Read those 4 things i just listed. Now i ask again...what exactly are you wanting? What in IM is CRAP? some of it? all of it?
Lady, i have lost count how many times i sit and go through your threads, only to walk away none the wiser as to what you actually want.
I get a full weather forecast on how your feeling about the current state of things, all that wrath, spit and venom. Hurrrrr this is sparta! heh
However, i want to see specifics from you... "this is whats wrong"..."This and exactly this is what i seek"
What in im is crap? Most of it! All these asinine costumes we keep getting pounded with. The character outfits like ghost, queen bibi were excellent but other than that, transformer costumers? Costumes with jetpacks on their back? Warp Portal costumes? Plutorunes, Venurunes, nonstop medals that help you level so fast that you can do 210 in a week. ANYTHING that usurps the horribly small amount of crafting still available to Artisans like reroll hammers, masks with insane stats, gears with better stats than you can craft. Taking the group buffs away from clerics so that they FORCE them to buy a bunch of item mall ones or buff one person at a time in a party...even tried buffing 6 people with solo buffs? Pink Afros? I mean really? Events that are impossible for high level people to do unless they BUY medals that allow them to get drops that are much too low for them in order to complete a quest.(coal, bark etc). A ton of us have done all the low level playing we want to do...we have all our lvl 220 characters that we've spent half a decade making and we damn well want to play them, not create fake email addresses/MORE accounts in order to play an event. I can keep going on...pick 90% of the item mall and I have at least a small problem with it as it's only there to roll money into the Gravity pockets and rarely has our needs/wants addressed properly.
All of it DESTROYS the story line....why do things like Castle Gear look so surreal and awesome in the game? They're all rickety with steam shooting out in loose joints and stuff. Do item mall jet packs and SNOW MOBILES work with the story line that it's an ancient society with so much lost technology that things are barely working anymore?
Ultimately, I wouldn't have so much of a problem or issue with the crap Item Mall stuff if there was at least some sort of SANE parity between Item Mall and free content. They just redid Adventure Plains while there are THOUSANDS of us waiting for new maps at 220. Does anyone honestly think that redoing an old map like that should take president over getting us some much needed content...it's been over SIX months since we've seen anything to actually DO. There are hardly any new people coming into the game: certainly not enough to justify pissing off your people who have been here for 6 years...so WHY does this stuff keep happening? The answer is: they are doing whatever the hell they want to do, when they want to do and the community can pretty much go to hell. Other than bugs, the development team does not work with us without half a year of screaming and complaining....the union wars spawn problem was addressed(sort of) yet the leeching/screwed up teams(which disrupt uw much more than the spawns ever did) are still there. I can't even stand going into UW anymore because of the 50vs10 fights that are coupled with idiots thinking they rock when they win with those circumstances.
You want to know why I scream and complain? I hope to open peoples eyes(both new and old) and hopefully polarize them towards showing financially:
- that we are NOT happy with the game
- that we are NOT going to keep paying money for it
- that we are NOT happy with item mall content that attacks existing content in the game(most notably artisans but things like wings, masks as well)
- that we are NOT happy with nontop pay content and twice a year free content(the pay to free ratio being my biggest problem of all)
- that we are NOT happy that communication is for the most part one way(oh Zeppelin does a great job of buffering us and calming us but for the most part our requests for change are filed under "g"(garbage)
- that we are NOT happy with crappy item mall content that has no bearing at all with story line and only exists to grab money without any benefit to the game whatsoever
- that we are NOT happy with things that just make no sense at all...they update adventure plains which is supposed to make more new people join/like the game, then they put on a summer event that other than picking up garbage is pretty much impossible for those people due to the cost. I'm all for they ripping zulie out of the market however making ANY event impossible for either high level(requiring drops they cannot get due to their level) or low level(due to the costs) is idiotic. Put in a really hard way to get festival tickets/mats for high level people maybe but make EVERYTHING accessable..it's only fair.
New people should know these problems, old people should realize these problems which is why I am here.
Sadly, I can keep going. I do not personally beleive that anything is going to be changed until something scares the crap out of Gravity...a really big drop in revenue or large drop off of people. I really hope I can contribute to that with the long term in mind where Gravity takes the requests and proper needs of it's user in higher regard. Compromise and Communication shouldn't be bad words when it comes to how you deal with your customers.