These characters need to be nerfed

bluewolf

@entrailbucket said:

@bluewolf said:

@LavaManLee said:
Ahhh. Thanks. I definitely don't see him played by everybody but I did see him on a few teams. Seen a lot of Tanaka Nova and 5* Deadpool also. And Juggs/Sam still on about every other team I meet. Fairly easy to beat so that's fine with me.

It probably reaaalllyy depends on your MMR. And slice.

I did see a good number of Hawkeyes this week because he's boosted, and I used him in the first PVP with the actual week's boost list.

The prior week...well, they stopped publishing the boost list lately, so I can't remember exactly who they were but I was getting extremely frustrated trying to use them. Like I said, 4-5 jugg and 4-5 rocket got the job done. I did toss my 550 1-5 Venom onto some teams but he's not exactly great in pick-2.

IDK why we keep having this argument, lol. They can't balance the game, not for a long time, if ever.

The worst time to nerf a bunch of characters - being used especially by more casual folks - would be "game is unreliable both in not-crashing and in events being put up as I am used to".

They just nerfed both m'Thor and Polaris, like, a few months ago, and nothing happened. The game didn't die.

Fair enough, but the game’s average review on Google Play fell to 3.9 averaged over 323k reviews (phone version, by far the most common review).

I check them out fairly often as a way to see what average (maybe not on socials etc) players think and a lot of low ratings resulted from the Polaris and Thor nerfs.

Nerf more popular characters, I’d expect the same result.

Just seems like a bad idea to me.

DAZ0273

@bluewolf said:

@entrailbucket said:

@bluewolf said:

@LavaManLee said:
Ahhh. Thanks. I definitely don't see him played by everybody but I did see him on a few teams. Seen a lot of Tanaka Nova and 5* Deadpool also. And Juggs/Sam still on about every other team I meet. Fairly easy to beat so that's fine with me.

It probably reaaalllyy depends on your MMR. And slice.

I did see a good number of Hawkeyes this week because he's boosted, and I used him in the first PVP with the actual week's boost list.

The prior week...well, they stopped publishing the boost list lately, so I can't remember exactly who they were but I was getting extremely frustrated trying to use them. Like I said, 4-5 jugg and 4-5 rocket got the job done. I did toss my 550 1-5 Venom onto some teams but he's not exactly great in pick-2.

IDK why we keep having this argument, lol. They can't balance the game, not for a long time, if ever.

The worst time to nerf a bunch of characters - being used especially by more casual folks - would be "game is unreliable both in not-crashing and in events being put up as I am used to".

They just nerfed both m'Thor and Polaris, like, a few months ago, and nothing happened. The game didn't die.

Fair enough, but the game’s average review on Google Play fell to 3.9 averaged over 323k reviews (phone version, by far the most common review).

I check them out fairly often as a way to see what average (maybe not on socials etc) players think and a lot of low ratings resulted from the Polaris and Thor nerfs.

Nerf more popular characters, I’d expect the same result.

Just seems like a bad idea to me.

Knee jerk situation probably. The internet loves a good old instant reaction without time to think it through. It also rarely bothers to correct itself when things aren't so bad.

entrailbucket

@bluewolf said:

@entrailbucket said:

@bluewolf said:

@LavaManLee said:
Ahhh. Thanks. I definitely don't see him played by everybody but I did see him on a few teams. Seen a lot of Tanaka Nova and 5* Deadpool also. And Juggs/Sam still on about every other team I meet. Fairly easy to beat so that's fine with me.

It probably reaaalllyy depends on your MMR. And slice.

I did see a good number of Hawkeyes this week because he's boosted, and I used him in the first PVP with the actual week's boost list.

The prior week...well, they stopped publishing the boost list lately, so I can't remember exactly who they were but I was getting extremely frustrated trying to use them. Like I said, 4-5 jugg and 4-5 rocket got the job done. I did toss my 550 1-5 Venom onto some teams but he's not exactly great in pick-2.

IDK why we keep having this argument, lol. They can't balance the game, not for a long time, if ever.

The worst time to nerf a bunch of characters - being used especially by more casual folks - would be "game is unreliable both in not-crashing and in events being put up as I am used to".

They just nerfed both m'Thor and Polaris, like, a few months ago, and nothing happened. The game didn't die.

Fair enough, but the game’s average review on Google Play fell to 3.9 averaged over 323k reviews (phone version, by far the most common review).

I check them out fairly often as a way to see what average (maybe not on socials etc) players think and a lot of low ratings resulted from the Polaris and Thor nerfs.

Nerf more popular characters, I’d expect the same result.

Just seems like a bad idea to me.

Fell to 3.9 from what score? Over what period of time? How many reviews specifically mentioned those characters?

entrailbucket

Just out of curiosity, how many here have MPQ rated a 1 in your app store?

Years ago I took a poll in one of the big Line rooms and I think like 90% of everybody had it rated 1, and always answered 1 on the "would you recommend MPQ?" poll question. My rating has been 5* since the first month or so when I rated it.

MegaBee

@entrailbucket said:
Just out of curiosity, how many here have MPQ rated a 1 in your app store?

Years ago I took a poll in one of the big Line rooms and I think like 90% of everybody had it rated 1, and always answered 1 on the "would you recommend MPQ?" poll question. My rating has been 5* since the first month or so when I rated it.

Still rated 5.