Bah, humbug!

Xarfir · 19 January 2025, 09:30

Finally I had the time to read the great post of our leaders and the poor reply by the developers. First step I took is not prolonging my VIP service (level 40+) Cheers Xarf

Sarah · 20 January 2025, 15:52

Do we think they are going to make time to respond to November’s Q&A this month?

ertaii · 21 January 2025, 14:22

So, today we got our last daily reward of the month. It would be a great opportunity for the Devs to unveil what they have been preparing to rebalance the fact that, starting tomorrow, we won't get another reward, wouldn't it?

Sarah · 22 January 2025, 00:32

It’s kind of upsetting how the game still sends out push notifications to remind us to collect our non-existent daily rewards @Magic:PQ Support Team

Feels like you are just rubbing salt in the wound at this point.

Opperstamper · 24 January 2025, 21:40

Let's not forget that not everyone has the right words to speak their mind. I certainly don't. A bit of transparency in the collaboration effort:

When I wrote the first draft I wrote it all in my own words. My English skills are good enough for most interactions with any player i chat with, and follow what goes on in here and on other platforms. But they're certainly not good enough to get the tone right when that's necessary.

I went looking for support, and wanted it to be a collaboration of the large groups, with the goal of adding weight to our message. To make clear that when it comes to the health of the game and the happiness of the players, we will gladly put aside our own preferences and work together on that.

So these guys boarded on. Madwren - a library manager, Scydrex - did you know he's ambitious to be a writer?, BigBill - The Poet (yes, NT's nickname for him is spot on), Machine - Dutch like me, but his skills far outweigh my own, and Blighted - who knows close to everything when it comes to noobs and veterans and everyone in between. I had my own team of superheroes! These guys know how to form a letter, structure it and set the tone just right, respectful and clear.

I'm incredibly thankful for all the effort the superhero team put in. They exceeded all my expectations. And all of you that responded, a very big shoutout to you. I really felt supported. Not because everyone necessarily agreed or found the same topics equally important, but because the tone was kept in all the replies too. I really see that we voiced our common interests - the love for all things Magic and PQ.

Now, 2 weeks after the last reply from Webcore, it looks like that's all we're getting. They heard us, and that's that. I was hoping for a meaningful reply. Not a specified 7 step program of course, let's keep it realistic, but a reply that resonated our sense of urgency would be a very reasonable expectation in my opinion.

I want to say one last thing to all the players out there: we, the superhero team and me, have heard you. Even if your topic is not included in our letter, we all have a sense of what should be on the radar. We read in the Discord servers, here, and on the various other platforms. And if you still think there's anything important that we should know, or simply want to kill time and have a chat, just shoot us a message. Even if nothing will be done about it, getting it off your chest can help a lot too.

Thank you all for your time guys. You rock!

ertaii · 27 January 2025, 07:14

Thanks opperstamper. I want to believe we will have some other kind of answer from the devs but it's becoming less and less likely as the days are going...

Machine · 27 January 2025, 10:30

Excellent post and final conclusion, Opperstamper! No need to be humble; it is exquisitely well written! Thanks for your time as well and also for taking the initiative to make this happen!

Vorazg · 28 January 2025, 03:24

To quote another famous individual who's sage advice was usually ignored, "My breath, holding I am not. Met have been my low expectations of a reply. Bad service of customers this is."

Good day, I said.

_Valiant_ · 28 January 2025, 12:22

Well, I guess that corporate non-answer gave us all the info we needed... Don't delude yourself, we now know what's (not) coming. The only way to have an impact on a corporation, is to not give them your money. That's for each of us to decide.

As beautiful and inspiring as it was, to come together on such an unprecedented scale, in the end it is for each one of us to decide if what we get is worth the money, or not. Just as it always is with these things.

The amazing thing to take away here is gratitude: thank you so much to all the mtgpq communities for making this game fun and challenging. But even more so: for offering a space to come together and have a warm human experience!!

Sarah · 28 January 2025, 14:14

I don’t think it was a wasted effort @Opperstamper it is always useful to remind people of their ability to work together. While webcore might not realize the significance of your efforts, I find a lot of value in practical demonstrations of opposing factions finding common ground and working towards a better future.

I am so inspired by so many people from all over the world coming together to achieve higher and higher scores each week. The fact that English is so few peoples first language makes it even more impressive to me.

Even if we didn’t get a meaningful response from webcore, we learned a lot about who we are as a community and there were so many great conversations. This brought people together and that’s usually a good thing.

Cheers!

Sarah · 6 February 2025, 16:05

@IceIX are you with 505 games or just MarvelPQ? We see the sort of engagement MPQ gets on its forums and can’t help but feel envy—we’re having trouble manifesting that sort of communication here. I know they are completely different development teams but perhaps you can give us some advice? Is there something else that us players can do? Something we should be doing differently?

ertaii · 14 February 2025, 10:32

Where's the Valentine's Day special event? Is that all the love you're showing to us guys 🥰 ?

Vorazg · 14 February 2025, 19:33

I think it's fairly obvious by this point that the powers that be care not what the hoi polloi thinks, be it daily rewards, special events, or otherwise. The lack of meaningful non-corporate-speak response says it more clearly than anything else.

Bah, humbug!

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