Anniversary Pack Discussion

chelseacrafter wrote: »

OH brother... then let me suggest you get one first. <rolls eyes>

Are you alive when you play? Duh.

DOH! It makes sense that I'm very much alive and kicking by being here and posting Mr Smarty pants.

If you do not grasp the meaning of having a life,
other than your in game life then I can very well see where you're getting your smarts from.

You're telling everyone that playing a game equates to having a life?

P/s YAY! DejaVu packs are back! They listened then ignored us.

Since we have the packs back in the CS, can Jones continue to give out his blessing too?

My opinion is to get rid of the anniversary packs. It makes the game very unbalanced. Not only in gold prices and the general economy but also with gear. Cash shop users can now obtain rare items without putting forth any effort. If anniversary pack are here to stay I will not be quiting pwi. However, I wish the players could be informed if they are here to stay or will be eventually removed. I am personally more annoyed with the continual removal and redistribution of the anniversary packs than the effect they have had on the game. If you (GMs/Devs whomever) tell us they are going to be removed then please keep to that. If they are here to stay then just say so. Keeping players in the dark I believe is more harmful than the packs themselves.

With all the complaining...wonder if anything will be done?...
Well, btw, when do they go out? (Or are supposed to?)

As I'm not the one in charge of sales I currently do not have an exact date to tell you.

Players like i have the right to know when this sale (anniversary pack) will end. Every end event has an end date, so why doesn't this one have it? Stop draging and delaying with "im not responsible for this which mean i don't have answer for your question". Communicate with the one whos in charge of it and give answer right away!

i wonder if i can say people are **** for letting the event continues and game developers and GMs are bastardsb:chuckleb:byeb:pleasedb b:victory

In my opinion. They should be removed at this time.

Regards

Coshten - Sanctuary wrote: »

Making them in the first place was a terrible idea but bringing them back AFTER so many people quit is an even worse idea.

Also I think the GM's and dev's are forgetting something while they're all so money hungry with this event, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A WORKING GAME TO CASH IN ON IT!!!!

Instead of worrying about money for the moment actually FIX your game....... I am so damn sick of f'in bug reports and getting stuck on npc's heads while doing WQ.... b:angry

AFTER you fix the game is a good time to have a big event celebrating and trying to pull in new players NOT WHILE ITS ****ED UP!!!

.......sry, lost my temper a lil, game just crashed again.....

Thank you, that is all b:thanks

I completely agree with this.

This game is full of various bugs, for example, getting stuck falling down a fill, feet of character impaling flying manta during flight and being able to stand on the air next to fences and walls are just few.

The player base has still not received complete coverage on the flesh ream issue. (Is it a bug or not?)

Some skills are severly underpowered and should have been fixed in patches, namely damage-over-time abilties. What is the point of these abilities existing if there is no/ extremely limited use? Fix them! Multiply their damage by 1.6 or something, go run some tests for balance I DONT KNOW YOU MADE THIS GAME.

Honestly I will not put anymore money into this game. My money would be better spent paying for a pay-to-play MMORPG that is not full of bugs and fail and in which I am guaranteed the ability to effectively participate in ALL of the game content (pvp, mass pvp (territory wars), higher level dungeons).

you know what the irony of all this is?

some players have begun to play frugally as a result - no charms, no GAs, no refines. those that don't touch the cash shop essentially become the most unprofitable players to PWI because they would have nothing to do with gold. it is the players who are eager to buy charms and dragon orbs that are driving people to sell gold. that gold has to come from somewhere, and so even if these players don't directly pay, they can create an incentive for someone else to do it.

in other words, the players who want to keep up and are bawwing the most about the packs right now? they're important to PWI too. i think it's safe to say that prolonging this event is creating more freeloaders.

now i realize that large demand for packs means gold sellers are selling like mad anyway, and probably outweighing the population of cash shop-less players, but the whole attitude that "you don't pay don't expect to be good" is simply wrong. As far as the company is concerned, money is money, who the hell cares who it came from? thus both the players who charge zen and the players who create incentives for others to charge zen should be important in the eyes of the company.

i think they should have had a charm and d-orb sale during the duration of both anniversary pack events.

the sales would not have caused gold to raise even higher because the anniversary packs basically create the upper limit for gold due to its massively higher demand. this would've made a lot of people happier i think.

Dratini - Lost City wrote: »

The only reason why perfect world is worth playing is because it(was) a free-to-play game.
By introducing anniversary packs into the cash it has become impossible to enjoy playing this game for free.
In order to participate in and enjoy pvp or higher level pve one needs to purchase charms, dolls and refines and this has become impossible if one does not put a large sum of money into this game,
This "large sum of money" equates to approximately at least $30US per month.
$30US per month could pay for subscription to various other MMORPG's, which based on critical reception are much better games.
By making perfect world effectively a pay-to-play game, the game loses its advantage against other MMORPG's.
Thus in time perfect will lose players to the point where it will fail as a business.

Except that is exactly the business plan of everyone who walks out of college with a business major, do anything and everything to get to the top, once you get there (by walking over as many people as it takes) squeeze as much money as you possibly can out of the company even if it means sacrificing its chances of continuing in the future, then walk out with your 8 figure bonus.

Kiralsha - Heavens Tear wrote: »

All I can say is..Goodbye people leaving, goodbye people going to leave..and welcome back when you can't stand to stay away and have to look at the expansion =P

Also...A few hundred people (if that) quitting...isn't really that much. More people will always pop up.

I sure know I'm not coming back be it expansion or whatever other trick that the Perfect World throws out at us to keep u all interested in playing this imbalanced game.

Think of it this way, if non cash shoppers are finding it hard to afford even the basic stuff and get to LV 90 and get decent Lv 90 Gear with current Gold Prices, what chances are there for a player to even think about post 105 stuff or get them that's introduced with the expansion.

Also, you forgot that with every Person that quits, he/she will always have a bad opinion about that game and will never recommend the game to any of his/her friends in the future, only leading to less people joining the game. I sure know I wouldn't recommend any of my friends to try out PWI, never ever.

PS : I Just visit forums every once in a while to help out ppl with builds, game play, Questions etc till the forums fade away just like a memory, other than that, I'm least bit interested about getting back to an imbalanced game whose cash shop's sole purpose is to find a way to leech even the slightest bit of money from a player without considering it's non-paying player database. I had high hopes about PW but sadly, it just turned out to be another third rate p2p game.

b:bye

IceJazmin - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Nah, however I have been part of several protests about different causes before. It helps to get things changed when the people protesting do not make silly and easely proven wrong statements, since than it causes the serious issues to also be descridited as exagerations or simple unfounded complains.

Can you honestly tell me, that if you were the person making the decisions, and you know you just had a record month of gold sales due to the packs, that you would keep reading a thread when people are claiming that the packs were not popular? You know how many you sold, you have the numbers, and they tell you they are not popular... are you going to belive them and keep reading or are you going to just dismiss it as "people will just say what they want, even when the facts point to something else."

the packs are not popular as you can see from mass player outrage

there is a small percentage of losers (who just care about enhancing there e-peen rather than playing the game) forking out hundreds of dollars increasing sales

thus the demand for these packs is high

the issue with the packs is not exactly the rise in gold price (although it making several integral components of the game effectively impossible for new players)
that is determined by people who purchase gold using coin

but they are not popular

the issue is they make playing the game unnesacary buy giving players easy exp and end game gear
dont give me your bull**** about 150 being endgame, lvl cap is 105 and realistically very few are going to reach that (especially with the soon-to-become noob, lazy, greedy and very small playerbase) . It is not worth lvling from 104-105, most would rather take a new character to 90+ (similar exp required)

i will not pay real money for this game, nor will i buy gold with coin until anniversary packs are removed.
i think this the stance all players annoyed with anniversary packs should take

please just dont make this mistake again...and dont repeat after that...and after...

They're coming back on December 1st as an early Christmas Present to the Players, Duh.

Dratini - Lost City wrote: »

the packs are not popular as you can see from mass player outrage

there is a small percentage of losers (who just care about enhancing there e-peen rather than playing the game) forking out hundreds of dollars increasing sales

thus the demand for these packs is high

the issue with the packs is not exactly the rise in gold price (although it making several integral components of the game effectively impossible for new players)
that is determined by people who purchase gold using coin

but they are not popular

the issue is they make playing the game unnesacary buy giving players easy exp and end game gear
dont give me your bull**** about 150 being endgame, lvl cap is 105 and realistically very few are going to reach that (especially with the soon-to-become noob, lazy, greedy and very small playerbase) . It is not worth lvling from 104-105, most would rather take a new character to 90+ (similar exp required)

i will not pay real money for this game, nor will i buy gold with coin until anniversary packs are removed.
i think this the stance all players annoyed with anniversary packs should take

but if noone uses the cash shop how will all the high end wallets be any good