Richyyy said: I'm far from convinced that they actually know when these characters are going to be good, or especially that they'd be good enough to infiltrate the meta. I think they fluke into it. At the other end of the scale, they seem scared to make any of them glaringly too good after the Gambit debacle, so we keep getting characters at the other end of the scale, or who are too complicated to do anything quickly.Of course, if they notice that people are getting sick of waiting for a decent 5* and it's affected spending, the easy way to put out one that slips into the meta is to offer Kitty a 5* partner that's better than Grocket. A 5* who puts out special tiles similar to Grocket and does literally anything else (even just offering 5* match damage in non-Kitty colors would be useful) would lead to people cracking open some hoards.
Vhailorx said: (Also, notwithstanding what I just said about community rankings, I think GED gets a bit too much flak from the playerbase. He is basically a true healing version of JJ with boardshake and true heal instead of special tiles. Both have strong offensive powers that cost 9 or more AP, have strong passives that make them irritating to face on defense and somewhat hard to truly starve of AP. But they are both too slow to be in the meta. If the next 5* is GED/JJ strength or better, I think the GED + marvel + new guy tokens are arguably worthy of a hoard.)
bluewolf said: Did you notice the meta 5 store a few weeks ago in the middle of this yawn-worthy run? Do you think the devs don't know how uninspiring their latest efforts are? They introduced the first ever "buyers club" bonus CP offer as well, still ongoing for a while longer for all the whales out there. All to prop up sales which are flagging.
OJSP said: Vhailorx said:I don't think he is a top tier I am curious to see what people think when/if he becomes more widely covered. Well.. you're currently arguing with someone who has both JJ and Doom championed..
Vhailorx said:I don't think he is a top tier I am curious to see what people think when/if he becomes more widely covered.
jredd said: there's probably 100 reliable people on here that would play test new 5* characters for one cover of each colour for new 5* releases. just need to ask...
JHawkInc said: jredd said: there's probably 100 reliable people on here that would play test new 5* characters for one cover of each colour for new 5* releases. just need to ask... I, for one, am grateful that there are no players involved in the design process. Some people here have downright stupid ideas. Such a playtest program would put everyone at the mercy of how lucky the devs are at picking people with good feedback. Let's leave that RNG as it is, please and thank you.
Vhailorx said: JHawkInc said: jredd said: there's probably 100 reliable people on here that would play test new 5* characters for one cover of each colour for new 5* releases. just need to ask... I, for one, am grateful that there are no players involved in the design process. Some people here have downright stupid ideas. Such a playtest program would put everyone at the mercy of how lucky the devs are at picking people with good feedback. Let's leave that RNG as it is, please and thank you. Player playtesting would be good. There is lots of evidence that Demi doesn't understand the elder game very well. So better pre-lease gauging of new character strength would be good for Demi and likely good for the game too. Players involved in actually designing new character kits seems like a far more dubious proposition. No doubt there are some players that would be great designers, it would be like finding a proverbial needle in a haystack, with a lot of downside risk.