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Thoughts on new Midsummer Festival Instance
rashylewizz
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I have reposted this to garner the thoughts of the people here. Am I way off? Do you guys have other suggestions?
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First of all, I would like to commend the developers for continuing to try new innovative areas such as the midsummer festival.
Now with that said, it looks like a lot more (more than usual) resources came into making this area and a significant upgrade in time-commitment required from the players. Since this event is much more time-consuming both for the developers and for the players who are potentially going to put time in, I feel that you guys should be rewarding them more. The rewards in this entire new zone are more fitting to quick events such as the Call to Arms Skirmish, Lliira's Fireworks etc. To most people that have temporarily quit the game, this event gave them no motivation to return nor does it give enough reward to your loyal players who have stayed. Since the areas involve fruits, vegetables, animals etc how about after completing enough dailies, it gives you a token to upgrade any companion or any mount? Increase mount-movement by 5%? Crafting a fruit that permanently gives your character a few more points in stamina? How about make the ultimate rewards somewhat similar to Sharandar? Just a few suggestions.
I want this event to mean something, at least mean much more because the developers have put in much more of an effort into this "event" than most of their other events. (If you say this event didn't take much effort, then the development team must be massive enough to make new min-events once a week, make new dungeons and fix gauntlgrym which clearly isn't the case). Its a shame because the herding of chickens is a nice new touch, the environment looks nice, the profession and bounty system is a bit different and new, but ultimately if the rewards aren't good enough, this will be a hard sell.
I know its hard to tip-toe between not giving players overpowered rewards, but you have to reward the players who are playing with meaningful prizes and at the same time, make a hard sell at those who are waiting to see what happens with this game.
As of right now, those people who quit 6 weeks ago are at a similar place as those who have continued to play. There are no new dungeons to learn, no new character progression, no new classes to explore, no rewards/buffs for the continued dedication of some of your fans. I hope Sharandar will be a sign of things to come.
The zen shop will always be there, no point in arguing against it nor will I, but by implementing more Sharandar-type campaign trees, you are making this game less pay-to-win and you are actually rewarding gameplay.
[repost]
First of all, I would like to commend the developers for continuing to try new innovative areas such as the midsummer festival.
Now with that said, it looks like a lot more (more than usual) resources came into making this area and a significant upgrade in time-commitment required from the players. Since this event is much more time-consuming both for the developers and for the players who are potentially going to put time in, I feel that you guys should be rewarding them more. The rewards in this entire new zone are more fitting to quick events such as the Call to Arms Skirmish, Lliira's Fireworks etc. To most people that have temporarily quit the game, this event gave them no motivation to return nor does it give enough reward to your loyal players who have stayed. Since the areas involve fruits, vegetables, animals etc how about after completing enough dailies, it gives you a token to upgrade any companion or any mount? Increase mount-movement by 5%? Crafting a fruit that permanently gives your character a few more points in stamina? How about make the ultimate rewards somewhat similar to Sharandar? Just a few suggestions.
I want this event to mean something, at least mean much more because the developers have put in much more of an effort into this "event" than most of their other events. (If you say this event didn't take much effort, then the development team must be massive enough to make new min-events once a week, make new dungeons and fix gauntlgrym which clearly isn't the case). Its a shame because the herding of chickens is a nice new touch, the environment looks nice, the profession and bounty system is a bit different and new, but ultimately if the rewards aren't good enough, this will be a hard sell.
I know its hard to tip-toe between not giving players overpowered rewards, but you have to reward the players who are playing with meaningful prizes and at the same time, make a hard sell at those who are waiting to see what happens with this game.
As of right now, those people who quit 6 weeks ago are at a similar place as those who have continued to play. There are no new dungeons to learn, no new character progression, no new classes to explore, no rewards/buffs for the continued dedication of some of your fans. I hope Sharandar will be a sign of things to come.
The zen shop will always be there, no point in arguing against it nor will I, but by implementing more Sharandar-type campaign trees, you are making this game less pay-to-win and you are actually rewarding gameplay.
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It's on the preview server.
I personally don't have an issue with the rewards. You can earn a fashion set if that's your thing, you have different weapon skins for transmuting, and you have a companion and a couple mounts. What more do you want? I'd prefer the chance to work towards getting all this stuff rather than having it drop randomly, ala Call to Arms. I didn't run it [Call to Arms] hundreds of times... only nine actually... and every end chest I got a dye pack and a savage enchantment [either rank 3 or 4]. While I did have fun, I really didn't feel like running it any more than the nine times I did [on a few different alts].
Give me the festival and the merchants... I'll take it over random chance any day.
+1 the rewards and time to get the rewards is great and a lot less random than that lame wolf companion that's only a green but more rarer to get then an "EPIC LOCKBOX"