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BoP gear will kill f2p and 200$ or less players
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Don't be a fool, Open Beta with working cash shop=Live Release
It will be good for the egos of the "elite" players, who will now be able to convince themselves that all the casual players and the "less competent" ones will just be sitting around envying them.
In reality, what will happen is that the casuals will leave, once they realize that the game is no longer friendly to them at lvl 60 - so the "elite" players will just have to compete against each other. Good for them....but good for the game? I think not.
This gives you so much customization in how you obtain your gear. For a free to play game, where the ingame economy is the most important thing of all, cryptic is shooting themselves in the foot with this change. People will be buying a lot less zen when you limit what you can spend zen on.
You always had to earn your gear. It's not like the gear sold on the auction house is free. You still have to run dungeons to get the money to buy the gear in the auction house, it's just that you see progress regardless of whether your item drops or not. You could run the same dungeon 40 times without seeing your item drops. At least you could sell the leftover loot and buy it now instead of running a dungeon which has a vastly inflated loot-table in accordance with the item you want to see.
And why run the dungeon after you have the best gear?I dunno how about for fun?
so casual players who charge will be fine.the f2p players are ones going suffer from trying scrap up enough AD to buy cash shop items that improve your gear or stats.
The difference is that wow has a ton of content, the content is properly balanced (I.E people don't automatically kick people of a certain class because the current composition isn't "perfect") and finally, the loot tables in this game are horrendous. I did FH 4 times yesterday and all he dropped were those rings, not boots ONCE. Add to the fact that there's 5 classes and 3 sets that means there's a total of 15 different boots.
If you wanted a specific pair of boots then you'd probably have to run it 100 times. This evens out because you can sell the gear you get from each run and eventually you can just buy the boots.
It's painfully obvious that the current loot-system is balanced for a BoE game, not a BoP game. They can't just suddenly make everything BoP, a lot more needs to change, more specifically the loot (preferably more of it).
you know there was world chat and trade channels were the top guilds would end up auctioning off BOP gear still not picked up right? and these hard core raiders make so much dam gold like 15-30mins of raiding and auctioning off vs farming normal content legitly would takes weeks or months?
Ex-EQ2 Raider here so i'v seen this scenario on BOTH ends, this kind of arrangement will just keep the high ups higher while milking the casual's for there time and effort.
Terrible change. The march toward mediocrity continues for Cryptic.
My issue is the absurd amount of work it will take to turn AD into zen for store items.
Currently it costs 29 CN weapons to get 1 blue bag of holding. 29!
Yes ... very true
for those who like BoP, love it very much, lets rollback to day one AFTER the change done, everyone equal on gathering the gears, shall we?
I read this and re-read it, Yeah in Coherent <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> made no sense. I get the (English is not my first language) but a little more effort when writing something out of the forums so as to make it understandable would be great.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~Sholom Aleichem
Agree with this 100%, it's as bad as Cryptic taking the (Holy Trinity) model used in Mmo's, trying to apply it too this game and then going in a more Hack-N-slash direction. If Cryptic's goal was earning the record for quickest failed launch of an mmo title, then they are on the right patch.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~Sholom Aleichem
The end result of this change makes it less likely you will get new zen store items by farming in game.
+1 :d
"The harder the game, the better."
I would like the option to buy a piece if I get tired of farming the boss who drops it and never seeing it. Just saying.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~Sholom Aleichem
I agree +1 for kids who need a way to show their superiority over other players in a video game world. Now if only I could take my +8 sword of slaying to my job and use that as my leverage to move up the company ladder.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~Sholom Aleichem
You do realize that it's the "casuals" that usually carry a game financially?
It's the same business model as a gym, a high percentage of members will maybe make ten to fifteen visits a year to the gym but pay for the whole year. Those customers are low maintenance and high profit. It's the 'Hardcore" that are high maintenance, keeping them happy is what costs gyms...and game companies boatloads of money.
Would like Kal/RO like gear behaviour back. Actually RARE drops (those stuff nowadays is far away from beeing rare or very rare) but therefore it isn't bound at all. Possible to resell later if you got better equip, giving it to your new chars, guild mates or friends or even just borrow it to them. Liked that..