State of the Game: September 2021

[Musketeer-Endgame]

@Loutre

So I hope it will be…

another great IP if so!

But I wonder what with datamined since 2 months.

[Card_Brigade]

Hi @Loutre ! I’ve been away for quite some time, but all the same, I’d like to wish you a warm, if very belated, welcome to our community!

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Thank you and your team very much not only for the transparency, but also for the vast amount of improvements made! Raiding Epic CW, Power Promoting, and Hero Filters are a godsend, to say nothing of the Prize Wall, which helps F2Ps like myself gain access to Event Exclusive Heroes, that were usually locked behind Contests in the past

It’s good to hear that you and your team are doing well, even in spite of changes and being short staffed, since I can’t imagine it’s easy given the current circumstances

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@Loutre

expand some existing groups

Ooh, I wonder if this is a hint for more Hercules characters

Pain and Panic, as well as the Fates are some characters I’m hoping will be here someday

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Also

@Loutre

We have a great lineup of characters planned for the rest of the year that will introduce new IPs into the game

@Loutre

CINDERELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Or at least I hope this a hint that it’s Cinderella

I’m still hoping that she’s a Tank, rather than a Support

Ooh, she’s not a villain BUT, what if she’s the Sign In Hero for October???

What’s one of the most iconic plants in October?

Pumpkins.

What Disney character, besides Fairy Godmother, is associated with pumpkins?

C i n d e r e l l a

Do note that this is just fun speculation on my part; please do not reply to this thread with spoilers.

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I can’t wait to see what you and your team have planned for the future! Just thinking about it gets me super exicted

Again, thank you and your team for all that you do!

Have a wonderful day, @Loutre !

[Musketeer-Endgame]

@Card_Brigade

CINDERELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Once AGAIN… she isn’t (won’t be) from a new IP.

Fairy Godmother ruined your dreams, ironic.

[Card_Brigade]

Well, you know as they say, a dream is a wish that’ll come true as long as I keep believing, so

[Agent_mater]

Can you confirm if the owl house is coming?

[Filadae_Djaq]

Obviously they can’t

[Jody_Caviness]

@Loutre

There will be a Dev Q&A session at the end of the month where you’ll get to meet a whole new part of the DH Team.
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It’s also given us the opportunity to hire new talented people. They bring new experiences and ideas that help us keep things fresh and always growing forward. The Disney Heroes team is smaller right now due to this, but we are actively looking to fill those positions and get the team back up to full capacity!

Well, this explains quite a bit, really. It does give me more hope for the future, even if things might remain slow and a little unsteady for a bit longer.

@Loutre

We improved Power Crafting and Power Promote to help save time

Those can be time savers, though frequently at a cost of efficiency; while I doubt Power Promote could easily be changed, I would like for Power Crafting to at least default to using our “Favorite” node for badge bits, so long as it didn’t increase the stamina cost to craft the badge. As much time as Power Promote can save, though, having the “Needed” badge broken in the upper right corner has cost far more time; I hope the team is close to getting that working properly again.

@Loutre

We’ve recently introduced the Prize Wall as a fun way to collect new heroes and resources to get them leveled up.

I was admittedly upset when that was first announced, thinking it was another exclusive slot that would keep a hero locked up for months; knowing now that it’s a 12-day way station to allow players to get plenty of chips for a hero before they’re moved to a different exclusive slot, though, I can now see that I was wrong then and that this is one of the better ideas implemented in the game over the past couple of years.

@Loutre

We know that some of the event exclusive heroes have been in their slots for a long time, and we’re starting a new rotation system that will keep heroes moving and keep reward systems fresh.

Interesting; I wonder if we’ll be seeing heroes moving between different exclusive slots, as has been suggested.

@Loutre

We have a full refresh in the works for 3.4.10, and we’ll look to make a balance between in-depth refreshes and stat buffs going forward.

I know the complete refreshes are a lot of work, but when they’re successful (Queen of Hearts, Mad Madam Mim, Shank) they’re really worth it. I’d personally love to see one full refresh along with three new heroes every month, with two to four smaller stat-buff refreshes added every month or two as time allows.

@Loutre

We’re currently putting the final polish on Trial Events. […] For example: You must use Baymax, You can’t use Blue Heroes, At least 1 Support hero must be used.

Requiring a specific hero for a Trial Event honestly sounds too restrictive; unless you’re repeating the setup of the Fozzie trial and giving everyone access to max level/rank (but unmodded and undisked) heroes, it seems people who don’t have that specific hero leveled up will be excluded from those particular trials. Otherwise, this sounds very promising.

@Loutre

We’re starting some deeper analysis of our game system and economies to ensure they’re healthy and we keep them growing at a balanced rate.

While doing this analysis, I hope the team can also keep in mind that some of the data might be skewed by people not participating in certain features of the game, due to the resource cost. (For example, while I have a fair amount of Disk Power saved up, that’s not a sign that I’ve found the supply of that resource to be plentiful; it’s a sign that I’m well aware how scarce it is and how it’s permanently gone once spent, so I want to be extremely certain it’s worthwhile to invest a large chunk of my savings to max out a disk.)

@Loutre

We’re in early brainstorming for expanding cosmetics in a new direction and a possible scavenger hunt system.

Um, I’m hoping that “expanding cosmetics in a new direction” doesn’t mean adding even more cosmetics, as I’ve already fallen so far behind that I despair of ever getting another costume. A “scavenger hunt system” sounds promising, though.

@Loutre

As we plan for the long term, we’ll be asking again for your feedback and areas where we can make quality of life improvements.

May I go ahead and say that I don’t think we need any further Hero Management QoL improvements after what’s being currently worked on? Just, y’know, getting my two cents in…

Thanks for the post, and I’m looking forward to the Q&A.

[the_One_and_Only1]

@Loutre

We have a great lineup of characters planned for the rest of the year that will introduce new IPs into the game , and expand some existing groups .

Yippie! Can’t wait to see who’s next!

[Scarce]

@Loutre

We have a great lineup of characters planned for the rest of the year that will introduce new IPs into the game , and expand some existing groups .

just add Luca and I’m perfectly fine

[PepsiFan25]

For ips, I want characters from Pixar movies like bugs life, characters from classic disney movies like dumbo, and characters that people wanted like cars(which PB doesn’t confirm “yet”.)

[Ozi_swag]

Well there are still some heroes I would like to see come like Anna and Penny Forrester and I do wanna see if Wilbur from Meet the Robinsons comes in

[Captain_C]

@Loutre

We improved Power Crafting and Power Promote to help save time and allow you to focus on what you find fun in Disney Heroes

Although saves time, the biggest problem still remains… the badges required are overly expensive. Would be nice if the free gems given by checkins and videos can scale a little better like the free stamania, though will say free stamania should be a little higher in scaling. The grind isn’t fun. I really would suggest going forward instead of requiring old badges to make new ones, just feature the top tier badges as the dropped ones for the new levels. If people having too much of one kind of a badge is your issue, my next suggestion be to add badges to guild help or maybe introduce a friendship shop where people on your friends list can exchange stuff too (this would promote interaction with other players- could bring more natural balance between whales and ftp players , yet still promoting whaling up since they can help guild and friends grow more too).

Also not having new guild perks more frequently isn’t fun either especially sitting on over a million contest guild perk points. Would be nice if can drop a four times and two times stamania consumable perks as new guild perks (would also add backpacks elite and normal) or even a double port perk (not just based on vip level), would help everyone especially of hero juice xps.

@Loutre

We’re starting some deeper analysis of our game system and economies to ensure they’re healthy and we keep them growing at a balanced rate

Again I say it’s hard to actually look at health of game if you don’t allow merges at anytime, since people do play multiple accounts to keep multiple guilds a float for amount that have left. Think you should allow merging as long as the player can switch between them, more often so you can have better realistic numbers to review.

[Angry_Chair]

Thanks for the update @Loutre Hoping there will be some focus on expansion of Guild Perks in the plans too

[Musketeer-Endgame]

@PepsiFan25

characters that people wanted like cars

Not really, not at all.

[Duck_Hunt_Duo]

I hope Anne and Sprig make it in the game one day .

[MightyKaliShire]

Please make something about the merger between s19 and s18

It already cost so much to level up each level cap !

Now you made us level up 10 level cap 3 times in a row !!
Would have been easier (to player i consent) to have an instant level up base on current level of hero
Then compensate s18 player thanks to your wonderful in game economy

[The_Real_Numi]

@Loutre

Monitoring data on specific parts of the game is a specific job so someone who monitors that would not also be working on resolving war matchmaking or guild progression.

Well, I wanted to ask in Q and A but I could ask here as well…

What kind of data prevalence the team looks into when considering a merge for certain servers? Is it the DAU amount (Daily Active Users) or 3DAU or WAU (Weekly)? Something else? Is there a threshold to say when a server needs a merge desperately or is it entirely subjective and done on a let-go of the team?

[Raymond]

@Loutre Will the Halloween event for villains return this year like how Villaintines returned this year?

[Loutre]

@MightyKaliShire

Please make something about the merger between s19 and s18

We will have more information closer to the merge.

[Loutre]

I am not sure how detailed I can get, but it is based on data.