If you could change one aspect of Perfect World...

LifeHunting - Lost City

Change something in PWE?

The China devs, The idiot players who QQ about anything, Bring back Spoons, unban the people who actually helped players, give bans to all the trolls and people who try to advertise other **** that isn't needed.

really i could probably write a full out list of 100 or more things but i'll stop at those because they are the major changes I would do.

Fallghost - Raging Tide

I would try to remove the TT/TW changes,packs,hypers/oracles.........

and most likely QQers,trolls and fools.

Borsuc - Raging Tide

JanusZeal - Heavens Tear wrote: »

It's kinda hard to put this in simple terms for you to understand, and there's no crayon font to make it maybe colorful and large enough for you to read, so I'll try one more time.

Following along? You can't upgrade gear you don't have. In order to get gear in the first place, then, you'd have to actually farm it, or pay the price in coins. You won't eliminate cash shopping for coins, ever. Don't know how often I will have to reiterate this. People will do that anyways. However, at very least they're playing in a trade system that benefits everyone who wants to participate, which is the AH. More trade going in and out of the AH means more competition which, in turn, means people get a price they will pay for it. Win/win. It's kinda hard teaching economics to someone who has an inferiority complex over others because of their gear. My purpose is actually making things worth attaining and creating a game that has more worthy long term goals for the heavy majority who won't pay up the *** for gear, not QQing because people have better gear than me like you are.

So maybe while you're still stuck back pages ago with your feeble brain trying to comprehend the bigger picture, even more-so, engaging in your usual e-peen nonsense, since it looks e-peen is the only function you have in this game, the idea is moving forward. If you can't keep up, please don't waste my time with your stupidity. I feel like I'm trying to teach a kindergarten student calculus since he can't comprehend some very obvious statements.

I don't know how this turned out so bad, if it was something I said, I apologize, but I'm pretty sure I avoid starting these kind of things since I find them pointless.

Anyway back to "upgrading" versus "buying gear". The issue in all games is buying power. Note, that I acknowledge they have to make money, more than just from fashion and potions/charms. (though I believe they don't need the extra income, but hey, they want moremoremoremore profit).

Let's look at hyper exp stones. Some find them evil for breeding noobs. Some find them evil for allowing others to progress, but I'm sure very few think they buy power. The simple answer is because they are mostly a convenience item for people who want to level fast. I mean, cash shops are about being selling convenience for lazy people after, nobody should need cash shop exclusive stuff right?

And herein lies the problem: cash shop exclusive stuff that offers power that even a free player may want. Hypers don't offer you power -- they level you faster, yes, but you can level up without them also -- and without chances of failing being huge.

Refining? That's just ridiculous. Nobody refines without dragon orbs above +8 because they know the chances are abysmal and you can fail anyway.

I have less issues with selling gear that is farmable than with cash shop exclusive stuff that is not farmable. Basically, cash shoppers can buy gear in this case, just like they were selling gold in AH then buying it with coins. Convenience... but free-to-play players now wouldn't depend on the demand for gold and cash shop stuff and people selling gold for coins -- they could farm the stuff themselves if they wanted to.

Can you farm Dragon Orbs directly? Nope, didn't think so.

NOTE: I'm not advocating buying gear in the CS, but I find this monstrosity refining (= extremely expensive even in $) to be much, much worse. And giving you usually much more of a power.

However there is also the issue where the so-called "convenience" item makes stuff easy and bearable, but giving such a huge boost, that without it, you'd have to play 24/7 to reach that in more than twice the time. There has to be moderate balance -- not make stuff so unbearable the normal way it takes years to do, and nobody does it and everyone goes the "convenience" way which is more like "the I-Have-A-Life way" or pretty much what is required. In short, don't make convenience items required for progressing at a normal pace -- use some common sense on human timespans.


EDIT: pay2play games have everything farmable, obviously. I equate cash shop with trying to get the things done faster in there -- you know, convenience for lazy people. Not buying power that without touching the CS you cannot get.

Do people say hyper exp stones don't sell at all? After all, you can get exp as a free to play player, can't you? Cash shop just makes it faster... that's what convenience is about. Not mandatory.

In another MMO, you can get the "cash shop points" by repeating stuff over and over -- and you have to 'buy' content in there. (like say buying access to FC). Obviously, if you want to experience it without any grind at all, you just buy your way through -- and mind you, that game doesn't have costs so high like here, a hundred bucks should make you set. If you don't want to spend money you can still earn cash shop currency (not from other players) and get it unlocked, just takes a lot more time. Closer thing to convenience they have, although debatable whether it's 'balanced' seeing as you get less and less rewards from repeating same quest... eventually making you need a no-life to unlock more content without buying it.

(and buy2play games are even better in the balance aspect, because of following the "simple to reach endgame status", where everyone is easily on equal footing, it's why GW2 is gonna rock b:dirty)

Anyway I will leave it here, this thread is mostly about opinions anyway. I've detailed mine so you don't get the wrong impression. :P

MystiMonk - Sanctuary

There is another thing I wouldn't mind changing and that is the -2 mp degen from Elves natural wings and prevent no mana lose.This would benefit archers a great deal.

Pot_Head - Harshlands

Born_Free - Harshlands wrote: »

I'm not desperate....I'm married. b:chuckle

in a game....

babybattersplater

it would be the staff at PWE, Devs in China making patchs only for thier game, and not considering PWI, also the forum mobs dont ever really seem to help. Always filled with empty promises. That being said i would put in place ppl that play, care about, listen to thier CUSTOMERS. Believe it or not even free to play ppl are customer. And in most business" The Customer is always right.... to a point." I have managed several RL business, and if u dont listen to ur customers, u LOSE them. I love the game , been here since Sept 17, 2008, but the PWE staff is jus ****. I remember GM spam at server flip , where did that go? Hell where did the GM's go? in the 2 yrs playing i have seen lots of good, ALOT more bad. I jus think that PWI needs to step up to the plate and listen, b4 they truelly end up with a DEAD GAME. kthxbyeb:victory

Theo - Raging Tide

I would remove packs

Jay_Dubbz - Lost City

Packs......and make tokens at 10k from maybe merchant npc

Drazo - Dreamweaver

Change the name to Imperfect World California.

Or remove/ban about four fifths of the player base.

b:sin

Michael_Dark - Lost City

Borsuc - Raging Tide wrote: »

cash shop exclusive stuff

There is nothing 'cash shop exclusive' in PWI, with the exception of that 3 headed all class puppy thing you actually had to purchase zen to receive.

ElderSig - Dreamweaver

Michael_dark - Lost City wrote: »

There is nothing 'cash shop exclusive' in PWI, with the exception of that 3 headed all class puppy thing you actually had to purchase zen to receive.

Which isn't even account stashable...*sigh*

tearvalerin

i would ban longknife because he makes a multitude of tarded threads.

Michael_Dark - Lost City

ElderSig - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Which isn't even account stashable...*sigh*

Seriously? Lame.

Bactine - Heavens Tear

Packs.. and hell.. probably genies too.

They've got them more fine tuned since their addition, but I still think it would have been better to just have a set of 'Any Class' skills available to learn.

Tricannon - Dreamweaver

the noobs that sit there talk **** about how godly they are cause they hyper'd up to 100 then QQ during BH's cause they dont understand why they keep dying...(hint: cause u dont know waka about ur class)

Born_Free - Harshlands

tearvalerin wrote: »

i would ban longknife because he makes a multitude of tarded threads.

*punts*
Why do these thread attract so many trolls? Sheesh. *gets out Hamsta brand troll spray*


Again....no option of crappy staffz. [/sadface]

it would be the staff at PWE, Devs in China making patchs only for thier game, and not considering PWI, also the forum mobs dont ever really seem to help. Always filled with empty promises. That being said i would put in place ppl that play, care about, listen to thier CUSTOMERS. Believe it or not even free to play ppl are customer. And in most business" The Customer is always right.... to a point." I have managed several RL business, and if u dont listen to ur customers, u LOSE them. I love the game , been here since Sept 17, 2008, but the PWE staff is jus ****. I remember GM spam at server flip , where did that go? Hell where did the GM's go? in the 2 yrs playing i have seen lots of good, ALOT more bad.

^This
(But I hoep u don speel lyke dat y u run jur buzyness.)

I jus think that PWI needs to step up to the plate and listen, b4 they truelly end up with a DEAD GAME.

-_- Never mind.

Longknife - Harshlands

Born_Free - Harshlands wrote: »

*punts*
Why do these thread attract so many trolls? Sheesh. *gets out Hamsta brand troll spray*

Because it's "funny" to make comments like that. Or perhaps it would be if everyone and their mother didn't already make that "joke."

ib4 "who's joking LOL LOOK AT DAT WUZN'T AI FUNNEH JUS NAO?"

AlbireoTwo - Lost City

Michael_dark - Lost City wrote: »

There is nothing 'cash shop exclusive' in PWI, with the exception of that 3 headed all class puppy thing you actually had to purchase zen to receive.

I could've used that puppy to bait lower levels out into the open and then armageddon them to death. Stupid cash shop exclusive items!!!

I would remove gold fees. b:avoid

Theo - Raging Tide

Tricannon - Dreamweaver wrote: »

the noobs that sit there talk **** about how godly they are cause they hyper'd up to 100 then QQ during BH's cause they dont understand why they keep dying...(hint: cause u dont know waka about ur class)

I agree here

But that wouldnt happen if they never brought out packs. Ever sence they did, pwi has gone down hill.... I miss actually having to run FC or Lunarglade to craft a weapon I want.
It should be a "prize" you get from packs, and something tossed around at that.
Where is the value? PWI, have you no soul?

Borsuc - Raging Tide

Michael_dark - Lost City wrote: »

There is nothing 'cash shop exclusive' in PWI, with the exception of that 3 headed all class puppy thing you actually had to purchase zen to receive.

Cash shop exclusive = can only be found in cash shop. Free to play players cannot get it without someone giving it to them (or giving gold that THEY charged or someone else in the first place).

The puppy is CHARGE EXCLUSIVE. Since it's based on charging zen.

Do you seriously think it matters how you get the gold? You could even get 50 free gold from a lucky draw or competition or something, or because a GM felt generous... it's still cash shop exclusive.

Depending on cash shoppers to sell you stuff to get access to items = fail. Especially due to volatileness.

(not saying PWI itself doesn't depend on cash shoppers to keep servers up ofc -- but then again, those cash shoppers might just buy stuff for themselves)

Nedira - Dreamweaver

Longknife - Harshlands wrote: »

If you could change one aspect of Perfect World...

I think this goes for every MMO, and it has probably been said earlier in this thread(too lazy to read it)

Idiocy.

KaiserNeko - Archosaur

Amour - Lost City wrote: »

I would nerf assassins. 5aps, perma 399 chi, invis, permastuns/seals/sleeps along with ability to do massive spike is all too much. Sins can do everything better than any other class, really. Except heal ;]

actually they have blood paint for that

Theo - Raging Tide

Make us have Lv 4 factions with a 500 member cap and the cost
100,000,000... and make TW side cap no longer 80 but 200.
imo pwi would become extremely fun again. xD


***except for those with a poor connection already***

Sukinee - Heavens Tear

Remove packs permanently, put an in-game, high-priced coin option. And get rid of the rubberbanding, so annoying if you are low lvl and you don't have your fly gear yet to get out of it. -.-

Michael_Dark - Lost City

Borsuc - Raging Tide wrote: »

Cash shop exclusive = can only be found in cash shop. Free to play players cannot get it without someone giving it to them (or giving gold that THEY charged or someone else in the first place).

The puppy is CHARGE EXCLUSIVE. Since it's based on charging zen.

Do you seriously think it matters how you get the gold? You could even get 50 free gold from a lucky draw or competition or something, or because a GM felt generous... it's still cash shop exclusive.

Depending on cash shoppers to sell you stuff to get access to items = fail. Especially due to volatileness.

(not saying PWI itself doesn't depend on cash shoppers to keep servers up ofc -- but then again, those cash shoppers might just buy stuff for themselves)

Yes, you're still taking that term too literally.

In many games "cash shop exclusive" would mean that those items are only available to those that cash shop. PWI has a Gold Trader that allows non-cash shoppers access to the cash shop. Of course you have to rely on people selling gold to even have it. Why does that not fit into your equation of how things actually work here by mechanism?

*sigh*

Silest - Sanctuary

Wipe out 80% of sanctuary's population.

KrittyCat - Dreamweaver

KaiserNeko - Archosaur wrote: »

actually they have blood paint for that

They also have 79 and 100 skills for healing. The 100 skill is Blood Frenzy, and the 79 is Healing Trance. b:surrender

Dorset - Heavens Tear

Silest - Sanctuary wrote: »

Wipe out 80% of sanctuary's population.

why? i have a char on sanc and on Ht and HT always seems more packed