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Marvel Heroes 2016 |OT3| Highway to the Danger Room

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Dec

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Volimar said:
How's things? Have they added any new omega prestige characters yet? Hope I don't get banned for necro bumping >.>
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I don't think so, and not even one has come to PC yet. They even delayed the first omega prestige on PC to January 2018.

They are claiming 2 per month, though.

They recently did a Q&A with the CEO that was supposed to be live streamed, then cancelled the stream a few days prior. They still did the AMA but in text format and predictably provided mostly nothing answers.

The biggest question of which was for them to clarify if the PC license was extended past 2019 along with the console license as they have dodged answering that question repeatedly. They dodged it again this time so we still don't know.

The game looks more dire than even 2 weeks ago if you can believe it.
 
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Anoregon

The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Racing for those Lawbreaker numbers.
 
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Volimar

Member
Dec said:
I don't think so, and not even one has come to PC yet. They even delayed the first omega prestige on PC to January 2018.

They are claiming 2 per month, though.

They recently did a Q&A with the CEO that was supposed to be live streamed, then cancelled the stream a few days prior. They still did the AMA but in text format and predictably provided mostly nothing answers.

The biggest question of which was for them to clarify if the PC license was extended past 2019 along with the console license as they have dodged answering that question repeatedly. They dodged it again this time so we still don't know.

The game looks more dire than even 2 weeks ago if you can believe it.
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Yeesh
 
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Frostinferno

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New Spider-Woman details:

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Spider-Woman uses a mix of melee and ranged attacks, and has heavy themes of debuffs and crowd control. Applying damage over time or crowd control effects, then using other powers to exploit and combo into those effects, are a large part of how Spider-Woman will play as you level her. When talents unlock, her playstyle is more in your hands - you may choose to play her as a more agile brawler, a Venom blaster, make her crowd control effects more potent, or mix and match these components to create your own interpretation.

More details and previews will become available as we get closer to her launch, which is tentatively planned for release with the Omega patch by November 23.
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Thor Ragnarok tie-in stuff for PC hits with the Omega patch late November.

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Changes to the Omega Prestige system to make it less mandatory:

In order to make leveling the same character seventy times not mandatory, while still preserving a reward structure that makes those who do enjoy leveling gain a benefit, we are restructuring the Omega Prestige rewards as follows:

Instead of removing power entirely, we are instead frontloading some of the bonuses onto Omega Prestige 1 (final values still being determined). This means that the Omega Traits will have much more potency as soon as they are acquired, and will not require any further leveling to get more powerful. All of the power gained from Omega Prestige will be given immediately, up-front.

Whenever an Omega Prestige level is gained, you will earn a Prestigious Loot Shard. Five of these Loot Shards can be combined into a Prestigious Loot Box, which is similar in contents and distribution to the Marvelous Loot Box, though it will not rotate its contents as the Marvelous Box does. Every 5 Omega Prestige ranks will earn you one of these boxes, and they don't have to be earned on the same hero continuously. This means that each Omega Prestige hero also contains 14 Loot Boxes available to acquire as a reward for further leveling.

To make the leveling process smoother for those who are doing continuous leveling, we are installing a new reward for Omega Prestige owners - a Set of items usable at level 1 which provide scaling benefits as the hero levels. These slot 1-5 items should keep you at a steady, consistent, and potent power level all the way up to level 60, but are expected to be replaced with well-rolled Cosmics or Omega items.

Additionally, with this change we'll also be increasing the stack sizes of Omega Essence and Fractured Omega Essence. Going forward these will stack to 200 and 500 respectively. Freeing up a bit of space so you can carry the loot from your new Prestigious Loot Boxes!

Lastly, since this is a change that is being rolled out after we already rolled out the system and its associated store features, we are offering compensation in the form of double Prestigious Loot Shards up to the point the new rewards are released. This means that for every Omega Prestige level you have earned so far, you will retroactively earn two Shards instead of one. Every 2.5 Omega Prestige levels will earn you the new Prestigious Loot Box.
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Dec

Member
I guess I should really mention that some dirt on the CEO has come up recently that you can read about here: http://davedohrmann.blogspot.ca

Apparently the arrest records are also somewhere around. I haven't looked for them.

Glassdoor reviews:

"The current CEO is lecherous with every woman in the company and is a mega creep all around. So much so that he uses a fake name in press releases to keep people from finding out about his past. Find his real name and Google it and you'll learn everything you need to know. Nothing about this is normal."

"Advice to the current CEO; learn who your employees are, not just the ones you play fantasy football with or the young, attractive producers."

And lastly, this new forum post:

https://forums.marvelheroesomega.com/discussion/10110/an-important-message-from-gazillion

The safety, health and well-being of our employees is Gazillion's number one priority. We are an equal opportunity employer and, like many Bay Area residents, take great pride in the diversity of our friends, family, coworkers and community. Harassment of any kind within our ranks is not tolerated. Should any allegations be made, they are investigated thoroughly with the utmost of respect and confidentiality afforded the complainant, and in compliance with company policy and California law. We do not and will not comment on rumor, gossip or third-party allegations from the vastness of the Internet.
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The TLDR is that the current CEO has long histories of paying for sex, peeping through women's windows and taking creepshots.
 
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Dec

Member
Oh I hadn't kept up with it; this seems to have come to light, at least in part due to Doomsaw.

Definitely don't judge the company based on the CEO, Dave Dohrmann (that's his actual real name which he had to change for reasons that a simple google will illustrate).
His reputation for inappropriate conduct, especially towards women, is something that "industry insiders" are aware of talk about behind closed doors. His conduct has been tolerated because he often controls the money flow and is a good talker. This is a problem at some tech companies and needs to be addressed much more assertively.
I won't post the blog about him or get into details, but I will say that the regular employees Gazillion are very solid people and probably deserve a much better example of leadership.
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His recent comment history : https://www.reddit.com/user/Doomsaw-Gazillion

I knew about his behavior a couple of years ago, as did the members of the board from that time and other executives in the company, even before they made him CEO. I could have said something and they certainly had the power to do something about it. I know they feared that Marvel would find out and it would harm the license renewals or the business, but that's no excuse.
I didn't say very much because I had friends at the company (and still do) and I didn't want them to lose the Marvel license and have to close the company - but reasons like that are why people get away with it for so long.
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Also, I have seen mumblings about this that were too vague to follow up on for a while now, because anything that talks of it in any detail is removed entirely from the official forums. The subreddit also is removing anything explicitly talking about it. The response posted yesterday has been a long time coming.
 
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Anoregon

The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Ooof. I really wouldn't be surprised if the current poor performance of their flagship game combined with people finding out the CEO is a fucking serial predator spells the end for Gaz as a whole.
 
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Anoregon

The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Frostinferno said:
Well that's just awful stuff all around. Wonder if word will get to the ears of someone who can and will shut this down.
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It's implied by Doomsaw that anyone in a position to do anything already knew.
 
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Anoregon

The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Frostinferno said:
On the Gaz side of things. But what about Marvel/Disney?
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Ah. Yeah I guess the belief there is that they would just shove Gaz off the Marvel teat entirely if they decided to care about this, so that may have insulated the guilty party a bit. Sort of Mutually assured destruction for everyone at Gaz. Now that the cat is at least partially out of the bag, I guess we'll see.
 
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Human Trashcan

Banned
Anoregon said:
It's implied by Doomsaw that anyone in a position to do anything already knew.
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People always know. Everyone knew about Weinstein. It's just that no one in power gives a shit until the public outcry gets so loud that they HAVE to denounce/fire him. Dudes being creeps is practically embedded into the system.
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
I was wondering why the thread wa so active lately... WELP!
 
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Absoludacrous

Member
What a sad, terrible thing to happen to the company I used to look at as the scrappy, well-meaning underdog. At this point Marvel really should yank the carpet out and let the company burn, and hopefully the people there that aren't creeps land on the their feet quickly at a better place.
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
Absoludacrous said:
What a sad, terrible thing to happen to the company I used to look at as the scrappy, well-meaning underdog. At this point Marvel really should yank the carpet out and let the company burn, and hopefully the people there that aren't creeps land on the their feet quickly at a better place.
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yes fuck all those employees because the CEO thats been there for months only is a creep, that makes total sense
 
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Absoludacrous

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Rhaknar said:
yes fuck all those employees because the CEO thats been there for months only is a creep, that makes total sense
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Did you miss the entire back half of my post? I feel terrible for the employees there, hell, even before this news came out. Their game is circling the drain, their days have been numbered anyway. Now with this I don't see how it's not an inevitability. At least with Marvel pulling the plug and making a stand the game shutting down will mean something and maybe send a message. Now is the time to do it with everything coming out everywhere.

Otherwise it gets ignored and the game and studio shuts down within a year anyway and oh well.
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
Absoludacrous said:
Did you miss the entire back half of my post? I feel terrible for the employees there, hell, even before this news came out. Their game is circling the drain, their days have been numbered anyway. Now with this I don't see how it's not an inevitability. At least with Marvel pulling the plug and making a stand the game shutting down will mean something and maybe send a message. Now is the time to do it with everything coming out everywhere.

Otherwise it gets ignored and the game and studio shuts down within a year anyway and oh well.
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"let the company burn and hope that the non-creeps land on their feet" is a nice magical world type of thing to say. Being unemployed sucks mate.

Imagine if the CEO of whatever company you work for was a creep,and they shut down the whole thing just for him, now you cant pay the rent. Yay
 
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Absoludacrous

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Rhaknar said:
"let the company burn and hope that the non-creeps land on their feet" is a nice magical world type of thing to say. Being unemployed sucks mate.

Imagine if the CEO of whatever company you work for was a creep,and they shut down the whole thing just for him, now you cant pay the rent. Yay
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Yea, that would suck, but in this scenario I would have been updating my resume for the last year any way because all this did was push the inevitable up by six months.

Being unemployed sucks, I've been there, but I don't think it should be taboo to say that a studio with a floundering game, no back up plan, and a terrible CEO should cease to exist.
 
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Razgriz-Specter

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Quick question for anyone still around.
I just downloaded this today on PS4 and remember seeing All New Wolverine and Rogue but can't find them, even checked the PlayStation store.
 
Hoya Destroyer

Hoya Destroyer

Member
I used to play this on PC. It was good fun for a while. I havent played for a long time.
I might jump on tonight, as Im curious to see what is going on with it now.
 
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Ragnaroz

Member
Hoya Destroyer said:
I used to play this on PC. It was good fun for a while. I havent played for a long time.
I might jump on tonight, as Im curious to see what is going on with it now.
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I think you might want to skip it. There's a reason no one's playing anymore, the game is a shadow of what it once was.
 
TimFL

TimFL

Member
So this is it I assume? Xth week without news and no Thor movie tie-in yet.

I don't see any other company buying the broken mess that is MHO but one can hope... it is the only Marvel MMO out there after all that is kind of fun (if you ignore all the latest cash-grab or annoying gameplay changes). Can't believe I've put 200h+ into this game..
 
Finaika

Finaika

Member
TimFL said:
So this is it I assume? Xth week without news and no Thor movie tie-in yet.

I don't see any other company buying the broken mess that is MHO but one can hope... it is the only Marvel MMO out there after all that is kind of fun (if you ignore all the latest cash-grab or annoying gameplay changes). Can't believe I've put 200h+ into this game..
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Wow there's no Thor Ragnarok tie-in?
 
TimFL

TimFL

Member
Finaika said:
Wow there's no Thor Ragnarok tie-in?
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There is supposed to be a new terminal (not sure?), the new Thor hero (based on the gladiator stuff from the movie) and costumes but they are on hold indefinitely it seems. PSBlog had them scheduled for 27th October but they removed all traces of the packs.
 
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GrimDarkDarrel

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For anyone not following Marvel Heroes subreddit and official forums, the writing is pretty clearly on the wall now.

The official general discussion forum was already full of threads about the end, and today Doomsaw started posting under his old account, but not from the perspective of having returned to the company. Essentially he's blatantly using his old staff account, and after what he recently posted on the Marvel Heroes sub about their CEO (Dave Dohrmann before his name change), there is no way in hell he could have been rehired there.

Expect an official announcement from the company within the week I think.

Edit: He's not even being subtle about it anymore.
 
Hoya Destroyer

Hoya Destroyer

Member
Doomsaw coming back in like that seems a bit unprofessional, but it was good to see his name again.
I jumped on tonight for the first time in a long time. It was ok. Everything was as I remembered it. There still seemed to be a reasonable amount of people in the hub and Cosmic Midtown. If the game had done a better job of promoting the Danger Room missions, I think it would've been more popular.
 
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Dec

Member
Also posting this here since I'm not sure there is a Marvel Heroes thread on the other site. This stuff will likely never come out, but it is what they were working on before everything went to shit.

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-Around mid-October they added the costume closet, Omega items, and updated the tagging system (among other things), but there was no follow up since AgentVapor left.

-Spider-Woman and Odinson are on the current whitelist build, but they contain placeholders and powers do not work (as of Internal build: 1.0.7087.0 CL: 493218.)

-Whitelist Patch notes (of Oct build, I believe):
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Baron_Calamity

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Thats a bummer but maybe, just maybe, the whole thing implodes and someone comes in and takes over. I doubt it but I'm trying to be a little optimistic.
 
JSoup

JSoup

Banned
I got my platinum a few hours ago, switching to the much better PC version if I feel the need to play more.
 
Newk86

Newk86

Member
This game has local couch multiplayer correct? But I also understand that it is a free-to-play, micro-transaction type of game; aka the type of game that I usually avoid. What are the chances that a stand-alone version of the game gets released once the servers and service is shut down I wonder? Kind of like an Ultimate Alliance style package. Anyone think this could potentially happen?
 
TimFL

TimFL

Member
Newk86 said:
This game has local couch multiplayer correct? But I also understand that it is a free-to-play, micro-transaction type of game; aka the type of game that I usually avoid. What are the chances that a stand-alone version of the game gets released once the servers and service is shut down I wonder? Kind of like an Ultimate Alliance style package. Anyone think this could potentially happen?
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No because barely any logic is handled on the client itself. It‘s all server side. They‘d have to either ship a heavily modified local server with the game client or completely rewrite the game.
 
Hoya Destroyer

Hoya Destroyer

Member
An Omega difficulty trial? If the emphasis is still on DPS, rather than survival (due to the clock), then Im sure I wont enjoy it.
I remember hearing about that costume equipping system ages ago. I generally support anything that gives me more stash space.
 
TimFL

TimFL

Member
Hoya Destroyer said:
An Omega difficulty trial? If the emphasis is still on DPS, rather than survival (due to the clock), then Im sure I wont enjoy it.
I remember hearing about that costume equipping system ages ago. I generally support anything that gives me more stash space.
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They probably reused parts of the old costume system the game had during the closed betas. That one was perfect in terms of layout/UI. Sucks that they went cashgrab and replaced it with the one we have now.
 
gioGAF

gioGAF

Member
So happy I did not jump in. I was cautioned by many people about the direction this game was headed and told to avoid it.

No Silver Surfer for console release just cemented my decision.
 
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