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Just a few points on this:

Firstly, as a general statement, there are two things that make this game work and allow it to run; in-game currency being purchased and people spending time to play the game. Up to Omega, for the most part, we tried to reward those who played a lot, but did not pay, but with the Varium gap it was very hard to do so. Now in Omega, the gap is much, much smaller and Non-Varium players can get almost every single item in the game/feature in the game, Varium becoming a time saver and therefore we have to set credit prices at a price that means people have to earn through quite a bit of time playing.

We allowed this in multiple ways, NPCs are now unlimited, you can earn as many credits as you want off them, it just takes time! NPCs reward a lot of credits. We have halfed the price of retraining as well as item re-stat costs as of yesterdays patch and as a bonus, allowed Non-Varium players access to almost every item in the game, with a few exceptions.

I have used this analogy before and I personally feel this reflects this very well:
I am sure most of you have played a Pokemon game in your lifetime, those who have will know that when you start the game and progress through the game, you have two choices: Invest time into training in the wilds to get your Pokemon up to as higher level as possibly, making beating trainers and gym leaders easier, giving you money to purchase potions etc.; or you can simply go full in and try to just ride through the game in as little time as possible going from one gym leader to the next, usually getting annoyed by the random wild battles and running. With the first style I mentioned, you get the strongest Pokemon, the strongest moves, the revives and potions needed to survive in battle. However in the latter scenario, you struggle to keep up with the growing power of trainers and gym leaders, end up trying to depend on super-effective moves instead of level advantage, you may earn enough for potions, revives and pokeballs by doing this, but you'd always struggle through the gyms and trainers, since your pokemon would almost always be the same or lower level than their's. All this is despite the fact that Wild pokemon give you less exp and less credits than trainers, but the time you invest is what gives you the huge advantage.

Now you may be wondering why I'm going on about Pokemon, however ED is very much the same concept now. You can plow on through trying to simply win PvPs, do as minimal NPCing as possible, because it gets tedious and is not as fun, but at the same time, you will not have enough to gain the top level stuff nor purchase everything you want, possibly not even enough to retrain or restat. Or you can invest that extra bit of time to farm NPCs, despite the fact it gives less than players, it allows you to get stronger with time, while not effecting your win record, and is there as an unlimited source of credits, just like the wild pokemon in Pokemon.

If we made it too easy to gain enough credits to purchase everything, no one would purchase Varium and the game would be forced to shut down. So we have to create a balance between Varium and the time it takes to gain the credits to purchase something. May be we could do with changing some of the credit costs or rewards, Omega has only just been released this past week, we are still going over everything and changing things where needed - however bare in mind that time spent online helps us just as much as people purchase Varium, so we are encouraging people to make the choice, time or money, the two things we NEED to keep the game running. We felt the old structure put too much pressure on people to pay, so now we feel it is best to give a fair option! NPC credit rewards are dependent on the level difference between yourself and the NPC in question, so if you want more credits, try to find a build that works for an NPC higher level than you, it may help things go faster :) that is the other thing, builds save time, if you find a fast farming build, you will possibly save more time, depending on how many credits it takes to find a build that works!

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If we made it too easy to gain enough credits to purchase everything, no one would purchase Varium and the game would be forced to shut down. So we have to create a balance between Varium and the time it takes to gain the credits to purchase something. May be we could do with changing some of the credit costs or rewards, Omega has only just been released this past week, we are still going over everything and changing things where needed - however bare in mind that time spent online helps us just as much as people purchase Varium, so we are encouraging people to make the choice, time or money, the two things we NEED to keep the game running.

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@ deathguard

I read your original post. What trizz was talking about was the prices for the "Old" varium only items not all items. If it was for all items then I could agree with you since increasing the prices off all items would hurt everyone. However this idea is only for the old varium only items not everything.

Plus with every item having the same power what would be the harm in all honestly. You can stick with the same item from level 1 to the level cap power that item up to the max level and never buy another new item again once you buy your first set of gear.

What you are truly paying for is art now unless that item has a special core which most varium gear doesn't have.

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You must see it from other perspective, lets say they raise the prices for Frost weapons but some players won't be satisfied, they will complain about how unfair it is that just people that bought frost weapons weren't ripped off so they ask for other seasonal rares to have their prices raised. This sums up one disadvantage. Now other case would be when they release this new Valentine's themed weapons, all of them look awesome so just because of that prices will be +35k credits.... I don't think it is a smart idea to raise prices just because they look cool. Most of the future weapons that will be added will look really good but just because of their look, the prices will be high making the chances of nonvariums of getting cool items lower.

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As for Dage's gun case, not only that item was sold at a cheap price, and I don't feel cheated at all because at last, when we sell the item we get both currencies and don't lose nothing. We could say almost every player got ripped off because most of the old varium items are a bit "cheap" so frost weapons aren't the only case. We were all ripped off from this perspective so raising only frost weapons would be unfair to all the people who bought varium items, forcing Devs to raise the prices of all varium items and this will cause uproar.

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its easy to reach 10k credits in 3 hours,

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Your talking about a win every 34 seconds there outside of power hour. The stream of battles would have to be constant and you would have to never lose to average that kind of time on battles.

Inside of power hour with the same average you can get 105 wins which is 6720 credits which leaves you with 103 wins before you finish up the 10K which means your average can drop down to 1 minute and 10 seconds so now this are looking a bit more possible but you have to hit one of the power hours to do it as well as average that 34 seconds per win

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Oh, and what about the charbringer items? So many people bought the varium form, when they could of bought the credit-only version, why? BECUASE IT SAVED TIME. Again, I know you will continue to find you way around the facts, but THESE are the facts. You can't ignore them, but you will continue to argue with it, cuase your mad that you can be beat by dedicated nonvarium players.

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listen to people in game particually variums . suprisingly alot of none vars too.you wont hear much happyness