After almost 10 years of playing this game, I'm finished.
BobthePotato
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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
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
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Either way, if it makes you this unhappy then just uninstall the game. No need to make a big song and dance of it 🤷♂️
And yeah, I did uninstall the game. The fact that yall defend it so blindly is actual NPC brain rot behavior.
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.
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.
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.
life is short. best to be moving on, this game won't improve to your liking within the next fiscal year i suspect.
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.
My god, that's horrible.
How can you go from functioning to "why there are so many pop ups and scrolling?"
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.
- 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
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!