Nothing is really unique with you guys. If someone misses something in item mall its "don't worry, it will come out again." Not.. "I need to get it now or I might not get it at all".
I don't understand why you don't get how your marketplace is working(let alone the god-like hand you have over it). Do you know the faith items(even with the amount that has been duped) are considered super rare..because they are not coming back out-ever. Do you know people would buy hundreds of dollars worth of your item mall.. to sell items to other players in order to make zuly just to buy those items.. And the only reason they are not rereleased is because you legally cant put them back out without another contract.. You guys could have easily monopolized on that factor of player motivation to own things like that... released a truly unique item here or there(I'm not saying every thing..just one or two items every once in a while)--either in game or through item mall(really wouldn't matter which way so long as it was really limited to a certain number of items in existence). And BANG--Let the money making begin. Yes, we realize that new items take a while to make.. But there's always coming up with limited availability colors of the items too.
Instead, you release items... the first time there isn't too many into the market. Price goes up after it leaves item mall.. the second time it comes out it generally saturates the market and the price goes down..less people desire it.
I'm not the first to get upset over you guys re releasing stuff..most people just have entirely given up on you guys. Just my turn to give up as well. At this point, I feel like I'd be doing a service to the game I love dearly by ceasing support.
I need to point something out to you.
The Faith contract was done by someone else, not me, but of course you're going to put 'me' because I'm here now. Of course you could be also referring to the company, but I'm here and the face of it, so you're referring to me just as well.
Do I know the Faith items are considered super rare? Yes, yes I do.
Because they're not coming back out-ever? Yes, yes I do.
Do you know people would buy hundreds of dollars worth of my Item Mall to sell items to other players in order to make zulie to buy "those items" (I'm assuming you're talking about Faith items)? Yes, yes I do.
And the only reason why they are not re-released is because we have a
legal contract that states we cannot offer them again?
Yes, yes I do.
Now, to state that we could have 'monopolized' on the knowledge of this fact, would mean that we knew ahead of time that we would not continue this contract or that this was a one time contract to begin with. You would be wrong if that's what you thought. But the fact that you're suggesting this crosses that line many accuse of us already, being a greed filled company with only your wallets in mind. We are not here to pillage you of every hard earned cent.
Perhaps you don't truly see what's going on though. Limited time items first released have a small burst to those who wish to have it. Over time, new players join, see such items and would like to have them, but don't have the ability to because they aren't available any longer. Now, that goes on for so long two things could happen, its disappointing to think you can never have it or if you had knowledge that it could be released again, gives you something to look forward to.
I'm not saying it wouldn't be a wonderful thing to have a truly unique kind of item in-game, but to me, that's a bit of a selfish gig, because I am on the side of creation, where I want to create where players can achieve, obtain and earn things. Not prevent them from having them without a really solid reason. The Item Mall, is not one of those reasons.
Now, let's go back to what you were trying to point out. If I took ONE item and put it up on the Item Mall and said it would never be sold again. Say we sell, 1000, for 1$ each, that's $1,000 worth! Not bad, right? Well, let's just say, a year later, for ease of math, half those people who bought the item, stop playing. This item isn't trade-able, but over the course of the year, new players come through the game, see the item, think it's "cool-beans" and want one too. But they can't, because it is never going to be sold again. So, over the course of that year, that item is exposed to 5,000 people would want to buy it. That's $5,000 I'm keeping away from ROSE, just for offering it again for a limited time. The item is still rare, because you can only have gotten it during that time period and between you have to wait a year to get it, IF we remember to release it again. These wings went for two years before we realized it.
I'm not going to intentionally put up an item to gouge my community with, but I'm happy to put up items that they liked, we offered for limited periods, to have another chance at for the next coming years, because we have a long lasting community with some great, loyal and treasured members who may not have had the opportunity to get the items the last time they were offered. You don't know how many times I've been sent messages after times like this, asking, begging and pleading that they be allowed to buy one because they finally managed to get the ability to. And I'm a softy, but I have to say sorry.
That being said, I'm going to share this personal note I have after what has been going on the past few weeks.
ROSE is a wonderful game, okay something you already knew. But the plain and simple fact is, it is also behind a business and this is how it runs. I know we're never going to be able to make everyone happy, but we do the best to try anyways. There are always hard decisions we have to make and as much as I would love to just keep doing things to make ROSE more fun, there comes a point where having to make sure the bills can be paid at the end of the month is something we have to answer for.
Some times it seems like we make those decisions more than the ones we make in order to do things for the fun of game play. Well, we try to do both to keep a happy compromise, but not everyone agrees that the same game updates are content updates, because it isn't something they're involved in or make use of. This is one of those points where we just can't make everyone happy.
I do try to think about what would be fun, before anything else, when decisions are made in regards to what will cause an impact to the community, whether it be through the Item Mall or game play, first. And because of that, some times I end up being blind to the business end of things, which generally causes these little disputes about 'rarity' of a released item. Please just know that we really just want everyone to have a good time, enjoy playing and what's available and offered. We never intend to upset anyone for the sake of upsetting them. We always have the best in mind for the long term joy of playing ROSE.