R&D new champs before release
Starbu99
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Hi Kabam,
As a multimillion company like Kabam. I’m sure or hope Kabam has their own R&D department. Usually for companies, new products are tested before official sale. Surely Kabam should practice this as well.
Linked to the recent moleman saga as well as Kabam stating moving forward, that Kabam can change any champs abilities is unprofessional and against most successful companies practice. I urge Kabam to have a functional R&D department to counter this lingering and negative “rules” which has players constantly worried that their favourite champs may be nerf in the future.
I love mcoc and has played mcoc for years and not until recently, have thoughts of giving up this game due to its inconsistency with their players. I understand this thread will come across negatively but Kabam, you can turn this around with a professional R&D group and confidently sell your products moving forward. All it takes is some common sense in business.
I hope Kabam would take this advice seriously because there are many frustrated players who will soon become ex players.
Thanks for your attention.
As a multimillion company like Kabam. I’m sure or hope Kabam has their own R&D department. Usually for companies, new products are tested before official sale. Surely Kabam should practice this as well.
Linked to the recent moleman saga as well as Kabam stating moving forward, that Kabam can change any champs abilities is unprofessional and against most successful companies practice. I urge Kabam to have a functional R&D department to counter this lingering and negative “rules” which has players constantly worried that their favourite champs may be nerf in the future.
I love mcoc and has played mcoc for years and not until recently, have thoughts of giving up this game due to its inconsistency with their players. I understand this thread will come across negatively but Kabam, you can turn this around with a professional R&D group and confidently sell your products moving forward. All it takes is some common sense in business.
I hope Kabam would take this advice seriously because there are many frustrated players who will soon become ex players.
Thanks for your attention.
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All of these things are extremely commonplace in the games industry, especially in games with an online multiplayer component of some kind.
Not sure how R&D ties into Mole Man. To me it is more of the blundering way Kabam handles bugs both in terms of timing and result. Having left him broken so long it would have been nice to just update his description and not fix him. Wouldn’t have hurt Kabam a bit and would have been a solid win with the community. I hope they change their mind about it
With that said, I do believe the moleman situation is what it is because Kabam failed to acknowledge the bug and failed to communicate this in a timely manner. Many don't fully read or understand champ abilities and just assume the champ is working as intended. Others didnt know if the ability was intended and the text was in error or if the ability was, in fact, the error (we've seen both cases).
Microwaves regularly don't work right. Chairs come with missing parts, TV's don't turn on, fridges won't cool, recliner motors won't work etc... Despite these items being from brands like Samsung, Apple, LG and major furniture brands. Apple makes billions per year and still has faulty phones. So I assume they need better "R&D"?
The problem with a mobile game like this is that it's played across 100's of different devices with varying specs. iOS may have 2-3 versions people run because they don't update but Androids run dozens of versions of OS's. Plus Android phones have a wide variety of hardware that developers can't just test easily.
But, to say all of that, I'm sure you're the head of a multi- billion dollar company that makes something for the public and never once had any issues on the consumer side. I'm sure you're an expert on "R&D" as well.
Secondly, you agreed to a ToS when you created your account. In that ToS is a clause that states Kabam can change their product at will regardless of anything else. Also, your game account isn't yours either. So, they can change any champ anytime they want and there's nothing illegal or unprofessional about it.
They've developed a balancing program for newer champs but we have yet to see anything from that because it'll take nearly 6 months for their data to be collected.
I get that you thought you had something with this thread but all you've shown is you have zero idea how anything works in the real world.
I'll eat my hat if they do.
Ultimately the biggest issue is timeframes, not the bugs themselves. It doesn’t surprise me that there’s going to be unexpected interactions - there’s 100s of nodes and 100s of champions that can be placed on those nodes, the issue is how they handle dealing with ‘bugs’. A known bug shouldn’t be fixed 16 months later, it should be fixed in the next path if possible.