Update to Heroes for Hire (6/23/17) *Updated (6/26/17)

Frustrated1

Simply amazing. 

The devs have given up actually trying to improve character distribution. 

Is the game winding down this year?

Knaaks

Changes like this really make me question why I still play this game. 

Starfury

Don't worry, in two months they'll announce that in order to solve the problem of long rotation times, they'll limit crash and HfH to the latest 12.  

UNC_Samurai

This was a bad idea.  

Do not implement this idea.

Vhailorx

Brigby said:

@deadtaco
The reason we wanted to provide this news on Friday was not to avoid backlash, but to give players a couple more days to decide if they'd like to take advantage of a current Heroes for Hire opportunity before the update is implemented on Tuesday. 

Thanks for this info brigby, but can you respond to the much more important question of why is this change being made?  Slowing down the h4h cycle is a terrible idea.  Why is demi trying to create aritifical scarcity at the 4* tier?  If it's money, then demi should just say as much.  Very few players got bent out of shape when IceIX said, effectively, "we are looking at capping roster slot costs, but it's tricky because they are a revenue source."  most of us kinda liked the honesty.

And it was a hell of a lot more enjoyable than the frankly asinine marketing puffery that has been used to sell unfriendly (or at best mixed) changes like vaulting, vintage heroics, higher h4h pricepoint, and now this. . .

Rick_OShay

Oh man, I'm usually the guy that finds a way to defend the Dev's in some way. This is not a player-base friendly decision. 
Offering a way to potentially be able to compete compete in the Crash does Nothing toward building up one's roster as a whole.
Were too many of us begrudgingly spending the 3600 HP on vaulted characters? 

Frustrated1

Isn't it time that 4 stars were as available as 3 stars?

DyingLegend

I don't think the devs like the players. Each day they find a new way to insult us. 

Frustrated1

This is as well thought out as getting standard tokens after day 1000.

mrPuzzleQuester

DyingLegend said:

I don't think the devs like the players. Each day they find a new way to insult us. 

They like the whales, noobs & addicted players who keep spending. Pretty much all the design choices & features are to milk the most money out of these people. All F2P players are useless to them. 

If you enjoy the game keep playing but don't spend a penny as it seems like the game is falling off a cliff & they just want to grab as much $ from people while they still can - who know when they'll pull the plug, but I bet it'll be in a forum post on a Friday night. 

Merrick

Personally this change will not affect me. I have never purchased from the HfH store. I have all the 4*'s champed except for the very latest (sandman) and devil Dino, & 3600HP is way too expensive for a champ level. 

However for the health of the game, I see this as a very bad change. It will greatly decrease the ability of newer players to cover older characters. 

Hopefully D3 will address this concern shortly (we have only been waiting since March), & this change will be moot. 

Frustrated1

How soon before characters just get flat out retired? 

Style55

Yikes. Shoot, I thought the price increase from 2500 > 3600 was bad, then they go and make it even worse. I'm going to refrain from making an American political party reference/joke...

VizMantis

I'm sure everything I'll say has been said, but I wanted to add my voice.

I thought the price was a bit high (I've been at 3600 from the start), but I liked that HfH allowed me to complete some long suffering characters.  This change is garbage and means that instead of spending 3600 every few weeks I'll be spending it once every few months.  I don't understand how this makes sense from any point of view.  Devs, vets, whales, beginners...who does this change benefit???

For me personally, instead of looking forward to completing Kate and Miles in a few weeks I guess I'll be waiting...months?  Bucky, Mr F, etc, who I was looking forward to working on in the next cycle and are more than 1 cover away are basically a lost cause now.

Spoit

Yeah, I have 3 characters I was looking forward to finally finishing next month with the 3rd color cycle of the the HfH. Now? I'm probably just going to uninstall. Again. Because there really isn't any way to realistically move forward without dropping thousands on buy clubs or hoarding the middling CP for over a year.

Zappa

Yet another frankly moronic decision by the devs.
1) Do they actually think more people will buy the cover if it sits there for 5 days instead of having 5 different covers over that same period of days?
2) Will a single cover of a single color help in 90-95% of crashes? (other than invisibility as a first cover)
3) They don't care, because here is another long thread of literally everyone listing all the terrible aspects of their terrible update and we will get nothing other than censors, unpinning the thread, and dropped down the bottomless well.

Dartmaster01

Wow! Well, you know the company motto "If it ain't broke........Break it"

mahman10

unbelievable...

MissChinch

Slap in the face from an absurdly out of touch Dev team.  I wonder if they're disgruntled with their management to the point where they would actively try to convince them to push changes they know would result in a worse experience.  I can't explain it any other way...

Since the store is now changing so infrequently why not jack up the price too, we'll have over a year to save up for the cover we need...   Or just kill it all together, people have gotten a few elusive covers during this run, go back to making CP be the only way to increase specific cover levels, there's more money to be made in buy clubs getting 120CP than just giving them away every 2 years for less than $50 worth of HP...

Seriously consider letting whoever floated this idea go...  and definitely get rid of whoever approved it.

Carnifexx

Agree with UNC_samurai, don't.