Temporary stat increase events cause negative sentiment
Family Name: Zozrog
Region: NA
The most volitile portion of your playerbase are those who are currently trying to progress. These are the players who will be unhappy.
Honestly, who cares, PA neglected impact of gear in PVP, soon they gonna do same for PVE to please "temporary" aka season players even more.
They probably dropped journal "GS" project because those temporary players ("casuals as well) don't care to do it ( questing to hard apparently) and don't want to give free GS for free at all.
Also its very very bad for hard cap GS players, because this fake GS show that chasing more GS not gonna change anything, past ~720GS every GS cost like 100bills, while you getting same amount of silver/h as centaur season.
The same can be said about every event buff, like the recent 10hr buffs or the Blessing of Wind/Earth.
I do agree with you, they should be either permanent or non-existent, it's a temporary "high", making you progress faster, feel stronger, and when taken away, sort of negates the way BDO seems to be depicted, the game that should be a marathon, not a series of mini-sprints.
Players may feel forced to do everything they need to during the week(s) of events, and then bam, its gone, and the FOMO kicks in if life took precedence during an in-game event. In most cases, I do like when the buffs can be applied when you are ready to use them, like event foods/scrolls/etc, so good on them for that.
Yeah I can't think of any other MMO that actually has events that give you direct gear stats and then removes them after the event ends. Buffs, sure, but not actual stat increases.
I guess if I had to try and make an example, I've played another game that gives you time-limited gear like a 30-Day Weapon for your class with really good stats, but those also suck when you lose them.
I'm kinda working around it by using this as motivation to complete some Adventure Logs I haven't done yet to get back that +1 AP & +1 DP, but god are they boring.
Yeah I can't think of any other MMO that actually has events that give you direct gear stats and then removes them after the event ends. Buffs, sure, but not actual stat increases.
This has happened in many other MMOs in the past (DAoC, and SWG just to name a couple), not just BDO, and it technically was a buff - that appeared on the buff bar.
HOWEVER, I do agree that because of the bracket system adding sheet stats that net people brackets, and in this case - where they existsted for so long people built around them - they should have at the very least rolled it into Happy Black Spirit - who knows maybe they will do this for the anniversary. I can only imagine how terrible it feels to have a bracket one day and log in the next and have it be gone. Regression from events is TERRIBLE.
I hated the woosa/Meagu 1ap/dp buff because it gave me a false sense of comfort with brackets. I would prefer if PA does not do these kinds of events in the future unless its permanent.
The Blessings though, I loved them and considering how long they were there, I would have loved for them to come back again.
Another sad thought on them thinking they are giving us something really cool. My thought is leave it or dont give it.. Also the two items we had for 6hr buffs were nice BUT they took them away as well.. Why not leave them and not worry about GM having to give buffs and also hope you are on when they do. Another fail on thier part.. Heres a thought maybe in some strange way the stats and buff items dont work with the next outfit they release? :)
go full diablo and make treasure stacking charm that increase base stats when in inv so we can fill 192 slots with charms to compete in meta lol
I hated the woosa/Meagu 1ap/dp buff because it gave me a false sense of comfort with brackets. I would prefer if PA does not do these kinds of events in the future unless its permanent.
The Blessings though, I loved them and considering how long they were there, I would have loved for them to come back again.
Same here, I would prefer they just don't give us these temporary +1AP and +1DP events UNLESS they keep them afterwards permanently like you said.
For some reason in other games I don't mind a temp stat buff event, but there's something about THIS game in particular and the way they handle stats, and the gear brackets, and just how hard it is to get +1AP and +1DP at end game that feels extra shitty when they take it away.
If they give us a new adventure log challenge that awards 1 AP/1 DP, I'm sure most people would be happy.