That’s right, you better stay subbed like a good little boy or resub that at least.
Idk how more people don’t have issues with all the FOMO bs that goes into this game, which is the entirety of the trading post.
Why couldn’t these sets be a reward for a small class quest chain/challenge, that’s always gonna be available without idiotic monthly currencies? Or at least make it a Fortnite style battle pass with challenges that can be done in the open world and aren’t braindead level of creative (do 500 dungeons).
It’s also a weird coincidence that they start putting higher quality and actually original stuff on the trading post now that they are planning to include tendies into other promotional bs that can be purchased.
Haha, nah, nothing promotional, they instead just put it in the cash shop and add some wrist bands as a bonus. Like I feel so bad, because I had some minimal trust after this interview and assumed it’d be like really rare “significant bundles” once, or twice a year, or once per expansion, but they shamelessly put in a mobile game micro transaction in the game with gatcha game fomo tactics. Not like server transfers, race change, etc. cost 25 bucks, you pay for the expansion, pay for the sub, and have a cash shop with exclusive high effort cosmetics, where the in-game rewards pale in comparison. Nah, you also have a 2nd fomo rotating gatcha game cash shop soon with the trading post, if they keep adding fake bundles like these to sell trader’s tender currency. On top of that there is also a 3rd cash shop in the game called the boosting market devalueing and mixing up all in-game achievements… Not sure, how someone can justify charging a sub for this. On top of that the game balance is completely broken and the gameplay currently is really awful. LFG is just a frustration inducing fake barrier to entry to make people buy boosts. It’s all engineered and monetised. Don’t be a fool to think it just happens to work a certain way coincidentally.
Just to clarify: I would be completely ok with all of this, if the game was free2play with a real traditional battlepass as the trading post, but like this, it feels very bad
Yep but it’s all cosmetics and those don’t matter don’t you know. That’s why people are buying $25 mounts and transmogs, farming all raids, doing time rifts and farming reps, because cosmetics don’t matter.
The more “sources” of tendies there are, the more expensive and appealing items they’ll put on the trading post, it’s practically a guarantee.
No feature in the game should be adding value to subscriptions and purchases, they should be adding value to the game so that people WANT to stay subbed, not to bribe people into subbing.
Fix legacy raid farming after years of it being broken
Add non-garbage gear to solo/world content
Make professions into something everyone can get into easily because you still have to farm materials in high end content, rather than this completely inaccessible rich get richer bs with people demanding 10k gold for a 408 crafted item.
Make crests, flightstones, and reps account wide, and add a item upgrade crest discount for alts because farming the same content for the same amount of time on more characters is boring.
Make more than 8 dungeons + 1 megadungeon per expansion
Stop making lame and stupid stories, characters and expansion themes that only Twitter gladiators care about.
Reduce rotation and boss/trash complexity and bloat so that more than 1% can realistically achieve BiS, the main point of a vertical progression MMO.
Do some or all of those and you may add some value to the game itself.