

G.C. rankings (Uru and up) are based on overall point rankings, and each level has a certain # of players in it.

Didn’t think you needed to actually earn 1 point in order to start being placed higher than URU 6 (just play a match ? Not need to win one ?) as to why you saw URU 6 for a while.
(*maybe your standing doesn’t update real-time, but only occasionally, since it needs to take into account rest of player base as well ?)

But anyways, if higher tiers are for people down thru 10,000 people (for example, not gonna go look it up), and if there are not even 10,000 people yet in G.C. Then EVERYONE will be higher than URU-6.

And from URU-1 (maybe where the very bottom of G,C, is currently at ?) then winning 1 more match may indeed be enough to move you up past everyone else with no points yet, into Gamma 4.

With the amount of Tickets that Support is dealing with, this didn’t need to be one of them.

This is the quote from crash :

“New ELO tuning and matchmaking settings - This change is related to solving the issue of players at the top running away from the field and having trouble finding matches. Obviously making sure players can always find a match will become even more important once we introduce rating decay. The way this will work is players’ ratings will move less the higher up the ladder they are, keeping the field closer together. Players at lower ranks will also have a larger bias towards winning, in the sense that they will earn more rating for winning than they lose for losing. It means generally that more participation will be better. This will not however apply to the top of the leaderboard, the best player will still finish on top.

We also intend to implement a system that will open up matchmaking to larger rating gaps faster. We know the impact this can have on match risk, so we are also going to look at that scenario to make sure the system feels fair.
Target Timeline: TBD, will be introduced alongside #5”