Dev's why do you continue to take stuff away from the players?

dianetics
dianetics Posts: 1,774 Chairperson of the Boards
in MPQ General Discussion

The first thing was cover swaps. Something most players wouldn't notice.
You charge players to cover swap in game now and it is not cheap.

Next we had the seasonal vaults that could be cleared through regular play.
Now we can get about half of it without spending, and it is nigh impossible to clear.

Now, the monthly vaults (AAPI and Pride month) cannot be reset and cleared multiple times.

Are you going to continue to slowly remove the FTP value propositions in the game?

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  • Chrynos1989
    Chrynos1989 Posts: 422 Mover and Shaker

    Yeah, the not resetable vaults are a bummer, and completly confusing, isn’t spending more HP and so more $$$ actually what all FTP devs want? Makes literally 0 sense to me…

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 6,640 Chairperson of the Boards

    Didn't the AAPI and Thunderbolts vaults overlap? It's never been clear to me why some vaults can be reset and others not, but they've been consistently inconsistent about it -- this isn't something new.

  • LavaManLee
    LavaManLee Posts: 1,627 Chairperson of the Boards

    It would be nice to know ahead of time which vaults can't be reset and which can. I'm sure they do it on purpose, but would not have spent the HP on the daily deal if I knew it couldn't be reset. I think I just answered my own question. :-)

  • StillMonsoon3
    StillMonsoon3 Posts: 92 Match Maker

    I'm amassing an abundance of HP with nothing worthwhile to spend it on. I've noticed a real lack of HP offers (like 1a3 ascended characters under the offers tab). Also new vaults (not the same reccuring ones each event) are almost non-existent.

    Are the Devs hoping to force people into burning up HP with the cover exchanges?

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,094 Chairperson of the Boards

    @LavaManLee said:
    It would be nice to know ahead of time which vaults can't be reset and which can. I'm sure they do it on purpose, but would not have spent the HP on the daily deal if I knew it couldn't be reset. I think I just answered my own question. :-)

    The vaults that can be reset have that button there on the far right the entire time they’re up.

    It just costs hp to do it early but it’s free if you clear the whole thing.

    If you don’t see that button on the right, you can’t reset it.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,094 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 5 June 2025, 12:01

    @StillMonsoon3 said:
    I'm amassing an abundance of HP with nothing worthwhile to spend it on. I've noticed a real lack of HP offers (like 1a3 ascended characters under the offers tab). Also new vaults (not the same reccuring ones each event) are almost non-existent.

    Are the Devs hoping to force people into burning up HP with the cover exchanges?

    Probably, in my opinion.

    At minimum they have some baseline value at this point of how much value they will offer for hp you (aka all players) can spend over a period of time.

    Note:
    1. I am not sure but I think that the non-resettable vaults have been non-resettable before
    2. The ones you can reset recently tend to have lower value rewards. Like 100 shards for a 5 vs 250 in a one item

    It is possible that if people started to burn a bunch of hp and the total amount in game dropped, they’d offer better vaults that are resettable but I don’t think that will happen due to ascension increasing the return on covers to the degree it has.

  • kuntilanak
    kuntilanak Posts: 103 Tile Toppler

    @StillMonsoon3 said:
    I'm amassing an abundance of HP with nothing worthwhile to spend it on. I've noticed a real lack of HP offers (like 1a3 ascended characters under the offers tab). Also new vaults (not the same reccuring ones each event) are almost non-existent.

    Are the Devs hoping to force people into burning up HP with the cover exchanges?

    You can always try your luck with those 40x tokens that carries 5*, but do ignore the odds displayed cuz it's never on your side... hehe...

  • LavaManLee
    LavaManLee Posts: 1,627 Chairperson of the Boards

    @bluewolf said:

    @LavaManLee said:
    It would be nice to know ahead of time which vaults can't be reset and which can. I'm sure they do it on purpose, but would not have spent the HP on the daily deal if I knew it couldn't be reset. I think I just answered my own question. :-)

    The vaults that can be reset have that button there on the far right the entire time they’re up.

    It just costs hp to do it early but it’s free if you clear the whole thing.

    If you don’t see that button on the right, you can’t reset it.

    Thank you! In over ten years I never noticed or knew that. Appreciate it.

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