MARVEL Contest of Champions 12+

This game had/has great potential. Update

New Update: I'm still here, playing this game after 3+ years. I love this game and can still see/feel the potential here. That being said, coming from a game development background, Kabam seriously needs to be more transparent as well as fix what is STILL broken. Every update brings new things, good AND bad. Pushing the envelope is great, but pushing it while things are broken is not a good way to keep players. Recruiting is becoming hard. Players are leery of continuing. I get that keeping this thing running is tough, but many other companies(including your parent company) handle issues and player problems much differently and efficiently! You've got me as a long term player, and I know there are plenty of others out there. I want to give a 4+ review, but I can't do that until y'all fix the current issues, just listen to your players/customers.

*Old: I'll upgrade my review to 3 stars. They are making progress but still have a long way to go in terms of a potentially great game.

I've played this game since almost the beginning. There have been a lot of changes over the 2 years, most of them have been good for the game and balance. HOWEVER, the 12.0 patch has literally made the game into something completely different and has so many bugs that it is practically unplayable. I have hope Kabam/NetMarble will come to their senses and fix what they broke. Until that time, 2 stars is the best I can rate it.

Developer Response , 06/30/2017

Thanks for the update! We apologize for any game issues you’ve experienced recently. We are aware that there have been a larger number of bugs in the game recently, however the recent update was intended to address many of them. We appreciate your help while we work to make The Contest the best gaming experience possible, and we welcome any feedback on this update. Please submit a ticket and we will forward your feedback directly to our Game Team

Great game, but it’s pay to win

The game is tons of fun so far and I love these types of games where you collect more powerful characters as you go on. Of course to all great things there’s a problem with them. This games arena is kinda unbalanced for those who don’t pay to win. I was testing a new character I got and I had only 3 wins at the time and it paired me up with a guy with 89 wins. What the heck am I gonna go against a guy who’s got twice my power. And if you win or loose your hero gets a 2 hour cool down which is kinda dumb. You have to use the items that you save up to get hero’s with to reuse them or wait the 2 hours. I would understand 1 hour or even 30 minutes, but 2 hours is crazy. Also there are some game mechanics like effects that happen after an attack that are completely stupid like bleed or daze. With bleed you hit then play defensive and with daze you just beat the crap out of them when they can’t do anything and that’s is kinda broken. The game itself is fun, but the pvp needs some work. (Updating review) pvp in this game is so bad at choosing who fights who. I chose my bronze two star wolverine and it put me against a two star silver advanced iron man, the perfect counter to me, and he had twice my power level. I literally did at max 25 damage on higher critical hits and he did 4 to 9% of my health per health per hit so I got destroyed even though I combed a 25 hit combo. So it needs fixing.