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Soliqe -> RE: ED's Founders and Elites the forgotten ones (4/25/2011 23:31:50)
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I've retired because of exactly this.
You're ignoring your past supporters. Don't worry about the balance of the game, it's already been ruined by stat inflation. I've supported you and Titan through thick and thin, yet you still disappoint me and your many fans who helped you grow EpicDuel. All we get is a pat on the back and told, "It's unfair for the newbies"
Have you seen them?! Those little ungrateful players will never have the gratitude your past supporters had. Each generation of players is worse. Have you not noticed the decay in morals within YOUR OWN game? By now you've either ignored this post or simply don't care what I have to say. I'm one voice, and I'm not paying for your game anymore... So does it matter?
We understand you're on a fixed income with AE, but we still should receive some perks. For example, HeroSmash is releasing their Founder status. YAY! Not... We get nothing from that. We're Founder of EpicDuel and yet this game and it's players are shoved aside as if it didn't exist. You should tell your supervisors that AQW is not the only MMO and that EpicDuel Founder should have priveleges in other games too.
I'm very disgruntled by how you listen to our players. You only listen to the unreasonable brats who want nothing but personal gain and "fame", yet you ignore the mature remnant that has undying support for your game to this very day. By your ignorance to "the remnant" it's changed my mind about playing this game as often as I have. I understand you don't influence my choices, but you did influence my gaming experience. At the beginning it was great, but it slowly degraded, and now we're at Easter one year later. I thought Easter would be great for EpicDuel. It released my most favorite weapon, The Egg Staff. But since you decided to charge ridiculous amount for premium items, I guess it doesn't matter anymore.
What happened to the 5k varium premium offers? You could have at least given the choice for players who bought 5k to choose 1 eggzooka... I mean what happened to the reasonable offers? Now it's to the point where premiums are offered at 10k. Don't give me your Gamma Bike bit. Who cares about a useless vehicle that increases your speed by 150%?
I'm not sure about my future with this game, but I know my activity will lessen due to your understanding of the past players who "used" to support your efforts. Have fun with your new generation.quote:
It looks like a lot the broken promises cited here are actually assumptions.
1) Founder armor was never promised to be the best armor in the game forever. Any buff received after it's release was influenced by popular opinion, but entirely at the discretion of the developers. It can still be argued that it's one of the strongest and definitely one of the rarest items in the game.
2) Elites were not promised new bonuses each update. Their unlimited varium reduced to a finite supply (20k) because unlimited varium would never have balanced with most of the varium features in game. They also received Founder and Beta gear free, plus a hoverbike that is only available as a rare arcade drop.
As developers, we are constantly faced with the challenge of pleasing our past supporters while not alienating future supporters. Each prior phase wants better perks than the more recent phase, so this creates a massive implied obligation on our part. If we went this route, each release would consist of creating content specifically for past supporters, which would devour development time on forward progress while discouraging new players from buying, since we would create a ceiling of super-premium content they could never penetrate. Games like AQW can award new content to members and founder because 1) it doesn't affect balance and 2) they have the staff to do so. Smaller games like MechQuest that promised perks like monthly mechs for upgraded members had to compromise on this promise due to lack of staff.
I'm not saying we don't appreciate past support, but we are not obligated to create content specifically for Alphas, Elites, Founders, Betas and so on. Anything special we give these supporters is a gift given out of appreciation and kindness, not obligation.
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