Symbiote-relic, monthly event, rewards distribution and more constructive feedback
FunnyDude
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I think most people can see Kabam is ambitious on their plans, but they don’t always have resources to do what they want to do, at the end they are slow on making progress and pissed off more and more players.
A couple of years ago, Kabam said they will share their roadmap, and make incremental changes to AW/AQ/BG rewards every a few months, at that point, everyone thought Kabam eventually realized the strategical problem of their product! They actually did this for a couple times, however, they suddenly forgot all about it, again they started to only listen feedback from very limited source, make huge features without either sharing or incremental changes, ignore all the low-hanging fruits. This is the main reason there is an on-going boycott.
I’m going to write a very long post, give my constructive feedback based on my 8-year experience on this game (running an alliance which is AW T1 master/P1, AQ Top20)
Making incremental changes to economy system is not rocket science! Kabam can keep 80% of items in stores unchanged for more than a year, giving the progress we’ve already made in a year, the only conclusion I can draw from this is, economy system of MCOC is already totally broken. Adding more T6B and T3A to the game will break economy system? Making the BG VT rewards changes 3 months earlier can break economy system? No, I’m 100% sure the answer is no. These changes are low-hanging fruit, they only require minimum development resource, Kabam should have done it every 3-6 months, instead of doing it only for boycott.
For example, something like symbiote-relic can be easily created, these symbiote-relics can give minimum boost to champions, for example: skill +1/2/3% attack rate, cosmic +1/2/3% health, mistic +1/2/3% combat power rate…, if you think these attributes are too powerful or impropriate, then just reuse those in “stat focus”, we already got 10 attributes in “stat focus”, you can create 10 relics from it, or even more with combination of them. Low star has low value, high star has higher value, high sig-level increases values! That’s it, it’s not perfect, but it’s doable, simple, valuable, controllable and safe.
This feature can be easily implemented with very limited resource (in a couple of weeks), if Kabam have resource to change profile picture of magneto, then they should have resource to do this. I bet players will be way happier about this than seeing a new profile picture of magneto or storm.
If Kabam actually created these symbiote-relic, they can release one per month and sustain for at least a whole year.
Someone might say, OK, Kabam already give out too many rewards, it’s hard to add rewards for the new difficulty without breaking economy system of the game. Will it break economy? No, not at all. For example, if the valiant rewards include 20 7-star signature crystals, and 5 signature stones, it means a player can get up to 240 random crystals and 60 stones per year, or +100 on one champion and +40 on another 5 champions, I’m very sure this is not going to break the game. Of course, you can add some T6B and T3A to the rewards as well, which will definitely be safe. I bet this will bring tens of thousands of players back to monthly event.
How to fix this? I guess I have already given the answer in previous section.
“Eat your own dog food!”
Kabam crashed, if you are still in 4loki, please try to do 6-8 fights in a couple of wars, and try to spend your own cash to buy units and potions, then see if you can accept the price. Some of you may say, why do you even need to spend units to buy potions? This is just the fact of T1 war, especially after Kabam made the war map a lot more difficult than before. Btw, I like the new war map, but I can’t afford it.
Now we come back to the original topic, making changes to AW/AW potions is too difficult? No, I don’t think so, is it going to break economy of the game? Well, since it’s unchanged for 18 months, giving the progress of the game, it’s already badly broken, how can it be worse?
If Kabam do this, they can add tier-3 primordial dust to the game, which is another reward for individual event without breaking the game.
A couple of years ago, Kabam said they will share their roadmap, and make incremental changes to AW/AQ/BG rewards every a few months, at that point, everyone thought Kabam eventually realized the strategical problem of their product! They actually did this for a couple times, however, they suddenly forgot all about it, again they started to only listen feedback from very limited source, make huge features without either sharing or incremental changes, ignore all the low-hanging fruits. This is the main reason there is an on-going boycott.
I’m going to write a very long post, give my constructive feedback based on my 8-year experience on this game (running an alliance which is AW T1 master/P1, AQ Top20)
Listen to feedback from players can representing majority
I realized Kabam do listen to some top players like MSD, Karatemike, Fintech. I think it is very reasonable for Kabam to do this if they want to design new endgame contents, but for daily contents like AW, AR, economy system, this is absolutely wrong. Those players feedback can only apply to 0.01% of players, their skill is unrealistic for 99.99% of players, how can Kabam make decisions for daily contents based on feedback from those players? This is horribly wrong, no offense, Kabam should listen to players like RichTheMan, Vega, KT1, and Lagacy at most, they have more reasonable skills and can represent majority of players, not MSD, Karatemike, Fintech.Low-hanging fruits
This is not the first time I say things like this on this forum, I understand making big changes takes time, but is there really nothing Kabam can do before completing all the fancy big features? No, we all saw Kabam already increased the rewards for VT of BG, and I’m very sure this is not the only thing they can do.Making incremental changes to economy system is not rocket science! Kabam can keep 80% of items in stores unchanged for more than a year, giving the progress we’ve already made in a year, the only conclusion I can draw from this is, economy system of MCOC is already totally broken. Adding more T6B and T3A to the game will break economy system? Making the BG VT rewards changes 3 months earlier can break economy system? No, I’m 100% sure the answer is no. These changes are low-hanging fruit, they only require minimum development resource, Kabam should have done it every 3-6 months, instead of doing it only for boycott.
Symbiote-Relic (or Drone-Relic? Just a nickname)
I’m 100% sure Kabam does not want to give up relics, they actually sell them again and again in many deals, meanwhile, Kabam have been keeping quiet on relic for very long time. They may not have resource to pick up it again in foreseeable future, or they may have a bigger plan for it already, but is there really nothing Kabam can do for now? No, I don’ t think so.For example, something like symbiote-relic can be easily created, these symbiote-relics can give minimum boost to champions, for example: skill +1/2/3% attack rate, cosmic +1/2/3% health, mistic +1/2/3% combat power rate…, if you think these attributes are too powerful or impropriate, then just reuse those in “stat focus”, we already got 10 attributes in “stat focus”, you can create 10 relics from it, or even more with combination of them. Low star has low value, high star has higher value, high sig-level increases values! That’s it, it’s not perfect, but it’s doable, simple, valuable, controllable and safe.
This feature can be easily implemented with very limited resource (in a couple of weeks), if Kabam have resource to change profile picture of magneto, then they should have resource to do this. I bet players will be way happier about this than seeing a new profile picture of magneto or storm.
If Kabam actually created these symbiote-relic, they can release one per month and sustain for at least a whole year.
Monthly event
I still don’t understand why there is no valiant difficulty today, tuning values and difficulty isn’t that hard right? We all see Kabam did this for Grandmaster’s gauntlet, which is one-shot content w/o any other change, players are still happy with it. If Kabam tune numbers and add valiant difficulty to monthly event, it’s going to be once and for all. This game is complex enough, we don’t need node changes all the time.Someone might say, OK, Kabam already give out too many rewards, it’s hard to add rewards for the new difficulty without breaking economy system of the game. Will it break economy? No, not at all. For example, if the valiant rewards include 20 7-star signature crystals, and 5 signature stones, it means a player can get up to 240 random crystals and 60 stones per year, or +100 on one champion and +40 on another 5 champions, I’m very sure this is not going to break the game. Of course, you can add some T6B and T3A to the rewards as well, which will definitely be safe. I bet this will bring tens of thousands of players back to monthly event.
Rewards distribution
I feel Kabam are very nervous on adding new difficulty and new milestones with more rewards, because they feel they may lose control on progress, well, yes and no. If they carefully distribute different rewards to different contents, it will be just fine.- It is OK to keep most crystal shards and top rank material in alliance event like AQ/AR/AW, and cash deals
- Please put some sig-stones is individual monthly events, add some T6C, T6B and T3A will be great too, we have hundreds of champions and we are getting more, it will take years to rank up and sig-up all useful champions.
- Add relic shards and relic sig-stone (or whatever name it is) in incursion, people will start to play incursion again.
Ranking material and diversity
Everyone know we need more T6B and T3A since banquet last year, including Kabam. Meanwhile, Kabam made many fantastic champions, and they also want players to use those champions as much as possible, which is called diversity. This is why Kabam added 5+2 bans to AW, and change global tactics every 3 months, and change node of BG every month. But at the end, we don’t have materiel to rank up them, even to 7R2, what a shame. Those fancy champions just sit at 7R1, unawaken or low sig for months, we have no chance to use them at all.How to fix this? I guess I have already given the answer in previous section.
AW/AQ potions
Do you remember when is the last time Kabam made the change to AW/AW potions? It was also 1.5 years ago, at that time, my roster was still 6R5 and 7R2. Now I’m using 7R3 and 7R4 in AW, does this ring a bell for Kabam, or they always have bigger fish to fry?“Eat your own dog food!”
Kabam crashed, if you are still in 4loki, please try to do 6-8 fights in a couple of wars, and try to spend your own cash to buy units and potions, then see if you can accept the price. Some of you may say, why do you even need to spend units to buy potions? This is just the fact of T1 war, especially after Kabam made the war map a lot more difficult than before. Btw, I like the new war map, but I can’t afford it.
Now we come back to the original topic, making changes to AW/AW potions is too difficult? No, I don’t think so, is it going to break economy of the game? Well, since it’s unchanged for 18 months, giving the progress of the game, it’s already badly broken, how can it be worse?
Ascension II
I still remember many of you laughed at me and thought me crazy, when I made this proposal a few months ago, but I still want to bring it up again. To be clear, I don’t want to see 7-star Herc, Hulking, CGR, Tigra… they are just overpowered. But these champions are really well designed and fun to play, and I think Kabam also like diversity and don’t want to waste their best designs. Having ascension II can be a solution, just don’t make the numbers match with 7R3, numbers can sit between 7R2 and 7R3. In other word, it is a reasonable way to “nerf” those champions, because their numbers can never catch up with the top rank, but they are still useful in some cases.If Kabam do this, they can add tier-3 primordial dust to the game, which is another reward for individual event without breaking the game.
Summary
I truly think Kabam have enough talent on creating new champions, adding story contents and endgame contents, and they are doing amazing job in these areas. Meanwhile, they are making huge mistake on the strategy of making incremental changes, adjusting economy system, and improving daily actitivies of game (including AQ/AW/AR). These are the things people are facing everyday, please don’t ignore them.13
Comments
That dude always makes me speechless.