I hope so too.I'd like to think theres some serious discussion going on behind the scenes, but time will tell.
I doubt it, if there was any afterthough given to this, we would see "we are looking into the issue" or something like that, this silence probly means they don't intend to consider fixing this screwupI'd like to think theres some serious discussion going on behind the scenes, but time will tell.
I completely agree, this stuff is all crap rewards, I tossed out 90% of the shit in this pack. I find the rewards completely insulting. BUT WAIT new players/returning players get a better pack. I’ve donated a lot to this server and I won’t spend another dime on it. You might as well of slapped me with a tampon with anthrax on it. What a joke! *Looks back* at what you gave for the first year pack to the rewards today. Before you had a donation pack just to show that you do appreciate the people keeping the server alive. With out us this server would not exist. If you want people to donate show us that you really appreciate us!So I have waited till now to compare the new player box with the so called "Appreciation Gifts for Active players" joke, but now I've enough of that to judge how much we are appreciated
from what I've seen so far, we get few loyalty tokens, two 24 expiry potions which really isn't that usefull, I bet they just expire on most ppl unless they farm purses, and a random bound item
I was kinda hoping we could get something cool for that, foolish as I was, but I was proven wrong, so far I have gotten Ember nyph (completely useless combat pet that's second rate even to cat) nightfire glider, which on one side is kinda cool, but on the other side I don't need it and I have no reason to ever use it, so useless, abyssal wavewyrm duplicate (aka already one of the most common costumes in game), which I was luckily able to trade for the beige one just so I don't have duplicate, and a carrot dash, which I absolutely disdain and was kinda expecting to get, but I really hoped I'd actually get mirage mount at least but still got somewhat "lucky" that I didn't get worse version of the snail that every active player can get from halloween event, which is really just an insult
so for the score 1) trash I don't want, 2) kinda cool but I don't want it, 3) most common costume I already have, 4) trash I don't want but others do
let me remind you that safe for the costume (where everybody got wavewyrm anyway) nothing is tradable, and stuff other ppl want but not me, while others get stuff they don't want and I'd love
now I hate to complain about free stuff, but when you are giving new players crazy gear that makes my progress feel worthless (armor I have after almost 1 year and costed me soo much effort) worth tens of thousands gold, it's really not that free anymore, and these "rewards" don't do much other then upset ppl because they got stuff they'd rather delete while others get what they'd want but don't want it either
anyone can see from far that giving players random lowgrade stuff without giving them the chance to trade it is a terrible idea and these gifts only add to the silence in this thread to show how little you care about ppl that support your server
They don't have to even donate for it, they get it literary freeIt's a joke. I'm never donating again. All new players have to do is sign up, spend $5, and they get 40,000 gold worth of items and save them a year of grinding in library. Total, ridiculous bullshit.
They don't have to even donate for it, they get it literary free
That is just the cost for the Spellshift Orbs needed to reseal lower tier, you still need a huge amount of other mats to turn 5 pieces of T2 armor to T5.Playing devils advocate, Sparkle has stated that obs costs will drop dramatically by reset (tuesday), and what used to be 30 sunset pearls will become just 1.
So that went from over 5000 gold on an orb for a single piece of t5 obs, to 180g. You can no longer claim the pack is 40k, total cost for the orbs involved in T5 in the pack went from 41.000g to 1450. Yea new players are still getting the pack, but at this point theres no real obstacles for anyone to get the same.
Orbs will be dirt cheap, and grading to divine is 100% chance with a 300 gold anchor.
The first two grades of obs use minimal mats and only need some moon/sun crystals, t3 and t4 remain very light on mats and need minimal amount of essence. T5 does require does require like 50 abyssal crystals and 30 moonlight essence, which is still only 270g from AH right now. T5 only requires some F2 lib mats, no "huge" amount of anything.That is just the cost for the Spellshift Orbs needed to reseal lower tier, you still need a huge amount of other mats to turn 5 pieces of T2 armor to T5.
Some cannot be traded, that means one has to spend hours farming mobs in Auroria and in the Library.
The first two grades of obs use minimal mats and only need some moon/sun crystals, t3 and t4 remain very light on mats and need minimal amount of essence. T5 does require does require like 50 abyssal crystals and 30 moonlight essence, which is still only 270g from AH right now. T5 only requires some F2 lib mats, no "huge" amount of anything.
It all still costs gold, but its now at a point that any fairly established player can simply get it no problem, or else point me to where the obstacles are. Before the change i was trying to get a bow to t6 and just about gave up on the idea, im not going to spend 11.000g just for two orbs. Even more frustrating was knowing that a new player was getting it for nothing.
Now that anybody has access, it shouldn't be that much of a problem, or so i thought. If the discussion shifted to "but they still get stuff", well they were getting stuff before too, the celestial sets they were handed had value. If you'll ever only settle with "new folk get jack" then carry on.
so it is ok to hand out gear that costed us tens of thousands gold (divine obsid armor was around 10k at t1 when I was buing it) just because now it's slightly cheaper and slightly easier? also u critically fail to see the implications of this on the market and the server balance, think before you write your reply to us, because we didThe first two grades of obs use minimal mats and only need some moon/sun crystals, t3 and t4 remain very light on mats and need minimal amount of essence. T5 does require does require like 50 abyssal crystals and 30 moonlight essence, which is still only 270g from AH right now. T5 only requires some F2 lib mats, no "huge" amount of anything.
It all still costs gold, but its now at a point that any fairly established player can simply get it no problem, or else point me to where the obstacles are. Before the change i was trying to get a bow to t6 and just about gave up on the idea, im not going to spend 11.000g just for two orbs. Even more frustrating was knowing that a new player was getting it for nothing.
Now that anybody has access, it shouldn't be that much of a problem, or so i thought. If the discussion shifted to "but they still get stuff", well they were getting stuff before too, the celestial sets they were handed had value. If you'll ever only settle with "new folk get jack" then carry on.