Fan Favorite Community Challenge 2023

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  • CouchPanda
    CouchPanda Posts: 29 Just Dropped In

    I know it does state 1.25 mill
    Total on the original post but the % for the achieved total on the mix panel just doesn’t match up to 1.25 mill, ie: 427,000 isn’t 13% of 1,250,000

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 2,744 Chairperson of the Boards

    @CouchPanda said:
    I know it does state 1.25 mill
    Total on the original post but the % for the achieved total on the mix panel just doesn’t match up to 1.25 mill, ie: 427,000 isn’t 13% of 1,250,000

    I spent 5 minutes staring at that page trying to figure out what any of it meant. I ended up feeling stupid and gave up.

  • killahKlown
    killahKlown Posts: 584 Critical Contributor

    Can anyone tell if we've hit any tiers at all?

  • Kwahder
    Kwahder Posts: 180 Tile Toppler

    It actually says on the team up page; we’ve definitely hit tier 2.

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 2,744 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Kwahder said:
    It actually says on the team up page; we’ve definitely hit tier 2.

    I'm almost disappointed. It would've been hilarious if we missed every tier. And quite embarrassing for them.

  • MoosePrime
    MoosePrime Posts: 969 Critical Contributor
    edited July 2023

    @killahKlown said:
    Can anyone tell if we've hit any tiers at all?

    On the top half of this page: https://mpq.social/FFCC , where it shows the progress bars, cleared tiers are hidden.

    On the bottom of the page, it shows which tiers have been clear:

    Tier 2 Rewards: 400K Abilities Fired (Cleared!)

  • killahKlown
    killahKlown Posts: 584 Critical Contributor

    Aha! Thank you for the explanation

  • Chrynos1989
    Chrynos1989 Posts: 350 Mover and Shaker

    At this point, these challenges are only frustrating.
    It’s like riding a donkey by using a carrot on a fishing pole, but the players are the donkey…

    But if they prolong the challenge by about a month, we might barely make it…

  • Bzhai
    Bzhai Posts: 513 Critical Contributor
    edited July 2023

    We're less than 100k short of Tier 3 with about 2 days to go, so I guess those of us left who care enough might as well push to get a 4-star cover. We're never getting that Power Stone and I'd be surprised if players haven't lost their enthusiasm for future challenges.

    As someone who is currently learning data analytics I'd love to sit down and chat with the people who came up with these predictions and what the data actually says (no way in Hel will I ever accept that 3* widow is a fan favourite over 1* version, and why is Kang and Silver Samurai on the list if you can't send them as TUs?)

    Aside from that it baffles me that they've not learned from previous events. Simple things like sending multiple in-game reminders and TU related personal quests would have made this a lot smoother.

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 2,744 Chairperson of the Boards

    Why wouldn't 3* Widow be a fan favorite? Her AoE nuke is an absolute bomb for that tier AND she feeds it herself with her purple power.

  • Bzhai
    Bzhai Posts: 513 Critical Contributor

    @Borstock said:
    Why wouldn't 3* Widow be a fan favorite? Her AoE nuke is an absolute bomb for that tier AND she feeds it herself with her purple power.

    As compared to 1* widow who I always see being asked as TU.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,342 Chairperson of the Boards

    3* Widow was part of the Charlie's Angels winfinite so maybe that explains it?

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 2,744 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited July 2023

    @Bzhai said:

    @Borstock said:
    Why wouldn't 3* Widow be a fan favorite? Her AoE nuke is an absolute bomb for that tier AND she feeds it herself with her purple power.

    As compared to 1* widow who I always see being asked as TU.

    I don't feel like that's how you become a "fan favorite", though. Isn't it based on selecting the character to bring into battle? In which case, I would imagine 1* Widow is way down on the list, since she has no damaging powers to speak of.

  • Bad
    Bad Posts: 3,146 Chairperson of the Boards

    I'd love if they released a survey just right now, with only 2 answers and the question: Are we still running a community challenge right now?
    Then count with one hand people answering yes.

  • Bzhai
    Bzhai Posts: 513 Critical Contributor

    Ok, so based on that criteria wouldn't the data show that alongside 3*widow, iron man and wanda would be high up there on usage as well? And with the absence of Dr Strange I can only deduce that they're choosing these at random.

    Plus the fact that characters who cannot be sent as TUs made the list really makes me question if the person in charge even plays the game.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,342 Chairperson of the Boards

    Here is the list with release dates and presumably what players liked:

    Black Widow (Grey Suit) - 2013 - Winfinite member, big nuke?
    Doctor Doom (Classic) - 2014 - Big nuke?
    The Hood (Dark Reign) - 2013 - AP suppression
    Elektra (Unkillable) - 2014 - Uhm..damage block?
    Medusa (Inhuman Queen) - 2015 - Healing
    Nick Fury (Director of SHIELD) - 2014 - Not really sure
    Rocket & Groot (Volume 2) - 2016 - Strike tiles
    Polaris (Classic) - 2020 - Best 4* EVAH
    Silver Samurai (Kenuichio Harada) - 2023 - Poll winner
    Thor (Goddess of Thunder) - 2014 - Think she was OP back in the day?
    X-23 (Laura Kinney) - 2015 - Presume healing
    Wolverine (X-Force) - 2013 - OP back in the day
    Kang (The Conqueror) - 2023 - Insta-win

    It does seem a bit disjointed with nobody from 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 literally half of the years MPQ has been going. Hmm...

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 2,744 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Bzhai said:
    Ok, so based on that criteria wouldn't the data show that alongside 3*widow, iron man and wanda would be high up there on usage as well? And with the absence of Dr Strange I can only deduce that they're choosing these at random.

    Last year's Anniversary featured BRB, Kitty, and Dr. Strange as some of the fan favorite 5*. No Okoye. No iHulk. No Apocalypse. I think it's very obvious they make this stuff up.

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 2,744 Chairperson of the Boards

    @jsmjsmjsm00 said:
    Or you could realize that this vocal bubble of users that interact on the forums and line are just a very loud minority of players.

    But no, it must be the devs, with sole access to user data, that are wrong.

    First off, my comment was tongue-in-cheek. So, put the guns back in the holster, cowboy.

    Second, I wasn't basing my comment on the people on these forums and I don't even use Line. I was basing it on my own observations while playing the game. When was the last time you even saw a Kitty, BRB, or Dr. Strange in PvP? Because I honestly can't remember seeing them in YEARS except for when Bill was boosted that one time. When was the last time any of those characters were part of a meta? Before iHulk?

    Now, maybe casual players are all about those characters in PvE and that's where it's coming from. Except would you really expect a CASUAL player to have such old 5* characters champed? Wouldn't, by definition, a casual player likely not be playing the same game for 4, 5, 6 years? I figure a casual is more likely to be someone who joined up recently. And since it's all but impossible to champ the older 5* characters, I would expect THEIR 5* roster to be dominated by the more recent releases.

    Or maybe... just maybe... the devs are scared to death that if they give us the REAL fan favorite characters, everyone and their brother is going to be running around with 550 Okoyes, iHulks, and Apocalypses, and now Chasms. And maybe, just maybe, they're smart enough to realize that would absolutely KILL this game. So, instead of giving us those bad boys and girls, they give us semi-popular characters who really don't tip the scales one way or the other anymore. And maybe, just maybe, the powers that be don't always tell the truth. I know, that must be shocking to you.

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