Stronghold researched confirmed not coming...until it is?

Nah i will only have 3-4 chars 1415 dw

Who Cares Bout stooped cosmetix

Literally every single normal person on earth.

Yeah the owner of SG has no incentive to sell, just buy it isn’t really an option here and frankly while I know you’re being a bit tounge and cheek
New World proves AGS has no clue how to develop an MMO on there own
that MMO has been an unmitigated disaster since day 1 and they are still continuing to make knee jerk reactionary changes that aren’t really stabilizing the games long term health along with introducing new and exciting problems with almost every update.

What? You can’t predict the future? Burn the witch! Burn her!

Honestly I’m impressed the CMs even respond to posts like this.

The overwhelming majority are very happy with this incoming change, and someone will always whine about something no matter how positive it is.

1%?

I think 33.8K unique viewers on the honing case proves you wrong. The forum and the people interacting with posts from official channels and this forum is a bit more than according to popular posts.
Even if we say we got 300K players, then thats over 10%

We might not be a majority, but dont underestimate how big a representation we got. Apparently it was also enough to overturn the decision.

Do you think they overturned it because we represent 1% of the populations opinion?
Do note, when you make statistical analysis (fx for elections) you can make incredibly accurate election predictions if you get answers from just 10-15% of a population if you picked your data properly.

wait what? is that how you say it’s more than 1%? i clicked that post and replied to it, and i’m not 1465 yet, so what are you saying? that i suddendly got an upgrade on my ilvl?

i do think they overturned, because they decided to, not because of people asking. that’s pretty much it. as an example of what i’m saying, sometimes i give my dog a treat, i tell my dog he gets the treat because she sat down on command, but i was gonna give her anyway, but this way, she thinks she got something in return for that said command. might be a bit stupid this analogy, but i think you got it? i dont mean any disrespect to you by the way, i just dont agree with what you are saying.

I’m not sure why you are mad about this decision.
It was not supposed to be in the update mid-June, but it was certainly supposed to be released as soon as possible. And it was obvious for most people that it would come quickly in early July.

30rd of june or 1st of july isn’t much different


No, it does not matter what ilvl you are. What matters is your showed some interest in the topic and that is showecased by adding a unique view. 33.8K players did that.
Use those numbers how you want, but unless the real playerbase is over what
 3 million? Then your 1% argument seems unlikely.
It seems more likely we are closer to 300k than 3 million.

This does not make sense if you count in the multiple of posts from Roxx through the time.
It did certainly not seem in the plan to include it in the update at all. So why would they overturn it if it was barely on the table? Do you think a board of game direction on C-level suddenly said “ohh no way you know what 1460 stronghold research? Yeah lets overturn that because it sounds really cool, and then we cash in good will”

And you especially do not announce something via CM’s that you will overturn the next month. That is simply shitty PR strategy, it serves no purpose. If they wanted good will, they would have just kept silent and then come out with the winning news.

Decisionmakers might not even play this game, they rely on feedback from their business intelligence, team managers and feedback reports from CM’s.

There is a much higher chance that because a large part of the community was adamant about it, and because their business intelligence went over the numbers one more time in another perspective, which showed increased churn, and problematic party finder issues, that it was a combined thing that resulted in a change of direction.

That’s what i meant, this was the intended decision. And it’s actually good PR (they dont care about what people think of roxx sadly), because it makes it look like they listened to something that it was already the plan, so they didnt had to change anything in reality, but on official, they “listenened to the players” on this regard, so this way, they can ignore other stuff like honing buffs, class cadence, etc. They can say, oh we listened but we do everything player base asks, so we do some of the stuff.

I show interest by default, i like to read and know things, and know opinions, especially the game i play, this is just an example of it. Regardless of that, i was proving a point, that not everyone is at that state of the game, and especially not everyone who read the post, i would bet my entire salary of the month that at max, i can be mistaken by 1 or 2%, but the most there is, is like 3%, 4% of the player base at 1460. (still believe it’s 1% tho).

Nobody here can verify who is 1460. I’m only talking about how many players are interested in the outcome of the subject, I am not talking about peoples ilvls.

If you honestly think pissing off your community, just to make them happy without gaining much out of it in the process is good PR, then I think you need to take a few classes in marketing.
That is certainly not the way you normally market a product.

The only exception to this where you can have reasonable doubt, is the love-bombing technique in F2P, where you extract maximum possible value, and then you say sorry and shower people with gifts.
We have seen that with Argos, Diablo Immortal recently etc.

This case does not seem like it. It simply seems like they made a bad decision due to incompetence, and then realized they fucked up. But the other scenario is of course not 100% impossible, it depends if they earned enough by withholding the statement.
I doubt it, but I do not have the store sales numbers regarding people spending gold to level alts in that timeframe.

why not just provide compensation for players who have honed before the patch and reward them the extra mats they already spent back?

Can someone tell, what does 1460 honing buff do ? It adds 10% flat chance, but what else ? Does it reduce usage of silvers, honor shards, blue and red stones and gold cost per tap ?

Do you have said classes btw?

So, they would have the alt plus the mats? Amazing solution lmao.

yea the 10% extra mat used will be refunded, this is actually pretty common practice

10% is fine i guess, but i understood you wanted all mats, so my mistake.

Schrödinger’s honing buff

Reduces honor shards needed to fill up the item before the tap.

And 10% is pretty big difference when you are dealing with 15-10% base chance taps.

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