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Turn off the insufferable Admin spam and allow us to discard/vendor lockboxes.
thevlaka
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
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TITLE.
Enough is enough.
I know you're trying really hard to promote cash shop but seriously, nobody cares if Joe Blow received a nightmare my little pony.
Also what's with nightmare lockboxes not being able to be discarded or vendored?
I have 2 stacks in my bags which I can't do anything with.
TITLE.
Enough is enough.
I know you're trying really hard to promote cash shop but seriously, nobody cares if Joe Blow received a nightmare my little pony.
Also what's with nightmare lockboxes not being able to be discarded or vendored?
I have 2 stacks in my bags which I can't do anything with.
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Getting good content to players in the Foundry - challenges and solutions
Handle: @zaphtastic
Exactly! I am a bit appalled at how this is all handled. At least let us throw out the darn boxes, and give more bags out as rewards. Make them 16 slots and less, and have the store sell bags that are 24 slots and above. Oh also, $10 for a bag = not a good deal. So sweeten it a bit.
Really? I have been putting them up for 100 AD each and no one buys. How much do you charge per?
IF?
There is no if. WHEN is what you are looking for. Cryptic will be releasing new lockboxes on a regular basis. The sole benefit is that a few months out, this lockbox will be worth a lot to someone wanting what's in it.
Maybe then they can afford to not have their games go down two nights in a row.
Exactly! I am a bit appalled at how this is all handled. At least let us throw out the darn boxes, and give more bags out as rewards. Make them 16 slots and less, and have the store sell bags that are 24 slots and above. Oh also, $10 for a bag = not a good deal. So sweeten it a bit.
Really? I have been putting them up for 100 AD each and no one buys. How much do you charge per?
For the record, I agree that lockboxes should be destroyable... and yeah, the bag situation is really, really annoying.
Getting good content to players in the Foundry - challenges and solutions
Handle: @zaphtastic
As for ponies, then i don't mind. It is not like you hear some annoying fanfare or getting alarm window with informtation that someone got their stuff. Ads are ads.
I only found two of the boxes, but I put them both on the AH with a starting bid of 50. Both of them have been bid on already. Also, don't forget that you can buy keys on the AH. It's much cheaper to buy them that way than converting AD to zen.
The model of this game is F2P, buy for convenience. Let's not forget, this game is also a business. The cost of overhead needs to be offset somehow. Some games have a subscription. Some, a cash shop. Of those with a cash shop, there are several types. Buy-to-win, is one.
//Edit: B2W seems to be rampant amongst other titles, but Perfect World has demonstrated that that doesn't have to be the norm. /edit
Perfect World has done a remarkable job at representing the buy-for-convenience model.
The admin notification gives an added sense of value to the item.
Your argument is petty, and colors you as one who sees yourself as some sort of special snowflake.
The text issue I don't mind too much. I don't know why it displays it in all honesty, but that's fine if there's a reason. My only request would be to make it a little smaller, and not exactly in the centre of my screen whilst I'm fighting a boss, that's not so fun.
Actually, it's usually the exact opposite. It's *cheaper* to convert to Zen and buy the items yourself as people put huge prices on the AH. I assume they're just testing what they can get away with as with so many currencies it's hard to keep track of an item's true worth.
You could just mail them to yourself as an attachment and delete the mail with attachment included. that way your not technically deleting the lockboxes (which you cant) but merely deleting a mail with an attachment.
the <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> is strong in this one.
Personal insults over differing views? Kid, you're truly demonstrating immaturity.
I'll agree that the undeletable lockboxes are a nuisance, but only a very mild one.
Stupid people? Some people don't mind paying for a game they enjoy. How is that stupid?
Yes, the spam is annoying. Perhaps we should be able to disable it... for a little fee. Like owning the horse. >: D>
There I am soloing a dungeon, covered in blood and feeling heoric and there's an announcement that has flame all to do with me.
"Attention Z-Mart Shoppers"
Whose this jerk who got some stupid item I don't even care about?
I don't know but now I hate them because they interrupted my 'flow'.
Now the question is, how much hate do the devs want to generate in their game?
How about they make the [Admin] a character we can hunt down and silence?
What possesses you to even think, that these messages are even remotely responsible for supplying you with a free game?
It's PWE being their traditionally sleazy Asian mmo BS-selves and trying to tempt players into wasting more money. Because its easier to take two cool items and stick them behind rng, than actually put out solid microtransactions at sensible prices.
This spam has nothing to do with them making money. It has everything to do with not being satisfied with the money they did make. and they have no problem insulting our intelligence to do it.
The Dire Crow - Tiefling TR
Alice L'ddell - Human GF
Ludovique - Tiefling DC
Its stupid to pay upwards of $100 for a chance at two items and getting items that drop in game by the boatload, and never getting said items.
Nothing stupid about giving them money.
but the smart people who want to support the game, don't buy keys or boxes.
The Dire Crow - Tiefling TR
Alice L'ddell - Human GF
Ludovique - Tiefling DC
this is the problem with Freeload2play...lockboxes are how they make money which they need for development. If you dont want the boxes, get a max stack, put on AH for 1 AD. You then do not have to worry about it. As for the Joe blow got his nightmare mount, who cares, its like a commercial that last 1 second. There are bigger things I would like them to work on besides this 1 sec spam.
Because each time a message pops up that someone got the rare prize from a lockbox, it represents that people have been using keys.... which means they've been spending zen..... which means they've been spending $$$. And people spending $$$ in the cash shop, supplies all the insufferable "ZOMG CASH SHOP TOO EXPENSIVE! DISGUSTING!" whiners with a free game.
(What I did with those announcements, is go into the UI settings, and move it to the upper corner of the screen. Now, I rarely notice it, since it's not right in the middle of my view.)
Yea I know.. that was spamming us during a boss fight overlaying some of the improtant info we needed to be looking at. But NOOOOOOOOO. We gots to advertise our Xen sucking mechanics of the game.
Between the greed and the wow generation speed rushing thru stuff because of the damage meters my desire to play as already down this low:
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I don't remember them giving out free license keys to this game.
Da da da derpy.... derpage... derp-o-rama.
So? Did you get a message saying I bought a Guardian pack? Or every time someone buys a wedding dress? Hell no. The messages are designed, exclusively to try and tempt people into a purchase, by creating the illusion that the rare items aren't as rare. If you see thirty messages a day, it looks easy to win. But then you consider that's 30 out of how many thousands of people and hundreds of boxes?
The messages are also embarrassing for the winners. Some people don't want the entire server to know they won. That way they can avoid all the insulting PMs, or offers to buy whatever they won. But PWE has never cared about player comfort.
It's like the teacher who overly praises the one student who aced the test. It fosters jealousy and all the worst aspects of gamer/shopping addiction. Basically PWE dangles every mount win in front of our faces and taunts "You know you want it".
If these messages are a result of having made money, why do they need to bother everyone on the serve for more? Seems like its just greedy.
Got news for you, this game makes more than enough money outside the boxes. Don't even try to pretend that any game requires gamble boxes to maintain themselves or pay for costs.
The Dire Crow - Tiefling TR
Alice L'ddell - Human GF
Ludovique - Tiefling DC
Make the !^@% Boxes sellable to Rinks (The little Kobold by the A.D. Vendor) for 50 A.D. each. Suddenly they have real value, even if you don't want to open them. And, let me tell you something CripticWorld, turning Lockbox Haters into Lockbox Lovers is a GREAT way to convince people to buy more Keys. Heck, you have the option to, basically, buy your Lockbox Key with other Lockboxes.
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