I've spent many hours and bought lots of RL building up my characters leadership skills so that I would have enough diamonds to buy the things I'm not good enough to win in dungeons and the such. Now all of that means nothing. I feel cheated and lied to. wish I could get a refund on the 12 month VIP that I bought. I may play once in a while if nothing else sounds fun, but I absolutely won't spend one more penny on this game. Cheat me and think I'll keep supporting you? No way. You have brought dishonor upon yourself.
I've spent many hours and bought lots of RL building up my characters leadership skills so that I would have enough diamonds to buy the things I'm not good enough to win in dungeons and the such. Now all of that means nothing. I feel cheated and lied to. wish I could get a refund on the 12 month VIP that I bought. I may play once in a while if nothing else sounds fun, but I absolutely won't spend one more penny on this game. Cheat me and think I'll keep supporting you? No way. You have brought dishonor upon yourself.
I think it is against TOS to link a youtube video.... plug this title into youtube and watch it, eye opening.
"Professional Chinese Gold Farmer tells all - Exclusive Interview with Jared Psigoda"
about 8:30 to 9:10. This guy is saying if Cataclysm didn't come out for WOW or it was delayed by 2 months, many people would stop buying gold, so the gold companies run at a loss.
Are Cryptic and PWE trying to make the gold sellers go bankrupt by chasing away their own players?!??
Could be. They see a surge in the player base at the start of every module after all, so maybe they figure they may just "turn off" the game in the meantime?
...question: Is it really a surge of the playerbase or rather returners and people spending some extra time in the game because they explore the rare bit of not-yet-overdone content? Also: Hasn't maybe the operation the AD (f)arm(y) been the longterm tie-in that kept these people here?
I think they count people online at a certain time, so if people are spending more time ingame there will be more people online at a given time. Steam graph that was linked by someone else earlier in this thread You can also see they lost a lot of players after mod 6. (+400 online at average in April, -800 online at average in March) I'm expecting to see something similar next month.
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schweifer1982Member, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 1,662Arc User
Same as before, as this is doesn't really impact me much at all... Aside from earning more in game dinero, and I'll still do Leadership for the RP. Though I do think they should add something to offset the AD removal on the Leadership profession, and I really like the idea of adding Stronghold AD Vouchers!
Panda say : i will bring up this to devs he dont promised us they will put vounchers in leadership.
I think from 10 -9 will say noo. MOARR moneyyyy...
We need comunication from devs this is the rigth time to at least make us promises to give old and new players hope to have fun agan and not to grind for 3-20 k ad /day .
I HAVE ALREADY A FULL TIME JOB DONT WANT ANOTHER ONE AND I AM SURE I WILL NOT PLAY MY FULL WAGE I HAVE A FAMILY TO FEED & PAYING MY BILLS.
Hou want to have significant progress in 1 year i understand its MMO ok but stuff changing every 3 moth you all dont see the full picture.
kolatmaster just one hint what tells you if they nerf T.fey +neg to total usless ???
What will y do then?
When Plage fire and frost burn will be the next OP enchant and will cost 11-14 mill .
Or a NEW mount will come with lets say 8000 power passiv?
Or somthing else when will this stop w/o AD you will never catch up .
I recently found more time to play NW and was busy upgrading my 5 toon account to get them to level 70. Now I ask myself, why ? Previously I had very little time to play and after a long time upgrading my Leadership on my 5 toons I was able to at least earn some AD over a long period of time to make some character upgrades. Now I see basically no way to earn AD with my limited time to play, around an hours or so each day, and yet I see no decrease in the AD cost for item in the bazaar or AH. I am a solo player, I have no time for dungeons or finding PUGs to do them with. Now with no reasonable timely way to earn AD I see no point in playing this game anymore. Obviously as a Hero of the North player, I have in the past invested considerable RL money in this game, but no longer.
So goodbye NW, it was fun while it lasted, but just like other PWI games I have played in the past, PW, Jade Dynasty, and now NW, the grind is no longer worth it. I may return occasionally to see if the game devs have smartened up and along with the huge reduction in earning AD, have they reduced drastically the cost of items and put them in balance.
First they nerfed the ability to solo many of the small group missions. Then they nerfed the armor and buffed the mobs so they hit for 20k a pop when I only had 20k hp. So I had to upgrade everything. Which costs mega Ad. For almost 2 years I have been working to be able to produce an adequate amount of AD to afford the necessary items. Then they nerfed the ability to log in during the day to work my tradeskilling (leadership). Then they nerfed Leadership entirely. So now I cannot solo, I cannot upgrade my armor, the 50 million or so AD I have invested in leadership is now worthless. I am not spending 15 damn dollars for a bag.
This game is HAMSTER. Its too expensive. The pricepoint is 19.99 a month for a game. Not 19.99 a day.
I NERF Neverwinter.
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kieranmtornMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 382Arc User
I used real money to buy some of my VIP, and that was a mistake. Looks like my wallet is closed again. I spend money here in mod1-3. In mod 4 that stopped till VIP (and that was me making the stupid mistake of thinking things were improving). So be it.
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ghoulz66Member, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 3,748Arc User
I didn't use leadership to steal Zen store content from cryptic. I used it because all the AD sinkholes cost way too much. There are people who spent over a million on augmentation cubes for a single character alone...
Overpriced companion upgrades. 200-300k to transmute a chest, gloves, boots, cloak, weapon, shield plus buying special looks off AH before actually paying 50k to use em as transmutes....
Mount upgrades. While not really necessary as the others, who the hell is going to pay that amount when you can buy a 110% mount for less that's account wide.
GMoP, the bane of progression. 5 to upgrade a single artifact or high end weapon/armor chant. over 400k for a SINGLE UPGRADE.... Not including the coal ward..... -_-
Can I afford this HAMSTER, let alone, just one of em for a single character just grinding some dungeons all day and not enjoy the other aspects of the game? Yeah, max out 2 characters over a few hours to afford one transmute... That's madness, it's beyond logic.
The sad part. Even with 30 character at max leadership, I still couldn't keep up with these costs.....
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Steam graph that was linked by someone else earlier in this thread
You can also see they lost a lot of players after mod 6. (+400 online at average in April, -800 online at average in March)
I'm expecting to see something similar next month.
I think from 10 -9 will say noo.
MOARR moneyyyy...
We need comunication from devs this is the rigth time to at least make us promises to give old and new players hope to have fun agan and not to grind for 3-20 k ad /day .
I HAVE ALREADY A FULL TIME JOB DONT WANT ANOTHER ONE AND I AM SURE I WILL NOT PLAY MY FULL WAGE I HAVE A FAMILY TO FEED & PAYING MY BILLS.
Hou want to have significant progress in 1 year i understand its MMO ok but stuff changing every 3 moth you all dont see the full picture.
kolatmaster just one hint what tells you if they nerf T.fey +neg to total usless ???
What will y do then?
When Plage fire and frost burn will be the next OP enchant and will cost 11-14 mill .
Or a NEW mount will come with lets say 8000 power passiv?
Or somthing else when will this stop w/o AD you will never catch up .
Think about it.
So goodbye NW, it was fun while it lasted, but just like other PWI games I have played in the past, PW, Jade Dynasty, and now NW, the grind is no longer worth it. I may return occasionally to see if the game devs have smartened up and along with the huge reduction in earning AD, have they reduced drastically the cost of items and put them in balance.
This game is HAMSTER. Its too expensive. The pricepoint is 19.99 a month for a game. Not 19.99 a day.
I NERF Neverwinter.
Overpriced companion upgrades. 200-300k to transmute a chest, gloves, boots, cloak, weapon, shield plus buying special looks off AH before actually paying 50k to use em as transmutes....
Mount upgrades. While not really necessary as the others, who the hell is going to pay that amount when you can buy a 110% mount for less that's account wide.
GMoP, the bane of progression. 5 to upgrade a single artifact or high end weapon/armor chant. over 400k for a SINGLE UPGRADE.... Not including the coal ward..... -_-
Can I afford this HAMSTER, let alone, just one of em for a single character just grinding some dungeons all day and not enjoy the other aspects of the game? Yeah, max out 2 characters over a few hours to afford one transmute... That's madness, it's beyond logic.
The sad part. Even with 30 character at max leadership, I still couldn't keep up with these costs.....