#Scummy Wynn advertisements

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storm ravine
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constant chat messages, /use, random ass statue

proud hollow
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It was right next to the portal

wild pine
proud hollow
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-# Unless my memory is that bad...

storm ravine
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yeah but that makes sense since it is an actual paid thing, it’s different when they just randomly add shit to make people interact with the store

proud hollow
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Ah

small cove
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idk what ur point is. ur invalidating the points in this thread by pulling opinions from another issue? i dont think shares are great either, theres one guy who said he spent 5k whaling which is just crazy to me, they couldnt moderate irl trading so they decided to legalize it
but thats not the point of this thread.

sly zealot
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as Salted said, people don't pay attention to chat messages like that, it feels invisible and you get used to it and you can live with it

storm ravine
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like you are actually made to interact with the store when you go to claim your pets, just like you are now forced to interact with the store to access your cosmetics

placid delta
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I am just saying I find it funny this is the dealbreaker

echo gazelle
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another iffy placement for a store podium... this part of kandon, although underused gameplay wise, is actually used for some very important parts of the breaking point quest: rhay and ineos' introduction and the penultimate cutscene where the dogun elders gather everyone to witness the magic thingy to fix/unlock tcc. now those cutscenes feel like they're placed where they are just to bring your attention to the store in the back and makes seeing the store pedestal devalue the cutscenes a bit imo

storm ravine
placid delta
small cove
sly light
storm ravine
sly zealot
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  1. new players cannot buy game knowledge, and even in f2p, grinding up to good gear doesn't take that long, and an extra really fun step that p2w new players just miss out on, its fine
  2. its not just cosmetics though, and doesn't matter, if it feels like something is being constantly pushed into your face

so your comment is not good

spice flare
wild pine
spice flare
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what they actually do with your money though is gamble it all away

rose sigil
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We need these npc stores for housing so I can spam guild island with them

placid delta
placid delta
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Like your concerns are fine, I just think this being the pushing point is funny

chrome moss
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i think ads should probably be limited to something like in the hub or even the class selection menu or in-game join messages (that lil MOTD you get when you join), in RPGs it's important to perserve the immersion into the game-world (as that's what makes an RPG feel good and like you're actually in it in a way)

wynn's gotta make it's money ofc, all servers do and I know this but I don't think it should intrude on the gameworld as much as it currently does as of the recent update

storm ravine
digital dune
storm ravine
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this some kind of logical fallacy i just don’t know which one

small cove
# placid delta My point was just saying it’s nothing new to remind ppl of shop

true that but not to this degree? i'd be shocked if someone was saying "don't mention the shop at all. i don't want to see any mention of it in the chat or ingame", but to this degree? i mean they're clearly being placed in points of interest, so they're meant to be obnoxious, cuz thats the point of them, they get in your face to constantly remind you of the shop

as others have said wynncraft does need to make their money but it doesnt need to be this way, theres been so many good suggestions in beta feedback

placid delta
sly zealot
wild pine
ashen violet
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I think the big argument is that the placement of advertisements are poorly assigned

storm ravine
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it’s clear they didn’t have a problem with sensible advertisement of the past and have an issue with this form. they’re both advertisements. wonder what the difference is

sly light
digital dune
placid delta
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Look I’m not gonna keep replying, I wasn’t trying to argue at all let alone frustrate people my bad for wording or something

I hope you get the changes you want

small cove
sly zealot
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in any case, podiums in general break immersion WAY TOO MUCH

wild pine
ashen violet
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I dislike them as well but I'm willing to tolerate them if they're limited to central tading hubs

sly light
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I dont have an issue with monetization they're just doing it so wrong

storm ravine
digital dune
sly zealot
small cove
storm ravine
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ngl shoot guild banners while they’re at it

storm ravine
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low key hate those things

digital dune
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or really just leave them exclusive to major towns and cities
like
tempo town??? seriously

ashen violet
storm ravine
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alekin is crazy too

jaunty sparrow
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is there actually a podium in the path to darkness

ashen violet
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Though that may lead to annoying misclicks

sly zealot
wild pine
sly light
storm ravine
small cove
remote tundra
strange hedge
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what if 2.2 is capitalism

sly zealot
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I'm sure thats not exactly what happened, but that is how it feels

digital dune
exotic folio
sly light
wild pine
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bro if there was one on path to darkness i'd crash out

echo gazelle
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agreed

strange hedge
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capitalism

storm ravine
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next step your gathering and craftings will be taxed by the guild that holds the territory

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seize production next

placid delta
sly light
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When i first heard of wars I thought terr taxing would be actually noticeable

sleek inlet
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can anyone else confirm getting crates from that

jaunty sparrow
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yeah i got 2 crates from it

polar sleet
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what if we could block ads with a silverbull subscription as an added incentive

sly zealot
storm ravine
sleek inlet
storm ravine
sleek inlet
polar sleet
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what if we could listen to ads to take a break from the ads

storm ravine
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wynn mobile when

strange hedge
polar sleet
storm ravine
polar sleet
storm ravine
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peak

jaunty sparrow
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so maybe its free daily crates

spare kelp
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smh well i didnt get any crates when i got champion rank

storm ravine
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nothing bad will happen trust

spare kelp
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bet

zenith walrus
glacial badger
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bro you know what why dont we just add billboard to the side of roads with wynncraft sponsers

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and shove the store in everyone's faces every 10 seconds with unskippable ads

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god the future of this game is so cooked 😭

frigid raven
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Buy a rank so they don't resort to that kind of marketing then

glacial badger
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And I was gonna buy champion but idfk if it’s worth it vs hero plus

mental vapor
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The silverbull ceo explaining how hes gonna get the dern beast to agree to putting an ad in lutho.

digital dune
mental vapor
steady mason
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I personally dislike it not because its a store ad, but because it just kinda hurts the immersion (not the right word) and just sticks out to me

mental vapor
digital dune
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make like a silverbull employee near each podium with unique dialogue depending on the town
would make that a bit better maybe

steady mason
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Though honestly I dont know how else I could do it. I honestly would probably enjoy a billboard with a shop ad on on a painting

steady mason
wild pine
mental vapor
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Its kinda like when a story trys to have some sense of urgency but youve spent 100 hours doing random side quests before you get to the main stuff

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Like in fallout 4. Its all like "you gotta find your son its so super important. Here help these random settlers and join this gang of revulutionary war roleplayers."

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Which theres ways to have stuff like this without killing immersion or intrest. FOr example, just cause 3 is basically entirely side content, but it makes sense why you are doing it because the side content is liberating towns which has been explained to be what you are trying to do, liberate Medici.

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I like the idea of billboards.

glacial badger
mental vapor
glacial badger
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I’d rather have the shops in towns than random billboards

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🥀

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Overall this was kind of douchey by the team to last minute add this without feedback can’t wait for the dev team to do more of this

mental vapor
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Whats especially bad is even though the community reaction was largely negative, they still went ahead with it. And acted like "oh well it only looks bad in the beta" and then proceeded to make no changes.

subtle drum
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The only advertisement that should be removed is the one from ragni

subtle drum
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you can't just ask money from the new players on their first 5 minutes of playtime

glacial badger
subtle drum
ancient snow
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Or you know, detlas, the big hub of the game where stuff happens

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Silverbull promoting the store at detlas/cinfras would fit very well

digital dune
proud hollow
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...

sly light
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I would very much like to see how much money these ads (and the update in general) generates for wynn compared to before the update. I appreciated getting some info on the server's financial situation in your initial post-update forums post, and I hope we can continue analyzing the effects in the future

unborn badger
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I believe this is one of the best addition to wynncraft

glacial badger
sleek inlet
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Unpopular opinion but I don't think it's all that intrusive and is actually a net benefit to all players as long as the cosmetics crates refresh sooner than once a month for non ranks

Cause then you're actively looking towards the podium with excitement not dread or annoyance

visual dawn
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i dont think its too intrusive either. but it definitely ruins the immersion. but the same applies for chat advertisements as well

jagged wigeon
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Lowkey, I agree with just put them in the big towns…no one is going to run to buy champion without even walking into deltas

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And you kinda can’t buy a rank before Ragni unless u start with one

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No reason to have every little town have a podium, if I started a server and every location was trying to get me to spend I’d likely stop playing

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It just feels like the game is reaching for your wallet at all times now which turns a lot of people off

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I mean damn, new player loads in with no mods and there is a podium at every town telling them to spend, chat messages every half hour telling them to spend, they go into queue and it’s telling them to spend

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They get it, they have the option to spend money, stop pressuring them lmao

visual dawn
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/toggle popups dont work on the offers right? idr

jagged wigeon
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No idea, but a new player won’t know there is a command more than likely

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As it stands I’m lowkey embarrassed to ask people to try the server, it asks for your wallet every 5 minutes 😭

crude osprey
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It’s still passive, even with the more P2W aspects prevalent within LR’s and—significantly less so—Raids

jagged wigeon
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It’s like I’m on a Roblox game and it’s asking me to buy game passes every 10 minutes

jagged wigeon
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I get advertising is needed, but this is just a lil overboard

sleek inlet
crude osprey
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Lmao, “sales-Lutho-citizen” is censored when all one word

woven matrix
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sales-lutho

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that'd be my guess anyway

crude osprey
crude osprey
woven matrix
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I've seen it referred to as the cl-butt-ic problem or the scun.thorpe problem

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and with the former I actually DID get in trouble once when I was in school, and a teacher was looking over my shoulder as I was writing out assassin

crude osprey
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Love the filtration system; always has the most incredible timing of finding a random swear in my 7 paragraph message

crude osprey
torpid ingot
crude osprey
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I’m sure whatever I was typing was slop anyway saltroll

torpid ingot
unborn badger
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I think this update and the advertisement is the best addition to wynncraft yet

crude osprey
final pine
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someone need to make a comparison of these ad with other p2w server have in their in game shop

rapid valve
digital dune
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that mf is pitch black id have to manually select every pixel or something lol

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actually fuck it

near valve
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It's possible there are some cases where we do but we do try to not filter out store related stuff btw like

sonic jacinth
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honestly how many "store items" are made for new/mid game players to buy? half the bombs seem very irrelivant until then end game besides XP bombs. Pets are fun but dont really become usefull until the end game where you have leveled them up and are grinding mass amounts of loot so you use the pet bank store function. Perm ranks could be a possiblity as I bought my intial VIP at lvl 60 but again the rewards werent actually useful until I reached end game where the trading market slots actually matters. I guess technically Low level players could buy Silverbullshares to sell and get $ but that completely throws out the "balance" of early game eco. To me the store is 95% exclusively designed for end game players in mind. this type of "thinking" seems weird to me that you want more visibility to newer players while not really having a good product being marketed towards them

rapid valve
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that's what loaned AP where meant to help with to my knowledge, since the AT is by far the most interesting and flashy part of wynncraft throughout early and midgame

sonic jacinth
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:/ to me that idea falls super flat (i dont have any better ones though)

timid lotus
rapid valve
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level scaling abuse should be done away with i think true but it is the only serious instance of this really being an issue i feel

timid lotus
rapid valve
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mob totems allow you to mobgrind and ignore the game

sonic jacinth
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wdym??

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u mean just speed leveling?

rapid valve
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yeah a number of ranked perks are just paying to have an easier time with aspects of the game you don't necessarily want to engage much with

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i don't think that part of loaned AP is really problematic, the only real issue is level scaling but i feel level scaling is also just a result of other humorous circumstances

timid lotus
# rapid valve mob totems allow you to mobgrind and ignore the game

i actually think mob grinding for items is rly enjoyable and i lowkey find it sad its not rly viable (aside from mob totem spamming)

also i personally think speedleveling is fine to exist like i fr coudnt be asked to do another 100% quest after doing it 2 times so for future would just speed level

rapid valve
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like let's not pretend level scaling wasn't seriously silly before loaned AP

sonic jacinth
rapid valve
sonic jacinth
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AP striaght skip/ mob grinding u need to commit even if its more effectiant than base game (massive difference in my mind)

timid lotus
rapid valve
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token room spawnrates should just be adjusted

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to not be miserable for some of them

unborn badger
rapid valve
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i do see loaned AP exacerbating the issue of level scaling abuse and i do think something needs to happen about that issue, but i don't think loaned ap are really that big a deal otherwise because wynncraft just doesn't have like anything competitive before endgame

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(given loaned ap are disabled in hunted)

sonic jacinth
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Personally I think a better think to market to new players would be "locking" some classes like possibly assassin and shaman behind a "reach level 20" achievment or "reach level 50" achviement. something that is Free to play to unlock but forces new players to commit 2-4 hours before doing so, I would be drawn to "donate" to unlock cool classes (im kinda thinking a bit like diablo has done in the past)

rapid valve
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maybe, though i fear that would also be met with considerable backlash from removing access of people to those classes to start with

sonic jacinth
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i know wynn had old VIP town and assassin use to be donate only but modifying that I persoanlly think is moreapealing than trying to convince new players they need 4 more AP points

sonic jacinth
rapid valve
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idk, we'll see! with things like this gathering data is probably the only real way to tell what works well and what does not

unborn badger
timid lotus
unborn badger
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I heard it’s data collection is kinda ass

rapid valve
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the amount of data wynncraft tracks to judge how content is doing is scaring me sometimes

sonic jacinth
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I do wish yall were more open about talking about things like that

unborn badger
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Teally had to use a discord poll to ask about le gains.

rapid valve
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it's just not practical to discuss and announce everything ahead of time, i'm afraid

sonic jacinth
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there have been times it feels like players vocal opintions are completely ignored because of some random data the team wonot elaborate on

mental vapor
rapid valve
mental vapor
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The ads.

rapid valve
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i don't wanan go into too much detail about it though

timid lotus
mental vapor
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Uuh war community was pretty upset about the 5% paladin resistance loss for basically no reason.

unborn badger
sonic jacinth
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to slightly recenture the topic. I do think wynn needs better targeted products to the early/mid game if they want to keep pushing the importnce of "hooking" these players

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for me early game, horse gambling kept me around, it felt fun and the only use of $

rapid valve
timid lotus
sonic jacinth
rapid valve
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Not every feedback is well-informed, reasonable or even actionable

mental vapor
timid lotus
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i refuse to belive wynn tracks like random stuff as much as that lol

unborn badger
mental vapor
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We were told the ads looked bad in beta but would look fine on release but they remain untouched. That was really the only thing that made the few people who were ok with them willing to wait and see.

unborn badger
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Hence I think the ap is lowkey not that bad of an idea

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It’s just poorly executed due to the raids

rapid valve
sonic jacinth
mental vapor
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Devs please let riftwalker take siance and the new node oh my god riftwalker is so ass now it was already bad the entropy nerf acheived the opposite of what it was meant to do. It just ruined riftwalker arcanist is kind of unnefected. The reason people used entropy was to make close range meteors more consistent whyyyy

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And now rw cant offhand apparently wtf is this bro are we trying to make a worse archetype then bolt?

sonic jacinth
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has rift walker ever been good? i dint think I remeber a single build that outclassed braindead Looni bender

rapid valve
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If people ask for the reason for a change, ct should answer and that's kind of that.

unborn badger
mental vapor
unborn badger
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I think more things need attention than riftwalker rn.

rapid valve
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You can make a case for why it's you think the change made the game worse and if it's convincing I'm sure the other ct would love to try to improve on that shortcoming

mental vapor
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Just maake the blinding thing one ap. Or remove it.

sonic jacinth
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im mainly a LR so raid meta goes over my heads sometimes

rapid valve
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Anyhow that's a bit of a different discussion.

sonic jacinth
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i have extreme opinions about the 100 challange cap added to lrs (the update that adds "infinite greens and reds" that actually nerfed the avg challange cap by 35-40 ;/

rapid valve
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If you have feedback about other topics, feel free to make a thread about it! :)

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that way topics can stay at least marginally sorted

mental vapor
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I really dislile how the ad situation was handled. We were told they looked out of place because its the beta and they would be adjusted. It was a suprise change hours before the beta ended, almost seemed like they only announced it because people noticed it. And they remain unchanged.

digital dune
mental vapor
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Like the little time we were able to give feedback on the ads it was pretty much entirely negative or just "well they said it would look better out of beta"

rapid valve
sonic jacinth
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NO WAY THERES ON THERE

rapid valve
timid lotus
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absolute Peak edit

sonic jacinth
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lmao u actually got me

zenith bobcat
mental vapor
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Seriously how the fuck is there an ad in lutho. What was the offer the dern beast couldnt refuse. What the fuck.

sonic jacinth
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Tbh what are peoples problem with the "ad" (we are talkiing aboiut the stupid podium thing right?)

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in my opnion it looks mostly fine so i kinda dont get the "its looks ugly/bad" part

mental vapor
unborn badger
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You know tailored ads are more effective than randomly placing ads

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When is wynncraft gonna track my browsing history

rapid valve
mental vapor
# rapid valve And there is no possibility this was a last minute change because salted wasn't ...

It should have just been put on hold for another time. Not only is the entire thing a really bad look, sort of thr cherry on top for the p2wynn crowd. It just feels like it was added despite the short period of negative feedback, with no adjustments. I think the biggest fuck up is ct team members saying that it looks clunky in the beta but will look better when released. That was kind of the only reason alot of people, myself included, werent immediatly just "no this should never be added in any capacity." (I mean i wss sort of in that crowd, but i was also like well ill just wait to see if its better on release"

rapid valve
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do you really think people would have reacted more positively if it was done one cycle later disjointed from the rest of the store update

rapid valve
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I skimmed it, I don't see how this is really doable, how would it know how to limit your Ability tree

pearl ridge
rapid valve
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Oh that

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A little messy but kind of gets the job done, I suppose.

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Don't really have much more to say about it than that

pearl ridge
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yeah

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idk I'm not opposed to loaned AP as a perk, I just don't want it to ruin midgame raids since notg and nol are still competitive content

rapid valve
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maybe. i do think level scale abusing should just not be worth it to do explicitly, loaned AP or not

pearl ridge
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because even if you decrease the level scaling numbers, loaned AP still returns like half of that power and there's still going to be an issue until you either screw over unranked players even further or remove ehp scaling as well

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yet another reason why loaned AP in raids should be reconsidered

rapid valve
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idk the solution to this, i frankly don't want to think about stat balance, it's not my area of expertise

pearl ridge
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yeah fair enough

rapid valve
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i think level scaling abuse conceptually is silly no matter which way it comes about and the worst of it was already there before loaned AP

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which to me suggests the problem has a more underlying cause than just this store update feature. i won't contest it doesn't help it, but there might be a better solution to deal with both level scaling abuse and thus the loaned AP issue at once

pearl ridge
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🤷 also fair enough, I personally think that disabling loaned AP in raids in the short term would at least tone the issue back down to what it was before this update

storm ravine
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there’s no real fixing to level scaling tbh

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i don’t actually think it’s that big of an issue you aren’t actually getting that much of a boost

rapid valve
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thank you df carry

storm ravine
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df not getting all that much over traditional builds anyways

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i think acolyte or pure are crazy though

plush ermine
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is fine if you keep the emerald rewards the same

limber magnet
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They should add more sale pedestals to Detlas. Once at the west entrance and one at the trade market.

frail folio
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Weekly raffle tickets for putting one on ur housing island

sly zealot
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metin 2 flashback

placid delta
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“Objective [0/1]”
“Purchase and use a shout bomb”

Reward : 16,000,000 EXP & 40,960 emeralds

placid delta
rapid valve
placid delta
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removed soul point bombs, but you can now refill them for 1 share

frozen rose
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Why should there be an advertisement up when your menu brings you to the shop in the first place? Your whole menu is the shop, you can't get to your stuff unless you go to an almost hidden icon to get to use your items. I think that would be enough for people to know there is an actual shop right?

storm ravine
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Nah don’t worry hey zeero thinks it’s more sensible that you have to click once to go to the bomb shop and click twice to access your own bombs

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design masterclass

frozen rose
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Ah yes, optimization at it's finest

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Truly the greatest skilled people in charge of making this game

storm ravine
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user experience is my passion

frozen rose
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Mhm mhm

sly light
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That would fix most issues i have with it ngl

steady mason
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i mean its not good ux, but its pretty obvious why the bombs are located in the shop

wild pine
sly light
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How so?

torpid ingot
sly light
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im not following?

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graids should all be tuned to endgame players

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if you enter with a level 80 then you're gonna be weak

zenith bobcat
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Notg is level 54 so having actual hp is scaled to lvl 105 not the other way around

wild pine
lean hare
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Still would prefer something like this

storm ravine
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unironically that is better than jamming up the use menu

unborn badger
storm ravine
unborn badger
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Kinda pointless to be there ngl

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U know like the black loading menu

storm ravine
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like i know how to buy things 😭them trying to frame it as “We’re simply reminding older players, who might have forgotten how to spend money, how to buy things” is such insane reasoning

unborn badger
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The box that tps u every now and then

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They should put it there instead

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Make it take longer to tp you.

storm ravine
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it’s literally like the entire point of this update was to shove ads into people’s faces and i don’t think anyone likes it but they keep pretending it’s for our own good, so we can “remember how to access the store”

unborn badger
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If u are a no rank lmao…

storm ravine
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priority game loading

unborn badger
storm ravine
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champions get super priority game loading

unborn badger
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This just a last resort cuz they were out of budget

storm ravine
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hopefully they will finally realize that they should work on customer retention and not just how much money they can squeeze out of people until they get mad

unborn badger
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More subscriptions and dlcs

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Make horse locked behind a paywall

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Make crafted item locked behind a pay wall

storm ravine
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all great ideas

unborn badger
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Make lutho stat pots locked behind a paywall

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Make raiding Locked behind a subscription

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Make level 80+ lock behind paywall as well

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Fuck it make it cost money to even start turtorial

tawny sable
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with the podiums you will get used to them pretty fast and then you will just stop noticing them, with that its so in your face that you simply wouldnt be able to stop noticing it

unborn badger
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Actually everything in this update is ugly

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The new armor items

tawny sable
unborn badger
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They made the broccoli shaman skin smaller

tawny sable
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ofc not a direct comparison because at least this wouldnt stop you in your tracks but still

lean hare
tawny sable
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lmao what are you even saying

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if we're looking at how long its sat there in total both last forever, if we're looking at how long you have to look at them for at a time both are a few seconds

lean hare
tawny sable
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so? unless your hangout spots are right next to where the podiums are, the only reason you'll ever notice them is because you've got yourself so worked up about them in this thread

lean hare
tawny sable
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out of interest which towns do you generally hang out in

lean hare
lean hare
tawny sable
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lutho: its on the side that i at least find myself on the least (the ones im generally on being in front of the banks, next to housing balloon, next to tm)
cinfras: down a little bit along one of the paths and its so noisy that yeah nah you are not noticing that
ahmsord: nowhere near the "town square"
ragni: yeah thats absolutely fair, it should not be there
nemract: a little bit out of the middle but quite colourful in an otherwise muted-tones town so yeah thats fair too

but either way, the vast majority of players dont really play like that - most people spend most of their (non-afk) time in raids/lrs/etc rather than a few earlygame towns

tawny sable
lean hare
tawny sable
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im more trying to convince anyone reading this who might have the power to change it to an ad in /class ngl

lean hare
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I personally would prefer it in the class selector which is more akin to the hub. Rather than ingame itself

tawny sable
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and i personally really would not like

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but i think we both know eachothers stances on this already

lean hare
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Yup

sleek inlet
steel crescent
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I cant wait for the next update where we get popups for raid/lr rerolls that come up after every raid/lr

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The true mobile game experience

cyan mango
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I understand that a lot of people wouldn't like shop access or a card on the /class screen that displayed deals.
Can we instead just make it a little board by each tm access instead then? I hate seeing the stupid things in every fing settlement. They don't fit in at all. And make it actually something that would make sense in the game world as opposed to a straight up ad for the in-game store with hovering elements in the middle of a poor town.

sly light
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You dont understand guys, they need to add advertisements into the game

ionic minnow
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I don't understand why there aren't billboards at the raid entrances

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Either right in front of where you raid complete or fail

sly light
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womp womp you failed the raid now heres an ad

merry solar
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watch a 15s ad to revive in the raid

torpid ingot
ionic minnow
lean hare
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How about a custum painting plastered everywherd

ionic minnow
storm ravine
torpid ingot
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It sounds weird but it’s true, it’s why a lot of gacha games have cheap bundles specifically designed for new players, it’s not them being generous or whatever, it’s them trying to get a newbie to drop some cash on the game so they will be more willing to do so in the future

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It’s easier to justify a purchase on a game if you already spent money in it

sly light
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Gacha games typically survive off whales, but Salted has been pretty clear that most of their income is from noobs buying vip and quitting

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I see both sides tho

cyan mango
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-# granted that's something that I have way more of an issue with than most people, it's a marketing strat at the end of the day

torpid ingot
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I think that’s why a lot of the changes to monetization that were made this update were catered towards endgame players, shares are more valuable, you have the tokens for raids and lrs, and even the changes to rank slots incentivize more endgame spending, as newbies aren’t going to really feel the TM slot problem but endgame certainly will

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Whales are ultimately more sustainable than hoping a newbie decides to buy VIP before they drop the game and forget it ever existed

steel crescent
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I thought the whole reason newbies bought vip was for tm slots

sly light
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ive spent a shit ton of money on this game ill say

torpid ingot
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Mob totems and bank pages are pretty valuable to a new account

steel crescent
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Fair enough

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I guess i didnt see it that way

torpid ingot
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Though it seems like VIP+ is more popular and VIP+ offers TM slots so it could go either way

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I think in VIP+ case it’s a combo of all 3

steel crescent
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The fact that this game sustains off vip is crazy, what a high turnover rate

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Wonder why they nerfed vip

torpid ingot
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I was looking at the store page for info and what the fuck

torpid ingot
steel crescent
torpid ingot
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Or just increase VIP+ value in general, less reason to grind shares for VIP so instead you grind for VIP+

steel crescent
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The targeted sales they’re doing might though

torpid ingot
storm ravine
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it’s just enshittification

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i get the whales argument it’s just.. i dont think its right to put advertisements in a page for shit i paid to use, and they should be making new shit that people actually want instead of reducing benefits and manufacturing a difference between ranks

cyan mango
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I do kinda agree

wild pine
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i remember before they added this i was like
"well at least they didn't add onmap ads this patch 😌"

spice flare
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can we blame eternal for this

glacial badger
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wynnshittification

lean hare
simple wraith
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Boiii ts meme so tuff

torpid ingot
remote tundra
simple wraith
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You are welcome

jaunty sparrow
remote tundra
jaunty sparrow
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@mods

cyan mango
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I still think everything that was changed about monetization recently has been just shameful
They were VERY misleading about share prices
-Said they'd go down in value and be "a bit more than $1 each"
-Said all current shares would be multiplied by 5 to compensate, citing that shares were becoming 5x less valuable
-Shares ended up being $1.50USD each
-all things worth just 1 share before went up to 6 shares instead of 5
-shares have depreciated 6x instead of 5x like we were told, so that was just an outright lie
-all we've gotten on this since (to my knowledge) is a promise to be more clear going forward, which is a start at least
screw it this deserves to be its own post, I don't think I've seen many people talk about this yet

steel crescent
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They’re like $1.20 - $1.11 each for me depending on the pack

honest sigil
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making shares worth more emeralds is just an incentive for players to purchase shares so it makes sense

cyan mango
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I've seen a screenshot of 10 for 15USD

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I still have no idea what got into them that they decided that they needed to just dump blatant p2w into the game
I get they needed more money to support the server but SERIOUSLY? this scale of p2w so fast?

sly zealot
cyan mango
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that may be the issue then

sly zealot
viscid marsh
cyan mango
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lr tokens (and to a much lesser extend raid tokens) are also p2w still

sly zealot
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anyway these things have been through discussions enough, this discussion won't change anything

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they got the feedback, they'll make decisions based on the feedbacks and their goals

cyan mango
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yeah
-# still really don't like it

sly zealot
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+1 reroll per lootrun for 1 share would be like.. whatever man

cyan mango
sly zealot
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chest loot bomb (before they nerfed it, but still) is somehow a bigger problem btw

sleek inlet
lean hare
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Basically your paying the price of 6 shares but only getting 5

sleek inlet
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This update has been very predatory. Most of CT didn't know it was coming either

torpid ingot
lean hare
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Well If anyone can list every single change (I can find the details myself) and break.down every single dark patern and scummy tactic to my knowledge

sly zealot
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but as you can see from my thread... don't go overboard with feedback, just say as it is, don't make it more negative than it is, otherwise people won't take it seriously

lean hare
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Ok

halcyon coyote
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Please delete these ugly advertising structures it kills the immersion

sleek pond
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truth nuke thread

stray drum
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Wynn started killing the immersion ever since lr camps came out now this shit looking like some bedrock server

crude osprey
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SE lr is the only one that actively looks ridiculous, tbh. Just need to make it something within Lutho+use actual SE related entities around it, rather than outside in the toxic wastes with random dudes

storm ravine
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so anyone saying 1.20 per share is just getting tricked by this

cyan mango
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In the US and just checked the website, it's $11.99USD before tax for 10 shares

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it isn't 1.20/share, its like 1.19 and 9/10 of a cent per share!

storm ravine
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i mean yeah at the end of the day it’s like 50 cents to 2.40 depending on state

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actually some states have no sales tax so it’s anywhere from an additional 0 cents to 24 cents per share

cyan mango
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50 cents would be like a 23% tax
a little on the higher end, at least for my state
most places it would be cheaper than that

storm ravine
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not per share like total

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actually i am unsure if local sales taxes apply to online purchases

cyan mango
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my state has a like 4-5% digital sales tax and some regional sales taxes that can make it a tad more

storm ravine
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idk where i lived in chicago it was like 6.25 + 4% from local tax

sleek inlet
sleek inlet
lean hare
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The American dream is dead, free speach is mostly dead and soon to be censored, the protect the children is a lie to get more control or money and student debt is a means to trap people, privacy is dying as companies try to sell your info for cents.

sleek inlet
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"free speech" I mean you can still say whatever you want no? That's the only one I can't think of actually being stopped. It's just that if your voice/message doesn't align with current capitalist goals it gets drowned out by literally everything else lol

cyan mango
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tf you mean free speech is dying
UK maybe but not the US

sleek pond
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EU US and AUS examples of forced age verification that likely leads to users being connected to their accounts

cyan mango
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OK so this is breach of privacy which can make restricting free speech easier in the future but in itself doesn't in the US (yet at least)
UK has people sitting in prisons over social media posts, no way that can equate to the US

simple wraith
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US also jails people for social media posts lmao

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Whether you think thats good or bad but its not a unique problem

cyan mango
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If you try to incite violence or advocate for terrorism

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Not for those who went against the political grain

simple wraith
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Lmfao

cyan mango
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Ain't nobody getting arrested here for criticizing a school board

sleek pond
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the point isnt that having the tamest opinion ever is going to land you in jail

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the point is that tying people's online accounts to who they are means governments can punish those who criticise the government or people in power as a whole

cyan mango
sleek pond
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well maybe in the UK yeah actually LOL but the government there is already corrupt 🔥

sleek pond
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my point was that free speech is already under attack (dying)

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even suggesting laws like these is a sign of the times to come

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we dont disagree, my point is just that dismissing it as a "UK problem" is pretty counterintuitive when every western government seems to have a desire to push these types of laws this year for some reason

cyan mango
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In the US it is a constitutionally guaranteed right that every citizen is entitled to
trying to take away free speech would probably result in getting shot or impeached

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-# or both

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what I'm saying is that I'm much less confident that the issues in the US will grow to the scale they have in the UK

cyan mango
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1s lemme google that

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ok this isn't even solved

sleek pond
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well he didnt say what it was

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idk i remember hearing something about how it was possible for article 5 to rewrite other parts

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either way i dont get american "muh rights"-isms because its pretty clear how easily rights can be limited lol

cyan mango
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that's the article that says things can be changed if necessary
if any then ofc it's that one it's not even a question
constitution also has a line about overthrowing a government that overreaches even if it doesn't have any actual hard lining to it
1st and 2nd amendment on their own are also huge obstacles that a lot of people would not take kindly to having infringed

sleek pond
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define necessary

cyan mango
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anything that's changed with time that causes something that didn't exist before to be a problem
not even my point, I even admitted that if anything would allow free speech to be breached, then it would be article 5 that allowed the changes to facilitate that

cyan mango
sleek pond
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but other governments say the Online "Safety" Act and want the same thing

weak solar
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the first amendment makes it difficult to limit free speech in the us but those in power would absolutely love to

cyan mango
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once again, breach of privacy is a different issue even if it can lead into easier restriction

weak solar
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and will find loopholes

sleek pond
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i think both sides want it lol

cyan mango
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what are "both sides"?

sleek pond
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left or right idgaf both sides likely just want the other to shut up

weak solar
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im not saying this is specific to right now, its clear to me that most governments only care about staying in power rather than whatever morals they preach

cyan mango
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ok yeah that checks out
there will always be extreme nutjobs that treat their political beliefs like a religion and want to silence the other, that's more or less a constant

sleek pond
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i find it worse that they're using it under the guise of "protecting kids"

cyan mango
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yeah 99% of the time "protecting the kids" is an empty excuse and nothing more
it appeals to emotion first and forefront, like its telling you you're a horrible person for not being against this

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"Think of the children!" shut up

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If you really wanted to protect your kid you'd watch them yourself

subtle flicker
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wow share prices are 📈 huh

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you love to see it

cyan mango
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I had 2 shares, which was enough to get 4 weeks of silverbull sub and cover a festival
now I have 10, but I need 12 for the same effect
scammed

subtle flicker
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owned

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buy mine instead thanks

dull shuttle
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klarna mindset is real 😔

merry solar
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after adding more important ways to use them and increasing their IRL prices, who could have seen that coming truly

lean hare
sleek inlet
woven matrix
cyan mango
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Ha ha.

steel crescent
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Well free speech doesnt extend to social media

woven matrix
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straight up this admin is doing basically everything it can to erode our rights to put power in their pockets, it is verrrry much an ongoing process

cyan mango
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What else is new

steel crescent
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But lets say it did, you spoke out against trump and some guy made a death threat.
I don’t approve of that but at the end of the day you’re both expressing your free speech lol

cyan mango
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And how does that contradict what I've said

woven matrix
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well as another recent example,
theres been lots of protests against the admin's actions
so trump's abusing the national guard to shut down the protests and occupy DC under the guise of "stopping crime", and has indicated he wants to do so to other cities
that is in directment, the government persecuting people for what they say, which is supposed to be protected by the first amendment- which guarantees free speech

steel crescent
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Yeah that one does suck

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Government intervention on protests is just bad

cyan mango
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I've not heard of protests in DC lately, what are they about specifically?

steel crescent
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Basically

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“Its illegal to be homeless”

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Its as ridiculous as it sounds

cyan mango
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Last I heard it just had a comically bad shoplifting problem

woven matrix
cyan mango
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Who is this admin?

woven matrix
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at absolute barest minimum the admin is encroaching on and removing various rights to accrue more power over the people and free speech is in their sights as something to attack as well

steel crescent
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The people in charge

woven matrix
# cyan mango Who is this admin?

admin is short for administration, and it refers to who's in the white house calling the shots- so yeah, the trump administration, the admin

cyan mango
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Oh short for administration

steel crescent
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The admin minecraft story mode is taking over dc real

cyan mango
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Nooooo romeo

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This thread has gotten way off topic

woven matrix
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yeah I was gonna say ik I was the one who brought the topic back up but I don't think the rapid approach of fascism is very relevant to the topic

cyan mango
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tf

glacial badger
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It is because salted IS DONALD trump

sleek inlet
glacial badger
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i cant wait for fruma to be behind a paywall requiring a subscription service to a wynncraft battlepass

wild pine
limber magnet