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Second Dinner’s Community Manager Griffin has provided an important update surrounding the issues with Marvel Snap’s card acquisition system on their official Discord server. In the patch update coming on January 14, 2024 (check out the upcoming schedule here):
- Drop rate of Series 3 cards in Collector’s Reserves will be doubling, from 2 out of every 9 to 4 out of every 9.
- Increasing the Collector’s Token payout from Spotlight Cache duplicates from 1000 tokens to 2000 tokens.
Griffin also explained that this is a quick measure for near term, as the team works on more improvements for the future. Check out the full announcement below.
December 2024 Update on Card Acquisition
As Marvel SNAP grows we’ve seen how acquiring cards has become progressively more difficult. Your feedback has been heard loud and clear. It’s helped us identify and prioritize a number of major concerns:
- Overall lack of agency in acquiring new cards
- New users struggling to “get to the meta” faster as it takes too long to earn of all Series 3’s cards
- Returning players struggling to catch up after missing a season or more of new cards and rewards
- The randomness of the Spotlight Cache system feeling frustrating
We take these concerns seriously and are in the process of improving the ways players can acquire cards in the game. We currently have a design we think addresses many of the above issues. However, rebuilding some core aspects of SNAP takes time to get right. We are in the process of gathering additional feedback on the design while the work continues in production. We don’t have exact dates of completion yet, but it will take a few months.
In the meantime, we are taking some steps near term to improve quality of life around card acquisition.
In January’s patch, we will be:
- Doubling the drop rate of Series 3 cards in Collector’s Reserves, from 2 out of every 9 to 4 out of every 9.
This will substantially reduce the time newer players need to acquire all S3 cards.
This is a band-aid fix, but something we can do quickly
- Increasing the token payout from Spotlight Cache duplicates from 1000 tokens to 2000 tokens
We know there are multiple issues with the Spotlight Cache system, but one of the biggest complaints is pulling a duplicate from the fourth slot with a hard-earned Spotlight Key.
Again, this change is a band-aid but fairly straightforward, so we can release it quickly
As previously mentioned, we’re planning for an even bigger Series Drop in the first quarter of 2025.
Conclusion
What do you think of the changes? Is this a good start? Let us know what you think in the comments below, and check out our previous opinion article on the state of Marvel Snap!
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