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Winter Festival standards were not kept
daviar1
Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 17 Arc User
This winter festival has not stood up to previous winter festivals or failed to meet basic gaming expectations for the following reasons:
1) There was no "daily free gift" during zenith. When we saw this, it killed the mood. People who played a previous festival already have the winter wolf. So this is no benefit except to the newest of players. Even then, at best it's just a "skin" and not any kind of upgrade. This really killed the spirit of giving.
2) Having same gear in the gifts that we already are overwhelmed of when running undermountain. Very disappoint to see the same "blackened Jaw" gear we get everywhere else.
3) Having all stuff from lanterns bound to character..anyone's who's had 4 or 5 of the same character bound companion knows the waste of this. Maybe have an inventory check so you don't end up destroying so many mounts and companion. I'm not saying have them unbound, but BTA (this is a severe problem and really kills the fun).
4) Lag. it makes it unplayable and not fun at all. This would be an awesome event if the lag would just be dealt with. When you can't play events or rubberband, it's really frustrating. I run a ROG STRIX and had enough lag daily to be pissed. Those with less powerful had it even worse. (Critical killer of fun, causing some just to give up on content entirely)
5) Listen to player feed back. The issues of lag, or for example, the pumpkins that are broken during the holloween festival has been complained about for years. Additionally, after events, quests don't clear out of journal, and they sometimes can't be abandoned. These are all very frustrating and continuing issues. As they've been ignored for years, it's clear the dev's have no intent to fix this to improve player experience.
1) There was no "daily free gift" during zenith. When we saw this, it killed the mood. People who played a previous festival already have the winter wolf. So this is no benefit except to the newest of players. Even then, at best it's just a "skin" and not any kind of upgrade. This really killed the spirit of giving.
2) Having same gear in the gifts that we already are overwhelmed of when running undermountain. Very disappoint to see the same "blackened Jaw" gear we get everywhere else.
3) Having all stuff from lanterns bound to character..anyone's who's had 4 or 5 of the same character bound companion knows the waste of this. Maybe have an inventory check so you don't end up destroying so many mounts and companion. I'm not saying have them unbound, but BTA (this is a severe problem and really kills the fun).
4) Lag. it makes it unplayable and not fun at all. This would be an awesome event if the lag would just be dealt with. When you can't play events or rubberband, it's really frustrating. I run a ROG STRIX and had enough lag daily to be pissed. Those with less powerful had it even worse. (Critical killer of fun, causing some just to give up on content entirely)
5) Listen to player feed back. The issues of lag, or for example, the pumpkins that are broken during the holloween festival has been complained about for years. Additionally, after events, quests don't clear out of journal, and they sometimes can't be abandoned. These are all very frustrating and continuing issues. As they've been ignored for years, it's clear the dev's have no intent to fix this to improve player experience.
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#2, #3, #4 and even #5 (for not listening) are their "standard".
6. no in game rewards for charging ZEN
7. a 20% seasonal sale, that should have been a 40% sale
8. a 30% flash sale, that should have been a 50% sale
9. legendary Tenser Disk was (and still is...) advertised with a rather confusing time frame
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/11322913-legendary-tenser's-disk-in-zen-market
and i think the mount was also removed earlier from the shop again too
10. the "re-release" of expedition packs
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/11322983-expedition-packs-re-release
bad enough that those hollowed packs were "time limited" to pressure players into buying them during the lowest seasonal sale we have seen around here, regular coupons offer a 25% discount on all packs, but did you really had to remove items that made those packs actually worth buying?!
and when you have the time to cherry-pick the good stuff out of the packs, why didn't you also update their shop pictures to account for those changes too?
11. the return of the legendary mounts lottery boxes
12. some players were reporting that the Simril's Holiday Helper companion bonus was messing with the drop rate of other items during gifting... how's that even possible?
> That cannot compare with I dumped a BtC Forgehammer in the past.
I feel this pain, I did get a hammer on my main crafting toon, but I also got one on my barb alt, who hasn’t even seen Knox about the workshop....
You don't know how much better with 2 (or more) characters with a hammer each.
I do and it worked well.
(And no, I never got a "free" forgehammer. I just bought it. How idiotic)