Note to mods: this is not intended as a discussion of the bonus hero system. There is a thread for that already. This is a meta-discussion that i think merits its own thread.
Like it or not, Bonus Heroes is live now and it’s a pretty massive massive change to the game’s economy.
Not counting a few help messages that slipped out last week. Players on the forums got about 3 hours’ prior notice of this change.
In my opinion players should have much more notice of any change of this scale. At least a week, and preferably more. Such notice (1) allows players to trouble shoot potential problems with the change, and will allow demi/d3 to answer the first round of faqs in advance of the go-live confusion, and (2) allow players to make rational, informed choices about using or saving their hoarded resources (always a huge deal when players are heavily invested in an inherently changeable digital economy).
I was unfortunate enough to open my February token hoard before this was announced. Some advance notice would have been appreciated like when the increase in 4* draw rates was trailed back in the day.
I’m sure there are some cases where no notice is preferable but I’m struggling to think what they would be (maybe that fix for the token exploit). Personally I would always prefer to know what’s upcoming. A big part of the game is resource management so knowing in advance what sort of changes are coming helps you to make better decisions about those resources (case in point: me, earlier today).
1 day seems reasonable. No matter how much notice is given there will be some subset of the forum that will think that it is too little notice. Post things too early and by the time they release anything the newness of the feature isn’t really all that new anymore.
No. Like it or not, a “this is coming” post gives an unfair advantage to forum readers. Also, even then some poor sap will have just opened their stash right before. Instead of the sob stories, let’s just utilize the new feature and say thanks for the bonus covers.
Note- I just pulled 70 classics about a week ago. I regret nothing.
I’ve been hoarding since November. I regret not opening it now that champ levels for older 4’s are essentially dead. Had they even given us a days notice with some Q&A I would’ve opened it. I now get to look forward to saving another million tinykitty iso so as not to waste covers on the newest 4’s. 5% chance after you pull a gold is garbage, yet everyone is praising the heck out of it so far. Sigh.
I may be a special case, but I used to hoard all the time. I’ve never been really upset at this game, just disappointed in some things. But the face that I opened 51 Latest Legends and 5 Purple Reign tokens on MONDAY 2/27 and over 500 Heroic and Event tokens on 2/15 actually makes me pretty tinykitty upset.
This is my first use of tinykitty on the forum. But I think I’m a little justified.
Two weeks might be a little much to announce a major change, but I kinda feel not? Why don’t we get a teaser about BLANK two weeks in advance and then maybe a reminder that something is happening in a couple days or something? A teaser could literally be “We are about to change something with opening tokens. We think you’ll like it.” Then I won’t open tokens yet so I can see what this new thing is!
I know, I know, everyone who opened any amount of tokens since the game started could complain about not knowing this and we are all whiners. But man. 500+ (small) chances to get an extra cover and 55 chances to get an extra LT cover? That’s reason to be upset, right?
This is a HUGE change. I guess I’ll just stew about this and open my randomly received tokens now. 550…
changes like this should be done at the start of the season of season just like characters being added to cover packs. and a week notice (today Weds.) like this would be nice, if they change it the start of next season next week (Thurs).
kinda reminds me of when they change hero points cover buys. they announce it weds 10 am, saying it will change later that that same day. so u had to choose to buy covers with hero points or they become less useful. then you do, then right before end of business day they say they will delay it.
This really only destroys hoarders, like that poor person who did 500 pulls or something on Monday. That person got boned.
Most users are unlikely to be hurt by even major changes beyond the ability to recover lost resources quickly. And hoarded tokens don’t expire, so the two week rule doesn’t really apply.
A couple of days would be nice, but it’s not a big deal one way or the other. Mainly, I’d just like to fully understand new changes before I am in a position where I’m using them. That’s all.
That seems like a pretty foolish opinion to me. Why even have these forums at all if we players should just shut up and deal with everything demi/d3 serve us? We could get all this info via splashscreens in game or marvel.com “interviews.”
