Did anyone else start writing in a calm mood, only to get angrier and more frustrated as the post progressed? Because I did. The slow rage is clearly visible in the writing. Sorry about that. There's just ... so much wrong.
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If I have to spend 300 hours hunting for something, then its effects should be permanent. Examples:
If I spend hundreds of hours hunting for a recipe, then I should be able to reproduce that item as often as I want. I shouldn't have to look for the same recipe again.
If I spend dozens of hours hunting for a monster Familiar, then it shouldn't disappear in 30 days.
If I participate in a tedious event, then the rewards should not expire in one week.
The alternative: Boost the goddamned drop rates. If this stuff's just gonna expire, then maybe it shouldn't be so hard to find. Jesus christ.
Also, maybe -- I don't know -- loosen gachapon's death grip on our collective balls? Dragon Khanjars have been gach only for as long as I can remember. There was ONE event where they were given out like candy, but it hasn't happened again. Why don't you guys hold another event like that? Or, even better, why not LET THEM DROP from bosses? Make bosses worth hunting again, eh? Same with elemental wands and dark scrolls worth using. It is absolutely ridiculous that some of the game's most sought after endgame items come from a pineappleing paytoplay lottery system. Especially since gachapon gives total garbage 99% of the time; the chances of finding anything decent are so low that nobody wants to risk it. If Gachapon MUST exist, then make it worth using!
Drop the "10 a day" thing on the pqs, even if it means lowering the exp a little bit, or something like that. If you're not going to revamp the pqs to make them fun, then at least make an option to solo them. If you sign on late at night (or, hell, in the early evenings; basically, if you have responsibilities that keep you from this game through most of the day), then good luck finding two other people who haven't already finished their daily ten. Nobody DOES half of these pqs anymore, anyway, because they're repetitive and dull, and the rewards don't make up for it. Kenta's goggles ... I mean, jesus, were you even trying? Look at specs. Now look at kenta's goggles. Back to specs. Back to kenta's goggles. Kenta's goggles look like swimwear. I mean -- goddamn. The dragon pq rewards are nice, but the chances of getting anything decent are, what, 3 percent? And you're doing ten a day AT BEST, so you can expect to be there a while. Then there's the hob pq mount, which requires ... so many goddamned pqs. Which wouldn't be a problem, if I could just solo them. I'm usually the type to peach and moan about "BUT BUT BUT THE COMMUNITY," but the community has shown that it doesn't care about these pqs anyway, and I would kind of like to complete them without waiting for the community to suddenly give a pomegranate.
Stop changing the classes so goddamned much. I made an fp mage because I liked poison mist. It was low maintenance. You didn't need great gear, or any gear, to mist train. I really liked that factor. You guys pineappleed with that when you made mist dependent on magic attack, so I quit my mage for years. Then I made a Sniper because I liked the whole "shoot from a distance"/low hp thing. It made the game feel slightly more difficult -- added some strategy to it. Forced me to use puppet. You guys pineappleed with both of those aspects; now I can shoot up close, and my sniper has a bunch of hp. And he's mobile; he has a goddamned flash jump. Mobility was part of why I made my Shadower, with the big secondary reason being Assaulter. BUT HO -- Apparently you guys are removing assaulter in an upcoming "revamp," and replacing it with a RUSH skill, which is exactly why I made a WARRIOR. I mean -- god dammit. Stop. Just pineappleing stop. Please. Remember back when this game wasn't hemorrhaging players? When classes would go for YEARS without these huge changes, and things were relatively fine?
Fix the mount lag.
Fix the fm entrance lag.
Hire a guy to just sit in the FM and ban the advertisers as they come.
Take a quick sweep through the temple of time/leafre every once in a while. Those places are infected with hackers.
If I spend hundreds of hours hunting for a recipe, then I should be able to reproduce that item as often as I want. I shouldn't have to look for the same recipe again.
If I spend dozens of hours hunting for a monster Familiar, then it shouldn't disappear in 30 days.
If I participate in a tedious event, then the rewards should not expire in one week.
The alternative: Boost the goddamned drop rates. If this stuff's just gonna expire, then maybe it shouldn't be so hard to find. Jesus christ.
Also, maybe -- I don't know -- loosen gachapon's death grip on our collective balls? Dragon Khanjars have been gach only for as long as I can remember. There was ONE event where they were given out like candy, but it hasn't happened again. Why don't you guys hold another event like that? Or, even better, why not LET THEM DROP from bosses? Make bosses worth hunting again, eh? Same with elemental wands and dark scrolls worth using. It is absolutely ridiculous that some of the game's most sought after endgame items come from a pineappleing paytoplay lottery system. Especially since gachapon gives total garbage 99% of the time; the chances of finding anything decent are so low that nobody wants to risk it. If Gachapon MUST exist, then make it worth using!
Drop the "10 a day" thing on the pqs, even if it means lowering the exp a little bit, or something like that. If you're not going to revamp the pqs to make them fun, then at least make an option to solo them. If you sign on late at night (or, hell, in the early evenings; basically, if you have responsibilities that keep you from this game through most of the day), then good luck finding two other people who haven't already finished their daily ten. Nobody DOES half of these pqs anymore, anyway, because they're repetitive and dull, and the rewards don't make up for it. Kenta's goggles ... I mean, jesus, were you even trying? Look at specs. Now look at kenta's goggles. Back to specs. Back to kenta's goggles. Kenta's goggles look like swimwear. I mean -- goddamn. The dragon pq rewards are nice, but the chances of getting anything decent are, what, 3 percent? And you're doing ten a day AT BEST, so you can expect to be there a while. Then there's the hob pq mount, which requires ... so many goddamned pqs. Which wouldn't be a problem, if I could just solo them. I'm usually the type to peach and moan about "BUT BUT BUT THE COMMUNITY," but the community has shown that it doesn't care about these pqs anyway, and I would kind of like to complete them without waiting for the community to suddenly give a pomegranate.
Stop changing the classes so goddamned much. I made an fp mage because I liked poison mist. It was low maintenance. You didn't need great gear, or any gear, to mist train. I really liked that factor. You guys pineappleed with that when you made mist dependent on magic attack, so I quit my mage for years. Then I made a Sniper because I liked the whole "shoot from a distance"/low hp thing. It made the game feel slightly more difficult -- added some strategy to it. Forced me to use puppet. You guys pineappleed with both of those aspects; now I can shoot up close, and my sniper has a bunch of hp. And he's mobile; he has a goddamned flash jump. Mobility was part of why I made my Shadower, with the big secondary reason being Assaulter. BUT HO -- Apparently you guys are removing assaulter in an upcoming "revamp," and replacing it with a RUSH skill, which is exactly why I made a WARRIOR. I mean -- god dammit. Stop. Just pineappleing stop. Please. Remember back when this game wasn't hemorrhaging players? When classes would go for YEARS without these huge changes, and things were relatively fine?
Fix the mount lag.
Fix the fm entrance lag.
Hire a guy to just sit in the FM and ban the advertisers as they come.
Take a quick sweep through the temple of time/leafre every once in a while. Those places are infected with hackers.