I know that for me, the attraction of Match 3 games has always been they’re fast paced. As WAS the case with MPQ. It does seem that there has been a concious effort to slow down the matches. Less cascading, putting out less tiles of a certain color, longer animations and seemingly never-firing countdown tile. Any time spent waiting for my turn is a waste of my time and time for me to get bored.
Just my thoughts.
YEP !
longer matches will make a lot of people quit for sure, that’s why 5* is killing it for me, get to 800 pts in pvp and I can’t even get a match up without one, DONT NEED THAT !! 
Longer matches mean more damage to characters, and the need to buy heals and shields. It’s all about sales. 
I´m good with longer matches. As long as I don´t have to wait too long until I´m allowed to make my next move. With all those passives, triggers, countdowns, traps, cascades, multiple AI moves in a row, etc. it takes forever until my next move is executed.
If you play a match with a team without passives you can see how fast the game could be. And should be.
I always avoid, unless I know I can kill him within the next 3 turns.
Longer matches is a good thing, back in the Sentry bomb days with +6 AP boost a match could take 30 seconds. Which also meant you could get snipped in 30 seconds.
Longer matches makes it possible for a wider variety of viable teams, and that is a good thing both for us the players and the developers.
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I don’t mind longer matches, if they are longer because of more hp and heals, not because of animations . I think someone suggested earlier that the animation should only play the first time a power fires and i think thats a good compromise if they don’t want to allow us to turn them off all together.
ya but there must be some middle ground 5-8minute matches seems to long and slow for a mobile game, 2-3 minute matches are were we should be at, any longer and they seem to drag on.
If you end up with 8 minute matches you are doing it wrong
Griping about the speed of the Loki event is moot. Everyones’ matches are slow, so it’s a wash.
However, there are still things you can do to help. Personally I did my normal late (3hr) rush to 1k by skipping any team with Hood or Jean Grey. Sure I could have countered Hood with Hood, but that’s a detriment to speed. I’m not scared of Jean Grey, but she’s especially slow when the AoE stun cause Loki’s tiles to trigger it’s doublely slow.
Maybe I’m doing something right(wrong?), but I rarely see a 5* right now. And I push 1300-1500 in most events.
Unless you have turned each match into a drinking game. Then you are doing it right.
Thor PvP isn’t much better since a level 290 Thor has 17,599 health.
And I see more 5*s early in PvPs since people use them to clear the seed nodes. I almost never see them when I’m climbing from 700 to 1000.