Overheard at a D3 and Demiurge Meeting - Part 4: The Nerf Heard Round the World!

Punisher5784 · December 2017

Hi guys,

I sincerely apologize for the delay. I had 85% of this written over 2 weeks ago but I have been so busy with finalizing the year-end at work. I’ll also post the results from the 4th year poll soon and I’ll work on the next Gambit story. Well here you go.. Part 4! Enjoy!

Punisher: ::Awakens, tied up:: Where am I?

Daredevil: We’ve been captured. You’ve been unconscious for a couple of days. They are starting the next meeting

::Meeting commences::

Community Manager: Greetings everyone. I was asked to start this meeting to announce Gambit has been nerfed effective immediately. The players have already been informed on the forum.

CFO: What! Who made this decision?!

Admin Asst. (Formerly Intern): I did. You guys knew it was necessary, yet you only thought about your own pockets instead of the players

CFO: Who made you the boss? Where is the director?

Human Resources: We terminated him this morning. This new director, who will steer us in the right direction to will keep the players happy

Director (Formerly Admin Asst/Intern): Thank you. You may have also noticed other new changes such as the updated battle UI. We plan to make several changes that should have been done years ago.

Developer 2: That’s right. We were nearly finished with updating Battle UI almost two years ago but we were told to focus on new characters instead

CFO: Exactly! New characters make us money, updates to the UI do not. So how did we nerf Gambit?

Director (Formerly Admin Asst/Intern): Gambit’s black will now be an active power that creates charge tiles and damage friendly characters. No changes were made to red or purple

Analyst 1: Friendly damage? Are you crazy? Our historical data shows that players rarely use characters that deal friendly damage. Thanos was the rare exception.

Controller: This will most certainly affect our sales. We were predicting to be double the amount of revenue over last year but now we could fall back into the red

CFO: There goes the new swimming pool! I hope you’re happy!

Director (Formerly Admin Asst/Intern): I am happy. Unless you’re having a massive pool party where all MPQ players are invited than you do not deserve the pool. These players are very dedicated and loyal, yet they’ve been treated like trash the past few years. I plan to change this. This holiday season will be glorious! Triple Iso! 50% chance at opening 5* covers! I am even working with the developers to finally implement colorless covers. I am also postponing the plans to release 6* characters.

CFO: I guess we should start looking for new jobs

Human Resources: Excuse me Director, I need you to come with me to finalize all rest of the paper work.

Director (Formerly Admin Asst/Intern): The Developers will inform you of the details. Good day gentleman. ::Exits the room::

Controller: Please tell us this is not happening

Developer 1: Of course not! The CFO is the real replacement for the Director. Yeah we nerfed Gambit as per his request, but we nerfed 3* Gambit. We actually gave 5* Gambit a slight buff that looks like a nerf!

Marketing: Please tell us more!

Developer 1: 3* Gambit received the nerf that the Director explained but 5* Gambit will gather 2 AP less per turn BUT he will also destroy 2 AP from the enemy. We felt that was the best solution to keep the original plan intact

Analyst 2: That is brilliant! According to my statistics, they show that revenue from 3* Gambit has reached peak so nerfing him to Sentry-type levels was the way to go. 5* Gambit will still continue to earn a ton of revenue

Analyst 1: Yes! With this change, players will feel they need their own Gambit, kinda like when all the players were buying Hood’s blue cover.

Developer 2: Exactly. Once Gambit enters Classic tokens, we will have the Community Manager inform the players that we agree with their thoughts on Gambit and we’ll nerf him like the 3*!

Community Manager: Ummm.. I am still here. I do not like this approach. The players on the forums are very upset and I agree with ideas. I think we should listen to them more.

CFO: Security! Erase his memory… again!

::Security grabs the Community Manager and escorts him to an unknown place::

CFO: We need to stop forgetting he is here. His brain will melt if we keep erasing it like Winter Soldier. Now, let's discuss our Holiday schedule plans.

Marketing: What is the plan this year? Another run of Crash of the Mad Titans?

CFO: No, we cannot afford to continue to give things away. We’ll simply have a sale on Iso and we’ll have a new character release during the Holidays, followed by a 7-day event for the New Year! All while we're away on vacation, I booked us all a cruise to Bermuda!

Developer 1: Wow.. I've never been to Bermuda but should we worry about the players? I would expect a ton of backlash. Last year we had tons of stuff and this year we're offering very little.

CFO: There is always backlash… but… the players will still play. They always do! Mwhahahahaha

Everyone in the Room: Mwhahahahahahahaha.. ::pause::... Mwhahahahahahahaha..!!!

Daredevil: This does not sound good

Punisher: We need to get out of here! Time to punish!

Director (Original): I don’t think so Frank

Punisher: The Director, we finally meet. You better hope I don’t get out of here!

Daredevil: Who are you?

Director: Someone you would never expect ::Rips off his mask::

Punisher and Daredevil: It can’t be!!

To be continued..

Previous Meetings:

Part 1: https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/68785/overheard-at-a-d3-and-demiurge-meeting/p1