An unacceptable, not to mention condescending, response given the multiple users who also jumped on this thread with additional minor suggestions (that wouldn’t break the system in a future patch–nobody here is talking about the past except YOU) and have been continuous grievances since the implementation of Guild Wars.
Since “you’ll need to run it for a while” every three weeks (even though nothing has changed in the event type from when it was one week), we shouldn’t expect any changes even though the problems with Guild Wars were numerous and presented to you all since their implementation–fixes were promised for them prior to 3.3.
Since there are 52 weeks in a year, and you’ll be running the event every 3 weeks as was implemented in 3.3, should we expect that things will remain entirely the same for 6 cycles, more than 4 months; 9 cycles, 6 months?
When you say “in this new system” what you mean is, “in this new economy.” You’re not fooling anyone. It’s no wonder a development company based out of a country with the globe’s largest number of gambling addicts and the largest casino gaming industry has managed to provide the same level of customer experience and money (and time) loss when compared to any positive value provided by the company. House advantage built right in, and you’ve partnered with one heck of a company to milk the $$$ for all it’s worth with 505 as the publisher.
I can’t wait until the laws that are beginning to pass globally requiring legal mandates of loot box odds and actual monetary returns on real-cash purchases in video games using the ‘freemium’ video game model to unfairly scam consumers pass and you’re actually forced to be transparent as a company in order to operate in the countries you do (as was recently seen with Blizzard/Activision in China).
When that day comes, you’ll probably adjust the entire economy to make it appear as if it was ‘this fair all along,’ but personally, I hope that the pirate ship you’ve got so overloaded with actual currency from predatory transactions sinks straight-up Titanic style with all of your careers going down with it.
Oh, I can hardly wait! You know Canada is the next major economy where it’s going to happen, right? That’ll really suck for you… But until then, you’ll continue preying upon consumers while hiding behind frequent answers of, “well, there’s more to consider and our publishers have a very long, drawn out process for in-game changes that impact the game’s economy” (like I just witnessed on a pathetic excuse of a “community engagement” Twitch stream).
I can’t wait to be through with you all. My only regret is having invested enough money to get to VIP 7 and having to lose some of the quality relationships with people I’ve met through the game who’ve continuously hoped to have a receptive audience from developers but are continuously left disappointed in the reality that comes to fruition and the treatment of the very people you should value most–YOUR CUSTOMERS. We’ve chosen to invest hundreds and in some cases thousands of hours into your casino-disguised-as-a-game (without any chance of return) over the years, let alone the money most of us have put in. What have we purchased and spent our time on exactly? False promises of exciting futures for the game and a brutal reality that even once something seemingly new and potentially exciting is released it won’t work and your customers will be your actual beta testers for the next fiscal quarter (or three).
It’ll be a sad day when we all uninstall and walk right out the door of the corrupt and parasitical 0% return casino realizing what fools we’ve been and for how long.
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