I feel like they should stop running that ad that says “Can’t drop hundreds of dollars and get all of the cards? We made a game where you can’t do that!” Cause you totally can now
Yeah just by buying a lot of gold you can split so many of your cards and your collection level can go up like crazy which is also tied to how you can get so many cards.
That's literally the only way you can get 'all the cards' The point of this game was that you're not supposed to own every card but every new card release is what the streamers and youtubers show off, and you want to try out what theyre playing as well. And most of the time a new card release is completely busted. Though, we haven't had anything completely busted lately, but Arishem and Red Hulk were way up there. War Machine change is insane and I bet a lot of people who skipped on him have FOMO now. They release bundles that trick you into thinking theyre good offers. The other month had a $100 bundle that barely gave anything but it had two spotlight keys. That's a 50% chance to get the new card for $100. If you already own the other cards or get a variant you don't want thats even worse. A single spotlight key through the CL progression is about 5000 credits worth of card upgrades/splits. Those cheaper bundles are actually better. But then again, you get tempted to buy a bundle because its a good offer because you might get a future card that you might like. I understand the comparison to a real life card game like MtG. You don't own everything and you spend a good chunk of cash for a single good deck. It just makes no sense considering I don't truly own these cards. Its a digital game, and like Regis said, it really like custom game modes and fun stuff. I understand it costs money to develop a game, and it also costs money to commission artists, and to host a game, and to test it, and to even use the Marvel IP. But how much of the profit is really going back to the players? I really enjoy the game. I quit a couple months ago cause I really did not like the update that added purchasable borders. Practically $10 to make 1 of my cards have a cool border? That's insane knowing that I do not truly own this game and I can lose my progress at any moment. I still think its a cool concept and the rewards adding emotes and soon borders to the season pass is a nice touch, but that's also $10 a month. To effectively enjoy the game you pay $60 a year. It's not that bad, but the social features of the game are trash. Alliances suck and just only got added after 2 whole years. That's why people like to play with their fav youtubers and watch them.
I asked the devs about that in the Discord. Shockingly, they didn't respond to my question 🙃 I'm no law expert but doesn't this count as like false advertising or something lol
While I understand that Dan Hipp's variant of Silver Surfer may look goofy on first sight, if you actually look at the angle of his legs, there's a 27 degree angle at his crotch, which means the leg is 4 inches longer which is accounted for perfectly in the curvature of the front leg.
Regis hit the nail on the head with returning players. I returned for symbiote spider man, had fun with him, and then dropped the game again because I felt like I could never catch up again.
You absolutely can catch up (if you buy the season passes). I skipped the summer of 2023 and feel like I’m not missing out on anything in the game. I’m missing a few cards but I took the time to get the stuff I actually wanted to play and I enjoy it. I never hit infinite before I stopped, but I have twice since I returned. Using Thor decks I like, actually.
@@alexbelmonte4581 The card acquisition rate is abysmal for anything above series 3. Unless second dinner starts rapidly dropping card series or at the very least implements a pity system for the spotlight cache, I won't be coming back. I scraped together 3 spotlight cache keys for Madam web, and I didn't get her AND I got a dupe to rub more salt on the wound. Beyond ridiculous. 1,000 tokens is not nearly enough to justify getting a series 4 or 5 dupe. Game is fun, don't get me wrong, but card collection is a huge part of card games for me and this just ain't it.
@@jamicassidy7955that doesn’t fit the definition of a pity timer at all. A pity timer is when your luck is so bad on loot boxes that it eventually reaches a point where you have 100 percent chance of getting a card. With the current system you use a key and get a chance at a group of featured cards, similar to those collector kids toys. Your example is essentially saying that having more money at a casino is a pity timer because you have more chances of winning.
When he was talking about the funding for the game i thought he was going to say "they got 100 million dollars, and we got Deadpool's Dinner" i love the gameplay, but the only way i get to enjoy it is by watching Regis videos. I got to that 'mid player' status, took a little break to play other games. came back and realized its impossible to be a returning player. tried a few times and each time im further behind, and somehow there are more new currencies to learn about and grind for. its one of the big red flags of gatcha games when they have a ton of different currencies, and Snap has fallen into that same predatory model.
This is why Regis is my favorite Snap creator. He's honest and transparent about his views on the game. I fell into that middle area of players he talked about where you're just dripfed new cards over literal weeks and months and it's awful. After I completed pool 3, I'd say it got even worse because I don't want to pay for season passes when I dislike actions the devs are taking with the game, but it puts me so far behind everyone else. I'm losing out on currency, spotlight caches, etc. Every day I don't play the game the devs punish me by making it harder and harder to come back to. I want to like Snap for many of the reasons Regis does, but the progression NEEDS major buffs if not a rework to get players like me back into the game (but what're the chances of that happening? SD would need to actually be pro consumer for once). Edit: I press play on the video and Regis outlines these exact grievances lmao. Returning players have it hard as hell.
This is me, too. I recently came back, and although it's still fun, and I want to love it, it feels so bad right now! This game tries to nickel and dime you so bad and just doesn't respect your time. Even just the annoying daily quests instead of weekly quests is just insulting.
Soooo I stopped playing Snap about 6 months ago. I felt so discouraged that I couldn't keep up with card collection without spending money,. It just got so frustrating trying to build decks missing so many cards.. And even the daily play requirements to get tokens/gold as freetoplay felt like a chore. But I still love the game and love watching Regis' videos!
If they would just allow us to pick cards from Spotlight Caches or prevent us from being able to pick the same cards we already have it sucks, for a whole month I am getting duplicates
Man you really nailed it. I was coming from the middle group when I quit. The most frustrating part is planning out my keys for new cards or a variant I wanted, and ending up having to use 4 keys to get what I want. It just left a bad feeling that impacted my emotional health. So I had to quit. I wish there was some kind of assurance from using my keys. Select 1 to be a confirmed pull on your 3rd key. Or make a free selected pull after 20 keys. At least I know what to expect.
I don't think there's a decision they regretted more in Hearthstone than Dungeon Run. It sucked people out of the competitive model of the game which pulled steam out of the engine for people to buy cards, and also you didn't even need to buy cards to play the modes, making that issue way worse. They stopped after a few expansions of it after they realized and tried to reconcile the format while reintroducing competition/card buying with Duels, but even that eventually fell to the wayside. I'm just saying with Ben Brode, the literal lead designer of Hearthstone at the helm, I doubt they'll make a move like that again, especially given that the ONLY new content we've gotten in snap is even MORE competitive modes than even the normal ranked ladder, being Conquest and Deadpool's Diner.
Hey regis I watched the vid and that was great analysis of the state of marvel snap4. I want to share my experience as one of the "middle players". Basically I play snap by watching you and Bynx. Playing it myself is not fun because of the bots and i'm forced to play conquest in order to play against people (and i don't like the long format of that). Why the bots? well after returning to the game after 4/5 seasons, I found myself in level 10 and I know I can meet players at around level 30. I did the grind against bots the first time I played the game. Doing it again is not fun. It's supposed to be a game I pop when I need some distraction in line/metro/toilet... Sorry I rambled a lot but my point is, it's not accessible to new/returning players.
I feel this entire comment. Coming back after a break is the worst because you are so far down on top of missing a whole slew of cards, and tokens are still low as hell on the collector track. I got lucky on my spotlight keys and got some cards I never had before that I wanted(US AGENT, and Sage, Arena as well), but still cannot stand the spotlight keys and the collector track "rewards"
My favourite is when i have gone through 10 chests and gotten nothing but gold tickets, tokens and titles. I am around the 14,000 collection level. I would appreciate more variants myself.
My issue right now is, no new game modes. Economy is sustainable as a season pass/gold pass player. Balance changes happen often enough meta isn’t too bad (this one if you hate Hela) but really I’d be interested in any new way to play the game….deadpool dinner doesn’t count
it doesn't suck now, its better than its ever been. it has a lot to improve on like regis has said, but anyone who says it sucks just got bored. no card game is perfect neither is this game.
The game is technically better than it ever was. Especially with balance, feels more fair now. New cards are also 1000x easier to obtain than they used to be. People just always need something to complain about. Sure the game has a lot of room for improvement but saying it's gone to shit is just being a baby.
Actually new players experience the best part of Marvel Snap, opening chest, getting a lot of new cards for free, trying new decks and new strategies. The worst part begins when you finish pool 3 and realize that there are something like 50 strong cards out there that you have no idea how to get other than gambling on those stupid spotlights
Also a lot of what people say about how good the game used to be is just from them being in the process of acquiring all the series 3 and below cards. The game is more fun when you're always getting new cards I wont lie, but that experience is still there in the game. People mistake being in the endgame experience for the game changing. Around when the game launched, after you finished series 3 you'd get a new card like once a month if you were lucky.
I got my friend to start playing Marvel Snap. He is a long-time magic and hearthstone player. It's been a little over 3 months, and he has already quit. He reached the middle point of Marvel Snap and just said screw this. They really need to change things with the progression, or the player base is going to die.
I also had a stretch of like 3 weeks where my spotlight key unlocked the new card every time. It was quite exhilarating. I am very excited for draft mode to come out. I agree that card acquisition has become difficult even playing every day.
It's brutal. 1k tokens for a random s4/s5 spotlight blows too. Feel like I pull that every other week and it's always a card I've had for over a year. Here's 1k tokens. Smh
Meta is shifting so fast, targeting specific cards is pointless because by the time you get to buy the same card to dominate, it is no longer in the meta and it is nerfed...
I have been playing it for around a month and a half. Got to vibranium rank and 1.3k collection. Best mobile game that I’ve pretty much ever played. It’s definitely a crawl rn and I still absolutely love the game but… it hurts a bit when constantly play against cards like ultron - patriot but if I wanted to play WITH them I would either 2 very different methods. option 1: Play for luck, do ally and weekly missions to keep growing collection lvl. (Prolly spend about another month grinding for collector tokens.) Option 2: Spend 4.5 hours of my life working to make $50 and buy it. I understand it but I agree, there needs to be some middle play retention. Absolute BANGER video Regis, one out for you dude.
I was apart of that core group. Then i ran into money issues and could only afford the base season pass for a few months, and went on a stretch of two months without getting a new card due to spotlight cache luck, and it has caused me to fade out. I love this game. I want to spend money on cool cosmetics because i love it. But ive stopped logging daily because i dont have bearly any of the cool new cards i want. And now ive fallen behind. And for someone who has spent hundreds of hours and dollars on this game, that really, really sucks.
im collection level 7.6k with $0 spent and i feel that u nailed my feelings about the game perfectly, its so so fun but also so disheartening to see how far behind u fall every time new cards come out, i get about 1 spotlight key per week, and generally i spend it and never save more than 2, because the thing that keeps me going is the want for new cards. but man it SUCKS when u dont get the cards u want, this spotlight i was missing all 3 cards, i wanted sage or arana, had 1 key cus i needed 2 to pull madame web and i got ms marvel. shes a new card which is cool but it sucks missing out on cards that u really wanted and know u might not see again for half a year. almost dropped the game twice now bc of that, hoping for some kind of better system at some point soon
As one of those mid-range players, something definitely needs to be done. 5 New cards come out a month, and I'm lucky if I get 1. I've finished series 3 and now I have to slog my way through collectors tokens. Pretty much burnt out.
What i find that is insane is the random series 4/5 card can be one you already had and you just get a couple thousand collectors tokens. That, gold tickets in reserves, titles, avatars and pixel variants are intentionally undesirable to make people feel like they have to make purchases to get thing's they want. Single variants should not be worth $40 especially when not a single penny goes to the artists unless they commisioned the variant themselves, but the majority they take from variant comic covers. It does not feel like their goal is to make people happy with them. Series 5 cards should move to series 4 based on time and not how good the card is because that is basic pay to win mechanics
I quit Snap 6 months ago. Just found the progression system exhausting to keep on top of. Once I realized that was affecting my enjoyment of the game I moved on.
This was a great change of pace in my opinion! As a longer time player, I’ve felt a little drained after being denied infinity several seasons. That said, just getting to hear your thoughts not fully tied to your gameplay and strategy was great 🔥🔥🔥
Nah, that Silver Surfer is utter ass. This coming from a player who generally enjoys Dan Hipp...aaaand SIlver Surfer is one of, if not my most liked archetype
Reg, I know there's always the joke about you being a genius, but seriously, thanks for this video. It's nice to see someone giving some honest and critical evaluation of a game that is both fun yet financially taxing on lots of its players. Your insight is spot on.
I'm definitely feeling the hitting walls and slowing to a crawl problem with the progression and I've been playing for a while, I enjoy the game but FUCK it turns into an absolute slog to get the cards I want and then I miss out on them, I refuse to pay for the season pass because money is very tight right now.
the other problem with being a middle player is constantly going up against decks that are just fully complete, everything the deck needs is in the list. Im sitting here with a dozen decks that are missing key pieces, venom, nimrod, hazmat, taskmaster, shuri, the list goes on. Losing with those decks to players that have fuller collections really really really sucks. And then what am I gonna do? Wait until one of the 5 random systems randomly gives me a random card that i need? Which will still probably put my deck at 80% complete rather than 70....
I'm not trying to insult you or anything but, Lol not even a series 3 complete you think you're a middle player?, you're just a beginner. Just try to get cards for decks that you want the most at first, you'll be more competitive and have more fun instead of just whining.
i feel that, but you should also not look at what RUclipsrs and Streamers do for their decks. You don't 'need' 12 specific cards to make a deck work. You can always find a replacement. But if you lack something it clearly sucks. I've played since Day 1 and don't have Knull, so it very much discourages me from playing high output destroy decks. Weeks when he is a spotlight have cards I dont want, so I just don't play destroy. But if destroy was one of the top decks I would be so angry to not have him. For example, this season despite having all the meta cards. I decided not to play the meta, it seemed boring. And I played an extremely anti-meta deck with Shadow King, Shang Chi, Mobius, Sera, Enchantress. It took me all the way to Infinite with basically only pool 3 cards (with some exceptions like mobius). And that's the problem the game has. Its hard to have fun cause whats fun is what costs money.
@@cloudd6535I feel like that’s what they’re describing? Also, Snap players mostly fall into the camp of not being S3 complete. Kinda feels like the definition of a middle player since you’re still getting S4 and S5 while you’re completing S3
@onescenewonder8904 Really really make sure you like the game before committing (unless you’re F2P) because I completed S3 and had three decks ready to go before two got nerfed out of viability and one was not fun for the next several metas that came after I made it. I didn’t realize just how much the “normal” game was just the snap and how you manage the cubes to climb, and I realized I preferred a larger deck size so missing a card wasn’t as detrimental
The best you can do is try to target cards that can build decks around them like Arishem, Loki and High Evo... Easy way to be semi competitive to climb the ladder and collect rewards.
I think that the people that get treated THE WORST are the returning players, like you mentioned in the video. I returned after a couple of months at a CL 3k+ and saw all those Spotlight keys thar counted as redeemed but when I redeemed them they were regular caches that gave me trash like titles or profile pictures. It felt HORRIBLE
I'm reaching that middle ground and its getting annoying. I feel like the algorithm intentionally puts you up against decks that are hard counters to your deck if you have been successful for a few games in a row. Sometimes the bots that you play against take forever for their turn and I feel like its generating the the counter to what I just played. Like they play a card that would never be in the type of deck they are playing but it is the perfect card to kill what I just played. Also get rid of the gold tickets and credits from the collectors reserves. There are 9 boxes to open before every spotlight key. Make 3 of them collector tokens, 3 titles/avatars and the last three cards broken up into 1 unowned, 1 variant of an owned card that you don't have a variant of and lastly 1 of a variant from a collection that yoh have the least amount of. Change all the credit drops from 50 to 100 along the path.
I started about a week ago and have to say I feel the sluggishness of pool 3. In pool 1 and 2 you got cards constantly an now it’s sometimes. Plus the matches are starting to be against people on the 700-800 range will I’m at 490ish. Feeling like my pool 3 cards are lacking.
Middle player here who fell off about a year ago. I've thought about coming back but I know I could never catch up... so I enjoy the game vicariously through your videos now!
Regis I appreciate your rant. I don’t like the collection progression style! There’s no “dust” currency. I loved hearthstone because I could play any deck if I really really wanted. Just dust stuff to make the deck. But I’ve been trying to get venom to complete my destroy deck for literally 2 years and I haven’t gotten it yet. Wtf! 2 years and I still don’t have a series 3 card?!How am I supposed to enjoy these new cards if there’s a very real possibility that I’ll never experience them unless I grind for literally years. This ain’t a 401K dammit! It’s a video game!!!!
As a "seasoned" F2P player in different genres, I am actually quite enjoying Marvel Snap. I like playing fun decks, I really enjoy anticipation when I search for options to complete my "dream" deck, and for everything else, I just watch your videos. The best feeling is when in the video you play decks that I can fully assemble! It wouldn't be the same if I am able to assemble decks from every video you post, so that is something special, like winning a lottery (but more often, maybe once every other month or so) I think the game is about having funny moments and making the plays for me. I dont really care how many cubes total I have or which level I get (60-90 rank level, never even tried to get Infinite, AL 6690) I totally understand your and other people's sentiment here about the game, but just wanted to share my positive personal experience of (I assume) mid level player.
I had no idea Snap got some funding recently. In game it feels like they’re barely scraping by because of the lack of features and the constant bugs. Removing the double gold because they don’t like the economy meanwhile they dropped borders for 1K tokens and are still not dropping bundles for the small spenders is also very questionable to me. I remember the Aero bundle for £5 that I bought because of the price. I wish they’d do more. If inflation is their reasoning surely they could just make better bundles so more people buy them. It’s digital currency anyway. Also yeah that Surfer Hipp is awful
I went crazy hard into the game when it first released. For the first few months or so I was on top of anything the game was doing. After about half a year I dropped down to a super casual level, then just stop playing for a while. I came back after hearing about a new key word and I have been enjoying the game for the most part, but I am for sure in that middle category where I have most of series 3, some of series 4 and 5 but it feels like I am gonna have to play forever to get a lot of the powerful tech cards, especially since I am mostly free to play. Within the next year or two with them releasing new cards so rapidly, they are gonna have to make a way for new players to catch up with newer cards. I think big expansions like event is a great way they could accomplish this. Have a big bundle that will last for an entire season, and this bundle will give you one of the new season cards and specific variants for cards that would support them. For right now say there was a Madame Web/Araña season pack that gave you one of them and then gave a bunch of move cards that you wouldn't get until series 3 or beyond. Dagger, Human Torch, Hercules, and Ghost spider would be a great core and would easily compliment the cards you could get for move from series 1, 2 and early 3. Throw in some boosters and credits and maybe a card back and I feel like that would be a great bundle that you could build a lot of hype around and help build off the current season.
One of the hardest things for me has been the lack of a deck tracker. I play on mobile bc my MacBook won't play Snap on it. And while the Untapped mobile tracker is good for gathering stats, it's no comparison to remembering what you have left in deck and what cards your opponent has played.
I absolutely love your content. You are one of the few content creators that plays just to have fun. Watching you videos and see you laughing at crazy outcomes is why I keep coming back to your channel. I love the deck ideas and play along as I listen to you. Keep up the great work!! Regis IS KING!
I left Marvel Snap after the revamp to collector reserves specifically because I saw the writing on the wall for how difficult it was going to be to keep up with a collection. I check in on Regis videos occasionally because I’d honestly come back if they changed the model, but there’s no way I would until something changes. Kinda sad, but I’ve moved on.
They need to add a BattleRoyale/Draft mode quickly! to fix the beginner and middle group. So people can play with expensive cards and most imported learn how to use them before the invested it with there expensive currency's. Also RNG deck building is a lot of fun and is very attractive in most games. There are enough cards to play/build different deck archetypes with different setups. Would love to see that! Draft mode would also be ideal to play against friends in a fair way, And by the way, I am level 15000 now and I love the gameplay so much that I am very afraid of skipping a month and not being able to come back later because I missed some key cards. This is also a way to keep me attached,.... sadly
Marvel Snap will ignore all the writing on the wall intel the game becomes dead like gwent did in the past I hit infinite every time and I just stop playing at less seriously I’m returning player by the way and don’t nerf cards (kill them) let people deal with them and also don’t make broken battle pass card
SD could be significantly less greedy and still make a killing. I will say I'm just grateful there's no ads in the mobile app. That would drive me away for sure.
A lot of your past rants for the woes of the game at this state have encapsulated why I stopped playing. Please keep making these videos as I and many others ex-players are hoping for substantial changes to make coming back worth it.
I can’t fathom why they removed unlocking cards via collection reserves once you complete pool 3. That rush of dopamine after hitting a card you wanted for a while was worth the wait. If they reintroduced that with spotlight cache and tokens, it would somewhat speed up card acquisition. Not to mention the fact they haven’t dropped any cards to series 3 in months and when they do drop cards, it’s always cards that mostly suck in the meta or no one wants. When I finally unlock cards that allow me to play a ‘meta’ deck, it’s months too late and it’s no longer the meta. Incredibly frustrating.
I remember when I unlocked Knull in a collection reserve after playing for a couple weeks or months and it felt like hitting the jackpot. I haven't felt that feeling since. Now you just do the collection track so you can get a key so you can maybe unlock a new card that maybe helps you climb a little bit. You just get boosters and credits that makes the cycle repeat.
Don’t hate on Hipp surfer man. I love that one with the gold split. Pose a little goofy though I agree lol. I am a Hipp collector though so bias is real and I’ll agree it’s not one of the better ones but the gold split looks 🔥 on it
Spot on. I remember as a new player I thought the game seemed very generous for a f2p because I was getting new cards all the time. And then it came to a halt. I think I was like 4500-5000CL before I was series 3 complete. The person who I imagine has the worst experience possible is someone who takes any time away from the game for any time at all.
I stopped opening reserves for a while because I had held onto a small hope that they'd reverse course and make them good again, and I have accepted they won't at this point. But now I have SO MANY saved up, going back all the way to when they originally nerfed them, that I just can't be bothered to deal with how long it takes to do the opening for each individual one.
I have my frustrations with Marvel Snap and I want it to get better but it is a fact that I keep on playing it, I'd be inconsolable if they let this game die for no reason.
I think the issue is we already had Todd McFarlane Spiderman (Symbiote) variant.... Also the Scarlet Spider variant... Not sure what made you say that though 🤷🏽♂️
The point at 20:00 is very interesting. I quit the game cause I hated the custom borders update. I did not think it was correct to make the borders so expensive and then exclusive to a card. Either make them significantly cheaper, or make them expensive but an infinite use. I came back to the game cause I saw the Deadpool Diner update. I grinded that and really enjoyed it. Anyway, when I returned to the game there was a special offer for me. 'Copycat' for $20 with some boosters and credits. It was a great deal, I liked her design. So I bought her. She's one of my most played cards right now because I like how she works. She's not the best but I enjoy it and I think that matters. But that's all they offered me as a returning player. $20 for the new card. Had I not done that I would've felt like I was in the same place when I left and that is a huge issue. I had FOMO cause I did not get Arishem but I had enough tokens to buy him in the shop one day. And a card like his had me wondering. This unique of a card should've been its own game mode. Both players have Arishem and they play against each other with random decks but get extra energy. And I think SD made a huge mistake making him a card instead of a gamemode.
I get that progression is seen as a big problem and the one thing that the game really misses is a System that supports returing players and maybe a system that allows players to test out a new card/one that you dont currently own, so people can be smarter about where to spend thier resources. I know that sounds crazy and you likey will hate me for saying that, but: The long term base progression, even is thou it is slightly frustrating, i think is pretty well balanced. Even thou its sounds weird, I think people underestimate what a little frustration can do for player engagement. I am unsure if Marvel Snap hit the sweetspot or not, the truth is at some point the progression really slows down, i think around CL 1.000, and its at least like 6-7 months now before you will be Series 3 complete. But its not like you dont progress at all, you are still get around 2-3 series 3 Cards every week if you are an active player. At least i remeber that i was excitet about every time i might get a new card. I feel like it is much easier, to overwelm someone if you give him to many things at once, that is for card aquisition as well as new card releases. I actually think the fact that new cards get introduced in this small but very consistent manner, is something that makes this game so much more casual friendly as like a game with entiere set-releasese like heathstone. Dont get me wrong, set-releases are super exicting, but not everyone likes looking at like 140 cards in beforehand to understand them and theorize about several completely new Deck types that must get proven in an envioment of a totally new Metagame. Marvel snaps Meta feels like its flowing, sure there are some jumps, but in MOST CASES (not all) its not like one archetype gets axed off or one rises out of nothing to the top. I rambled on for long enough, i think marvel snaps is a unique game with its own niche. not perfect by any means. The point i wanted to make is: "the progression might be fine". I can see why player retenion might need an improvement, but especially for returnig players.
I began playing Marvel Snap on a whim during the Loki season (basically a month or so before the first anniversary). I've done pretty well as far as card acquisition and such, but I am still missing a few cards. When my friends ask if I should play, I tell them no. I explain card acquisition and after they get over the sugar high of series 1-3, it's a crazy grind and money sink at this point. For players playing over a year or so, card acquisition isn't so bad. I can't image starting today and seeing so many great cards paywalled. Snap needs to transition to allowing new(ish) players to acquiring cards without spending huge money. They can do random packs of series 4 or 5 cards for a price. They can begin dropping cards in series. They can ease up on the cost of tokens (lol). This game is insanely expensive if you want to have cards and are new. For reference, I buy the season pass and some bundles / gold every month if it makes sense, which is about 15-30 bucks a month.
I'm kinda in the middle here to, the spotlight caches were cool but it's kinda annoying when your missing card n there's a chance to get it but you end up getting a variant which is frustrating.
As someone who is both... and I don't know how to explain it, I guess as someone who is both really good and not good at all at the game (I ladder to usually the 80's and 90's, I've made Infinite once), I struggle with wanting to be competitive and ladder while also not wanting to just netdeck and grab one of the Top 20 decks that the Meta is clearly showing are the best. I'm stuck in this position where I want to be competitive but I don't wanna do it the way that the game has shown itself as the way to BE competitive. That's why I want them to put in more game modes. Draft modes where you're forced to create a deck randomly, maybe a tier list where you create decks but you can't use any of the Top 50 played cards, but also not have those rewards be shitty in comparison to just hitting the ladder.
I already collected all series 3 cards so will I get series 4 cards from collector reserved? Cus I open a lot all are tokens, tickets, variant and credits
No. Series 4 and 5 are unlocked through Spotlights. Collector reserves only have the things you said. It is best to save some collector reserves however for series drops. Where they release old unpopular series 4,5 to series 3.
Really appreciate the honest take on the State of the Game. I joined the game before GA, and loved it. Built up a decent collection but didn't have every card just yet. When they changed the progression/collection model it became too pay-to-play. Not even necessarily pay-to-win. New cards come out all the time exclusively in Series 4/5, stopped joining the more accessible Series pools. I got tired of getting paywalled out of the game, you couldn't even try new deck archetypes without their MVP cards. I didn't even feel viable as a monthy-sub-paying player.
17000 CL SP Buyer, Been playing since global release and I share alot of this sentiment. Seems like its almost on the downswing already. I def have found myself playing less and less since the Diner. Turn that 100M into a feature that isn't 'taking away resources because it breaks the economy'
One of the issues everyone i have suggested play snap have complained about is the matchmaking. So i created a new account a while ago and just play it super casually. Collection score is about 4k, never hit inf, highest rank ever maybe.....85? I queued 10 matches in a row lastnight and actually inspected each profile. Every single one was highest rank inf, collection score on ALL TEN was 15k-25k. so an account which has never been beyond 80/85 and collection score is around 3900, being matched constantly against far, FAR higher ranked players. Sometimes people just want to casually play an unusual deck to try out some different cards, and with ZERO pve option its kind of shit. They could at least add a bot/pve mode for people to just try out wierd combos and play for fun instead of ranks.
Man, I am unlucky on getting new cards. Me being a new creator and trying to do a weekly video on new cards is literally killing me. I am just lucky that I have friends that are willing to lend me their accounts if I missed on getting a new card 😂
About that middle section of players, there's a pretty crazy thing that happens when you hit collection level 3000, you start getting matched with anyone no matter the collection level (I am not talking about infinite rank, I expect to play meta decks and very good players in there, I love that competition I have grinded to top 500) But in conquest even proving grounds, I am matched with people with 10k++ cl constantly, there are so many cards I don't have, I don't want to limit myself to play my 1 or 2 competitive deck all the time. If I try my shitty discard deck with half the cards missing I have no chance at all. This plus the slow acquisition of cards is really discouraging from trying new decks and having fun playing the game. It's clear this company is more focused on making money than making a good game sadly. I really hope we see a draft mode where every player has equal footing.
Maybe someone can answer something for me. A friend of mine got me into marvel snap and I've been playing it for 4 months, have spent a considerable amount of money into it and I'm finding it a bit frustrating. Now he's close to have the collection completed (missing 15 or 17 cards or something like that) and he's telling me that maybe because he's nearly completed, new cards are dropping even less frequently. He evolved his connection level by 300 and someone points without a new card. Is that a thing? Coz if IT IS a thing, I think that's where snap and I part ways
I played a good bit when Snap first came out. Recently decided to pick it up again and I've been so disappointed with how limited my collection is. What's worse is when I go against players who do have good collections. I don't know if I have more than a couple series 4/5 cards, but I recently played against a full War Machine deck.
As someone who started playing literally 2 days before the Deadpool dinner ends and now at CL 1200 it's extremly frustrating and boring having to face the same decks over and over and having to run the same team over and over, destroy (without knull or X23) zoo (just kazar blue marvel spectrum) the collectors reserve (while I don't mind the credits) giving profile pics and titles is such BS basically to get a new card every 9 reserve, I really don't mind if series 4 and 5 are hard to get, but series 3 shouldn't be this hard to come by.
Because of work I barely had time to play during the Deadpool event. But I managed to get Cassandra Nova on the last day. About a couple weeks later I use a spotlight key and guess who I get... The same thing happened with Kate Bishop. I bought the season pass and during the new season, currently, I use a spotlight key and get Kate Bishop from the mystery card 😑😑😠 I hate the RNG
I was in the core older player category (made the account on soft launch) and had to stop playing because I was developing addictive behavior. I was spending too much time playing, if I missed a day that's a key I might not get for a card I want in the future and if, I kept rationalizing putting more money into the game.. I play a lot of video games but this is the first one I can categorically say the game itself was unhealthy for me. I deleted my account and some months later when I got the itch I started another one which I quickly dropped because god forbid going through all that again.
Game just has absolutely nothing exciting going for itself. Still only has one game-mode since the release, card acquisition is slow af, exciting updates don't exist, u know in advance which cards u will get, getting a duplicate is catastrophically punishing, token acquisition is painfully slow, there is no returning player catch up mechanic, series drops are a myth... I'm sick of idiots who play the game daily since the release trying to defend it when a returning player complains about terrible experience they had, like stfu man, u have no idea how bad it is. I've been playing this game on and off since the release, only deck i could ever build is destroy, everything else was out of question... There hasn't been one time I've seen a fun deck and had all the cards for it. I'm missing like 4 cards on average for any deck... This game needs AT LEAST a draft mode, this is getting unbearable.
Near 20k CL player here and been playing since the Black Panther season and I've been fading quite a bit. I'll be honest: when Pokemon Pocket comes out I'm probably quiting snap. Somewhat unfortunately I know once I lose interest and miss a month I know I'm gone for good... the FOMO works for and again the game.
Too many cards sit in Series 4/5 for too long and almost feel unreachable. I quit during Season 23 (Baron Zemo) because I started falling behind on new card releases getting extremely unlucky with Spotlight Caches needing 3-4 keys just to get the new cards. By the time even the high powered and sought after cards are available to non-whales, they're nerfed into the ground and not as exciting.
I'm a middle player, which is a good way to describe it, and I feel like no matter what I do I'm never earning enough rewards to play what I want to play. By the nature of the unlock system I'm essentially blocked from meta chasing because I don't have War Machine, which is fine I'll just play something else, but I'm short one card from every deck list I see online, and that just feels bad. Cards on the shop are definitely too expensive, and you earn collector's tokens way too infrequently.
Thanks for talking about progression. This game is TRULY greedy. Mayyybeee (highly unlikely) they do something more forgiving with card unlocks and overall progression if content creators talk about it more often.
Just realized I wasn’t subbed. My bad. I’ve been watching for over a year and just assumed I was. Even thought I was 🤔. Hopefully the RUclips mystery unsub thing didn’t happen.
I've definately hit that wall. Still in the beginning of pool 3 and pretty recently transitioned from the caches to the reserves and my card aquisition has crawled to a halt. It's also pretty frustrating not being able to try pretty much all of the meta archetypes because I just don't have most of those cards, and in general while I have gotten a few good series 3 cards so far, most haven't been. Like I've gotten Silver Surfer, which is pretty good, but only because of the monlthly free series 3. When it comes to what I've actually been unlocking, stuff like M'Baku, Sentry, and Falcon feel pretty useless. Even just something like adding an additional game mode, like the deck drafting sort of thing I've seen on youtube, could be a cool way to let players have the chance to use cards they don't have in their collection yet.
I'm still relatively new to the game so I don't think I've quite hit that middle ground that you spoke about. For instance, I'm still getting new cards (Series 3 cards) through regular progression but they seem to be coming fewer and far between. I have found it frustrating dealing with the whole Spotlight Keys situations though... there have been a few times now that I really wanted to get that new card and spend 2-3 keys and still don't get it. Thankfully, some of the other cards included in those spotlight caches are cards that I still don't have but I can imagine how frustrating it will be as my collection grows. The new cards are Series 5 now right? So I wonder why Second Dinner hasn't started letting Series 4 cards be acquired through regular progression (or maybe they have?). All in all, I enjoy the game but think I'm almost to that middle ground you spoke of. I hope they figure it out though because it is still an enjoyable game.
I've been waiting for about a month for the Dan Hipp War Machine as it's the last card I need to complete the Move Your Hipps collection and I'm not sure it's ever going to arrive. I still enjoy playing the game generally but there are too many things I can unlock that I have no interest in... Borders - Don't care Titles - Don't care Boosters - Don't care (I'll just use the card and earn boosters that way) Gold Tokens A nice single player mode would be fun.
Ya its basically impossible for me to recommend the game to anyone anymore. Im kind of just waiting till i run out of keys to stop playing anymore. And its 100% because of the card acquisition. If it take a break i will never catch up again to the point that im at. Also my CL is 13k+ just for reference. I looooove the gameplay but when a game starts to feel like you have to play a little everyday to keep up thats when I move on. Thanks for the thoughts Regis! You're my favorite snap creator!
I watch this yesterday and laugh at that Dan Hipp Surfer…today I get the Premium Mystery Variant from the Conquest rewards and it’s the Dan Hipp Surfer. 🤬
Just opened 100 reserves (my first time ever, because I like watching Regis do it) sadly my rewards were underwhelming, lots of pixels and tokens. But hey, that's something..
I started playing in may I’m at collection level 4200 now and honestly I’m still ok with the game. I admit I’ve bought some of the bundles with season 5 cards to get tokens and gold. For awhile before those came out I was getting frustrated because there were so many pool 3 cards that I didn’t have and the reserves weren’t giving me I kept getting tittles which I hate and avatars which i dont want. Honestly I have no problem getting to infinite since I started playing but this season it seems now I kept getting matched with people who have a CL of 25k and even though I have a couple meta decks I get wiped easy I don’t have legion or war machine I kept running into those storm decks yea I had super skrull but they have so many cards that once I got to 97 I started getting hit by these decks that I can’t really win against 10k-25k CL I shouldn’t be playing against those decks to get to infinite only earning a card back isn’t worth it for me honestly. I feel like we should only play CL comparative to ours no way I should go from hitting infinite in 3 days last season to I haven’t hit it yet this season with a week left
I cant keep coming back to this game after months long breaks because trying to get new cards is brutal. I wish there was a system that prioritizes giving cards over Titles and Avatars for people who do not play consistently? Hearthstone has duplicate protection on the packs, so when the mini-set came out I could use free to play packs and get new cards immediately. If I play Snap, it might be 45min before I open a new card.
Quite possibly the single least new-player friendly game on the market. As soon as you click the "Play" button, everything seems fine.. but everything before that is absolute lazy, moneygrabbing dogshit.
New card acquisition is tough- but enticing people with things they don't have drives the monetization. I'm CL ~6000 and generally can play most meta decks with maybe a couple modifications. I buy the season pass but typically nothing else, and this is the only mobile game I spend money on at all. I think the game is fun as long as you don't expect to have every new card
I feel like they should stop running that ad that says “Can’t drop hundreds of dollars and get all of the cards? We made a game where you can’t do that!” Cause you totally can now
yeah, the irony its insane
Yeah just by buying a lot of gold you can split so many of your cards and your collection level can go up like crazy which is also tied to how you can get so many cards.
That's literally the only way you can get 'all the cards'
The point of this game was that you're not supposed to own every card but every new card release is what the streamers and youtubers show off, and you want to try out what theyre playing as well. And most of the time a new card release is completely busted. Though, we haven't had anything completely busted lately, but Arishem and Red Hulk were way up there. War Machine change is insane and I bet a lot of people who skipped on him have FOMO now. They release bundles that trick you into thinking theyre good offers. The other month had a $100 bundle that barely gave anything but it had two spotlight keys. That's a 50% chance to get the new card for $100. If you already own the other cards or get a variant you don't want thats even worse. A single spotlight key through the CL progression is about 5000 credits worth of card upgrades/splits. Those cheaper bundles are actually better. But then again, you get tempted to buy a bundle because its a good offer because you might get a future card that you might like.
I understand the comparison to a real life card game like MtG. You don't own everything and you spend a good chunk of cash for a single good deck. It just makes no sense considering I don't truly own these cards. Its a digital game, and like Regis said, it really like custom game modes and fun stuff. I understand it costs money to develop a game, and it also costs money to commission artists, and to host a game, and to test it, and to even use the Marvel IP. But how much of the profit is really going back to the players?
I really enjoy the game. I quit a couple months ago cause I really did not like the update that added purchasable borders. Practically $10 to make 1 of my cards have a cool border? That's insane knowing that I do not truly own this game and I can lose my progress at any moment. I still think its a cool concept and the rewards adding emotes and soon borders to the season pass is a nice touch, but that's also $10 a month. To effectively enjoy the game you pay $60 a year. It's not that bad, but the social features of the game are trash. Alliances suck and just only got added after 2 whole years. That's why people like to play with their fav youtubers and watch them.
@@darkrai455kind if true. They don't state this but after you get all of pool 3 you have to buy pool 4 and 5 cards. He's getting pool 3 variants.
I asked the devs about that in the Discord. Shockingly, they didn't respond to my question 🙃 I'm no law expert but doesn't this count as like false advertising or something lol
While I understand that Dan Hipp's variant of Silver Surfer may look goofy on first sight, if you actually look at the angle of his legs, there's a 27 degree angle at his crotch, which means the leg is 4 inches longer which is accounted for perfectly in the curvature of the front leg.
I recorded this so long ago, you're lucky I remembered the gag haha.
I'm so mad, I read this before the video and thought he was serious
Regis hit the nail on the head with returning players. I returned for symbiote spider man, had fun with him, and then dropped the game again because I felt like I could never catch up again.
You absolutely can catch up (if you buy the season passes). I skipped the summer of 2023 and feel like I’m not missing out on anything in the game. I’m missing a few cards but I took the time to get the stuff I actually wanted to play and I enjoy it. I never hit infinite before I stopped, but I have twice since I returned. Using Thor decks I like, actually.
@@alexbelmonte4581 The card acquisition rate is abysmal for anything above series 3. Unless second dinner starts rapidly dropping card series or at the very least implements a pity system for the spotlight cache, I won't be coming back. I scraped together 3 spotlight cache keys for Madam web, and I didn't get her AND I got a dupe to rub more salt on the wound. Beyond ridiculous. 1,000 tokens is not nearly enough to justify getting a series 4 or 5 dupe. Game is fun, don't get me wrong, but card collection is a huge part of card games for me and this just ain't it.
That’s me rn. I’m trying so hard to grind and play my ass off with this archetypes but it’s so hard when every single release is a Series 5
The fact that there is no pitty timer and u can get no cards for very long Time is Just sad
The spotlight system that replaced the pity timer is a better way to acquire cards. Pity timer card acquisition took forever.
@@OzoneGamerStationwhy not have both?
The 'pity timer' is just save 4 keys per month and use them on a spotlight with 3 new cards. A terrible system but it is what it is.
@@jamicassidy7955that doesn’t fit the definition of a pity timer at all. A pity timer is when your luck is so bad on loot boxes that it eventually reaches a point where you have 100 percent chance of getting a card. With the current system you use a key and get a chance at a group of featured cards, similar to those collector kids toys. Your example is essentially saying that having more money at a casino is a pity timer because you have more chances of winning.
The fact the spotlight is still an annoying scrolly thing is just sad. I dont want to collect everything one by one.
When he was talking about the funding for the game i thought he was going to say "they got 100 million dollars, and we got Deadpool's Dinner"
i love the gameplay, but the only way i get to enjoy it is by watching Regis videos. I got to that 'mid player' status, took a little break to play other games. came back and realized its impossible to be a returning player. tried a few times and each time im further behind, and somehow there are more new currencies to learn about and grind for.
its one of the big red flags of gatcha games when they have a ton of different currencies, and Snap has fallen into that same predatory model.
The thing is they didn’t “fall” into it, it was and still is a conscious decision to monetize this way.
I play every day, and at some point I had almost every card. Now I'm also further behind every month just because I don't buy the game pass.
As a middle player, I’m SO glad I spent 3 keys on Arishem. He’s kind of a game-saver for me.
This is why Regis is my favorite Snap creator. He's honest and transparent about his views on the game. I fell into that middle area of players he talked about where you're just dripfed new cards over literal weeks and months and it's awful. After I completed pool 3, I'd say it got even worse because I don't want to pay for season passes when I dislike actions the devs are taking with the game, but it puts me so far behind everyone else. I'm losing out on currency, spotlight caches, etc. Every day I don't play the game the devs punish me by making it harder and harder to come back to. I want to like Snap for many of the reasons Regis does, but the progression NEEDS major buffs if not a rework to get players like me back into the game (but what're the chances of that happening? SD would need to actually be pro consumer for once).
Edit: I press play on the video and Regis outlines these exact grievances lmao. Returning players have it hard as hell.
This is me, too. I recently came back, and although it's still fun, and I want to love it, it feels so bad right now! This game tries to nickel and dime you so bad and just doesn't respect your time. Even just the annoying daily quests instead of weekly quests is just insulting.
Soooo I stopped playing Snap about 6 months ago. I felt so discouraged that I couldn't keep up with card collection without spending money,. It just got so frustrating trying to build decks missing so many cards.. And even the daily play requirements to get tokens/gold as freetoplay felt like a chore. But I still love the game and love watching Regis' videos!
Remember getting up to 200 gold or 300 tokens in the caches
Right, man good times. It was fun saving
i miss the good old days
If they would just allow us to pick cards from Spotlight Caches or prevent us from being able to pick the same cards we already have it sucks, for a whole month I am getting duplicates
Yeah, I also remember when not *every* new card was SERIES 5.
300 tokens? i come form a time where 400 was guranteed and shortly after changed to 200-600 before it was gutted even more
Man you really nailed it. I was coming from the middle group when I quit. The most frustrating part is planning out my keys for new cards or a variant I wanted, and ending up having to use 4 keys to get what I want. It just left a bad feeling that impacted my emotional health. So I had to quit.
I wish there was some kind of assurance from using my keys. Select 1 to be a confirmed pull on your 3rd key. Or make a free selected pull after 20 keys. At least I know what to expect.
They need a single player mode. Something similar to Hearthstone with a journey and story behind a certain character which ends in an epic fight.
Agree, 100%
I think they found a gamemode in the metadata that's speculated to be PvE since the snap mechanic is disabled
I don't think there's a decision they regretted more in Hearthstone than Dungeon Run. It sucked people out of the competitive model of the game which pulled steam out of the engine for people to buy cards, and also you didn't even need to buy cards to play the modes, making that issue way worse. They stopped after a few expansions of it after they realized and tried to reconcile the format while reintroducing competition/card buying with Duels, but even that eventually fell to the wayside.
I'm just saying with Ben Brode, the literal lead designer of Hearthstone at the helm, I doubt they'll make a move like that again, especially given that the ONLY new content we've gotten in snap is even MORE competitive modes than even the normal ranked ladder, being Conquest and Deadpool's Diner.
Hey regis I watched the vid and that was great analysis of the state of marvel snap4. I want to share my experience as one of the "middle players". Basically I play snap by watching you and Bynx. Playing it myself is not fun because of the bots and i'm forced to play conquest in order to play against people (and i don't like the long format of that). Why the bots? well after returning to the game after 4/5 seasons, I found myself in level 10 and I know I can meet players at around level 30. I did the grind against bots the first time I played the game. Doing it again is not fun. It's supposed to be a game I pop when I need some distraction in line/metro/toilet... Sorry I rambled a lot but my point is, it's not accessible to new/returning players.
I feel this entire comment. Coming back after a break is the worst because you are so far down on top of missing a whole slew of cards, and tokens are still low as hell on the collector track.
I got lucky on my spotlight keys and got some cards I never had before that I wanted(US AGENT, and Sage, Arena as well), but still cannot stand the spotlight keys and the collector track "rewards"
Bro I love playing bots. Makes completing the daily missions so easy
My favourite is when i have gone through 10 chests and gotten nothing but gold tickets, tokens and titles. I am around the 14,000 collection level. I would appreciate more variants myself.
Same dude. Literally same spot as you. Credits, boosters, and gold tickets. One variant every 100 levels, if I'm lucky
they are so greedy man.
i refuse to open chests unless i need gold tickets. i haven't played a non gold+ conquest since the change and still have a bank of chests.
My issue right now is, no new game modes. Economy is sustainable as a season pass/gold pass player. Balance changes happen often enough meta isn’t too bad (this one if you hate Hela) but really I’d be interested in any new way to play the game….deadpool dinner doesn’t count
it sucks being a new player seeing people talk about how marvel Snap sucks now. It's like you missed a joke and everyone is laughing.
it doesn't suck now, its better than its ever been. it has a lot to improve on like regis has said, but anyone who says it sucks just got bored. no card game is perfect neither is this game.
@@vega7106You are right. People are easy to get bored. But I still enjoy the game just for fun, even though I don't have all the cards yet.
The game is technically better than it ever was. Especially with balance, feels more fair now. New cards are also 1000x easier to obtain than they used to be. People just always need something to complain about. Sure the game has a lot of room for improvement but saying it's gone to shit is just being a baby.
Actually new players experience the best part of Marvel Snap, opening chest, getting a lot of new cards for free, trying new decks and new strategies. The worst part begins when you finish pool 3 and realize that there are something like 50 strong cards out there that you have no idea how to get other than gambling on those stupid spotlights
Also a lot of what people say about how good the game used to be is just from them being in the process of acquiring all the series 3 and below cards. The game is more fun when you're always getting new cards I wont lie, but that experience is still there in the game. People mistake being in the endgame experience for the game changing. Around when the game launched, after you finished series 3 you'd get a new card like once a month if you were lucky.
I got my friend to start playing Marvel Snap. He is a long-time magic and hearthstone player. It's been a little over 3 months, and he has already quit. He reached the middle point of Marvel Snap and just said screw this. They really need to change things with the progression, or the player base is going to die.
I also had a stretch of like 3 weeks where my spotlight key unlocked the new card every time. It was quite exhilarating. I am very excited for draft mode to come out. I agree that card acquisition has become difficult even playing every day.
It's brutal. 1k tokens for a random s4/s5 spotlight blows too. Feel like I pull that every other week and it's always a card I've had for over a year. Here's 1k tokens. Smh
Meta is shifting so fast, targeting specific cards is pointless because by the time you get to buy the same card to dominate, it is no longer in the meta and it is nerfed...
@@travismaz9304 Some tech savvy people should check the code to that because it's almost always a duplicate card
anecdotally, being in an alliance has shown me that there are successful lower collection level players just quietly playing with their piles of cards
I have been playing it for around a month and a half. Got to vibranium rank and 1.3k collection. Best mobile game that I’ve pretty much ever played. It’s definitely a crawl rn and I still absolutely love the game but… it hurts a bit when constantly play against cards like ultron - patriot but if I wanted to play WITH them I would either 2 very different methods. option 1: Play for luck, do ally and weekly missions to keep growing collection lvl. (Prolly spend about another month grinding for collector tokens.) Option 2: Spend 4.5 hours of my life working to make $50 and buy it. I understand it but I agree, there needs to be some middle play retention. Absolute BANGER video Regis, one out for you dude.
Does it count as ironic that Dan Hipp apparently can't draw hips?
Or arms, legs, faces, lol
It’s his art style- which is also why that surfers legs looks so weird
I was apart of that core group. Then i ran into money issues and could only afford the base season pass for a few months, and went on a stretch of two months without getting a new card due to spotlight cache luck, and it has caused me to fade out.
I love this game. I want to spend money on cool cosmetics because i love it. But ive stopped logging daily because i dont have bearly any of the cool new cards i want. And now ive fallen behind. And for someone who has spent hundreds of hours and dollars on this game, that really, really sucks.
im collection level 7.6k with $0 spent and i feel that u nailed my feelings about the game perfectly, its so so fun but also so disheartening to see how far behind u fall every time new cards come out, i get about 1 spotlight key per week, and generally i spend it and never save more than 2, because the thing that keeps me going is the want for new cards. but man it SUCKS when u dont get the cards u want, this spotlight i was missing all 3 cards, i wanted sage or arana, had 1 key cus i needed 2 to pull madame web and i got ms marvel. shes a new card which is cool but it sucks missing out on cards that u really wanted and know u might not see again for half a year. almost dropped the game twice now bc of that, hoping for some kind of better system at some point soon
How r u able to have 18collectors keys and only buy the pass and the daily gold? I’m struggling so much with getting enough keys.
As one of those mid-range players, something definitely needs to be done. 5 New cards come out a month, and I'm lucky if I get 1. I've finished series 3 and now I have to slog my way through collectors tokens. Pretty much burnt out.
What i find that is insane is the random series 4/5 card can be one you already had and you just get a couple thousand collectors tokens. That, gold tickets in reserves, titles, avatars and pixel variants are intentionally undesirable to make people feel like they have to make purchases to get thing's they want. Single variants should not be worth $40 especially when not a single penny goes to the artists unless they commisioned the variant themselves, but the majority they take from variant comic covers. It does not feel like their goal is to make people happy with them. Series 5 cards should move to series 4 based on time and not how good the card is because that is basic pay to win mechanics
Funny thing, I just made a post on Reddit about opening _500_ Reserves and how poorly I thought they were. The subreddit has not taken it well.
It's Reddit... What do you expect?
I stopped using the marvel snap reddit. like most reddits its a toxic cesspool.
I quit Snap 6 months ago. Just found the progression system exhausting to keep on top of. Once I realized that was affecting my enjoyment of the game I moved on.
This was a great change of pace in my opinion! As a longer time player, I’ve felt a little drained after being denied infinity several seasons. That said, just getting to hear your thoughts not fully tied to your gameplay and strategy was great 🔥🔥🔥
Nah, that Silver Surfer is utter ass. This coming from a player who generally enjoys Dan Hipp...aaaand SIlver Surfer is one of, if not my most liked archetype
Same
Reg, I know there's always the joke about you being a genius, but seriously, thanks for this video. It's nice to see someone giving some honest and critical evaluation of a game that is both fun yet financially taxing on lots of its players. Your insight is spot on.
I'm definitely feeling the hitting walls and slowing to a crawl problem with the progression and I've been playing for a while, I enjoy the game but FUCK it turns into an absolute slog to get the cards I want and then I miss out on them, I refuse to pay for the season pass because money is very tight right now.
the other problem with being a middle player is constantly going up against decks that are just fully complete, everything the deck needs is in the list. Im sitting here with a dozen decks that are missing key pieces, venom, nimrod, hazmat, taskmaster, shuri, the list goes on. Losing with those decks to players that have fuller collections really really really sucks. And then what am I gonna do? Wait until one of the 5 random systems randomly gives me a random card that i need? Which will still probably put my deck at 80% complete rather than 70....
I'm not trying to insult you or anything but, Lol not even a series 3 complete you think you're a middle player?, you're just a beginner. Just try to get cards for decks that you want the most at first, you'll be more competitive and have more fun instead of just whining.
i feel that, but you should also not look at what RUclipsrs and Streamers do for their decks. You don't 'need' 12 specific cards to make a deck work. You can always find a replacement. But if you lack something it clearly sucks. I've played since Day 1 and don't have Knull, so it very much discourages me from playing high output destroy decks. Weeks when he is a spotlight have cards I dont want, so I just don't play destroy. But if destroy was one of the top decks I would be so angry to not have him.
For example, this season despite having all the meta cards. I decided not to play the meta, it seemed boring. And I played an extremely anti-meta deck with Shadow King, Shang Chi, Mobius, Sera, Enchantress. It took me all the way to Infinite with basically only pool 3 cards (with some exceptions like mobius). And that's the problem the game has. Its hard to have fun cause whats fun is what costs money.
@@cloudd6535I feel like that’s what they’re describing? Also, Snap players mostly fall into the camp of not being S3 complete. Kinda feels like the definition of a middle player since you’re still getting S4 and S5 while you’re completing S3
@onescenewonder8904 Really really make sure you like the game before committing (unless you’re F2P) because I completed S3 and had three decks ready to go before two got nerfed out of viability and one was not fun for the next several metas that came after I made it. I didn’t realize just how much the “normal” game was just the snap and how you manage the cubes to climb, and I realized I preferred a larger deck size so missing a card wasn’t as detrimental
The best you can do is try to target cards that can build decks around them like Arishem, Loki and High Evo... Easy way to be semi competitive to climb the ladder and collect rewards.
I think that the people that get treated THE WORST are the returning players, like you mentioned in the video. I returned after a couple of months at a CL 3k+ and saw all those Spotlight keys thar counted as redeemed but when I redeemed them they were regular caches that gave me trash like titles or profile pictures. It felt HORRIBLE
Hey! You found my title! I got the "cellmate says hi," and I'm like, yup, that's it. 😂
(And, yeah, that Dan Hipp Surfer is horrible.)
I'm reaching that middle ground and its getting annoying. I feel like the algorithm intentionally puts you up against decks that are hard counters to your deck if you have been successful for a few games in a row. Sometimes the bots that you play against take forever for their turn and I feel like its generating the the counter to what I just played. Like they play a card that would never be in the type of deck they are playing but it is the perfect card to kill what I just played.
Also get rid of the gold tickets and credits from the collectors reserves. There are 9 boxes to open before every spotlight key. Make 3 of them collector tokens, 3 titles/avatars and the last three cards broken up into 1 unowned, 1 variant of an owned card that you don't have a variant of and lastly 1 of a variant from a collection that yoh have the least amount of. Change all the credit drops from 50 to 100 along the path.
I started about a week ago and have to say I feel the sluggishness of pool 3. In pool 1 and 2 you got cards constantly an now it’s sometimes. Plus the matches are starting to be against people on the 700-800 range will I’m at 490ish. Feeling like my pool 3 cards are lacking.
Middle player here who fell off about a year ago. I've thought about coming back but I know I could never catch up... so I enjoy the game vicariously through your videos now!
Regis I appreciate your rant. I don’t like the collection progression style! There’s no “dust” currency. I loved hearthstone because I could play any deck if I really really wanted. Just dust stuff to make the deck. But I’ve been trying to get venom to complete my destroy deck for literally 2 years and I haven’t gotten it yet. Wtf! 2 years and I still don’t have a series 3 card?!How am I supposed to enjoy these new cards if there’s a very real possibility that I’ll never experience them unless I grind for literally years. This ain’t a 401K dammit! It’s a video game!!!!
Pretty much stopped playing after finding out, I can't get New cards anymore in the standard caches. Sad. Was a fun game.
Regis "Not a big baby guy" Killbin
As a "seasoned" F2P player in different genres, I am actually quite enjoying Marvel Snap. I like playing fun decks, I really enjoy anticipation when I search for options to complete my "dream" deck, and for everything else, I just watch your videos. The best feeling is when in the video you play decks that I can fully assemble! It wouldn't be the same if I am able to assemble decks from every video you post, so that is something special, like winning a lottery (but more often, maybe once every other month or so)
I think the game is about having funny moments and making the plays for me. I dont really care how many cubes total I have or which level I get (60-90 rank level, never even tried to get Infinite, AL 6690)
I totally understand your and other people's sentiment here about the game, but just wanted to share my positive personal experience of (I assume) mid level player.
I love how even non-haters of Dan Hipp can’t help but… notice his style peculiarities
I had no idea Snap got some funding recently. In game it feels like they’re barely scraping by because of the lack of features and the constant bugs. Removing the double gold because they don’t like the economy meanwhile they dropped borders for 1K tokens and are still not dropping bundles for the small spenders is also very questionable to me. I remember the Aero bundle for £5 that I bought because of the price. I wish they’d do more. If inflation is their reasoning surely they could just make better bundles so more people buy them. It’s digital currency anyway.
Also yeah that Surfer Hipp is awful
I went crazy hard into the game when it first released. For the first few months or so I was on top of anything the game was doing. After about half a year I dropped down to a super casual level, then just stop playing for a while. I came back after hearing about a new key word and I have been enjoying the game for the most part, but I am for sure in that middle category where I have most of series 3, some of series 4 and 5 but it feels like I am gonna have to play forever to get a lot of the powerful tech cards, especially since I am mostly free to play. Within the next year or two with them releasing new cards so rapidly, they are gonna have to make a way for new players to catch up with newer cards. I think big expansions like event is a great way they could accomplish this. Have a big bundle that will last for an entire season, and this bundle will give you one of the new season cards and specific variants for cards that would support them. For right now say there was a Madame Web/Araña season pack that gave you one of them and then gave a bunch of move cards that you wouldn't get until series 3 or beyond. Dagger, Human Torch, Hercules, and Ghost spider would be a great core and would easily compliment the cards you could get for move from series 1, 2 and early 3. Throw in some boosters and credits and maybe a card back and I feel like that would be a great bundle that you could build a lot of hype around and help build off the current season.
One of the hardest things for me has been the lack of a deck tracker. I play on mobile bc my MacBook won't play Snap on it. And while the Untapped mobile tracker is good for gathering stats, it's no comparison to remembering what you have left in deck and what cards your opponent has played.
I absolutely love your content. You are one of the few content creators that plays just to have fun. Watching you videos and see you laughing at crazy outcomes is why I keep coming back to your channel. I love the deck ideas and play along as I listen to you. Keep up the great work!! Regis IS KING!
I left Marvel Snap after the revamp to collector reserves specifically because I saw the writing on the wall for how difficult it was going to be to keep up with a collection. I check in on Regis videos occasionally because I’d honestly come back if they changed the model, but there’s no way I would until something changes. Kinda sad, but I’ve moved on.
They need to add a BattleRoyale/Draft mode quickly! to fix the beginner and middle group. So people can play with expensive cards and most imported learn how to use them before the invested it with there expensive currency's. Also RNG deck building is a lot of fun and is very attractive in most games. There are enough cards to play/build different deck archetypes with different setups. Would love to see that!
Draft mode would also be ideal to play against friends in a fair way, And by the way, I am level 15000 now and I love the gameplay so much that I am very afraid of skipping a month and not being able to come back later because I missed some key cards. This is also a way to keep me attached,.... sadly
Marvel Snap will ignore all the writing on the wall intel the game becomes dead like gwent did in the past I hit infinite every time and I just stop playing at less seriously I’m returning player by the way and don’t nerf cards (kill them) let people deal with them and also don’t make broken battle pass card
These videos are why I stopped buying anything beyond the Season Pass and have over 600 unopened reserves. It's just not worth it and needs addressed.
SD could be significantly less greedy and still make a killing. I will say I'm just grateful there's no ads in the mobile app. That would drive me away for sure.
12:00 Think of what Regina will say when she hears about this!
Series Drops!!! I understand they maybe can’t do it as frequently as they did at the start, but they essentially don’t do it at all.
A lot of your past rants for the woes of the game at this state have encapsulated why I stopped playing. Please keep making these videos as I and many others ex-players are hoping for substantial changes to make coming back worth it.
I can’t fathom why they removed unlocking cards via collection reserves once you complete pool 3. That rush of dopamine after hitting a card you wanted for a while was worth the wait. If they reintroduced that with spotlight cache and tokens, it would somewhat speed up card acquisition. Not to mention the fact they haven’t dropped any cards to series 3 in months and when they do drop cards, it’s always cards that mostly suck in the meta or no one wants. When I finally unlock cards that allow me to play a ‘meta’ deck, it’s months too late and it’s no longer the meta. Incredibly frustrating.
I remember when I unlocked Knull in a collection reserve after playing for a couple weeks or months and it felt like hitting the jackpot. I haven't felt that feeling since. Now you just do the collection track so you can get a key so you can maybe unlock a new card that maybe helps you climb a little bit. You just get boosters and credits that makes the cycle repeat.
Don’t hate on Hipp surfer man. I love that one with the gold split. Pose a little goofy though I agree lol. I am a Hipp collector though so bias is real and I’ll agree it’s not one of the better ones but the gold split looks 🔥 on it
Spot on. I remember as a new player I thought the game seemed very generous for a f2p because I was getting new cards all the time. And then it came to a halt. I think I was like 4500-5000CL before I was series 3 complete. The person who I imagine has the worst experience possible is someone who takes any time away from the game for any time at all.
I just forfeit my gold tickets. It gives me enough to buy a few things in shop.
I stopped opening reserves for a while because I had held onto a small hope that they'd reverse course and make them good again, and I have accepted they won't at this point. But now I have SO MANY saved up, going back all the way to when they originally nerfed them, that I just can't be bothered to deal with how long it takes to do the opening for each individual one.
I have my frustrations with Marvel Snap and I want it to get better but it is a fact that I keep on playing it, I'd be inconsolable if they let this game die for no reason.
Thanks for ruining that dan hipp Silver Surfer for me 🤣
It would be cool if caches had gold or could randomly give you an unowned card, even if a lower chance. Make it feel more worth it.
It was like that in the beginning. You could get a card from the cache..
Nice to hear someone at the top play base care/talk about the middle/bottom player base.
The Phoenix Force is to Jean Grey as the Symbiote is to Spider-Man
I think the issue is we already had Todd McFarlane Spiderman (Symbiote) variant....
Also the Scarlet Spider variant...
Not sure what made you say that though 🤷🏽♂️
There are many issues with Snap, but I'm still mad about the Destroyer change (nerf). They ruined the card for me
The point at 20:00 is very interesting. I quit the game cause I hated the custom borders update. I did not think it was correct to make the borders so expensive and then exclusive to a card. Either make them significantly cheaper, or make them expensive but an infinite use.
I came back to the game cause I saw the Deadpool Diner update. I grinded that and really enjoyed it.
Anyway, when I returned to the game there was a special offer for me. 'Copycat' for $20 with some boosters and credits. It was a great deal, I liked her design. So I bought her. She's one of my most played cards right now because I like how she works. She's not the best but I enjoy it and I think that matters.
But that's all they offered me as a returning player. $20 for the new card. Had I not done that I would've felt like I was in the same place when I left and that is a huge issue. I had FOMO cause I did not get Arishem but I had enough tokens to buy him in the shop one day. And a card like his had me wondering. This unique of a card should've been its own game mode. Both players have Arishem and they play against each other with random decks but get extra energy. And I think SD made a huge mistake making him a card instead of a gamemode.
I don’t know why but the 50 flying in the beginning made me laugh 😂
I get that progression is seen as a big problem and the one thing that the game really misses is a System that supports returing players and maybe a system that allows players to test out a new card/one that you dont currently own, so people can be smarter about where to spend thier resources.
I know that sounds crazy and you likey will hate me for saying that, but:
The long term base progression, even is thou it is slightly frustrating, i think is pretty well balanced. Even thou its sounds weird, I think people underestimate what a little frustration can do for player engagement. I am unsure if Marvel Snap hit the sweetspot or not, the truth is at some point the progression really slows down, i think around CL 1.000, and its at least like 6-7 months now before you will be Series 3 complete. But its not like you dont progress at all, you are still get around 2-3 series 3 Cards every week if you are an active player. At least i remeber that i was excitet about every time i might get a new card.
I feel like it is much easier, to overwelm someone if you give him to many things at once, that is for card aquisition as well as new card releases. I actually think the fact that new cards get introduced in this small but very consistent manner, is something that makes this game so much more casual friendly as like a game with entiere set-releasese like heathstone. Dont get me wrong, set-releases are super exicting, but not everyone likes looking at like 140 cards in beforehand to understand them and theorize about several completely new Deck types that must get proven in an envioment of a totally new Metagame. Marvel snaps Meta feels like its flowing, sure there are some jumps, but in MOST CASES (not all) its not like one archetype gets axed off or one rises out of nothing to the top.
I rambled on for long enough, i think marvel snaps is a unique game with its own niche. not perfect by any means. The point i wanted to make is: "the progression might be fine".
I can see why player retenion might need an improvement, but especially for returnig players.
I began playing Marvel Snap on a whim during the Loki season (basically a month or so before the first anniversary). I've done pretty well as far as card acquisition and such, but I am still missing a few cards. When my friends ask if I should play, I tell them no. I explain card acquisition and after they get over the sugar high of series 1-3, it's a crazy grind and money sink at this point. For players playing over a year or so, card acquisition isn't so bad. I can't image starting today and seeing so many great cards paywalled. Snap needs to transition to allowing new(ish) players to acquiring cards without spending huge money. They can do random packs of series 4 or 5 cards for a price. They can begin dropping cards in series. They can ease up on the cost of tokens (lol). This game is insanely expensive if you want to have cards and are new. For reference, I buy the season pass and some bundles / gold every month if it makes sense, which is about 15-30 bucks a month.
I'm kinda in the middle here to, the spotlight caches were cool but it's kinda annoying when your missing card n there's a chance to get it but you end up getting a variant which is frustrating.
As someone who is both... and I don't know how to explain it, I guess as someone who is both really good and not good at all at the game (I ladder to usually the 80's and 90's, I've made Infinite once), I struggle with wanting to be competitive and ladder while also not wanting to just netdeck and grab one of the Top 20 decks that the Meta is clearly showing are the best. I'm stuck in this position where I want to be competitive but I don't wanna do it the way that the game has shown itself as the way to BE competitive.
That's why I want them to put in more game modes. Draft modes where you're forced to create a deck randomly, maybe a tier list where you create decks but you can't use any of the Top 50 played cards, but also not have those rewards be shitty in comparison to just hitting the ladder.
I already collected all series 3 cards so will I get series 4 cards from collector reserved? Cus I open a lot all are tokens, tickets, variant and credits
No. Series 4 and 5 are unlocked through Spotlights. Collector reserves only have the things you said. It is best to save some collector reserves however for series drops. Where they release old unpopular series 4,5 to series 3.
@@2kDragon333 thank you
Really appreciate the honest take on the State of the Game. I joined the game before GA, and loved it. Built up a decent collection but didn't have every card just yet. When they changed the progression/collection model it became too pay-to-play. Not even necessarily pay-to-win. New cards come out all the time exclusively in Series 4/5, stopped joining the more accessible Series pools. I got tired of getting paywalled out of the game, you couldn't even try new deck archetypes without their MVP cards. I didn't even feel viable as a monthy-sub-paying player.
17000 CL SP Buyer, Been playing since global release and I share alot of this sentiment. Seems like its almost on the downswing already. I def have found myself playing less and less since the Diner. Turn that 100M into a feature that isn't 'taking away resources because it breaks the economy'
One of the issues everyone i have suggested play snap have complained about is the matchmaking. So i created a new account a while ago and just play it super casually. Collection score is about 4k, never hit inf, highest rank ever maybe.....85? I queued 10 matches in a row lastnight and actually inspected each profile. Every single one was highest rank inf, collection score on ALL TEN was 15k-25k. so an account which has never been beyond 80/85 and collection score is around 3900, being matched constantly against far, FAR higher ranked players.
Sometimes people just want to casually play an unusual deck to try out some different cards, and with ZERO pve option its kind of shit. They could at least add a bot/pve mode for people to just try out wierd combos and play for fun instead of ranks.
Man, I am unlucky on getting new cards. Me being a new creator and trying to do a weekly video on new cards is literally killing me. I am just lucky that I have friends that are willing to lend me their accounts if I missed on getting a new card 😂
About that middle section of players, there's a pretty crazy thing that happens when you hit collection level 3000, you start getting matched with anyone no matter the collection level (I am not talking about infinite rank, I expect to play meta decks and very good players in there, I love that competition I have grinded to top 500) But in conquest even proving grounds, I am matched with people with 10k++ cl constantly, there are so many cards I don't have, I don't want to limit myself to play my 1 or 2 competitive deck all the time. If I try my shitty discard deck with half the cards missing I have no chance at all.
This plus the slow acquisition of cards is really discouraging from trying new decks and having fun playing the game.
It's clear this company is more focused on making money than making a good game sadly.
I really hope we see a draft mode where every player has equal footing.
Maybe someone can answer something for me. A friend of mine got me into marvel snap and I've been playing it for 4 months, have spent a considerable amount of money into it and I'm finding it a bit frustrating. Now he's close to have the collection completed (missing 15 or 17 cards or something like that) and he's telling me that maybe because he's nearly completed, new cards are dropping even less frequently. He evolved his connection level by 300 and someone points without a new card. Is that a thing? Coz if IT IS a thing, I think that's where snap and I part ways
I played a good bit when Snap first came out. Recently decided to pick it up again and I've been so disappointed with how limited my collection is. What's worse is when I go against players who do have good collections. I don't know if I have more than a couple series 4/5 cards, but I recently played against a full War Machine deck.
As someone who started playing literally 2 days before the Deadpool dinner ends and now at CL 1200 it's extremly frustrating and boring having to face the same decks over and over and having to run the same team over and over, destroy (without knull or X23) zoo (just kazar blue marvel spectrum) the collectors reserve (while I don't mind the credits) giving profile pics and titles is such BS basically to get a new card every 9 reserve, I really don't mind if series 4 and 5 are hard to get, but series 3 shouldn't be this hard to come by.
Because of work I barely had time to play during the Deadpool event. But I managed to get Cassandra Nova on the last day. About a couple weeks later I use a spotlight key and guess who I get... The same thing happened with Kate Bishop. I bought the season pass and during the new season, currently, I use a spotlight key and get Kate Bishop from the mystery card 😑😑😠 I hate the RNG
I was in the core older player category (made the account on soft launch) and had to stop playing because I was developing addictive behavior. I was spending too much time playing, if I missed a day that's a key I might not get for a card I want in the future and if, I kept rationalizing putting more money into the game.. I play a lot of video games but this is the first one I can categorically say the game itself was unhealthy for me. I deleted my account and some months later when I got the itch I started another one which I quickly dropped because god forbid going through all that again.
Game just has absolutely nothing exciting going for itself.
Still only has one game-mode since the release, card acquisition is slow af, exciting updates don't exist, u know in advance which cards u will get, getting a duplicate is catastrophically punishing, token acquisition is painfully slow, there is no returning player catch up mechanic, series drops are a myth...
I'm sick of idiots who play the game daily since the release trying to defend it when a returning player complains about terrible experience they had, like stfu man, u have no idea how bad it is.
I've been playing this game on and off since the release, only deck i could ever build is destroy, everything else was out of question...
There hasn't been one time I've seen a fun deck and had all the cards for it. I'm missing like 4 cards on average for any deck...
This game needs AT LEAST a draft mode, this is getting unbearable.
Near 20k CL player here and been playing since the Black Panther season and I've been fading quite a bit. I'll be honest: when Pokemon Pocket comes out I'm probably quiting snap. Somewhat unfortunately I know once I lose interest and miss a month I know I'm gone for good... the FOMO works for and again the game.
Too many cards sit in Series 4/5 for too long and almost feel unreachable. I quit during Season 23 (Baron Zemo) because I started falling behind on new card releases getting extremely unlucky with Spotlight Caches needing 3-4 keys just to get the new cards. By the time even the high powered and sought after cards are available to non-whales, they're nerfed into the ground and not as exciting.
I'm a middle player, which is a good way to describe it, and I feel like no matter what I do I'm never earning enough rewards to play what I want to play. By the nature of the unlock system I'm essentially blocked from meta chasing because I don't have War Machine, which is fine I'll just play something else, but I'm short one card from every deck list I see online, and that just feels bad. Cards on the shop are definitely too expensive, and you earn collector's tokens way too infrequently.
If I hadn't bought Arishem, I would have given up playing Snap.
Thanks for talking about progression. This game is TRULY greedy. Mayyybeee (highly unlikely) they do something more forgiving with card unlocks and overall progression if content creators talk about it more often.
Just realized I wasn’t subbed. My bad. I’ve been watching for over a year and just assumed I was. Even thought I was 🤔. Hopefully the RUclips mystery unsub thing didn’t happen.
I've definately hit that wall. Still in the beginning of pool 3 and pretty recently transitioned from the caches to the reserves and my card aquisition has crawled to a halt. It's also pretty frustrating not being able to try pretty much all of the meta archetypes because I just don't have most of those cards, and in general while I have gotten a few good series 3 cards so far, most haven't been. Like I've gotten Silver Surfer, which is pretty good, but only because of the monlthly free series 3. When it comes to what I've actually been unlocking, stuff like M'Baku, Sentry, and Falcon feel pretty useless. Even just something like adding an additional game mode, like the deck drafting sort of thing I've seen on youtube, could be a cool way to let players have the chance to use cards they don't have in their collection yet.
I'm still relatively new to the game so I don't think I've quite hit that middle ground that you spoke about. For instance, I'm still getting new cards (Series 3 cards) through regular progression but they seem to be coming fewer and far between. I have found it frustrating dealing with the whole Spotlight Keys situations though... there have been a few times now that I really wanted to get that new card and spend 2-3 keys and still don't get it. Thankfully, some of the other cards included in those spotlight caches are cards that I still don't have but I can imagine how frustrating it will be as my collection grows. The new cards are Series 5 now right? So I wonder why Second Dinner hasn't started letting Series 4 cards be acquired through regular progression (or maybe they have?). All in all, I enjoy the game but think I'm almost to that middle ground you spoke of. I hope they figure it out though because it is still an enjoyable game.
I've been waiting for about a month for the Dan Hipp War Machine as it's the last card I need to complete the Move Your Hipps collection and I'm not sure it's ever going to arrive.
I still enjoy playing the game generally but there are too many things I can unlock that I have no interest in... Borders - Don't care
Titles - Don't care
Boosters - Don't care (I'll just use the card and earn boosters that way)
Gold Tokens
A nice single player mode would be fun.
Ya its basically impossible for me to recommend the game to anyone anymore. Im kind of just waiting till i run out of keys to stop playing anymore. And its 100% because of the card acquisition. If it take a break i will never catch up again to the point that im at. Also my CL is 13k+ just for reference. I looooove the gameplay but when a game starts to feel like you have to play a little everyday to keep up thats when I move on.
Thanks for the thoughts Regis! You're my favorite snap creator!
I watch this yesterday and laugh at that Dan Hipp Surfer…today I get the Premium Mystery Variant from the Conquest rewards and it’s the Dan Hipp Surfer. 🤬
Just opened 100 reserves (my first time ever, because I like watching Regis do it) sadly my rewards were underwhelming, lots of pixels and tokens. But hey, that's something..
I started playing in may I’m at collection level 4200 now and honestly I’m still ok with the game. I admit I’ve bought some of the bundles with season 5 cards to get tokens and gold. For awhile before those came out I was getting frustrated because there were so many pool 3 cards that I didn’t have and the reserves weren’t giving me I kept getting tittles which I hate and avatars which i dont want. Honestly I have no problem getting to infinite since I started playing but this season it seems now I kept getting matched with people who have a CL of 25k and even though I have a couple meta decks I get wiped easy I don’t have legion or war machine I kept running into those storm decks yea I had super skrull but they have so many cards that once I got to 97 I started getting hit by these decks that I can’t really win against 10k-25k CL I shouldn’t be playing against those decks to get to infinite only earning a card back isn’t worth it for me honestly. I feel like we should only play CL comparative to ours no way I should go from hitting infinite in 3 days last season to I haven’t hit it yet this season with a week left
I cant keep coming back to this game after months long breaks because trying to get new cards is brutal. I wish there was a system that prioritizes giving cards over Titles and Avatars for people who do not play consistently?
Hearthstone has duplicate protection on the packs, so when the mini-set came out I could use free to play packs and get new cards immediately. If I play Snap, it might be 45min before I open a new card.
Quite possibly the single least new-player friendly game on the market. As soon as you click the "Play" button, everything seems fine.. but everything before that is absolute lazy, moneygrabbing dogshit.
I have every Dan hipp available. I agree, the Silver Surfer Hipp is AWFUL.
Thankfully it's inked and makes it SLIGHTLY better 😭
New card acquisition is tough- but enticing people with things they don't have drives the monetization. I'm CL ~6000 and generally can play most meta decks with maybe a couple modifications. I buy the season pass but typically nothing else, and this is the only mobile game I spend money on at all. I think the game is fun as long as you don't expect to have every new card