Added Human Torch (Johnny Storm) to Standard and Heroic Comic Packs
Removed Spider-Man (Bag-Man) from Standard and Heroic Comic Packs
The removal of Bag-Man is to balance current odds of characters in the packs so that the rarer characters do not lower in odds too much for every 1* or 2* added. We are not actually removing Spider-Man (Bag-Man) from the game in any other capacity. As well, he is still available as a drop from Versus battles.
Amazing there has not been a peep about this on the general board.
So who else would you like to see removed from token pulls?
Removed Spider-Man (Bag-Man) from Standard and Heroic Comic Packs
As strange as this sounds, I am somewhat saddened by this news. Getting a bagman from a token always made me chuckle. My personal record was 4 bagmen in a 24-hour period.
You want to know misery? How about the excitement you get when you finally hit the 5000 point mark in a Season with only 1 maxed 2* and a couple of underleveled 2* and get the 10 pack hoping to get something good. Then only to see Bagman’s face appear 7 times.
Eh… Bags was the very last 2-star I completed. Long after I completed numerous 3-stars.
Yeah, he’s one of the worst characters in the game, but to the completionist, good luck trying to obtain what is now one of the rarest cards in the game.
I’d venture to say that Nick Fury or Devil Dinosaur are the rarest in the game.
We’re most definitely not pulling him completely though. Pulling him from the main tokens puts his odds in check but doesn’t mean we can’t offer him in other ways like through Versus rewards, Progression rewards, Event packs, etc.
Just goes to show, the devs could give us a 90% chance of getting 50 Hero Points from Standard tokens and people would complain that their chances of pulling rare cards from Standard tokens have gone down.
What!? No more Spooderbag pulls to troll me at every turn when I get a reward? Time to riot. I’m angry at losing salt in the wounds. Now I’ve got unsalted wounds. This is a nerf to my wounds.
My question is: why did they remove Bagman instead of balancing him? It seems like an implicit acknowledgement that he’s a poorly designed character. I’d rather see his skills properly fixed than him removed from tokens.
I may be wrong, John, but I believe he’s bad by design. He’s a joke character - a mascot. He’s there for the collectors, the completionists, and the fans.
Personally I love him, but I also fall into one of the above three categories.
I could see Bagman stepping out … taking off the bag … and it’s Deadpool in disguise. Everyone with Bagman gets Deadpool with similar covers and levels. Something like that.
I think the devs may accept his status in that position now, but I don’t think that was their original intent. Otherwise, why give him semi-useful skills in the first place? If that was what they intended from the start, I would have expected three 30-AP cost skills, or something like that.
Given how unbalanced most of the characters are, I think they just designed him poorly – and now they’d rather just remove him from tokens than make him a viable character. Just my opinion, but personally I’d much rather see him balanced than have a “joke” character around.
