Show your anger the only way you can

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pumkin wrote:

radiopy wrote:

I have a gripe with MPQ. Not the game, mind you, but the people on the forums who are whining about everything.

That's what forums are for. I said in another thread, people usually only speak up when they're unhappy about something or are amicably hoping for a change. That's what you're going to find on forums. If you're happy and content, you're too busy playing to waste time posting about it. I don't think the forums reflect what the player base as a whole feels. It's not a cross-section. You'll inevitably find a larger clump of negativity here. But there are also positive, praise filled threads. Those posts don't get dismissed as somebody being delirious on happy juice. Why is it okay to dismiss negative posts as whining? People are justified in the way they're feeling and they're entitled to voice it. Just because you're fine with the changes doesn't mean everybody else has to be. This is where people come to share their opinions in the hope that the devs will hear. How else are the devs going to know what they've done right and where they've veered off the path? They clearly have a problem sometimes getting it right even when it is shouted at them in multiple threads by dozens of people for weeks/months on end.

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Anyone think its odd that you get attacked only when your shield is down?

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I just assumed that since your own gamestate doesn't change, you get no reports from being attacked when shielded.

kensterr

WilliamK99 wrote:

For those who still want to play the game , even after all this ****, please at least rate the game 1 star in the app store of your choice...Since the devs don't listen to us, it's our only way to show displeasure in this game...

Done!

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TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU... THIS IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO SHOW HOW WE FEEL.

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DayvBang wrote:

Crilljin wrote:

The boosts though... What a D*CK move, seriously. It just stinks of greed and feels like a slap in the face. Especially, as others have noted, in conjunction with the PvE scaling. This is the first F2P game I've spent money on and I've really been enjoying it up until this last round of changes.

This x 100.

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Honestly, no one supports this ridiculous patch. I've spend real money on this game and all of it has been stolen by the devs in this update. If you want to play the character rebalance game, feel free, just learn to REIMBURSE EVERY SINGLE ISO-8 to the people who spent time and money leveling their team. How can it be remotely fair to ruin a team composition and say tough luck, all those hours and dollars are now wasted. Don't like it? Too bad, we don't care about our customers.

I'll say this very clearly, I don't care if they completely cripple Thor (who now, at level 85 does less damage than Ironman at Level 50), Wolverine and any other character they feel like "rebalancing". What is equivalent to theft is not allowing players to spend their hard earned ISO-8 on another team to enjoy the game. Return the full 100,000 Iso it costs to level cap Thor or Wolverine and see how many players still want to use your "Balanced" Thor and Wolverine. Devs, you already made money from me, why not allow me to enjoy the game and play different Heroes?

As I don't believe the Devs will own up to their mistakes, I've already petitioned the Steam store for a full refund and I recommend that everyone does the same. Either they return ALL of our ISO-8 and hero coins so we may spend them on something that actually works now or we leave WITH OUR MONEY!

Best regards,
NazgulPrime

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IceIX wrote:

If it makes you feel better, feel free. I'll state that it's not very effective as a tool for enacting change though. We look far far more at what people are saying on forums or social media than knee jerk 1 stars that come out of a Patch, which happens every time to every game no matter what it is.

If thats true I'll look forward to most of the changes made being reversed considering the amount of posts expressing displeasure on theses boards.

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+1 to this whole topic.

Yesterday was the first time since I started playing when I've only logged in to collect the daily reward. Completely changing 2 characters and then not giving us an option to respec feels like you just pressed the reset button on my account. 100h of work invalidated, not to mention all the money I spent on this game. Please do note I don't mind the nerfs per se - thorverine was obviously broken. But such sweeping changes and no respec ? I have no characters to play with. Back to day1.

And please don't tell me to switch to rares like half the forum is - I don't have them (only singular covers), and you didn't exactly make it easier for me to get them. It's fine, all the top dogs will have more stuff to sell for ISO. I guess I need to start leveling common characters again...? I don't think I have the strength to play this game anymore, at least not until I can "fix" the only characters I have leveled.

I'm not going for the cheap shot OP is proposing, but I do feel bad for promoting your game on steam forums and in my social circle.

TLDR: This game hates its players; I feel betrayed.

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I love this game.

I can see the reason behind all the changes and I think it's just fine.

Also IceIX - you and the team around you are doing a great job. Thanks.

NorthernPolarity

Infini wrote:

+1 to this whole topic.

Yesterday was the first time since I started playing when I've only logged in to collect the daily reward. Completely changing 2 characters and then not giving us an option to respec feels like you just pressed the reset button on my account. 100h of work invalidated, not to mention all the money I spent on this game. Please do note I don't mind the nerfs per se - thorverine was obviously broken. But such sweeping changes and no respec ? I have no characters to play with. Back to day1.

And please don't tell me to switch to rares like half the forum is - I don't have them (only singular covers), and you didn't exactly make it easier for me to get them. It's fine, all the top dogs will have more stuff to sell for ISO. I guess I need to start leveling common characters again...? I don't think I have the strength to play this game anymore, at least not until I can "fix" the only characters I have leveled.

I'm not going for the cheap shot OP is proposing, but I do feel bad for promoting your game on steam forums and in my social circle.

TLDR: This game hates its players; I feel betrayed.

Back to day 1? It's not like Thorverine turned into team bags: they're still top tier 2* characters. This sounds like you want them to be as strong as 3* characters, which is what they were trying to fix balance wise.

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NorthernPolarity wrote:

Back to day 1? It's not like Thorverine turned into team bags: they're still top tier 2* characters. This sounds like you want them to be as strong as 3* characters, which is what they were trying to fix balance wise.

I support Thor and Wolv rebalances at 90% - Thor's red and and Wolv's yellow got hit slightly too hard imo, but otherwise they are ok. It is insulting that instead of a full refund, we only get a 50% refund - not that I would have sold even at 80% or 100%, frankly Thor is still good at 5/5/3, the difference for a full green being 500-250 damage, numbers we did not really even care about before this blasted patch.

Killing both fast damage AND boosts, reducing pacing to a crawl, makes this game about as exciting and engaging as the old windows minesweeper. Sure, you can play a match once or twice a month, then it gets old.

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NorthernPolarity wrote:

Infini wrote:

+1 to this whole topic.

Yesterday was the first time since I started playing when I've only logged in to collect the daily reward. Completely changing 2 characters and then not giving us an option to respec feels like you just pressed the reset button on my account. 100h of work invalidated, not to mention all the money I spent on this game. Please do note I don't mind the nerfs per se - thorverine was obviously broken. But such sweeping changes and no respec ? I have no characters to play with. Back to day1.

And please don't tell me to switch to rares like half the forum is - I don't have them (only singular covers), and you didn't exactly make it easier for me to get them. It's fine, all the top dogs will have more stuff to sell for ISO. I guess I need to start leveling common characters again...? I don't think I have the strength to play this game anymore, at least not until I can "fix" the only characters I have leveled.

I'm not going for the cheap shot OP is proposing, but I do feel bad for promoting your game on steam forums and in my social circle.

TLDR: This game hates its players; I feel betrayed.

Back to day 1? It's not like Thorverine turned into team bags: they're still top tier 2* characters. This sounds like you want them to be as strong as 3* characters, which is what they were trying to fix balance wise.

Well, I think the main problem is that most people now have their characters built suboptimally. Thor is more about going from yellow > green rather than red > yellow, and 5/3/5 (the most common build) on Wolverine pretty much invalidates him as a character. I can cope, but I can understand how others wouldn't be able to.

Chaga

You will notice that this is my first post here.
I have been playing this game since the first day it came out, and never had the need to lookup the forums until now.
I don't consider myself a 'whale', but I did spend upwards from 500$ so far, and without any regret. It was mostly to get missing cards or level ups for my Spidey and buy all the extra bank/slot spaces.
From the first day in, I knew I was venturing into a freemium game, and if I enjoy it, I'll end up paying hard earned money on it.
Now, what the game publishers/developers are missing about a freemium game is the whole concept, it started very well, but now has become like any other pay to play game. Freemium means that players can play for free, and if they want to get an edge over others or hit a brick wall, pay some money to move forward - which is not the case anymore for MPQ.
The new PvE content is impossible to beat without any boosts, even with 3*141 characters. Seriously having to beat 3*230 toons for every single mission??? It would be possible if they didn't pop 3 (short) countdown tiles every single fricking turn! And as soon as one reaches, you're massacred whatever characters you have. I can only beat those with a hefty pool of blues so my Spidey can chain stun them.
You want to balance it for advanced players? Then why are we getting them ALL red (impossible), and not green (easy) or yellow (moderate)? Balancing means, that we don't sweep over every single mission with 2 hits from our team, while at the same time not forcing us to use (paid) boosts for every single one!
Like one player above me said, the past week I moved from 3-4 hours of daily play, to just log in for my daily bonus (that sadly enough am getting from the Shield simulator lol)
If your goal is to beat Zynga at the best cash cow contest, then good luck with it, I won't help you achieve that goal, while if your goal is to make enough money to live wealthy and keep providing your player base with new content and ongoing fun, then it's time to revert some of your latest changes.
Today your game is 'unplayable' without paying, and I for one won't and cannot encourage such practices. Sorry.

chamber44

yeah, I've dumped enough money into the game that I don't want to start over and redo my teams.

the boosts thing bothers me more than the thor/wolvie, but only because I hadn't got their levels up (yet).

but now, it's impossible to go more than two or three games into the PvE matches, thanks to the countdowns. My boosted team of Patch, Thor, and Storm could play through most of the levels, but now? five turns and my team is gone.

it's just not fun any more, no matter how many Modern Hawkeye and Jugg covers you give me.

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NorthernPolarity wrote:

Infini wrote:

+1 to this whole topic.

Yesterday was the first time since I started playing when I've only logged in to collect the daily reward. Completely changing 2 characters and then not giving us an option to respec feels like you just pressed the reset button on my account. 100h of work invalidated, not to mention all the money I spent on this game. Please do note I don't mind the nerfs per se - thorverine was obviously broken. But such sweeping changes and no respec ? I have no characters to play with. Back to day1.

And please don't tell me to switch to rares like half the forum is - I don't have them (only singular covers), and you didn't exactly make it easier for me to get them. It's fine, all the top dogs will have more stuff to sell for ISO. I guess I need to start leveling common characters again...? I don't think I have the strength to play this game anymore, at least not until I can "fix" the only characters I have leveled.

I'm not going for the cheap shot OP is proposing, but I do feel bad for promoting your game on steam forums and in my social circle.

TLDR: This game hates its players; I feel betrayed.

Back to day 1? It's not like Thorverine turned into team bags: they're still top tier 2* characters. This sounds like you want them to be as strong as 3* characters, which is what they were trying to fix balance wise.

As others have explained (and what I thought I was conveying through my post) I don't have a problem with nerfs, I understand they were needed. What I have a problem with is me paying for mistakes I didn't make.

Both my Wolverine and Thor are in their cookie cutter prenerf builds (5/3/5 and 5/5/3), and those builds are suboptimal now, to say the least (especially Wolverine's yellow is just... sigh). I can't do anything about it, short of gathering 26 covers and a quarter million ISO again. That was my last month's work. It is now invalidated. That's what I meant by going back to day1.

Since I am a new player and I have no other characters at high levels, only a few singular rare covers etc, I am now left with 2 characters with builds that don't make any sense, and absolutely no option to make this right. That's just soulcrushing to someone who spend 100h+ and a lot of money too on this game. I have played a lot of F2P games, and a move like this is very high up there in it's lack of care for the playerbase.

I assume you have a roster much bigger than mine, as such, you have options to mitigate this nerf. I don't. I'm left with only 5 yellow wolverine and 5 red thor. I wouldn't think twice about this patch if only I was able to change my covers around to have an optimal build after this nerf. As it is, I have no idea where to even begin, thus I'm pretty much forced to quit, and maybe check the forums from time to time to see if the devs decided maybe what they are doing is a bit unfair, especially to newer players.

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It would be interesting to present the count of topics and posts asking 'deploy respec system mark I before funbalancing'.

But why go the fair and requested route really?

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Just chiming in to say I downrated the game to 1* on Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... om.d3p.mpq) because of this patch. It stays that way as long as the game has pure Pay to Win qualities:
- costs real money to buy boosts for matches; f2p cannot realistically gather enough hero points to afford boosts
- costs real money to develop heroes; f2p cannot realistically gather enough heroes points to develop heroes
- free play has no realistic means of competing with paying players because it takes forever to gather the covers you need for a particular character and the additional forever to grind the ISO to level the character.

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The best way to show your anger is to not pay for anything related to this game.

Money talks. That is the only language they understand.

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prasejednomalo wrote:

Just chiming in to say I downrated the game to 1* on Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... om.d3p.mpq) because of this patch. It stays that way as long as the game has pure Pay to Win qualities:
- costs real money to buy boosts for matches; f2p cannot realistically gather enough hero points to afford boosts
- costs real money to develop heroes; f2p cannot realistically gather enough heroes points to develop heroes
- free play has no realistic means of competing with paying players because it takes forever to gather the covers you need for a particular character and the additional forever to grind the ISO to level the character.

That's just the gist if it. Worse to come.