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  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 6,484 Chairperson of the Boards

    The vocal minority is probably the handful of players who want to do the same thing all the time and win everything forever. Line, Reddit, Discord, and especially this forum are tiny, tiny minorities of the player base. They certainly are vocal though!

    If you're tired of having this argument, why keep having it?

  • Daredevil217
    Daredevil217 Posts: 4,073 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 10 May 2025, 04:08

    Because… I’m not arguing?

    All I did was say that in the past 11 years that I’ve played this game, it hasn’t really changed regarding the things the OP finds boring (e.g. one dominant meta that prevails). This same thread has popped up and fizzled out SO many times over the years. Now if you want to make that into an argument because you want to argue, I’m sure you can find a way to.

    All this comparison to other games is funny to me, because if I want to play a game like Magic, I’d just play Magic. If I wanted a game like Chess, I’d just play Chess. I play MPQ because I like MPQ. But that’s me and people are free to do what they want. I’m not saying, if you don’t like it you HAVE to quit. Just it hasn’t changed in X number of years, so if you want a game that provides something other than what MPQ has always done, you may be waiting a long long time.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 6,484 Chairperson of the Boards

    Maybe the same thread keeps popping up because players want something different?

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,824 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:
    Maybe the same thread keeps popping up because players want something different?

    Wouldn't it be that the same thread keeps popping up because people want the same? If they wanted different then wouldn't a different thread pop up? I am I admit not an expert in this.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 6,484 Chairperson of the Boards

    @DAZ0273 said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    Maybe the same thread keeps popping up because players want something different?

    Wouldn't it be that the same thread keeps popping up because people want the same? If they wanted different then wouldn't a different thread pop up? I am I admit not an expert in this.

    Daredevil said the "metagame is boring" thread pops up all the time. Maybe it keeps popping up because there's some validity to it.

  • Daredevil217
    Daredevil217 Posts: 4,073 Chairperson of the Boards

    Or because it’s the same people kicking the same horse in different threads. 😂

    Look… I don’t doubt that to the handful of people who complain about the game, there IS validity to it… for them. What one finds boring is subjective. If I go into a romantic comedy and am bored because there’s not enough punching and shooting, I’m not wrong for how I feel. My feelings are valid… but I also need to understand that the third installment of “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” (great film series by the way) is pretty much going to be like the last two. Maybe I should opt for the Creed series instead (also great) if I want more punching.

    There’s always been small “nerf X… the meta is boring” threads but they never really gain traction just because some people are “bored”. All those OMG SO OP characters just aged out of the meta due to the game passing them by, which is a pretty common occurrence in games like this. Polaris and Thor will suffer the same fate (and I believe already have).

    With few exceptions, the nerf threads only really gain traction when the characters damn near break the game (Chasm, Bishop, Worthy, Winder, etc.) they don’t usually because the meta is boring to a handful of people.

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