MPQ Sneak Peek: August 2019 Edition *Updated (8/23/19)

Bzhai

RickOShay said:

A partial solution: 
Update 4* Professor X to be a 5* feeder. Problem solved, for some. 

Will be surprised if they actually do that. But unlikely since they wanna test out how willing people are to spend HP.

JHawkInc

Bzhai said:

RickOShay said:

A partial solution: 
Update 4* Professor X to be a 5* feeder. Problem solved, for some. 

Will be surprised if they actually do that. But unlikely since they wanna test out how willing people are to spend HP.

Except they really aren't. Because they're making him Essential immediately, which is going to skew the results. You can't measure what people are willing to do while actively manipulating them to behave differently and hope to get anything of value out of it.

It really should be two separate tests. Once for the HP store for new 5's, to compare to regular (previous) releases, then an HP store with the changed Essential schedule. 

It's entirely possible that things could work out with an HP release store without bending over backwards to screw the playerbase with an early Essential requirement, but they won't find out one way or another because they're screwing with multiple independent variables at the same time.

jamesh

Looking at the bright side: if you're a 4* player, you'll probably have a decent chance of getting top 50 in CL9 for this one event with similar effort to what you'd usually expend in CL8.  That's an extra 4* cover from placement.

bluewolf

jamesh said:

Looking at the bright side: if you're a 4* player, you'll probably have a decent chance of getting top 50 in CL9 for this one event with similar effort to what you'd usually expend in CL8.  That's an extra 4* cover from placement.

I would expect any 5* player who normally plays SCL9 to do so again.  The progression rewards are too good to drop down significantly.  If you don't have Prof $, forget it.

Now, if you are a 4* player who manages to win the lottery from one of the ingame tokens and gets Prof $, then you could potentially do better than expected.

Yepyep

bluewolf said:
...  If you don't have Prof $, forget it. ...

Good one... 😂 

GrimSkald

DarthDeVo said:

ThaRoadWarrior said:

Unstable Iso-8 - 3 Day Duration (8/19/19) *New Update*
Featured Characters:
5-Star: Professor X (Classic)
4-Star: War Machine
3-Star: Captain Marvel (Modern)
2-Star: Moonstone

@brigby is this a typo, or a stealth launch of 5* Professor X?

This *can't* be correct, right? I mean, are they trying to get us to quit out of frustration? 

If this is correct, it's borderline predatory and immoral in my opinion. Maybe not even borderline.  Quote me on that. 

I've been playing about 3.25 years now. This is easily the single worst, dumbest decision I've ever seen made if this stands as being true.

This is some tinykitty right there.  They're not even giving us some Event tokens this time - you either luck out and pull him via tokens (1 in 250, fat chance) or else you draw him from the Legendary Store.  A Legendary Store, which I may add, has literally the worst 5* in the game in it.

Whelp, I've skipped PVE last week for Vacation, what's one more?  On the other hand, placement may well be easier because less people will have PX.

KGB

GrimSkald said:

DarthDeVo said:

ThaRoadWarrior said:

Unstable Iso-8 - 3 Day Duration (8/19/19) *New Update*
Featured Characters:
5-Star: Professor X (Classic)
4-Star: War Machine
3-Star: Captain Marvel (Modern)
2-Star: Moonstone

@brigby is this a typo, or a stealth launch of 5* Professor X?

This *can't* be correct, right? I mean, are they trying to get us to quit out of frustration? 

If this is correct, it's borderline predatory and immoral in my opinion. Maybe not even borderline.  Quote me on that. 

I've been playing about 3.25 years now. This is easily the single worst, dumbest decision I've ever seen made if this stands as being true.

This is some tinykitty right there.  They're not even giving us some Event tokens this time - you either luck out and pull him via tokens (1 in 250, fat chance) or else you draw him from the Legendary Store.  A Legendary Store, which I may add, has literally the worst 5* in the game in it.

Whelp, I've skipped PVE last week for Vacation, what's one more?  On the other hand, placement may well be easier because less people will have PX.

You only need 1 cover from his Legendary store to play the 5* PvE node. I can use the Dr Strange covers but I have no use for Banner. So I'll be hitting the store to a a Prof X cover to play the 5E node as will many players I suspect.

KGB

BigSoftieFF

KGB said:

GrimSkald said:

DarthDeVo said:

ThaRoadWarrior said:

Unstable Iso-8 - 3 Day Duration (8/19/19) *New Update*
Featured Characters:
5-Star: Professor X (Classic)
4-Star: War Machine
3-Star: Captain Marvel (Modern)
2-Star: Moonstone

@brigby is this a typo, or a stealth launch of 5* Professor X?

This *can't* be correct, right? I mean, are they trying to get us to quit out of frustration? 

If this is correct, it's borderline predatory and immoral in my opinion. Maybe not even borderline.  Quote me on that. 

I've been playing about 3.25 years now. This is easily the single worst, dumbest decision I've ever seen made if this stands as being true.

This is some tinykitty right there.  They're not even giving us some Event tokens this time - you either luck out and pull him via tokens (1 in 250, fat chance) or else you draw him from the Legendary Store.  A Legendary Store, which I may add, has literally the worst 5* in the game in it.

Whelp, I've skipped PVE last week for Vacation, what's one more?  On the other hand, placement may well be easier because less people will have PX.

You only need 1 cover from his Legendary store to play the 5* PvE node. I can use the Dr Strange covers but I have no use for Banner. So I'll be hitting the store to a a Prof X cover to play the 5E node as will many players I suspect.

KGB

Only if you play slice 3-5 and only on the last day of the event I believe. 

The rockett

@Brigby
so are they going to push this vault up for us to be able to get Prof X or is the only way to get him is the vault? Is it possible for a true confirmation so us, the player base, can plan for this. 

St_Bernadus

I am dumbfounded by the Prof being required so early. Just dumbfounded.

shardwick

I feel like I'm in a real life episode of The Boys. Waiting for Homelander to show up and eye laser everyone here.

DarthDeVo

GrimSkald said:

DarthDeVo said:

ThaRoadWarrior said:

Unstable Iso-8 - 3 Day Duration (8/19/19) *New Update*
Featured Characters:
5-Star: Professor X (Classic)
4-Star: War Machine
3-Star: Captain Marvel (Modern)
2-Star: Moonstone

@brigby is this a typo, or a stealth launch of 5* Professor X?

This *can't* be correct, right? I mean, are they trying to get us to quit out of frustration? 

If this is correct, it's borderline predatory and immoral in my opinion. Maybe not even borderline.  Quote me on that. 

I've been playing about 3.25 years now. This is easily the single worst, dumbest decision I've ever seen made if this stands as being true.

This is some tinykitty right there.  They're not even giving us some Event tokens this time - you either luck out and pull him via tokens (1 in 250, fat chance) or else you draw him from the Legendary Store.  A Legendary Store, which I may add, has literally the worst 5* in the game in it.

Whelp, I've skipped PVE last week for Vacation, what's one more?  On the other hand, placement may well be easier because less people will have PX.

I'm confused, I don't see Wasp in that store. 

jkzl

No, I don't think I will.  I'll wait for him to hit latest, and hope that this isn't the new model.  I kind of enjoyed being able to always roster the five right before they were the essential, but this edges too close to gambling for my comfort, and I don't want to go down that path anymore than I already have been with the new 4* (and foes/friends) vaults.

Day 2088, and counting...

bluewolf

Shield Training 2.0.  Now including 5's!

Anyone else remember, a year and change ago, when they polled us on ways we would accept that would allow them to make more money?

Costumes was one way.  We've had plenty of those (although it seems weird how they were everywhere for a month, then just sort of dropped them from the game).

There was an option about (IIRC) paying to access new content and people chose that option not understanding the "pay" part, just looking at "new content" and getting excited.  I think they understood we didn't really want that but that idea was in their head, it seems.

Anyway, this is obviously a way they hope to get more money from the players.  People who are top players, who are used to rostering 5Es in time, they are driven by competition and alliance obligations and wanting to get T5 in events, T10 alliances.  Maybe enough to spend dollars spinning the roulette wheel to avoid being left behind, even for one event.

They are testing our limits and they've found mine.

DarthDeVo

bluewolf said:

Shield Training 2.0.  Now including 5's!

Anyone else remember, a year and change ago, when they polled us on ways we would accept that would allow them to make more money?

Costumes was one way.  We've had plenty of those (although it seems weird how they were everywhere for a month, then just sort of dropped them from the game).

There was an option about (IIRC) paying to access new content and people chose that option not understanding the "pay" part, just looking at "new content" and getting excited.  I think they understood we didn't really want that but that idea was in their head, it seems.

Anyway, this is obviously a way they hope to get more money from the players.  People who are top players, who are used to rostering 5Es in time, they are driven by competition and alliance obligations and wanting to get T5 in events, T10 alliances.  Maybe enough to spend dollars spinning the roulette wheel to avoid being left behind, even for one event.

They are testing our limits and they've found mine.

We've already made it clear in our T10 hybrid alliance we do not expect people to have a Prof. X cover for Unstable Iso-8. If someone gets super lucky and pulls a cover, congrats! If they want to chase one through spending HP, or buy one in HfH, that's their decision. But we're certainly not requiring or pressuring them to do any of those things. 

DAZ0273

I shudder to think what would happen if I suddenly turned around and told my Alliance they must actively pursue a Prof X cover through tokens to elevate our possible Alliance finish or risk being sent to the Gulag. Don't get me wrong, they are a scrappy bunch in a Boss Fight and always do me proud but most of the rest of the time they are lying around drunk having not seen daylight in several days.

ThaRoadWarrior

If i tried that in my alliance, it would be met with the sound of chirping crickets as nobody engaged or responded to it. maybe some people would leave. lol. My alliance is so casual

GrimSkald

DarthDeVo said:

GrimSkald said:

This is some tinykitty right there.  They're not even giving us some Event tokens this time - you either luck out and pull him via tokens (1 in 250, fat chance) or else you draw him from the Legendary Store.  A Legendary Store, which I may add, has literally the worst 5* in the game in it.

Whelp, I've skipped PVE last week for Vacation, what's one more?  On the other hand, placement may well be easier because less people will have PX.

I'm confused, I don't see Wasp in that store. 

Wasp is no 2.  Banner quite literally has no powers that don't have a drawback or difficult condition, and transforming into the Hulk actively hurts your game with many teams.  To be fair, he's a very early 5* and they didn't really know where the tier was going at the time, I strongly suspect they wanted a lot of them to be mixed bags of positive and negative, but he's bad.  He's downright bad.  Mine is 11 covers (4/5/2,) and even at level 420 he's still a liability even when he's the boosted 5*.  I'll play Wasp over Banner any day, at least Wasp does something.

jkzl

she sure does; she takes up a roster slot.

Brigby

Hi Everyone,

With the release of Professor X, many of you are aware that we are trying some new things out; details can be seen in his Character Release article and the above Sneak Peek update. While we’ve already seen some positive feedback regarding the additional option to earn him with Hero Points, we’re also aware of players expressing their concerns about Professor X being featured in the upcoming Unstable Iso-8 event.

We understand that this scheduling is different than what players may be used to, but rest assured that this is merely something new that we’re trying out this time, and is not necessarily reflective of the schedule moving forward. While we won’t be making any changes to the current schedule, we always welcome and encourage players to provide any feedback they may have, and we’ll be sure to take a look and review them!

Thank you for your patience and understanding!