Kabam Programmers

I am genuinely curious as to what qualifications the programmers at Kabam have?

I'll be honest, I'm not a programmer or software engineer but I work in software and when technically issues arise or bugs come up they're fixed fairly quickly.

But at Kabam, a big went completely unnoticed by Kabam for 3-months and was found by the community, another 3-4 weeks to discover the cause of the bug and now another 5-weeks to fix said big on 'high priority' thats a ridiculous time schedule.

Not to mention thing alike AI 2.0 that has in production for over a year with no release date in-site, something that is only being worked on because the current can't be fixed 😂 and then you add things like Elder difficulty, Kabam admitted having to run through normal first is **** but they can't roll out a resolution for 6-months?

Surely I decent programmer with qualifications can do these things solo in a very short amount of time, working 8-hours a day, 5-days a week and yet and entire team doing the same take months of not years...

I don't know, just my 10-years of experience in this game really making realise one of Kabams biggest issues is their own lack of ability, big fixes and QOL updates coming out in a respectable timeframe would real make the community much happier and therefore make the game so much better and ultimately more profitable

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CheeseMaster482

It's probably not even the programmers fault but instead the fact that the game is over 10 years old. Kabam is too scared to release Mcoc 2 since they know if will die within the year so they just keep this old code alive.

ToniXD_16

Prob because the code absolutely sucks since its a old game

ahmynuts

The code is held together by chewed up bubblegum, a couple strings, some thumb tacks, and whatever the hell those square clips are that hold a bag of bread closed

peixemacaco

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/410551/kabam-programmers

Marvel Contest of Champions by Kabam is an awesome game and even after 11 years still one of the best games for Android/iOS.

And the complexity is huge , just think how many lines of code, they need to deal.

Dozens of content for=

Proven

Cavalier

Thronebreaker

Paragon

"A." Valiants

Every content with its own rules, nodes, buffs, debuffs, hacks.

Dont forget that they need to do the content for each progression

Just imagine, they searching for something that Summoners find while playing through millions of program lines.

My request in 2025 to solve Spider Ham to be able to do the 1st hit when the fight start, was done in less than a month.

Also, the visuals are much better than before, with all Store things in only one module, so we can say is Mcoc 2.0

They wont risk to do a quick change to something in their game without knowing this action will not make things worse and crash the entire game.

There's a Kabam Crashed thread that explain how they work with the game's code, and a lot of people here learned that they dont say to IA to do this or that against the player(Summoner) ,after this, all people here became quiet, because they didnt understand before.

So, play the game and be thankfull to Kabam, they do the best to our game.

Thanks Kabam 🥳

Buttehrs

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2922436#Comment_2922436

Don't forget the servers are potatoes.

BringPopcorn

I just realized the reveal of the champs for this event took like 3 livestreams....

They couldn't test 2 of them?!...

Remember that line of "we are not happy, yaddy yadda blablablah more testing".. are they testing their ability to test first?

ahmynuts

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2922442#Comment_2922442

Theyre testing everyone's patience

EdisonLaw

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2922442#Comment_2922442

Is this about Dr Strange and J jonah Jameson?

GroundedWisdom

Is it time for the monthly vent?

EdisonLaw

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2922440#Comment_2922440

Can't believe the game has lasted this long, it has aged like fine wine

Kabam (Osaurus) Rex

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2922442#Comment_2922442

These Champions were planned for release and tested long before the October build happened, where this change occurred.

As outlined in the post, the cause of this was a knock-on to a coding change to clean up certain interactions.
If Hulkling & Valkyrie weren't released 6 weeks later, this likely would have existed unknown for a very long time.

BringPopcorn

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2922459#Comment_2922459

Fair enough on the testing tine, the Oct change seemed big enough to run a quick retest though.

I dunno I am salty maybe cause it came with this BG meta.

JESUSCHRIST

Canada has work life balance

They don’t work overtime like in a China game developer company

So don’t expect the same output

What takes months and years in Kabam take just days and weeks in games made by major China game developers

Imagine in China, you have 100 million players for your game and you try dragging your feet around, those players will just play some other games within a week

So it’s basically different work culture

arifin74

I don't think you would understand even if someone answers it. Better to discuss with your colleagues first, instead of making own hypothetical qualifications tiers

Funk

This reads less like insight and more like a misunderstanding of how real software development works.

“Working in software” isn’t the same as maintaining a large, live-service game with years of legacy systems, millions of users, and countless edge cases. Bugs going unnoticed until the community finds them is completely normal in complex systems, especially when the triggering conditions are rare or emergent.

Fixing a bug also isn’t just “spot it and patch it.” It’s reproducing it, finding root cause, making sure the fix doesn’t break ten other systems, running regression testing, certifying builds, and scheduling deployment. That’s why timelines stretch, even for high-priority issues.

The idea that a single “decent programmer” could fix this stuff quickly, solo, is honestly one of the most common and least accurate assumptions about software engineering. Scale, risk, and responsibility slow things down for a reason.

peixemacaco

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2922458#Comment_2922458

Yes, Edison.

And at least we both, are thankfull to Kabam for this great game. Every game has its flaws or bugs, but Mcoc Staff could handle these minor errors througout these many years with success.

And people that insisted to complain Kabam managed to ask AI work against us , are very quiet now😂. As they was naive and ignorant to understand how the AI and the game really work.

Thanks Kabam 🥳

CrashOut

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2922501#Comment_2922501

By working in software I mean I'm account manager for one the biggest software providers globally, established for over 20-years providing multiple levels of hardware and software, multiple products to customers both new an old on completely different platforms.…

Kabams operations are singular in comparison, and yet they can't put out a hot fix for 5-weeks when my guys takes less than 48-hours.