MPQ Developer Q&A November 2023 (QUESTIONS)

MPQBlaine

Hi everyone!

Time to field your monthly questions for the developer!

November Developer Q&A Google Form:
https://mpq.social/devqa

1. Max 1 Questions:
   To ensure that we're able to answer as many questions as possible, questions are limited to 1 per player and a maximum of 250 characters.
2. Copy Questions to the original Q&A thread:
   To avoid duplicate questions, we kindly ask that you post your question in this month's Q&A forum thread to display them publicly for others to see here.
3. Deadline to submit questions:
   12pm PST/8pm BST on November 30th.
4. Answers posted:
   Week of December 4th.

Best,
MPQBlaine

Bad

Many games have a web store which can be adressed in game. It's a win-win as it avoids Google/Ios and offers discounts and extra goodies for customers. Did you think about this?

Bowgentle

@Bad said:
Many games have a web store which can be adressed in game. It's a win-win as it avoids Google/Ios and offers discounts and extra goodies for customers. Did you think about this?

Yeah that worked really well for Fortnite on iOS, I'm sure they're dying to have MPQ removed from Apple devices.

Bad

@Bowgentle said:

@Bad said:
Many games have a web store which can be adressed in game. It's a win-win as it avoids Google/Ios and offers discounts and extra goodies for customers. Did you think about this?

Yeah that worked really well for Fortnite on iOS, I'm sure they're dying to have MPQ removed from Apple devices.

In other game I'm playing there are already 5 months with this and there is no removal at all, so...

Carnifex

Any updates on increased ISO? After double ISO ended, it really feels like a trickle to earn this.

Pwuz_

Lightning Rounds have been feeling kinda stale for a while. Can we get some new Lightning Round rotations? Perhaps a week of Class of 20xx events for the Lightning Rounds?

The Class of Events are lots of fun, but they only come up once a year. I think it’d be a fun way to shake up the normal humdrum of Lightning Rounds if they were replaced with the Class of Events occasionally. Could rotate them alternating weeks Classic Lightning Rounds, Class of Lightning Rounds; that way the Class of events could be split (odd and even years, or First 5 years and Latest 5 years) while the Classics rotate between Heroes & Villians.

Pwuz_

@Bad said:

@Bowgentle said:

@Bad said:
Many games have a web store which can be adressed in game. It's a win-win as it avoids Google/Ios and offers discounts and extra goodies for customers. Did you think about this?

Yeah that worked really well for Fortnite on iOS, I'm sure they're dying to have MPQ removed from Apple devices.

In other game I'm playing there are already 5 months with this and there is no removal at all, so...

Just because they havn’t been caught yet doesn’t mean that Apple and Android won’t pull the game the moment they notice. That goes directly against Apple & Google’s ToS to have their app on their respective store fronts.

Enjoy it will you can on your other game, but don’t expect any other developers to shoot themselves in the foot and follow suit.

Lemmik

Have you considered cutting back on new 3* toons? Maybe every 2nd 5*

Bad

@Pwuz_ said:

Enjoy it will you can on your other game, but don’t expect any other developers to shoot themselves in the foot and follow suit.

Ridiculous. In this article from 1 year ago there are already 4 games. None of them suffer nothing.
https://www.gamerefinery.com/mobile-game-publishers-are-bypassing-google-and-apple-store-cuts-with-external-web-stores/
Pokemon go went to another external web.
In any case, the decision is on devs exclusively.

Warbringa

Any consideration to let us use higher level characters to finish all Deadpool daily nodes as a quality of life upgrade to save time and encourage more play in other events?

Jinx

Any thoughts about adding benefits to costumes? Add affiliations, some sort of buff like a support, even change one of a character’s dominant colors. Anything to give costumes extra value.

Bzhai

Medusa, Crystal, She-hulk and Spider-man would like their Fantastic Four membership recognized so they can take the Fantasticar out for a spin.

ShionSinX

Any chance that instead of covers we get 500x 5* shards for alliance/individual progression on Boss Events?

fnedude

For "The Hunt: Florida (that's running right now),

Can the nodes unlocked in series by difficulty/lvl, verses how it's all over the place right now?

Its a PITA to change teams up, where you use a thanos team for the Easy, and A teams for everything else.

A simple QOL request.

DAZ0273

@Bzhai said:
Medusa, Crystal, She-hulk and Spider-man would like their Fantastic Four membership recognized so they can take the Fantasticar out for a spin.

Also all The Defenders including most of the founding members please!

UnityGamer

Marvel has many IPs and relationships with other companies, but can't get in due to licensing issues and game's intent on keeping thing all Marvel. Were there any plans for guests characters, and what is your view on crossovers in general?

This is perhaps the most difficult question I have ever asked. To be fair, this is in regards to Micronauts, Conan The Barbarian and Red Sonja, all properties who were once a part of Marvel before they left. As of this writing, Marvel has renewed its license with Hasbro for the Micronauts, the current property owners, so if possible they could be eligible for an MPQ appearance. I can't say the same for Conan or Red Sonja, though.

Heartbreaksoup

@UnityGamer said:
Marvel has many IPs and relationships with other companies, but can't get in due to licensing issues and game's intent on keeping thing all Marvel. Were there any plans for guests characters, and what is your view on crossovers in general?

This is perhaps the most difficult question I have ever asked. To be fair, this is in regards to Micronauts, Conan The Barbarian and Red Sonja, all properties who were once a part of Marvel before they left. As of this writing, Marvel has renewed its license with Hasbro for the Micronauts, the current property owners, so if possible they could be eligible for an MPQ appearance. I can't say the same for Conan or Red Sonja, though.

That's probably not a good idea, because we don't know how long the Micronauts license lasts. If it ends before this game closes down, then they'd have to "turn off" the character.

Marvel and DC have each run into this a few times when licensed characters guest starred in other people's books. There's an issue of Power Man / Iron Fist that had to be skipped in reprints because Mattel's Rom, the Space Knight is in it. There's an issue of The Avengers that features the former pilots of the Shogun Warriors without naming their robots. There's an issue of Shazam! that couldn't be reprinted because it had the Filmation-owned Isis in it, etc.

Scofie

@Heartbreaksoup said:

@UnityGamer said:
Marvel has many IPs and relationships with other companies, but can't get in due to licensing issues and game's intent on keeping thing all Marvel. Were there any plans for guests characters, and what is your view on crossovers in general?

This is perhaps the most difficult question I have ever asked. To be fair, this is in regards to Micronauts, Conan The Barbarian and Red Sonja, all properties who were once a part of Marvel before they left. As of this writing, Marvel has renewed its license with Hasbro for the Micronauts, the current property owners, so if possible they could be eligible for an MPQ appearance. I can't say the same for Conan or Red Sonja, though.

That's probably not a good idea, because we don't know how long the Micronauts license lasts. If it ends before this game closes down, then they'd have to "turn off" the character.

Marvel and DC have each run into this a few times when licensed characters guest starred in other people's books. There's an issue of Power Man / Iron Fist that had to be skipped in reprints because Mattel's Rom, the Space Knight is in it. There's an issue of The Avengers that features the former pilots of the Shogun Warriors without naming their robots. There's an issue of Shazam! that couldn't be reprinted because it had the Filmation-owned Isis in it, etc.

Thank you for reminding me about Shogun Warriors! Used to have one or two of the comics as a kid and had completely forgotten about it!

Theghouse

How do the creative teams feel about having a major group of players that must turn off animations, and skip all the dialogue of new events, completely ignoring all of their hard work, in order to play at competitive speed?

With that said, is anything being done to make the game not about completing every node in every competitive game mode as fast as possible on one of 5 set time schedules?

GrimSkald

I realize this is from the old developers at this point, but can you give us any clue as to why Places of Power/The Sinister 600 PVE was never re-run? Like "Boss Rush" they were only run once (or maybe twice, it's been so long,) but unlike that event they were actually fun to play. Is there any chance you may bring either "Places of Power" or "the Sinister 600" back? More variety in PVE would be good.

StillMonsoon3

Is there a reason that in Welcome To Shield, that for the new character solo nodes, stuns are disabled in the character kit? This really hampers one's ability to get a feel for the new power set. Could boosts and team-ups be disabled instead?