# Thank you for the Merchant's Blade **URL:** \ **Category:** Gameplay Chat (General)\ **Created:** [December 7, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/thank-you-for-the-merchants-blade/16314 "2016-12-07T13:22:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Strat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Strat](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Strat)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/thank-you-for-the-merchants-blade/16314/21 "2016-12-07T18:39:39Z")
> [@Lyya](#): > > Every time the developers make obtainable via “free” methods something that is ever exclusively available for cash, they risk the confidence of future sales. I agree. The “cash” to “free” direction has not happened. Once you cross that bridge no matter what the developers say/promise about “exclusive” items for the life of the game people will keep “this might be free if I wait” in mind when they consider spending $$$. Its obvious lots of people want the exclusive weapons (so do I), It also seems that lots of posters are simply ignoring the other thread with almost 800 replies how to make the devs more money… I’ve said my piece, the developers will do what they chose to in the end. ---
**Author:** ![htismaqe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/htismaqe/32/23893_2.png) [@htismaqe](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/htismaqe)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/thank-you-for-the-merchants-blade/16314/22 "2016-12-07T18:41:47Z")
Somebody already posted making the weapons available for cash. It doesn’t really do justice (or help the thread) to post the same things over and over. ---
**Author:** ![Strat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Strat](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Strat)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/thank-you-for-the-merchants-blade/16314/23 "2016-12-07T19:15:16Z")
> [@htismaqe](#): > > It doesn’t really do justice (or help the thread) to post the same things over and over. My bad. I didnt read every single post in the other thread, but I must have missed the multiple repeated posts in the other thread about protecting future $$$ sales by keeping exclusives exclusive and not making them free. ---
**Author:** ![htismaqe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/htismaqe/32/23893_2.png) [@htismaqe](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/htismaqe)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/thank-you-for-the-merchants-blade/16314/24 "2016-12-07T19:30:13Z")
I only saw it posted once in that particular thread but the topic of old event weapons like Sun and Moon and Crescendo comes up about once every 4-6 weeks. The devs have said several times they want to make them available, probably for glory. They’ve never insinuated at all that they were interested in making them cash-only. ---
**Author:** ![Lyya](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lyya/32/3650_2.png) [@Lyya](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyya)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/thank-you-for-the-merchants-blade/16314/25 "2016-12-07T20:28:20Z")
> [@Discussion about weapons that is only available for money](http://community.gemsofwar.com/t/discussion-about-weapons-that-is-only-available-for-money/7283/25): > > Our plan is to cycle old free event weapons back into the game in some fashion. Unsure exactly how we’ll do that yet, they may appear in glory-reward bundles, but I wouldn’t rule out having them appear in small $5 bundles… we’d ideally like to add some really small high-value bundles to the game, in the theory that a lot of players who are playing for free might actually give us $5 in much the same way as you might tip your barista or cab driver for good service. > [@Old Weapons ever getting re-released / sold again?](http://community.gemsofwar.com/t/old-weapons-ever-getting-re-released-sold-again/11890/10): > > Hi @turintuor I think @Nimhain gave the same answer, because it’s still the actual answer. From a player’s perspective, adding an extra purchase to the shop probably seems like a small thing to do… understandably. From a development/production perspective though, we need to ask a lot of questions and coordinate a lot of people/tasks to add a new purchase. We need to ask ourselves should they be free or paid? We need to consult data for what price points they should be at, and/or what should… > [@How long would it take to farm 16 arcane traitstones?](http://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-long-would-it-take-to-farm-16-arcane-traitstones/7757/39): > > Event weapons will return to the game in some form, we haven’t decided what that form will be yet. We’re still discussing it. We do have some mono color troops coming to events soon. We always try to announce when the Imps change around in the chest. (Winter Imp being the exception as he kept getting back into chests after we announced he had left sweat_smile) > [@Yasmine's Chalice and the alike](http://community.gemsofwar.com/t/yasmines-chalice-and-the-alike/10295/8): > > We are investigate ways to bring back previous event weapons in the future. No ETA at the moment though. Did I miss any? There is only one mention of weapons-for-Glory as a possibility, but it was mentioned in the same sentence as RMT as an alternative. I haven’t seen any comments from the devs regarding weapons-for-Glory since they started the occasional cycling in for RMT. ---
**Author:** ![htismaqe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/htismaqe/32/23893_2.png) [@htismaqe](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/htismaqe)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/thank-you-for-the-merchants-blade/16314/26 "2016-12-07T20:32:19Z")
I stand corrected. The other point still remains, however. There’s no evidence to suggest that making them available via Glory packs is going to alienate players who paid for them previously. If anything, the current release methodology for Legendaries suggests exactly the opposite. And the outcries about frequency of Mythic drops also demonstrates that as long as one group “has” and another “has not”, there’s always going to be some level of acrimony. At any rate, the REAL issue here is that some have these weapons and some don’t SOLELY because of timing. Whether they make them available for Glory or cash is really immaterial to me. Just give me the opportunity to get them and I’ll be happy. ---
**Author:** ![Lyya](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lyya/32/3650_2.png) [@Lyya](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyya)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/thank-you-for-the-merchants-blade/16314/27 "2016-12-07T20:39:42Z")
> [@htismaqe](#): > > At any rate, the REAL issue here is that some have these weapons and some don’t SOLELY because of timing. Whether they make them available for Glory or cash is really immaterial to me. Just give me the opportunity to get them and I’ll be happy. I agree with this point. For cash or otherwise, all boons should be obtainable. I feel like the game does itself a disservice by keeping these items out of reach, mitigated only by the fact that, frankly, most of the weapons are pretty terrible. ---
**Author:** ![efh313](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/efh313/32/34349_2.png) [@efh313](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/efh313)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/thank-you-for-the-merchants-blade/16314/28 "2016-12-07T21:00:40Z")
With few exceptions the weapons are not gaming changing, lock down, needs to destroy the meta, but they are fodder for the OCD completionists like myself! PLEASE LET ME GET THE WEAPONS!! 😱 😫 😰 😭 ---
**Author:** ![Verdugo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/verdugo/32/9407_2.png) [@Verdugo](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Verdugo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/thank-you-for-the-merchants-blade/16314/29 "2016-12-07T21:02:28Z")
CRECENDOS FOR EVERYONE!!!1111!!! 😏 ---
**Author:** ![Kharybdys](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/kharybdys/32/2023_2.png) [@Kharybdys](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Kharybdys)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/thank-you-for-the-merchants-blade/16314/30 "2016-12-08T14:01:50Z")
> [@Lyya](#): > > most of the weapons are pretty terrible. Yes and no. If you see what team builds are suggested here on the forums that contain a hero, more than 75% contain an event-only weapon. That’s because Crescendo, Sun and Moon and Staff of Madness are all good AoE weapons, and AoE is the style today I guess. So for the few weapons that are “good”, most are event-only. ---
**Author:** ![killerman3333](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/killerman3333/32/4068_2.png) [@killerman3333](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/killerman3333)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/thank-you-for-the-merchants-blade/16314/31 "2016-12-10T07:54:25Z")
@Devteam Thank you for making this weapon! [Previous page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/thank-you-for-the-merchants-blade/16314.md?page=1)