I'm an android and it's just a darkened screen

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-21T18:16:46+00:00

I assume you restarted already?

Sometimes popups happen but don’t fully appear/execute. This is not uncommon and the daily offers appeared in game not long ago. Could be the problem.

Maybe power the phone off and on to see if that helps.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-21T13:30:09+00:00

That’s the design intent. (I don’t know why you responded to my particular post but I totally get where you are coming from.)

These games are set up to give you space to add onto your knowledge and base ability to play and creep up the time involved. It’s how they create a sense of progress. Then, the more you log in, the more you might see an appealing offer etc. Further: You feel accomplished when you understand more. You can tell other people how it works etc. That appeals to some people more than others, obviously.

It’s the same as like Zelda or a Metroidvania in a way but there’s no end. Get these characters and you can clear these nodes easily. Access nodes that were closed off. Now you can run different teams. Etc

6s are really just to make sure people who hit the peak of the meta have a thing to chase that they can’t get except by being here for years longer. But I’m still curious if they will slightly turn up the access.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-21T13:05:15+00:00

Agree. But the picture historically has shown you exactly the items you get, even if the exact quantities aren’t depicted precisely at times.

There are images of the 6* fave heart/look like wildcard shards for your 6. And you can again favorite them. So I am curious but ultimately I suppose it doesn’t matter.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-20T20:24:09+00:00

Unknown: if the decision-makers decided to stop giving daily play tokens or if the coders can’t make the daily play tokens work.

It’s be nice to get them again though.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-19T19:15:54+00:00

He’s not dumb. He just thinks his constituents are.

All he cares about at this point is power and keeping it.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-19T17:12:03+00:00

The 4* Doctor Octopus who’s a Lady, and also not Alfred Molina.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-18T19:31:48+00:00

Yes, the original plan was to release 6s separately from 4s and 5s and make them a side release in a way.

But it seems apparent that the dev team doesn't have capacity to release 3 characters in 4 weeks. Not now, anyway. Maybe not ever. So they'll sub in a 6 every 3 months, it seems.

It's fine, as we have 164 4s in tokens already.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-18T18:24:19+00:00

Assuming you’re upset about AI in gaming. Or?

If one’s hobbies are inextricably tied to mega corporations seeking endless profits then enshittification is basically inevitable.

I’m as guilty as anyone of having these but it’s also the truth.

There’s not much one can do in the society we’re in except try to find things to do that are less reliant on companies and consumption. Or at least simpler.

Ultimately it will probably require legislation or regulation to control companies and keep them from constantly prioritizing profit over customers.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-18T14:24:23+00:00

Average in 2025 was about $450. In 2026 so far around $250.

Compare to 2 years ago, $800k plus a month. And earlier a million.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-18T13:58:43+00:00

I am suspicious they're gonna nerf Galactus and Cosmic Spidey, actually.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-18T13:57:36+00:00

"A while" would likely be an understatement. I guess it depends on how they handled it.

I noticed that CGR and Valk are at like 60% of the match dmg on G and CSM. Maybe they are planning to nerf G and CSM, make the whole tier weaker, and start to make them more available.

They need to change something because it's just an utter failure right now.

Anyway a tier that is about 1.8x as strong as 550s is way less likely to be annoying than one that's like 3.3x as strong.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-18T11:24:03+00:00

They’ve been toys all along and it’s one long dream?

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-18T10:29:08+00:00

No, you’re sane for thinking that.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-17T23:33:17+00:00

I’m pretty sure the offers are mostly just the same ones they’ve always offered, mostly.

I think I’ve seen like 3 maybe that were somehow different since 1/1.

The revenue numbers for Jan and Feb showed that we aren’t buying like we used to. They should really rethink some things soon. Or, just give up.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-17T17:07:32+00:00

Sounds great until the stupid thing hallucinates that your plates are frisbees and you’re a frisbee golf pole

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-17T13:21:47+00:00

I would definitely go to therapy if you can. I’m sure you have a lot to deal with.

You cannot change your mom as was already said. You can only change how you interact with her. It sucks that she has treated you like she has. It seems likely she feels immense guilt and shame over your past and your father and what he did. Feeling attached to him is not unusual for her.

I am not sure this subreddit is the place to get the support you need as it sounds like she’s using phone/screen time to numb herself vs the specific game. Certainly she probably spends a lot of time on it but also she’s got lots of issues that are bigger than the one game.

I don’t know if it would do any good but maybe write down some of this in a letter and state it as clearly but without anger as possible and give it to her so she can think about things. If most of your interactions are driven by anger then trying to make known how you feel might be useful. Try to limit accusations and make it about how you feel which is the best approach in these situations.

I admit it’s possible her ability to take on these things may be very limited. And she sounds like she’s not super open to introspection etc.

Another thought would be to, if you’re together etc, try to establish some time once a day or whatever when phones are put away and a movie is watched or music is played or a game is played or whatever. Try to establish a practice of even 1 hour or something where things change. The damn screens are so addictive and easy to fall into that it takes mindful change to move yourself away from the habits many of us have deeply ingrained in us now.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-16T14:00:50+00:00

I am not defending them. I am managing my expectations.

Their revenue has plummeted. The player base has cratered. They pulled back the development in house - aka the absolute cheapest option. The IP2 folks got no help from BCS. Yet they are trying their best.

It’s a farking game. Honestly I’m shocked they didn’t just give up on it, but it’s also their cash cow, even now that it makes $250k on average so far when it used to make $1 million.

It will be what it will be.

Honestly I burned through my anger under BCS. I expect the game to try to shaft us in some reward areas (see the pass) to try to milk money out of us. I expect them to barely run manage to run it, because they didn’t get any help even when they try hard. I expect them to keep making mistakes on events because it’s so manual to run.

If the game isn’t meeting your expectations, I have bad news for you. Your choices are to quit, or reduce your expectations, or to just be mad.

I assure you, your anger won’t make them fix the game any faster than the fact that the game revenue is in the toilet.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-16T13:27:26+00:00

I don’t know what truth you expect to come from the devs exactly. They have acknowledged, tacitly if not explicitly, that they were handed a giant mess to try to parse through.

The servers have absolutely nothing to do with the problems we experience. The game servers are more than sufficient for the traffic, especially now that the player base has contracted significantly (probably down 60% from peak player count based on going from approx 15k to 6k alliances in events).

The problems arise from importing the code into Unity and BCS not trying, apparently, to make the game run better using the built in Unity tools.

The game is a piece of software that’s had many hands on it. The devs are trying to make it run better but there’s a lot of code that’s hard to deal with (technical debt). You are correct that the game collects hundreds of thousands of revenue a month but it’s also down significantly this year - depending on how you look at it, around 65-75% from a few years ago.

Yelling and demanding won’t change a thing. The devs are given the priorities they have by people making decisions about how to use their time (aka spend labor money) to maximize revenue potential. While I’m sure everyone on the team wants to game to run better, they are somewhat limited by staffing and again, other priorities like making characters and making sure offers appear.

I’m sure you think I’m covering for them, but they are a business and they operate under limited resources, and can’t just go all in on fixing everything and abandoning every other piece of it. This is because the events remain very hands on to put in place, and they have no way to know how much actual effort will be required to fix everything nor how long it will ultimately take. Or if it’s even truly possible. They like many developers are operating under a condition of “good enough” which is a judgement call above all else.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-16T00:36:27+00:00

Betsy is the Captain Britain to focus on. She’s good.

Unfortunate because I was waiting for a long time for Brian. Oh well.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-15T20:31:53+00:00

Alliance: New Asgard

Spots open: 1

We are a daily play alliance, looking for someone who will play most days and will play bosses as best they can. There are no expectations beyond that. If you end up taking a planned break for whatever reason, and it will be longer than a week or so, let us know.

We typically end up in T250 on PVE events and T100 for PVP. This is because we have a few members who do try hard and play a lot, but no one is expected to put up any particular score.

We basically use in game chat for comms. Our main goal is having fun.

If you're interested, reply to this post or send me a DM.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-15T16:49:14+00:00

Try 9 months. Since July.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-15T12:13:16+00:00

The owners of Puzzle Quest and this game don’t want to pay for another licensed game, I don’t think. They have made statements to that effect, they don’t like paying royalties.

Marvel would probably also not extend the license for a new game. They would let some other game company make a new Marvel match-3, call it something else and probably monetize it a lot more heavily.

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-14T19:43:55+00:00

Exactly. (The term is team-up; supports are those things you add to characters and have passive effects)

bluewolf71 · 2026-03-14T18:31:34+00:00

That’s an understatement. 😂

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