New Character - Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) 5*

bluewolf

For whatever reason (lack of resources? Wanting to not upset the game economy too much?) they skipped a 5 in December which was the same month they added the ingame cover swap function. Although we were a bit ahead of the standard pace after October with 5 characters that month.

After December revenue fell off a cliff because buy clubs stopped and now we’re getting a huge number of changes and things keep breaking. But they don’t know what else to do to try to reinvigorate the game.

Maybe won’t skip because they are worried money will go away again. Also when or if they skip a release it creates a potential jumping off point.

Although now that the slooooooooooooow crawl of G shards is here it seems like lots of people have another goal they’ll be working on for a while even if a release is skipped.

Anyway I think we all know they’ll keep adding characters at the same basic pace or even faster. 2-5 per 4 week period with no stop.

entrailbucket

Everybody just wants this game to be something it's not.

This isn't a "buy it once and you have it forever" console game, where you get a few updates and some DLC and then it's done forever. It's not a subscription-based live service game, like an MMO. It's not even a Fortnite, that's so massive that it can make enormous amounts of cash selling hats and dances.

This is a free to play game with pay to win microtransactions. That's what it's always been. The model was hugely popular when it launched, and most of those games are dead now (for good reason -- the model itself is exploitative!).

A live service game has to keep generating revenue, because it has continuing costs. It's too late for these guys to pivot to selling hats, plus I don't think that model would work for this game anyway, and Marvel probably wouldn't like it. They certainly can't go subscription based at this point. I guess they could start showing ads, but I don't know if that's a viable choice anymore and you'd all lose your minds over it anyway.

What else are they going to do? If you want them to stop making money while they fix the chat bug or whatever, there isn't going to be a game anymore. They can't just decide to stop making money for awhile, because they have to keep paying for things.

heybub

@entrailbucket said:
Everybody just wants this game to be something it's not.

I 100% agree with that statement. For example, I want it to not be broken.

entrailbucket

The "we have to keep making money forever" thing is actually the best reason to never, ever do a ground-up rebuild like this.

Imagine you take a week off to remodel your own house, and when you're done it has a gas leak, none of the bathrooms work, and the roof is gone. Your wife says "hey, no problem, just take 6 months off work and fix it all!"

Well, you don't have any money saved, and you have to keep paying the mortgage and all your other bills, so now you have to go back to work on Monday and figure out how to fix everything in your spare time somehow.

That's where they're at. They can't stop making money or they'll lose the house, so they have to fix the roof in their spare time.

heybub

@entrailbucket said:
The "we have to keep making money forever" thing is actually the best reason to never, ever do a ground-up rebuild like this.

Imagine you take a week off to remodel your own house, and when you're done it has a gas leak, none of the bathrooms work, and the roof is gone. Your wife says "hey, no problem, just take 6 months off work and fix it all!"

Well, you don't have any money saved, and you have to keep paying the mortgage and all your other bills, so now you have to go back to work on Monday and figure out how to fix everything in your spare time somehow.

That's where they're at. They can't stop making money or they'll lose the house, so they have to fix the roof in their spare time.

Doesn't mean we shouldn't be upset that the game is a **** show right now. > @entrailbucket said:

The "we have to keep making money forever" thing is actually the best reason to never, ever do a ground-up rebuild like this.

Imagine you take a week off to remodel your own house, and when you're done it has a gas leak, none of the bathrooms work, and the roof is gone. Your wife says "hey, no problem, just take 6 months off work and fix it all!"

Well, you don't have any money saved, and you have to keep paying the mortgage and all your other bills, so now you have to go back to work on Monday and figure out how to fix everything in your spare time somehow.

That's where they're at. They can't stop making money or they'll lose the house, so they have to fix the roof in their spare time.

It's more like the house is being remodeled, you come back and there is a gas leak, but instead of the the contractor fixing the leak, he's painting the walls. Your position is that hey man, he's got to paint the walls to get paid. It's ok there is leak.

I feel like your argument is that everything is ok, and we shouldn't be upset that the game has been a complete **** show for months. You may very well be accurate about their situation, but they are the ones who got themselves into it. We are the ones suffering through it.

entrailbucket

@heybub said:

@entrailbucket said:
The "we have to keep making money forever" thing is actually the best reason to never, ever do a ground-up rebuild like this.

Imagine you take a week off to remodel your own house, and when you're done it has a gas leak, none of the bathrooms work, and the roof is gone. Your wife says "hey, no problem, just take 6 months off work and fix it all!"

Well, you don't have any money saved, and you have to keep paying the mortgage and all your other bills, so now you have to go back to work on Monday and figure out how to fix everything in your spare time somehow.

That's where they're at. They can't stop making money or they'll lose the house, so they have to fix the roof in their spare time.

Doesn't mean we shouldn't be upset that the game is a **** show right now. > @entrailbucket said:

The "we have to keep making money forever" thing is actually the best reason to never, ever do a ground-up rebuild like this.

Imagine you take a week off to remodel your own house, and when you're done it has a gas leak, none of the bathrooms work, and the roof is gone. Your wife says "hey, no problem, just take 6 months off work and fix it all!"

Well, you don't have any money saved, and you have to keep paying the mortgage and all your other bills, so now you have to go back to work on Monday and figure out how to fix everything in your spare time somehow.

That's where they're at. They can't stop making money or they'll lose the house, so they have to fix the roof in their spare time.

It's more like the house is being remodeled, you come back and there is a gas leak, but instead of the the contractor fixing the leak, he's painting the walls. Your position is that hey man, he's got to paint the walls to get paid. It's ok there is leak.

I feel like your argument is that everything is ok, and we shouldn't be upset that the game has been a complete **** show for months. You may very well be accurate about their situation, but they are the ones who got themselves into it. We are the ones suffering through it.

Just right off the bat, if you are "suffering" because a phone game has some bugs, please touch grass. There is actual legitimate suffering going on all over the world. MPQ is superhero candy crush for children, and if it's making you this upset you should immediately log off and go outside.

This game is not your house, in the metaphor. You don't own it, and neither do I, and neither does any other player (except for that one guy here who owns MPQ stock!). This game is a business that you're choosing to patronize, not something you have an actual stake in. The devs have messed up their own business. We get to decide how we react to that.

My argument is that doing Unity was a terrible idea that's broken a whole bunch of stuff. They should never have done it, but it's done and there's no going back now. You keep going "why can't they fix it all RIGHT NOW I want it I want it I want it" and I'm explaining why that is (in a way that the devs never will, btw, because it makes them look foolish).

I'm still here because I'm still having fun. The game runs fine for me, I don't care about the plus signs, and the rest of the bugs are occasionally mildly annoying but basically manageable. If the game was "broken" for me in the way it apparently is for you, I would uninstall it immediately and never think about it again. Why on earth would you voluntarily put yourself through something like that? My time is too valuable to do things I don't enjoy.