jamesh said: There's enough new characters in the game that they could extend this to four 24 hour subs rather than two 48 hours subs.
HoundofShadow said: Brigby mentioned somewhere the probable reasons why certain suggestions didn't make it into the game, or have yet to make it into the game.There are so many factors to consider such as importance, priorities, conceptual design, approval, bug-testing etc. Things like this takes months and not take minutes, hours or days like many believe. When you are working with many teams and third parties, things don't happen as fast as you think. I think a lot of players here overestimated how fast a suggestion can make its way to the game. Besides, MPQ is not a homebrew game where anyone can go into the game code, make some changes within minutes, update the game, and everyone is happy.I welcome new node to DDQ. However, I'm afraid that if the new node doesn't give a 5* or 4* cover, or at least 20-25CP equivalent, many here will call the node useless.
DeNappa said: HoundofShadow said: Brigby mentioned somewhere the probable reasons why certain suggestions didn't make it into the game, or have yet to make it into the game.There are so many factors to consider such as importance, priorities, conceptual design, approval, bug-testing etc. Things like this takes months and not take minutes, hours or days like many believe. When you are working with many teams and third parties, things don't happen as fast as you think. I think a lot of players here overestimated how fast a suggestion can make its way to the game. Besides, MPQ is not a homebrew game where anyone can go into the game code, make some changes within minutes, update the game, and everyone is happy.I welcome new node to DDQ. However, I'm afraid that if the new node doesn't give a 5* or 4* cover, or at least 20-25CP equivalent, many here will call the node useless. If it would take months of coding and testing to change the opponents and flavor text of a few nodes in an existing PVE event, I would severely questing the quality of the code. (Typically that kind of stuff should be in some kind of easy to edit template format)
Borstock said: Perhaps this can be said of most events, but I feel like the Deadpool vs MPQ event could use an update. Most of the AI teams, outside of the 5* nodes, are the older characters. For example, couldn't the FF node benefit from Reed replacing Bagman, or being added as a 4th character so there's, you know, four of them?Also, since the teams were assembled from a smaller roster, some of them feel like they were just sort of thrown together. Why not a Wakanda node of Shuri, Okoye, and BP? Why not an Ant-Man, Wasp, Ghost node? Why not a Cable, Domino, Colossus node?I feel like the only event that gets any kind of regular update is the Simulator now that the Gauntlet is no longer in rotation. Is there a particular reason this would be a difficult change to implement? I feel like this might be an easy way for the game to feel fresh without any kind of drastic re-design or even a brand new event.
I would be very dubious that the Dev’s require Marvel’s approval for simply changing what characters are used in nodes but they might possibly have ongoing story content approval. For example – having Nova involved in the Guardians of the Galaxy storyline probably didn’t require rigorous wrangling with any legal departments. As long as dialogue was approved or at least not seen to be out of character, I would imagine that is about that.
The obvious answer is time – all of this takes time with no obvious upfront benefit to the Company.
Moving to suggestions
Daredevil217 said: Isn't there a bunch of dialogue in DP v MPQ specific to the characters he's facing? I think Moonstone tells him he needs therapy and he refers to Daredevil as a boyscout or something like that. It's been so long since I've actually read the dialogue. Also, aren't all the nodes named after characters as well? Like "no funisher" or something like that. I think it'd take more than just plugging in different characters. You'd need all new dialogue/art which at that point they might as well make a new event.