So a few hours ago, someone made a topic about how to fix ascended gear, this tread got loads of /Signed, thus making it a petition topic, and the tread was locked.
After that, someone else made a new topic about the same thing with the same solution.
Ascended should have same stats as exotic, Casuals would not be forced to get the next tier to “keep up” with the rest, and Hardcore players would still have the feeling of progression due to infusion slots that would only be usable in these dungeons.
This person made it clear he didn’t want this to become a petition thread, and it did not become that either. Now however, that thread is gone, it’s not in the Suggestions section, I’ve got no message stating it’s been merged with another topic, and I can’t find it if I check “Posts by Komuflage”
So I wonder, why would ANet delete this thread without saying anything to us participating in this thread?
To further add, I’m going to add the text from the old thread. Or at least one valid post.
“Adding a gear grind to a game with NO SUB FEE. What’s the point? Whether I get my gear over the next 6 months, or whether I get it playing 24 hours a day the next week – Anet gets the same amount of money from me. Which is none, aside from what I buy in the gem store.
Where is the horizontal progress that should be paying the bills? Where’s the new gem store skins? Non-event minis? Weapon skins? New townclothes? New cosmetic slots? Housing? All stuff we would have to drop real money on for gems, and would do so gladly because LOOKING COOL was the real grind of the game?
And if we weren’t dropping real money – we’d be grinding gold in-game to buy gems, which has the EXACT same effect as adding a gear grind (making us spend more time in-game) but without the penalty of breaking the Ma
nifesto and making their core subscribers feel betrayed.
This is illogical and crazy. Hardcore grinders are never going to be the target audience for this game because it has NO SUB FEE. Spending more time in-game without spending money does Anet no good. The people they NEED are the cosmetics-kittens who would be spending money like gangbusters for housing, townclothes and the like.
For a game with this business model, vertical progression makes absolutely no sense as a development direction.
New costume sets FLEW out of COH’s cash shop. LOTRO’s cash shop is largely horses, cloaks and dresses – people will pay out the nose to LOOK cooler than other people. And yet NO more armor skins have been added to the store since launch, and the offerings were extremely skimpy to begin with. Anet cannot possibly be thinking that people are going to drop $100 a month just to play the Black Lion Key lottery, can they?"
