Are There Problems With the Weekend Challenge Missions?

The Weekend Challenge Missions were introduced with the patch on June 13, 2023, as a way of being a small rebate on purchasing new Marvel Snap cards. We even started doing guides for the cards involved in them, proposing how the cards were performing and what decks would be ideal for completing these Missions. Since then, they have been a bit of a talking point, and this weekend their duration has been reduced from 72 hours to 48 without notice. We will take the time here to talk about the system!

A Rough Introduction

The first set of Weekend Challenges were meant to be going live with Silk. Marvel Snap has had problems with introducing new features to the game thus far, and this was no exception. The Missions did not go live as planned, and instead players just got compensation for the intended rewards instead:

• 1000 Collector’s Tokens to everyone who purchased Silk during her spotlight week
• 150 Gold to Ghost-Spider Season Pass owners
• 200 Credits to all players

Too Much Work, Too Little Reward?

What started off as a big enough reward to incentivize players, with the new Spotlight Cache system the rewards for Weekend Challenges were reduced over time. Let’s take a quick look below.

Spider-Versus

Rise of the Phoenix

Big in Japan

While Second Dinner did indeed communicate that these Missions were not meant to be a big reward at all and would depend on the card and number of matches, the rewards may not seem proportional to the effort required to many players.

A Forced Meta

Another issue, similar to Featured and Hot Locations but this time more narrowed down depending on the card featured, players will be shoehorned to playing similar decks with each other. Nimrod was indeed one of those cards that have its specific deck and players could choose to counter it or play its best deck.

Due to Marvel Snap’s inherent game design of 12 cards per deck, it will be interesting to see if there are any specific solutions for this kind of reward system.

Reduced Duration

With the Daken and Nimrod Weekend Challenges, the duration was reduced from 72 to 48 hours. That is, starting from Saturday 3 AM GMT to Monday 3 AM GMT. While technically this is true in terms of the definition of a weekend, Second Dinner operates on United States time (such as patch and OTA updates). This means that originally it covered the basis for all time zones from Friday all the way to Monday.

Until we wait for further communication from Second Dinner, we cannot confirm that this is intended or confirmed for next week.

Wrap Up

What do you think about this system? While technically the rewards are free, it might still leave a bitter taste. Let us know in the comments below!