For me, Dark Dimension is a really satisfying game mode. It rewards good planning in balancing your gear and team, is challenging but not impossible in terms of the actual game play, and has been released at a good pace (for me 6 was the first new DD that I could look forward to and plan for). Right now, I've finished my 2nd run of DD6, and while there's a good wait for me to get the gear to even think about 7, I'm still carefully choosing which toons to even bring up to level 100 with that in mind. Some of the Tower type events haven't been fun because they require a much wider roster to be effective at the higher floors. But I don't mind when they come around, and I'm slowly building up to relevance in those modes.

@gideonxl660

2 ай бұрын

I Agree one hundred percent. I don't have any gear 19s just yet but I'm already thinking about professor X.

Another good video, thank you for taking the time to help us reflect. I have thought about the communication issue a bit myself. Scopely, for as much as the community likes to complain about them, have been paying attention to what we say and doing what they think will both satisfy us and continue to make them money. I think the polls for Karen Page and whatever her team ends up being are great, and a clear step-up from the simple choose a toon polls, which I thought were actually a pretty good effort to begin with. So the community needs to give them some credit where credit is due. I used to play Magic: the Gathering, which is a very similar product model to MSF. In the 15 years I was involved with the game, I can't think of a single time the company asked us for creative input. I want to posit here that I think communication only can happen if its treated as an exchange amongst peers. If there is a power imbalance, it is simply one side just dictating to the other. With a monetized product like MSF, power is obviously money. Scopely is a for profit company after all. But, power is also reputation. If Scopely get a reputation for screwing over their players, who would want to join their game? This is where it get difficult for Scopely to understand what the community is saying, because a very loud minority is saying one thing on social media, but at the same time they have not seen sales dip. If I were them, I would think that there is one small group who was unhappy, and by the way seem to be unhappy about everything, but that the majority were fine with what we did because they still give us their money. This miscommunication is exacerbated because the small minority who complain are not respectful and definitely not constructive. I have stopped reading the MSF reddit because it is ust a bunch of people saying how bad everything is and not one of them has shared an idea of what can be done about it. There are exceptions on reddit, of course, who are quickly belittled by the rest of the redditers until they stop posting. Please don't mistake me for being a Scopely apologist, however. They have a P.R. problem and a messaging problem. They need come up with an information release model and stick to it. They would erase half of the negative feelings toward them if they would just say that until the new whatever is ready for release, that there will be no details about it. The initial messaging for the Age of X is an example of this being done right, in my opinion. They informed us that there is a new character coming out, and thematically what that would be like, but no details on events or a kit, etc. The wrong way was the Old Man Logan roll-out. Telling the community that it will be one thing and not the other, to only have that change later, plus roll out a new game mechanic of which they tell us the name and then act as if we know what the details of it actually are. What is a solution to this problem? You have already said it, communication. A well constructed, thoughtful response to Scopely over the Old Man Logan trials, with names attached of those that support the response, would be immensely effective compared to a reddit post or another angry envoy video. I actually don't have a problem with the people doing the angry video as long as that is not there only response. I have seen 2 youtubers do their angry video and then follow it up with a "this is how we do it anyway" video. I wish that they would also do a "this is how we tell Scopely we're unhappy" video, but that is what your video is about. I truly do appreciate that you have made the effort to come up with some possible solutions. I want to add 2 things to put this miscommunication into a new light. First, I am at best a mid-gamer. When Scopely announced the OLM trials and gave details, I didn't get upset. Why not? I can't get the high-end of anything yet. The tops of all leaderboards are out of my reach. And you know what? I'm okay with that because that is part of the claim. I know I feel a real sense of accomplishment when I hit that top 1% to 3% the first time. It wouldn't mean very much to the end-gamers if everyone got everything. I realize that most of the content creators that I watch are end-gamers and so have a different sense of value for events than I do. I think if the content creators and Scopely would just remind the community once in a while that this higher goal is what you are aiming for in the long game, that would go a long ways. Second, I accept your challenge to suggest a new game mode that would address greater player agency with our rosters. it would be a solo mode that is part campaign and part raid, by which I mean there would be nodes with story like the campaigns, which I enjoyed quite a bit, and then the final node of the chapter would be a multi-lane raid type event. I propose that it would be parallel lanes that would lead to the same conclusion, for example, there could be 3 lanes - city, global and cosmic - and the player can only do 1 of them, but that is okay, because it would give us more re-playability. Each of these lanes would only be 3 or 4 combats at most, but be tailored to the lane. I even have a loose premise - the "main" STRIKE teams are off on some big important mission, like Dark Dimension or Incursion, and so it is left to the "B" teams that stayed behind to solve the problem. Scopely would give all the old toons, say more than 2 years old without a rework, a tag "Classic" and only they would be allowed in this campaign/event. Scopely also make the level scaling tied to commander level, so that 1 to 65 gets easy mode, 66 to 95 gets the normal mode, and 96 to 100 gets the expert mode. Thank you for the kickstart to my brain. :)

@gideonxl660

2 ай бұрын

thanks for taking the time to watch and reply.

Gideon, right on the money!

@gideonxl660

Ай бұрын

Appreciate you Boss.

Man Gideon. Really well thought out video. Funny I still care when this doesn’t apply to me. And have always tried be to fair to scopely. But this star change is just awful in my opinion. My favorite part of the game, by far, was trying to get a 7star on first trial. As mostly free to play, it took so much planning and learning the fights and try after try. But loved every second of it. With this game, there are collection dynamics, and then theory/skill dynamics. Over the past few years, it seems the collection dynamics are really trumping, and the skill dynamics falling behind. Look at pvp modes. For rewards, doesn’t really matter if you win or lose. Rewards are close either way, and game mode is designed for 50/50 long term. It’s not worth trying hard to win or lose these for reward purposes……for fun is a different story. What is super important these days for rewards?? Events/milestones!!! But events are based on: play this battle, do this blitz, battle with 5 star, battle with 6 star…aka collection dynamics. Just about having things and playing than about skill or theory or winning. So this legendary change….this was the absolute best place, and rare place, where skill and theory really mattered, and us f2p and dolphins could compete with the whales, for meaningful rewards. No longer the case. Feels like the wrong direction. Thanks for listening 😂

@gideonxl660

2 ай бұрын

Always good to hear from you, man. How are things going? You definitely make some good points. I agree that the preparation and trying to put together the proper strategy Is a big part what people enjoy. I definitely agree. We need more in the game that allows people to do that. I Don't know where they go from here. There is too much background noise and they will go deaf.

I think most people are being entitled. People keep mentioning how this isn't fair because they want to be able to get a 7 star ftp but in actuality any ftp getting more than a 4 star isnt fair to the people that really matter, the spenders. YOU SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET THE SAME CHARACTERS AS A FTP THAT A WHALE GETS. Get over it and either spend money or play another game because again you dont spend money. Ill be getting a 4 star personally and im ok with that because i didn't spend 100's of dollars

@gideonxl660

2 ай бұрын

I think your point is fair, everything can be equitable but that dose not mean equal. you get what you pay for so if I didn't pay for a 7 star than I don't get one.

Raid shadow legends let's you use your entire roster, even after 5 years.

@gideonxl660

2 ай бұрын

Admittedly I haven't played raid shadow legends. How do they allow you to use your roster? Could That be implemented in marvel strike force?

@thenotugle3121

2 ай бұрын

@@gideonxl660 Hard for me to explain. You can upgrade stats of a character to keep up with power creep. If scopely wanted to they could add all of the things people like about RSL.

we have some weeks before the event ,, but dang i don't have cabal at 5 stars and bought them. im about 200$ into cabal and don't have them at 5 ..this sucks ,

@gideonxl660

2 ай бұрын

That sounds disappointing. Are your Out of Time members ready?

Sorry to say but the roster agency mode accordingly to scopely is blitz. You can use your entire roster there. Is it good? Can it be better?

@gideonxl660

2 ай бұрын

I hear you. Blitz is a thing but I don't think most people like it. Scopely could use a conquest mode of some sort where you have to occupy a large map. That would force us to use all of our characters.