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Re: Rux's Inventory

@Iron_Guard8 I really miss my Everlasting Crown and it's color commentary. Most of my characters wore it over any other hat.

I agree that Rux could be the exclusive seller of Legendary items and cosmetics while a lot of the other stuff in there could be sold through the Reward-O-Tron.

There's no way that I'll ever be spending Rainbow Stars on a text expression or an emoji when they're doled out so stingily that I'll likely have quit the game and moved onto something else long before I've managed to buy the Legendary and Super Rare costumes which I would actually want.

Truth is I don't even look at Rux's shop any more- I'm still hundreds of Stars away from being able to buy something which I'd actually want so he may as well be just showing up once a month instead of being open 24/7.

But the Reward-O-Tron was clearly intended to be a finite resource and there was clearly no plan to ever actually restock it since absolutely everything going forward was being rolled into their "Buy Rainbow Stars" monetization plan.

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  • DrPiccoloPhD's avatar
    DrPiccoloPhD
    6 years ago
    @realitysquared Man if that thing about the Reward-o-Tron really is true then I can without hesitance say the devs are absolute scumbags. But to be honest, with all the monetization/communication problems by this point, that's not very surprising.
  • @DrPiccoloPhD I do believe that the Reward-O-Tron was intended to be a set number of capsules with no future restock.

    I came to this conclusion because Rux is now selling content in his store for Rainbow Stars which is identical in nature to the content within the Reward-O-Tron capsules.

    It’s also clear that they need costume pieces, accessories, and themed text, emojis and so on to populate the next 8 Festivals until they can repeat Lawn of Doom so that’s a fair bit of content held back in addition to the stuff showing exclusively at Rux’s shop.

    We also have had several players who managed to empty their Reward-O-Tron very early in the games lifespan (I’m still working on mine) and since then we’ve had at least two new festivals roll through Neighborville which would have been a good opportunity to trickle out new content to be bought there with coins but it has remained empty. So considering that a player investing an hour or two a day in the game, which we can assume to be average, will take months to empty it I fully expect that they stocked it with a specific number of capsules to ride out a specific amount of time without being concerned at the outlying small percentage of players who would grind the game obsessively enough to empty the machine in the first month or two.
  • DrPiccoloPhD's avatar
    DrPiccoloPhD
    6 years ago

    @realitysquared  Yeah, I've noticed 90% of Rux's inventory isn't worth jack, the solution of putting some of it in the reward o tron has been a hope for many for a while but obviously since that's something the community wants, the devs are not going to do that. As a founder who's reward o tron emptied last month, it's with a heavy heart for another cycle to go by and see another problem not even bothered being addressed in favor of an unfair, unrewarding, heavily monetized system instigated by clowns who call themselves developers.

  • ippig's avatar
    ippig
    6 years ago

    @realitysquaredYeah, PopCap must have known that there wouldn't be added anymore items to the machine but I still wonder why they chose such a strange strategy.
    If BfN is meant to be a game with a long lifespan the Reward-O-Tron with its few cosmetics feels just off.

    Edit: All new classes will lack cosmetics once there are released. It seems to be too less if the player only gets them at Rux or the Prize Maps.

  • Yep, I agree with most of what has been said and it all seems very odd... and I also fully understand the frustrations we ALL feel about the way things have been handled.

    However, in my humble opinion, while we have every right to express our opinions, I find it a unnecessary, rude and unhelpful  to call the developers names or talk about them in a very derogatory manner. We are trying to build a relationship with these people who have lives, feeling and passions just like us and to express ourselves with the vitriol I sometimes see in this forum these days is disrespectful and possibly even damaging to an already slightly fraught relationship.
    We have absolutely no idea what restraints the Devs are under, or what forces and management decisions they have to abide by, deals that have been made etc. that are totally out of the control of the Devs themselves.

    And just to clarify... I have not tagged anyone or singled anyone out as this is something I see more and more of in the forum from a number of people and my game is not to call anyone out but more to ask or suggest that we treat everybody with the respect that we would like ourselves.... and that includes the Devs.

    This is my own opinion and I realise it may be unpopular but there you go 🙂❤️

  • @asabaida This was a nice reminder to remain civil on our forum and it certainly hasn't been any one person. Many of us have a lot of frustrations with the game right now. While it can make everyone feel better to express their frustrations at times (and we have been even when it doesn't feel like anyone is listening), there are ways to do it without making negative personal remarks. Not that I don't still automatically do so in my head sometimes, but I try not to let it out lol
  • Iron_Guard8's avatar
    Iron_Guard8
    Legend
    6 years ago

    @asabaida Agreed. I always try to be civil on my posts, even when frustrated or otherwise negatively disposed over something. Attacking the dev team or EA reps doesn't help anything. And as I've always said, I WANT this game to do well. I want it to be amazing and enjoyable for a long time, but it keeps getting in its own way.

  • ippig's avatar
    ippig
    6 years ago
    @asabaida You are absolutely right. Due to the frustration not to be heard some users here are not kind sometimes. Maybe I am not finding the right words for the devs' decisions either. More transparency would help to understand but who knows how tight their hands are tied by the publisher.
  • @asabaida I fully agree.

    Everyone here wants BfN to be successful and for it to provide everyone with thousands of hours of enjoyment and satisfaction which is why we're all very critical of the choices we've seen here, whether they were made or mandated, and we're open with the reasoning for our dissatisfaction.

    Ad hominem doesn't have any place in the discussion and can effect whether or not what we have to say here has influence or gets dismissed.
  • asabaida's avatar
    asabaida
    6 years ago

    @TLEsquire 
    Yes, of course we can all have these moments but I feel it is better to keep them to PMs with friends or private servers ....
    however, I guess the whole point is sometimes, in places such as this, that the people the comments are directed at, will in fact read them.
    I dunno I just feel that being rude will get us knowhere... kinda works like in life too 🤨 🙂

    Edit: just noticed other comments... thanku all 🙂

  • @asabaidaAgree whole-heartedly! It's sometimes difficult when you care about something passionately, but you're right, there are ways of letting off steam without risking offence . . . 😂
    If we want to be heard, we need to be rational & respectful, as that is more likely to achieve results.

    (I can still call MYSELF a muppet / doughnut, right??) Edit: caps 

  • @asabaidaFeels a little hard to not feel singled out when you're the only person in a thread taking a dig and several people are giving you **** for it. But hey, if you say so.

  • brady3176's avatar
    brady3176
    6 years ago

    @DrPiccoloPhDEven if you feel that post was directed at you, I think there was just purely good intentions there. Believe me, I get it, I have a few special things I'd like to say about BFN and the devs, but.... in the end that just ends up being a fruitless way of venting. I totally get the frustration. It's hard to respect someone when it feels like they don't respect you. And... its hard for me to believe that the devs respect any of us all that much from what has and is continuing to happen. I totally get that there are probably some good devs with genuinely good intentions working on BFN too... but It's just a bad situation, I wish things were different.

  • @brady3176 You can't help but wonder how the game would've turned out if they just gave it another year, I feel like things would probably be a lot more grounded. That's a real problem with the modern gaming industry, there's never enough time.
  • brady3176's avatar
    brady3176
    6 years ago
    @DrPiccoloPhD Yep, there's a lot wrong with the gaming industry currently, that all boils down to the main focus being to possess every conceivable penny in the world. Unfortunately BFN encaptulates all that quite well.
  • asabaida's avatar
    asabaida
    6 years ago

    @DrPiccoloPhD 
    I promise you, my intention was not to single anyone out, but I appreciate that it may feel like that for you, and I apologise for that.

    Edit: Retrospectively I should have done a separate post on this issue.

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