purplemur said: Just because in general human perception is not based on facts; their experience still matters. It is not catering to a group without validity. This isn't isolated incidents; it is true across all their games, and all games in general I would wager.
Doing re-balances and these QoL changes are not mutually exclusive. They didn't update {insert-name) because of this update is false causality and leaping to conclusions.
Heartbreaksoup said: "Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere will not hate it." - Frederick Pohl
JHawkInc said: broll said: sirwookieechris said: crackninja said: So we are now catering to the tinfoil hats who feel like they have been wronged by a fair system, by implementing an unfair system. At least it's not a conspiracy, it's totally out in the open...As noted, this inadvertantly acts as a subtle nerf to several characters, all for the benefit of what exactly? There will still be mistrust, conspiracies, etc., and seeing code like this is part of the game honestly makes me less trusting of it overall. Maybe there really is an "if im40 = true, set yellow_tile_nerf = true" statement in there somewhere.The one positive is that if new players were actually quitting because of this, then they may stay a little longer.. until they decide that it's unfair that they pulled 4 straight red 2* wolverine covers from heroic tokens, and of course that's the only color of any 2* character they couldn't use. So we shouldn’t cater to people who feel the game is unfair? And then you go on to mention that the game must be purposefully giving you useless covers? If their feelings aren't valid, no we shouldn't. The point is that people have an unrealistic and non-factual perception, yet they are being catered too. Where's the line there? I feel the game should give me $20,000 for playing it, why isn't it catering to me? The game isn't catering to you because you're rooting your argument in hyperbole. I mean, you're not even trying to have a rational discussion here.Nevermind that the root of this is that the game doesn't feel fun, which is wholly subjective and not something you can call not valid in the first place.
broll said: sirwookieechris said: crackninja said: So we are now catering to the tinfoil hats who feel like they have been wronged by a fair system, by implementing an unfair system. At least it's not a conspiracy, it's totally out in the open...As noted, this inadvertantly acts as a subtle nerf to several characters, all for the benefit of what exactly? There will still be mistrust, conspiracies, etc., and seeing code like this is part of the game honestly makes me less trusting of it overall. Maybe there really is an "if im40 = true, set yellow_tile_nerf = true" statement in there somewhere.The one positive is that if new players were actually quitting because of this, then they may stay a little longer.. until they decide that it's unfair that they pulled 4 straight red 2* wolverine covers from heroic tokens, and of course that's the only color of any 2* character they couldn't use. So we shouldn’t cater to people who feel the game is unfair? And then you go on to mention that the game must be purposefully giving you useless covers? If their feelings aren't valid, no we shouldn't. The point is that people have an unrealistic and non-factual perception, yet they are being catered too. Where's the line there? I feel the game should give me $20,000 for playing it, why isn't it catering to me?
sirwookieechris said: crackninja said: So we are now catering to the tinfoil hats who feel like they have been wronged by a fair system, by implementing an unfair system. At least it's not a conspiracy, it's totally out in the open...As noted, this inadvertantly acts as a subtle nerf to several characters, all for the benefit of what exactly? There will still be mistrust, conspiracies, etc., and seeing code like this is part of the game honestly makes me less trusting of it overall. Maybe there really is an "if im40 = true, set yellow_tile_nerf = true" statement in there somewhere.The one positive is that if new players were actually quitting because of this, then they may stay a little longer.. until they decide that it's unfair that they pulled 4 straight red 2* wolverine covers from heroic tokens, and of course that's the only color of any 2* character they couldn't use. So we shouldn’t cater to people who feel the game is unfair? And then you go on to mention that the game must be purposefully giving you useless covers?
crackninja said: So we are now catering to the tinfoil hats who feel like they have been wronged by a fair system, by implementing an unfair system. At least it's not a conspiracy, it's totally out in the open...As noted, this inadvertantly acts as a subtle nerf to several characters, all for the benefit of what exactly? There will still be mistrust, conspiracies, etc., and seeing code like this is part of the game honestly makes me less trusting of it overall. Maybe there really is an "if im40 = true, set yellow_tile_nerf = true" statement in there somewhere.The one positive is that if new players were actually quitting because of this, then they may stay a little longer.. until they decide that it's unfair that they pulled 4 straight red 2* wolverine covers from heroic tokens, and of course that's the only color of any 2* character they couldn't use.
Heartbreaksoup said: Showing my age here, there was a game for the Atari 2600 called Warlord, and the three computer players had a special move that the human player couldn't do. It was throwing the ball *behind* them at their own castle and occasionally killing their own king. That use to madden me - it was less fun when the computer players did something so stupid.I'm reminded of Warlord every time the AI matches its own special tile as soon as it places it.
HoundofShadow said: Can we make the AI more intelligent?
Rockwell75 said: HoundofShadow said: Can we make the AI more intelligent? I like the idea of fighting a smarter opponent however the way this game is set up-- often having to grind 80+ matches daily-- doesn't lend itself to that. Smarter opponents would mean longer matches and more losses and probably a lot of rage quitting.