Marvel Puzzle Quest: Character Rebalances - Batch #2 (Nov 13, 2025)

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  • Read_Only
    Read_Only Posts: 60 Match Maker

    @DAZ0273 said:

    I remember how the Devs said they were going to carefully balance the ascended characters as they went along. It has never happened. I don't want to call it an outright lie but what has happened is exactly the opposite of what was promised. Ascended characters have not been monitored, checked or balanced in any way at all.

    I remember when they said they would test different ways of incorporating supports. Nah you're good to use lie.

  • GJB1138
    GJB1138 Posts: 38 Just Dropped In

    Stop nerfing and just fix the game, quality of life? 🤣

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,747 Chairperson of the Boards

    It sucks that they screw up making characters that are way too strong. It sucks that they don't care about balance for years, and then they suddenly do. It sucks that they can change characters from massively overpowered to simply normal, or even to underpowered, with no notice or compensation, and that they can do it whenever they feel like. It EXTRA sucks that some players spent money on the overpowered guys, and that money is just gone now.

    And if this is the first time you're getting caught by something like this: I feel bad for you, but welcome to the club! Eventually it happens to all of us.

    What can you do about it? Don't go all in. Don't try to rush to the endgame before you're ready for it. Build your roster slowly and evenly. Learn how to use lots of characters. If someone on the internet, or in a strategy guide, or in your alliance told you to go all in, do not listen to them ever again. Don't consider your roster to be an "investment," either in money or time. Especially don't spend money on the best characters and expect them to be the best forever. Understand that the devs make random moves at random times, and plan based on that.

    If you've lived through more than one of these and are somehow getting caught again I have no sympathy for you. If you've lived through more than one of these and still advised new players to go all in, you are actively hurting the community.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,747 Chairperson of the Boards

    There actually is a proven, long-term successful strategy where going all-in works, but folks seem to be missing part of it.

    If you want to get competitive fast, go all in on whatever is the best right now, use that to get competitive and chase whatever the NEXT best thing will be. Essentially you're riding an overpowered wave and hoping to catch the next one before the current one crashes. In general they're so slow with nerfs that you can go a long way like this. But you have to actually do the second part!

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,747 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 14 November 2025, 20:27

    @dianetics said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    There actually is a proven, long-term successful strategy where going all-in works, but folks seem to be missing part of it.

    If you want to get competitive fast, go all in on whatever is the best right now, use that to get competitive and chase whatever the NEXT best thing will be. Essentially you're riding an overpowered wave and hoping to catch the next one before the current one crashes. In general they're so slow with nerfs that you can go a long way like this. But you have to actually do the second part!

    I now have 20 550s more than 50 over 500. I wasn't all in on one.

    But you keep on plugging those holes for the sinking ship and carrying water for the captain that is on the lifeboat.

    I quit.

    The game is broken, it doesn't work, and instead of fixing it they are making the game worse for the players that are still here.

    Enjoy.

    If I was talking to you I'd have replied to you. I wasn't.

    Not sure why you felt the need to jump to personal insults, but if a phone game for children is making you this mad, you should definitely quit. It's not worth it.

  • Gymp28
    Gymp28 Posts: 250 Tile Toppler

    I’m honestly really surprised why someone with 20+ 550s is even remotely peeved about the nerfs, let alone to the point of throwing in the towel, but each to their own I guess

  • Punisher5784
    Punisher5784 Posts: 3,868 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:

    @Punisher5784 said:

    @entrailbucket said:

    @WhiteBomber said:
    Naah, screw a reputation...

    You are all a bunch a babies, grow up and at least TRY to look at it from a different perspective (a balanced one). They barely even hurt Polaris and MThor, haven't even touched Shang yet, made Hawkeye debatably BETTER than Shang and people can't keep seem to accept it.

    Did you all really want to play only Shang-Chi and MThor for another ten years? Did you really think they were never going to adjust more characters? Some minor tweaks to characters who aren't even the top of the meta right now and we are like "yeah, that's it, that's the reason I stop playing after years of investment, but I better blast my tantrum all over the forum first, that'll teach em"?

    I can understand the the frustration if those 3 characters are ALL you've invested in for years because they've waited years to fix the problem, but holy hell, see the writing on the wall... or in the forums... ADAPT. Or at least be more adult and strategic with your complaints.

    We're agreeing on things FAR too often lately.

    There might actually be some players quitting over this sort of thing, but they're probably not posting rants on the forum about it. I've lived through probably 10 or 12 of these forum meltdowns, and what's funny is that many times it's the same names melting down over the years, over and over again.

    This too shall pass. And if it doesn't -- if this is actually the thing that ends the game this time, then I'll shrug and find some other fun game to play.

    I'll have to disagree. I started prior to the 1st Anniversary. There are very little long time players on the forums. Many players have quit from the nerfs like 4* Thor, OmL, etc.

    At least in those instances those characters were only around for a year and were compensated. The devs deciding to nerf Polaris, Grocket, Shang, 5hor after many years is ridiculous. I'm not even playing the game and I'm disappointed with all these announcements. They can't even highlight the changes of the character buffs to win back some positivity.

    Sure, it'll pass, but at what cost?

    How can you be disappointed with the changes when you're not even playing the game?

    Pretty simple reason. Because I was considering coming back again, but I would need those characters to build up the newer characters I've missed.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,747 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 14 November 2025, 22:17

    @Punisher5784 said:

    @entrailbucket said:

    @Punisher5784 said:

    @entrailbucket said:

    @WhiteBomber said:
    Naah, screw a reputation...

    You are all a bunch a babies, grow up and at least TRY to look at it from a different perspective (a balanced one). They barely even hurt Polaris and MThor, haven't even touched Shang yet, made Hawkeye debatably BETTER than Shang and people can't keep seem to accept it.

    Did you all really want to play only Shang-Chi and MThor for another ten years? Did you really think they were never going to adjust more characters? Some minor tweaks to characters who aren't even the top of the meta right now and we are like "yeah, that's it, that's the reason I stop playing after years of investment, but I better blast my tantrum all over the forum first, that'll teach em"?

    I can understand the the frustration if those 3 characters are ALL you've invested in for years because they've waited years to fix the problem, but holy hell, see the writing on the wall... or in the forums... ADAPT. Or at least be more adult and strategic with your complaints.

    We're agreeing on things FAR too often lately.

    There might actually be some players quitting over this sort of thing, but they're probably not posting rants on the forum about it. I've lived through probably 10 or 12 of these forum meltdowns, and what's funny is that many times it's the same names melting down over the years, over and over again.

    This too shall pass. And if it doesn't -- if this is actually the thing that ends the game this time, then I'll shrug and find some other fun game to play.

    I'll have to disagree. I started prior to the 1st Anniversary. There are very little long time players on the forums. Many players have quit from the nerfs like 4* Thor, OmL, etc.

    At least in those instances those characters were only around for a year and were compensated. The devs deciding to nerf Polaris, Grocket, Shang, 5hor after many years is ridiculous. I'm not even playing the game and I'm disappointed with all these announcements. They can't even highlight the changes of the character buffs to win back some positivity.

    Sure, it'll pass, but at what cost?

    How can you be disappointed with the changes when you're not even playing the game?

    Pretty simple reason. Because I was considering coming back again, but I would need those characters to build up the newer characters I've missed.

    I see. And you know you can't use the nerfed characters now, because you've tried them out and they're too weak?

  • Gymp28
    Gymp28 Posts: 250 Tile Toppler

    @dianetics “This has been going on for months and now your "surprised". Give me a break.”

    Honestly, it sounds like a break from it is exactly what you need. I hope you come back once the bugs have been ironed out and you no longer find it so frustrating.
    Obviously I’m not loving the bugs, but I’m rolling with it. It’s all part of the MPQ journey as I see it, and I’m always keen to see what they’ll release next.
    ‼️Analogy warning Everyone always says this game is a marathon, not a sprint. And there’s always a point in a marathon where you hit the wall and feel like giving up. I guess that’s where a lot of players have got to with MPQ just now. I’m committed to fighting through the pain.
    Admittedly It helps that the game largely runs on my device, I do feel sorry for those with the very serious game breaking bugs.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 12,026 Chairperson of the Boards

    Tempers are running hot. Things like including a Shang Chi cover in the Tower event and then announcing a nerf appear to show a tone deaf attitude towards player feelings. The thing is whilst we can disagree on things we should keep it respectful. None of us have any cause to fight with each other and we should also understand that the Devs are like any other business - they make choices and sometimes those choices turn out to be bad ideas. At the end of the day we all want the same thing - for MPQ to continue and for Paste Pot Pete to be a 6*, right?

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 12,026 Chairperson of the Boards

    I only just joined SHIELD SIM and has there been a nerf to Polaris and Jane? You wouldn't know it from the teams I am seeing!

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,747 Chairperson of the Boards

    @DAZ0273 said:
    I only just joined SHIELD SIM and has there been a nerf to Polaris and Jane? You wouldn't know it from the teams I am seeing!

    This is insane, I know, but lots of players don't play MPQ every day.

  • Polares
    Polares Posts: 2,650 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 15 November 2025, 18:24

    I have to ask… why dont you just close the game and that is it? We have lost 5+ long players in our Alliance and after this more will follow. Heck, not sure I will continue playing after these nerfs.

    You cant release these stupidly overpowered nodes with 700+ chars and then nerf all the tools we have to beat those nodes. I guess you only want players with 550 chars to be able to do SCL10, but these is not how we the players see it.

    After Polaris nerf I looked at what I could use and I went all in on MTHor and Nova and now you nerf MThor.

    I will give you some advice Devs, STOP with the nerfs, with 6* being the new thing, just stop and let players HAVE FUN with these chars while we progress to 6 land. Be more careful with 6 chars and that will be enough. You are killing the game. Seriously, with all the awful bugs and now the nerfs YOU ARE KILLING THE GAME.

    PS: I have been playing this game since launch, I have seen all the nerfs, from 2 Wolvie to 3 Sentry to Gambit, but this is different, the game is right now at its lowest, and these nerfs are just making even more people quit. Give people reasons to play, not reason to quit!

  • Polares
    Polares Posts: 2,650 Chairperson of the Boards

    @DAZ0273 said:

    @Polares said:
    I have to ask… why dont you just close the game and that is it? We have lost 5+ long players in our Alliance and after this more will follow. Heck, not sure I will continue playing after these nerfs.

    You cant release these stupidly overpowered nodes with 700+ chars and then nerf all the tools we have to beat those nodes. I guess you only want players with 550 chars to be able to do SCL10, but these is not how we the players see it.

    After Polaris nerf I looked at what I could use and I went all in on MTHor and Nova and now you nerf MThor.

    I will give you some advice Devs, STOP with the nerfs, with 6* being the new thing, just stop and let players HAVE FUN with these chars while we progress to 6 land. Be more careful with 6 chars and that will be enough. You are killing the game. Seriously, with all the awful bugs and now the nerfs YOU ARE KILLING THE GAME.

    PS: I have been playing this game since launch, I have seen all the nerfs, from 2 Wolvie to 3 Sentry to Gambit, but this is different, the game is right now at its lowest, and these nerfs are just making even more people quit. Give people reasons to play, not reason to quit!

    I will give you some advice matey. You don't speak for everybody so please do not tell anybody to shut down a game many of us are still enjoying. You can complain about whatever you like, you can quit and you can stop spending money. You can also share that with all of us here. But don't ask to have the game shut down because YOU are unhappy. Thank you.

    Hey, I am giving my opinion, and I will continue to do so and I will continue to ask whatever I like, you can obviously say you dont agree with me or that you think I am wrong, but you can not tell me what I can and can not ask.

    Said that, have you really fully read my comment? Because it is pretty obvious I am not really asking the Devs to close the game, just to be far more careful on the things they are doing if they dont want the game to die. The move to Unity has been a ****-show and nerfing chars now, when so many people are quitting it is a really bad move.

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