[Emergency Server Maintenance] 7-22-10 [Complete]

Jtune - Heavens Tear wrote: »

much longer? im bad with time zones

Squeakytoy - Dreamweaver wrote: »

I'm pretty sure hiding wasn't my intention. b:lipcurl

Traz - Dreamweaver wrote: »

2 hours to add in 2 things to the boutique (which doesn't need a shutdown to do) LOLERCAUST

squeakytoy - Dreamweaver wrote: »

apparently, Changing The Price Of One Boutique Item Requires The Entire Server To Be Shut Down For 2 Hours.

Oh, And Tiger Packs....yay B:infuriated

ExELFine - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I like how it's all those high levels 100+ who claim that PWI sucks, and that the game is lame, or that it's boring, or that it's a fail MMORPG, hehe. They did play/enjoy it enough to make it to lev 100, must have spent loads of rl $$$ too, esp the oracle/hyper babies. Seems they just don't want anyone else to enjoy this game. Whatever. For those that have been around awhile and see how things are now = Game is easy. No one quests and noobs are born of oracles, bhs, etc. Also, just because some of us made it to our levels, does not mean we spent a **** ton of $$ on this game...your assuming. I for one have done every single quest minus one in heaven and some tailoring and bh's. Some of us just think that people rush to level and then complain because the game is boring when they missed about 95% of it through the "easy way" of leveling.

About the packs, I remember right after maintenance, lots of people were complaining about the absence of packs for the second week in a row, because many mostly use them to get:

- food (thereby stretching the precious charms, or being able to go without charms)

- other items they can't get any other way except buying at ridiculous prices from catshops.

Now that PWI is doing an emergency maintenance to put them back in, more QQ'ing from those who benefit from said packs. The "qq" imo is more because they are doing this with dragon orbs and those of us that buy gold from the ah are effected and it sucks. Also, we all knew about the dragon orb 10 packs but they couls have waited...THEN they throw in the Tiger packs randomly (as it seems to many). I for one have NO issue with the packs but have an issue with them coming at the same time as the orbs and randomly. They could have just waited until Tuesday when everyone expected the 10 packs to be brought out.

Don't you know you sound like a bunch of spoiled brats and in the end, you've become so predictably boring, whatever PWI does, we will find you QQ'ing everywhere, in WC and in forums. But guess who's laughing all the way to the bank, seeing thousands of teles wasted on WC just to QQ about the "economy" and everything else.

b:chuckle

RedsRose - Lost City wrote: »

O.o

Just count 2 hrs from shutdown....

Tremblewith - Heavens Tear wrote: »

This is somewhat avoiding what the OP was stating. Firstly, I want to say that the game "can" be played freely. Yes, it can be done and many have shown they have in the past. The issue at hand is the GMs/Devs are all basically ruins the game.

1.) Making money now is limited. Farming mats = no. Farming herbs = no. Grinding thanks to the DQ drop = no. Farming TT = no. Here's what you can do:
-Farm TT 3-3 for gold mats
-Farm Nirvana and sell/split
-Merchant
Thats it. You can thank the 2x drops, crazy exp wh0res who have all reached lvl 100 thanks to BH/Hyper/Oracles, etc.

2.) Throughout PWI's history, PWE's management of the game itself has shown they just don't give a damn. You find a bug, make a post, it's locked. You have any issue with anything basically, make a post and it gets locked. Send a ticket - 1 1/2 weeks later get an automated response saying "Thanks, we're working on it". Rankings = incomplete for how long? But their working on it. Patch notes are incomplete, etc, bring it up - get locked.

3.) The CM (Community manager) as well as the mods lock nearly everything and ignore all issues. Packs we're brought up as an issue as soon as they came out as Anni packs w/ over 100 page thread. Yet, here they w/ a different name.

4.) Yes the server's cost money. No ****, that's a no brainer. Nearly everything in life costs money. Any "normal" MMORPG that is "Free to play" has a cashshop, which they weekly put things on sale. Now, in PWI when issues arise like bugs caused from the previous patch, or even the Auction House being down, they don't give a damn. It gets fixed a week later in the next patch, which ONLY has that as being a fix - nothing else is generally in the patch. However, when they "forget" a Cashshop item in the Boutique, everything goes in complete lockdown, and emergency server maintenance must happen.

5.) The packs suck ****, and everyone knows it. However, now with out them the in-game economy falls apart. Teles shoot to 25k within' the month of not having them, shards up in price like crazy, and that awesome end-game gear - shoots up in price. So now the in-game economy is SoL. Keep packs = More QQ, the in-game economy is still fauked w/ high gold prices (Granite gold prices will never reach less than 200k due to p-hammers). Take packs away = More QQ, no one can afford teles, shards, and that end-game gear is damn expensive.

Conclusion:

The game's developers are completely out of touch with the game's economy, and just in general - the game. All the developers, marketing teams, etc care for is that green money. They don't care about the "average player". They don't care about the paying players. All they want is for you and me to spend lots of cash on this broken game. Why do I still play? I have many many friends, and I run my own faction. I don't charge zen anymore (Spent a good $300 before when I trusted this company). I now leech off the server's bandwidth, QQ on the forums, and hope for better days to fall upon this now craptastic game.