When will you stop playing?

I will stop playing when it becomes pay2play rather than pay2improve. I don't do casual game list. 1 game gets my attention / $$$ usually, though I am looking for an Xbox 1 game to play on the side also. So who gets my $$$ this month, MPQ or Thief.

user311 wrote:

I'm feeling starting to get more and more discouraged for playing a multiple day event only to get worthless rewards.

Maybe that's part of the problem right there. You're looking at the length of the events and only focusing on the end reward. Absolutely, it sucks when you put in dedicated hours over, what, ten days or so, and end up coming 150th or something sad like that, but look at what happened on the way to the finish line. You earned tokens, boosts, got to play with a variety of heroes and unless you really didn't put in any time you'll have walked away with thousands and thousands of earned ISO along the way, leveling up your heroes further.

Or, to put it in a more zen outlook: It's all about the journey.

I'll stay with it as long as the PVE content is interesting. The last two events have been cool, and I think the overall PVE design is improving. (Scaling implementation is another matter, but I'm sure they'll fix it.)

New Character design seems a little stale to me; they need to start adding abilities that are functionally different from the generic attacks/attacks + strike tiles/attacks + attack tiles/protect tile generating routine. I know they've made some board-changing moves that have caused problems with balance, but those types of abilities are neat and without them the game is kind of boring and repetitive. So, if, in the future, we reach a place where the market is flooded with boring characters, I might stop just because there's no incentive to keep collecting.

walkyourpath wrote:

dearbluey wrote:

you'll have walked away with thousands and thousands of earned ISO along the way, leveling up your heroes further

This. ISO is the most precious commodity in the game - I think alot of people overlook that when talking about what they got from an event or tourney. This is one reason the boost changes are actually appealing to me. The fact that they're more cost prohibitive means I beat what I can when I can, and don't spew ISO on boosts trying to get a few more rank points when that probably won't help me out as much in the long term. There are exceptions when that one more 3x230 in PvE or 3x141 PvP might get me into a higher reward tier at the last minute, but by and large I'm happier just focusing on maximizing ISO.

Agreed, my ISO generation has gone way up. In the past, the meta was to use boosts for quick victories so you were forced to boost if you wanted to keep up.

LoreNYC wrote:

Moon 17 wrote:

I'll stay with it as long as the PVE content is interesting. The last two events have been cool, and I think the overall PVE design is improving. (Scaling implementation is another matter, but I'm sure they'll fix it.)

New Character design seems a little stale to me; they need to start adding abilities that are functionally different from the generic attacks/attacks + strike tiles/attacks + attack tiles/protect tile generating routine. I know they've made some board-changing moves that have caused problems with balance, but those types of abilities are neat and without them the game is kind of boring and repetitive. So, if, in the future, we reach a place where the market is flooded with boring characters, I might stop just because there's no incentive to keep collecting.

+1 - PVE content

I could care less about PVP content beyond it allowing you to succeed in PVE once you get enough covers. The story is the long-term draw, and I probably would have moved on even though I enjoy the game, had they not introduced new plot/story segments with new blood.

What would really help is to have more constant content as many have suggested - Extend permanent missions after the prologue. Perhaps you might have only a few good covers in each but something to do between grindy pve/pvp content
Lets see a chapter 1 tab, chapter 2 tab, chapter 3 tab etc.

I'd love to see the final mission in those permanent chapters be one copy of the cover that you fought to get when it was the release event. So Chapter 4: Brotherhood ends and a couple weeks later it becomes a new tab where the final mission offers 1 copy of that character (and of course the final mission would have 3x230's )

I am already playing less except during lightning rounds. With the terrible ISO gain from repeating prologues versus the harsh downtimes, it makes it much less fun to have characters unlocked high enough to cap, but be unable to cap them without spending months grinding. I am grateful for the lightning rounds, they keep me interested for now, but with the last PvE event being "Buy these characters or you can't play", it really pissed me off.

I'll stop playing when it gets boring/repetitive of course. I really enjoy interesting new characters and interesting new PVE content, so as long as both are flowing I'm game. I should add that I am somewhat picky about that "interesting" qualifier though. The story chapters are getting really really REALLY boring repetitive with the nonstop fights against the same small list of Dark Avengers. The recent Simulator event, on the other hand, was a blast so hopefully they can find a way to include the fun/fresh challenges of Simulator events with the neat plot and dialogue of the story chapters to make something that will hold my interest long term. In regards to characters, I'll echo what other shave said in that they need to branch out a bit and get more creative with abilities. I think right now they have put concern for balance over concern for an interesting game and it's going to limit them in the longer term. While I like some of the mechanics such as strike tiles/attack tiles/protect tiles/countdown tiles/web tiles they need more board control abilities. Dr Dooms Technopathic Strike is a great example of the kind of mechanic I like and there should be a version of it for every color dangit!

When my OCD latches onto something else.

EDIT: Ooh, Disco Zoo. Goodbye forever!