If it wasn’t pheons it would be something else. The game is a FOR PROFIT game. It will have to make the money SOMEWHERE. Right now a main driver is pheons since they create demand for blue crystals which in turn creates a demand for royal crystals.
If pheons were not in, we could have a much WORSE option in place. Something like you need to spend 25 blue crystals every time you want to bifrost somewhere instead of silver, or things like that.
I rather take the pheons, as least the smart people know how to manage their pheon use.
Just finished 4x3 my bard. Total cost: 65 pheons accs + 75 stones. basically the 15th stone went 6/6. Around 13-14k worth of gold only for pheons. I’m not really complaining anymore, just stating my experience, my 2 cents if you will. Do as you wish with this info.
I would have to agree with this. It just gives them the reason to double dip and in my opinion it’s highway robbery!! I’m sick of these tactics they use to Nickle and dime everyone!!
It should at least be scaled vs the item. It shouldn’t cost 5 or 9 pheons to buy something at is 100 gold. Maybe if it <250 gold its zero pheons and >250 it begins to scale. Idk the exact number but something like that. As i’m typing i realize how much of a waste of time this is because it will never change.
Yeah you are right - its not too hard as an f2p to manage your pheon and BC use.
Since Im not leet I dont even bother with 7/7, just 7/5, 8/5 or 8/4 which takes 2 or 3 (and yes sometimes 5 or 6) attempts. Im happily 4x3 and 4x3 +1 on any alt I have. No leg books and didnt spend more than around 5k (gold) for the setups. ez and happy mode.
As has been pointed out, its not for us, its for AGS / SG to make money, Real world $$.
Personally, but I wont go into details again, I think they are there as a non-flipping instrument, but they are definitely there to just ensure f2p activity gets converted to $$ and that f2p’ers are in a minimal way gated behind p2w players. Its makes SG $$, thats it.
