Hi everyone… I know leaving threads are boring and none of you will care (and some ppl will be kind enough to confirm that for me 
) but i’m just leaving this post as a bit of feedback as to why i’m stopping my love affair with MPQ.
So background-wise I post on the forum a fair bit so ppl may have an idea who I am. I’m on day 450, have every hero at least once, fully covered every 3* bar 1 SG cover and every 4* bar 3 SL covers. I’ve spent about 200 or so dollars on the game (which I don’t begrudge) and have been in a top100 alliance since season 1 (although a different one which is top 25 from season 2).
The main reason i’m leaving is that the game doesn’t really give me what I want any more… and that’s been the case for a while but brought more sharply into focus recently. Basically I enjoy match 3 games, but the match 3 mechanics in MPQ are not enough on their own to make me want to play it (especially not to the degree it needs to be played to get anywhere) and instead I played for so long mainly because I enjoy collecting things and enjoy feeling like i’m making progress in a game.
So I progressed to 2s (back when that took effort), got into 3s, kept picking up new 3*s that were interesting and/or useful enough, got every OP hero when they were OP and ended up fully covering XForce and IW mostly by accident well before XF was any use at all.
Then out came Fury and, while not a big upgrade over 3*s he was decent and shiny, so I enjoyed working on getting those covers. Xforce got buffed and I felt like I could improve my roster by giving him ISO (already had the covers after all) and the whole time I felt like I was improving what I had to varying degrees.
Then we have 4Thor… she was (IMO) overpowered but obviously getting her felt like progress. I always imagined she would be reigned back a bit but I looked at the 4* heroes and I felt like every new one would be impactful and fulfilling to get my hands on. Like I would always have that opportunity to feel like i’m moving forward… then came Elektra… ok a blip… then came starlord… ok another blip. they weren’t unusable but I felt like they weren’t worth the time, effort and resources to use them. Then IF came out… again seemed a bit OP but, even with a purple nerf being obvious his passive would be great for seeds and low level PvE teams… progression (of a sort).
That brings us to recent events… Xavier got teased and instantly it was obvious he was a gimmick hero… he needed an enabler for that blue, the enablers are all too meh for PvP so he basically looked like a PvE hero to used with winfinite, maybe GSBW. Not 100% what I was hoping for but something to work towards perhaps… then a pre release nerf on his yellow. Bizarre but not devastating… then the character balance hammers winfinite… now what is Xavier good for? Just another 4* to work towards who is not worth working towards.
Then we come to the 4Thor nerf. I’m not mad that one of my heroes got nerfed… she needed a nerf of some sort… i’m not even quitting cause one of my heroes got over-nerfed. It’s happened LOADS of times already and i’ve not left… the issue for me is one of the ONLY 2 4s who felt like real progress to me over months of play has now become a 3+. Simply removing her from my roster wouldn’t make it all that much weaker. So now i’m thinking that Xforce and Thor were the anomalies and Starlord, Elektra and Xavier are the intended level of 4* balance. So not only have I essentially made zero progression since I got those XForce covers way back when but I don’t see any reason to believe I ever will again AND if a hero really is a form of progression for me they will get gutted down the road.
So, for me at least, no real progression = not a game I want to play any more.
Don’t get me wrong though… other things irritate me abour MPQ.
Roster slots infinitely increasing in cost is stupid
Limiting 4* PvE reward tiers as if ppl getting their hands on a 1 cover 4* is a big enough deal to justify the irritation it causes
3* transition is still stupidly slow
There is no risk/reward in PvP… 40 point target… that must be risky… what’s the catch? I lose 1 pt if I lose to them and the points I score are nothing to do with our relative roster strengths? seems about right!
Levelling up heroes on PC is so painfully slow unless you want to max them that I hate doing it.
Rotating subs in the hunt as if that’s anything BUT stupid…
and i’m sure there are more but this is already a wall of text 
. I could get past those things as long as I was having fun, unfortunately that’s not a thing now
Anyway that’s it really. Just wanted to give some feedback on the way out.
One thing I will say though… think VERY carefully about spending money on HP to buy anything in this game… especially covers, The devs have repeatedly shown the thing you pay for may or may not be the thing you end up with. Also buy HP immediately before using it, that way if you get shafted you can get a refund from the place you paid actual cash to more easily. Xforce is now by far the best hero in this game… I would be wary of using real life money on him…
ps… shout out to my alliance the ACE OF BLADES! The fun and friendly atmosphere has easily extended my stay in MPQ by 2 or 3 seasons when I started losing my will to play. Soon ™ they will probably have a recruiting thread to replace me and you couldn’t find a friendlier and IMO better alliance to join… so seriously consider applying… you won’t regret it (too much) 
Bonfire.
