Dirty move. Most items that come from lockboxes aren't worth the key.
There will be absolutely no motivation to run dungeons and as such, absolutely no motive to play the game.
The 'decision makers' responsible for this are utter morons.
Please Do Not Feed The Trolls
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
They will look back on 'coalgate' like it was Happy Times.
Edit: Now we know why Andy went on vacation lol!
Please Do Not Feed The Trolls
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
They will look back on 'coalgate' like it was Happy Times.
Edit: Now we know why Andy went on vacation lol!
Well, no not really as he will have booked this a long time ago. However, it does explain why he said he would be avoiding contact with the internet while he's away >:)
"Whiles this may not be a popular change for the community we have decided it is just that we re-address the loot boxes and how keys work. Currently you can "peek" inside and not use your key till you think its something worth taking.
Going forward we'll be taking away this option and lowering the zen cost for 5 keys to compensate and I've also discussed with the other developers and agreed that each time you open a chest and receive a low tier reward your next chest will have an increased chance of getting a higher tier reward this will help combat the long strings of bad loot drops for the players who work hard to open these chests and will hopefully make the chests meaningful to the players since even if you don't get something you desired the first, second or third time you know if you keep trying you'll eventually be guaranteed the drop you wanted"
Okay Cryptic I am going to try and help you out here as you seem to be completely lacking in first principles of modern marketing.
Its clear to everyone you are wanting to push revenue, well here is an idea (I sy this as someone who runs his own business). Put something the players want in the zen store, Legendary mounts or better a legendary upgrade token for the mounts (gives you all aspects of the legendary mount including attack).
Increase Fashion choices and armour transmute options, reduce the RNG odds to something achievable, if there was a better chance of pulling a decent reward from lock boxes people would be more likely to spend more on enchanted keys.
Return to unbound items from Dungeon chests and Increase the reward level with improved chances of decent rewards which can be traded (as it used to be), then very few will care about paying for a key. Overhaul VIP bring the rewards into the current reality of mod 10.
Give us new packs to buy, let people buy Weapon packs directly in the store if they want. Not everyone has the time for the massive grinds built into the game, if f2p community want or are able to spend the time then fine, but your whales and paying players may not have that time available to them and will purchase what they need to make up the shortfall. It is lets be frank the basis of the business model you chose to begin with and on console to keep the game there, you have no choice as MS and Sony expect their cut otherwise you have to sell the game and do DLC's for them to be remunerated.
In other words create value for your customers and step back from inflicting constant pain, If I don't provide value for my clients guess what, they don't give me their cash. Its not rocket science its business economics 101.
Let me give you a personal example, I am a big Star-trek Fan, you just released the game on Xbox, I have been on this since the earliest release on Xbox, I should have piled straight into the new console release, guess what? I didn't even download it, why? because of the shabby treatment we have seen in here. Your brand is increasingly trash on consoles so what will happen next for any more games you port to console?
They will fail.
Wake up and smell the coffee guys we have hung on due to the fact we love the game, but its getting like having a constantly cheating spouse who says sorry every time they are caught out, until the penny drops and you file for divorce!
I stayed away from Star Trek too for the very same reasons. This company is trash. I've invested way too much $ in NW, regretting that I did with such a poor QoL due to RNG. At the very least being able to keep hitting up the chests there was that maybe next time, just got a keep trying but with this keys change the hope is gone....no light at the end of the tunnel. Zero chances of getting reward without more spending. F That.
The lack of tradable gear is directly damaging to the economy. If nothing goes into ah, there is no ad filter, and ad keeps clogging up. The only way to get rid of it is by tyrning into ZEN, but why? Investing in keys is a guaranteed loss. Why buy additional mounts after 5 other legendarys. Why buy cosmetics when soulforged?
We are greedy <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> as well. Our toons wants to accumulate wealth. Be rich and famous. The way you are rewarding our work, the way you are limiting our wealth, enforcing taxes, no wealth stays with our toons. You take everything. Why should we bother?
With dreams to be a king, first one should be a man.
This is a paradox. I like the game - I hate the studio management. Hell, if this was a simple sub with 15 bucks/month Id pay a year's worth of time without even blinking (Id also pay a lot more for cash shop QoL stuff and transmutes ).
But there's nothing simple here, its quite elaborate actually, the ways to milk players they have devised and keep devising. The only thing I can come up with as explanation is that they are actually making quite a bit of money this way. More money than a sub would make and so they continue forward.
Perhaps Im a bit of a m/a/s/o/c/h/i/s/t for I keep getting back to Neverwinter. That or Im a bloody fool.
Ps: why is the M word censored?
Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream.
It is funny how heroes that have done all kinds of crazy things, killing dragons, traveled dimentions, turned back time and whatever, gets stuck trying to open a chest. xD
With dreams to be a king, first one should be a man.
Is The Mimic King on vacation, too? It is amazing we've seen no official response to this issue. So sad to see many people leaving, including some who have made great contributions to the game.
Is The Mimic King on vacation, too? It is amazing we've seen no official response to this issue. So sad to see many people leaving, including some who have made great contributions to the game.
His honeymoon is well and truly over lol
He came back with much fanfare sold us on his intention to make qol changes and by god do we have a Qol change coming at us.
Feel free to go back to what you were doing before if this is what you meant!
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silverkeltMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 4,235Arc User
burn a key for that +1 ring!..
I am now nearing 15k runs of cn/ edemo/nemo/tod and pom, still not +5 ring I want.. its ridiculous. Of course my other option is .. riding around in circles getting lanolin and relics.. because somehow that garbage made it into the game. (5 toons in twisted set, 8 toons getting through underdark in nemo.. countless CN runs and pom ones to boot) plenty of the +4's, RNG is harsh in this area.)
Neither option is great.. however , I might as well keep going after the rings, as I can save the salvage for the event later and its doesnt decrease my brain matter quite as fast.. (IE its less boring)
Thew new mods dont even matter to me, neither does this key change that much, considering the new RNG/gate/grind level is stupid as well.
Your tipping yourself way past where we can stand to be, its not just the keys, this has boiling over for weeks, this is why you are seeing such vehemence in your game.
Refusal to adjust lanolin /vblood levels. Removal of Gateway and its servecies. Gating more Zen purchases to finish regular content.
ITs all too much and you really havent giving any sort of review and update on QOL of issues since sometime like 6 months ago or more and clearly without Gateway it has to be done.
MY SUGGESTION 1-2 free legendary keys on a new VIP rank 13 .. daily . (as the suggestion of others before me)
This would give some value back to a ever decreasing return on VIP.
We had to wait five days for an official response after Gateway unexpectedly came down. I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for a response on this issue.
We had to wait five days for an official response after Gateway unexpectedly came down. I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for a response on this issue.
Yeah drag it out until the weekend then sneak on, Monday morning lol
Maybe we need to use keys to unlock the truth from the devs with a Rng drop of 0.000000000001% otherwise we just get mushroom treatment.
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silverkeltMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 4,235Arc User
I am a steady spender, until recently, that means every month for like the last 3 years, you got 10-20 bucks from me.. All told, Ive spend around 500-600 bucks , is this game breaking.. no.. heck no, but im done spending any more money, you are driving away steady customers with this greed and avarice. This is my detail statement via the last year or so. It wouldnt let me pull back to when I started unfortunately. Good God, apparently only whales matter to you.. but at least know I am a actual spending customer, who is sick and tired of this bull HAMSTER. I SPEND money on your effing stupid trash game and I am fed up to here with this nonsense. You are not answering your customers .. Sure one whale will outspend a steady spender by 10 to 1.. but your JOB is to figure out how to retain both. YOU ARE DOING a HAMSTER poor job of it. TERRIBLE job of it. As you can see , I already took 2-3 months off from giving you anything recently, as IM so sick and tired of vblood and the HAMSTER poor way you managed that grind/gate.
You are failing your customers.. FAILING us.
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There will be absolutely no motivation to run dungeons and as such, absolutely no motive to play the game.
The 'decision makers' responsible for this are utter morons.
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
Edit: Now we know why Andy went on vacation lol!
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
Going forward we'll be taking away this option and lowering the zen cost for 5 keys to compensate and I've also discussed with the other developers and agreed that each time you open a chest and receive a low tier reward your next chest will have an increased chance of getting a higher tier reward this will help combat the long strings of bad loot drops for the players who work hard to open these chests and will hopefully make the chests meaningful to the players since even if you don't get something you desired the first, second or third time you know if you keep trying you'll eventually be guaranteed the drop you wanted"
^^ THIS SHOULD BE THE UPDATE
4,300 Tankadin
Its clear to everyone you are wanting to push revenue, well here is an idea (I sy this as someone who runs his own business).
Put something the players want in the zen store, Legendary mounts or better a legendary upgrade token for the mounts (gives you all aspects of the legendary mount including attack).
Increase Fashion choices and armour transmute options, reduce the RNG odds to something achievable, if there was a better chance of pulling a decent reward from lock boxes people would be more likely to spend more on enchanted keys.
Return to unbound items from Dungeon chests and Increase the reward level with improved chances of decent rewards which can be traded (as it used to be), then very few will care about paying for a key.
Overhaul VIP bring the rewards into the current reality of mod 10.
Give us new packs to buy, let people buy Weapon packs directly in the store if they want. Not everyone has the time for the massive grinds built into the game, if f2p community want or are able to spend the time then fine, but your whales and paying players may not have that time available to them and will purchase what they need to make up the shortfall.
It is lets be frank the basis of the business model you chose to begin with and on console to keep the game there, you have no choice as MS and Sony expect their cut otherwise you have to sell the game and do DLC's for them to be remunerated.
In other words create value for your customers and step back from inflicting constant pain, If I don't provide value for my clients guess what, they don't give me their cash.
Its not rocket science its business economics 101.
Let me give you a personal example, I am a big Star-trek Fan, you just released the game on Xbox, I have been on this since the earliest release on Xbox, I should have piled straight into the new console release, guess what?
I didn't even download it, why? because of the shabby treatment we have seen in here.
Your brand is increasingly trash on consoles so what will happen next for any more games you port to console?
They will fail.
Wake up and smell the coffee guys we have hung on due to the fact we love the game, but its getting like having a constantly cheating spouse who says sorry every time they are caught out, until the penny drops and you file for divorce!
I stayed away from Star Trek too for the very same reasons. This company is trash. I've invested way too much $ in NW, regretting that I did with such a poor QoL due to RNG. At the very least being able to keep hitting up the chests there was that maybe next time, just got a keep trying but with this keys change the hope is gone....no light at the end of the tunnel. Zero chances of getting reward without more spending. F That.
We are greedy <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> as well. Our toons wants to accumulate wealth. Be rich and famous. The way you are rewarding our work, the way you are limiting our wealth, enforcing taxes, no wealth stays with our toons. You take everything. Why should we bother?
Rise to POWER with <House of Power>.
The Exterminator - (NW-DLNXF3BGG)
But there's nothing simple here, its quite elaborate actually, the ways to milk players they have devised and keep devising. The only thing I can come up with as explanation is that they are actually making quite a bit of money this way. More money than a sub would make and so they continue forward.
Perhaps Im a bit of a m/a/s/o/c/h/i/s/t for I keep getting back to Neverwinter. That or Im a bloody fool.
Ps: why is the M word censored?
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream.
Rise to POWER with <House of Power>.
The Exterminator - (NW-DLNXF3BGG)
are the rewards given by the chest at edemo, ndemo, pom, todg and CN, gonna get better drop at the same time these key changes go live?
He came back with much fanfare sold us on his intention to make qol changes and by god do we have a Qol change coming at us.
Feel free to go back to what you were doing before if this is what you meant!
I am now nearing 15k runs of cn/ edemo/nemo/tod and pom, still not +5 ring I want.. its ridiculous. Of course my other option is .. riding around in circles getting lanolin and relics.. because somehow that garbage made it into the game. (5 toons in twisted set, 8 toons getting through underdark in nemo.. countless CN runs and pom ones to boot) plenty of the +4's, RNG is harsh in this area.)
Neither option is great.. however , I might as well keep going after the rings, as I can save the salvage for the event later and its doesnt decrease my brain matter quite as fast.. (IE its less boring)
Thew new mods dont even matter to me, neither does this key change that much, considering the new RNG/gate/grind level is stupid as well.
Your tipping yourself way past where we can stand to be, its not just the keys, this has boiling over for weeks, this is why you are seeing such vehemence in your game.
Refusal to adjust lanolin /vblood levels.
Removal of Gateway and its servecies.
Gating more Zen purchases to finish regular content.
ITs all too much and you really havent giving any sort of review and update on QOL of issues since sometime like 6 months ago or more and clearly without Gateway it has to be done.
MY SUGGESTION 1-2 free legendary keys on a new VIP rank 13 .. daily . (as the suggestion of others before me)
This would give some value back to a ever decreasing return on VIP.
They are providing a QoL change however...youll be less inclined to farm dungeons for hours now....
The perverse logic of Cryptic
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This thread is better than Netflix!
Video removed due to profanity. Sorry.
Yes , but not as profane as the announcement was that started this thread....
You are failing your customers.. FAILING us.
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