Who Wants the Anniversary Packs?

AlbireoTwo - Lost City

They did post a reason. It's back by popular demand.

Marista - Lost City

Sigh... This has gotten frustrating. When they came out the first time, I thought people were making a big deal over nothing--it was a temporary event and I was all for being able to get around doing dungeons I have no time for. When they came out the second time, I started to understand the annoyance. Now, this time... I'm getting rather angry myself.

Not only is it making it extremely difficult to save the coin for a nix, but... well, it rather feels like a blatant slap in the face to the not-insignificant portion of the player community who has made it quite clear they do not like the packs. Going against their wishes once, particularly when the reaction to it was unknown, was fine, but it's starting to seem like the developers have no interest in making the playerbase like or trust them.

Perhaps it makes some money now, but it's a policy that I can only see having diminishing returns in the long run. If you keep gold prices high, you lose the people who buy gold to sell it as the ability to get sales thins out, particularly if people are just leaving as well as not buying. As it is, I guess I'll just hope they go away again before too long, I guess, so I can get my nix and stop using CS. I've bought all the things I really want--most of them by charging, so it's not like I'm not contributing. *shrug*

Ixiel - Sanctuary

SiIencer - Harshlands wrote: »

Why isn't this thread locked yet? Mods seem to have locked every other thread about packs...

Red text in the first post.

Has anyone seen an official GM response to this issue?

Lady_Sam - Lost City

JollyJaguar - Sanctuary wrote: »

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You couldn't have put it better. b:pleased

swgs

oops nvm, my fault

Ixiel - Sanctuary

Lady_Sam - Lost City wrote: »

You couldn't have put it better. b:pleased

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Lol, I had to. >,>

In before lock

Read the red text in the first post.

Blancheneige - Heavens Tear

*voted before lock*

Clunker - Heavens Tear

I voted no. the packs were the main reason why i quit. (and ofc the game that can't be mentioned). but PWI keeps bringing it back. how long is your celebration of your anniversary gonna last? rofl.

Face it PWI community, Packs are gonna be here for a while. It's all about the benjamins now.

Miou - Heavens Tear

These Anniversary Packs only hasten the death of what once was a great, fun, and for the most part fair game...atleast economically. Now it's becoming a game for the rich and "mommy's visa". Also with the lack of new content and all the high level gear dungeon items basically being added to the cash shop...why not put in warsoul gear for 50 bucks a pop, and seal PWI's fate. :P

Money is money...and this is a business...which I understand fully. But there are much better ways, and safer ways of going about it. Do you not understand that you are only hurting yourselves..or maybe this is a kamikazee type of thing. Fly in there, make as big as a boom and take as many people with you as you can, before you go yourself hehe.

But in all seriousness...do yourselves and us a favor, focus on alternative ways of making money, that don't **** off player, make the economy so hard for the average player that they are forced to quit, and keep the game alive.

Xiuhdragon - Heavens Tear

Getting tired of the packs now, ok to put it in one time, 2nd time ???, 3th time pisses me of atm, so ye i voted no this starts to become ripoff on the pwi players.

sefis

Honestly, after all this time, it should just be a permanent item. I mean, I don't really like it, but... Face it, they aren't going to care. The people that buy them do so in bulk and that usually ends up... I'm too tired right now to explain it properly so if someone wants to translate what I said (then again, I'm sure it has been said before).

ufop

The packs was a good idea its just what was inside them that was the problem tokens to get your hp shards etc great idea but now just about every lvl90+ has lunar weapons-rings-capes-boots and helms now for me the idea of these was i thought to make the game last longer as youll have to work hard to get them but now theres no need to enter any of the 4 OHT maps no need to do lunar or frost.....i know of two rich people on dreamweaver that are now almost unstoppable due to them spend 1000's of dollars getting rank 8 gear +10 almost all of there gear and all the good items..why didnt you put in the pack things like refine orbs etc instead of end game items?
As someone else said now there's nothing much to do even when the new patch comes out people are going to just oracle to the class up using all there tokens 2nd time packs came out it was WTF not again then this 3rd time makes it look like PWI is thinking of short term money while making the game so boring theres not much point playing it.

JollyJaguar - Sanctuary

Lady_Sam - Lost City wrote: »

You couldn't have put it better. b:pleased

Thank you b:victory

Xiuhdragon - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Getting tired of the packs now, ok to put it in one time, 2nd time ???, 3th time pisses me of atm, so ye i voted no this starts to become ripoff on the pwi players.

Exactly what I thought.

sefis wrote: »

Honestly, after all this time, it should just be a permanent item. I mean, I don't really like it, but... Face it, they aren't going to care. The people that buy them do so in bulk and that usually ends up... I'm too tired right now to explain it properly so if someone wants to translate what I said (then again, I'm sure it has been said before).

Agree'd. If you plan on making the anni pack permanent then JUST SAY IT! SAY IT NOW! b:angry

AdvanceZero - Heavens Tear

Its to bad there isn't a "I just don't care anymore option". Cause that's the one I would pick.

I supposed a lot of people are getting to the "i am a beat puppy" syndrome.

But I will use this to my advantage if possible.

"think, think, think" b:victory

Legendadry - Harshlands

GM's idk what powers you do or dont have, however you have to tell the dev's we hate these packs w/ a passion. I mean seriously we've said it like 100 times. WE DONT WANT THEM!!!!!! It ruins the game. Yes they're people out there who will buy these packs, because they have the money to do so and dont care about being called a CSer or w/e name we give them. However when people pay real life cash to literally level, buy the items and gear they need, it's no longer a game. What work do you have to put in to get what you want? If the dev's want to get money so badly and so are so hard up for cash they might as well switch PWI back to P2P. I mean really you might as well do that because these packs are heading down to that direction. If you want to stay F2P with some cash shop benefits get rid fo these packs b:angry. People have spent months farming gears and weapons for their char and when someone comes along pays $200 and gets all the gear that is the hardest to obtain, you would get a little mad wouldnt you? What were the developers thinking? when they first came out people were pissed, but we were willing to overlook it as long as it didnt come back. But what in the world convinced the Developers to bring back these Nightmare Packs? "Back by popluar demand?" waht is that? As GM's I understand that its your job to tell the developers or whomever controls placeing items or events in game they general consensus of how players feel. So what went wrong? Arent you all upset that you know have to read all this QQ from players once again because the Devs are on something and didnt listen the first time? I mean come on twice they bring this junk back? it's not even a money sink, if anything it raises prices of CS items makeing it harder to do dungeons and TW and pking, etc. What sense does it make from a buisness perspective to make you player base upset adn angry? After all PW is advertised through word of mouth, when your loyal players start telling new players that the game sucks and you can buy everything w/ real life $$$, what do u think they new guy is going to say? "Yeah sure i'll play a game were all i have to do is pay my way to the top -.-". Like i said before if you all might as well go Pay to Play because people are already spending more money per month than in Pay to Play to games. Hey you already have items that line ur pockets, might as well get more money am i right? Come on Mr. Dev you know you want that brand knew Mansion. I know how u can do it too. Why not put Every awesome item in the game in the Cash Shop...oh wait you already did that b:bye.

Sukame - Heavens Tear

Legendadry - Harshlands wrote: »

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But I do agree that the Anni Pack's should not be brought back anymore. Anniversary was 2 months ago? And the Anni Pack's are still here. Either way I didn't buy any then and I wont buy any now. (:

Davitiel - Heavens Tear

I'm just plain tired of all the controversy these packs have caused. Flames and QQ have been on parade in the game and in the forums ever since these came out. Although we complain about the packs people still like them since they're still buying them. As long as people keep buying them they will remain.

I don't want the packs to be permanent but if these packs do become permanent it means that there will be more of these all powerful items in the game. With more of these items flying around they might eventually become more accesible to others. For example, the aerogears from the Fancy Feathers. Yes, they are very expensive, shiny and a bit over-the-top, but their price has steadily decreased over these months because they are now more common. Now I see Brilliant Plumes going for 18 million when last month they were around 45 million.

A bit of creativity might be nice. The point of the Anniversary Packs was to celebrate the first anniversary of Perfect World International. The event ended yet these remained with the same name. It would be nice if they changed their names to fit the theme of the month and maybe tweak the pack contents a bit so it feels like a new product each month instead of the plain Anniversary Pack.

Belkas - Lost City

Miou - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Money is money...and this is a business...which I understand fully. But there are much better ways, and safer ways of going about it. Do you not understand that you are only hurting yourselves..or maybe this is a kamikazee type of thing. Fly in there, make as big as a boom and take as many people with you as you can, before you go yourself hehe.

Smash and Grab at it's finest!!!

Knownase - Heavens Tear

looking at the poll atm, 15 ppl want it (jokingly or truthfully). Thats more than enough reason for anni packs to be back =/

Hot_like_hel - Dreamweaver

Any event that helps gold price raising... It breaks more the players than it helps. I have see what have happened with this kind of attitude in that other Perfect World version (1M for each (in game unit equivalent to the gold here) and you needed like 3 times more of that to buy the same item you buy here with 1 gold).

Its a no no from me, just let people that are really skilled be the best, not people with a credit card on their hands!

FitHitDShan - Sanctuary

I really did not care about the packs for the first month. I bought a couple (I have tried to participate in every in-game event since the first time Joll Jones came to town). I was sad to see some time-rich/cash-poor players leave over the packs. I was even more sad to see a generation of players hitting 50 and not being able to afford hammers for the supply box. But, all in all, I figured this was just a way to get more of the high-end items in the game. Some players would be randomly more and less wealthy and then we would move on.

When the packs came back "by popular demand," I started getting a little worried that the developers could not resist the allure of running a lottery and milking the game. But, they promised that the packs would be gone in November, so I gave them their little extension of the great revenue generator. We got through October and within days of the packs leaving the cash shop it looked like things would start to sort out quickly and we could get back to normal (just with more high-end stuff floating around).

Now, it really does look like the PWE team is addicted to these packs. I sure hope somebody comes out when the work day starts in California and falls on their sword: "It was a mistake. We'll have the packs out of the cash shop tonight."

Moozka - Sanctuary

b:cry

I think the update from last night may have had the coding for the anniversary packs by accident or something..

Michael_Dark - Lost City

Cheap tokens keep dice tickets, do-all cards and ultimate subs cheap.

That is the ONLY reason I voted yes.

I would like to see the packs removed, and a lucky Token pack similar to Battle Pet Packs, where you get 10-50 tokens without all the giveaways.

sqoerk

and they are back....plz delete them as soon as possible

Sumara - Heavens Tear

It was gone for 2 days, and for whatever reason, it returns, along with Auction House bugs and possibly a few other things. I may go with what Moozka said and believe the coding for the Anniversary packs and auction house got messed up.

vbarbie

This is all wrong, It's seriously wrong.. In my life I haven't ever seen SO MUCH complains about a game in their own Forums and nothing be done about it, In my life with any other game i've played before... The players who visit the Game Forums are usually the more serious and dedicated players, and all they get in return for complains or suggestions is... '' You are only less than 10% of our player population'' THAT is just the wrong answer... it's plain wrong to treat your most valued players like ****, It's unheard off .. When the Forums become the worst advertising for it's Game, something is just really wrong.

swgs

OP better change the title. the title says "who wants packs GONE". but the poll ask "do you want pack BACK". I voted yes because i read the title not the quest itself, it will avoid mistake if title and actual question match each other.

_DarkSeph_ - Sanctuary

Michael_dark - Lost City wrote: »

Cheap tokens keep dice tickets, do-all cards and ultimate subs cheap.

That is the ONLY reason I voted yes.

I would like to see the packs removed, and a lucky Token pack similar to Battle Pet Packs, where you get 10-50 tokens without all the giveaways.

Yeh, but don't you see those things are expensive originally because of gold prices. Which is mainly because of things like anniversary packs. Though at this stage gold will never go as low as it used to be.

They've kinda done irreparable damage at this point. There's no reverting to the way things used to be after giving everyone endgame gear. Or after creating a 3 month long reliance on the cheap items tokens provided.

Quilue - Sanctuary

Michael_dark - Lost City wrote: »

Cheap tokens keep dice tickets, do-all cards and ultimate subs cheap.

That is the ONLY reason I voted yes.

I would like to see the packs removed, and a lucky Token pack similar to Battle Pet Packs, where you get 10-50 tokens without all the giveaways.

this is a good point, the lucky token pack idea. b:victory

Nelanther - Lost City

I better post something before I get banned.

I voted that I do not want the packs back, and I actually now wish the worst upon the PWI. I hope it fails miserably and the people at the top are never able to find new jobs in the MMO world. (except the GM's, Mods, and anyone else who could do nothing while our game crumbled around us.)