Message to AGS / SG

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‘We made a mistake releasing the March game update too quickly after launch. Data we analyzed alongside Smilegate RPG from their previous launches projected that a larger portion of players would have reached the level required to challenge Argos. However, we overlooked certain variables, such as players spending more time on horizontal content and the price of honing materials increasing due to bots and real-money transactions. These factors contributed to a scarcity of T3 honing materials.’

I kind of feel like they’re still overlooking the fact that while yes, sure, those factors more than likely had an effect, they keep skipping over the fact that we are missing content that provides those materials as well. Abyssal trials, PvP and Heroic guardians. Missing content is also a huge factor here.

Now, they did address it somewhat and have come out to say that we’re getting PvP soon, and they’re introducing an event ‘Guardian Raid’, (Can only enter once per day, per roster) to increase the methods in which to supply players with honing materials, which is what has been desperately needed, and what the players have been asking for.

This event sounds very similar to how Heroic Raids work from what I’ve seen. However, we’re only getting access to this for a month, with limitations, whereas it seems RU/KO has this available always and is just another method to obtain honing materials for your character. From what I remember reading, the guardians would be on rotation, you item level would be synced down to the appropriate level, AND you also got a chance to get gold engraving books.

So we’re getting something similar, but not quite the same, and where KO/RU have it as standard for progression, we’re getting it as an ‘event’ and only for a month.

Hopefully after the event is over, they replace it with the more standardized version available in other regions.

I appreciate their transparency, I am happy we are getting more methods to obtain honing materials with PvP finally coming and this new event, but still. I am left wondering why we’re only getting it for one month as an ‘event’ when the other regions have it built into the game as a fundamental part of gathering materials for your character.

Back to being cautiously optimistic and seeing where AGS and SG go from here.

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That means nothing, as I said, the content already exists, they just have to implement, while in KR they obviously had to take their time to develop it, dude c’mon…

Right, but you realize they are running a business right? All the lord of the rings movies were filmed back to back, but them spread them out. They wanted to see a return on their investment.
Nothing wrong with that if they are still trying to keep people happy. My opinion anyway.

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That’s a really bad comparison. If the LOTR movies had already released 3 years ago in KR and only now we got it in the West, it would make no sense that we would have to wait the same time they did to watch each movie, jesus dude c’mon you are not even trying.

You literally gave them a free pass to milk us hard. Missing necessary content should not be used to milk players.

By the way, they are not keeping their players happy obviously, as we can see on the huge drop of player numbers and the hundreds of forum topics complaining.

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I wonder what “injecting more gold into the mid to end-game” means, I’ve already leveled 4 characters to 50 the traditional way and finally had enough that I decided to powerpass the rest.

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We obviously have different view points, and possibly experiences in the game. It was never a personal attack on you, or anyone else. Lets just agree to disagree.

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I didnt read nothing good, the daily new guardian will bring what materials like one chaos or even worse like 5 leapstones?

No honing buff at all. No content and even delayed content. We need more content. Everyone will be at dead zone at 1340 at some time and nothing from above wont help. They just want to milk whales until all players leave I quess. They will give us nothing.

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I also didn’t read nothing good

@MakeMeLaugh See, that was a personal attack :wink: ^^^

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how about you wait till the update to see what it give before judging it lol

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We could totally consider that there will be no content aside the “big monthly” patch, next being april 14th (token for current event last until next patch, and in game it is… april 14th)

all they will do each time between those big patch will be bug fixes, and small changes like said in this post.
People spoke a lot (and will continue to speak) about roadmap because it is what will say if they will really try to solve things or not.

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I read that they’re trying. But I still have concerns. Especially about that one event we’re getting. I really do hope that the month the event is running is more like an introduction to the system and then afterwards we get it’s very similar counterpart added to the game permanently to earn honing materials for our characters.

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i think those speak, and few temporary help we will get are wellcomed, but… roadmap stay what will give us answers…

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I was referring to the double negative, almost sorry I created this thread now, not because of you.

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Ahh okay. My apologies then.

And also.

:frowning:

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Oh, no, just a misunderstanding. I thought it was good news!

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Ya, thanks for lying to us again AGS/Smilegate

Thanks to the mass ban of bots around the timing of the Argos update and the removal of early-game gold that attracted them in the first place, we’ve seen a steep decline in bot activity

ANYONE actually playing this game knows this statement is an outright lie. There are more visible bot now than before this supposed bot ban.

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Well I never seen such as greed in any game I played so far so I am bit sceptical.

Just few examples. Reduced gold reward in abyss dungeons, getting 100 gold in all T2 dungeons is super weird, then the gathering on the limit, then the honing chances in T3. Everything is just made to make you use store and curency exchange. (well I did spent a lot it works on me, but its so annoying)

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I will admit I have seen no decline in active bots. Not the part I was happy about.

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why do you care about whats my ilvl is and what i wanna do?
Define “huge injection”, will it be enough for 1370?

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Well the new patch better be good. I dont even care about Argos I am at dead zone selling mats and wating for honing buff. I play still a lot my alts and there is still plenty of stuff to do.

But game lost 300k players in week and that should be wake up call for AGS.

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I don’t care about your ilevel, nor did i ever imply anything of the like.