[QUOTE=Silverthing;52855498]Is the FP guild still alive? Went inactive for a while and kicked, can I get an reinvite? Silverthing.1849[/QUOTE]
Yeah, is it still a thing I'm just finishing up installing all the drivers (though it looks like I might have to live without sound until I get monies for a headset with a longer cord) and am today or tomorrow getting back to the game?
Oh boy, Mount Skin Lootboxes.
More RNG microtransactions, what a shit show.
[editline]7th November 2017[/editline]
Yet another thing that should've been ingame rewards except they're $5 per lootbox.
Not only did this patch come with more scummy gambling systems, but a really terrible balance patch. Arenanet are [i]really[/i] disconnected from their player-base when it comes to anything more that casual open-world stuff.
[QUOTE=Jarokwa;52866193]Mount lootboxes and 2k gems for a single mount skin.. what the fuck is ANet doing[/QUOTE]
Trying to keep up with other games companies and their shitty lootbox systems.
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we korean F2P game now
They worried that the springer would be too cute for the style and theme of the game. So they added neopets to ride around.
What the fuck happened.
NCSoft forcing monetization would be my best bet, but tbh with how much the devs have been dropping the ball lately I wouldn't even be surprised anymore if it was their decision alone.
[QUOTE=Cuon Alpinus;52867622]NCSoft forcing monetization would be my best bet, but tbh with how much the devs have been dropping the ball lately I wouldn't even be surprised anymore if it was their decision alone.[/QUOTE]
As far as I know ANet is not owned by NCSoft anymore and is independant
[editline]8th November 2017[/editline]
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we korean F2P game now[/QUOTE]
I was afraid that this would happen and I was hoping it never would...silly me :saddowns:
I am so disappointed in ANet
Remove the cancerous gambling system and allow us to choose what skin we want, and decrease the cost of the new jackal skin from fucking 2000 gems to 800 [i]at the most[/i]
It's also a shame because some of the sensible, non-gaudy skins are pretty decent. This stuff will probably still sell like hotcakes though because people can't restrain themselves from the biggest most obnoxious messes they can find, even if it means going through 10 random drops before they get it. I expect every generic lolita Asura to be riding around on those astral griffons within a week, if that.
[QUOTE=Trainbike;52868251]It's also a shame because some of the sensible, non-gaudy skins are pretty decent. This stuff will probably still sell like hotcakes though because people can't restrain themselves from the biggest most obnoxious messes they can find, even if it means going through 10 random drops before they get it. I expect [b]every generic lolita Asura to be riding around on those astral griffons within a week[/b], if that.[/QUOTE]
Dai? :thinking:
I don't understand, to be honest.
The astral griffon is just garbage. It's got an animated space texture and a short little trail, that's it, the model itself is unchanged. And yet, the general opinion seems to be that it's the most desirable skin, just because it's glowy and can be coloured so bright it'd be visible from space. Why? Is anyone actually jealous they don't look like a product of a dying gpu?
The best we can hope for is this outrage to continue and the RNG loot crates as well as the Limited Time Exclusives in the black lion chests get removed.
Also tickboxes to show default Mounts/Gliders can't hurt.
This game's art style has suffered way too much because of shiny Gem Store shit.
Remember when they gutted lots of default skill animations to deal with "visual noise"?
And now with have this TF2 tier eye melting bullshit everywhere in the game.
I miss the old days of legendary weapons as the only source of visual noise.
[QUOTE=Hammer7;52869020]I miss the old days of legendary weapons as the only source of visual noise.[/QUOTE]
Feels like a completely different game..
[QUOTE=Citrus705;52868303]Dai? :thinking:[/QUOTE]
none of my asura are kawaii uguu monsters [i]thanks[/i]
also I've been going off about the skins in the discord too, absolutely the worst way humanly possible to implement this shit
[QUOTE=Citrus705;52868175]I am so disappointed in ANet
Remove the cancerous gambling system and allow us to choose what skin we want, and decrease the cost of the new jackal skin from fucking 2000 gems to 800 [i]at the most[/i][/QUOTE]
I mentioned this to my guild because intelligent conversations are fun. Instead I get ridiculed, insulted, blocked and threatened to be kicked from the guild. Probably didn't help that I also said consumers are likely responsible for ANet adding the thing in the first place, but still
:saddowns:
why are you nerds laughing at me
[QUOTE=Citrus705;52869281]I mentioned this to my guild because intelligent conversations are fun. Instead I get ridiculed, insulted, blocked and threatened to be kicked from the guild. Probably didn't help that I also said consumers are likely responsible for ANet adding the thing in the first place, but still
:saddowns:[/QUOTE]
Sounds like they aren't worth hanging around with anyway lol
Reminder that this video was a thing:
[video]https://youtu.be/35BPhT-KI1E[/video]
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"A painterly, illustrated look."
Anet must be having serious financial issues if they've resorted to this. I wouldnt mind as much if the liscences cost about the same as a key, because 150 gems is roughly 50 gold and that sounds reasonable for a random mount skin and getting all of them would be the same kind of investment you'd put into a Legendary, but 400 for is pretty steep, and the 2000 get singular mount skins is A LOT
Hardly, it's just a cash grab. They have better tricks for making easy money—not just from whales—if they were actually in a really bad place for profits. Blizzard also sells mounts on their online store for US$25. ArenaNet is just less consistent and does less in general due to being a far smaller company, so that's why you can't get any mount skins in-game. And the system is different rather than every mount being basically the same.
Most people on Reddit and the official forum actually think the 400 gems per mount skin price is fine, but I agree that it should be lower. Nonetheless, the loot box thing is fine as long as they reduce the randomness by giving the user a group to roll from. 1/30 with no duplicates is too much; it should be split into 6 sets of 5 mounts or something, maybe paying more for the cooler ones. ArenaNet is historically really awful with marketing.
Also, as someone who takes great pleasure from beautiful and unique GUIs, I'm extremely disappointed that ArenaNet made a brand new interface with animations for this stable thing, but they can't be bothered to make proper menus for gizmos like the portal tome, or unique UIs for interactive puzzles in the open world or instances (like in RuneScape). AFAIK they currently only have one guy whose only focus is the UI.
Even Brawlhalla's system would be better.
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Notice how there are less items so you have a better chance at getting the ones you want. This number varies only slightly. Buying the skin from the store directly costs ~40% more. But the incentive to opening the chest is that you might get the skin cheaper (US$3+), or one of the skins that are exclusive to the themed chest. Also no duplicates and untradable. No gold to premium currency exchange. It's also a completely free game, whereas Path of Fire is a paid expansion. Perhaps ArenaNet's logic for making it so expensive is that it's an account unlock, even though everyone spends 90% of their time on only one character? Every time a new one of these chests is released in Brawlhalla, people of all ages just go and buy all of them, which is over $40. In a better world they would only release good skins, but some of it is subjective and maybe people only want slight upgrades instead of something obnoxious.
Im in a GW2 Facebook group and I have seen numerous people post how they are happy and proud they gambled they way to that one ultra-mega flashy skin they want, or even worse, how they bought all mount skins...This is why Anet is swimming in money now, because for general public all they need is a super flashy skin.
[QUOTE=Cronos Dage;52871095]Blizzard also sells mounts on their online store for US$25[/QUOTE]
WoW mounts do two things: Walk and Fly, to varying degrees of speed. A cash shop skin will still do all of that. $25 [I]for 1/5 of gw2's mount functions[/I], of which is very situational, is a tall order. I thought people were making it clear $4 per mount with the halloween skin was pushing it for silly gimmick skins
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