How dare you call Pearl's Blessing an event. I never come here to whine, and this is my first time not using your format or trying to be constructive, but I'm mad lol. Every update seems more money grabby than the last. New players are too overwhelmed to start and veterans are finally starting to feel the microtransaction fatigue. Just stop it. Make your buck but this rotating system of deals and if or when I should support the creators of my hobby is exhausting. The way we wait for 1+1 pearl boxes, pearl's blessings, coupons, and deals in general. Why does every aspect of this game, right down to spending money on it, have to feel like a min/max marathon. Reprice it all and undo the deals. Something. I don't know, nothing constructive here, just frustration.
Starting to feel fatigue? This game has rammed mtx down everybody's throats for years. It's just ramping up even more now because PA is really feeling the revenue loss from their player exodus this past year.
Man, I've been on board for 9 of the 10 years anyway and I used to think it wasn't so bad. The rates at which you could P2W were reasonable in like a non-reasonable way. As in, it was almost embarrassing for those who partook. Yes, tent was added early and is one of the items most think of as mandatory. And fair. You like the game? $60. But it's getting to the point where you like the game? There is over $500 in one-time purchase crap that most MMO players are going to feel like they need at some point.
And to be clear I don't want to disrupt the whales. Nobody wants to disrupt the whales. We appreciate them for funding our hobby and selling us costumes. Continue the monthly gamble box deals and outfit deals. Discontinue everything else. Just lower the price of the tent, and each individual maid. I would probably buy more maids if they weren't 12 bucks each. And then I have to wait for deals to maybe get them for 8 bucks each, or 6 if I'm extra patient. I would have 100 maids if they were 2 bucks each. But maybe that's too accessible. Only lower the price of the useful one-time purchase stuff maybe? I don't have all the answers, all I know is they need to sit down and have a think on it.
Man, I've been on board for 9 of the 10 years anyway and I used to think it wasn't so bad. The rates at which you could P2W were reasonable in like a non-reasonable way. As in, it was almost embarrassing for those who partook. Yes, tent was added early and is one of the items most think of as mandatory. And fair. You like the game? $60.
This feeling exactly. I've been around since before the NA/EU launch. Every new content/feature addition feels like it comes with some crazy P2W scheme, or at the very least pushes people into buying more crons to be relevant. It has gotten really really bad over the last year.
I been here from the begaining and now feel i will never have any silver again it will all be going to cron stones with all the new life skill stuff and new top gear stuff it just became the silver drain that all they done and no not ever using real money anymore
Maybe the answer is a 1-cost Loyalty "10 Years of Reparations" package with like 3 months of buffs, 50k cron stones, a couple outfits, a couple costumes, a couple maids, a couple pets---
I don't know how serious I am. Obviously extreme but as I type it cynically and as a joke I wonder if maybe a non-expiring 1 Loyalty annual pack is the answer. Essentially turning the Ball/FESTA/etc. rewards into one-time permanent catch-up mechanics?
Instead of throwing more pay-to-win nonsense at the players, PA should focus on resolving core gameplay issues, fixing lag, desync, bugs and glitches, modernizing the game engine. If PA wants the kind of revenue modern games have, the performance should be comparable. PA's revenue has gone down because they have not paid attention to what the playerbase wants.