MPQ 5th Anniversary Celebration! *Updated (10/23/18)

Unsurprisingly, from 3 fan favourites tokens, they've all been 4*s. They'll be no 5's in any I open since this game wont allow me to finish OML. Or, to really kick me between the legs, it'll give me a yellow OML. 

broll said:

HoundofShadow said:

5* Taskmaster Sword support in SCL 9 for top 1. The rarity goes down with each lower SCL until it hits SCL 6 (Rank 2). 

*Waiting for complaints to roll in about how it should be made available to top 50 or top 100 instead, or made available as progression rewards* 

No complaints here.  The fewer people get supports the less cleanup they'll have to do when they finally decide they made a mistake and take them out of the game.

You've made your intense dislike of supports well known, but I seriously doubt they're going to take them out of the game completely.  They've certainly made some very serious missteps in implementing them, but I really don't think they're as bad as all that and I suspect that opinion is shared by a significant portion of the player base.  Heck, some people may actively like them.  I think it's more likely they'll start making supports more available than take them out completely.

Regardless, I don't see making a particular support very rare a big deal - it just means we won't have to deal with players using it, and have yet another support to try and level.

Lastly, can we please stop flagging posts like this?  It's silly - just because you don't share Broll's opinion doesn't mean it violates the rules of the forum.  Hating a particular aspect of the game isn't "hate speech," if that were the case at least half of the regular posters would end up banned...

GrimSkald said:

You've made your intense dislike of supports well known, but I seriously doubt they're going to take them out of the game completely.  They've certainly made some very serious missteps in implementing them, but I really don't think they're as bad as all that and I suspect that opinion is shared by a significant portion of the player base.  Heck, some people may actively like them.  I think it's more likely they'll start making supports more available than take them out completely.

I thought the same thing with vaulting, but that eventually went away.  I thought for sure they'd reuse Boss Rush, but they didn't.  If it meets whatever threshold they have for keeping it around it could go away.  Creating new supports isn't free, they have to pay the artists to do the art, the codes to make the moves, test to test, etc.  If the ROI isn't high enough they could and likely would cut and run, even if it's just stopping making any new ones and leaving the existing.

Jaedenkaal said:

broll said:

I thought the same thing with vaulting, but that eventually went away.  I thought for sure they'd reuse Boss Rush, but they didn't.  If it meets whatever threshold they have for keeping it around it could go away.  Creating new supports isn't free, they have to pay the artists to do the art, the codes to make the moves, test to test, etc.  If the ROI isn't high enough they could and likely would cut and run, even if it's just stopping making any new ones and leaving the existing.

The development it took to implement and gradually remove vaulting is nowhere close to what they've spent on supports. Plus, vaulting wasn't a thing players could "have" or "lose". And they have reused much of boss rush, it's called Sinister Six.

The only thing I can think of that would count as something developed, added to the game, and then obsoleted would be those crazy old boosts, but even then, the boost system is still in place; they've only retired some of them.

Environment tile moves got removed and replaced by teamups. I see supports as a similar thing but highly doubt they will fully remove them. At worst maybe tweak them into something else.

Jaedenkaal said:

tiomono said:

Jaedenkaal said:

broll said:

I thought the same thing with vaulting, but that eventually went away.  I thought for sure they'd reuse Boss Rush, but they didn't.  If it meets whatever threshold they have for keeping it around it could go away.  Creating new supports isn't free, they have to pay the artists to do the art, the codes to make the moves, test to test, etc.  If the ROI isn't high enough they could and likely would cut and run, even if it's just stopping making any new ones and leaving the existing.

The development it took to implement and gradually remove vaulting is nowhere close to what they've spent on supports. Plus, vaulting wasn't a thing players could "have" or "lose". And they have reused much of boss rush, it's called Sinister Six.

The only thing I can think of that would count as something developed, added to the game, and then obsoleted would be those crazy old boosts, but even then, the boost system is still in place; they've only retired some of them.

Environment tile moves got removed and replaced by teamups. I see supports as a similar thing but highly doubt they will fully remove them. At worst maybe tweak them into something else.

Sure, but again, no one "had" environmental tiles and were left holding the bag after they were retired.

True. I actually really like supports. I just feel the rollout of them was horrid. I'm hoping they make the tokens slightly easier to get in the near future.

Projectus2501 said:

This anniversary is going great. Good vault, nice rewards, a new event, etc.
The only bad thing are the whiners

My bad, i thought that i had earned the right to an opinion after 1750 days of playing the game.  I guess my perspective doesn't count, strictly because you said so.  

Spudgutter said:

Projectus2501 said:

This anniversary is going great. Good vault, nice rewards, a new event, etc.
The only bad thing are the whiners

My bad, i thought that i had earned the right to an opinion after 1750 days of playing the game.  I guess my perspective doesn't count, strictly because you said so.  

Everyone has the right to an opinion either playing for 1750 days as you or only 550 days as me. I still stick to my opinion.

MarcusGraves said:

I dunno about anyone else but it feels kinda insulting to have XF wolverine under fan favorites considering he hasn't been a favorite since you guy's sledgehammered him after you finally made him good with his rework.

Please just make him better already, you could probably get it done in 2-3 days, he has so many issues and is one of the first 4*'s in the game, it's just annoying to see him in this state for almost TWO YEARS now.

I suspect at least some of the determination of "fan favourites" was done just by which characters in general are faves, and Wolverine is definitely on that list. The problem then arises when it's applied to the 4* and 5* tiers covered by the store, where the representations of Logan available are badly nerfed.

St_Bernadus said:

The Shield Simulator is giving Taskmaster. Isn't that unusual? I was expecting it to give Dazzler. 

Is the plan for a Shield Sim for Dazzler will come in the full 2000 point season?

The next release is 5* Cable on the 18th and the season ends that weekend so it probably will be Dazzler since the next 4* release should be on November 1st.