Giras Wolfe
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Maybe I've never made this exactly clear. Here goes.
Epicduel is an extremely competitive game, as you all know. People will do anything for that slight competitive edge of a few stat points. Level up quickly, get that weapon with a few extra stats, make sure every point is distributed properly.
Then enhancement slots are released to primaries. All those players craving that edge felt they had no choice but to buy in. It wasn't even that bad -- 4 slots for most weapons, at a painless 300 varium, a few for 700, and an elite few weapons costing up to 1200 for full enhancement. Overall, a tolerable feature and only a small drain on money and balance.
But then, they go too far. Much, MUCH too far. First they add slots to armors, and increase all primary enhancements by two slots. This means as much as 500 more varium per item. And if you fully enhance item A and not item B, you feel obligated to use item A because it's objectively more powerful. You're also reluctant to buy item C, because if you don't enhance it, it won't make you any stronger then item A, even if it looks cooler and will give you more builds. If you choose to ignore enhancements entirely, you get creamed by those who don't. Going halfway is a good compromise, but it still denies you that top-edge battle power that you paid good money for.
Then, they simply put the last two nails in the coffin, enhancement slots to sidearms and auxillarys. This just amplifies the problem. That's 30-40 slots for one set of items. Or, to translate, at least a good 4,000 varium. Remember when that got you four unique and ready-to-use items? Hah, well that was the past. Smart varium players are left with these options:
1) Ignore enhancements and be nearly as weak as a nonvarium as contrasted to fully enhanced players.
2) Enhance only four items fully and try to use them for all builds based on the stat flexibility. You will grow to hate the damage type, stat requirements, and stat boosts of these items as you grow tired of the narrow range of builds these items allow.
3) Pay ludicrous amounts of varium to fully enhance everything.
Isn't epicduel so much more fun and high quality this way? Don't you feel you're getting so much more bang for the buck? Or is this yet another lazy way to siphon money off the gullible, the rich, and the addicts? (See the whole war kills nightmare for a chrystal-clear example of this.)
I recently purchased a $50 package, mainly to get the delta weapons, and I do believe I regret it. There's so much else in this world you can do with $50. But we choose to spend it on your game. Is this really how you repay us? By upping the ante and leaving low payers and no payers even further behind in the dust?
I don't even want to go into how this has trashed the games balance and made us scramble to undo the damage enhancement slots have clearly caused by nerfing skill trees and stat progressions.
Seriously, name one truly positive thing enhancement slots has done for this game's battle system.
I'll give you guys the benefit of a doubt that you want to undo this mess now. The question remains: how? First of all, is it really hard to refund enhancement slots? Surely you could write some sort of algorithm to automatically sellback the enhancements, then remove the feature. I'm open to other ideas, and even sacrificing some of the varium I've spent on this monstrosity to kill it.
Think totally trashing the feature is too extreme? Then lower the price to something less hideously unfair. Ten slots should be 1000 varium, TOPS. One full power weapon for the price of one weapon is more then fair. Again find a way to repay the relevant player. This is a must.
I want to spend money on this game, I honestly do. But all that money keeps draining off into this useless, balance wrecking, despicable feature and it has simply got to go.
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