Devs, explain it to me.

dianetics
dianetics Posts: 59 Match Maker
in MPQ General Discussion

I have more than 3500 days in the game played.

Why should I continue?
Why should I give more money to you?
We are 2 years into the "developers who love the game"
But not much has changed.
We have been given promises of a new engine and many other wild assertions.
When can we expect for the game to get "better"?

You all have been cryptic as hell, and I am ready to move on.
As a spender, I am tired of giving you guys money. Tell us what your plans are, because I am tired of guessing.

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  • ThisisClemFandango
    ThisisClemFandango Posts: 1,086 Chairperson of the Boards

    Feeling this to some extent as well.
    The new pve promised was massively misleading, a few new dialogues don't make a new pve and then to run the normal and the new and improved on the 8th has impacted my game time ,
    They want us to run the same thing 3 times is madness.
    Do they not have a narrative director? It can't be this hard to come up with new stories.

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 3,026 Chairperson of the Boards

    They keep using the new engine as an excuse not to add features, vary stories and enemies, etc... "We'll be able to do that when the new engine is released".

    At this point, I'm a little nervous that they're going to shutter MPQ and release it as a brand new game. If they truly have put two years into its development, that's huge $$$. The best way to generate an adequate return would probably be to force all the whales back into spending by starting everyone at zero.

  • slidecage
    slidecage Posts: 3,612 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited August 2024

    @dianetics said:
    I have more than 3500 days in the game played.

    Why should I continue?
    Why should I give more money to you?
    We are 2 years into the "developers who love the game"
    But not much has changed.
    We have been given promises of a new engine and many other wild assertions.
    When can we expect for the game to get "better"?

    You all have been cryptic as hell, and I am ready to move on.
    As a spender, I am tired of giving you guys money. Tell us what your plans are, because I am tired of guessing.

    Didn't they say the new 🚂🚂🚂🚂
    Is coming in 2025

    Now your question

    Why keep playing.. cause you know you need this game In your life

    Why give them any more cash. Cause if you don't they will have to go back to mugging the goons in the game

    Really though only reason I see

    Playing the game.. I only do like 10 mins just doing the quest. No longer care about pve or pvp

    Cash. Only cash I give them is 1 stars accended to 5

    It would not shock me if this new engine they go. Steam is no longer supported

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 3,026 Chairperson of the Boards

    @IceIX said:

    @Borstock said:
    They keep using the new engine as an excuse not to add features, vary stories and enemies, etc... "We'll be able to do that when the new engine is released".

    At this point, I'm a little nervous that they're going to shutter MPQ and release it as a brand new game. If they truly have put two years into its development, that's huge $$$. The best way to generate an adequate return would probably be to force all the whales back into spending by starting everyone at zero.

    Hasn't even been considered past day one of starting in on the engine upgrade. And even then, it was a question of "Should this be in place or a new game?" "In place, no question." "Ok, moving on then."

    No plans for MPQ2, a reset, or anything of the sort.

    Ok. Thank you for the response.

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,706 Chairperson of the Boards

    @IceIX said:

    @Borstock said:
    They keep using the new engine as an excuse not to add features, vary stories and enemies, etc... "We'll be able to do that when the new engine is released".

    At this point, I'm a little nervous that they're going to shutter MPQ and release it as a brand new game. If they truly have put two years into its development, that's huge $$$. The best way to generate an adequate return would probably be to force all the whales back into spending by starting everyone at zero.

    Hasn't even been considered past day one of starting in on the engine upgrade. And even then, it was a question of "Should this be in place or a new game?" "In place, no question." "Ok, moving on then."

    No plans for MPQ2, a reset, or anything of the sort.

    Good to hear, because I feel like that would just be the death of the game. Marvel Avengers Alliance tried doing this and no one who invested years into MAA1 wanted to start over. MAA2 died shortly after release and then MAA1 closed down not long after that.

  • slidecage
    slidecage Posts: 3,612 Chairperson of the Boards

    So far as we know when this thing they are working on hits. It still be on steam right ( thinking about mvp for outfit but if it's no longer supported soon why keep buyimg )

  • WilliamK1983
    WilliamK1983 Posts: 1,230 Chairperson of the Boards

    My issue is they, imo, waste time working on things the players don't care about or haven't ever requested. Auto-fire, remember that useless feature? Ascension, rewards are great but the character numbers are all over the map. And the retro rewards that come from it are a mess too. Supports in pvp is destroying that part of the game. Cool we finally got a way to level them, but the rate it can be done is dismal. I have to keep a hoard of tokens to get the new one when it rotates in because I AM NOT PAYING FOR IT ahead of time and rng is always a bug a boo. In general have the new toys completely ready to go before launching, tired of being a game tester. And still waiting for that monkey business tu bug to get fixed, guess thats the engine fault too.

  • slidecage
    slidecage Posts: 3,612 Chairperson of the Boards

    @IceIX said:

    @slidecage said:
    So far as we know when this thing they are working on hits. It still be on steam right ( thinking about mvp for outfit but if it's no longer supported soon why keep buyimg )

    Yep. Ideally, the first build of the engine upgrade will go out and no one will even notice, or if they do, they'll just notice a couple updates we've already built into the base code of the new engine. Same platforms, same or better performance out the gate is what we've placed as the baseline.

    Thanks was worried it be something like my friends been playing on their tablet. Offline play works great. Put 50 bucks into buying stuff. Upgrade time and boom now only works online that was a waste of 50

  • Domitronas
    Domitronas Posts: 180 Tile Toppler
    edited August 2024

    @WilliamK1983 said:
    In general have the new toys completely ready to go before launching, tired of being a game tester. And still waiting for that monkey business tu bug to get fixed, guess thats the engine fault too.

    This is my biggest gripe too, the engine overhaul is this holy grail that's supposed to fix everything, so is the communication going to get better once it's out? Are we going to get highly needed rebalances faster? Is the ISO economy going to fix itself with the new engine? Are we suddenly going to get ascended character info across different tiers?

    You have absolutely no idea how excited I was after the takeover, Devpool was all over the place doing cartwheels answering questions left and right, for some time it really felt like there was a genuine care for the game.

    Despite all the additions to the game, literally all the features that were introduced are sprinkled in P2W:

    Ascension - great feature on paper, too bad it came with the 10, 40, 76 cover packs and the "ascension" deals and loads of bugs/features and we literally don't even know which is which;
    3 stars back into rotation - great feature on paper, too bad it puts even more strain on the already strained ISO economy. But hey you can get enough covers and iso to champ the newest 3 star on release for "only" 30 $ - isn't that convenient.
    Costumes - great feature on paper, too bad the majority of them are paid to get;
    New supports - great feature on paper, too bad the only way to get the newest support at release is to cough up the $;
    New ways to earn iso - great feature on paper, but you guessed it right, the only way to get canisters or multipliers is to spend the green;
    Support rank ups - great feature on paper, too bad you're only ever getting meaningful amount of support tokens once a month, unless you pay up of course.

    Should I continue?

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,047 Chairperson of the Boards

    I learned a very, very long time ago not to expect anything when it came to MPQ developers, so I'm never disappointed.

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 3,026 Chairperson of the Boards

    Re: Domitronas

    In all fairness, a LOT of the costumes have rotated into vaults. You have to wait for them, but you can get them. I have a ton of costumes that I didn't pay for.

  • Domitronas
    Domitronas Posts: 180 Tile Toppler

    @Borstock said:
    Re: Domitronas

    In all fairness, a LOT of the costumes have rotated into vaults. You have to wait for them, but you can get them. I have a ton of costumes that I didn't pay for.

    Yeah I'm fully aware, but the only ones you can earn through actual gameplay are the ones from Heroic Boss. Otherwise it's entirely RNG.

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 3,026 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Domitronas said:

    @Borstock said:
    Re: Domitronas

    In all fairness, a LOT of the costumes have rotated into vaults. You have to wait for them, but you can get them. I have a ton of costumes that I didn't pay for.

    Yeah I'm fully aware, but the only ones you can earn through actual gameplay are the ones from Heroic Boss. Otherwise it's entirely RNG.

    It's not as if they offer an advantage, though. They do need to pay their people.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,047 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Domitronas said:

    @Borstock said:
    Re: Domitronas

    In all fairness, a LOT of the costumes have rotated into vaults. You have to wait for them, but you can get them. I have a ton of costumes that I didn't pay for.

    Yeah I'm fully aware, but the only ones you can earn through actual gameplay are the ones from Heroic Boss. Otherwise it's entirely RNG.

    ...but, like, pretty much everything in this game is entirely RNG?

  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 3,775 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Domitronas said:

    @Borstock said:
    Re: Domitronas

    In all fairness, a LOT of the costumes have rotated into vaults. You have to wait for them, but you can get them. I have a ton of costumes that I didn't pay for.

    Yeah I'm fully aware, but the only ones you can earn through actual gameplay are the ones from Heroic Boss. Otherwise it's entirely RNG.

    Not true. You can now earn at least 3 per month in the monthly quest vault.

    KGB

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