bobby_2613 said: @FindingHeart8 1 answer here: "Exclusive Access: Additional Deck SlotsThese are additional deck configurations granted for each Planeswalker based on the plan contracted. The player still has to configure each new deck they want to use. If the service is cancelled, the player will lose access to them."Taken from: https://d3go.helpshift.com/a/magic-puzzle-quest/?=undefined&s=common-questions&f=what-is-vip-membership&l=en
jimpark said: I want to know if activity in the mtgpq app has increased or decreased over the past week.
FindingHeart8 said: jimpark said: I want to know if activity in the mtgpq app has increased or decreased over the past week. I cant speak for the entire community, but my coalition has already lost several great players. They quit the game entirely because they don't want to play a pay-to-win game.
Stalker said: FindingHeart8 said: jimpark said: I want to know if activity in the mtgpq app has increased or decreased over the past week. I cant speak for the entire community, but my coalition has already lost several great players. They quit the game entirely because they don't want to play a pay-to-win game. That is a very grey area concerning most mobiles. This game does not sell cosmetic only items, does allow people to spend to allow less in game time played to make money; however, there are timed exclusives that are sold which can give advantages over others. Also, the more one spends and from doing so has a larger card pool ends up with more build options. So the fact people sold themselves that this game caters equally to all is a problem in those individuals alone. The game has to have a revenue stream. I see no ads, and it was free to download. That is where the free ends. You can buy select cards or pray to rngesus and hope you pull it. The ftp crowd still is unchanged, have to keep grinding and hope to make the best choices with the limits that spending no cash allows. Spending doesn’t guarantee wins, but as stated the more cards you have the higher your chances of wining if you can build a deck right. I’ve seen pauper decks do well, but at the top, most have high percentages of sets; this is not a coincidence. So no idea why people are quitting when a game still allows one to compete. As a ftp can you have it all? Maxed pw’s, extra runes, all the exclusives? Have to be reasonable.
jimpark said: Stalker said: FindingHeart8 said: jimpark said: I want to know if activity in the mtgpq app has increased or decreased over the past week. I cant speak for the entire community, but my coalition has already lost several great players. They quit the game entirely because they don't want to play a pay-to-win game. That is a very grey area concerning most mobiles. This game does not sell cosmetic only items, does allow people to spend to allow less in game time played to make money; however, there are timed exclusives that are sold which can give advantages over others. Also, the more one spends and from doing so has a larger card pool ends up with more build options. So the fact people sold themselves that this game caters equally to all is a problem in those individuals alone. The game has to have a revenue stream. I see no ads, and it was free to download. That is where the free ends. You can buy select cards or pray to rngesus and hope you pull it. The ftp crowd still is unchanged, have to keep grinding and hope to make the best choices with the limits that spending no cash allows. Spending doesn’t guarantee wins, but as stated the more cards you have the higher your chances of wining if you can build a deck right. I’ve seen pauper decks do well, but at the top, most have high percentages of sets; this is not a coincidence. So no idea why people are quitting when a game still allows one to compete. As a ftp can you have it all? Maxed pw’s, extra runes, all the exclusives? Have to be reasonable. Reasonable is the key word. The series of changes that led up to VIP is the problem. And mind you, I would bet a lot of these changes were planned. It is the combination of clearly taking away and putting up outageous tolls in an unstable game environment that upsets many. And these things have been implemented in a very suspicious manner, unfortunately. Things could have definitely been handled differently and better but alas that is not the case. The question then becomes, "Can you trust that things will be different given the history of changes in this game?" Well, there seems to be a lot of contradictory issues; primarily related "valuetown." Thus, our trust has been betrayed on multiple occassions yet we still kept our loyalty. But we were the fools to have believed things could be different is how it feels. Therefore, I ask you are these subsequent changes actual "reasonable?" Theres nothing wrong with wanting money and having these VIP programs, etc. The game has to survive in some fashion. But there is a fine between making earnest money and exploiting to make short term money. In my opinion, they have regrettably leaped and sprinted well past that fine line. And those that left have decided this time it was too far. EDIT: There is far more i could say and add. I could also intelligently explain specific instances and such. But i tried to keep it concise, as i have a tendency to ramble. But furthermore, i am tired of trying to help out and wasting my time writing these long posts. So forgive me for not feeling so connected to the game any longer and being exhausted from trying. I hope they do well, otherwise. Good luck.
starfall said: Are you going to doing anything about loading times in 3.5?Wait a minute.. is this just an unofficial Q&A thread?