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the game is starting to feel extremely dull without fun horizontal content or other side contents coming too slowly, and playing alts feels miserable below 1415.
right now, gearing an alt from 1370 to 1415 costs around 100k~ gold without accounting for the costs of leapstones and honor shards, even moreso if you kept your alts at 1340.
this cost is practically more than halved with the global honing buff, as it gives 60% less materials and gold per upgrade, +20% success rate (+10% from stronghold stacks with it as well), so you have overall 60% cost reduction +30% base success chance at all levels.
this probably drives down the cost to something like 30k~ gold or even less if you get lucky due to the increase in honing chance.
this also expands the relic accessory and stone market, drives down the prices of all materials, and just makes the game much more fun and f2p friendly.
doing yoho, argos p1 and oreha dungeons just feels extremely unsatisfying compared to argos p3 and valtan normal, plus deskaluda is way more relaxed than yoho in my opinion.
in addition to this, not having actual real fun events like maharaka summer event or the previous grand prix event makes the game feel so dull, and much less of a community driven game.
events like that bring people together and remind us that its an mmo, not a mindless grinding simulator.
i wouldnt really call standing in your spot for 30 seconds an event either, awful event from awful times being added for no reason.
in addition to that, can we please stop milking the fuck out of skin releases? what is the plan? adding every single skin from korea in chronological order on a month to month basis? by the time we get the nice skins it would be 2023 already.
please listen to your community, the game is already down to 150k across 5 regions, that means that if you split all regions equally we have 30k players per entire major region, but since NAE and EUC are probably way more populated, its probably like 50k for the two popular regions and 10-20k for smaller regions like euw, south america and naw.
i am already aware that the bots made up a majority of the player count, but a lot of players are starting to quit.
pug standards for vykas are 33331 or 33333 (4x3+1 or 5x3), and with vykas dealing a ridiculous amount of damage when you are min ilvl, the pug experience is absolutely miserable for f2p players.
people want minimum 1475 for p1-p2 and ive seen some groups even demand 1500 for p3 which is just absurd, as well as the peon cost and accessory cost being too ridiculous with how little income our alts make pre 1415.
please implement the astalgia buff as it was implemented on Russia and Japan on Vykas release, please give us nicer skins, we don’t want this 2019 outdated shit, please give us better events with better rewards.
let this game grow, its a really nice game when its properly taken care of, please stop doing the absolute bare minimum every single month.
delay after delay apology after apology, its getting old, please start giving us fixed dates on updates and stop releasing them a day before the month ends, doing the same shit over and over for a month gets mind numbing I am starting to barely play my alts due to how stale the game has gotten.