Popular Demand Store! (2/25/19)

Marvel Puzzle Quest MPQ General Discussion
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Hi Everyone,

Why should the 5-Star characters get all the fun? Starting today until March 2nd there will be a new Popular Demand store available that contains the top 10 most popular 4-Star characters! Check out all the details below:

Popular Demand Store

  • Start: 2/25/19 12:00am ET
  • End: 3/2/19 12:00am ET
  • Same rarity odds as Heroic store
  • Contains 10 specific popular demand 4-Star characters
  • America Chavez
  • Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)
  • Deadpool (Uncanny X-Force)
  • Gamora (Awesome Mix Volume 2)
  • Medusa
  • Nightcrawler
  • Peggy Carter
  • Rocket & Groot (Awesome Mix Volume 2)
  • Vulture
  • Wolverine (X-Force)
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In game right now with a selection of 4’s available, these things are coming thick and fast.

If I hadn’t spent a bunch of HP in the Wakanda store I might have been tempted.

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They’re probably playing around with various models.

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I’m surprised to see NightCrawler and X-Force Wolverine in there. There are only 10 4* in that store.

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“Most popular”.

Remember when we had only the 12 newest characters in tokens? Then the half vaulting which meant 50% of the pulls were the newest 12?

Then full dilution came along and now you pay a premium for the benefit of not getting 1/75 characters, and getting 1/10. If you get the 6% shot at the 4 from your pull, and don’t just end up paying 375 HP for a 2* (74% odds of that happening).

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I’ve always wanted to spend 3750 HP for a 52.33% chance to get a random color of 1 out of 10 known 4* characters.

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Then full dilution came back…

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Heroic tokens with a limited set of 4*s? Looks like almost all the best ones, less bishop and blade but plus xfw. Not yet clear how they will be earned, but presumably some events will give most players a handful of them, with more available for HP.

Huh. More stuff that seems like Demi is trying to mitigate dilution for classic/vintage characters (and bleed resources from the players).

What do people think?

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375 HP for a 74% chance of a 2*. Not a very popular choice for me.

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X-Force Wolverine always seems to make it in to these things. I’m not sure who he is popular with though.

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Merged similar threads to keep conversation focused in one thread.

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I have a suspicion his useage numbers are skewed by virtue of him being double-fed at the 3* tier and fed up through 2*. He is one a lot of people are going to get by default. Mine is of course still sitting covered but un-champed on day 1118, but I’ll get there eventually…

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Any reason that there isn’t an official announcement thread in which to comment?

:edit: Ah, now there is, and this thread has been merged into it.

Sometimes it seems as if Brigby’s alarms to post threads are not in the same time zone as he is.

Oh, and no thanks. Not at 375 HP a pop.

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And from being boosted for EVERY Boss Event.

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And he’s one of the first 4* given for daily shield resupplies too, I believe.

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They are confusing “Popular” with “available the most”. By this logic, 1* Venom is the most “popular” Venom…

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Any usage stats that don’t control for age and game shifts (i.e. buffs, nerfs, and the health shift) will over-represent xfw a lot. He is one of the oldest 4s (the oldest right? It was him, then IW, then fury iirc). And he was the a meta character for about 9 months. As a result, he will be among the most covered 4s for a large group of older players, whether or not his current iteration has any value in the game today.

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I think you buy them or nothing. No earning these tokens.

And yeah, mitigating dilution with premium pricing.

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Is this then an admission that a return to full dilution is not achieving what they hoped it would (never actually stated but assumed to be slowing player progress through the 4* tier via a bottleneck)?

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Price is fine if they take the 2* out.

Price is way high with a ~74% 2* rate.