Avengers: Endgame Celebration! *Updated (5/20/19)

The rockett

BoyWonder1914 said:

Punter1 said:

I think after all our complaining they've decided there's no pleasing us so have rolled back any more fun stuff just to spite us.  It's no less than we deserve!

I know I've kinda been living under a rock the past couple of months, but this round of complaining seems relatively light when I compare to Infinity War.......and I think this was the bigger cinematic event, so expectations and disappointment had a capacity to be at an all-time high. Nothing too crazy outside of the "wow this is underwhelming" or "this is what you guys have been working on all this time?". Seems folks have learned to manage their expectations for the most part. 

Or we are just used to it now that we are numb to it.  I truly feel that what we got for what will be the largest movie of all time, weak.  

-New PVE with nothing special or new about it. 
-10 days of MCU.  While I thought the idea was cool, it was still 15-25 seconds a day for 1 node. 
-Boss event that was a re run not a new one. 
-2 new, soon to be 3, characters. This is the normal 4/4/5 rotation even though the 5* hasn’t been announced as of this post but it has to be coming. 
-1 feeder so far and hopefully another one. This might be the best part of this 4 week event.  
-2 MCU stores but still 25 CPs per pull.  
-2 new PVPs tied to the new characters, but this isn’t anything special since every new character gets one.  
-More 4* PVPs, might be the 2nd best thing of this 4 week event.  
-Double Iso kinda. 

I know I am missing some things, but nothing here “knocks my socks off”. In fact there are some players that were holding out hope for something new and cool to be released to rejuvenate the game a bit.  There hasn’t been so some are walking away. Again, this is more than we got for Infinity War but seems like a lost opportunity for something more. 

Punter1

This is a good summary by @The rockett and is the reason I'm "retiring" after 1900+ days.  My socks are still on, and were in no danger of being knocked off during this last event.  

I've never been a super hardcore player but I've been around and played very consistently for 2.5 yrs (previously was around for the start of seasons, then took a break of just daily play).  Over my play time I've seen plenty of great additions that come at consistent intervals to add longevity to the game.  Supports were the last major update now over 1 year ago and they were a bit of a dud.  

I'd some minor hopes that they would roll out a new feature during the Endgame celebrations.  Something to encourage more engagement and change up the game somehow.  As pointed out ad infinitum, the event involved some lipstick on a pig dressing up the same tired format.  

So today is the first  day I scale my play back, playing when I'm bored and not on this game-imposed schedule I've had going for way to long. 

I still appreciate that the model in this game allows us F2P players to do well.  I still don't mind the odd mindless match-3 game.  I still like the collection of new characters and levelling up.  I still enjoy the odd PVP chase to high scores.  I'll stick with that focus, enjoy real life and enjoy the summer not wondering how I schedule my next grind in.

Richyyy

I'm pretty close to calling it a day, too. I'm just bored. There's nothing in the game at the top end besides grinding through with Thorkoye or Gritty as quickly as possible, and then doing it again and again in basically every event. The Endgame stuff was all essentially the same **** we'd have gotten anyway, just with mostly MCU characters. The 10 Days thing was a decent idea, but incredibly brief and wildly easy for 5* rosters.

In fairness, maybe no game should really be expected to last as long as I've been playing this one. God knows I've never carried on playing a console game as long as I've been playing MPQ (unless you count ones with new iterations every year as the same game). But it also feels like there's very little effort to keep things interesting for veteran players. You see this with lots of entertainment industries and products - companies assume their long-term buyers/fans/whatever are just going to stick around regardless, so they stop paying much attention to them. Sometimes they're right and they get away with it; sometimes you lose your core base and you're screwed. Endgame was probably the single biggest event in Marvel's history. I've even heard criticisms of the film as being too fan-servicey, and yet we MPQ fans got very little that was actually new. I don't really feel like doing the same old stuff over and over again any more.

jamesh

The rockett said:

Or we are just used to it now that we are numb to it.  I truly feel that what we got for what will be the largest movie of all time, weak.  

-New PVE with nothing special or new about it.

I think you are underselling the value of a new PVE.

1. there's new story to read.
2. there might be more time between repeats of Meet Rocket and Groot in the future.
3. the event uses characters released in the last year as enemies rather than just variations of the Dark Avengers.

You might not care about all of these, but it is a more long lasting improvement to the game than limited mini-events like Cinematic Showdowns, Growth Industry, etc.

HoundofShadow

What I think some of the vets expect from new PvE are:

1) no placement or time constraint
2) probably top placement rewards distributed into progression rewards.

Reasonings are:
Many vets want Gauntlet to be back because there isn't any schedule to adhere to and it's full progression. The con is mainly "poor" rewards.

Let's say if these two new PvEs followed the structure of Gauntlet but the rewards are not up to expectations (probably more CP/LT/4-star covers) or the rewards are similar to Gauntlet, then they will still be unsatisfied. It could then be labeled as a re-skin of Gauntlet.

For some reasons, some of the feedbacks about how unsatisfactory the celebration is, but feedbacks about how to improve the situation are pretty vague and open to interpretation. If some of the vets do not say what kind of improvement they specifically want, then it's up to the devs to interpret based on whatever data and metrics they have. 

For example, bring Gauntlet back with better rewards. Define "better". Will putting 1 or 2 4-star covers make the overall rewards better? Or more LTs or more CPs?

Bowgentle

HoundofShadow said:

What I think some of the vets expect from new PvE are:

1) no placement or time constraint
2) probably top placement rewards distributed into progression rewards.

What vets and everyone else expects from new PVEs is:

Use those millions of 4* chars that have been released in the last 4 years.

There's zero reason to roll out new events where there is fighting against goons, symbiotes, dark avengers and everyone else who has been used ad infinitum.

LifeofAgony

Unfortunately if you’re competing at a high level for pve, like Rockett, you’ll never get a chance to read the story because the reward structure is a time-based game.  I don’t think it’s underselling it as it’s new pve in-so much as you re-painting your living room and changing the carpet and calling it new.  It’s not really so much new as sprucing up something they already exists.  They teased us with some variants on the content but they seem to vanish as quickly as they appear.

Its certainly better than yet another run of meet grocket, but even something like heroic pve where you had a limited roster is more interesting than the same “go as quickly as possible with same 3-6 toons every event”.

And I think the bigger point is that this movie is the biggest marvel event really since the games inception and I don’t think as stated anyone is really blown away.

Mattjimf

BoyWonder1914 said:

Punter1 said:

I think after all our complaining they've decided there's no pleasing us so have rolled back any more fun stuff just to spite us.  It's no less than we deserve!

I know I've kinda been living under a rock the past couple of months, but this round of complaining seems relatively light when I compare to Infinity War.......and I think this was the bigger cinematic event, so expectations and disappointment had a capacity to be at an all-time high. Nothing too crazy outside of the "wow this is underwhelming" or "this is what you guys have been working on all this time?". Seems folks have learned to manage their expectations for the most part. 

I think the bottom of the barrel in regards to expectation vs reality was busted at Anniversary 2 and you're supposed to lose, any big event that fails to deliver after that is just a meh, same old.

Tony_Foot

Personally I don’t think there will be any great changes now, not like the large ones we have been anticipating in the past and causes thousands of posts on here. I guess what I’m saying is if you don’t like where the game is currently you are probably best thinking about whether you want to continue or complain your way through the next two years, I really don’t think the will or resources are there to fix this past wiping the slate clean and making MPQ phase 2.

Either log in do your 6+ clears per day as fast as possible or find something else that makes you happy.

Nabistay

@Brigby don't think i don't see you posting a required 5* strange event without any feeder details! Your fridge isn't safe from @Nick441234 yet! 

bluewolf

Week 4 is the End, right?  PVP looks like some MCU folks are still being highlighted but I think it's just alphabetical/mixing up PVP a bit.  The PVE after next (Simulator) has no MCU folks being highlighted that I can tell.

Nick441234

Nabistay said:

@Brigby don't think i don't see you posting a required 5* strange event without any feeder details! Your fridge isn't safe from @Nick441234 yet! 

His fridge is in real danger right now. I might well steal it entirely! I'm so sick of my 2/5/5 Strange.

Brigby

bluewolf said:

Week 4 is the End, right?  PVP looks like some MCU folks are still being highlighted but I think it's just alphabetical/mixing up PVP a bit.  The PVE after next (Simulator) has no MCU folks being highlighted that I can tell.

Nope! There's still 2 more weeks of Endgame-themed events and content after this week.

turbomoose

When’s the next feeder coming Brigby? 🙂

zodiac339

turbomoose said:

When’s the next feeder coming Brigby? 🙂

Brigby is the next feeder.
Brigby (Site Admin) 4*. Champ rewards update gives Anticipation (Epic) 5*. Covers are:
Make Them Beg, Green (Passive)
Trickling Information, Green (7)
Can’t Please Everyone, Blue (?)

Nabistay

zodiac339 said:

turbomoose said:

When’s the next feeder coming Brigby? 🙂

Brigby is the next feeder.
Brigby (Site Admin) 4*. Champ rewards update gives Anticipation (Epic) 5*. Covers are:
Make Them Beg, Green (Passive)
Trickling Information, Green (7)
Can’t Please Everyone, Blue (?)

Don't forget the support: Tuna Melt (200 Rupees) , when supported char makes a match all countdown timers double

Ed_Dragonrider

2 more weeks? Wow, will they be as exciting and fun as week 4? /sarcasm

(Sorry, but that was all that came to mind when reading that)

zodiac339

Nabistay said:

zodiac339 said:

turbomoose said:

When’s the next feeder coming Brigby? 🙂

Brigby is the next feeder.
Brigby (Site Admin) 4*. Champ rewards update gives Anticipation (Epic) 5*. Covers are:
Make Them Beg, Green (Passive)
Trickling Information, Green (7)
Can’t Please Everyone, Blue (?)

Don't forget the support: Tuna Melt (200 Rupees) , when supported char makes a match all countdown timers double

If the supported character has a power with Repeater tiles, all enemy teams become Dark Avengers.

DAZ0273

Nick441234 said:

Nabistay said:

@Brigby don't think i don't see you posting a required 5* strange event without any feeder details! Your fridge isn't safe from @Nick441234 yet! 

His fridge is in real danger right now. I might well steal it entirely! I'm so sick of my 2/5/5 Strange.

That would be Wong of you...

bluewolf

Hey look, Hearts of Darkness featuring Dr. Strange as the 5E just started!

Are there any announcements that might be tied to that?  Maybe....?  I hope?

I guess Dr. Strange does like to keep you guessing about where he's going to show up next.  And where you're going to be.