Few questions for the devs

Histamiel

Vintage heroic tokens
Why include two star character at all?
Will they only be available during PvP off season?

Legendary tokens
Why not put in the latest legendary the 3 most recent five star and the 12 more recent four star and in classics the rest of the characters for those respective tier?
 
Heroes for Hire tokens
Why those price tags?
Why not always include a 3 star with the 4 star?

UI
What is the reason behind the removal of the green check for full clearance of a node?

Tier
Why are you still treating four star tier as premium (it is the more populated tier of the game)?
Will there be an introduction of a new tier in a foreseeable future?

SCL
Will there be an adjustment for SCL8?

Vaulting
Why not allow player the choice of the characters they want to put in the vault?

Those are just a few questions about the recent changes in the game. @Brigby , could you please pass those questions to the devs?

Partyof5

There is one answer to all your questions.  Hint, it involves money.

Beer40

Maybe if you put an @Brigby in there, he would pass this along. I don't think you'll get any answers for us, but these are questions the community would like answers for. 

Also, when we contact customer service, and they ignore our requests, one of their stock form responses is "please visit our forum for further discussion" or something like that. But we come to the forum and still don't get answers. Maybe he could also pass along that many of us are intelligent people who would rather be told: "We are not going to share our reasoning on this with you" rather than being driven in a circle or (we feel) lied to. 

I can't speak for everyone, but I'd rather have someone tell me something I may not like to my face and let me decide how to deal with it, than leave me feeling like they don't respect me as a person enough to be honest with me.

mpqr7

My favorite is that when they make a change, they say, please leave us feedback! And then when you leave them feedback within the game, you get a stock response of "thank you for your feedback. we are now deleting and ignoring it, and here's why you're wrong." Okay... ? 

GrimSkald

I'm not in any way official, but I can venture a few very good guesses to a number of these questions.

Histamiel said:

Vintage heroic tokens
Why include two star character at all?
Will they only be available during PvP off season?

a) A token with only 3 and 4 star characters is quite a bit more valuable than a normal heroic token. It would have to be distributed at a much lower rate than normal tokens.
b) Probably, as there is no other good defining way to distribute them. I suspect that they used the off season as a test to see how people liked them, and will develop things further based on that.

Legendary tokens
Why not put in the latest legendary the 3 most recent five star and the 12 more recent four star and in classics the rest of the characters for those respective tier?
 

The presumption for LTs is that the latest three 5*s are the "premium content" while the remainder can be treated just like any other tier. Given the rarity of the 5*s, I don't think that's quite accurate, but at least Bonus Heroes gives us a bit more ability to chose what we get. This expectation, however, means that the two token types should be identical other than the 5*s it draws from. The reason for vaulting doesn't change just because players are willing to pay the premium (an extra 5 CP) for the latest pack or not. They want to limit the 4* pool to make it easier to complete characters, and the most recent 4*s is the obvious way to limit it.

Heroes for Hire tokens
Why those price tags?
Why not always include a 3 star with the 4 star?

Like the 4* vaults, they are probably experimenting with various iterations of the token.

Tier
Why are you still treating four star tier as premium (it is the more populated tier of the game)?
Will there be an introduction of a new tier in a foreseeable future?

I believe it was 4-6 months ago there was a Q&A on one of the chat channels - it was stated that there were plans for a 6* tier, but these plans were scrapped. We may get a 6* tier at some point, but I wouldn't expect it for some time. As far as the 4* tier goes, they clearly intend to introduce more ways of getting 4*s rather than seriously tinker with the reward structure (e.g. give out more 4* in progression.) This may change with more Security levels.

Vaulting
Why not allow player the choice of the characters they want to put in the vault?

Vaulting as it exists did not represent a huge coding change - changing what characters are available in tokens is something they can do for every pack. Making it customizable would represent a very large coding change, and such things take both time and investment on the part of the developers. I will point out that the Bonus Heroes system (like it or not) almost certainly represented quite a bit of investment on the developers' part.

Bear in mind that with any system some things are easy (changing the cost of tokens, the characters, and their percentages,) some things are a fair bit of work (new PVEs, I expect, probably because there's an approval process from Marvel,) others represent major changes (Bonus Heroes,) and some things are well-nigh impossible without changing the underlying code of the game (colorless covers.)

Anyway, that's what I've got, Brigby or someone else may add to that, but bear in mind they aren't really allowed to speculate, so you may not get much.

Ayasugi-san

GrimSkald said:

I'm not in any way official, but I can venture a few very good guesses to a number of these questions.

Histamiel said:

Vintage heroic tokens
Why include two star character at all?
Will they only be available during PvP off season?

a) A token with only 3 and 4 star characters is quite a bit more valuable than a normal heroic token. It would have to be distributed at a much lower rate than normal tokens.
b) Probably, as there is no other good defining way to distribute them. I suspect that they used the off season as a test to see how people liked them, and will develop things further based on that.

But they already are distributed at a much lower rate.