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Yes, I know HAMSTER got an Owlbear, Inferno Mount, Rust Monster or whatever. So what!!!
ladymythos
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Honestly, I can't be the only one who's sick of the "Some random guy has gotten a random mount or companion" every freakin' minute. I'm not even joking. I counted them in the chat, and I got 18 of those messages in less than twenty minutes. hat's roughtly one every single minute for twenty minutes. One every single minute. For twenty minutes. Yes, I know some of those are real. I got an Inferno Mount, and saw my own name in a message like that. Like the rest of the server, I imagine. But still, lately it's been so ridiculously many of them, that I simply don't believe they are all genuine players. There's no way that many people open that many lockboxes and get that many mounts or companions.
But nevermind that. It's getting really distracting, and I really, REALLY want to shut it off. Or at least tone it down a bit to the chat channel, or something. Even just move it to the side of the screen, where it's not that much in the way. I definitely don't want it right in the middle of the screen.
Yes, I know this is a F2P game, and yes, I know they need to make money somehow. The thing is, that doesn't justify it anymore. There are tons of F2P games that needs money just as much as this, yet they have a lot more subtle approch to it. Path of Exile is a good example. Or Secret World. Or DC Universe Online. And a lot of others, but you get the idea. "It's a F2P game" doesn't justify it anymore. I'll still play the game, of course, but I would enjoy it a lot more if I could play it, and not read about who got what every freakin' minute. Thanks.
But nevermind that. It's getting really distracting, and I really, REALLY want to shut it off. Or at least tone it down a bit to the chat channel, or something. Even just move it to the side of the screen, where it's not that much in the way. I definitely don't want it right in the middle of the screen.
Yes, I know this is a F2P game, and yes, I know they need to make money somehow. The thing is, that doesn't justify it anymore. There are tons of F2P games that needs money just as much as this, yet they have a lot more subtle approch to it. Path of Exile is a good example. Or Secret World. Or DC Universe Online. And a lot of others, but you get the idea. "It's a F2P game" doesn't justify it anymore. I'll still play the game, of course, but I would enjoy it a lot more if I could play it, and not read about who got what every freakin' minute. Thanks.
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It doesn't bother me usually, maybe now that there are more players by release of module 2, it might be more annoying, but I haven't noticed it at least.
don't waste your time. at least they got rid of the link, we used to chatban everyone lol
Of course I'll still stay, though. I just won't enjoy it as much as I used to.
Especially during the key sale. I saw several people having repeat performances even! Lucky them XD
As for the topic, I can take the notices or leave them. They don't bother me, personally, one way or the other.
the question is how does the same person (orange) get 15 messages in a two minute period, something is wrong with that scenario, no way he used 15 keys and got a mount/companion in each one something fishy there
RNG is RNG. -shrugs- I went through 120 keys (using the proceeds from the lock boxes to fund the next batch of keys). I never saw a single rust monster or kwalish myself. But that's all I can say, really: RNG is RNG.
Which is pretty much why I used my AD to get the first 10 keys. Seemed like a lot of others were getting them, so why not give it a shot?
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?545201-How-to-turn-off-admin-channel&p=6702191&viewfull=1#post6702191
Maybe if that's true then if we all complain enough we can get them to disable it , or at least give us an option to make it go away .
Probably some Whale (read: crazy rich and spends many thousands, even tens of thousands of dollars on Game related hobbies because, hey, why not?) opening like 2000 boxes in a row, rapid fire, one after another without stopping to see what they actually get until the end.
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The new module has a new lockbox, so is it really surprising that it's increased again? In another month, more or less, it'll slow down to a trickle again.
You might be surprised. Some people have a lot of disposable income, plus there are always those who do it for "profit." eg, the bot-like players.
It's to make people go "what are people getting and how do I get one?" :P
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and as has been mentioned, more people are now playing rangers during a new module drop with a key sale and bonus zen and promotions because we're now into the silly season... definitely not surprising at all.
one advantage (yes there is one) is that when there are a lot of mount/companion winners, the price of them goes down on the AH. the first time i saw an apparatus of kwalish on the AH, the price was 3 mil. the last time i looked, they were around 600k. that is around the price of 12-14 keys (current price/market value).
That's happened with all the mounts/companions, has nothing to do with the announcements but supply and demand. Which can be manipulated by PWE/Cryptic without any notice to the playerbase.
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I cannot gamble so I cannot care about it. Leave it up for people who think gambling is fun.
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If people want to gamble, i will not complain. But for people like me who will never gamble, it makes the game seem cheap and unpolished.
Randomly winning isn't winning.
Exactly.
Each transparent attempt at my AD/real money makes me keep my wallet shut as tight as possible.
Add to this I HATE gambling and especially people that take advantage of addicts (yup... it's an addiction), and PWE can basically guarantee they will never see a purchase of ANYTHING from me in the game.
Actually... I'd purchase a subscription... if they would fix (most of) the bugs and offer a fresh server with all significant gear BoP and without any possibilities for "shortcuts" with real money, so everybody starts and continues on the same footing.
Yes, I know this will never happen.
Forgot one bit: another part is the positive reinforcement that might make the lucky player likely to try again, and again, and again...
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So now they show up in the top of my screen between my avatar icon and the strip of game interface buttons. Much better.
During periods of rapid "winners" showing up in chat windows, however...I can see where that would be annoying when one is wanting to, y'know, chat, and those messages cause the chat window to scroll up faster than you want. It'd be nice if it was "forced" only in the three default chat windows ... eg, if you make your own new chat window and call it, say, "Guild Chat", it doesn't show up there.
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