You can want to do a little fast forwarding AND still enjoy the game Considering the gap between just getting the toy to play with and finishing all the knob polishing on said toy, not like you can't be a little impatient and want the toy now but still be plenty happy to take your time polishing knobs. For the GotG characters, at least currently, Rocket is chest / promotion only, and Peter and Gamora are both gated behind the Arena and Villain Siege dailies with 2 other Arena and VS exclusive characters competing with each. So, yeah, if there's a team pack or other bundled deal where 2 or more of those 3 characters appear in a manner similar to the other team packs we've seen, I'll happily "buy my progression forward"
This game is absolutely about grinding. I enjoy the game, mostly, but the grind is a nightmare. I agree that it is probably the most fair FTP out there of this type but the grind and daily format is going to burn me out long before I get any 6 star characters. Hell, probably before I get a 5 star. Which is a shame because I really like this game.
For the Arena dailies, at least there's now the option of recharging twice for more honor tokens. In theory if you have the crystals to spend, you could either get 3 bios each for the arena exclusive heros per day, or if you want to heavily advance one, 9 bios a day fairly much guaranteed. And a higher chance of more crystal rewards at the end of arena week too. For Villain Siege, I believe the max chaos tokens given out is now around 1500, so again, if you're at the stage of beating all 9 bosses, you've got the choice of how to allocate those 9 bios a day. All in all it's pretty fair, especially compared to some other F2P offerings. The latest update helps, with a lot of extra bios thrown around (first clears and unlimited play for 30 mins on special levels, dimension shifts). Hoping for some new team packs soon, might help me on my way to my first 5* characters. Or maybe I should just recharge arena and power rank up Captain Marvel. Decisions, decisions...
Again very condescending, I never said I didn't enjoy playing it, in fact I do. I'll echo the sentiment of others, given to option I'll gladly grab a new champ or rank. No one said you had to. To imply we don't like the game or are getting inferior enjoyment out of it is kinda ludicrous. Shouldn't harm your enjoyment unless you are the kind who gets mad when other people have shiny things too.
Holy Cow. I legitimately lost my first Arena fight in ages. Against a Captain America/Vision/Winter Soldier team. I have underestimated Captain America. Watch out for teams with uniforms. They make a big difference.
Let's be honest, virtually ANY game you play more than 10-20 hours is going to be primarily "grinding" (and if it's not grinding for progress, it's probably just pure repetition on an iteration, e.g. many rogue-likes). Whether it's World of Warcraft, Elder Scrolls, or Candy Crush Saga, no game studio in the universe can afford to produce unique, non-repetitive content to take up more than a few dozen hours (of which much is padded through leveling mechanics or analogous slowdowns). The difference between "grinding", aka satisfying gameplay and *grinding*, aka omg this game is getting so f'ing boring! is how the repetitive elements mesh with you. So, in spite of the contradiction in the second part, it appears that, no, the game's repetitive elements don't really mesh with you . There are, maybe, 4 or 5 hours worth of genuinely quasi-unique content to this game. That's probably being very generous. Everything else in the game is iterations of repetitions to farm specific drops while simultaneously leveling characters to reach another stepwise increment of improvement for your stable of characters. ------ When I read all these critical to outright negative views of the amount of grinding in this game (whether it's the "requirement" of the dailies, the moderate drop rate, the steep increasing cost to rank characters, etc.), I think about watching my son play this game. My 7 y.o. son has NO idea what any of you are complaining about. He has close to 300 energy because they gift it faster than he spends it. He hasn't even unlocked all the modes yet. Yet, he's been playing for over a month and probably been enjoying the game a ton more than many of the people in this thread. It's our impatience that causes the game to go from "grind" to *grind*. If the majority of your energy is going to autoplaying through levels for drops then the game doesn't really change whether you have all 2 star, 3 star, 4 star, 5 star, or even 6 star characters - it'll still all be about knob polishing. So take a step back, and don't polish any more knobs than you actually *enjoy* polishing.
I play it out of fun and simply being a Marvel fan. Proof of this is how much time i put in while having fun despite this being freemium and has timers. That says a lot.
Please. I didn't condesend at all. Or imply anything. Your original post was a huge complaint about your time versus value. I have bought three packages (through earning gems) so this issue of my apparent stance against store packages is silly. I welcome all who have 5 star heroes (or 6) and have posted a lot of tips and tricks since the beginning. To help everyone. That's all. Dismissed.
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, Infinity Blade 1-3, Heroes & Castles 2, Battleheart Legacy, Tap Titans, Temple Run 1, 2 & Oz, and Spider-Man are some of the iOS games i have played and clocked over 200 hours each. There are 2 common things going on in these games, and it's, one, they are what you may consider grinding games, and two, i enjoy them a lot. In my case, the second part negates the flaws of the first. They arent grinds at all when i spend my time in them while having a great time. If i wasnt enjoying, then tis just a grind. Marvel Future Fight is in the same department. You may consider it a grind, i dont. Simply because the time and effort i put in are rewarded by satisfying hours spent in them. I have fun, and that's a huge thing in games to get me to keep playing them for over 200 hours each.
Oh dismissed, not condescending at all. Pretty sure my huge complaint was loving the update but wanting a bundle of new chars, and a misleading timer, but shame on me. Im sorry I interpreted your implication of me getting less enjoyment of the game from spending money was a stance on bundles, seeing as that was my post point. The fact that you took the time to make that post shows something. On a different note, anyone else not getting rocket check ins or does that start tomorrow?
I haven't gotten any, just the standard check in bonus but no Rocket, not like the Hulkbuster as well...
WOAH! Has everyone checked the new Team Synergies yet? In my Ultron, Ironman, Doc Ock team i can swap out Doc Ock with the Hulk, and i have a team with 3 of my 1.5 year old son's favorite characters
Yeah there are a lot of new and interesting team bonus. And it's fascinating that a 1,5-year-old boy has a lot of favorite characters already, did he even watch Age of Ultron?
He didnt (wouldnt want him to watch violence yet), but we both watch a lot of marvel cartoons (more dialogue driven, or iron man/hulk transformations), prodies, and he likes Iron Man and Hulk the most. I was the one who liked Ultron (even before the movie, and the movie promoted him for me ). We were watching kid-friendly Avengers 2 parodies, and that's where he began to like Ultron. He's really adorable when he says Oo-twon. He also knows Daredevil, Wolverine, Thor, Cap, and Black Widow, but he calls Black Widow "mama."
You just might be. I usually do one of the two: use clear tickets for a few biometrics where I don't have the time to manually play through use teams of heroes that are just good enough to clear the mission and see how far I can push them Clearly sub-optimal way to play if my goal was to level up as many heroes as possible in the shortest amount of time, but it definitely maximises the fun over time spent.
From what I've been reading, Captain America with uniform is very OP. Might be time to splash out on a uniform for my Black Widow.
There are too many good points in here to respond to, so I'll just blanket it with a "I agree with everything you just said" comment. You hit the nail on the head. The only criticism I have with this game is the daily login nature. I took a week off, only collecting that daily login bonus, and when I came back I was back to enjoying it. But I still can't shake that log in everyday to collect bios approach to this game. I've always hated the concept of "dailies," it is just something I can't stand. That is where I see this as a grind. Of course, it took a couple months for me to reach that point so all credit to the developers. They have actually made a great game.
Right, I guess it comes down to how you both define and perceive grind. Of those games you listed, only Spider-Man did I put any serious time into. I guess I'm just not a fan of grindy games. I do enjoy this game though. But it has got to the point where I have to enjoy it in bursts. As I said in another post though, took awhile to get there which I feel is a credit to the developers. This is a game I will keep on my iPad
