Well this is pretty much evolving as anticipated One of my guildies went into well of Dragons today out of four instances he was the only player I logged in in the forlorn hope they might have recanted and put them back enclave was like a ghost town the only thing missing was tumbleweed picked up my key and logged back out
Noted the key and zen sale and giggled for ten minutes after logging out We are witnessing some gaming history here guys Implosion doesn't even cover it
I am not sure what all the moving parts are, maybe they are seeing how well the zen/key sale bolsters sales before they decide if we can have wards for bars. To me it seems irrelevant, the wards cost way more in keys/lockboxes to buy wards than the $10 in zen from the zen market. At least Andy loves us
Seeing the current issues facing Xbox users right now, namely the removal of both types of wards as well as blood rubies from their trade bar store, is this something that is coming to PC as well? Should I be spending my trade bars on coal wards and hoarding them for a future 2x RP weekend when they'll fetch a premium if these changes also come to PC or should I use them for my own upgrades this weekend?
I'd like to say I can trust an official response but the Xbox players were told they were getting coal wards at the same prices we have now on PC, then a big sale on enchanted keys came for them, and then Cryptic decided to remove wards and rubies from the trade bar store completely instead of lowering their prices as promised. So I'm not asking the mods and employees what they are supposed to tell us, I'd like to know what other players think.
This whole Xbox situation makes me fear they are planning something similar for us on PC soon. If we see a big sale on enchanted keys coming should we start hoarding coal wards just in case, or should we already be starting now?
A decapitated fighter always quits while he's a head.
The thing I'm most upset about is the removal of the 2x ad event. Trade bars are just another currency to mask how much you are actually paying for things in real money. They were always a bonus in my mind and nothing I was ever trying to obtain but have as the result of vip keys. I understand if it were a goal to get as many bars as possible I would be pissed about this but I always seem to have at least one c ward on hand from opening artifact boxes I get from daily celestial coins. This Coal-gate thing should really take the back burner. I estimate from all the loot runs I was doing instead of sleeping this last two weeks I would have over 2mil of ad salvaged by Saturday. Now I just have to sit on it or just take a 50% hit. I am in no way a f2p gamer but I was really counting on this to boost my ad and zen numbers. I do enjoy the game but do not enjoy being lied to. It seems we need to focus on the more immediate and all around hit we are all taking with the canceled event.
Think on this, a c ward if you really need it is $8 on the zen market. Or in an alternate reality if they had put them on the tb store, 75 tbs. unless you get a jackpot you are going to have to open 15 lock boxes to amass 75 tbs. Buying 15 keys is around $16. Now lock boxes have the tendency to reveal nothing but <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> you can maybe throw on an artifact for rp. So now you just paid twice as much for the c ward and a play at the lottery. Just wait for a c ward if you need one or if you're impatient buy one for $8(or $10, idk). Whose idea was it to farm trade bars in the first place? That's a gamblers financial plan if I ever heard one. What I have read here sounds like a lot of buyers remorse.
TL;DR - The real rally cry here should be "BRING BACK THE 2X AD EVENT".
If Andy is held responsible for this is a pure example of 'scape goat'. The community manager doesn't have responsibility for rolling out these insane decisions, he's just the front man who's job it is to communicate with us.
Obviously that could've been handled better but the responsibility lies with the person who chose to remove coal wards etc from the tb vendor.
That is the person who should be thrown under the proverbial bus.
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Xael De Armadeon: DC
Xane De Armadeon: CW
Zen De Armadeon: OP
Zohar De Armadeon: TR
Chrion De Armadeon: SW
Gosti Big Belly: GWF
Barney McRustbucket: GF
Lt. Thackeray: HR
Lucius De Armadeon: BD
Actually, on the Reddit thread a Dev wrote these words: "First and foremost I want everyone to understand that Strum wasn't intentionally misleading or trying to perpetuate a bait and switch. All frustration and confusion regarding the TB store is on us, the devs. Please remember that he's the messenger and can only relay what he knows."
I've decided not to spend any money until this is sorted, that's unacceptable.
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Join us brothers and sisters and distant relations and confused onlookers.
Join us in the shadows where we stand mostly vigilant... although slightly distracted by our inventories. "In war, unqualified. In peace, disorganised. In death, mild irritation."
IMO, nothing is going to be said until right before they head out for the weekend tomorrow evening, somewhere around 7:00-8:00 pm West Coast time on a Friday night, of a Hallmark holiday weekend.... so 9:00-10:00 East Coast time.
Hope being the XBox population misses the initial announcement, has 2-3 days of weekend fun, out and about w/ the S/O for V-Day, etc & so on.... a "news dump" if you will.... hopefully lessening the reaction of the furious player base.
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Ahhh. Pretty easy to read into that one.
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One of my guildies went into well of Dragons today out of four instances he was the only player
I logged in in the forlorn hope they might have recanted and put them back enclave was like a ghost town the only thing missing was tumbleweed picked up my key and logged back out
Noted the key and zen sale and giggled for ten minutes after logging out
We are witnessing some gaming history here guys
Implosion doesn't even cover it
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Casual Dailies
I'd like to say I can trust an official response but the Xbox players were told they were getting coal wards at the same prices we have now on PC, then a big sale on enchanted keys came for them, and then Cryptic decided to remove wards and rubies from the trade bar store completely instead of lowering their prices as promised. So I'm not asking the mods and employees what they are supposed to tell us, I'd like to know what other players think.
This whole Xbox situation makes me fear they are planning something similar for us on PC soon. If we see a big sale on enchanted keys coming should we start hoarding coal wards just in case, or should we already be starting now?
Think on this, a c ward if you really need it is $8 on the zen market. Or in an alternate reality if they had put them on the tb store, 75 tbs. unless you get a jackpot you are going to have to open 15 lock boxes to amass 75 tbs. Buying 15 keys is around $16. Now lock boxes have the tendency to reveal nothing but <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> you can maybe throw on an artifact for rp. So now you just paid twice as much for the c ward and a play at the lottery. Just wait for a c ward if you need one or if you're impatient buy one for $8(or $10, idk). Whose idea was it to farm trade bars in the first place? That's a gamblers financial plan if I ever heard one. What I have read here sounds like a lot of buyers remorse.
TL;DR - The real rally cry here should be "BRING BACK THE 2X AD EVENT".
Obviously that could've been handled better but the responsibility lies with the person who chose to remove coal wards etc from the tb vendor.
That is the person who should be thrown under the proverbial bus.
Xael De Armadeon: DC
Xane De Armadeon: CW
Zen De Armadeon: OP
Zohar De Armadeon: TR
Chrion De Armadeon: SW
Gosti Big Belly: GWF
Barney McRustbucket: GF
Lt. Thackeray: HR
Lucius De Armadeon: BD
Member of Casual Dailies - XBox
"First and foremost I want everyone to understand that Strum wasn't intentionally misleading or trying to perpetuate a bait and switch. All frustration and confusion regarding the TB store is on us, the devs. Please remember that he's the messenger and can only relay what he knows."
I've decided not to spend any money until this is sorted, that's unacceptable.
Join us brothers and sisters and distant relations and confused onlookers.
Join us in the shadows where we stand mostly vigilant... although slightly distracted by our inventories.
"In war, unqualified. In peace, disorganised. In death, mild irritation."
JOIN US.
At this point, I doubt we hear anything today.
IMO, nothing is going to be said until right before they head out for the weekend tomorrow evening, somewhere around 7:00-8:00 pm West Coast time on a Friday night, of a Hallmark holiday weekend.... so 9:00-10:00 East Coast time.
Hope being the XBox population misses the initial announcement, has 2-3 days of weekend fun, out and about w/ the S/O for V-Day, etc & so on.... a "news dump" if you will.... hopefully lessening the reaction of the furious player base.
The whole situation is a joke.