{"id":22987,"date":"2013-07-03T01:24:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T08:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=22987"},"modified":"2013-09-01T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T19:40:06","slug":"marvel-heroes-get-tougher-and-tougher-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/07\/03\/marvel-heroes-get-tougher-and-tougher-to-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Heroes get tougher and tougher to quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"22987\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/getting_back_together.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/getting_back_together.jpg\" alt=\"getting_back_together\" width=\"600\" height=\"351\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22988\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The problem with ragequitting is that it&#8217;s hard to sustain rage, which makes it hard to sustain the quitting part.  Especially when you&#8217;re trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/06\/22\/marvel-heroes-developer-gazillion-owes-me-at-least-45\/\">quit<\/a> a game you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/06\/16\/heroic-gameplay-meets-villainous-free-to-play-in-marvel-heroes\/\">really like<\/a>.  For instance, I had no problem quitting SimCity.  I didn&#8217;t even like it enough to ragequit it.  I sadquit it.  Sadquitting is easy to sustain.  <\/p>\n<p>I ragequit Marvel Heroes because of an ill-timed server rollback (ill-timed in that I lost a rare drop).  But two things brought me back in last night, both announced in an email insidiously sent to those of us who&#8217;ve played the game.  The first thing is the beginning of rebalancing for almost all the characters&#8217; skill trees.  Initially, this means boosting defensive powers so characters bear up longer under attack.  I&#8217;m playing Iron Man and it&#8217;s like I&#8217;m tanking.  Which, frankly, feels kind of right.  The <a href=\"https:\/\/marvelheroes.com\/news\/patch-notes\/patch-notes-game-update-1100469\">patch notes<\/a> include plenty of details, but since the rebalancing is an ongoing thing in its early stages, the notes convey a slightly insipid &#8220;pardon our dust\/work in progress&#8221; vibe with &#8220;design notes&#8221; such as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Punisher has many improvements this patch and will continue to get improvements until he is extremely fun, has multiple builds and is the ultimate killing machine!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wolverine has been training in the Danger Room and has come out much stronger. He will continue to train until he has reached the max level of fun and powerful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, speaking of tanking with Iron Man, he went on sale.  That was the second thing mentioned in the email.  All the characters in this free-to-play game are on sale to varying degrees.  It&#8217;s about time.  The only thing more ridiculous than Gazillion charging $20 for Iron Man is some sucker paying $20 for Iron Man.  But now that he&#8217;s on sale for $15?  Heck, I spent that much seeing Iron Man 2, and I didn&#8217;t even like that movie!  So now, as the owner of a level 12 Iron Man who sits inside an energy shield and lets rip with a repulsor barrage that gratifyingly melts away the bad guys, I&#8217;m keenly aware ragequitting and sheepishreturning often go hand-in-hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-22987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-marvel-heroes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Marvel Heroes get tougher and tougher to quit - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/07\/03\/marvel-heroes-get-tougher-and-tougher-to-quit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Marvel Heroes get tougher and tougher to quit - 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