The Beginning of the Shakeout (down)?

Purty_Hawkeye

This has been a very interesting last few days for the devs.

A completely broken PvE event which has been massively flawed in multiple ways. Any communication about that?
If you put in a "tank" team the AI will pick the last higher powered team you won with. Any communication about that?
When you're shielded you're invisible to matchmaking. Any communication about that?
Boosts will now cost HP, the rarest commodity within the game. Any communication about that?

Guys I want to be on your side but these kind of game changing alterations deserve to be communicated to the players.
I think you purposely boosted the PvE so the players would exhaust their boost banks so you could now use it as an HP sponge which you have stated you want. Maybe that is what is needed for the health of the game I don't know but a vacuum is filled up with the negative.

The amount of communication last night on the R47 update and the nerfs to 2* Wolvie and Thor were fantastic and then you go and throw it all away with another stealth move.

It feels like you are doing everything you can to shake out the long term players who helped to build this community with these moves. I am feeling like you guys really don't give a darn about us and now that you've gotten what you wanted you're doing everything to ruin the experience for at least me. I've been here from the beginning but another few days like the last few and that will be that for me.

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i posted in another thread that i started naturally losing my zest for the game last friday. i honestly havent played for the past 2 days and im pretty sure im done. and that was before all these new changes that i see folks talking about here. it was fun while it lasted and im glad for he fun i had. i wish everyone the best. marc

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Charging actual money for boosts is just greedy. If this change isnt undone soon I'm out.

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synthorange wrote:

Charging actual money for boosts is just greedy. If this change isnt undone soon I'm out.

This. How much pay to win can we have? Obviously anyone that wants to spend more money on this game will win more often now.

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This game is like Ohio weather. No point in complaining. It's all going to change tomorrow.

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I check back here from time to time to see if the game is worth coming back to. Im quite happy about my previous decision.

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synthorange wrote:

Charging actual money for boosts is just greedy. If this change isnt undone soon I'm out.

The problem isn't that it's greedy. They problem is that it introduces a clear Pay-to-Win scenario.

Purty_Hawkeye

DumDumDugn wrote:

I check back here from time to time to see if the game is worth coming back to. Im quite happy about my previous decision.

I think you are going to be the smartest of us all DDD.

I feel like an idiot trusting these guys right at this moment.

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I've been fine with most of the changes and started using HP for 3hr and 8hr shields regularly. I keep waiting for the PVP to improve but that has yet to happen, in fact I think it's gotten much worse (especially as far as progression rewards go). I love the changes to the thorverine, which up until now I have used for every match. Charging for the boosts is just too much. I already shell out about 10 bucks a month for shields and what-have-you's. 100hp per 3 rainbow boosts? Overall I love the game and I don't think this will make me stop playing it altogether, I think I will just be playing it less, and that's a good thing I suppose. As far as communication goes, it has improved vastly.

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Purty Hawkeye wrote:

DumDumDugn wrote:

I check back here from time to time to see if the game is worth coming back to. Im quite happy about my previous decision.

I think you are going to be the smartest of us all DDD.

I feel like an idiot trusting these guys right at this moment.

if i were smarter i would have played hearthstone closed beta instead. I joined the open beta and the game is amazing.

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Purty Hawkeye wrote:

I think you purposely boosted the PvE so the players would exhaust their boost banks...

This. I normally do not boost. I'm usually at 10 of every boost you can get as a drop. I used Iso to purchase boosts for the first time in this PvE event, and I did it a lot. Why? Because everything was 230! Even tanking and killing EVERYTHING on my roster except 5 heroes, things jumped up to 150-230 after just a fight or two. So I needed boosts. And a broken Patch.

Devs, If you wanted an HP sponge, let us pick a specific cover we did not have. I'd pay 1250 HP to level a 3*'s ability from 0-1. Hell, I'd probably even pay 1500.

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Toxicadam wrote:

This game is like Ohio weather. No point in complaining. It's all going to change tomorrow.

@lmao

I'm from Ohio so I totally get what you mean there.

Marty17

I'm just getting a bit tired of these changes. If they introduce the episodes under prologue, I am for sure that's all I'm gonna play & not participate in any events. The PvE is by far the most enjoyable aspect of the game, as I barely spend anything & manage to get decent rewards. Now it's not possible without unloading the hard earned HP.

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DumDumDugn wrote:

if i were smarter i would have played hearthstone closed beta instead. I joined the open beta and the game is amazing.

This. I now play maybe once or twice a day on MPQ - mainly just to keep my daily reward streak going. Started Hearthstone when it went open beta and it's a) a way better game and b) not out to rob you like MPQ is becoming.

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probably soon will see lots of reduction in player playing this games if they keep on introducting pay to win schema and more nerf in this games... its is bad enuf already for the low and mid level player to obtain the top reward for the 3* and 4* character which they eventually rely on the strong 2* character like wol or thor... but seeing it has been nerf.. i guess we need figure out another way to enjoy this game beside try hard to compete with others top notch

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The problem is they introduce so many game-altering changes without notifying the playerbase. How do you expect your game to grow or even survive if there is 0 trust and your revenues are based off of player ignorance?

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Derethus wrote:

synthorange wrote:

Charging actual money for boosts is just greedy. If this change isnt undone soon I'm out.

This. How much pay to win can we have? Obviously anyone that wants to spend more money on this game will win more often now.

As much as I've been supportive over the decisions they have made regarding the game, even I can't argue with this. This is a ridiculous move and if it isn't changed I'm going to leave as well.
I would never fight a team of 230 dark avengers without boosts, and now that they've gone and done this in regards to it, I can't imagine I'll be doing a lot more with the PVE.

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HP for boosts!? A complete slap in the face for those true gamers who are committed to this game. Can I have a month of my life back? Ef this...

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Purty Hawkeye wrote:

This has been a very interesting last few days for the devs.

A completely broken PvE event which has been massively flawed in multiple ways. Any communication about that?
If you put in a "tank" team the AI will pick the last higher powered team you won with. Any communication about that?
When you're shielded you're invisible to matchmaking. Any communication about that?
Boosts will now cost HP, the rarest commodity within the game. Any communication about that?

Guys I want to be on your side but these kind of game changing alterations deserve to be communicated to the players.
I think you purposely boosted the PvE so the players would exhaust their boost banks so you could now use it as an HP sponge which you have stated you want. Maybe that is what is needed for the health of the game I don't know but a vacuum is filled up with the negative.

The amount of communication last night on the R47 update and the nerfs to 2* Wolvie and Thor were fantastic and then you go and throw it all away with another stealth move.

It feels like you are doing everything you can to shake out the long term players who helped to build this community with these moves. I am feeling like you guys really don't give a darn about us and now that you've gotten what you wanted you're doing everything to ruin the experience for at least me. I've been here from the beginning but another few days like the last few and that will be that for me.

I agree completely. It is mind-boggling that they have communicated so well on the Thor and Wolvie changes while maintaining complete radio silence on the matchmaking problems, the terrible design of the current PVE event which has basically made me abandon playing it because it's no fun to slowly grind through level 230 matches with Spidey stun lock and even less fun to spend minutes sacrificing characters I'm not using in order to bring the levels down briefly, and now this stealth change to boosts!

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The fact that a change of this gravity didn't make it into the patch notes is incredibly insulting to the playerbase. I'm not even talking about how egregious the change itself is - doubling the cost of small boosts, and charging HP for +All AP. If you are going to nickel and dime and squeeze, that is your prerogative as devs - and I'll play a lot less, and care a lot less about your game. But can't we be adults here? Implementing huge balance changes without discussion or even announcement is underhanded at best, and incredibly poor development practices at worst.

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Psykopathic wrote:

Toxicadam wrote:

This game is like Ohio weather. No point in complaining. It's all going to change tomorrow.

@lmao

I'm from Ohio so I totally get what you mean there.

LMAO same here, This snow has been wonderful hasnt it?