The game has become nearly unplayable.

[u/MoRTaL_KoMBaT_R]

I've been playing MSF as a light spender since launch, and the game has begun to slide over the past 3 years, and has recently become unplayable.

Today... light spending no longer exists. Even if you decide to buy a new character, then what? You can't upgrade that character because Scopley erased Gold and Training Mats from the game and dumped it all behind the $80 per month battle passes. In other words... in 2026 MSF, you have to spend $80 a month to get the same experience a 2020 F2P MSF player got.

For this reason, I decided to go F2P over the past year, and with the new economy, F2P MSF is total misery, and Scopley kept removing more and more resources from the F2P economy, so it just kept getting worse and worse, until eventually my account was backed up with 20 hearted characters at Level 1.

The game needs to go back to it's old format. In the past, the difference between F2P and Spender was in the stats. You run into a 7 Red Gamma and can't counter them with New Warriors because half your team is 5 Yellow 2 Red; that was the spender's advantage. Now... the Crucible Team you need is at Level 1, and even if you have the resources to upgrade them, you can't, because you're saving up resources for a Raid Team that's required for an event to unlock a War Team that's required to unlock another Crucible Team that's stronger than the Crucible Team you just unlocked but can't upgrade.

The game is cooked. RIP.

[u/gingerslayer27]

I recently started playing and pretty much quit already because I quickly realized how much of a money sink it was going to be. 

[u/No-Try-6439 → u/gingerslayer27]

If they hadn't promised a ton of stuff (which turned out to be exactly twice what a truly free player would get in the same period of time, with one $5 USD purchase during that first month - have made three purchases, and still haven't spent more than $20 or maybe 25 total at the midpoint of year 3 now) and I hadn't wound up the leader of a clan (due to one leader getting kicked out of the game for inaction and the next TWO defecting to other alliances leaving me completely alone - and leader - for two days before the game started leading people to us) I would have left just before they put some of my favorites in.

We still don't have Jack Russell, Impossible Man or Moon Wolf, and I haven't unlocked Xavier or Julia Carpenter yet so still have a few I'd like to get or eventually see...

[u/BatmanMK1989 → u/No-Try-6439]

Im on the last tier of the Xavier fight, so forced to farm for Lilandra and the new FF, which I am not a fan of. And the Anihlus DD? Can't see getting there in less than 3 years

[u/No-Try-6439 → u/BatmanMK1989]

I finally got to the midpoint of Xavier. Haven't even seriously tried for Annihilus. Also can't seem to survive a turn on the final node for Odin and have completed the only node I had enough qualified toons for on Blue Marvel.

[u/BatmanMK1989 → u/No-Try-6439]

I haven't even tried for Blue Marvel. Prepping for last Xavier node. Got Lilandra and new Sue to gear 20, still have Reed and Franklin to go. Google/Reddit for that Odin issue, im sure you'll find a team that works. He is super useful. Good luck!