State of the Game

We all know of issues and bugs inside the game and this is not another rant post or complaint about issues or compensation. I am genuinely worried about the game we all love. Does anyone else feel the game is on its last leg? I just want some reassurance that the game won’t die and that they are fixing things. As of now, it seems problems are being pushed over to an eventual collapse.

Comments

Demonzfyre

It's not on its last leg.

Colinwhitworth69

No.

BTW this comment gets made pretty often, but if you understand the game's financials, you'd know the answer before asking.

Bwer777

No.

BTW this comment gets made pretty often, but if you understand the game's financials, you'd know the answer before asking.

I’m trying to get answers as to why I shouldn’t be concerned, not just a no and a sassy remark lol. Thanks for the help

Squirrelguy

No.

BTW this comment gets made pretty often, but if you understand the game's financials, you'd know the answer before asking.
I’m trying to get answers as to why I shouldn’t be concerned, not just a no and a sassy remark lol. Thanks for the help

I mean, his answer wasn't that sassy, and it did highlight why you shouldn't be worried.

You can look up the financial earnings of Kabam and just generally how the game is doing, and if they aren't losing a ton of money then you can assume that things aren't going that badly. They have made a lot more progress recently on fixing some of the initial bugs, but are still having problems when new ones crop up. Someone with more experience in game design or hardware/software platforms can probably give you a more comprehensive review, but bugs happen in a game as complicated as this.

Not everyone seems to realize that not everyone is encountering the same level of bugs. Some people complain that they haven't been able to play difficult content in months. Personally, the last few months for me have been almost identical to last Summer (aka a few small bugs but overall a well functioning game for me). They are still putting out a lot of new content, new champs, they haven't lost a large percentage of employees recently (some, but no evidence that they are irreplaceable or anything), they still are trying (not necessarily succeeding) to be better with community involvement, etc. Lots of hope for the game and for the future. You can also look at the number of downloads and number of new summoners.

Bwer777

No.

BTW this comment gets made pretty often, but if you understand the game's financials, you'd know the answer before asking.
I’m trying to get answers as to why I shouldn’t be concerned, not just a no and a sassy remark lol. Thanks for the help
I mean, his answer wasn't that sassy, and it did highlight why you shouldn't be worried.

You can look up the financial earnings of Kabam and just generally how the game is doing, and if they aren't losing a ton of money then you can assume that things aren't going that badly. They have made a lot more progress recently on fixing some of the initial bugs, but are still having problems when new ones crop up. Someone with more experience in game design or hardware/software platforms can probably give you a more comprehensive review, but bugs happen in a game as complicated as this.

Not everyone seems to realize that not everyone is encountering the same level of bugs. Some people complain that they haven't been able to play difficult content in months. Personally, the last few months for me have been almost identical to last Summer (aka a few small bugs but overall a well functioning game for me). They are still putting out a lot of new content, new champs, they haven't lost a large percentage of employees recently (some, but no evidence that they are irreplaceable or anything), they still are trying (not necessarily succeeding) to be better with community involvement, etc. Lots of hope for the game and for the future. You can also look at the number of downloads and number of new summoners.

I like what you said much better tho. This explains things better than just a “no”. There are definitely bugs they haven’t fixed that have been in game for awhile. To say AQ and AW are fine isn’t true. I get bugs a lot. My main concern is that when mobile games shut down there usually isn’t warning. One day they’re there. Next day they’re gone

K00shMaan

No.

BTW this comment gets made pretty often, but if you understand the game's financials, you'd know the answer before asking.
I’m trying to get answers as to why I shouldn’t be concerned, not just a no and a sassy remark lol. Thanks for the help
I mean, his answer wasn't that sassy, and it did highlight why you shouldn't be worried.

You can look up the financial earnings of Kabam and just generally how the game is doing, and if they aren't losing a ton of money then you can assume that things aren't going that badly. They have made a lot more progress recently on fixing some of the initial bugs, but are still having problems when new ones crop up. Someone with more experience in game design or hardware/software platforms can probably give you a more comprehensive review, but bugs happen in a game as complicated as this.

Not everyone seems to realize that not everyone is encountering the same level of bugs. Some people complain that they haven't been able to play difficult content in months. Personally, the last few months for me have been almost identical to last Summer (aka a few small bugs but overall a well functioning game for me). They are still putting out a lot of new content, new champs, they haven't lost a large percentage of employees recently (some, but no evidence that they are irreplaceable or anything), they still are trying (not necessarily succeeding) to be better with community involvement, etc. Lots of hope for the game and for the future. You can also look at the number of downloads and number of new summoners.
I like what you said much better tho. This explains things better than just a “no”. There are definitely bugs they haven’t fixed that have been in game for awhile. To say AQ and AW are fine isn’t true. I get bugs a lot. My main concern is that when mobile games shut down there usually isn’t warning. One day they’re there. Next day they’re gone

Kabam recently shut down Marvel Realm of Champions which was around for far shorter than this game. The shut down for MCOC will take longer than that. So I'm not saying the end is near, but at minimum, I can't imagine receiving less than 3-6 months notice that this game is shutting down, which again, I don't think is nearly as imminent as you might think.

Colinwhitworth69

No.

BTW this comment gets made pretty often, but if you understand the game's financials, you'd know the answer before asking.
I’m trying to get answers as to why I shouldn’t be concerned, not just a no and a sassy remark lol. Thanks for the help

You're welcome. Sorry I didn't confirm your weak hypothesis or assuage your uninformed concerns.

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Chatterofforums

Although, no guarantees about the bugs getting fixed, it is extremely unlikely this game is on its "last leg". People have been saying this game is dying or on its last leg almost nonstop since 12.0, but 5 years or so later it's still here.

Someone mentioned MROC being shutdown, the massive difference is MROC never caught on and don't think they ever really made a real net profit from it, which isn't surprising since it looked like a duplicate of a 20 year old marvel playstation game (no joke).

Last I saw, MCOC still makes massive net profit as people still spend despite all the issues. As long as the game is making big profits, it isn't going anywhere.

BigBlueOx

I do think the game is the worst shape it’s been in over 3 years. This isn’t a financial comment but more an overall quality comment so I can see why the OP might have concerns.

1.) Bugs, bugs and more bugs. While the frequency and severity differs from player to player for the bugs to be this pervasive in so many unrelated places is very concerning and the overall lack of acknowledgement and communication is disappointing.

2.) Communication. The if we ignore it maybe the community will move on approach to everything is beyond frustrating, which brings me to…

3.) Compensation. This isn’t an ask for it but more a comment on how poorly the communication was handled around discontinuing it. The in game message, followed by the forum post it was an accident, to the compensation not being issued in spite of the forum post… sorry just recovering from the whiplash of all that. Now let’s combine all this with the bugs being worse for most players since the beta input push with the June update making problems worse not better… lots of unhappy members of the community right now.

4.) Unpopular changes to the game in general… the uncommunicative stop to the celebrated buff program, the announcement of the balancing program, the changing AI that’s “not changing”. For me, this had an direct impact on my willingness to spend on preview bundles. Sure Hulking is great but will he stay that way? I’m not spending $50 on that gamble. Saves me money which is great, but gotta imagine if others feel the same way that’s not great for the game.

5.) Popular community and YouTubers scaling back posts and content creation. Seatin, BG, Puff leaving… the list goes on and on.

6.) An exodus from alliance play… just look at the forums and global. Lots of platinum and gold alliances are downgrading their activity or closing all together. Discontinuing compensation probably would have always had this side effect but it’s hard to know if it would have been this extreme if handled with a bit more care.

It’s gotten so bad, for me personally I think this 4th no matter how good the deals are I need to let them go by in a form of protest. It’d be great if others did the same. Not to hurt the game but to communicate back to Kabam that not enough is being done to address this bundle of issues that could in fact negatively impact this addiction we all love to feed.

Aomine_Daiki10

The game we still be around for a long time the question is will you?

Coppin

State of the game: unplayable

Kabam Jax

Hey summoners!

I respect the concern you have for the state of the game! Rest assured that we have many future plans for MCOC and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

We're aware of many issues that are impacting summoners' experiences and we're working feverishly to try to resolve them. Sometimes progress can be slower than we'd like and I know it's frustrating. But believe us when we say you are being heard and we're working hard to fix the issues.

Bwer777

Hey summoners!

I respect the concern you have for the state of the game! Rest assured that we have many future plans for MCOC and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

We're aware of many issues that are impacting summoners' experiences and we're working feverishly to try to resolve them. Sometimes progress can be slower than we'd like and I know it's frustrating. But believe us when we say you are being heard and we're working hard to fix the issues.

Thank you for the response Kabam Jax.

BowTieJohn

Question you have, answered it will.

Trenzalore

Hey summoners!

I respect the concern you have for the state of the game! Rest assured that we have many future plans for MCOC and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

We're aware of many issues that are impacting summoners' experiences and we're working feverishly to try to resolve them. Sometimes progress can be slower than we'd like and I know it's frustrating. But believe us when we say you are being heard and we're working hard to fix the issues.

Not to be rude but you are new here. We have been suffering these ongoing major bugs for a year now. When you say things are moving slower than we’d like what kind of time table are we looking at before major issues are expected to be resolved.

Coppin

State of the game: unplayable

Hey summoners!

I respect the concern you have for the state of the game! Rest assured that we have many future plans for MCOC and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

We're aware of many issues that are impacting summoners' experiences and we're working feverishly to try to resolve them. Sometimes progress can be slower than we'd like and I know it's frustrating. But believe us when we say you are being heard and we're working hard to fix the issues.

Many issues? As a long time player who quit spending for constant disrespect towards the customer, I can tell u the many future plans mean nothing as long as the game works the way it does.
I tried to do some arenas 3 mins ago and even scrolling thru the roster is a pain. It scrolls slow, it opens a menu as if i clicked on the champion and tried to open his info menu...
Every update is untested.. its 1 step foward and 3 miles back....
Lets see this late update...
-Energy use bug
-Some champions bugged.
-Inputs dropped and lag issues
-Device overheating

Plans for the future should be FIXING THE GAME

Graves_3

Hey summoners!

I respect the concern you have for the state of the game! Rest assured that we have many future plans for MCOC and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

We're aware of many issues that are impacting summoners' experiences and we're working feverishly to try to resolve them. Sometimes progress can be slower than we'd like and I know it's frustrating. But believe us when we say you are being heard and we're working hard to fix the issues.

Can you please visit the map 6AQ thread and provide some updates? That thread feels completely ignored. For ease, you can just click the link 👇
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/302395/aq-map-6-changes-thoughts/p16

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Sbkrueb

Glad you stopped the weekly compensation.
*sic*

Artoria77

Whilst I know there are ppl suffering out there with tons of bugs.

But anybody else not experiencing any of the major bugs being complainerd about such as unresponsive inputs, difficult AI etc.
Cause I haven't

AgentRocker2112

@Unio77 I don't really seem to be affected by the major bugs that I can tell.

Killswitch01

No.

BTW this comment gets made pretty often, but if you understand the game's financials, you'd know the answer before asking.
I’m trying to get answers as to why I shouldn’t be concerned, not just a no and a sassy remark lol. Thanks for the help
You're welcome. Sorry I didn't confirm your weak hypothesis or assuage your uninformed concerns.

Someone must be having a bad day

FiiNCH

No.

BTW this comment gets made pretty often, but if you understand the game's financials, you'd know the answer before asking.
I’m trying to get answers as to why I shouldn’t be concerned, not just a no and a sassy remark lol. Thanks for the help
You're welcome. Sorry I didn't confirm your weak hypothesis or assuage your uninformed concerns.

OP made a polite post asking for some reassurance, which is fairly justified.

You just acted like a prat, which if I’m being honest, isn’t really out of character for you.

Bwer777

@Killswitch01 right lol

Midnightfox

Hey summoners!

I respect the concern you have for the state of the game! Rest assured that we have many future plans for MCOC and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

We're aware of many issues that are impacting summoners' experiences and we're working feverishly to try to resolve them. Sometimes progress can be slower than we'd like and I know it's frustrating. But believe us when we say you are being heard and we're working hard to fix the issues.

While I appreciate the response here it would be better met in the long compensation/state of map 6 post bud. Not telling you what to do but I had to look here to see we were being listened to

1199345

Hey summoners!

I respect the concern you have for the state of the game! Rest assured that we have many future plans for MCOC and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

We're aware of many issues that are impacting summoners' experiences and we're working feverishly to try to resolve them. Sometimes progress can be slower than we'd like and I know it's frustrating. But believe us when we say you are being heard and we're working hard to fix the issues.

You already deserve a raise!!

GroundedWisdom

Hey summoners!

I respect the concern you have for the state of the game! Rest assured that we have many future plans for MCOC and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

We're aware of many issues that are impacting summoners' experiences and we're working feverishly to try to resolve them. Sometimes progress can be slower than we'd like and I know it's frustrating. But believe us when we say you are being heard and we're working hard to fix the issues.
While I appreciate the response here it would be better met in the long compensation/state of map 6 post bud. Not telling you what to do but I had to look here to see we were being listened to

They posted in the Act 6 Thread.

SpideyFunko

No.

BTW this comment gets made pretty often, but if you understand the game's financials, you'd know the answer before asking.
I’m trying to get answers as to why I shouldn’t be concerned, not just a no and a sassy remark lol. Thanks for the help
You're welcome. Sorry I didn't confirm your weak hypothesis or assuage your uninformed concerns.
Someone must be having a bad day

he’s always like this