Roster Size is mostly dependent on your wallet when it comes to the endgame. Skills & achievements are based on the players. What would you want your game to focus on?
Well great job for listening to the community about the gate of no 4*'s in 6.1. *Dev team* "let's gate 6.2! Honestly I respect your transparency about this before release but listening to the community is certainly not your strongest attribute here. As for the more availability of 5/6* shards in content.. Have you no data on the last 4 weeks???? I'm genuinely curious as this event has been God awful in rewards and we still have two more weeks of poop to go. In all honesty the gate does not effect me to much as I'll still be able to complete it, just not explore. But the reasoning behind this is almost delusions of grandeur.
In their defense, the community is extremely short-sided and wrong in almost every situation (at least the majority)
Since my phone claims your comment was approved via the over lords... I'll simply say wtf are you talking about? I will give you the reward for Troll post of 2019 though! Great job, now stand up and take a bow!
He isn't terribly wrong. The majority of the player base overreacts with every announcement unless it involves free stuff. Then tends to shut up once the content is released or changes made and because they realize it wasn't what they thought it was.
They dont "shut up" cause they realize it wasnt as bad as they say it was.
They just get tired of giving feedback to Kabam that it continues to ignore. The complaining stops cause it isnt accomplishing anything
And what is your personal stake in all this. You always take criticism of Kabam so personal and act hostile to anyone who criticizes anything about the game.
If they get tired of giving feedback...why are they all here again? You call myself and @xNig trolls because we tend to have an opposing opinion that doesn't always put a negative light on Kabam. Why arent you and the others that insist that every decision they make as a company bad, considered the trolls? Its pretty much the same people all the time that whine about everything they do. I understand that I CHOOSE to play this game. I am NOT the owner of this game. Therefore I can accept what decisions they make, while giving an opinion when warranted.
You aren't giving feedback, you are complaining. In order to give proper feedback, you have to understand all the angles. The gate system is becoming the meta because we rely on a few champs to try and complete content. They want us to use more of our rosters and that's all there is too the move. This content isn't going anywhere and you'll have time to make adjustments to this content as well.
You aren't the only player here. They have a target demographic for each set of content they release. 6.2 won't be for everyone and they haven't been shy about saying that. Theres other things to work on for a large majority of the player base.
I dont agree with every decision they make. I do understand that I have very little control no matter what. I can choose to play a game I love or walk away. I play Marvel Future Fight and Marvel Strike Force casually as well. I could easily go and play those more but I choose to stay here. I don't have a fantastic roster of 6*'s but I'm not worried about those 6 paths out of 60 yet.
We will all be fine in the end. We will all at some point or another grow our rosters to beat the content. Also, we still have next months EQ coming and everyone will shift their compl...i mean feedback to the 3.2 boss they can't beat after one try and its a money grab. See you in those threads! 👋
We can’t simple not make any judgment befor it out man giv it chois I’m do agerd van out 4 star isn’t good and that ther doing with 5 star isn’t great either but don’t complain for censtes it’s out yet as @xNig said we make a judgment for to quickly
In order to give proper feedback, you have to understand all the angles.
You don't have to understand all the angles to give reasonable feedback. You don't have to know anything about games, or even this game really. Feedback when it is limited to expressions of personal preference or personal experience should be tolerated from anyone, regardless of their foundation.
The problem is when that feedback becomes hyperbolic, unjustified, foundationless judgment. I think it is perfectly legitimate to simply state "I don't like the gates." Not everyone will, and that's fine. "These gates are stupid and terrible game design" is not feedback of preference, that's a judgment that can and should be challenged, and now it is entirely fair game to question whether the person making that statement is actually knowledgeable enough about the situation to make that evaluation.
In order to give proper feedback, you have to understand all the angles.
You don't have to understand all the angles to give reasonable feedback. You don't have to know anything about games, or even this game really. Feedback when it is limited to expressions of personal preference or personal experience should be tolerated from anyone, regardless of their foundation.
The problem is when that feedback becomes hyperbolic, unjustified, foundationless judgment. I think it is perfectly legitimate to simply state "I don't like the gates." Not everyone will, and that's fine. "These gates are stupid and terrible game design" is not feedback of preference, that's a judgment that can and should be challenged, and now it is entirely fair game to question whether the person making that statement is actually knowledgeable enough about the situation to make that evaluation.
100% agree. In my mind we are essentially saying the same thing. I'm perfectly fine if people dont like the gates. They have right too like you said. People just need to realize the game has to be playable for everyone and not every decision will please everyone.
Looks interesting. The gate system is nice, but I gotta say that 5* and 6* shards aren't really that accessible. As a mid-game player (I just today completed 5.4.3), 6* shards are really hard to get. I know 6*s are meant to be rare, but my maximum is 1000/month, which isn't much. And I can't always get them all (I have no mood for Thanos, my intercepts are weak).
To be fair, I don't think this is mid-game content. Also, there are 6 Paths without Gates, so people will be able to complete about 50% without them.
Roster Size is mostly dependent on your wallet when it comes to the endgame. Skills & achievements are based on the players. What would you want your game to focus on?
So explain Brian Grant and his F2P account.
He plays this game as a source of income and it's his fulltime job. Brian Grant is F2P depending on how much you value time and energy.
Brian Grant is not the measuring stick for F2P in this game and he will never be, he might not be a money whale, but he definitely is a time and effort whale. And I'm not talking 2-3 hours a day, he literally plays this game for living, come on dude, be sensible.
F2P is F2P sorry to say. You cant exclude people cause they make a living on YouTube. He doesn't spend and has a sizable roster. He has more 6*'s than I do and spend a ton.
F2P players cant expect to be on the same level of anyone that spends. Its a choice they make and they need to understand that progression is slower because of that. Unless you an on being a youtube star, you won't have the same things ans spenders.
Roster Size is mostly dependent on your wallet when it comes to the endgame. Skills & achievements are based on the players. What would you want your game to focus on?
So explain Brian Grant and his F2P account.
He plays this game as a source of income and it's his fulltime job. Brian Grant is F2P depending on how much you value time and energy.
Brian Grant is not the measuring stick for F2P in this game and he will never be, he might not be a money whale, but he definitely is a time and effort whale. And I'm not talking 2-3 hours a day, he literally plays this game for living, come on dude, be sensible.
Brian Grant is not a reasonable example of what the typical person can accomplish in the game. However, he is an entirely proper counter-example to people making statements about what absolutely cannot be done without spending, as he doesn't spend. And while he does play more hours than you'd expect the typical player to play, it isn't necessarily true that he plays the game "full time." He has other projects (game related, but still) that he spends time on, and making Youtube videos is not just about recording game play and then uploading. He probably spends much less time playing the game than he could, specifically *because* he is a Youtuber. In fact, Brian Grant has fewer PvP fights than I do, so he absolutely cannot be just grinding all day.
Wait, Brain Grant has fewer PvP fights than I do? Holy banana burgers.
Roster Size is mostly dependent on your wallet when it comes to the endgame. Skills & achievements are based on the players. What would you want your game to focus on?
So explain Brian Grant and his F2P account.
He plays this game as a source of income and it's his fulltime job. Brian Grant is F2P depending on how much you value time and energy.
Brian Grant is not the measuring stick for F2P in this game and he will never be, he might not be a money whale, but he definitely is a time and effort whale. And I'm not talking 2-3 hours a day, he literally plays this game for living, come on dude, be sensible.
Brian Grant is not a reasonable example of what the typical person can accomplish in the game. However, he is an entirely proper counter-example to people making statements about what absolutely cannot be done without spending, as he doesn't spend. And while he does play more hours than you'd expect the typical player to play, it isn't necessarily true that he plays the game "full time." He has other projects (game related, but still) that he spends time on, and making Youtube videos is not just about recording game play and then uploading. He probably spends much less time playing the game than he could, specifically *because* he is a Youtuber. In fact, Brian Grant has fewer PvP fights than I do, so he absolutely cannot be just grinding all day.
Wait, Brain Grant has fewer PvP fights than I do? Holy banana burgers.
Probably spends more time editing videos than playing.
I just wish Kabam would invest more resources into buffing old characters. People wouldn't hate the gates nearly as much if they were able to use more of the characters they've pulled. When the majority of player's 5 star rosters have 0 use outside of arena and synergies, you know the game has a balance issue.
This is coming from someone with plenty of R5's and 6 stars who will be able to jump straight into 6.2 the day it comes out.
You know how we know these gates are nothing but a cash grab?
Cause if they wanted it to be about skill and not RNG they would have banned 5*s and 6*s and let us use our 3*s and 4*s only and tailored 6.2 around them.
But it's opposite. 5*s and 6*s only and in some cases 6*s only means us have to whale out on crystals to be able to run it.
Nothing but a giant cash grab masquerading as "fresh fun and interactive".
You know how we know these gates are nothing but a cash grab?
Cause if they wanted it to be about skill and not RNG they would have banned 5*s and 6*s and let us use our 3*s and 4*s only and tailored 6.2 around them.
Any game developer doing this in a progressional game - making the next step in the progression ladder go backwards - I would think had either completely lost his or her mind or was a mole for another game development company. Except this would never happen in any game studio with more than two developers, because the other two would fire this guy.
As many things as Kabam gets wrong, and they get many, many, many things wrong, I would rather play their game than one somehow designed by the forums. I can think of no better exemplar than this.
I just wish Kabam would invest more resources into buffing old characters. People wouldn't hate the gates nearly as much if they were able to use more of the characters they've pulled. When the majority of player's 5 star rosters have 0 use outside of arena and synergies, you know the game has a balance issue.
This is coming from someone with plenty of R5's and 6 stars who will be able to jump straight into 6.2 the day it comes out.
They are investing in it. Its not just about coding new values, theres a lot that goes into it revamping a older champ.
I just wish Kabam would invest more resources into buffing old characters. People wouldn't hate the gates nearly as much if they were able to use more of the characters they've pulled. When the majority of player's 5 star rosters have 0 use outside of arena and synergies, you know the game has a balance issue.
This is coming from someone with plenty of R5's and 6 stars who will be able to jump straight into 6.2 the day it comes out.
They are investing in it. Its not just about coding new values, theres a lot that goes into it revamping a older champ.
I said invest MORE resources. Buffing 1 champ every 4 months is not good enough when so many champs need reworks.
Clearly they have no issue creating 2-3 new characters every month. Maybe try focusing on older champs so people aren't constantly disappointed when they pull the likes of Hulkbuster, IP, Magneto x2, DPX, CA, TJF, Groot, IM, SIM, Vulture, Storm, oh boy is this list long, BPCW, Cyclops x2, KK, man I'm still going, NDD, Rhino, IF, Abom, Miss Marvel. Think I got them all.
It doesn’t even matter how many class and/or rarity gates you implement, with this much lag the game is unplayable. So good luck with that......... I’m also relatively late to becoming cavalier, but the number of times I’ve got clipped by the final boss of 6.1 due to sheer lag is just insane.
I just wish Kabam would invest more resources into buffing old characters. People wouldn't hate the gates nearly as much if they were able to use more of the characters they've pulled. When the majority of player's 5 star rosters have 0 use outside of arena and synergies, you know the game has a balance issue.
This is coming from someone with plenty of R5's and 6 stars who will be able to jump straight into 6.2 the day it comes out.
They are investing in it. Its not just about coding new values, theres a lot that goes into it revamping a older champ.
I said invest MORE resources. Buffing 1 champ every 4 months is not good enough when so many champs need reworks.
Clearly they have no issue creating 2-3 new characters every month. Maybe try focusing on older champs so people aren't constantly disappointed when they pull the likes of Hulkbuster, IP, Magneto x2, DPX, CA, TJF, Groot, IM, SIM, Vulture, Storm, oh boy is this list long, BPCW, Cyclops x2, KK, man I'm still going, NDD, Rhino, IF, Abom, Miss Marvel. Think I got them all.
People will inebitably be disappointed. As long as there is a variety of Champs, people will develop preferences. As long as they have preferences, they will pull what they don't want. As long as there are new Champs, people will compare them to the old. There are some that could stand a rework, no dobut about that. However, this needs to be done based on data over time, not by comparison to the newer and "shinier" ones. Trying to make the old on par with the new is not only a never-ending process, it's not necessarily based on what the actual data shows. Preference is not automatically in line with how they score in the data.
You know how we know these gates are nothing but a cash grab?
Cause if they wanted it to be about skill and not RNG they would have banned 5*s and 6*s and let us use our 3*s and 4*s only and tailored 6.2 around them.
Any game developer doing this in a progressional game - making the next step in the progression ladder go backwards - I would think had either completely lost his or her mind or was a mole for another game development company. Except this would never happen in any game studio with more than two developers, because the other two would fire this guy.
As many things as Kabam gets wrong, and they get many, many, many things wrong, I would rather play their game than one somehow designed by the forums. I can think of no better exemplar than this.
I never said it was a good design, but it clearly reveals Kabam's intentions here.
No matter what Kabam says it's never about making the game be based on skill or less based on RNG, or as they put it: "Having the right Champion, and being lucky in Crystal pulls, is much more important than we would like it to be".
But that's exactly what it is! These gates shaft f2p'ers and benefit the spenders and the RNG lottery winners and nothing more. All it is throwing 5*s in the trash and making us buy the next stuff.
This game is more pay2win than ever. Whatever you spent on 565s will go down the drain with these gates. Have a sig 200 r5 Omega? Too bad, get him as a 6* cause no other reason than they want more money. Who knows what's in store for 6.3 and 6.4, but whatever it is it's worse than this.
If any business tried these bait and switch tactics anywhere they'd be under investigation.
I just wish Kabam would invest more resources into buffing old characters. People wouldn't hate the gates nearly as much if they were able to use more of the characters they've pulled. When the majority of player's 5 star rosters have 0 use outside of arena and synergies, you know the game has a balance issue.
This is coming from someone with plenty of R5's and 6 stars who will be able to jump straight into 6.2 the day it comes out.
They are investing in it. Its not just about coding new values, theres a lot that goes into it revamping a older champ.
I said invest MORE resources. Buffing 1 champ every 4 months is not good enough when so many champs need reworks.
Clearly they have no issue creating 2-3 new characters every month. Maybe try focusing on older champs so people aren't constantly disappointed when they pull the likes of Hulkbuster, IP, Magneto x2, DPX, CA, TJF, Groot, IM, SIM, Vulture, Storm, oh boy is this list long, BPCW, Cyclops x2, KK, man I'm still going, NDD, Rhino, IF, Abom, Miss Marvel. Think I got them all.
People will inebitably be disappointed. As long as there is a variety of Champs, people will develop preferences. As long as they have preferences, they will pull what they don't want. As long as there are new Champs, people will compare them to the old. There are some that could stand a rework, no dobut about that. However, this needs to be done based on data over time, not by comparison to the newer and "shinier" ones. Trying to make the old on par with the new is not only a never-ending process, it's not necessarily based on what the actual data shows. Preference is not automatically in line with how they score in the data.
If you can't admit that there are objectively superior champions in the game then I don't know what to tell you. It has nothing to do with preference. These champions were designed years ago and never updated. They're basically irrelevant to the current game outside of arena ad the occasional synergy.
I just wish Kabam would invest more resources into buffing old characters. People wouldn't hate the gates nearly as much if they were able to use more of the characters they've pulled. When the majority of player's 5 star rosters have 0 use outside of arena and synergies, you know the game has a balance issue.
This is coming from someone with plenty of R5's and 6 stars who will be able to jump straight into 6.2 the day it comes out.
They are investing in it. Its not just about coding new values, theres a lot that goes into it revamping a older champ.
I said invest MORE resources. Buffing 1 champ every 4 months is not good enough when so many champs need reworks.
Clearly they have no issue creating 2-3 new characters every month. Maybe try focusing on older champs so people aren't constantly disappointed when they pull the likes of Hulkbuster, IP, Magneto x2, DPX, CA, TJF, Groot, IM, SIM, Vulture, Storm, oh boy is this list long, BPCW, Cyclops x2, KK, man I'm still going, NDD, Rhino, IF, Abom, Miss Marvel. Think I got them all.
People will inebitably be disappointed. As long as there is a variety of Champs, people will develop preferences. As long as they have preferences, they will pull what they don't want. As long as there are new Champs, people will compare them to the old. There are some that could stand a rework, no dobut about that. However, this needs to be done based on data over time, not by comparison to the newer and "shinier" ones. Trying to make the old on par with the new is not only a never-ending process, it's not necessarily based on what the actual data shows. Preference is not automatically in line with how they score in the data.
If you can't admit that there are objectively superior champions in the game then I don't know what to tell you. It has nothing to do with preference. These champions were designed years ago and never updated. They're basically irrelevant to the current game outside of arena ad the occasional synergy.
That's not what I said at all. There will always be "superior" Champs, which also factors in to what you're using them for and where they're at. What I said is, there has to be data to back up justifying the need to buff Champs. If you asked the majority, anything that doesn't fall under "superior" is "useless", and that's not accurate.
Comparing normal F2P players (e.g. this is their hobby not their job) to Brian Grant would be like comparing spenders to COWhale. BrianGrant is also in a top 10 AQ alliance and historically a master AW alliance so he is getting more rank up resources than most. He’s earned it all so not knocking him. End game players though expands to spenders / F2P that goes down through all the platinum ranks for AW and even some of the gold and further down AQ ranks.
It being only 6.2 and they are adding paths that only allow you one 5* makes 6.3-6.4 feel like they will have more and more 6* reliance and if that is the case they are phasing 5* out too fast
I probably said it wrong in my 1st statement, my apologies. Roster Size... Champion collection... however you put it, is a form of progression, but it’s a progression that is mostly based on Cavalier Crystals & GMC’s when it comes to the endgame of MCOC.
I actually get most of my 5* champs from arena grinding, not either of those two sources.
This game is first and foremost a champion collecting game. All of the fighting elements of it are ways to value champions.
This statement is 100% false. This game is first & foremost a fighting game, NOT a collection game. Not sure where you got that strange idea, but it’s advertised as a fighting game, talked about as a fighting game... & widely known as a fighting game. Even Wikipedia classes it as a fighting game... Collecting Champions is an element within this “Fighting Game” that many people enjoy... but it’s definitely not what the game is all about.
I'm commenting on the game as it is designed and implemented, not how it is marketed. It is obviously a progressional game as that term is used in the games industry, but it isn't marketed as such because almost no progressional game is marketed as such. That doesn't change how the game itself works. If you think this game is designed and implemented as a fighting game that just happens to have some champion collecting in it, almost every design or monetization decision Kabam makes will seem mystifying to you.
How a game is designed and implemented, and how it is "skinned" and marketed are two completely different things. Take Arkham Asylum for example. Is that game in the same genre as Dance Dance Revolution, a rhythm dance game? Of course not. Except, under the hood, that's how it was originally conceived and designed. How the mechanics work and how they are presented to the player are different. Similarly, how the priorities of content creation and monetization work for a game and how the game is marketed to players doesn't have to be the same.
But if you believe authoritative sources above the game development, then here's how Kabam itself presents the game on its own website: https://playcontestofchampions.com/
The page highlights three things: building alliances of players to challenge other alliances, creating teams of champions, and collecting Marvel champions. Some of those things implicitly refer to combat, but the actual combat of the game is not highlighted on MCOC's landing page.
I grabbed myself a batch of those tasty Cull Obsidian crystals today. However, I think someone forgot to tell the guy who coded them that 5/6*’s have never been more available.
You know how we know these gates are nothing but a cash grab?
Cause if they wanted it to be about skill and not RNG they would have banned 5*s and 6*s and let us use our 3*s and 4*s only and tailored 6.2 around them.
Any game developer doing this in a progressional game - making the next step in the progression ladder go backwards - I would think had either completely lost his or her mind or was a mole for another game development company. Except this would never happen in any game studio with more than two developers, because the other two would fire this guy.
As many things as Kabam gets wrong, and they get many, many, many things wrong, I would rather play their game than one somehow designed by the forums. I can think of no better exemplar than this.
I never said it was a good design, but it clearly reveals Kabam's intentions here.
You have to be implying it was good design, because you say "if they wanted it to be about skill and not RNG they would have banned 5*s and 6*s and let us use our 3*s and 4*s only and tailored 6.2 around them." If you are also saying this is bad design, you're saying if Kabam wanted the game to be about skill they'd do something deliberately wrong. They won't do that because it is bad design, and because they won't do that they can't satisfy your requirement that they do that to prove they value skill. That's an unreasonable standard.
Roster Size is mostly dependent on your wallet when it comes to the endgame. Skills & achievements are based on the players. What would you want your game to focus on?
Well great job for listening to the community about the gate of no 4*'s in 6.1. *Dev team* "let's gate 6.2! Honestly I respect your transparency about this before release but listening to the community is certainly not your strongest attribute here. As for the more availability of 5/6* shards in content.. Have you no data on the last 4 weeks???? I'm genuinely curious as this event has been God awful in rewards and we still have two more weeks of poop to go. In all honesty the gate does not effect me to much as I'll still be able to complete it, just not explore. But the reasoning behind this is almost delusions of grandeur.
In their defense, the community is extremely short-sided and wrong in almost every situation (at least the majority)
Since my phone claims your comment was approved via the over lords... I'll simply say wtf are you talking about? I will give you the reward for Troll post of 2019 though! Great job, now stand up and take a bow!
He isn't terribly wrong. The majority of the player base overreacts with every announcement unless it involves free stuff. Then tends to shut up once the content is released or changes made and because they realize it wasn't what they thought it was.
They dont "shut up" cause they realize it wasnt as bad as they say it was.
They just get tired of giving feedback to Kabam that it continues to ignore. The complaining stops cause it isnt accomplishing anything
And what is your personal stake in all this. You always take criticism of Kabam so personal and act hostile to anyone who criticizes anything about the game.
If they get tired of giving feedback...why are they all here again? You call myself and @xNig trolls because we tend to have an opposing opinion that doesn't always put a negative light on Kabam. Why arent you and the others that insist that every decision they make as a company bad, considered the trolls? Its pretty much the same people all the time that whine about everything they do. I understand that I CHOOSE to play this game. I am NOT the owner of this game. Therefore I can accept what decisions they make, while giving an opinion when warranted.
You aren't giving feedback, you are complaining. In order to give proper feedback, you have to understand all the angles. The gate system is becoming the meta because we rely on a few champs to try and complete content. They want us to use more of our rosters and that's all there is too the move. This content isn't going anywhere and you'll have time to make adjustments to this content as well.
You aren't the only player here. They have a target demographic for each set of content they release. 6.2 won't be for everyone and they haven't been shy about saying that. Theres other things to work on for a large majority of the player base.
I dont agree with every decision they make. I do understand that I have very little control no matter what. I can choose to play a game I love or walk away. I play Marvel Future Fight and Marvel Strike Force casually as well. I could easily go and play those more but I choose to stay here. I don't have a fantastic roster of 6*'s but I'm not worried about those 6 paths out of 60 yet.
We will all be fine in the end. We will all at some point or another grow our rosters to beat the content. Also, we still have next months EQ coming and everyone will shift their compl...i mean feedback to the 3.2 boss they can't beat after one try and its a money grab. See you in those threads! 👋
I dont likewhat their doing for 6.2 but dont mind it as much as some. I will get through it when I feel like it.
And I am objective. I actually defend some decisions like I dont believe Thanos is that big a deal this month and I dont understand the crying about the empty path I'm 3.1.
I just dont understand your dedication to screening every thread you can for the purpose of being hostile towards anyone who criticizes Kabam
Even when people do want collect champs, it’s almost always only to help progress in they’re fighting.
First of all, I would bet you're wrong there. The vast majority of mobile game players are casual players: they aren't as focused on combat skills as, say, the majority of players on the forums.
But second, eliminating the issue of how common this is, this doesn't directly contradict what I said. What I said was that this game is primarily about collecting champions, and the combat is there to give them value (beyond, of course, the Marvel IP). In other words, the combat is the incentive to pursue certain champs. That doesn't make the incentive unimportant, the incentive has to work for the pursuit to work. But the pursuit is the thing, not the incentive.
If the combat was the thing and the collection was incidental, the game developers would spend more time expanding and layering the actual combat itself, and less time creating new champions. Instead, most of the changes to combat come from new champions with new complexities to their abilities, rather than changes to the fundamental mechanics of combat. That doesn't mean no one cares about the combat, rather the reverse. It is in Kabam's best interests to make people care about the combat, because that's how they get people to pursue champions. But they don't tend to evolve combat by expanding how combat works, they tend to evolve combat by adding more champions players have to pursue that have newer more interesting features.
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You aren't giving feedback, you are complaining. In order to give proper feedback, you have to understand all the angles. The gate system is becoming the meta because we rely on a few champs to try and complete content. They want us to use more of our rosters and that's all there is too the move. This content isn't going anywhere and you'll have time to make adjustments to this content as well.
You aren't the only player here. They have a target demographic for each set of content they release. 6.2 won't be for everyone and they haven't been shy about saying that. Theres other things to work on for a large majority of the player base.
I dont agree with every decision they make. I do understand that I have very little control no matter what. I can choose to play a game I love or walk away. I play Marvel Future Fight and Marvel Strike Force casually as well. I could easily go and play those more but I choose to stay here. I don't have a fantastic roster of 6*'s but I'm not worried about those 6 paths out of 60 yet.
We will all be fine in the end. We will all at some point or another grow our rosters to beat the content. Also, we still have next months EQ coming and everyone will shift their compl...i mean feedback to the 3.2 boss they can't beat after one try and its a money grab. See you in those threads!
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The problem is when that feedback becomes hyperbolic, unjustified, foundationless judgment. I think it is perfectly legitimate to simply state "I don't like the gates." Not everyone will, and that's fine. "These gates are stupid and terrible game design" is not feedback of preference, that's a judgment that can and should be challenged, and now it is entirely fair game to question whether the person making that statement is actually knowledgeable enough about the situation to make that evaluation.
F2P players cant expect to be on the same level of anyone that spends. Its a choice they make and they need to understand that progression is slower because of that. Unless you an on being a youtube star, you won't have the same things ans spenders.
Wait, Brain Grant has fewer PvP fights than I do? Holy banana burgers.
This is coming from someone with plenty of R5's and 6 stars who will be able to jump straight into 6.2 the day it comes out.
Cause if they wanted it to be about skill and not RNG they would have banned 5*s and 6*s and let us use our 3*s and 4*s only and tailored 6.2 around them.
But it's opposite. 5*s and 6*s only and in some cases 6*s only means us have to whale out on crystals to be able to run it.
Nothing but a giant cash grab masquerading as "fresh fun and interactive".
As many things as Kabam gets wrong, and they get many, many, many things wrong, I would rather play their game than one somehow designed by the forums. I can think of no better exemplar than this.
Clearly they have no issue creating 2-3 new characters every month. Maybe try focusing on older champs so people aren't constantly disappointed when they pull the likes of Hulkbuster, IP, Magneto x2, DPX, CA, TJF, Groot, IM, SIM, Vulture, Storm, oh boy is this list long, BPCW, Cyclops x2, KK, man I'm still going, NDD, Rhino, IF, Abom, Miss Marvel. Think I got them all.
I’m also relatively late to becoming cavalier, but the number of times I’ve got clipped by the final boss of 6.1 due to sheer lag is just insane.
No matter what Kabam says it's never about making the game be based on skill or less based on RNG, or as they put it: "Having the right Champion, and being lucky in Crystal pulls, is much more important than we would like it to be".
But that's exactly what it is! These gates shaft f2p'ers and benefit the spenders and the RNG lottery winners and nothing more. All it is throwing 5*s in the trash and making us buy the next stuff.
This game is more pay2win than ever. Whatever you spent on 565s will go down the drain with these gates. Have a sig 200 r5 Omega? Too bad, get him as a 6* cause no other reason than they want more money. Who knows what's in store for 6.3 and 6.4, but whatever it is it's worse than this.
If any business tried these bait and switch tactics anywhere they'd be under investigation.
It being only 6.2 and they are adding paths that only allow you one 5* makes 6.3-6.4 feel like they will have more and more 6* reliance and if that is the case they are phasing 5* out too fast
How a game is designed and implemented, and how it is "skinned" and marketed are two completely different things. Take Arkham Asylum for example. Is that game in the same genre as Dance Dance Revolution, a rhythm dance game? Of course not. Except, under the hood, that's how it was originally conceived and designed. How the mechanics work and how they are presented to the player are different. Similarly, how the priorities of content creation and monetization work for a game and how the game is marketed to players doesn't have to be the same.
But if you believe authoritative sources above the game development, then here's how Kabam itself presents the game on its own website: https://playcontestofchampions.com/
The page highlights three things: building alliances of players to challenge other alliances, creating teams of champions, and collecting Marvel champions. Some of those things implicitly refer to combat, but the actual combat of the game is not highlighted on MCOC's landing page.
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And I am objective. I actually defend some decisions like I dont believe Thanos is that big a deal this month and I dont understand the crying about the empty path I'm 3.1.
I just dont understand your dedication to screening every thread you can for the purpose of being hostile towards anyone who criticizes Kabam
But second, eliminating the issue of how common this is, this doesn't directly contradict what I said. What I said was that this game is primarily about collecting champions, and the combat is there to give them value (beyond, of course, the Marvel IP). In other words, the combat is the incentive to pursue certain champs. That doesn't make the incentive unimportant, the incentive has to work for the pursuit to work. But the pursuit is the thing, not the incentive.
If the combat was the thing and the collection was incidental, the game developers would spend more time expanding and layering the actual combat itself, and less time creating new champions. Instead, most of the changes to combat come from new champions with new complexities to their abilities, rather than changes to the fundamental mechanics of combat. That doesn't mean no one cares about the combat, rather the reverse. It is in Kabam's best interests to make people care about the combat, because that's how they get people to pursue champions. But they don't tend to evolve combat by expanding how combat works, they tend to evolve combat by adding more champions players have to pursue that have newer more interesting features.