I’ve spent a lot of time in many online community games. Over the years I’ve been drawn to the forums to present my own cases or see what people have to say about things. I know a thing or two about complaint threads and what a pain it is to see people always B——ing about things. However I also feel that these threads need to be made, good or bad, because it CAN bring about good change.
With that in mind: this is…. a complaint thread…
Since this Halloween event started, I’ve heard soooooo many complaints about the content we’ve been presented with this year. Let me list a few:
No historical achievements available
No previous year rewards available
No previous year gemstore content available
Ridiculous requirements for Hween weapon crafting
More RNG-reward based weapons.
Far fewer candy corn nodes (cheap explanation as well)
No new clocktower rewards/achievements
There are others, but these are some of the most common i’ve heard.
I personally managed to complete all of last year’s content and got plenty of rewards. However I do feel that the people who missed that content should at least have the option of getting it. The people at anet handled this quite well with the Super Adventure Box content, leaving achievements open and giving us the option to go for them once again. This means that they KNOW people would want that option. If they understood that for the adventure box, I guarantee you that they they knew that players would want the same for the Halloween event.
I remember the frustration I felt when playing runescape many years ago that you couldnt get the previous years rewards. It’s a flawed system that alienates new players and frustrates everyone.
I’m aware that work went into making this year’s Halloween a NEW and fun experience. However the more I read on these forums and hear from other players in-game, the more this event feels like a huge moneygrab/timesink by the people at anet, and a poor one at that. Weapon skins require exorbitant amounts of materials, (nearly unobtainable without vast amounts of money) and candycorn will only be available after Hween from a single rechargeable node in your home. Heck at the very least you could stock some of last years items on the gemstore; people might even PAY for that sort of thing. It might be a transparent attempt to get yet more money but at least new players could have a shot at getting last year’s rewards.
My whole point here is: People are angry, its easy to predict that they would be angry, and these things should be taken into consideration by anet while there’s still time to do something about it.
Some of you will no doubt mention that “not everyone can be pleased” and this is absolutely true. However the level of “pleasing” here seems especially below average. This is OBVIOUS stuff that any fool could predict, and more should be done to make this right for anet’s loyal playerbase.
I guess that’s it: obvious complaint thread is obvious. If youre gonna give me the business for complaining too much then I can understand that : ) However after youre done, put yourself in the place of the people who are in the wrong of this situation and offer some constructive feedback…. and dont give me any of that “if they missed it, too bad for them because I didnt” kitten-stuff… thats KITTEN and you know it. (Yes, I used kitten purposely in this thread, I’m starting to get used to it replacing all of my bad language)
Good Luck People, Happy Halloween