MPQ 5th Anniversary Celebration! *Updated (10/23/18)

Xephy

@Brigby will we get some amazing bundles for anniversary? Thanks.

wymtime

@Brigby is there any way to get cables numbers this week?  I would love to see what his power set is before Kitty Pride goes into packs

JHawkInc

Pros:

• Anniversary! Sale and Tokens galore!
• Taskmaster!
• Versus Season!
• Double Season ISO!
• Season gives Anniversary Tokens!
• Class of 2018 PVP
• Dino PVP!
• Strange Sights!
• Not a bad 100-item vault, all things considered.
• Fan Favorite LT Store!
• Webbed Wonder!
• Howard PVP!
• Howard Crash! (wait, why isn't Dino's crash mentioned?)
• Taskmaster Crash? This one could be a con if he's too hard to earn, or it's too hard to win his fight with what we can earn before the Crash.
• 5* Cable! Never been a fan of the character, but I'm always down for someone highly requested to get added.
• Thanos release for Cable? Sweet.
• And what in Sam Hill is a RAID? None of this "more details to come" nonsense, we need them NOW. (that's not a joke, alliances like to plan and get ready for these, and the flow of information is horrible and usually leaves us high and dry trying to prepare for new events, lettings us have at least some idea of what's going on prior to dropping the event on us would be more exciting than the new event itself!)

Cons:

• Taskmaster is LIMITED?! You've raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly, sirs! Like, why bother? It's easier to cover and champ 5's than Limited characters. You must have missed how all of our suggestions for Limited characters have been people like Spider-Ham or Moon Girl. Not someone so highly requested like freaking TASKMASTER.
• Making Taskmaster the reward for Dino's PVP means veterans who have Dino have an edge over everyone else. This is generally the case for every event, but given that Dino is limited, it's really not cool for people who have, say, been playing for less than a year, but would like their chance to earn Taskmaster as well.
  
• Emma Frost in Shield Training. I know you want to put new characters in Shield Training to add value to chasing them early to increase sales and spending, but when you do it with a character THIS new, all it does is make people mad.
• No Supports in the Anniversary Vault? Wait, are there Supports anywhere? A reliable way to get Tokens? New Supports? Anything?
• Fan Favorite LT Store is not as good as last years. And because of dilution, you could have featured the same number of characters as last year and it still wouldn't have been "as good", so why not do that? Hell, running a Fan Favorite store for a week, then a Fan Favorites #2 for a week with different characters could have worked. But as someone who desparately wants more Doctor Strange covers, and could use champ levels for OML and Jessica Jones, I'm still going to pass, because I'd be better off saving that CP to make sure I can acquire Kitty and Cable for the inevitable Essential nodes.
• No mention of possible new Feeders either. "More feeders and a full roll-out of Supports" were kinda high on my list of "things for Anniversary."

QUESTIONS:

• The Versus Season says it "Awards Taskmaster"? Does that mean "In the normal Versus events" or something special like "In Shield Simulator" or even "As part of Season Rewards?"
• We can see Devil Dino in Heroes For Hire which implies his Crash is next (between the current one and Howard), so he should totally be on the list of stuff up there.
• Raid details. Need them. Don't ruin this by forcing us to scramble to prepare with only a day or two's notice. There are groups of alliances that play together, and we can prepare to make sure the most people enjoy these events when you give us the heads up and let us know the basics in advance.

Felonius

Yay for two characters I like.  And Taskmaster's ability to select his powers sounds really cool.  Sadly, with him being Limited, and Cable being a 5*, well... I won't get either in a playable level for years, if ever....

... sigh.

Meh.

Projectus2501

Places of Power - Alliance Raid Event

• A new story event where players strategize with their Alliance and split up to different locations to try to keep vast mystical powers from falling into the wrong hands!
  
• More details to come!

Best anniversary news!

Projectus2501

fmftint said:

One thing missing

A 5 star feeder

This

Projectus2501

DyingLegend said:

Im going to say the thing i always bring up.....

Dilution is still an issue..... 

Especially for new players... You do want new players in the game right?....

kk3thess

Would a roster slot sale kill anyone?

But I admit I'm pretty excited about the rest

Valenson

For this celebration, will there be any updates to the 5 star feeders?

HoundofShadow

Read this guys:

Please Note: We will be continuously updating this list with more info as the Anniversary progresses

That's three weeks worth of info still not being revealed yet. Savour a little surprise.

mega ghost

HoundofShadow said:

Read this guys:

Please Note: We will be continuously updating this list with more info as the Anniversary progresses

That's three weeks worth of info still not being revealed yet. Savour a little surprise.

Ok but could they at least show us a silhouette of the info that way we can guess what it is during the commercial break?

0_efx_0

mega ghost said:

HoundofShadow said:

Read this guys:

Please Note: We will be continuously updating this list with more info as the Anniversary progresses

That's three weeks worth of info still not being revealed yet. Savour a little surprise.

Ok but could they at least show us a silhouette of the info that way we can guess what it is during the commercial break?

WHO’S THAT POKÉMON(UPDATE)?!? 

NeonBlue

I'd be shocked if we didn't get a few more packs during the 3 weeks. 

What are your thoughts on the fan favorite pool for someone like me in 4*

shardwick

NeonBlue said:

I'd be shocked if we didn't get a few more packs during the 3 weeks. 

What are your thoughts on the fan favorite pool for someone like me in 4*

Well, they're all pretty solid 4s so if you need covers for them then it's definitely not a bad option. But if you're more like me and you have most/all of them champed and you have other 4s that you need to focus more on to get covers for like Dazzler and Nebula, maybe some older 4s too, then I'd spend my cp elsewhere. Plus you have 5* Cable on the horizon so you may want to hoard your cp for his release if getting him rostered matters to you.

ZeiramMR

I noticed that only the Lightning Rounds in two weeks is listed. Will there be a set (with 2x ISO-8) starting on the 9th?

Rockwell75

There's actually not a lot here for someone who's only interest in this game right now is finishing Okoye.

wymtime

Projectus2501 said:

Places of Power - Alliance Raid Event

• A new story event where players strategize with their Alliance and split up to different locations to try to keep vast mystical powers from falling into the wrong hands!
  
• More details to come!

Best anniversary news!

Just remember boss rush was an anniversary event.  That boss event still gives me nightmares.

Dartmaster01

I guess even the devs are giving up on supports now. I not surprised. Time to either make em available or get rid of em. Make a decision please, before all the vets quit.

HoundofShadow

Supports are usually announced on the following Monday after the release of new characters. I don't understand the hate. I'm glad there are more new players compared to vets.

Bowgentle

Brigby said:

3) All Anniversary Season events have double iso-8, but lightning rounds aren't part of seasons, so I added that line just to clarify that it does contain double iso-8 as well.

That explanation makes zero sense.
By your logic, PVE events shouldn't be part of anniversary either, since there are no PVE seasons.

Just slap the "anniversary" tag onto the LRs, done.
Give people a chance to REALLY earn double iso with every match played.