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To celebrate the 5year milestone:
We got:
1) Luau Paris: A great card and 4copies achievable to all. VERY NICE.
2) some chonitrons on the actual day.
3) a change to give you less credits for the first time you buy credits with dilitium.
4) a dabo sale which is good for veteran players only since you need a huge stockpile of credits. For new players it is worse then normal dabo since without addwarp you only get 1spin for 5000 credits, while you get 2spins in nirmal dabo.
Also during january, the celebration month'
New collection, but that is a regular thing and not a once-of celebration.
A much needed change giving beholds in premium packs. Great change, but an update is not a celebration.
A mini arc, which is just a story. No extra or better rewards. No special pack after. No It means waiting an extra week for a mega.
Worse LImited Time Offers, they discontinued adding cites to them. If they had done it in january instead of earlier it would have made the month feel.like a celebration.
Also some very expensive offers but without the usual cheaper alternatives.
No 390 or 490 dilitium pack this week.
I fully understand that work has gone to the new feature, the change to premium packs, new collections. All things that the game needs.
BUT would it have been so hard to give some discounts, cheaper packs, extra rewards or things that would be useful to all players. Not only those who spend lots of money or have very good rosters already.
This is like someone having a 50year birthday party and giving a nice piece of cake but charging his guests for the drinks, the toilet and the food if they eat more then just the apetizer.
Nothing special for the xmas period as wel.
The last 2years there were honor sales.
This year we got a good Paris.
THIS IS NO CELEBRATION FOR A MILESTONE.
We got:
1) Luau Paris: A great card and 4copies achievable to all. VERY NICE.
2) some chonitrons on the actual day.
3) a change to give you less credits for the first time you buy credits with dilitium.
4) a dabo sale which is good for veteran players only since you need a huge stockpile of credits. For new players it is worse then normal dabo since without addwarp you only get 1spin for 5000 credits, while you get 2spins in nirmal dabo.
Also during january, the celebration month'
New collection, but that is a regular thing and not a once-of celebration.
A much needed change giving beholds in premium packs. Great change, but an update is not a celebration.
A mini arc, which is just a story. No extra or better rewards. No special pack after. No It means waiting an extra week for a mega.
Worse LImited Time Offers, they discontinued adding cites to them. If they had done it in january instead of earlier it would have made the month feel.like a celebration.
Also some very expensive offers but without the usual cheaper alternatives.
No 390 or 490 dilitium pack this week.
I fully understand that work has gone to the new feature, the change to premium packs, new collections. All things that the game needs.
BUT would it have been so hard to give some discounts, cheaper packs, extra rewards or things that would be useful to all players. Not only those who spend lots of money or have very good rosters already.
This is like someone having a 50year birthday party and giving a nice piece of cake but charging his guests for the drinks, the toilet and the food if they eat more then just the apetizer.
Nothing special for the xmas period as wel.
The last 2years there were honor sales.
This year we got a good Paris.
THIS IS NO CELEBRATION FOR A MILESTONE.
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Overall I agree, the CD celebration was a big letdown.
Waiting the extra week is purely because there are 5 weekends in January this year. That's going to happen 4 times every year, fitting 52 weeks into 12 months. It's not a special occasion, it's just how the calendar works.
I have no issues with anything else you wrote.
In any case, everything you outlines above in conjunction with the big gaffes we have seen recently have encouraged me to stay f2p, and to take a big step away from the game.
Im sure many forum dwellers will rejoice, But im not quitting. Im just not supporting this platform with money, and im also not watching any ads.
For the devs, i just have one statement:
At one point I was spending a couple hundred dollars a month on this game. Your recent decisions and directions have resulted in the loss of that income. Many others who spent a lot on this game have walked away too, and if you don’t start listening to your players, more will follow.
Unnecessary comment removed.~Shan
I have been playing the game for 4+ years and in that time I have seen some good and some bad things happen, I have been annoyed as much as others have at certain situations and some not so much.
I have also really enjoyed a lot aspects of the game and how it was dealt with.
my interpretation of this years celebrations have not been of anger as they have been for some but I would class my view as 'tired'.
The recent offers/celebrations have been lack luster to say the least and did not for myself achieve what I would say is the main aim of any company running a game like this. Get me to give them money and be happy to do it.
when I saw the dabo sale at first I thought, great, something to spend my credits on, without thinking (my own mistake) I went full in and kept pressing that button even though I had the gold FF but needed both purples. 10 million later I was left with that same feeling of tired.
Who is the Dabo 'sale' actually for? those who are going to spend 10 mil over the week each day probably already have the dilithium or the spending power to do so regardless, new players cant afford it. I have been playing for 4 years and count myself as pretty 'well off' in game an even I can only afford the full run once or twice.
for myself I feel like TP need to offer better offers at a more affordable price, when we feel like we are getting a deal even when we are not we spend more and are happy.
its all just gamification, I am more likely to buy a pack 3 times that costs 9.99 that offers me something I feel is worth it than an offer once at 23.99 that looks bad, making us feel like we are 'winning' will always make them more money.
wow I rambled on there didn't I, I'm off back to my cupboard to mumble about "in my day..."
LLAP & Stay Safe
The biggest downside to me, is the lack of really great offers, so far.
I was totally up to spend some extra cash, which now i spent on
another game.
The Honor Sale is not off for good, but only delayed until March?,
as Ben said in Timelines Talks. No big deal, more time to save
some honor up. 😉
I totally understand that the special dabo sale is not perfect for many players and probably, half of the current costs(5m credits instead of 10m) would have been the better price. But at least they tried something new. 👍🏻
This was a time to be kind, make players feel they got rewarded for their continued support while offering those who want to spend to have some extra nice rewards,
If i were them i would realise their mistakes and immediately make dabo affordable and show some respect for their players but they wont and with every move they're losing so much good will from many of us.
I've played this game nearly from the start and I've never cared about the politics before but now I'm so frustrated because TP is just so out of Touch.
While this may be a legitimate concern, we can't really know how much revenue they might be missing/losing since they keep those numbers to themselves. We kinda have to trust they know how to run a business and give them pointers on the forum when we see something amiss.
I find one of the bigger problems to be the theme that is popping up in more and more places: hoarding. We hoard honor to get the most we can when we spend it. We will begin hoarding credits, probably up to 70mil in most cases. Merits may soon follow. I am currently hoarding money. I am keeping my entertainment budget held back. We're not getting offers as good as those we got in the past. Just like in-game currencies, I want to get the most I can from my USD currency. I don't know how many others are doing the same. I just have to trust that TP knows when to give better deals to get my money.
Nope. I can only speak for myself, but I'm definitely not a big spender (campaign and monthly card, that's it) and I never have enough dilithium. But I had 96M credits available, because there's nothing to spend them on besides replicators and I tend to avoid replicating more than I have to. Credits, chrons and honor just tend to pile up unless you go out of your way to find something to spend them on.
This dabo sale is the first time I've ever been in a position to clear the wheel. I may be the exception rather than the rule, but I'm loving it.
Credits can be spent on 90k packs which get you crew you can airlock for honor. You get conservatively 750 honor for each 1 million spent.
I did exactly that during the last honor sale, the 96M is just the amount I accrued in the 6 months or so since then. There's no point stocking up on honor unless there's a reason to spend it, which there normally isn't.
Or, when ben was the fan show and announced a “dabo sale theyve never done before” he could have said “hang on to your credits”
How hard is that? How pathetic is it that the company felt it more appropriate to withhold that information?
They gave the advice to “hang on to portal packs” before the update was announced. Seems to me that they could have easily said “hang on to your creds, you might have a use for them in the next few weeks”
Would it be fair if players who spent more than 1mil credits in the two weeks preceding the sale could put in a CS ticket to get them back?
Or, it is literally exactly as designed. https://stt.wiki/wiki/Time_Portal
I direct you specifically to the sections title Dabo Wheel Table Odds and Chances to win the jackpot legendary crew. All the info is right there.
The bigger prizes are harder to get, which is as it should be, IMO. Or else people would start complaining that their gold crew were being unfairly devalued because of how easy it is to get them through the Dabo Wheel.
Not everything is a conspiracy.
No, at least not in my opinion. Because regardless of what was purchased with the credits, the credits were spent. All that I am saying is that It would have been more beneficial to players to know that an attractive use of credits was on the horizon, and maybe keep players from spending credits on other things for a few weeks. In other words, would have been noce to know that a new, *temporary* option would make an appearance. This is essentially the exact same sequence of events that led to players hoarding honor. It all comes down to the devs being completely unwilling to communicate these types of things to the players.
I don’t think that is too much to ask, for either the “dabo fail” or for future sales/ player “appreciation” type activities that at least SOME notice be provided to players when it would be beneficial to save resources.
That actually leads into a reason I suggested tickets. Sometimes devs don't realize where problems lie without the burden of CS tickets. If 10 people submit tickets, then it's a small problem. If 1,000 people submit tickets, then maybe it's a serious problem that they should consider for future promotions. It helps them gauge community impact. Is it a fail? Or is it just a small number of vocal players who are angry? It's hard to gauge those things in our little forum bubble. You could easily be right. I wish I were privy to such metrics that the devs use to guide future actions.
The tickets are not really a measure of a desire for retroactive notice about a “dabo sale”.
The tickets would only show how many people want the ability to be reimbursed, which would be a cluster to try and calculate how individual players spent credits, and what they got in return for those credits, then remove those items from inventory and replace the credits. Besides, the tickets don’t address the larger issue:
Wrg/tp didnt cheat the players by letting them spend their credits on things, they missed an opportunity to inform their customers that an exciting and TEMPORARY way to spend credits was coming up.
Am I annoyed - yes. Will I be submitting a ticket - no.
Will I listen to the developers when they tell us "don't hoard" - probably not.