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You have players that are selling items online and are literally making a career out of this game because the in game economy is ruined with no ability to be redeemed. Save a zeny wipe. I cant even imagine what it must be like for any new player to come into the game visit Prontera for the first time and see rows and rows of vendors asking for Billions after they have done their first item trade in for 10k..i imagine its overwhelming, and then they go to the shiny quest logo above Paradise group and witness 50 more people asking for many more billions.
I am not just referring to the greed of the players either, which is endless and growing at an unsustainable rate. But the greed exhibited by warp portal as well, lets examine the last set of items out of Kachua and then feel a bit nauseous, two of the offerings were boxes which had RNG Chances to give you one of the items you wanted, the Secret Shadow Box, and the Temporal Mant. Box. So instead of allowing the player to choose which item they wanted from the aforementioned boxes, they are rolling the dice on Kachua Keys, to the roll the dice on a Box...RNG within RNG that is disgusting on levels i cannot begin to describe without degrading to profanity.
Don't read this and think oh just another poor noobie rage post cause they cant get the item they want...nope i would consider myself quite well off and capable of maintaining in this mess of an economy but lately the greed i have seen as started making my stomach turn, its too much the community in general and warp portal need to dial this back a bit...i mean if your only goal is to maintain the career item sellers, which you have done nothing to stop and the few other nostalgia players then i suppose stay the course...but nothing is capable of sustaining without fresh growth. From the perspective of a new player I would have to say if I was to examine the economy and player transactions based solely on current day state of the game, I for one wouldn't even bother playing. The current restrictive cost of entry into this game is way to high, no one plays in parties anymore because of items coming out of the cash shop/Keys are far too powerful and have made all save a few in game items completely worthless. The exceptions to my previous statement are usually items that require insane amounts of grinding to acquire enough of "Token" items to make.
Its hard to want to keep playing this game at this point...the greed is just to overwhelming and it isn't going away because the game model promotes it and i don't know if i am morally comfortable supporting/playing a game that thrives on greed to such a disgusting degree.
Anyone have a constructive solution please say something, right now i am stuck, I see 2 things fixing this. For starters WARP PORTAL STOP...no more RNG within RNG loot boxes that is ridiculous, come on. Zeny Wipe?, i dunno setting these damn zillionaires back would help save the economy but i am 100% sure they will want to defend the economy as it stands cause if they wipe the zeny, THEY LOSE THEIR CAREER, and zeny sales and item sales will disappear, and the economy will be able to rebalance. Ya know the thing in your terms of service that says item selling is forbidden...but it doesnt appear to be cause the Websites and Facebook Pages still thrive.
WP please help me understand...i would like to hear from you guys as well why do you think that this business model is ok, from a sales point i am sure it is fine but from a costumer point of view these practices seem abusive. Are you guys not capable of finding a system that is fair...keep your kachua key thing thats greet and your other cash shop items, but stop the punishing RNG with RNG practices.
