This is why I don’t think they are adding something new to increase the gold economy. I think they already see the explore revamp as having added more gold.
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Forum complaints are irrelevant to the developers (which is why they are at best acknowledged, but hardly ever acted upon). 99% of the players never visit the forums anyway.
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True.
That means 99% of the players are going to get a really rude shock in December if this nonsense hits…
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Since we are adding rarities in the tasks, I’m really looking forward to seeing what Doomed Tasks are like!
Although judging by the comments above, maybe that’s what these should have been called 
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They keep saying that, but there’s lots of places on the internet where one can leave negative feedback. Like in global chat or on twitter/facebook/ the app/android store/steam et al. New players will always ask questions and veterans will influence their longevity in the game.
When most people started playing, you could see some light to where you needed to go. Now it does not feel like that, certainly this change is as it stands, will be a major introduction of crap into every guild, as a gate to stop resource acquisition. Like 5 shards for 10k, I mean FGS, its embarrassing.
To your main point, things hardly ever get acted upon, that’s true, the devs have their plans, but judging by the feelings this has arisen, this one has awoken some strong feelings. Let’s be honest, they’ve got away with lots of changes as we have adapated or took things as we have, even if we have a limited voice.
I mean we only have to look at posts where threats have been made to the playerbase that they will stop communicating if we don’t pull back. I’m a level headed guy, and have given credit where its due, criticised where it feels justified and I saw that and thought wooaah, and that impression is a lasting one.
In this case, it’s just a 48 tonne truck being driven through resource acqusition and expenditure.
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My guild 30 person guild has a core of a few IRL friends (level 1200+) but we don’t have any requirements, besides log in once a week so we know you are alive. The majority of the guild is made of players lower than level 500.
We are rank 344 (bracket 35) in guild wars
We are rank 364 in League.
We only complete 2-3 tasks a week.
Making 20k seals is semi-rare occurrence, and is cause to cash in seals if we do.
The grindiness of this change won’t really effect me or my guild besides the demoralizing nature of having yet more unobtainable shines dangled in our face.
What does effect me is battling against the people who are able to achieve this in PvP, +16 life means it may take an extra cast to finish off an enemy. An extra cast I won’t get because they will get the extra turn to go off.
This change has no upside for guild like mine.
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I read your post, and my initial response was one of trust. After reading a few responses, I began to believe more and more the chicken littles. And if the whales do end up beaching themselves on Space Mount Everest in a fear-driven mass migration, I fear what will happen to my tiny band of misfit Raiders.
Just days ago, you helped convince the devs to keep the 55/45 Treasure Hoard split. Always in motion, the future is. Help us, @Saltypatra, you’re our only hope.
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If I had a gem for every person who has predicted the end of GoW or a mass exodus of players because of a new patch, I’d be set on every new mythic for the next 5 years. GoW is still here (so are so many who have complained about every patch for the last 2 years) and if the devs are to be believed, it’s stronger than ever & continues to grow.
The publisher has called our bluff (yet again) because they know they have a product more addicting than nicotine or opioids. Let’s be honest now - MAYBE 1 in 20 of those expressing disgust in this thread will actually quit, but I think that’s a high estimate.
I haven’t yet formed a solid opinion on this change. At first glance I’m disappointed that I really don’t need anything but tokens & deeds out of the new resources and that keys are definitely getting a nerf. But then there are other things in the works they haven’t revealed yet that may or may not make other resources useful again. In any case i’m not going anywhere any time soon and neither are the overwhelming majority of you here reading this 
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We hoard our clan orbs for GW week, and with the daily win bonus seals, can normally hit 40k then. Good luck to you and yours.
LOL… Truth. 
As usual, I think they will lose some old players and gain new ones as they always have. But also, the gap between high tier guilds and everyone else will widen even more. This seems to be a trend that continues as the game evolves.
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Unfortunately, this change has no upside at all.
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Perhaps a solution to the problem would be to leave regular tasks and LT’s the way they are and make the new Epic guild tasks optional. Then make the LT’s that come after that have a higher reward chance. This would give guilds the chance to continue to get LT’s as they always have and give the high lvl guilds something to push for. This would be a win win for everyone.
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Now this I could get behind. Unlock a higher level of LT’s by putting more resources in it. Purely optional. Keep what you have if your guild does’nt routinely crank out LT after LT every week.
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Could even call it Epic Legendary tasks that come after Epic Guild tasks.
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Ofc games dont “end”, there’s games 20 years old still going out there and the key word is “investement”.
Whales hardly will ever quit a game on which they “invested” so much money, in fact a mmorpg 10+ yo i played and where i spent 6k euro’s aswell (that’s nowhere enough to be a whale there tho) is still going and servers (there are 6 and despite almost all of them are deserted compared to the golden age devs/publisher refuse to merge them) are being paid by an “handful” of whales.
Seen i always considered any money spent in any online game not an investement but “WASTED” (as much as going out for a pizza and so) had np leave when was the time.
Tbh idc so much about LT’s, it’s like 5 or 6 months we dont see a mythic drop fom those, they helped me with keys a lot tho but what piss me off mostly are the stats.
When that crap will go live we will need to do smthing (like, not bothering with statues except blue normal week and drop verything on gw weeks, raise a LOT reqs or dunno) cuz i refuse to do GW on B1 with such lame disavantage (not that i like GW to start with even).
So yes, game will go on and 99% of ppls wont gaff about ANYTHING devs do or dont do to the game (is a dev that said the “typical GOW player do 27 matches a day” no? go figure how those are affected in any way lol, with that much doubt those even finish statues right now).
I would say that the token prize sound nice if not for a simple fact, if i gotta do 5 hours a day of explore to get golds to pay for those stupid tasks am pretty sure i wont need token either then.
Seen also i didnt invested (cough wasted cough) any euro in here can imagine how hard can for me leave, tbh playing just for “habit” and the guild right now.
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Good point.
And If I had 100 000 gold for every complaint in this topic I would be able to single handedly complete… let me count… 2/6 new statues for 1 week!
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When will the ultra rare tasks get here that will be before the epic tasks that will now be in front of the legendary tasks?
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I think some of you do not understand the consequences. It’s not that we are going to quit, not at all. We are not going to spend money on this game, that is all.
Imagine that instead of this diluted bulldrek the devs implemented true PvP. Or revamped the classes and added decent class trees (+2 stat to allied stryx? seriously). Or started reworking on already existing troops to make them more appealing instead of launching inane new ones. Things like this would make me go “oh, cool, I like what you are doing, I’m going to show you my support by buying these flash offers even though I don’t really need them”.
Now, you may say “there are very few people that will do the same as you” and it may be true. Who knows.
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I think it will be a mixed bag as far as what people will do. Some people will stop spending money. And some people will definitely quit the game. Many long term players I’ve spoken with on discord are seriously discussing quitting the game altogether. I may not quit right away, but this has me considering it. The devs had to know that this would not go over well with the player base, yet they’re gonna do it anyway. It shows how much they really care about the community. It’s a shame really. They used to care. Or seemed to anyway. Now a days, not so much. It’s pretty clear from the reactions here, that these changes are not gonna sit well with the community. Maybe they will listen to our complaints, and try to fix this before they launch it. I don’t have much hope for that though.
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Thank you devs. This update will save me $25. I was buying all my missing weapons and have 5 left to get. Now, I’m done with spending money on this game for the foreseeable future.
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