**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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Also, certain words must trigger an authorization requirement? So I guess now I know? If this comment appears twice, that’s why.
It is a business, yes. The end-goal is money. Within that business are many departments who focus on their job. In this case, the job is to create content with a certain goal in mind, and that's to provide a challenging experience for a very specific portion of the Player Base.
The line of thinking from the Devs is not "How can we milk the most money?", it's more along the lines of, "How can we implement this feature best with its intended vision and maintain overall balance and progression within the current framework?". Paraphrasing, but that would be more the alignment.
Just because it's a business doesn't mean that every decision is made with money in mind. That's not even the responsibility of the Devs.
As for your points, I particularly liked the comment about “picking a fight” with the player base. Why the game team tends to think that is a good idea is something worth the whole community contemplating. Clearly, there’s not a lot of concern from Kabam.
Dr. Zola
1) Buff Magneto. I mean, he’s friggin MAGNETO. And no worries, I have him as a 5 star sooo....I guess I could look pass the whole “your precious 4 stars are just training wheels now” controversy.
2) send me a 6 star Gamora. C’mon, the entire community is distracted. Now is the best time to let me see what all this new Gamora hype is about. I promise I won’t tweet about it.
3) Send Decon at the UMCOC podcast a 5 star Aegon. He didn’t put me up to this, I just think I haven’t laughed so hard about his version of “Dave and Busters” in a while. Support the homie.
4) Give Stark Spidey an #Avengers tag. Did you not see Infinity War. He’s earned it.
5) Meme Crystal of the ABSOLUTE WORST 5 stars for 50 units a pop. If you wanna play hard ball since y’all are a business and need to make revenue I’ll go for....75. Might as well cut to the chase and fill my roster up with awakened Groots and Superior Ironman right? Plus you never know what a buff can do to a champ in the future.
6) Never again send me a 2 star ANYTHING. That’s like the little green leafy thing they put on the top of desserts. Complete unnecessary and just thrown to the side.
7) Mail me an arcade card of my 5 star Corvus, then hold a tournament at one of the Dave and Busters. All these content creators haven’t seen the likes of competition from a man fueled up on Cheeto puffs and boredom. I’ll take them all on.
8) ....and last on my demand list: don’t take any of the seriously. Unless you really do wanna send me another 6 star, I’m here arms wide open Creed style.
thanks for the entertainment.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter the intentions of the requirement. The only thing that matters is the consequence of it and what it's going to do is force free to play players and people like me who spends from time to time to decide to either grind my life and money away to get 5* champs good enough for the challenge or to simply walk away.
In the end everything we all do in this game will come to be valueless anyways when this game shuts down. However, in this move you have taken over half of all the effort of most people in this game and tossed it out as worthless. You have effectively ended the first half of the game forever. I have a few good 5* champs and I may be able to struggle through first completion but now I look at the over 1k I spent on my roster 2 years ago and it literally all went out the window with this decision.
I believe the real reason they did this is because they realized that the extra synergy from the 4 stars that they have been giving are making the 5*s too capable of handling their challenges. For instance how many people grinded out for a chance at a 5* blade and now can't use him in act 6 because they only have a 4* starky or GR? If I had opened 2 of them like I planned and had gotten him that's where I would be. With a champion that can't help me because of a decision I was unaware of...
Here's an idea:
1 institute a 3* ban on act 5 and uncollected EQ. It may not create the immediate effect kabam was hoping for but it sets a precedent that almost everyone in the player base can be ok with.
2. Remove the 4* ban for Act 6.1. The amount of money people are going to throw down to get the next badge title is going to be insane anyways because we all want to get access to the new crystal. This should allow people the chance to get to that level a tiny bit easier (or maybe harder for some) but will ultimately make up for itself in crystal sales for people taking a flyer for a 6* champ.
3. Announce now and make it clear that Act 6.2 will have the 4* ban in place. This will give time for the community to adjust over the next few months. Put out tons of offers to help people rank their 5* roster and just watch the cash flow in. It's already pretty demanding especially for the people that this 4* ban actually affects to grind out to rank 4 and next to impossible to rank 5 a 5* champion to get ready for 6.2 that I'm sure tons of people would take advantage of the many offers kabam can come up with.
Sorry for the stupid long post but genuinely the players who play this game want to stay with it. You've done the right thing in the past after rushing to push something like last summer. Put it off by one chapter and let us have a second to chew before you ask us to swallow.
but with the potential that cap marvel has to be unkillable.
not sure exactly wat has to happen.
but her sig gives her indestructible, power start.
if you die when she has a bunch of charges she can start indestructible with insta unblockable SP1.
this has the potential in war to be extremely destructive.
this is a much bigger concern that act 6 that doesn't exist yet.
that i wouldn't wanna use 4* in anyway.
Nothing else
4*s are still very viable for end game content as it stands.
Have you completed, or explored, A5? It makes a lot of difference.
Forget my previous comment then.