My take on J1P OML article. Please read and generally discuss this it's good

Phaserhawk

J1P beautifully wrote

Jonny1Punch said:

My name is J.1.P and I was a long-standing and loyal day 1267  veteran of MPQ. In my 3+ years of playing and spending at a very high level I learned more about MPQ and its future by recently selling my 519 OML then I could have ever found out playing the actual game/stalking the forums here. I would like to share this terrible experience here as I have received so many personal inquiries about my decision recently. 

Before you start wondering why on earth I would commit such an atrocious act by selling a character I spent well over  1.5 years working to build to lvl 519 along with countless hours of time/energy and more money wasted then I will ever care to admit please let me explain. Whether he was serviceable or not post-nerf was not the issue for me, the fact that pre-nerf he was already getting outclassed and outgunned by low level champed thanos/bolt combos was already a huge concern. The fact that my trust and investment into MPQ was violated by significantly weakening an already mid-tier/struggling 5* when we were told this would never happen was the nail in the coffin for me. Suddenly I became enraged. Not just the ridiculous amount of money I wasted  but the incredible time wasted and sacrifices I personally chose to make to get every scrap of CP I could get my hands on along with every legendary token/4* champ level I could earn to potentially see that purple cover pop up followed by those once magnificent claws. I felt beyond cheated and stupid for risking my life day in and day out as a proud 9 year veteran L.E.O and spending all my disposable income chasing that dangling purple carrot only to have it completely blow up in my face later. Had I known this was coming I would have never spent thousands of my hard earned money on this game and I would have been investing my CP in Thanos/latest legends this entire time not opening classics exclusively. This is not meant to be a toxic rant but more explaining my significant investment in OML and the choices and consequences I faced as a result of my own poor decision making. I take full accountability for selling him because I was already resigned to stop spending money on this game and supporting it. My mind was made up I could never love this game or respect it the way I did for so long. Alright enough of that heartbreak lets get on to the good stuff....

RIDICULOUSLY INSULTING COMPENSATION:

The compensation offered was even more of a ridiculous insult then I previously thought. Had we been offered a variety of fair options like 1:1 compensation with NMG tokens, allowing an equal number of 5* covers of our choosing or equal leveled 5* of our choosing I would have been fine with this. I exhausted all my options trying to make this right with CS ( who has me banned currently ) I even messaged Brigby saying that its only fair I can exchange my lvl.519 OML for a different lvl.519 5* of my choice. But instead we get offered fifty cents to the dollar and a random lottery ticket to RNG tinykitty. I should have received 82 NMG tokens but instead that number was a pathetic 41 random 5* for my total of 82 5* OML covers sold. I was going into this with 6 champed 5* and two more dangling at 5/5/2 builds missing that one elusive cover. I was also hoping to finally pull some thanos and bolt to sort of start over with some new competitive characters. Man was I wrong........

WELCOME TO RNG tinykitty WITH 41 RANDOM 5*:

  I sold my level 519 OML and I could not have asked for much worse pulls. It should have been cool pulling 41 5* straight but it was a nightmare. I pulled zero Black bolts, 1 Thanos, a handful of decent assorted goblins/surfers etc, roughly 5 black panthers which was nice but he's not even halfway to useable...... but now for the worst:

I pulled 9 useless bruce banner covers. NINE. The worst 5* around accounted for nearly 25% of my pulls. As for the rest I pulled multiple Strange, Cap and Widow covers but guess what? They were all dupes that I could do nothing with except let rot in my roster cache until they slowly die. My strange has been 2/5/5 for forever I have had to sell so many of his covers and Caps yellow I have sold roughly 7 of his extras as well. This was a gamble I chose to risk and I made an awful decision. Seeing how this all played out only proved to me how incredibly broken the 5* draw rate system is and leaving everything to chance and luck is never good. Colorless covers, streakbusters, re-rolls? I don't have the perfect answer but this isn't working. 

THANOS WILL BE NEXT:

  My thoughts on the OML nerf was that it was completely unnecessary, disgusting and clearly a motive that did not have our best interests at heart was at play. Whether it was a quick and greedy healthpack cash grab or a push to get us to spend on latest legends by slowly weeding out the classics I don't know. But that 10% usage factor that was spoken of will rapidly be filled by Thanos.

My level 451 Thanos is ridiculously overpowered and far more useful compared to my previous level 519 OML. He has almost the same health and is light years ahead of OML on defense and offense. The developers have set a new precedent that whenever a popular team or character has risen into the top ranks they will be nerfed when that usage hits 10%. There will always a powerful duo that edges out the rest, that's just the way these games always are. The key is to continually balance, buff and counter your current and upcoming characters not nerf the good ones. This nerf has indirectly buffed Thanos to absolute god mode and he will soon be all you see at middle to high level pvp. Mark my words Bolt and Thanos are getting funbalanced next.  

PRIORITIES OF MARVEL CANDY CRUSH: DELUXE TOILET EDITION:

   What was once a significant source of joy, fun and stress relief to me has now become nothing more then a casual toilet game to play for random bursts throughout the day. How I can I trust or spend another penny on a game that has its priorites so backwards? So many things we need to see introduced and have fixed. Where is SCL 9 and 10? Where are the incredibly important fixes to broken 5* pve scaling and PVP MMR? Where are the long promised fixes to RNG, dupes and 5* draw rates? Where are the new events to replace the same regurgitated garbage we have been playing for years over and over? Where are the buffs? All of these things we as the player base and community need and you ignore it and slap us in the face with a nerf no one wanted or needed?

FINAL THOUGHTS:

No, Do not sell you old man logan unless you are quitting like me and simply don't care anymore. Its a total joke and a huge waste.

No, you do not need to quit ,strike or be toxic and bitter. You can still play but I urge you... If any of these recent changes like nerfs, vaulting, tinykitty new overpriced hero for hire packs bother you...... STOP SPENDING. Play casually and enjoy it as a great toilet game but for heavens sakes until they start listening and respecting the player base DO NOT SPEND MONEY ON THIS GAME. Give it bad reviews everywhere you can and tell your friends about this if you feel like I do..... we have been cheated, lied to, robbed and our trust violated long enough. Take a stand and close that wallet.

Have a great week and god bless you all,

Jonny aka J.1.P

  I have to say I was moved by this article. It really gave me pause. Does any one else agree?  I mean this really spoke to me. What do you guys think about the article?

halirin

Short answer: no. 

J1P was always nice when we were in alliance families together, and I'm glad he's encouraging people not to be toxic and bitter, but most of his complaints don't resonate with me. 

Take, for example, the lack of SCL 9 and 10. We basically have notice that there will be some better rewards sometime in the future. We don't know how much better or how long from now, but it seems utterly crazy to me to act like that's something bad the developers are doing to us. A lot of the rest seemed similar. 

I guess the closest it comes to resonating for me is that I used to teach a personal finance class, and this strikes me as a good example for many aspects of consumer behavior, time preference, and positional goods. If one of your life goals is to avoid excess anger and regret, there are some nice lessons in here. 

fmftint

This didn't need it's own thread

Jonny1Punch

Phaserhawk I personally appreciate this very much. I poured my heart and soul into that article and I've gotten overwhelmingly positive feedback from the community on here, my personal Facebook and many LINE users.

i know it's not gonna change any of the things that need to be changed or corrected in MPQ..... however I couldn't remain Silent without putting up the best fight that I could .

I will continue to do everything that I can to make  MPQ better and prevent further high level mistakes like the oml nerf.

Ducky

***If you wish to discuss J1P's thread please do so in the actual thread. Creating additional threads about whether you agree or not with a different thread is unnecessary and clutters the forums.***

Brigby

Adding the original thread's location for reference: 
http://forums.d3go.com/discussion/63502/the-aftermath-of-selling-a-post-nerf-lvl-519-oml-and-what-it-taught-me/p1