1) Customer service will swap extra covers if they are drawn from latest legends but not from classics or new character releases.
2) D3, generally speaking, seems to want to deter hoarding of CP and have taken several measures recently to do so.
These two things don't jive with one another. The current system basically ensures players will have to hoard thousands of CP in an effort to overcome RNG and pay an extra 5 CP per pull over classics for the insurance policy of cover swaps.
I have 15 champed 4*s at his point and my highest 5*s are Thanos at 4/0/3 and BB at 1/1/4. There will be covers wasted for them. I'll get my 5th black Thanos cover from G4mora shortly. Most of the covers I have for those two characters were pulled when they were in latest, but there's almost certainly no way I'd get a cover swap for one of those covers (from latest) for a 6th (or 100th) unusable cover drawn from classics.
It would be nice if cover swaps could be made for dupe covers from classics with an additional charge of 5 or 10 CP up to the number of those covers on a player's roster that were actually drawn from latest.
What other factors are at play here that I haven't considered? I feel as though it is worth it to continue pulling from classics while building a broader team of 4*, but wasted 5*s are going to sting.
*edited to add publisher's name
JarvisJackrabbit said: Thanks for the great insights this far. I'm coming to MPQ from the top alliance in Gameloft's Spider-Man Unlimited, a game where players were able to transcend the pay-to-win model with sufficient skill and grinding to a point. The chances of catching up without whaling to reach competition atop daily and event leaderboards was unlikely, however, without having downloaded the game near its release date.- Nice humble brag, but the last part is possible here. It just takes hoarding.I had dozens of interactions with that publisher's Customer Care department (email and phone) and some access to the development team, so I understand the pressure exerted on the devs by the publisher's bottom line.- This is wildly different from this game. Even the whaliest of whales barely have contact capabilities to the devs. Is the developer and the publisher the same in that game? Because the split here is one of the reasons complaints fall on deaf ears.Although unlikely, when I do have my first 6th 5* cover, I still plan on attempting to file a ticket and seeing how far I get with a little creative framing of the situation.- Rules are set. There's always the one time exception, which is hard to get and not something you want to waste readily.
aesthetocyst said: bluewolf said: I think a HP cost would be accepted by most players in exchange for eliminating the wait time that is involved. Anyway, time will tell if anything is done, but they always say the practice can be discontinued; that said, its widespread awareness makes it very hard now to do away with it without upsetting the playerbase. If you are able to respond to CS in a timely manner, they are completing swaps in 1-2 days. It's a 2-stage process, in my recent experience they get back to you by the end of the business day, or next business day if you replay after hours.bluewolf said: I think a HP cost would be accepted by most players in exchange for eliminating the wait time that is involved. Anyway, time will tell if anything is done, but they always say the practice can be discontinued; that said, its widespread awareness makes it very hard now to do away with it without upsetting the playerbase. Again, based on my recent experience, they have dropped any verbiage implying potential change. Swaps have become very, very routine.Which could be a bad thing, if they do decide to plug the hole, as they are currently giving the impression this is just the way things are and no change is anticipated.
bluewolf said: I think a HP cost would be accepted by most players in exchange for eliminating the wait time that is involved. Anyway, time will tell if anything is done, but they always say the practice can be discontinued; that said, its widespread awareness makes it very hard now to do away with it without upsetting the playerbase.
bluewolf said: aesthetocyst said: bluewolf said: I think a HP cost would be accepted by most players in exchange for eliminating the wait time that is involved. Anyway, time will tell if anything is done, but they always say the practice can be discontinued; that said, its widespread awareness makes it very hard now to do away with it without upsetting the playerbase. If you are able to respond to CS in a timely manner, they are completing swaps in 1-2 days. It's a 2-stage process, in my recent experience they get back to you by the end of the business day, or next business day if you replay after hours.bluewolf said: I think a HP cost would be accepted by most players in exchange for eliminating the wait time that is involved. Anyway, time will tell if anything is done, but they always say the practice can be discontinued; that said, its widespread awareness makes it very hard now to do away with it without upsetting the playerbase. Again, based on my recent experience, they have dropped any verbiage implying potential change. Swaps have become very, very routine.Which could be a bad thing, if they do decide to plug the hole, as they are currently giving the impression this is just the way things are and no change is anticipated. *looks at email from swap done on Friday. Sees no verbiage about a policy that may end. Stands corrected and scratches head.*
HoundofShadow said: Sorry for the misunderstanding. In HfH, a Classic 5* cost 250cp. Correct me if I'm wrong. I heard that sometimes in HfH, they will pop up that one cover that you need to champed the 5*. However, there's seems to be mixed results. But I think the main focus would be getting unuseable covers for 5* Classic and you have less than 12 covers.