Is Proff Hoff’s video about Ebony Maw being a cash grab designed to counter Corv & Ghost justified?

Ok to understand this for players unknown to Ebony Maw’s ability. Guaranteed critics hits always miss unless specified. I’d like to emphasize the cash grab claim. Please be open minded since I am doing this since I want to know how the community overall could feel

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Demonzfyre

Nothing Prof Hof says should be taken with more than a grain of salt.

DrBruceWayne

Nothing Prof Hof says should be taken with more than a grain of salt.

To be fair, I like his offer reviews and I actually bought the offer which he recommended (Grandmaster Daily Special with the Cull Obsidian FGMC), and I pulled a 4* Ronin, but I guess mostly everything else is conspiracy

DalBot

Nothing Prof Hof says should be taken with more than a grain of salt.

So tell us how he's wrong exactly on this one...

GroundedWisdom

Is it Cash Grab time again?

Mathking13

Nothing Prof Hof says should be taken with more than a grain of salt.

I mean to be honest nothing that anyone on the internet says shouldn't be taken to heart without thinking it through.

But while I can definitely understand that he believes that it is justified, it's really not that massive of a deal that he counters Corvus and Ghost... at least in my opinion.
Corvus and Ghost aren't too hard to fight on defence (or in questing) to begin with. And Maw doesn't have enough damage to be better for fighting them compared to existing champions.
His best use will probably be on defence. People will probably place him on the new 'completely hidden' nodes, and even then he won't guarantee kills. Compare that with... I dunno... Havok, who... well you're just dead unless you've got a Venom with an armor up or something.

So TL;DR is that I can understand why Prof is worried about how much of a money grab Maw seems to be, but I don't think he's gonna be used enough to make it too worrying...

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GroundedWisdom

One Channel calls him a Cash Grab. One has people asking for a buff to him. This is why my YouTube is filled with Cooking Shows. Lol.

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Demonzfyre

Nothing Prof Hof says should be taken with more than a grain of salt.
So tell us how he's wrong exactly on this one...

E.M counters 1 or 2 champs. That's it. I have a 5/65 CG and im not taking him in on any mystic fights unless I can tell its a SW which right now, no war I ever fight in will ever have a 4* SW. Its only a cash grab if you go into the fight knowing who it is and you purposefully try. In war, you have 3 champs, pick a different if it has a persistent charge. If there is a 3 in the charge icon, it's Mephisto, other than that you have a 50/50 chance of it being a Ebony or Morningstar.

Ebony has his own counters as well. If you scout your path in war, and see a mystic, prepare yourself. Therefore, no longer a cash grab. I don't know why anyone takes what he says to heart. He just says what the community wants him to say in terms of spouting conspiracy theories.

Demonzfyre

Nothing Prof Hof says should be taken with more than a grain of salt.
To be fair, I like his offer reviews and I actually bought the offer which he recommended (Grandmaster Daily Special with the Cull Obsidian FGMC), and I pulled a 4* Ronin, but I guess mostly everything else is conspiracy

It's not hard to be right about the deals. If you give every single one a D, you'd be about 90% accurate lol

DNA3000

Nothing Prof Hof says should be taken with more than a grain of salt.
So tell us how he's wrong exactly on this one...

Mostly Prof Hoff is always wrong when it comes to anything monetization, because all his positions when it comes to monetization and "cash grabs" summarize as follows: look, y'all know Kabam is a bunch of greedy bastards, and here's another example.

In this case, his argument is as follows: Ebony Maw counters crits without class advantage, that affects Corvus the most, everyone uses Corvus in alliance war, so obviously Kabam made Ebony Maw specifically to make alliance war cost more money, thus he is a cash grab.

Coming from a journalism professor, this is a line of argument that frankly goes a long way to explaining why I don't read newspapers anymore. The first counter argument goes like this: if a certain point of view concludes that if there are no counters to Corvus, then Corvus is the cash grab because everyone has to chase him, and If a counter to Corvus is introduced then the counter is a cash grab because all the people who chased Corvus must now spend to continue to use Corvus, then since both actions can be accused of being cash grabs, that implies that that point of view is to characterize everything as a cash grab, which means that point of view is invalid. I don't believe it is a stretch to attribute this general mindset to Prof Hoff and many of his supporters.

The second counter-argument goes like this: even in games where there is no way to use microtransactions to chase counters, online games with PvP will do exactly the same thing Kabam is doing: make attackers, and then counter them with counter-defenders, then counter those defenders with countering attackers. This tit-for-tat is the not just common place, it is basically how such PvP balancing is always done in games like this. Because everyone does it, either it is evidence for all of them to be cash grabs or none of them. And since it happens in games that don't allow for players to chase with cash, it can't be all of them. Ergo, that type of development doesn't support the charge of cash grab for any game on its own.

Personally, I don't have a real problem with Prof Hoff: he represents a not uncommon point of view among the playerbase, and that's all fine and good. But it is a point of view that on an objective level I find to be foundationless to the point of being conspiratorial. What makes him not completely insufferable is that I believe he's sincere. Unlike many people, I don't think he's just saying what will get him clicks. I think he believes what he's saying. I just think he's as wrong as he is sincere.

GroundedWisdom

Sensationalism.

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G0311

Love his channel and his offer reviews are the best, but don't think its a "cash grab" in this instance, just know then in alliance war if you come across the mystic and you're using corvus glaive , use someone else. just like Captain Marvel shouldn't fight mystics and the way Johnny Storm has a big advantage over mystics. scout ahead.

Mathking13

But as we know Prof only cares about getting clicks

Do you have proof of that? He's already a university professor; that's already a good source of income right there. And even if it is the case, it hasn't been working too well...
I think the worst case scenario is that he legitimately thinks that he's justified in what he's putting out. Sure it might result in lots more videos, but hey.
Also, if you are going to prosecute Prof Hoff on this, we do have to consider having to do so towards at least a few other MCOC Content Creators.
Case and point; Seatin's video on why the calendar rewards should be buffed. All of his Kabam CEO and other satirical videos. LITERALLY ANY TIME HE POSTS A STREAM HIGHLIGHT VIDEO. He legitimately thinks it's content worth making into a video, but it could also be viewed as just 'oh I want views cause I'm dirt poor

V1PER1987

Personally I can’t stand Prof Hoff. His videos don’t have much substance and are rarely objective. If he classifies the release of Maw as a cash grab that just furthers my point of not being objective and quite frankly ranting for no reason. First of all, most people shouldn’t even be running cosmic champs against mystic anyway. I know you can, but why would you? Secondly Corvus and Ghost are two champs out of how many in the game? Maw was literally the easiest new champ to fight that’s been released that I can remember. He has an extremely low attack and health pool and he’s not overly complicated to fight. Any science champ tears through him with absolutely no trouble. Rulk, Cap, Gulk, Void, Torch, Thing, and Hulk are just a few champs that can destroy him without issue. Most champs of any other class has no issues either. I’ve used a variety of champs on him including Iceman, Starlord, WS, Domino, Emma, and DV. He’s really not a hard champ to fight as long as you understand his basic mechanics. Mainly only his first light attack makes contact, and beware of falter. If you keep these in mind he’s a non issue. Learn to use other champs other than Corvus and Ghost and stop calling things cashgrabs when you clearly don’t know what cashgrab is.

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Tehsigzorz

Why would you take corvus against a mystic champ?
Also if you are using ghost then just use wasp for any mystics in your path or change your playstyle with ghost for just that one fight.

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Mathking13

But as we know Prof only cares about getting clicks
Do you have proof of that? He's already a university professor; that's already a good source of income right there. And even if it is the case, it hasn't been working too well...
I think the worst case scenario is that he legitimately thinks that he's justified in what he's putting out. Sure it might result in lots more videos, but hey.
Also, if you are going to prosecute Prof Hoff on this, we do have to consider having to do so towards at least a few other MCOC Content Creators.
Case and point; Seatin's video on why the calendar rewards should be buffed. All of his Kabam CEO and other satirical videos. LITERALLY ANY TIME HE POSTS A STREAM HIGHLIGHT VIDEO. He legitimately thinks it's content worth making into a video, but it could also be viewed as just 'oh I want views cause I'm dirt poor '
Please see grounded wisdom post which says, “sensationalism” which is just trying to get attention to a topic by means of use of methods to catch the eye
He tries to be this “alternative” for MCOC viewers which is fine until you see that he rants more than any of them, and he mainly does it for this very niche part of the community
Plus if you see Seatins page you’ll see that he rarely does the rant style video and when he does it’s only one single video then he moves one. While proff milks issues

Again. That can all be explained by saying that Prof legitimately thinks that each and every video he puts out is worthwhile putting out. I'm sorry, but I don't see any proof in the above post.
I definitely have some times where I see a video Prof puts out and go 'okay I don't personally understand why you wanted to make that video', but I can't think of a time where I thought 'oh he's just putting out that video to get clicks'.

Also I just wanted to make it clear that I don't mean any ill will towards you guys. I just think that this is a topic that's worthwhile discussing...

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Zuro

Please don't start this argument again EM is not a cash grab if he only counters like 4 champs so relax guys

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Noob2435

It's funny that whenever you see proffs name mentioned you see the same people that claim to hate him, now I don't know about you guys but I wouldn't want to be talking about someone I "hate" every chance I got. Maybe "hate" isn't the right word?

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DNA3000

He's already a university professor; that's already a good source of income right there.

I suppose it depends on your definition of good. Suffice to say, nobody is getting rich lecturing students at a state university.

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Tehsigzorz

But as we know Prof only cares about getting clicks
Do you have proof of that? He's already a university professor; that's already a good source of income right there. And even if it is the case, it hasn't been working too well...
I think the worst case scenario is that he legitimately thinks that he's justified in what he's putting out. Sure it might result in lots more videos, but hey.
Also, if you are going to prosecute Prof Hoff on this, we do have to consider having to do so towards at least a few other MCOC Content Creators.
Case and point; Seatin's video on why the calendar rewards should be buffed. All of his Kabam CEO and other satirical videos. LITERALLY ANY TIME HE POSTS A STREAM HIGHLIGHT VIDEO. He legitimately thinks it's content worth making into a video, but it could also be viewed as just 'oh I want views cause I'm dirt poor '

Difference is that seatin makes interesting and humourous vids and when the occasion asks for it he straight up admits hes selling it out or wtv. Also seatin makes it very clear whether his view is bias or objective and tries to look at things from different angles whereas prof just uses his own view point as base of argument for example asking people to boycott AW because its the most boring part of the game(even though he is a huge arena grinder) and other stupid statements written as facts but are instead anecdotal pieces such as '4 stars dont even exist in gold 2 or gold 1' which is extremely wrong if you spent more than a month in either those.

Mathking13

You may disagree but that’s going with the willingness to ignore how bad 12.0 was plus he did not become popular because of that, it might have increased his channel memebership but it did not throw Him into the spotlight like that. I remember watching him because he was one of the only ones that did thoroughly made guides that people shared a lot. You have to admit that proff doesn’t do anything other than his grading thing and videos he gets from other people via line.

I mean he DOES say that he wants to 'be a voice for the community' and 'help people make wise decisions with their money'. And as far as I see it (yes you can challenge this if you want), he keeps himself to those standards with his videos.
Given, I'd probably recommend that Prof tone down on monetisation of his videos, but hey it's his channel. Just chuck on an adblocker if you're so worried about him making money from supposed 'clickbait'... then he won't make any money from you watching his videos.