It’s safe to say that most people who’ve been playing for a few months now are pretty familiar with the game, done most of the stuff to do enough that it’s lost some of it’s charm, and are starting to catch glimpses of other, fresh games. I still enjoy playing, but I have done most of the things I want to do, and the past month have been pretty much just logging in to do daily’s, and I might find a way to fill in another half hour or so before I log out. I liked the daily’s for one reason: laurels. I like laurels for one reason: Dye. And in the beginning, it went pretty well. The first set I bought I got a midnight ice. The second set I got a midnight fire and another rare (frost I think). My third set I got 2 rares (blue and a gray I think). My gf got a red rare her first set, and a blue rare the second set. The third set she got a white and a bluish rare.
So I’m thinking, okay, this is cool. It should only be a few months till we both have the color’s we want on most of our toons. Neither of us are interested in anything else offered on the laurel vendor. Gear is too random (you get stuff you might not even use in your chosen spec), T6 too blah, ascended stuff, gag me.
So what’s my beef? They nerf’d the rare dye in laurel’s. On both our accounts, the past 6 purchases (combined), we have gotten zero rare dye. Yeah, RNG is random and all that bullcrap, whatever. They nerfed it because they want people to buy the dye packs on the store. I get that, it’s fine. We both buy stuff from there, I have 3 slots and a half dozen inv expansions. She buys clothes (gag), and we’ve both bought one dye set. It isn’t worth it to purchase dye in the store. Too expensive, not account-wide.
Anet, make your money selling stuff people WANT, and at a reasonable price! We dont WANT boxing gloves, or str boosters, or mini’s. 95% of everything is too expensive by half! We would gladly give you guys more of our money (real cash, not gold, we spend it too fast) if the ROI seemed worth it. And making it harder (longer, more expensive in-game and out) to get the things we want (like rare dye, slots, inv, repair cannisters, BLKit’s, etc) makes us want to play less. This is a dangerous thing for a game with no subscription. If I get hooked on some other shiny game, you guys won’t be seeing any money from me for a while. If ever.
I have multiple characters, and each one gives me a reason to play. But if you take away some of those reasons by making the game less rewarding, I will find it harder and harder to log in. Daily’s are not ‘fun’. They are something relatively easy we can do that allows us, over time, to get things we want in game. The time we spend each week/month doing them is no longer worth it for our two accounts. Whatever. I vented, and I feel better, despite knowing ANet doesn’t read rant posts, and that even if they did, they don’t care about a couple people out of the many.
