I think there are many things that indicate Amazon has a good level of control over the content. Things like race changing NPCs or censoring skins/NPCs. Smilegate themselves have no reason to do this, Amazon clearly had them do it.
Whatever happened with the honing rate patch and the patch notes that were released and redacted, we don’t really know. It’s possible that Amazon asked for the rates to stay low because of feedback or just wanting people to swipe. It’s also possible it’s all Smilegate. We don’t know.
The only real info we have to speculate off of is Gold River’s interview where he expressed discontent with how Amazon was publishing the game, which would be odd if he had full control of everything like he does in KR.
You will run out of silver way before you run out of gold my friend gold, is the least of your worries. Gold is easier to get then silver. So no gold is not an advantage
And you know the silver cost is easily farmed at T3 compared to the gold cost right ?! And that using the action house/market uses gold right not silver
adding items to sell for you to get gold USES GOLD again…
You need to learn more about the F2P model. NO F2P MMO makes it’s revenue from the 99%. That 1% of whales is paying for 80% of the player base. This isn’t even isolated to just games either. Nearly everything follows the 20 80 rule.
Your argument for not having the content for mats that KR has is “be patient”. So let me pose a different question. What net benefit does keeping that content away provide? What is so detrimental to the game about providing something that was in KR PRE-ARGOS? And the same argument can be made for the honing buffs, what is the net benefit of keeping that away? Mind you this is for the players not the business.
And… people are sprouting some truly hateful stuff in chat. To be edgy?.. Who cares there are a younger demo than you playing . And this isn’t where you man up about stuff. RL is waiting tough guy.
SG knew about AGS’s really bad game reputation (like three failed games before contract was signed) and saw them as an easy scapegoat for all the bad decisions.
SG maintains a good rep, while milking NA of its whales.
What does AGS get?
The westernization changes (The “diversity” changes the “moderate” clothe changes) all look good to AGS’s ESG portfolio.
It’s especially damming with how lazy those changes look. It’s very clear that AGS wanted to check some boxes for their investor portfolio.
ESG, for those that dont know, is basically an investor grading system that judges companies based on their ethics. or their " consideration of environmental, social and governance factors alongside financial factors in the investment decision-making process." (idk if i can post links here, just google esg)
