[POLL] Are you having "fun" yet?

Colognoisseur
Colognoisseur Posts: 807 Critical Contributor
edited March 2015 in MPQ General Discussion
The devs have insisted all of the recent changes are going to be "fun".
I have a simple question for those on the forum, are you having "fun" yet?
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  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    I said "yes" because it's not march 23rd yet. Please run this same poll on march 24th.
  • JamieMadrox
    JamieMadrox Posts: 1,798 Chairperson of the Boards
    I'm not not having fun. Yet.
  • dokiy
    dokiy Posts: 240 Tile Toppler
    I asked myself, "If I weren't having fun would I still be playing the game?" Answer: No. I guess that means I'm having fun.
  • jojeda654
    jojeda654 Posts: 1,162 Chairperson of the Boards
    Henry, is that you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoIZWzCzWXg
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited March 2015
    I don't consider fighting Moonstone, Venom, etc... for the billionth time, fun.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Why are there only two options? icon_e_wink.gif
  • Trisul
    Trisul Posts: 887 Critical Contributor
    MikeHock wrote:
    I don't consider fighting Moonstone, Venom, etc... for the billionth time fun.
    To be fair, it wasn't fun even when it was the thousandth time.
  • thbrown81
    thbrown81 Posts: 61 Match Maker
    It's the wrong question. I had enough fun to keep playing, but not enough fun to buy HP on sale.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Have I been having fun in game? - Yes, and will continue to do so even after 3/23.

    Am I having fun on the boards? - Not as much as I used to before the Forum exploded. Hoping that the fun will return once the dust settles. (Too many "ERMEGURD, NERF!" threads.)
  • babinro
    babinro Posts: 771 Critical Contributor
    Of course.

    I have a significant Steam backlog of games that don't see the light of day because I choose to play this over them. When I stop having fun with a game I move on to another one. Free time is too valuable to waste on something you don't enjoy.

    Doesn't mean I agree with every change that's been made recently or since the game launched. But this game is still legitimately fun and I have to admit I'm genuinely intrigued to see how the meta shifts (assuming it changes at all) in PvE and PvP next month.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Yes, but not down to what the devs have done. Unless their aim was to get me to not bother with pve. I now pick and choose the events I want to do on that, and mostly play pvp. If I were not having fun, I wouldn't be playing the game.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited March 2015
    Having gone from full-time obsessed to not playing the PVE at all, I would say, in the words of The Stooges, "No fun, my babe, no fun."

    What ruined this for me was the rapid-fire attack of, "Professor X announced; he's awesome, but you can't have him; your best character is being nerfed; here's a second PVE in a row that's not worth playing."

    I'm doing DPD right now. I'll do PVP when there's something to win. I had all this ambition to make my characters better, but now I'm worried about whether all the progress will mean anything the next time the devs decide to nerf something.

    You know, to nerf something that isn't broken instead of fixing characters who have never worked.

    Gamora's black would be amazing at half the cost and half the strength. And as Jimmy McMillan said, the number of characters who make you ask, "Is this some kind of joke?" is, "TOO DAMN HIGH!"

    Elektra's final stats cannot be right. She-Hulk's abilities are a mistake, right? Was Invisible Woman released accidentally? That can't be Beast's actual skill set, can it?

    So I'm just sitting here, saving up enough HP to finish my X-Force, and it occurs to me I might accomplish that goal just in time for them to realize he's not a fair and balanced character (he's a wolverine, not a fox). Am I going to lose my best character just after raising him to level 270, having spent 15000 HP on him? All signs point to yes.

    I'd have a lot more fun with this game if all the characters were fun to play, and I'd really like to know that the characters I've built up will stay built up. Spider-Man is a graveyard unto himself, and I don't need more added to him.
  • Houtro
    Houtro Posts: 464 Mover and Shaker
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  • Lidolas
    Lidolas Posts: 500
    It's a match-3 game with Marvel heroes. I'm still having fun. I'm a pretty easy-going guy. I like it. I'll like the game after 3/23.

    What I'm not enjoying is all the complaining. I've been on the forums a lot less since the announcement because it's so negative here. I kind of understand the feelings, but I think it's blown out of proportion. I think the devs and producers have access to a lot of information that we don't have and it affects their decisions. I think the large base of players don't play the same way forum users play and that is the basis for most of their decisions.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    DDQ is fun. Helping alliance mates is fun. Winning stuff is fun. Playing match-3 is fun. New PVE content is fun. Figuring out new char combos is fun.

    Two things I don't enjoy in this game: playing Dark Avengers over and over and kicking/recruiting on the last day of an event.
  • SnowcaTT
    SnowcaTT Posts: 3,487 Chairperson of the Boards
    I've given up getting 4*'s (i.e. I'm going free to play), I enjoy LR's and DPD, getting top 100 in PVP's and completely skipping all non 3* PVE's.

    So yeah, I'm having "fun" - but I'm also not playing the game the devs probably intend you to play.
  • GrumpySmurf1002
    GrumpySmurf1002 Posts: 3,511 Chairperson of the Boards
    Lidolas wrote:
    It's a match-3 game with Marvel heroes. I'm still having fun. I'm a pretty easy-going guy. I like it. I'll like the game after 3/23.

    What I'm not enjoying is all the complaining. I've been on the forums a lot less since the announcement because it's so negative here. I kind of understand the feelings, but I think it's blown out of proportion. I think the devs and producers have access to a lot of information that we don't have and it affects their decisions. I think the large base of players don't play the same way forum users play and that is the basis for most of their decisions.

    Pretty much this for me.

    The 'only' thing not really fun right now in game is PvE. I don't mind efforting a sub here and there just for the HP, but competing for 1st is an exercise in insanity. The same 10 PvE boards with the same 10 nodes repeated for a week is mind-numbing.

    Gauntlet was a breath of fresh air. Competitive Gauntlet was even at least a new twist. DDQ is my favorite 20 minutes every day. Even if I don't need the cover, the .3% chance of 1000HP is fun. More of this would be really nice.
  • Nellobee
    Nellobee Posts: 457 Mover and Shaker
    The balance changes would have caused far less of an outcry if the devs had done it in a timely manner in the past. Which they should have.

    The upset is being caused by misaligned expectations. The devs should be willing to buff and nerf quickly, and should do so. Our expectations should be set accordingly.
  • hex706f726368
    hex706f726368 Posts: 421 Mover and Shaker
    SnowcaTT wrote:
    I've given up getting 4*'s (i.e. I'm going free to play), I enjoy LR's and DPD, getting top 100 in PVP's and completely skipping all non 3* PVE's.

    So yeah, I'm having "fun" - but I'm also not playing the game the devs probably intend you to play.

    I'd be interested in knowing what game the devs intend you to play. I've been trying to wrap my head around everything that's happened in the last week or so and I'm just confused.

    4* characters are a massive investment vs. 3* characters (covers cost 2x, iso to max level nearly 3x). I have enough ISO saved to soft cap my remaining 3* or to bring 2-3 of my non-XF/GT 4* into a usable realm of ~200+, but I'm not sure that I should. They are rarely featured past their initial release and most, nay all of them save XF are barely more effective than some 3*. Not too mention that I'm short a few covers on starlord and elektra still anyway. And why should I consider buying them if 1) I can't make the ISO investment or 2) they are not worth it already or 3) I fear they could get nerfed if they are worth the investment and completely invalidate my expenditure (time or money).

    I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually, but right now I'm lost. At least I still enjoy the core mechanic.
  • atomzed
    atomzed Posts: 1,753 Chairperson of the Boards
    SnowcaTT wrote:
    I've given up getting 4*'s (i.e. I'm going free to play), I enjoy LR's and DPD, getting top 100 in PVP's and completely skipping all non 3* PVE's.

    So yeah, I'm having "fun" - but I'm also not playing the game the devs probably intend you to play.

    I'm somewhat like you, in that I'm "semi retired" from the competitive scene and play to the level that my time permits (well, for doom pvp I reAched 1k+ because I wanted the GT blue and I had a max doom which would help me in getting top spot).

    I gave Xavier pve a total miss. I got into a fresh bracket on day 3, but I just didn't have time to play so I quit. Didn't bother me one bit that I didn't get him.

    I took 3 months to get groot and cage max... And they were fun when I max them. I use them for pvp and pve.

    Really I don't think the dev expects a lot of people to compete on *all* fronts. You ought to dictate your own definition of fun, and there's no need to play competitively in all pvp or pve.

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