Is this the “healthiest” of the three active Puzzle Quest games in mobile?

Roco32373

How healthy is MPQ compared to Magic the Gathering PQ and Adventure Time PQ? Is this the most popular and/or most supported game by the devs?

Just curious. 

LifeofAgony

Adventure time is dead.  Magic came out much later than MPQ so I would think mpq is healthiest due to its longevity.

Jabrony_Geoff

I don't know about the other two games but this game is certainly unhealthy. 
If you enjoy the grind now, trust me you will not after a year & a half of facing the Dark avengers.
BTW How long ago was that storyline? 
Remove them and replace with the skrulls and some super skrulls damn it.

To make the game healthier :-

1= Pve must be reduced to one event per month. Probably a new seven day event with two 48 hour subs offering double ISO. Everyone will play that. 
How popular Thor and Loki are i suggest an Asgard event.

2= Alliance event once a month, they are popular.

3= Bring back the gauntlet with improved ISO and better cover rewards. 
I suggest a 4 day gauntlet Monday to Thursday and 3 day gauntlet Thursday to Sunday.

4= Deadpool daily is fine, keep it.

5= pvp is broken but the big boys gotta play somewhere.

Only some suggestions but I know they will be ignored.

HoundofShadow

MPQ is the healthiest game of all three. As mentioned, Adventure Time Quest has retired. 

MtG was released in December 2015. They changed the game developer from Hibernum to Oktagon recently. I tried playing MtG before and it's not easy to play because the interface for choosing spell and characters was really difficult to use. I couldn't find any tutorial at all. I stopped playing after ~5 days.


MPQ was released in iOS and Android on 3 Oct 2013. It was released in Steam two months later. After a couple of years later, they released MPQ in Amazon Appstore. MPQ is still developed by Demiurge. Sega acquired Demiurge in 2015, but I'm not sure whether it's due to them working on MPQ. If you are a gamer, I think you would know who Sega is.

1) In the past, Demiurge hired extra staff(s) due to the popularity of MPQ.

2) They bought extra servers to handle the influx of new players. I believe there is at least 100,000 players playing this game. 

3) Its revenue is over $100 million dollars.

4) As for development, they work closely with Marvel. I think the dialogue in PvE is written by Marvel's employees. Marvel is even involved in the creation of some PvEs and characters. Marvel gives them lots of supports for character creation. I believe D3 might be involved in some of the creation of characters as well.  Demiurge usually have tie-in with comics, movies or series. 

5) As for supports from this forum, you can see that there's not much love from most of them. It's still pretty much the same comments as a few years back: "MPQ is dying", "the devs don't listen to any players' feedbacks", "it's grindy", "it's a money grab" etc. Outside of this forum, the responses might be different though. I think some players sent comic books or figurines to the devs for making this game.

DeNappa

@Jabrony Geoff I don't think the op meant 'healthy' that way

But yeah, MPQ is probably healthiest. And while I don't really keep up with developments, MtGPQ is probably a distant second. Love the art but never played it. 

TheVulture

It must surely be MPQ - it is silky smooth to play compared to MtGPQ, on both a technical level (latter has way to many load breaks) and a gameplay one (drastic deviations from PQ formula).

Jabrony_Geoff

DeNappa said:

@Jabrony Geoff I don't think the op meant 'healthy' that way

But yeah, MPQ is probably healthiest. And while I don't really keep up with developments, MtGPQ is probably a distant second. Love the art but never played it. 

DeNappa I knew exactly what the opening post meant but I chose to ignore it like MPQ choose to ignore our requests to reduce the grind.

Spoit

The question is, how healthy is it compared to the other marvel games? Other than tsum tsum (RIP) and maybe Avengers Academy, it seems like it's treading water more.

Heartbreaksoup

Jabrony Geoff said:

I don't know about the other two games but this game is certainly unhealthy. 
If you enjoy the grind now, trust me you will not after a year & a half of facing the Dark avengers.
BTW How long ago was that storyline? 
Remove them and replace with the skrulls and some super skrulls damn it.

To make the game healthier :-

1= Pve must be reduced to one event per month. Probably a new seven day event with two 48 hour subs offering double ISO. Everyone will play that. 
How popular Thor and Loki are i suggest an Asgard event.

You must be joking.  I only play PVP when I have some midday free time.  The only reason that I play this game at all is to play the stories of PVE... and you think there should be *less* of it?

Pr0spect0r

No. (Extra fluff cuz comment needs more than 5 characters)

Jabrony_Geoff

Heartbreaksoup said:

Jabrony Geoff said:

I don't know about the other two games but this game is certainly unhealthy. 
If you enjoy the grind now, trust me you will not after a year & a half of facing the Dark avengers.
BTW How long ago was that storyline? 
Remove them and replace with the skrulls and some super skrulls damn it.

To make the game healthier :-

1= Pve must be reduced to one event per month. Probably a new seven day event with two 48 hour subs offering double ISO. Everyone will play that. 
How popular Thor and Loki are i suggest an Asgard event.

You must be joking.  I only play PVP when I have some midday free time.  The only reason that I play this game at all is to play the stories of PVE... and you think there should be *less* of it?

You must be new to the game, nobody, repeat nobody follows the pve stories after a month of playing. 

Dormammu

Spoit said:

The question is, how healthy is it compared to the other marvel games? Other than tsum tsum (RIP) and maybe Avengers Academy, it seems like it's treading water more.

How many mobile Marvel games are there, now? Strike Force, Contest of Champions, Future Fight, Lego Marvel, Spider-Man Unlimited, and Avengers Academy? I bet I'm missing some...

I think MPQ is doing just fine when compared to all of these, from a financial standpoint and an active player base. There's no way for us to know the financials, but we're approaching the 5 year mark and the developers have yet to show a single sign that this game is near an end. In fact, with the recent addition of Supports (popular or not) they've shown a commitment to the long-term health and continuation of this game.

Strike Force may be the flavor of the month game that everyone is trying now, but the novelty will wear off just like it did for the Star Wars game it cloned. Those types of games rarely stand the test of time.

Jarvind

I started this up because Adventure Time was a steaming pile that wasn't getting any updates, and that was several years ago.

Heartbreaksoup

Jabrony Geoff said:

You must be new to the game, nobody, repeat nobody follows the pve stories after a month of playing. 

Please do not be presumptive about other players' habits.  I have been playing for nearly a year and it is PVE that keeps me interested and excited, not PVP, which I do not really enjoy.  Your suggestion to only have a single PVE event each month would end my participation in this game.