Anniversary Pack Discussion

This is the last post I'm going to make here in a while, because as much as people are requesting that I respond, it always ends up with no progress being made and people attacking what I say.

The reason this thread is still open is simple. Even if every one of the 1,081 posts in this thread were made by a different player (which they were not), this still does not represent the majority of the player base.

If I close it now, I am preventing the rest of the community who has not expressed their opinion here yet from doing so.

If I leave it open, yeah I'm going to get yelled at, but I'm giving people a chance to share their own opinions without saying "oops you don't use the forum regularly, you missed your opportunity to comment, bye."

I'm sorry that so many players are angered by this sale, however as I do not make the decisions I am not going to give you answers about things that I can't promise. It would be much more productive if you left your concerns in a civil manner without killing the messenger, because that actually runs counter to your own intentions.

How do you take a survey of any given population?

Someone here must be into statistics.

I'm sure as hell you do not go and ask over half the population to get an answer.

It seems this thread must have over half of the playerbase for it to be effective. Which is impossible; meaning that this thread was void right from the start.

That post pretty much confirms that the packs will stay (no surprise there). At least we know that much.

One way they could survey the entire population is when u go to load ur client up theres a poll which u need to participate in before u can play, however u wud need to log in to vote and account has to be active for over a week so people cant fix the votes. Then run the poll for 6 days and that way new players can still vote. This is only way i can think of getting the entire populations opinion and wud take what 5-10 seconds of the persons time so no biggy.

That would also get rid of threads such as this because everyone would of voted and it will be done on general opinion, you will always get people that disagree but there shouldnt be this many disagree'ers again.

Yea but atleast everyone will know the player base voted for it, no-one can say its all about the money and maybe just maybe things will start to become happier, cause lets face it PW is an awesome game if it wasnt all the people that have bought there level 80+ char wudnt be buying more level 80+ characters .

david12345 wrote: »

It seems this thread must have over half of the playerbase for it to be effective. Which is impossible; meaning that this thread was void right from the start.

Effective at what?

Seems to me the point of this thread is for "discussion"
(i.e. keeping the flames in one spot).

b:victory

How much good did the first annipack thread do?
And it was only just recently they finally shut duke up.

b:surrender

It's all just absurd and simply pointless.
But if I wanted optimism and sunshine, I'd go play "my little pony" online.

Hunter_PT - Heavens Tear wrote: »

The only thing stopping prices dropping is greed.
Those istances can now only been ran becuase of the people who have earnt thier levels and not bought them.

Things can go back to the way they were, the serious CS's who have bought thier levels and everything that is buyable will get bored and leave pw for a new challenge they can throw thier credit card at, thus leaving the same people that were here in march (give or take alot quit because of packs, more are still quitting and some are joining and earning thier levels) so everything is there to be the PW it once was if not better.

you forgot to mention the PWE staff needs to stop the constant abusive sales... that's the main reason that everything costs so much more ingame (especially CS-based stuff)... the players can only control so much of the economy

(i would mention the devs need to fix the bugs, but i hold out on that because i'm putting my money on most of the bugs being fixed with the tideborn expansion... its the one last thing that's keeping me clinging to this game)

Never before has gold been so high as it has with these packs, when i started in feb gold was 100k sales and it jumped up a little but went back to normal, new mounts and fashion jumped it up quiet abit but slowly went back to normal but gold is increasing because more players are buying gold. If people wernt using the GH to finance there way to 80+ gold wudnt be 500k+ each.

Nihillae - Heavens Tear wrote: »

It's all just absurd and simply pointless.
But if I wanted optimism and sunshine, I'd go play "my little pony" online.

You are joking, right? Those pony breeders can be ruthless! b:shocked

Ok if I had to look at the Anni packs being brought back from a logical point of view is that PWI should have brought them back next year, not like a month or so after.

PWI made such a big hype out of it's being an anniversary of it for running for 1 year and had the packs up for an entire month. The point of any form of anniversary is that it happens only once a year, the event ended and then you bring it back only because GM's, dev's etc saw it all as it's biggest money maker quite literally ever.

And then PWI's playerbase literally dropped, it's easy enough to notice with arch looking a little emptier then usual. I can understand why people have quit and why so many ppl have slated PWI's staff. If anything PWI isnt doing itself any favours by just ignoring its playerbase and with it's simply not caring attitude.

The only gd thing I can possibly ever see GM's doing and being noted as a 'good thing' is putting Tomes for sale in the boutique. Maybe it would anger even more players, I honestly dont know the mentality or the frame of mind of every single player, I just speak for myself. Seriously tho, what more could they put into the boutique that could possibly make even more ppl quit that the anni packs havent done already?

In any case I only log in just to do dailies now and talk to the friends ive made some bonds with on here, thats the ONLY reason Im continuing to play PWI. I honestly dont like it as much as I used to but I got sum gd friends I want to talk to on here and help out, even if PWI is goin to hell with bringing bk anni packs

Junkhead - Lost City wrote: »

I was wondering if maybe the anniv boxes could be kept past Nov 1st. Like make it a thanksgiving or christmas thing since so many people want events. It helps people like me that cant spam cash shop all day everyday. It also will help even out my server as more people can catch up to cq . I also think that with all the chips being used to make molds and hh gold its a pretty good gold sink.

You're joking right? How on earth will you catch up to CQ? They'll be buying every one of these items in bulk and +6-10'ing the entire lot. And how does it help those who can't cash shop? 500k gold makes things easier? And a good coin sink? We're talking 5m coin injected with every single best luck token.

If the players are still here and making statements and putting forth arguments, that means they're hoping there's a way that a game they have been playing and enjoying can be saved from the inevitable doom of it turning into a Pay2Win game.

The ones who just leave and don't turn back, you won't find them here telling you what's wrong and hoping for a stop to the slide. You won't even get a second chance of getting them to return, new classes, expansion or otherwise. Once bitten, twice shy. You fool me once, shame on you. You fool me twice, shame on me.

As long as they're still here and expressing themselves be they right or wrong, unpleasant or otherwise, at least they're still here playing, contributing and hoping that the game doesn't degenerate any further.

When the day comes that the players aren't expressing anything, that is the time of concern for this game's developers.

P/s for those who are advocating that PW-MY is still around with all these negatives, try logging into one of their servers. You'll change your opinion very quickly.

Pp/s One of my friends from China just told me some player playing in the China server spent USD37000 just to get a Warsoul weapon b:shocked

_DarkSeph_ - Sanctuary wrote: »

Pretty sure it was a mistake, since he was referring to molds bought with chips, which require coin to purchase, therefore acting as a coin sink somewhat

Except his mistake was right, because it IS a gold sink. b:cute

the anniversary packs destroyed all the fun of the game. Like in RL if you have money you can have all its not so fun anymore b:cry

MiniST - Sanctuary wrote: »

hehe, i love how the GMs created a thread just for the anniversary packs so they won't have to deal with complaining elsewhere. This is like putting a suggestion box above an incinerator. b:chuckleb:laugh

Thank you for placing your useless post into said incinerator :].