This new EQ is the nail in the coffin for me after 10 years (small general rant)
I’ve been with MCOC since the early days. And my main account is pretty decent.
Even though I haven’t complained much over the span of ten years, the last time I did complain was with my main account that got banned from forums when I pointed out that after the acquisition of Kabam back then will lead to a disaster.
The early signs were there when Sigil finally got introduced years post-acquisition, and here we are. Because subscriptions were there to start filling that close that hole of a billion buyout deal.
Even though I read forums daily (without logging in), the volume of complaints says everything.
Sure, a few years back we had massive complaints too, with bugs and some champs like Darkhawk burning your phone, but it was never at this scale.
But today is the absolute nail in the coffin for me to leave this game behind.
I am not FTP, I have spent thousands over the years on my main account (on average 3-5K per year), and I quit spending a year after SIGIL was introduced because I could not find alignment anymore with how Kabam operates and how they are practically burning the DNA of the game into the ground.
I play in a retired alliance, with barely 7-9 players active. We play because we just do our thing and don’t even care if we win in AW or complete a single map in AQ.
EQ was one of those things that was still great about this game. Some units, some shards left and right and it was the one thing that was still right in this game, and you could just do it on autofight.
Kabam has lost its mind, and after they start hiring content creators with top tier rosters, it went only more downhill.
The combination of a buyout, a change of at least TWICE in leadership (CEOs) since 2017 and the inconsistencies of a team that says A today, but executes B a week later instead just highlights how bad of an operational framework Kabam has.
The current team at Kabam has lost its sense of how a game should remain fun, competitive, and drive enough money to fuel the game.
This new EQ format speaks volume. There’s no balance between simple content, intense everest content, and singular milestone content on a monthly basis.
I kind of felt it in my bones when they start messing things up with a video-poker style game, an arcade game and constant re-adjustments on “experiments”.
The moment I saw this poker-style game in MCOC, I knew my time has come.
I don’t recognize this game at all anymore. This EQ format, the recent new experiments obliterated the entire soul of MCOC.
