After almost 10 years of playing this game, I'm finished.

The game has always been a somewhat bugged experience, but the game has been literally unplayable for months. Characters can end your block without Unblockable, half of the Buffs you get don't even work as intended, the opponent AI is such a mess it never knows what it wants to do, it can pull off move reads that would be literally impossible for any human to do, and your 'design' team has completely and utterly BUTCHERED the Events and Store Tab. Instead of making ANY progress over the last 5 years to improve the game, KABAM has instead ruined it's only profitable game to an unplayable, unrecognizable, unwanted mess.

Id love to get Kabam Support to get a refund for all the money I wasted for the game to still be a broken mess.

Zero representation for the players
Zero fair rewards progression unless you pay money
Zero reason to play anymore

Comments

Snizzbar

I don't think "literally unplayable" means what you think it means

BobthePotato

I don't think "literally unplayable" means what you think it means

Being unable to play the game? Because of issues the developers could and should have fixed by now? Because that's the definition and the usage here. Sure you can load the game and (eventually) load a Quest or fight. But fighting? You know, the entire gameplay mechanic? Unbalanced, bugged, and unplayable.

ahmynuts

ThatGuyYouSaw235

I don't think "literally unplayable" means what you think it means
Being unable to play the game? Because of issues the developers could and should have fixed by now? Because that's the definition and the usage here. Sure you can load the game and (eventually) load a Quest or fight. But fighting? You know, the entire gameplay mechanic? Unbalanced, bugged, and unplayable.

There's about a couple million users disproving that point about the game being unplayable by... playing the game.

Snizzbar

I don't think "literally unplayable" means what you think it means
Being unable to play the game? Because of issues the developers could and should have fixed by now? Because that's the definition and the usage here. Sure you can load the game and (eventually) load a Quest or fight. But fighting? You know, the entire gameplay mechanic? Unbalanced, bugged, and unplayable.

If it's as unplayable as you say then how did we hit 1.2 billion points in the BG realm event? Was it all Stark Foundation donations?
Either way, if it makes you this unhappy then just uninstall the game. No need to make a big song and dance of it 🤷‍♂️

BringPopcorn

https://youtube.com/shorts/oQ9fyaLfEno?si=OoxhqGQi1Mvaj67R

Drago_von_Drago

The game is not perfect. It will never be perfect. Accepting that is pretty freeing. Lower your expectations a bit and if it’s not a source of entertainment for you at that point then walk away and find something else to do with your free time.

Buttehrs

If you can turn the game on and make it through content besides bgs, the game is playable. Unplayable means the game won't even load up or you know, actually play. So no, I don't think you know what Unplayable actually means.

BobthePotato

The game is not perfect. It will never be perfect. Accepting that is pretty freeing. Lower your expectations a bit and if it’s not a source of entertainment for you at that point then walk away and find something else to do with your free time.

You're right, but after 10 years it should be presentable, the battles should be unbugged, and it shouldn't look like the worst UI in any Mobile Game ever.

And yeah, I did uninstall the game. The fact that yall defend it so blindly is actual NPC brain rot behavior.

startropics

but it's not new, it's been bugged for 10 years....

Buttehrs

The game is not perfect. It will never be perfect. Accepting that is pretty freeing. Lower your expectations a bit and if it’s not a source of entertainment for you at that point then walk away and find something else to do with your free time.
You're right, but after 10 years it should be presentable, the battles should be unbugged, and it shouldn't look like the worst UI in any Mobile Game ever.

And yeah, I did uninstall the game. The fact that yall defend it so blindly is actual NPC brain rot behavior.

And you don't seem to understand how 10 Years of layers upon layers of code works and how it's harder to maintain properly than a new game. But hey, if that's how you think you know more than th3 developers, you do you.

DNA3000

The game has always been a somewhat bugged experience, but the game has been literally unplayable for months. Characters can end your block without Unblockable, half of the Buffs you get don't even work as intended, the opponent AI is such a mess it never knows what it wants to do, it can pull off move reads that would be literally impossible for any human to do, and your 'design' team has completely and utterly BUTCHERED the Events and Store Tab. Instead of making ANY progress over the last 5 years to improve the game, KABAM has instead ruined it's only profitable game to an unplayable, unrecognizable, unwanted mess.

Id love to get Kabam Support to get a refund for all the money I wasted for the game to still be a broken mess.

Zero representation for the players
Zero fair rewards progression unless you pay money
Zero reason to play anymore

I would love to know why you spent money on a game that has been unplayable for five years.

Perfect_jab

I wont say its unplayable. But it doesnt make me want to play it. Last cpl years have been the worst. This game makes me hate it an hate that i invested so much time into it. Log on to play and within minutes im done an dont want to play anymore. Its ridiculous.

DNA3000

The game is not perfect. It will never be perfect. Accepting that is pretty freeing. Lower your expectations a bit and if it’s not a source of entertainment for you at that point then walk away and find something else to do with your free time.
You're right, but after 10 years it should be presentable, the battles should be unbugged, and it shouldn't look like the worst UI in any Mobile Game ever.

And yeah, I did uninstall the game. The fact that yall defend it so blindly is actual NPC brain rot behavior.

I've been playing online games for over twenty years. Thirty if you count MUDs. I've played them, I've beta tested them, I've contributed to them, I've been in the pre-beta early access groups for them, and I've seen everything: the best, the worst, and everything in between. And I've seen all the kinds of game players also. I'm pretty sure you don't have a particularly better perspective on this game than I do.

For all its flaws, MCOC is still a pretty good game. You knocked "player representation." How many online games have *any* direct contact with the developers? Especially mobile games? Most don't. You have no idea what you're talking about here.

You knock "fair rewards progression" for non-spenders. A player recently blitzed from zero to Valiant in just a few weeks spending zero dollars. The fact they were able to do so as a free to play player in such a short time means not only are the progression rewards pretty good in this game, there can't possibly be any pay walls in the game blocking progress AND there can't be any massive grind necessary either. Certainly, it would take a tremendous amount of skill to do that, but the point is that no normal player will *ever* go that fast, which means every player of this game cannot possibly run into a paywall or a grind wall, because they don't exist for normal players doing normal things and following the normal progression path. If a paywall or a grindwall existed, doing this would be impossible.

This game certainly has its fair share of bugs. I would even argue that it has more bugs than average. But is it unplayable? Hundreds of thousands of players play this game every day, and the vast majority don't find it unplayable. I play this game practically every day. I play alt accounts. I participate in basically every game mode. I've seen glitches, and I've seen bugs. But I still play, and I still find the game still playable: grinding arena or doing tough content, cruising through event quests or dueling in Battlegrounds.

I've seen unplayable games. Games where the servers were so underspeced it was borderline impossible to *move*. Games where the maps had glitches that caused you to fall to the bottom of the universe. Games where the servers crashed several times a day. I've seen MMOs have to roll back a whole *week* of game progress from *everyone* and the players got *nothing* in return for the rollback. I've seen game economies go completely haywire and turn the resource balance of the game into pure chaos. And I've seen games very obviously switch to excessive monetization that turned the game literally into pay to play at all. MCOC has never gone there, it has never gone to anywhere close to any of that. Games like that generally die. MCOC has never been close to dying for those reasons.

Kabam says player counts are improving, but of course I doubt you would trust those numbers. But Crystal Cleanse showed there are almost 800,000 players/accounts above Proven, and Battleground Blitz showed there are over 300,000 players participating in Battlegrounds - over a hundred thousand managed to score 5k or more points and top out all the milestones. Almost the same number of players pushed themselves into the Gladiator Circuit. That doesn't sound like a game with a lack of players. A lot of players appear to have reasons to continue to play.

If you don't, that's fine. Nothing lasts forever, and no one plays the same game forever. If your time has come, then it has come. But just because you don't want to play anymore, doesn't mean you represent some large contingent of players. You're just another person that has decided to move on. Literally hundreds of thousands of people have downloaded this game, decided it was not for them, and moved on. That's what you're supposed to do when you don't find a game entertaining anymore.

I just don't know why you think anyone cares. Are we supposed to hold a dirge for every single one of the other couple hundred thousand people who left the game? In the time it took me to type this post, a few dozen players have almost certainly decided to hang it up and move on. A few dozen people decided to download the game and stick around for at least a few days. Online games are not cruise ships, they are train stations. People come and people go.

DNA3000

I wont say its unplayable. But it doesnt make me want to play it. Last cpl years have been the worst. This game makes me hate it an hate that i invested so much time into it. Log on to play and within minutes im done an dont want to play anymore. Its ridiculous.

I agree that's ridiculous. Why continue to do that? I wouldn't. You couldn't pay me to do so.

You say you invested time in this game. You did not. Investments provide returns. You *spent* time on this game. It is only time well spent if you think you're getting something out of it. If you aren't, it is not like someone is going to give you a reward for the number of hours you played this game. One day, perhaps many years from now, if you manage to stick around that long, the game will end and shut down. I've seen it happen many times before. The only thing you get to take with you when the end comes are memories. Are they memories you actually want?

When people say they "invested" time in this game, that sounds as weird to me as if they said they invested time at a restaurant eating a meal, and now that they've invested that time they are going to make sure they walk around with tomato sauce stains on their shirt for as long as possible to get as much return on that time investment as possible.

Time is only an investment if it is building something you actually care about.

Buttehrs

I wont say its unplayable. But it doesnt make me want to play it. Last cpl years have been the worst. This game makes me hate it an hate that i invested so much time into it. Log on to play and within minutes im done an dont want to play anymore. Its ridiculous.

Yet your still here aren't you. Commenting on a forum for a game you hate? Why bother.

Sunstar19

This game has done a great job keeping things fresh with new champs added monthly and tons of modes to keep one occupied or sleepless depending on how dedicated one is. No game is without flaws but MCOC has more good than bad.

I once played a mobile game based off my favourite comedy series for about 3 years. It was very restrictive in rewards collection, constant log in issues and unhelpful in support. Then it started pushing old events for months without communication as to why. In comparison MCOC is so much better.

Nacho98

Bye

klobberintyme

Id love to get Kabam Support to get a refund for all the money I wasted for the game to still be a broken mess.

good luck with that, mr. potato. i suspect your money was spent on the presentation at NYCC this year, or perhaps for the food at the holiday party last year. looked like fun.

life is short. best to be moving on, this game won't improve to your liking within the next fiscal year i suspect.

Typhoon

See you next week!

smdam38

I don’t know why more people don’t get this.

You don’t have to be a top player to enjoy this game.

You can absolutely just play this game for fun without trying to keep up with the top players.

PT_99

I'm with you on new Ui update for store and event section,
My god, that's horrible.

How can you go from functioning to "why there are so many pop ups and scrolling?"

Cloudddey_bro

Ok.

Sundance_2099

Wolfman80

I find these posts strange. Why is there the need to announce to community that you no longer like the game and you are leaving? It's not like this is a job where you are providing an exit interview.

This game is playable - I play it many times a day, most days. Why? Because I still find it fun, which ultimately is the point of a game. Does it have bugs? Yes. Could it be better? Yes. But is it still a great game, with skill as well as money a determining factor of my progress? Yes.

I see lots of people slate this game and I get why there are frustrations. It's good that we have an opportunity to voice these (hopefully in a respectful and constructive manner). That can help bring change, even if the pace of change may be slower than many like. My approach is to simply roll with the punches. A bug or lag causes you to die? Oh well, it's just game. Which means you get a chance to have another go. Enjoy the game while you play. Or don't play. Playing something you hate just seems daft.

Just putting this out there. I like this game. I enjoy playing it. So thank you Kabam.

Asher1_1

- u know after a certain time u would play for long time
- u know u were buying something in game (now demanding money back)
- u know there will be bugs but people still play & enjoy the game.
- even with frustrating ai people played BG the most this year ,the 10th anniversary year

PantherusNZ

OK bye bye

Adrianz1

Just take a break or idk, just no point in making a big deal of you leaving, Cowhale left and he spent 200 times more than you and nobody cried for him!

Halley

Really? You quit at the time they celebrate 10-year Anniversary? And at the end of the year, the time of many big events? The biggest events from the beginning till now, flush of entertaining events! What a pity!

I doubt that if you spend on game, you can still clear all end-game contents, except GC of BG (of course) for whales & skillful players! That's good enough for me to keep playing this game by now.

Farewell anyway!

Rap

There is more broken in this game than the AI. The fact that we are getting into "literally" years of the same issues is unsatisfactory. I feel for the OP. The greatest satisfaction I get from playing this game is knowing I haven't wasted any money to play it.