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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 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.
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
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 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 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.
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 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.
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 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 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.
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 TH-camrs 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
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.
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.
I think they should start selling cards and card packs for new and returning players. It was really fun in the beginning that everyone had different collections and no one could buy their way to collection complete but now there are enough veterans in the game that have collection complete or close to it that I think it's more important to allow new players some sort of catch up mechanic.
I’m definitely one of those middle players that got in early and after realizing how long it started to take to get new cards and the progression was so slow I just ended up checking out. It sucks because the cards and gameplay look fun but it’s just SO hard to get the new stuff.
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.
I'd stopped playing for a while until Arishem dropped. I started playing again hard. Anecdotal, sure, but if they'd drop archetype enabling cards like it at a discount or free every couple months, they'd keep bringing people back.
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
I quit the game ages ago, once I reached that dreaded "middle spot". Hs is way, WAY better in regard to monetization and catch up mechanics...and I am talking about Hs!!!
I played the game so much last year up until the spotlight update, I didn’t spend too much money, I spent $5 here and $10 there. I had absolutely no problem spending money, because the game was that much fun. Since the spotlight update, I no longer spend money nor do I want to. Being F2P and pool 3 complete might just be the most miserable experience ever, with how cards are permanently pool 4 and 5, I will most likely never own cards like Loki, and kang( the worst card in the game) all because I didn’t buy them when they released. Yea I should save up keys , but that also means I’m stuck with the same cards for months at time constantly losing to the newest meta or staple cards I don’t have.
I've never liked the disparity between how they advertise the game as easy to f2p when the shop is chock full of expensive bundles containing key archtype cards like venom all the time.
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
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
I'm one of those players in the middle of the progression and yeah, it's been kinda sucky. I'm missing about 30 cards from Series 3, and not being able to find those key cards that I need to play some of the decks I'm interested in has been pretty demotivating. I've been waiting forever to get cards like Silver Surfer, Hela, and Patriot but keep getting cards I know I will never use like Baron Mordo, Giganto, and Rescue. My Spotlight Cache luck has also just been horrendous, so that's not helping either. Out of the 4 times I've gotten the "mystery" card from a cache, 3 of them were duplicates. I only own 25 of the 87 Series 4/5 cards in the game, so it just feels especially awful to only get 1,000 tokens because I got a duplicate of a card I saved up to unlock just a week or two prior.
Regis...the credit economy is 4x as valuable if you upgrade your grey cards once. Maybe you can make it to 150 caches for the next one to make it up if you upgrade them all 😂
I am in the 1 monthish in and series 5 cards feel so necessary. Tokens are so hard to get without spending money and having to spend 5-8 keys to get 5 new cards is rough. I got really lucky and have a mostly meta destroy deck but now that is the only deck I can run in ladder to get wins. I like this so much more than hearthstone but the grind for credits is rough and needs to be looked at.
You were ahead of the curve worrying about Hela, I know that much. Your deck 3 weeks ago was different but the Hellcow change has made it so much worse.
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.
Key drop rate needs to be increased. I play and complete each weekly 25 challenges and more, and yet it takes me 3ish weeks to get 4 keys. So I'm just missing 2 new cards a month, sometimes 3. it has to be better than that.
I have one more Series 3 card to go, and I'm pretty upset to know that my "Free Series 3" card per month is just going to disappear...AND I can no longer get cards in progression caches. It took me 5mos of steady playing, getting almost all my missions in in that time, buying the season passes, to get here. I can't even build a lot of meta decks, and it seems like I may never be able to, if the only way to unlock cards is to drop cash on keys and tokens. On top of all that, there's a new card every single week, and it's impossible to guarantee you get it with keys, because it's not possible to get 4 keys/wk without buying them. UGHHHH
Like, forgive me if I'm wrong, but a $20/mo subscription fee should be enough to support the game. Cash for cosmetics on top of that, sure, but why do I have to be perpetually missing 80% of the best cards in the game?
The whole draw was get the cards for free and play and have fun. I stopped playing when I realized that all the new cards were strong and are behind paywalls. Sure, maybe not all of them are locked behind real money paywalls, but if I can only get 2/10 of the newest cards for free, the paywall is there.
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
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. $20 for the new card. Had I not done that I would've felt like I was in the same place when I left and that is a huge issue. I had FOMO cause I did not get Arishem but I had enough tokens to buy him in the shop one day. And a card like his had me wondering. This unique of a card should've been its own game mode. Both players have Arishem and they play against each other with random decks but get extra energy. And I think SD made a huge mistake making him a card instead of a gamemode.
@@at0mly well I do feel you on that one like I mainly play to pass the time if I'm bored or really just cuz I want to complete my stuff but mainly it's just to get a key to get the new and at most if I can manage it correctly I can pull two in a week. Personally I would love something like a challenge mode where we could bet keys or something
On average I feel like they would probably make even more money if they lowered prices. If a good card bundle with a good amount of gold was 5$. I may buy it and the next one = they get 10$ from me vs 0$ because I'm not spending 20,30,40,50+$ on any one card.
Probably rigged for content creators. The passed few times I have opened a spotlight key I've gotten card variants that I already have and it turned into collector reserves. I was so mad. Lol.
Started last month, it's fun and all, but even doing all content, got the pass, but still feel so bad when i see cool decks with cards that will take an eternity or thousands of dollars to get, when in hearthstone I have a month more and already have a couple cool decks
It doesn't take thousands of dollars, just lots of time. But even then only like an hour each day to complete the missions that refill and eventually you'll have a lot of stuff. It is a bit too slow but if you're smart with what you get you can have lots of strong decks. I have only ever bought 2 season passes and nothing else and im only missing like 15 cards.
Bro spotlight makes me angry in that regard they should have a system where you can get a new card without RNG bull. Especially since those aren’t easy to come by without spending money.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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%
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.
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.
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
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
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.)
12:00 Think of what Regina will say when she hears about this!
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 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.
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
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 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 just forfeit my gold tickets. It gives me enough to buy a few things in shop.
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.
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.
Next reserve opening "old man yells at reserves"
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.
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 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
Im surprised that snap pulls such low views in streaming. Like hearthstone for a while was one of the biggest categories on twitch.
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.
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 TH-camrs 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
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.
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.
I love how even non-haters of Dan Hipp can’t help but… notice his style peculiarities
I think they should start selling cards and card packs for new and returning players. It was really fun in the beginning that everyone had different collections and no one could buy their way to collection complete but now there are enough veterans in the game that have collection complete or close to it that I think it's more important to allow new players some sort of catch up mechanic.
I’m definitely one of those middle players that got in early and after realizing how long it started to take to get new cards and the progression was so slow I just ended up checking out. It sucks because the cards and gameplay look fun but it’s just SO hard to get the new stuff.
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.
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.
There are many issues with Snap, but I'm still mad about the Destroyer change (nerf). They ruined the card for me
I'd stopped playing for a while until Arishem dropped. I started playing again hard. Anecdotal, sure, but if they'd drop archetype enabling cards like it at a discount or free every couple months, they'd keep bringing people back.
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
Dude, I’m totally going to click ‘like’. I really don’t care you’re awesome, Regis. Love everything you do
I quit the game ages ago, once I reached that dreaded "middle spot".
Hs is way, WAY better in regard to monetization and catch up mechanics...and I am talking about Hs!!!
I played the game so much last year up until the spotlight update, I didn’t spend too much money, I spent $5 here and $10 there. I had absolutely no problem spending money, because the game was that much fun. Since the spotlight update, I no longer spend money nor do I want to. Being F2P and pool 3 complete might just be the most miserable experience ever, with how cards are permanently pool 4 and 5, I will most likely never own cards like Loki, and kang( the worst card in the game) all because I didn’t buy them when they released. Yea I should save up keys , but that also means I’m stuck with the same cards for months at time constantly losing to the newest meta or staple cards I don’t have.
I've never liked the disparity between how they advertise the game as easy to f2p when the shop is chock full of expensive bundles containing key archtype cards like venom all the time.
If I hadn't bought Arishem, I would have given up playing Snap.
What if surfer was getting ready for a spin. Hands lit leg cocked over. Little space damce battle. 😆
Suddenly! a Regis video!
I wasn’t a Dan Hipp hater until I found out he was the dude that ruined Teen Titans. Now I plead the fifth 😭
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.
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
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
Please start using variants in your games 🥺 we'd love to see them seeing some play. Like here if you agree 👍🏻
I'm one of those players in the middle of the progression and yeah, it's been kinda sucky. I'm missing about 30 cards from Series 3, and not being able to find those key cards that I need to play some of the decks I'm interested in has been pretty demotivating. I've been waiting forever to get cards like Silver Surfer, Hela, and Patriot but keep getting cards I know I will never use like Baron Mordo, Giganto, and Rescue. My Spotlight Cache luck has also just been horrendous, so that's not helping either. Out of the 4 times I've gotten the "mystery" card from a cache, 3 of them were duplicates. I only own 25 of the 87 Series 4/5 cards in the game, so it just feels especially awful to only get 1,000 tokens because I got a duplicate of a card I saved up to unlock just a week or two prior.
Regis...the credit economy is 4x as valuable if you upgrade your grey cards once. Maybe you can make it to 150 caches for the next one to make it up if you upgrade them all 😂
Sunspot needs a buff at this stage of the game. Maybe plus 2 for each unspent energy just to catch up with all the current craziness.
That is a little extreme. Maybe if he starts off with 2 power he should be good enough.
I am in the 1 monthish in and series 5 cards feel so necessary. Tokens are so hard to get without spending money and having to spend 5-8 keys to get 5 new cards is rough. I got really lucky and have a mostly meta destroy deck but now that is the only deck I can run in ladder to get wins. I like this so much more than hearthstone but the grind for credits is rough and needs to be looked at.
You were ahead of the curve worrying about Hela, I know that much. Your deck 3 weeks ago was different but the Hellcow change has made it so much worse.
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.
Key drop rate needs to be increased. I play and complete each weekly 25 challenges and more, and yet it takes me 3ish weeks to get 4 keys. So I'm just missing 2 new cards a month, sometimes 3. it has to be better than that.
Have to completely agree as a returning player
Second Dinner is working on DC Snap!
All i want is collector tokens and credits. Period.
"I opened 50 reserves... then yelled about the game."
Ah, so routine as usual for these videos lol.
I don't like ANY of the Hipp variants, so that's all I get...
can i just ask something, is there any discard dek that use luke cage? i got baited so much
I have one more Series 3 card to go, and I'm pretty upset to know that my "Free Series 3" card per month is just going to disappear...AND I can no longer get cards in progression caches. It took me 5mos of steady playing, getting almost all my missions in in that time, buying the season passes, to get here. I can't even build a lot of meta decks, and it seems like I may never be able to, if the only way to unlock cards is to drop cash on keys and tokens. On top of all that, there's a new card every single week, and it's impossible to guarantee you get it with keys, because it's not possible to get 4 keys/wk without buying them.
UGHHHH
Like, forgive me if I'm wrong, but a $20/mo subscription fee should be enough to support the game. Cash for cosmetics on top of that, sure, but why do I have to be perpetually missing 80% of the best cards in the game?
Problem is SD have taken away opportunities to get gold,in conquest mode you use to be able to get gold now you can't and it's pretty rubbish
All I want is draft mode, that is all I played in Hearthstone and it is the most fun for me
Oh, this is a different way to go about it
I think conquest needs to help fix the wall the middle people hit. You need to transition to longer games give more options and things to do there.
A draft mode/arena would help SO muchhhhhhh
The whole draw was get the cards for free and play and have fun. I stopped playing when I realized that all the new cards were strong and are behind paywalls. Sure, maybe not all of them are locked behind real money paywalls, but if I can only get 2/10 of the newest cards for free, the paywall is there.
Dan Hipp art has way more misses than hits.
agreed im a middle player but cant seem to get cards like knull or living tribunal
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
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. $20 for the new card. Had I not done that I would've felt like I was in the same place when I left and that is a huge issue. I had FOMO cause I did not get Arishem but I had enough tokens to buy him in the shop one day. And a card like his had me wondering. This unique of a card should've been its own game mode. Both players have Arishem and they play against each other with random decks but get extra energy. And I think SD made a huge mistake making him a card instead of a gamemode.
This game used to be so fun.
I’m glad I got out relatively early and cheaply
It still is what are you talking about
I'm about to hit 16000. Playing for about 1.5 yrs.
I'm at 11869 and tbh the game has kinda hit a wall for me. The last two seasons I didn't even bother to grind to Infinite.
@@at0mly well I do feel you on that one like I mainly play to pass the time if I'm bored or really just cuz I want to complete my stuff but mainly it's just to get a key to get the new and at most if I can manage it correctly I can pull two in a week. Personally I would love something like a challenge mode where we could bet keys or something
On average I feel like they would probably make even more money if they lowered prices. If a good card bundle with a good amount of gold was 5$. I may buy it and the next one = they get 10$ from me vs 0$ because I'm not spending 20,30,40,50+$ on any one card.
Probably rigged for content creators. The passed few times I have opened a spotlight key I've gotten card variants that I already have and it turned into collector reserves. I was so mad. Lol.
Started last month, it's fun and all, but even doing all content, got the pass, but still feel so bad when i see cool decks with cards that will take an eternity or thousands of dollars to get, when in hearthstone I have a month more and already have a couple cool decks
It doesn't take thousands of dollars, just lots of time. But even then only like an hour each day to complete the missions that refill and eventually you'll have a lot of stuff. It is a bit too slow but if you're smart with what you get you can have lots of strong decks. I have only ever bought 2 season passes and nothing else and im only missing like 15 cards.
You'll get there. I felt like you did then got over the dead spot after series 2 completed, and my experience improved a lot.
I went 4 cards in a row getting the new card on the 1st key. The next 6 have taken at least 3!
Bro spotlight makes me angry in that regard they should have a system where you can get a new card without RNG bull. Especially since those aren’t easy to come by without spending money.
Yeah, no worries that silver surfer sucks
I've never been this early
@17:25 I hope they do draft mode like clash royal random groups of cards u pick from ona timer