Marvel Contest of Champions Reviews

First off huge marvel fan always have been. Secondly gamer for life. Played the game for 3 years now. Gameplay is fun. Graphics are good but kinda glitchy. I have an 11 pro max for the trolls. So there is no equipment problem on my end but still glitches. Kabam server problems are a part of the game now. But after playing daily for about 1000 days, I warn all who like completing content to stay away from this game. They make you spin crystals to get champs(standard mobile stuff) but to complete certain content you are required to have certain champs and rarity of those champs. So you have to spend real money for a chance at a champ. Which is terribly rigged against you. Also the gameplay itself is extremely rigged and bugged. They have had problems every month that I’ve played. 36 months and some change. They use there player base as their beta testers and then throw out rewards for compensation to soothe everyone. I really don’t see how Apple hasn’t shut them down yet. I mean it’s basically a casino fighting game. It’s shameful the way company views it’s players and how it treats them. I wish I could post their customer support responses. So spend you’re money at a real casino where you stand a chance of winning instead of with these lazy incompetent greedy people. Apple don’t greedy look into kabam and there practices. There too lazy to really hide it. Should be easy to find.

First of all I would like to say I love this game have been playing for over two years and gone through the ups and downs of previous changes to the Meta. Overall I enjoyed this game and it is a way that I have used to escape the reality of every day life a little bit. The proposed changes to alliance war for season three are making me second-guess myself and this game as a way to enjoy my free time. There has never been a change in the game that has been more geared towards pay to win mentality. I spend enough on this game as it is and now, with the proposed changes, it seems as though I will not be able to win decent rewards for the alliance war season 3 if I do not pay for things like revives and health potions to continue fighting in alliance war. There are so many other things that we can purchase from the game for the owners to still make money. These changes to alliance war and especially not offering rank down tickets to those of us who took the time and spent the resources to upgrade diverse champions for war defense is preposterous. A change this big to the Meta of the game warrants providing your customers with rank down tickets. It is my sincerest hope that the owners and creators of marvel contest of champions will hear my and so many other voices of concern from all the players/customers that enjoy this game on a daily basis. Until that time comes, I cannot see myself continuing with this game or spending one penny more.

Game glitches, parry which is a mastery fails 75% of the time even tho the word pop up on the screen to confirm it was done. The AI has become to unstable and plays better than the humans. The end game content is and has become too reliant on units/ money and not enough of in game times to find on maps or units to grind in a broken arena that has people in 100s of millions score and every month they come out with a new event quests but December’s event quest and the paragraphs we have to read just to know what we’re fighting is beyond wasteful. Who wants to read a novel when playing a arcade like fighting game?? It’s a complete waste and your tuning this game into an early grave which I’m very sad about. Loved this game but too much needs to be fixed and it’s too many times the players are told it will be fixed and nothing is done. It’s been a year and they are still trying to give people game issue compensation for AQ and AW but players really need it for the main quests and they compensate for that once every 2 months. This whole team needs to be fire and a new face needs to be brought to this game. One that actually listens to its fans and does something with that info compared to the current team that goes in one ear and out the other cause they think they know better than us the player community itself.

I have had the game for over 2 years it’s fun but I have a problem I’ve opened so many crystals and got nothing good u have opened more than 90 premium crystals and haven’t gotten a 4 or 3 star same with the 4 stars I had been getting bad characters and today I opened my second 5 star crystal and got a red hulk it seems like my luck has never been good but it is a good game but needs better chances for good characters from premiums crystals I made on purchase and on that week I got the best luck ever but after that I have been getting the worse luck and it makes me mad to think that this game wants you to spend money for some luck mcoc needs to give you better chances for good characters and not relying on money to get you characters and resources like the chances of you getting a 4/5 star rank up gem is low unless you spend money you getting a 5/6 star will be hard unless you spend money this whole summoner appreciation login bonus is good but at the same time I don’t think I’m gonna be getting a good character from the crystals they give you unless I spend money the only part of the game I like is the gameplay but the crystals are garbage I want easier ways to get awakening gems other than waiting like 4 weeks for the summoner appreciation I will give this a 2 star rating just because of the luck I have been getting unless I have payed money

So I hope the developers see this review.

Guys, this is a great fighting game. Graphics are crisp, the fighting is incredibly smooth, and and it’s even balanced pretty well. But the pay wall....it is so awful. I understand y’all have to make money to pay the people that make the game and still profit off of this. There has to be a better way, tho. The latest Wanda Vision bundle is ridiculous. $50 to buy crystals that do not even guarantee 4 or 5 star heroes? Do people really think that is okay? $50....with an 80% of a 3 star and 12% 4 star and with an even slimmer percentage of a 5 star....

If we are spending our hard earned money on this game, then you gotta give us better drop rates. No one in their right mind should pay THAT much money and even possibly get a 3 star. That amount of money should at least warrant a 4 star with like a 20% percent chance to get a 5 star hero. That’s insane. It’s like going to get groceries and buying $50 worth of chicken with an 80% of getting only fat and no meat. It’s so dumb. If y’all tweaked the drop rates a bit, I would actually spend money on this game. An amount that I’d probably be ashamed of. But I have to get more bang for my buck. I have to be able to enjoy this game and I want that to happen. Y’all have got to do better than this.

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.

Fun and easy fighting mechanics that are simple to pickup and get good at. Unfortunately, the game is littered with a bunch of series of the sort for rewards that are just the same style of competition with the same game mechanics used in every game type, the only thing that is changed is the rewards. Although I never bother with that and only play a little of the story mode, which includes a basic brain dead story and multiple paths that can be replayed with no indicators of which path you played before, I usually always play versus 1v1. Although this game mode is fun to play and quick/easy to just pick up a few games to have fun, the battles will sometimes pit me against enemy’s that have high advantages over my characters, doing more damage to me and taking less of it from me. Other times I’ll face an enemy that is hopelessly outmatched and will go down with 10 light attacks. The game never fairly balances fights. When it does, it feels great because the competition is fair and rewarding when won or understandable when lost, but this rarely happens. I’ll still play, but usually when I get paired against high level enemies that will destroy me in 5 hits while my 20+ hits to them does 30% damage over and over, I’ll quit and play a new game app altogether. If that were to be fixed, the game would be perfect as it is, at least in the sector of overall gameplay.

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.

Playing this game is like going to Las Vegas. You’re going to keep coming back for more, but in the end the house wins. The game has changed so much over the years to force pay to play. Characters you get really don’t matter because only the people who spend get the top champions and really it doesn’t matter about fighting other champions. It’s all about the buffs used to make the AI champions more difficult to beat. So in the end you’re really fighting buffs, not champions. Plus, there have been game play problems with MCOC for months that the developer, Kabam, refuses to fix although they say they are “working on it”. But, in the end they know you’re paying to compensate for the errors they’ve made to “update” the game. So the “fix” is in, if you know what I mean. In the end, if you love Marvel and fighting based games, you will be hooked just like me. Just like going to Vegas. You know you love it, but you will get frustrated and upset because the developer does everything it can to make sure the “house” wins. I give it a 3 out of 5 because honestly, it’s a gamble as to if you’ll like it. Sometimes you will, when you win, like in Vegas. Sometimes you will hate it, like when something improbable happens, like in Vegas, and the house, I mean AI, wins all the time, until you drop down more money to better your odds at winning.

Year two player. Highly disappointed. Poor reward system, poor balancing of developer’s events, story events, arenas, and incursions. Stamina based, handcuffed game modes. Zero versatility. After five years or so of playing, My roster should be stacked and I should be at end game level. But no. It is nearly impossible to obtain the high level five and six star champions, and the resources are not farm-able. It’s a money-pit. Spend enough to buy two next gen console games and feel swindled because you get a two star champion and some stamina. Haha. It’s a joke. The “updates/upgrades” gave little improvement to overall playability, however, sill far from what we deserve. The “Summoner’s Sigil” for $9.99/mo + tx, has zero perks unless you do it for 12+ months. The in-game currency store limits and prohibits offers, that players would greatly benefit from. The story quests that are filled with ridiculously unbalanced, overpowered, buffed A.I. champions, while debuffing player champions. Zero freedom or versatility to simultaneously play different modes due to outdated stamina based quests and locking champions. Think “Mafia Wars” just slightly better due to Marvel licensing. The alliance aspect is salt in the wound. Poor rewards for completing difficult tasks. It would be like a physician getting paid $8.50 per hour. That is the reward system herein.

All the characters you could ever want are in this game, but getting to them might take months, or longer even. Unless you have ca$h, leveling up takes a long time if you don’t play all day everyday. There is also a large lack of gameplay variation, which helps and hurts the game. It keeps gameplay simple, and gives the opportunity to delight in the cinematic power moves, but many characters feel like exact copy-paste versions of themselves…Especially ground level characters that they have not updated to mirror the comics nor the MCU. For example, the MCU version of scarlet witch and black widow in this game are OP, but there is yet to be a Giant-man move added to ant-man, and all the updated versions of characters are very very rare. They are the ones that actually have been updated with more dynamic gameplay and attacks but you can barely enjoy them. My roster is pretty dope anyways, I multiple versions of the x-men, defenders, avengers, sinister 6, midnight suns, west coast avengers, etc. Nonetheless, you get so many champions along the way it’s fun to mix them up and fill out teams from the comics. Just wish the developers would actually read these reviews and take the game up a level. Like no matter how many stars a character is, it doesn’t make sense that I can beat a 4 star 4500 level character with a 3stat 1760 character purely off taking advantage of the simply gameplay.

The system in place for you to continue moving through each contest is rather annoying. I get it, app developers/companies want to make a profit. I’m all for the system of offering people the choice to spend money or “fight” their way to upgrading/unlocking new characters, or certain items. But the limited “lightning bolt” (amount of forward moves through each contest) system is rather frustrating. I open MarvelContestofChampions , play for 10-15 minutes, and then I’m already out of turns. You do receive tokens when you win matches that you can exchange for more “lightning bolts”, but it comes to a point where you run out of those as well. The “lightning bolt” system is fine in theory, but give me a larger amount to work with so I can enjoy the game for longer, or else I’ll probably end up moving to the lesser Injustice II game, cuz at least I can play for a longer duration. Maybe allow users to use some of the gold that ends up just sitting there to purchase more turns/bolts. Also, “catalysts” (the item that lets you upgrade your characters Star/Level) are really hard to come by and sometimes take weeks to obtain. You obviously don’t wanna make it easy, but spending weeks just to get 1 is kinda ridiculous. Otherwise, solid game all around.

Way to much fun if you have a lot of time on your hands and money to spare. You can play this game for free but you will be stuck for a very very long time. I love this game so much but sometimes after working so hard for over a month for 1 -class 5 catalyst, and you need several to upgrade your champion. You want to scream. And they will offer you amazing deals but they cost anywhere from $5 (not common except for the daily one) to $99, Usually though the average decent package worth getting to help you out in a tiny way will got your $40. So beware if your kids play and are hooked up to your account with freedom to spend.

Just to be clear, I play on an average of 8hrs out of a 24hr period. I am disabled and unable to move at times and this helps get my head out of the spiral of pain. So I don’t have lots of money to spend but i have noticed that I just have to always say to extras! I have been playing over a year and I have seen the increase in prices and how very far and few cheaper add-on come out, and when they do they are worth nothing. Just know before you get sucked in and get stuck slowly doing the same tasks over and over to upgrade to eventually move on. But overall I still love the game.

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You know, it really annoys me when people complain and complain about the tiniest things. I mean, seriously, the drop rates are fair! Just actually put in effort to increase your luck. And besides, when you buy the in-game money, its worth it because it’s a fair price and you’ll usually get good champs. People complain about the in-game money buying and saying its “too expensive” or its a “rip off” and some people say that “kabam is greedy and they take your money when you buy the in-game money and get trash”, this annoys me so much ESPECIALLY when the person hasn’t even played it/only have played it for a bit. I have been playing this game for almost a year and I am happy with my champs. Yes, I know, here and there are minor flaws, and sometimes I may get mad because I lose a fight or if I don’t get a high tier champ, but I get over it. This is why I give it a 4 star rating, The quests for tier 4 basic catalysts are ridiculously hard for someone who needs it and so they will have to wait a month to get one from the daily gifts. Lastly, Kabam, your game is amazing and I will continue to keep playing it and adventure through all the many glorious updates you put on the game. Kabam, thank you for such a masterpiece of a game.

Overall a great game to play. Loads of fun but a few things I think that could improve the game would have gotten a 5 Star out of me. First, I think the game should allow you to purchase energy and health potions with gold. The units are hard enough to come by yet alone what you are in need of spending it on. You don’t receive enough units in the game to spend on everything you need. It takes lots of playing and saving to get what you want. Throwing energy and health potions in the mix makes it all the harder especially if the only thing you really use gold for is to upgrade characters. Eventually you have an overstock supply of gold with nothing to do with it in between upgrading because you need to first get enough iso units. Second, the drop rates are becoming ridiculous. You spin more times or not getting duplicate characters then you do receiving someone new. I get trying to make characters rare but the drop rates could be a little better to still hold value and keep players interested. Lastly, character individuality! Some moves are the same amongst characters. Put a splash of their own character into it with their respective time eras. All the captain americas or black panthers shouldn’t be the same moves. Otherwise all this the game is still great. This could also increase player time.

I have been playing Marvel Contest of Champions for about 2 years, and it is by far the best mobile game I have ever played. But as you progress further down into the meat of the game, map 5 and 6 of alliance quest and tier 3 and bellow alliance war, the game loses the fun and the wallet wars comience. With the 4th of July offers showing us that Kabam favors the big spender, shown in the all father Odín a offer where if purchased 3 time, would grant a full tier 5 basic and 2 tier 2 alpha catalysts, the minimum spenders and free to play player in the beginning stages and end game are at a HUGE disadvantage. Kabam needs to get there head in the game, and think about the community, and not how full their wallets are. As a side note, I would like to see and new 5 star crystal system added, where instead of trying for every champion, you can pay a bit more shards and specify what champions you want to try for. For example, if you want to try for one of the avengers ( Spider Man Stark Enhanced, Captain America, Hawkeye, etc) you could pay some where along the lines of 2500 to 5000 extra 5 star shards to guarantee one of those champions, instead of a trying the 10k basic pool for a less than 1% chance at the specific champ you want. All in all, Kabam has made a great game, but with the issues I have discussed about above be resolved, it would go from great, to incredible.

Have made about 5 or more accounts of this, some of the reason I had to make so many were my fault because I forgot a couple of my account infos when I got new phones and just can’t log in them anymore. The other reason is the data was just lost, I opened my phone one day to play a couple years ago and my account was gone, this happened a couple times also. And now, I get hit with this, I’m spinning a 4 Star crystal after nine levels of incursion, and as I’m about to land on Archangel, the game crashes and then I got stuck with Gambit. I was so close to such a good 4 star and the game crashes and then I get stuck with an inferior champion because the game was bein screwy. I’m pretty upset about that, things like this have happened in the past quite a few times, it’s irritating, but other than these little problems I keep having it’s an amazing game with a great combat system, awesome storyline and side stories plus random events and missions, fantastic game. I love the game 5/5, however if someone could get back to me about the whole, me losing my account randomly and then I can’t log into it anymore and it’s just gone, and the game crashing and ruining my experience and making me lose great champions for trashcan champions, make sure these things stop happening.

This game has been amazing so far I originally picked it up around it’s release and then somehow lost my games data but around this year I got it again and to my surprise I had everything I used to have so as a seasoned summoner who has been playing this game for a few months (again) I find that this game is incredible and I don’t mind the really expensive crystals and anything else pay to win the game is still fun but if the quest crystals could include energy or increase the chance for it so I could play the game more often that’d be great! But that’s not all I find that a lot of the older champions fight in a really similar way like Thor and Ronan nothing is much different about them they both have the same exact effects and specials and that bothers me a little bit but not too much. The only main complaint here is energy and it would just be fantastic if some of the older or newer champs had unique combos like domino or massacre. ALSO last thing I promise there should be more champs available for exploration so the newer players could start off nicely and for the older players to expand their roster or dupe their champs. Anyways that’s all but thank you for making this one of my favorite games to play in my free time keep up the amazing work.

I have been playing mcoc for a couple of months now, and I have to say, I love it. Although KABAM has made some questionable choices in the past, I am able to overlook them with how much fun the game itself is. At first glance, this game just looks like your normal street fighter type game, but there are so much more mechanics to mcoc that sets it apart from other games like it. It’s difficulty is good no matter how far you are into the game (except for the collector boss), and while a lot of the endgame stuff is really hard, it’s fair with how much of the game you’ve mastered. It’s exciting when you get a new and good champion, and fun to fight with them once you’ve leveled them up. It’s cool to try the different play styles of champions, and learn new tricks with others. You can gain a lot of rewards from doing different stuff, and join alliances to unlock even more stuff. It’s such a complex but fun game. Also, the updates every month are amazing, introducing new champions, and progressing the story and more. There is much more that I love about the game, but it would take too long to type, so I’m just going to say, KABAM, thank you for making a game that I actually enjoy.

Hey, just want to say you made an awesome game. I want to suggest some updates on characters, since my ideas are based on Marvel. My first idea is that if a champion launches an combo attack following an special 1 or 2, I think it would make sense if the opposing champion receives stun. I’m just saying based of logic, and based on the show Luke Cage, I think he should get regeneration if he is poisoned or stunned. Hear me out, so in the show, Luke Cage managed to get hurt by a bullet made out of a asteroid that hit earth. (It’s not vibranium. I can assure you.) so Luke cage and someone else (I forgot their name) went to the doctor who gave Luke Cage the ability to be Bullet proof. So the doctor examined Luke, and notice his muscle tissue keeps on regenerating, making it hard for the doctor to pull the bullet out. So it would be nice if you give Luke Cage regen effect if he is poisoned. Also can you explain (I’m saying in a friendly way) why do you not have Jessica Jones a champion? She is part of the defenders. Please reply to tell me why. I have more ideas, and I would happy to share them, just need to make sure this comment is noticed before I waste like.. a whole paragraph of words.

I played this game from the start and after 4 yrs and thousands of dollars spent I’m done. I’ve played competitively and built up champs only to have those champs get nerfed and become a shadow of their former glory. They did this because they say they were over powering or not working correctly, then proceeded to release newer champs that were much more powerful... leaving a player with a champ with tons of resources put into it nothing more than a regret. Not only did they do this with the champs but almost every option of the game I spent real money on , masteries , gifting badges and the list goes on . So after 4 yrs of work on my profile it’s worthless , over 20 rank 5 four star champs , 12 rank 3&4 five stars hundreds of old champs that do nothing to help me clear and new content. Unless you’re planing on spending lots of money on a regular basis don’t waste time on this game , Hell even if you’re planing on that don’t waste your time . I’ve moved on to a much better marvel game which takes into it planing the ability to upgrade old champs with new uniforms and other ways of maximizing your champs . I’ve spent about a hundred dollars on future fight and already after about 8 months of play have a better profile than this game and have fun instead of getting unbelievably mad at a game that is supposed to be fun . Quitting this game was the best thing about it , I only wished I had done it years ago .

As a player of the game since it has been out, everything has been taking a wrong turn for years. The game heavily, heavily, heavily favors pay to win. Everything added into the game now seems to be another ploy to cause an increasing need for potions and boosts, which cost units, which cost money. If you join the game now, there is no way to even close the gap between the highest rated players and yourself, unless you are quite literally a m/billionaire with seemingly endless expendable funds. There are many unaddressed bugs, which continue to go unaddressed. Many aren’t huge factors, but are quite annoying, especially when they occur for months on end. Kabam support cannot help, and will not give out any proper compensation for errors caused on the games end. This is the worst part of it all. Kabam seldom give out any form of compensation for their constant incompetence. Their support teams will copy/paste scripted responses if you attempt to contact them. Constantly changing huge aspects of the game, seemingly without warning. Tending to the big spenders, and not updating old aspects of the game to keep up with the ever growing demands. The only reason I continue to play this game is my love for marvel, and the alliance members that have become my family. The game itself is not too horrible, but a big ZERO out of any rating you please for the developer. The community calls them Kascam. Ask around the game... anyone will tell you.

With many different modes and special events constantly being updated and renewed there is many stuff to keep you playing for hours to days on end this game has been with me since 7th grade although I see myself as casual player the only bug/glitch that gets irritating because it happens all the time now is there is problem where I get units in a crystal story/arena I never actually get them all I usually only get 5 which doesn’t make sense because I’ve won the 45 units from an arena crystal more then 4 times the past two weeks and 15 units from story crystal once I’ve been robbed of more then 170 units please fix it and give me the units I have won fairly my account is droopy1020 my other complaint it isn’t a bug but since there are now 5&6 stars that are necessary I would like to see the premium hero crystal odds raised to 33% for 2-4 stars since using them in later on quests is nearly useless otherwise then arena battles and with higher odds means more people will spend more money because they simply keep getting what they’re looking for otherwise then these annoyances I love this game a lot and have been playing since 7th grade I am now a junior and have never been bored of the game

It is such a great game I love the combat and graphics, but there are a few problems. the first one is with the premium crystal and the problem is that there shouldn’t be less 2 star heroes in the premium crystal it just isn’t necessary, because I always get 2 stars. The second problem for me is how to get the catalyst because I just can’t get them and when I check it always says I can’t. The last problem is with how much inventory space there is I thing you should be able to buy more with battle chips or something. Those are my problems with the game, but besides that it is my favorite marvel game for mobile and there are something’s that would be awesome to have a symbiot captain America. And another thing would be to have more Spider-Man characters and like skins for them so miles and Peter could be unmasked and there could be like a Spider-Man stealth big time it is my favorite suit, and maybe a scarlet spider and superior Spider-Man and even an animated Spider-Man. And like mark 5 and 50 and 2 and 30 etc. I would also think it would be awesome if there are more champions and a Stan lee champion. It would be awesome if you could have a big update for those things.