DevpoolMPQ_BCS said: fight4thedream said: Hello James,Welcome to the MPQ Forum!! It will be great to have some dev interaction here again. I am sure you have piqued a lot of members curiosity. Speaking of curious minds, I noticed you named dropped Hellfire Gala. Nice! Hopefully Judgement Day is also on your radar?Also good to see that rebalances are going to be monthly, if I understand correctly. I noticed you used the terms micro/macro rebalances and I was wondering if you could expound a bit more on that topic. Seeing better affiliation bonuses has long been something I have wanted to see and I am hoping that might fall under macro rebalance. While certain characters do have these bonuses, I just think it would make sense for, say, a team consisting of only Avengers characters to get an additional damage or defensive bonus or some other perk. So I would like to see team bonuses be a thing. Teammates should work better together, no?Finally, if I may ask one more question, will the reintroduction of 3* characters mean they will be variants of the new 5* release or a totally separate character? For example, when 5* Dr. Strange was released they also released a 3* version of him. Ideally, for the sake of variety, I hope they will be separate characters but thematically relevant to each other. For example, a 5* Spiral co-released with a 3* Longshot. I am going to stop myself here as I am sure others will pick up on some of the other things I would like to ask but I am very excited to see what you and the team have cooking up for the game. Wishing you and the Broken Circle studios all the best! A true believer,fight4thedream Thanks! It's great to be here! Hellfire Gala is something we're very excited about, and personally I'm bursting at the seams for Judgment Day. As new developers coming into MPQ, you can imagine we have our hands full and have to be selective about what we take on at the moment. We were able to work in some fun surprises for the Gala, but can't be everywhere at once to celebrate all of the cool things happening in Marvel right now. The rebalances are something we're kicking off later this year, and when we do start to roll them out you can expect a rather normal cadence to them. Micro and Macro are pretty vague words. The key takeaway should be that we're looking to do what's right for underperforming characters who are sitting on the shelf. In the cases of some characters, smaller stat adjustments are in order. For other characters (many of which the fans are keenly aware), we're taking a deeper look at abilities that just aren't shining. In other words, we're trying to take a holistic approach. As for your direct concern over affiliations, it's too early for me to speak too much on this, but know that I share your position on this and that affiliations are something we are looking at. This isn't simply a matter of broadening the affiliations; it includes doing meaningful things with those affiliations. Suffice it to say, it's important to us, we're looking at it, and our efforts towards it will be thoughtful and deliberate. As for your last question, please allow me to refrain from response for the moment. We have some upcoming plans to share more information about what's in store for MPQ and the 3* / 5* release cadence will be best shared in that format.
fight4thedream said: Hello James,Welcome to the MPQ Forum!! It will be great to have some dev interaction here again. I am sure you have piqued a lot of members curiosity. Speaking of curious minds, I noticed you named dropped Hellfire Gala. Nice! Hopefully Judgement Day is also on your radar?Also good to see that rebalances are going to be monthly, if I understand correctly. I noticed you used the terms micro/macro rebalances and I was wondering if you could expound a bit more on that topic. Seeing better affiliation bonuses has long been something I have wanted to see and I am hoping that might fall under macro rebalance. While certain characters do have these bonuses, I just think it would make sense for, say, a team consisting of only Avengers characters to get an additional damage or defensive bonus or some other perk. So I would like to see team bonuses be a thing. Teammates should work better together, no?Finally, if I may ask one more question, will the reintroduction of 3* characters mean they will be variants of the new 5* release or a totally separate character? For example, when 5* Dr. Strange was released they also released a 3* version of him. Ideally, for the sake of variety, I hope they will be separate characters but thematically relevant to each other. For example, a 5* Spiral co-released with a 3* Longshot. I am going to stop myself here as I am sure others will pick up on some of the other things I would like to ask but I am very excited to see what you and the team have cooking up for the game. Wishing you and the Broken Circle studios all the best! A true believer,fight4thedream
Thanks! It's great to be here! Hellfire Gala is something we're very excited about, and personally I'm bursting at the seams for Judgment Day. As new developers coming into MPQ, you can imagine we have our hands full and have to be selective about what we take on at the moment. We were able to work in some fun surprises for the Gala, but can't be everywhere at once to celebrate all of the cool things happening in Marvel right now.
The rebalances are something we're kicking off later this year, and when we do start to roll them out you can expect a rather normal cadence to them. Micro and Macro are pretty vague words. The key takeaway should be that we're looking to do what's right for underperforming characters who are sitting on the shelf. In the cases of some characters, smaller stat adjustments are in order. For other characters (many of which the fans are keenly aware), we're taking a deeper look at abilities that just aren't shining. In other words, we're trying to take a holistic approach. As for your direct concern over affiliations, it's too early for me to speak too much on this, but know that I share your position on this and that affiliations are something we are looking at. This isn't simply a matter of broadening the affiliations; it includes doing meaningful things with those affiliations. Suffice it to say, it's important to us, we're looking at it, and our efforts towards it will be thoughtful and deliberate.
As for your last question, please allow me to refrain from response for the moment. We have some upcoming plans to share more information about what's in store for MPQ and the 3* / 5* release cadence will be best shared in that format.
KGB said: Aueio said: All those who don't see any reason for more 3* why don't you just skip them? You can't. They are required for PvE/PvP.KGB
Aueio said: All those who don't see any reason for more 3* why don't you just skip them?
HoundofShadow said: If you put yourself in the shoes of the finance, this will not happen. First of all, they will ask the dev, "How does this benefit the company financially?" or How does it affect the company's revenue? The answer is, "Zero financial benefit" and "possible revenue reduction". In the event they do reduce roster slot cost, be prepared to see resources like CP and HP reduced in the game permanently.
HoundofShadow said: Players who are pass 300 slots are usually swimming in HP anyway. The reason why they want to keep so many dupes is just in case the dev decided to pull a surprise shardmas again in the future and they can benefit tremendously from this.
Chipster22 said: It is understandable that the developers may not wish to reduce slot costs over 300 to 1000HP retroactively because of the sudden large HP windfall many players would receive. However, maybe there is another way to approach the problem and spread the HP refunds over time.
Aueio said: KGB said: Aueio said: All those who don't see any reason for more 3* why don't you just skip them? You can't. They are required for PvE/PvP.KGB Of course you're you can skip them. I would even say it would be good and healthy for you to skip them if you're a "can't skip, required for being competitive every day" kind of guy.
HoundofShadow said: Players who are pass 300 slots are usually swimming in HP anyway. The reason why they want to keep so many dupes is just in case the dev decided to pull a surprise shardmas again in the future and they can benefit tremendously from this. 1* - 1 roster slot2* - 13 or 14 roster slots3* - 47 roster slots4* - 125 roster slots5* - 70 roster slotsTotal 256/257From June till August, we'll have another 6 releases. From September to December, we'll have 12. In 2023, we'll have 36.In October 2023, everyone would have hit 300 roster slots.Anyway, asking the dev to reduce roster slot cost is a futile effort. If doing this is beneficial to the company or it maintains status quo, players won't be bugging the previous dev for roster slot sales for years. It happened only twice and the last time it happened was in 2019/2020. Even if we succeed, everyone is going to get resources like CP and HP gained via progression and/or champ rewards reduced permanently. When shards were introduced, cps and hps were traded. Do we really want to go through such trade again?
HoundofShadow said: There are. Also, if you are hitting more than 300 slots by now, you should be doing pretty well, given that there are ~260 characters who can be rostered.The other roster slot sales must have happened before I join MPQ then. If they release 4 or 6 characters a month, it's a different story. Anyway, they have another 2.5 months to think of way to make this less painful.