GR black is sim 2k (was: Xfw yellow is sim 2k)

stochasticism
stochasticism Posts: 1,181 Chairperson of the Boards
edited January 2016 in MPQ General Discussion
I believe they call this giving your player base the tinykitty middle finger.
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  • Mawtful
    Mawtful Posts: 1,646 Chairperson of the Boards
    An XF Yellow would be insanely useful if there was some new gameplay feature where I could somehow advance a fully covered character by feeding it additional covers.

    Oh well, I guess that's not a feature currently in the game. A pity.
  • Ludaa
    Ludaa Posts: 542
    Perfect time to take a break from this game. XF Yellow sim reward, mediocre new releases, and no "Awesome new features" till January at the soonest. Plenty of other games that actually want your time and money.
  • Lboogie
    Lboogie Posts: 55
    I am always quick to defend the devs...but honestly i cant see the reason for putting one of your oldest 4*s as a 2k sim prize. Not even his black ability. Especially after the iso H8 surprise for ..."not peter parker" spiderman. I am flabbergasted by this. ..WOW....just wow
  • squirrel1120
    squirrel1120 Posts: 492
    Lboogie wrote:
    I am always quick to defend the devs...but honestly i cant see the reason for putting one of your oldest 4*s as a 2k sim prize. Not even his black ability. Especially after the iso H8 surprise for ..."not peter parker" spiderman. I am flabbergasted by this. ..WOW....just wow

    Since his nerf I'd been aiming to get XF to a 3/5/5 spec, and only just recently received that 5th yellow cover to get there. Considering how many of my legendary tokens were XF dupes, that also kinda flabberghasts me that none were the yellow I actually wanted.

    Par for the course in MPQ, I'll see yellow XF covers all the time now...
  • VA5
    VA5 Posts: 66
    Agreed, with the cranking out of new 4's all they could give us was an X-force here. I was expecting a Ghost Rider cover.
  • SuperBatPoohMan
    SuperBatPoohMan Posts: 58
    Lol....and i thought my emails i get from them was bad....
  • Stony
    Stony Posts: 175 Tile Toppler
    This is ridiculous. Wow
  • MyFeetStink
    MyFeetStink Posts: 55 Match Maker
    Perhaps this means there is a buff coming for xforce wolvie....
  • eaise
    eaise Posts: 217 Tile Toppler
    MyFeetStink wrote:
    Perhaps this means there is a buff coming for xforce wolvie....

    If only. I wasted so much HP on him right before his nerf. But more than likely...
    Mawtful wrote:
    An XF Yellow would be insanely useful if there was some new gameplay feature where I could somehow advance a fully covered character by feeding it additional covers.

    Oh well, I guess that's not a feature currently in the game. A pity.

    Probably the new upcoming feature
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I need Xforce yellow. icon_e_sad.gif

    I also have never gotten 2K in Shield Sim either, though.
  • fight4thedream
    fight4thedream GLOBAL_MODERATORS Posts: 1,963 Chairperson of the Boards
    MyFeetStink wrote:
    Perhaps this means there is a buff coming for xforce wolvie....

    If they buff X-Force Wolverine again without first fixing 3* Spidey that may turn out to be the final nail in the coffin for me. I've been resisting my best friend's call to reactivate my Contest of Champions account because I prefer the chill game mechanics of MPQ but CoC not only has an offensively viable Spider-Man but also a black suit version! As much as I appreciate them bringing Miles and Eddie into the game, Peter Parker is the Spider-Man I grew up with and so he is the Spider-Man I want to use (and not just as some niche specialist for ninja wave nodes). I remember once having Spider-man as the last man standing on my team fighting Venom at almost full, buffed health. What should have been an epic battle was the longest, most drawn out and frankly boring match in my MPQ career, the sting of which I still feel to this day. icon_mad.gif

    Sorry, I realize this is totally off tangent so please feel free to ignore or start a new thread if you want to discuss the great injustice that has been done to Spidey.

    And as for the topic at hand, yeah that really is a bad choice for top Sim prize even without the recent problems plaguing the image of the game. I agree that it should have been Ghost Rider or a relatively new character. I'm sure there are a handful of people out there that can reach 2K and actually use the cover but for the most part this comes across as careless planning since most vets won't need the cover and the majority of players that probably do need it can't reach 2K. Bad move dudes, bad move.
  • fmftint
    fmftint Posts: 3,653 Chairperson of the Boards
    One word: RANDOM!

    Ok a few more words they must use token_legendary.png to pick the 2k cover
  • Dragon_Nexus
    Dragon_Nexus Posts: 3,701 Chairperson of the Boards
    Considering how his yellow was the first 4* ability I ever fully covered over a year ago (and subsiquently managed to pull another 3-4 covers for since) I'm overjoyed at the opportunity to earn yet another 1000 ISO.

    Seriously, my X-Force Wolvie, until the last 6 months, had been stuck on 1/2/5 for over a year. Only recently have I lucked into or won three black covers.
  • Vinmarc43
    Vinmarc43 Posts: 266
    Well I'm not the only guy that said, **** and then I said f...YEH!!! Don't need to waist my time playing this...ahaha icon_lol.gif

    XF yellow, come on D3, we are past that one... icon_e_confused.gif
  • G25
    G25 Posts: 9 Just Dropped In
    Also, it seemed that over 50% of last season's pvp have been older 4*s

    It's clear that they want people to last longer in this game. I wonder how many new players they're getting.
  • Mawtful
    Mawtful Posts: 1,646 Chairperson of the Boards
    eaise wrote:
    Mawtful wrote:
    An XF Yellow would be insanely useful if there was some new gameplay feature where I could somehow advance a fully covered character by feeding it additional covers.

    Oh well, I guess that's not a feature currently in the game. A pity.

    Probably the new upcoming feature

    Hmm. Well, it's my policy to neither confirm nor deny any knowledge of upcoming features, but I will have to update my sig wishlist (again!) now that Miles and Venom are being added to the game.
  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    Come on, even if the upcoming feature was already active, who would've been excited over this cover? But like others have said, I'm glad to have one less thing to do during the upcoming season; which really doesn't speak well for the health of this game.
  • puppychow
    puppychow Posts: 1,453
    It seems to me that the shield 2k reward is geared towards the newcomers, who wouldn't necessarily have had opportunities to get xfw yel via events/rewards. So again, it's another sign that the publisher is moving forward by catering to the new players.

    As for me personally, I actually had to juggle fitting shield last season into my daily mpq playing time, and I managed to reach 2k on like the next to last day. This upcoming season, assuming I stick around mpq that long, I could dial back and relax. So I view the situation as a win-win. icon_cool.gif
  • Dwarfsteel
    Dwarfsteel Posts: 55 Match Maker
    I realize this forum seems to be filled with veterans of the game, but it also seems that a lot of you forget that there are newer players in this game as well. I'm sure there are plenty of players who are just breaking into the 4* tier of play and/or just being able to break into the 2K level award that can make use of this cover. Maybe there's also plenty of players whom the yellow XFW has been that elusive cover they need.

    They can't please everybody with every prize they offer. For every one that thinks this is a worthless prize I'm sure there are an equal number that think it's decent or great.
  • OnyxSnake
    OnyxSnake Posts: 78 Match Maker
    Thanks!
    My 3/5/3 xfw needs this. Not everyone has a fully covered xfw and I've been playing for over a year. 4pool has made him usable again.
    I do get why a lot of people will be unhappy about this but I for one of many am grateful.
    It's better than getting 1 cover for a 4* that I've only just started covering.

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