February Community Q&A - Please vote!

Unknown

Marvel recently published their first star wars comic. When will mpq get its first star wars character and who would be the best bet to be the first character released?

TLCstormz

When will the next sale be? For HP, that is. Or at least HP and Iso.

Furthermore, many of us would love for you to comment on all of these "secret sales" that the ENTIRE player base does not have access to? You know, the sales that newer accounts get offered, the sales certain regions get offered, and the sales that players who have never put money into the game are getting offered.

Thanks.

leeleeshine

The_Valeyard wrote:

Marvel recently published their first star wars comic. When will mpq get is first star wars character and who would be the best bet to be the first character released?

Why settle for a couple of characters when Star Wars has so many good ones? They could easily make a separate game from the characters from the first trilogy.

When are you announcing Star Wars Puzzle Quest?

lukewin

Do you guys plan on working on communicating changes to the forum community in a timelier and more informative manner?

As of now, most of the announcements are lacking in quality, late or both. When bugs pop up, it would be nice to see them addressed, instead of having to scour the forums for an answer. Bugs such as the premature release of the Scotland Yard sub in slice 1 of the last PVE, the incorrect image (3 stars) on the Gauntlet 10 pack that was a reward for the top 10 finishers of the Gauntlet subs. I tell my alliance, that effort and communication are required. If they can't be good in one, then I want them to be good in the other.

GothicKratos

lukewin wrote:

Do you guys plan on working on communicating changes to the forum community in a timelier and more informative manner?

As of now, most of the announcements are lacking in quality, late or both. When bugs pop up, it would be nice to see them addressed, instead of having to scour the forums for an answer. Bugs such as the premature release of the Scotland Yard sub in slice 1 of the last PVE, the incorrect image (3 stars) on the Gauntlet 10 pack that was a reward for the top 10 finishers of the Gauntlet subs. I tell my alliance, that effort and communication are required. If they can't be good in one, then I want them to be good in the other.

I assume you mean an in-game notification? The Scottland Yard thing did get an announcement thread, I do believe, but yeah, they did address the Gauntlet thing inside of a normal thread - I'm guessing they figure not a lot of people noticed and/or interpreted things that way and thought just addressing that specific issue "personally" in that thread, rather than globally, in an announcement.

I'm down for more in-game announcements, but not until there is a "Do Not Show This Message Again" option.

Infrared

GothicKratos wrote:

I'm down for more in-game announcements, but not until there is a "Do Not Show This Message Again" option.

On a related note, do you have any metrics on what percentage of those pop-up notifications are not immediately dismissed on reflex? Whenever I tap to open an event screen, my finger goes straight to the top right corner even before the pop-up appears.

Unknown

leeleeshine wrote:

The_Valeyard wrote:

Marvel recently published their first star wars comic. When will mpq get is first star wars character and who would be the best bet to be the first character released?

Why settle for a couple of characters when Star Wars has so many good ones? They could easily make a separate game from the characters from the first trilogy.

When are you announcing Star Wars Puzzle Quest?

You could say the same thing for the xmen or any other number of comic series published by marvel. It stands to logic, if star wars is now part of the Marvel umbrella, then it should have characters to represent this newest branch.

GothicKratos

Infrared wrote:

GothicKratos wrote:

I'm down for more in-game announcements, but not until there is a "Do Not Show This Message Again" option.

On a related note, do you have any metrics on what percentage of those pop-up notifications are not immediately dismissed on reflex? Whenever I tap to open an event screen, my finger goes straight to the top right corner even before the pop-up appears.

If you meant me specifically, I don't work for the company, so I have no idea, however, I'd be willing to bet it's extremely high, especially after the first day of a specific one existing.

Chirus

Davyx wrote:

Is this what you are looking for?
http://www.demiurgestudios.com/blog/doc ... velopment/

I was being a little tongue in cheek since it appeared a bit random in that list. But thanks for the link.

TLCstormz

Are we ever going to get new chapters for "Dark Reign" or any other stories?

Besides the fact that the game's storyline is left at kind of a "cliffhanger" ending, those who'd like something to do in their spare time and the comic book fans and those who are non-competitive / have no way of competing (the 1* players, the 1* to 2* transitioners, those who are stuck at the 2* level, early 2* to 3* transitioners) would really, really, REALLY love some new chapters in the game's Story Mode. It was fun, carefree, didn't destroy your entire roster due to scaling, and didn't pit you against players whose characters were 3 times as leveled as yours were........except for the final boss, which made perfect sense and was totally acceptable.

Thanks.

lukewin

GothicKratos wrote:

lukewin wrote:

Do you guys plan on working on communicating changes to the forum community in a timelier and more informative manner?

As of now, most of the announcements are lacking in quality, late or both. When bugs pop up, it would be nice to see them addressed, instead of having to scour the forums for an answer. Bugs such as the premature release of the Scotland Yard sub in slice 1 of the last PVE, the incorrect image (3 stars) on the Gauntlet 10 pack that was a reward for the top 10 finishers of the Gauntlet subs. I tell my alliance, that effort and communication are required. If they can't be good in one, then I want them to be good in the other.

I assume you mean an in-game notification...

No need to assume. Please see the bolded and colored font.

Unknown

Is there any chance we can get a +1 level button alongside or instead of the max level button? Watching levels slowly dribble up is frustrating as hell and I will fairly often want to add a hand full of levels to a hero (5-10) who is featured but I will very rarely want to hit the max level button. Either because the hero doesn't "deserve" all that ISO or I simply don't have it.

If that's not possible can the rate ISO goes into a hero increase the longer I have the up arrow selected?

This is particularly annoying on PC which seems to level up heroes slower than my android phone.

Nellobee

What steps do you plan to take to address the 2-3* transition?

Nellobee

What steps do you plan to take to address the 3-4* transition?

zonatahunt

The "skip" system in PvPs is clearly a train wreck. Many, many, many times we'll have to spend over 500 ISO just to see a new set of five possible opponents. Sometimes we'll even be matched with the same opponent we JUST skipped! The "skip tax" was initially introduced so that the strong wouldn't devour the weak by continually skipping strong adversaries. However, most of us skip to find matches worth any credible points (I.e., 15+ points). With shield costs now so expensive and cooldown times so long many of us won't break shield until we find a match with points that justify breaking shield. The current skip system is so obviously flawed that we can't help but feel that our ISO is being swindled from us.

When can we expect the skip system to receive a desperately needed overhaul that will benefit the game BY benefiting the players?

yogi_

Demiurge_Kabir wrote:

Hey everyone, we had such a warm response to the last Q&A that we've decided to record another one! We're also keeping questions open for a bit longer, and our goal is to post our video response to you in the last week of February.

1. Please post each question separately, so forumgoers can upvote the questions they want answered most.
2. You can also e-mail us at QandA@demiurgestudios.com
2. We'll be taking questions until next Monday, 2/16 so please get them in before then.
3. If you have questions about our art process, we'd love to answer them.

Fire away!

Why are there two number 2 questions? Is this individual scaling only or impacted by community scaling? If there was a top 2 prize, which question would get it?

Unknown

The last two 4 star releases, Elektra and Starlord, have been nowhere near the competitive level to Xforce and Thor. The same can be echoed for Invisible woman and Nick Fury.

You guys, realistically, have two ways you can go.

1. Nerf Xforce and/or Thor
2. Release more characters as powerful as them, and buff the existing characters.

What are your plans in regards to balancing the PVP meta around these 2 clearly overpowered characters?

Unknown

In your last Q&A video, you answered a question about scrolling up and down the leaderboards. It would be too data heavy to load all 500-10000 people who are in your particular bracket and would slow the servers.

You also said that it automatically loads the top 10, since that is an easy thing to pluck out and offer to the players.

Why not add a third tab and call it "reward ranks" or something. (Your rank, top ranked, reward ranks would be the three tabs)

And in that tab, it would should the lowest ranked member in each completion reward tier.

For example, let's say I am ranked # 70 in a PVE. Too far down to see what the #50 ranked person has, so I have no basis for how far away I am from getting into that reward tier.

So, rather than letting me scroll through the entire leader board, which would cause a lot of communication with the server, why not just pre-load #1, #5, #10, #50, #150 etc. That way I can look at how much I need to squeak into the next tier of rewards without a bunch of data transfer required.

esoxnepa

What affects, anticipated vs unanticipated, are you seeing from the implementation of the shield cooldowns?

(I am seeing even more organized out of game communication, more bitterness among competing alliances, fewer targets, and forced inconvenient play schedules.)

esoxnepa

Have you considered removing player name and alliance from the PvP match making screens to further hurt out of game communication?