Family Name: Shnappy

Region: NA

Comments: I was really excited to see all the horse calculations and stat spreads etc etc be added in game and easy to see and read. And then came the Pearl items. When you put it together, it just feels even more like predatory monitization than ever. You have stat Grades (C-S) so people can see how well their horse is doing compared to the max. PSA: You have like a 0% chance to have 4 stats outside the C range. At Guru 35 there is an 11.3% chance per level up to get 4 stats A grade or above (A+ and S) . If you want a "middle grade" horse (A), and have Guru 35 training, it would only cost an average of ~60,750 Pearls (Lowballed - I did 9 level down tickets per level * 27 levels on the assumption RNG would bless you a few times with that 11.3% chance, just to give it the benefit of doubt). Assuming you buy Pearls only during the special deals, that is still somewhere in the range of $250-300 USD.

Obviously, no one is forced to do this, but it prays on peoples emotions, which is why it is called predatory monitization. Players, please dont give PA your money for this. PA you should be ashamed. 

I don't know. I'm gunna abstain from up or down voting you because I get it. I'm sick of it too, brother. BUT. I've purchased every single one-time purchase thing in the game. Every lodging. My fairy is OP. And while this is just one elitist's opinion, I am surprised anyone did this math or thinks of this as something you should do. Once it's a T10 any old stats will do for me. It's awesome they just moved the low-end roll up as much as they did. Maybe this is one for the whales. The horse whales. The stallions. You want that S tier horse? More power to ya bud, fund the game.

EDIT: Heck it. Upvote. We gotta stop this pearl shop crazy train.

My main issue is how it was presented, with the Grade system being right there, and how even having any grade above the lowest is basically 0% chance, without spending money. I haven't bought all the storages/stables/etc but I have a fair amount of them. I have the tent. I have a perfect fairy (100/100 everything max perfect). I have horse skins and a carrack skin. I've given PA a lot of money for some useless things over the last 10 years. I would be more likely to buy a $60 item that just maxes a level 30 horses stats. I will never play their rng loot box game for horse stats. 

I would honestly be happy if all Pearl shop non-cosmetic items had an in-game equivalent (like a lot of them do).  Like, in this case, give us a checkbox that reverses horse xp and let's us down-level them...call it Retraining or somesuch.  Make it take twice as long, but give the same training xp.

Even a daily that de-leveled the horse and gave it a 50% exp penalty would be something. If you really want a top end horse, the daily would frustrate some people into just buying the ticket, but otherwise you just wait while training a different horse/afk fishing.

It's even worse if you will realise that all this simulation window is not that helpfull for life skillers. If they would really rework training, increase income to match afk fishing then those tickets would be treated as byproduct p2w item (like many else) but in current form every single change to training introduced today is just to make FOMO and introduce pure predatory p2w.

ZERO real changes to training LIFE SKILL.

It's even more sad that this simulator windows is not even that great. It's still more convenient to use bdolytics because they at least remember my mastery and I don't need to put my wagon to stable and retrieve single horse just to open this window.

I feel like training would be better served if your level dictated the final stats of the horse. No rng range (PA is addicted to rng everything), no guess work. At x training level, horse gains flat y stat amount. Adjust horse values significantly to reflect having those higher stats when sold to the npc or players. 

good on PA milking addicted whales.

no normal human would actually cosider this, if you spend money on that then your money is better off in PA's hands

You are really missing a point here or you are too big fanboy to not see it. It's not really about some stupid p2w tickets. Problem is they announced changes in training life skill, horse leveling etc. Everyone thought that finally, after 5 years of empty patches they will do something to improve life skills. But they just say "f*** u" to all players interested in life skills and instead of improving it they just released changes pure to introduce this p2w system. 99.99% of changes in this patch has nothing to for non p2w players.