The "Meeting" - Reboot Part II

Punisher5784

Greetings fellow matchmakers!

Thanks for the feedback and positive reception of the meeting reboot. I'm happy to hear players still remember after all these years and y'all want more. As long as there's things to poke fun at, I'll be happy to do so. This one happened to come much quicker than I anticipated! Enjoy!

To read Part I: https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/88219/the-meeting-reboot#latest

Part II is the first comment of this post

Obligatory Advisory for The “Meeting” Posts:
The events depicted in this forum post are fictitious. These events are loosely based on the forum Player’s perception of the game and are for entertainment purposes only. The stories are not true and the characters that represent the Developers or any other person that works on MPQ are not the real people. Any similarly to the actual meetings or people in those companies are merely coincidental.

Punisher5784

Director: Good Afternoon everyone. How is the game going?

Analyst: We noticed an increase of playing time since the 7-day event ended.

Director: Excellent. It seems the players have already forgot, and they’ll just keep playing as usual.

Player: We have not forgot..

Director: How did you get in here?

Player: The meeting was on my calendar..

Community Manager: Sorry sir. I sent him the calendar series of our meeting, but it would be good to hear what he has to say.

Director: OK go on..

Player: While we appreciate the attempts to bring back 7-day events, you know it was a fail. What are you going to bring back next, 20-Iso as a reward?

Director: 20-Iso reward?

Player: Yes, there was a time the PVE node rewards were not static and you could “win” 20-Iso instead of one of the node rewards

CFO:: That sounds like profit! Team let’s start looking into this. This kid is onto something..

Player: ::Sigh..:: Last time I was here, you kicked me out because I asked about Chasm. I’m going to ask again, what are you doing about him?

Developer 2: We have released new characters to effectively deal with him, such as, Hit Monkey and Wong

Player: How exactly does Wong counter Chasm?

Developer 2: Wong has a passive that triggers once an enemy is down, he keeps them down

Player: No, he does not. You just described the recently released Kamar-Taj support that can be equipped to Wong

CFO:: I made the last minute decision to turn this ability into profit

Analyst: While the sales for this support are not as high as projected, we did OK

Player: You likely would have sold more if the supports were communicated first before the rollout

Marketing: Nonsense! We communicate everywhere! Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Discord, Reddit, and even MySpace!

Player: What about the Forums?

Director: What forums?

Community Manager: Sir, you know that place where players can chat about the game

Marketing: The forums are #57 on our list of places to communicate!

Developer 2: Our plan is to rollout Supports in PvP as a counter to Chasm

Player: ::Shakes head:: Sooo instead of just giving Chasm a bit of a rebalance, you’re going to completely change the game by rolling out Supports in PVP? What’s your obsession with this guy?

Developer 1: He was our first. You always love your first

Developer 2: We think Supports in PvP will be the solution

Player: Don't do this. A lot of players won’t live with the hurt

Developer 1: A lot of developers don't have a choice, I do.

Player: And for that you're willing to lose everything?

Developer 1: Supports isn't everything. The counter characters, the rebalances and all the stuff we got. That ain't everything. There's a lot more counters than this.

Player: Before there were reasons not to nerf I could understand, but I don't understand this. Even if we win, what have we won? The players are still gone. Why can't you change your coding, everybody else does?

Developer 1: Cause I'm a developer! That's how Chasm was made. That's what you rostered. We can't change what Chasm is.

Player: [Softly] Yes you can.

Developer 1: We can't change anything. All we can do is just go with what we got.

Player: We can't go with what we have. You've read the forums. It's suicide! You've seen Chasm, you know how strong he is! WE CAN'T WIN!

Developer 1: No maybe you can't win. Maybe the only thing you can do is just take everything he's got. But to beat him, you’re gonna have to kill him, and to kill him he's gotta keep reviving in front of you, and to do that he's gotta be willing to die himself. I don't know if we’re ready to do that. I don't know. I don't know. We cannot nerf him..

Director: Enough! Send him away

Player: I can let myself out

Director: Oh, we don’t mean the building. We’re sending you away

::Director shines blue and sends the Player Away::

Developer 1 – Kang (Rama-Tut): Finally! That pest was getting on my nerves!

Analyst 1 – Kang (Scarlet Centurion): Sounds like we will need to speed up the next phase much quicker than we anticipated

Director – Kang (Immortus): Indeed. Let’s show these players how we’ll “support” them!

::Screens zooms out showing a room full of Kangs laughing loudly!::

dianetics

Player = @entrailbucket

DevpoolMPQ_BCS

lol, a fantastic follow up! Thanks for putting it together.

Fact check if you're interested:

• Chasm wasn't our first, or second, or third!
• The impact of the audience during the 7-day was probably around 2% or so
• Forums...I'm here!

These are cool! Keep them coming as you have time! Was expecting to see more Magik in this episode!

The rockett

Always awesome my friend. Love the Send Away line.

Punisher5784

@DevpoolMPQ_BCS said:
lol, a fantastic follow up! Thanks for putting it together.

Fact check if you're interested:

• Chasm wasn't our first, or second, or third!
• The impact of the audience during the 7-day was probably around 2% or so
• Forums...I'm here!

These are cool! Keep them coming as you have time! Was expecting to see more Magik in this episode!

You're quick! Glad you enjoyed the Rocky IV quotes

I was still retired from the game when y'all joined. I've heard from a few players that Chasm was your first. So who was the first?

No Magik. I personally keep pulling Kitty so I cannot comment on how good she is/isn't yet

entrailbucket

@dianetics said:
Player = @entrailbucket

They (and, likely, the majority of the forum) WISH they could send me Away.

Sadly, I have Gorgon's new passive

skittledaddy

@Punisher5784 said:

I was still retired from the game when y'all joined. I've heard from a few players that Chasm was your first. So who was the first?

No Magik. I personally keep pulling Kitty so I cannot comment on how good she is/isn't yet

I'm pretty sure their first was Gargantos. Then Kamala Khan, Then Mighty Thor. THEN Chasm.
Plus 4*s in between.

Daredevil217

Great to have these back. I just read both and I have no idea why, but this was my favorite line 😂

Player: I am very excited to meet all of you. Your team did a great job last year. I speak for many players when I say I loved Shardmas
CFO: Shardmas? Sounds like we lost money

Also…

Director: How did you get in here?

Player: The meeting was on my calendar..

HoundofShadow

Puck was their first and they did artwork for Gargantos.

Funny read as usual.