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Main complaints- easy fixes to player anger
Kaufmeat
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Here are the 4 major issues players have been complaining about post-patch:
1) Rune Combo Failure
-this is just ridiculous- great way to make players hate the game
2) Tougher Bosses
-they take twice as long to beat and only a little less with runes. Adding new more difficult bosses would have been fine. Messing with what players have grown comfortable with is a recipe for player anger
3) Boss Reagent Drops
-Only 1 reagent drops per boss now, and soulshards are nowhere to be seen outside of endless. Endless was a nice addition to the game but now it's the only way to advance.
4) slow selling
-assume this is a glitch, but regardless, it needs fixing. Makes the game painful.
The moral here I think is: if it ain't broke, don't try and fix it! You guys are creative- find other ways of making money- players will only pay as long as they feel the game is worth playing, and these changes bring ew3 close to being unplayable.
1) Rune Combo Failure
-this is just ridiculous- great way to make players hate the game
2) Tougher Bosses
-they take twice as long to beat and only a little less with runes. Adding new more difficult bosses would have been fine. Messing with what players have grown comfortable with is a recipe for player anger
3) Boss Reagent Drops
-Only 1 reagent drops per boss now, and soulshards are nowhere to be seen outside of endless. Endless was a nice addition to the game but now it's the only way to advance.
4) slow selling
-assume this is a glitch, but regardless, it needs fixing. Makes the game painful.
The moral here I think is: if it ain't broke, don't try and fix it! You guys are creative- find other ways of making money- players will only pay as long as they feel the game is worth playing, and these changes bring ew3 close to being unplayable.
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You forget the main problem.
Glu never listens to us....they listen to their sick greedy minds.
I'm not spending money on something that's not worth playing.
This update is practically extortion. Except one thing. I don't have to play this BS.
They're never gonna do that.
We've already asked for it for 3 months.
Thanks for summarizing this effectively. I have personally sent this thread to the team and they are taking it under advisement.
Can you also tell them to read forums and take our suggestions seriously?
Except don't show them my posts. They might get mad and purposefully delete my account.
+1
Well said
It's so frustrating to work your character up to a certain point and then have an update come along that sets you back- In spite of the increased GS runes give, it feels like i'm working twice as hard just to get back to where I was before. and that's not a good enough motivator for people to want to put much time into- let alone money.
2) This system is very similar to the upgrading of elements in EW2. Even the failure rates look to be about the same. The difference is that runes, right now, are very difficult to get. Couple with the fact that only 2 out of the 6 runes are useful right now and you can see why a failure on a lightning damage or fire resist combine can be devastating. An entire days worth of farming can be reduced to nothing with a single click. Not to mention that you have to successfully combine multiple times to get to the top tier. Each tier of combinations gets more devastating when it fails. I pray that I don't smash my IPad the first time I fail a blue quality rune combination. A new feature that results in more anger and frustration than any tangible level of fun or entertainment is never a good idea.
3) you went about this all wrong. You pushed the rune system without adding a new tier of equipment, map, or level cap to couple it with. Had you put the best equipment in the new tower and required runes to get it, you would have a forum full of happy customers. Instead, you shoehorned it in and were left with the problem of trivializing the difficulty of the old content. Since old content still had the best gear, making it very easy would severely reduce the need for gems to get through gs checks like legendary cyclops. Since your funding is dependent on gem sales, you chose to make old content harder to fit your new feature. This was a very bad idea. Making players in an rpg feel weaker and requiring them to do more work to break even is akin to digging your own grave. I've never, in 20 years of RPG play, seen a company do this and have it work out well for them. People put a lot of time and effort into getting their characters to where they are. Taking that away is a big deal.
Both of those changes are intended. That doesn't make them good ideas.
I don't see how #1 rune combo failure is a glitch. I see it was intent illy included, so people wouldn't take that risk with trying to make epic or legendary runes. That would be huge farming set-back.
I respectfully disagree. The rune system is working as intended, and it was intended to generate even more IAPs.
Was supposed to say, intentionally....lol.
As an alternative could I suggest, based on your GS or level you can only combine certain runes. e.g. you have to be lv48+ to be able to get the highest rune. Also if you pay for it by gold (or gems) you get a guaranteed combo.
Else why would you suggest something that leads a player to fail 95% of the times? That hardly a good suggestion, lol.
This is actually a very good idea.
To further expound on the idea, make the rune upgrade system similar to the skill upgrade system. It requires certain levels to combine higher rune rarities, but you can combine them even if your level is not high enough if you want, you will just have to use gems.
Also, make the cost on par with skill upgrades, so that by end game the runes are a couple mil or so each upgrade or you have the option to spend gems instead of coins.
This idea of course entails also removing the failure chance.
There is a way for a "no failure". Pay for the combo with gems.