**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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Another analogy for example is a protest. This is a way for a large community of like minded people to communicate there opinions. This is intended to get a dialog going to spark change.
Again it’s a way of communicating with an intent in mind. But it isn’t a negotiation as there isn’t anything being leveraged to spark that change.
Communication with intent is not just negotiations. That is too narrow of a description. Most forms of communication have some sort of intent for the people in the conversation trying to get something out of it. You can be making a point for the intent of getting something changed without active negotiation.
Now in the case of a dialog we would get more of the rational for why changes aren’t going to happen versus a response similar to what I tell my children which is basically because I said so. Some more active dialog with the community I think would be helpfu. Taking into account what your consumers want and trying to put that into the game is a healthy environment for a community.
While I understand all too well the general well-meaning of correcting people, you lose sight of the actual meaning. And this isn't meant to be a slight - it's just reality.
Keep in mind that communication usually has an adjective in front of it - usually "better". The phrase "better communication" implies that that previous communication has been a failure and in order to continue down a given path, both parties have to provide more. The second an adjective is added, the meaning of the phrase can imply something entirely different. Better communication is "communication with a goal in mind" the goal being an improvement on the previous communication.
What I'm trying to say is most people understand the implication behind better communication, and don't necessarily get bogged down in minutiae. If the majority can imply the meaning, we could then assume it's used correctly. Case in point, GIF will always be JIF to me. That's how the guy who created it pronounced it. But most people know them with the hard G. It doesn't serve any useful purpose for me to tell anyone else that's not how it's technically meant to be pronounced.
On topic, I too hope for better communication moving forward, but I'm anxious about any potential changes. I don't mind the meta shifting if it needs to happen, but I do think there are some QoL changes that should take higher priority. To me, this has always felt like a Hunger Games type of competition where you barely get enough resources. I think that has what made it so competitive but also why there is so much frustration boiling over. I'm hopeful that they have a good plan that eases some of the tension.
Add this one to the list of the unusable champ.
What am I supposed to do with this other than arena?
Saving up for a 6* and pulling this are the things that make this game not fun and make quitting a lot easier.
Even if we love your idea, it will be several months before anything changes. If we choose to impliment something, we need to plan out the new feature, create specification sheets, assign programming resources, test it several times, and finally release it. By the time the feature is in place, it will probably have been tweaked and modified in many ways, and you might not even recognize it.
• after multitudes of feat favs, even a recent try for longshot, I cannot get a feature champ at a useable *
• I have 20 6* and not one of them are useable , and the odds are the next one I pull will be just the same.
* it’ll be at least a month in a half to two months to save up for another 6*, exhausting
* I’ve already completed act 6, to get a whopping 6* electro and I now sit on a 1->2 gem that I cannot use. I just 100% variant 4 and these were my results, so what content would be fun to do now? ( no fun, high reward content)
In summary , the things that make this game fun for me are new champs, which I cannot get and use anyway , and fun and rewarding content , which there is none currently available and the rewards of the content I have gone through have been drastically unrewarding.
* champions we want to play with are unavailable
* Content is not fun and rewards with RNG are unrewarding
I am unsure why the game has some secrets which are not disclosed to the players.
1/ Deadpool purchase is only once in a life-time.
2/ Brackets for Arena
3/ basis to derive AW MVP calculation
4/ This I am unsure still [increasing full crystal drop rate for T3CC]
5/ The 1* Hulk problem
I have 7 paths left in 6.4, but am forced to pause on exploration because of T2A and T5B overflow, which means I have to let revives and energy refills expire. Why are inventory limits for rank-up resources even a thing when most people have trash 6* champs? Nobody should have to face these arbitrary blockers in their progression. I see zero incentive to continue when the options are either explore Act 6 and use the overflowing resources on the 6* cyclops I'll pull, or just do nothing until I luck out and pull a good champ.
I remember when I explored Act 5, I smashed out 5.3 and 5.4 in a week because I was good enough to only really have to spend on energy refills. I loved my time doing that, it’s some of the most fun I’ve had in the game
Act 6 is a slog. And it’s difficult, boring and unrewarding.
On a side note, who did you use for that diss track path, that’s the one I’m targeting next and I’m at a loss for who to use since I don’t have silver surfer
1) rifts-> they’re worse than last year. Last year you could explore every rift before hand, getting lower level rewards and they didn’t have 100 6* shards, which is an absolute joke! And other than that they’re the same, over a full year and the rewards just got worse!!! Also why can’t they make every reward in rifts decent for instance 10-20 sig stones etc and not have very low Multiple amounts of shards.
2)cmm abyss fight, some people have spent hundreds on that fight and no compensation?!? When it was bugged all along! What baffles me is that they fix bugs that benefit the player base instantly but bugs that get them money they get fixed in there own time
3) acquisition of 5/6 * champs. For a start why are you putting unusable 6* champs in the pool, you miss scarlet witch out of the 5* pool because she’s too good, so why can’t you miss flacon etc out of the 6* as he’s unusable! Secondly getting featured champs have changed for the worse, you need to bring the old featured crystal back or at least update the new one!
Now obviously there’s a massive discussion to have on act 6/Aw/AQ etc but so many people have covered that perfectly I don’t think it’s necessary for me to go over it again.
Make a new type of basic crystal and limit the pool to the champs that released or buffed in the last 3 years.
Excluding the latest champs from the last 3 months because of the featured crystals of course. This is roughly 80 champs out of 170+ which is less than half. These are reasonable odds at this point. And they can update the pool every 3 or 6 months like how they do it now.This is necessary considering the game is 5 and a half years old at this point. And it would save us from pulling a lot of bad champs that released in the first 2 years of the game.
And people who still want to acquire those old champs for collection purposes can still have the current basic crystal to try their luck.
Some of the suggestions, like to Acts 6 and 7, would fix many issues for a significant subset of players, but boosting old champs first could arguably have the widest impact, benefiting all players. Just a Rating boost to all 2015 champions (barring Colossus and Hulkbuster) would be a start.
Hopefully we will get an answer soon on what can be done to improve the general player experience, accepting that there may be elements to this (staff time, parent company expectations, etc) that we aren't aware of.
The newer options may always be first but would be nice if the old champs could be a less than ideal but still acceptable second, and not just left on the bench for Arena.
Act 6 completion isn’t impossible and can be achieved relatively cheaply with some revives and units, which shouldn’t be a problem, unless players are spending them all on cav crystals, since units and items are much easier to come by now. I surprisinly got through act 6 completion with a handful of items, I dont even think I used units outside of energy refills.
The change if they make any to act 6, I’m more then certain won’t appease a majority of the players in here so what are you getting your hopes up for. When has Kabam ever come through for you, the community or any “protest” or threat of “mass exodus”? Most I heard was that they’re tweaking the champion boss fight and that’s all.
Whilst I hope we hear something soon, there have been many issues raised in this thread. Discussing them all will take time, I'm sure. Deciding what can be done, and when it can be done, also can't be done without planning and probably management buy-in too. And if resource isn't freely available, other bodies of work would get put aside.
A token gesture may help while the discussions are going on, and updates that the discussions are going on. Also helpful may be an acknowledgement that x or y is an issue, even if nothing can be announced about it.
Trying to stay positive :-)
After some outrage and threat of a mass exodus, they did ultimately make some concessions:
We have heard you, we're making it right.
More recently, the initial reaction to the She Hulk nerf was "we will not be issuing Rank Down Tickets for this change". After more massive pushback, they eventually saw the light and decided to issue Rand Down Tickets for She-Hulk. It took several weeks after the announced change to come to that decision:
She Hulk Compensation
The point is, it appears that prolonged outrage seems to be the only thing Kabam will listen to. I wish they would have more of a dialogue between developers and the community so it never gets to a threat of mass exodus, but that's not the situation Kabam wishes to have. Until they change it, this is the only card players can play.
The game is fun, but Kabam has taking the fun out of it with these nodes and all the useless champs the amount of useless champs is almost as more frustrating as these ridiculous nodes, almost. Watching these leet players with dream team champs, playing with maxed out champs getting wrecked by these nodes. Where is the fun? I understand making the game challenging but there is a point where its just all a money grab.I'm a free to play person I'm glad I did not rush to complete Act 5! So i can take my time enjoy some almost reasonable game play before going into act 6. Someone at Kabam please listen make MCOC great again or at least enjoyable! Unit man is really i just don't have him in my roster!