180 mastery points dissapppear

Co-op Missions Discussion
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so, after those update, i can’t afford to use maguro’s mastery map to extend 180 masteries points from co–op missions
why devs do that ? prohibited ?

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Full Mastery Utilization
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Well, seeing that at its core it was an exploit that allowed more points than intended, it’s no wonder it was patched out.

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Edit: Sadly, this was due to others abusing the exploit for different things, not just for the magic fun exploit. Sucks.

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I’m hearing people were putting in malicious and illegal stuff. The 180 exploit was just something that got patched as a “bystander effect”

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This is correct. Data sanitization practices have fixed the exploit.

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I wish they would allow 180 for level 1000 players.

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Not going to happen, and it would violate their intent for Ascension levels providing zero gameplay benefit.

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Yeah, but level 1000 is a pretty high bar.

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Yeah, but that doesn’t matter.

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I didn’t care much about 180 anymore, what I cared about is commander switch for 1 game.. I am going to miss that so much as I don’t have every commander in Co-OP

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But nobody had nagative experience from this. The new players had easier way to play and to enjoy destroy butch of enemies. Their partners didn’t have to win on them own. Everyone was happy with this bug.

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Like some have pointed out, it was fixed essentially due to “collateral damage”.

The exploit that allowed it was tied to allowing the more serious, illicit content to into the game. When Bliz fixed the content issue, it also fixed the mastery exploit.

All that aside, consider that 180 mastery points was never intended by design. Sure, it wasn’t really hurting anyone, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s classified as cheating. So it may be a bummer that it’s gone, but it isn’t wholly unexpected that it could be patched out someday.

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If everyone was allowed to use 180 mastery points, it wouldn’t be cheating, and it would also make the game more fun.

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I was unhappy with this bug, as an example (and counterpoint) as it’s bug abuse. It’s fixed, it’s not coming back, get over it.

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Fixing bugs (even accidentally) should (and thankfully, is) a higher priority for developers than fun.

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What’s the big deal? Just don’t play their Coop (but most of u paid for coop commanders already). There are fan made Coop in Arcade, totally free, and allows 180 points.

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Is removing the option to choose talents (because you get them all) making the game more fun?

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It’s making the game closer to the designer’s intention, which is the objective. There are more important metrics than fun, designer intention being one of them. To me, at least, having to make choices (and other people ALSO having to make choices) is fun.

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This is why the game is basically dead.

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Cool. After all, I’m one player (as are you), the bug isn’t be “re-added” and we should all live with it.