Gear Crunch

"DarjeloSalas;c-2283355" wrote:
I am wary of making @Ravens1113 ’s head spin by agreeing with him, but there are elements of the current gear crunch that don’t sit right with me.

When g12 was first introduced, those 3 Left Hand Side pieces were all crafted from brand new gear that we’d never seen before and had - initially anyway - limited sources. But they were unique. So g12 gear salvage had its own identity and was quite separate from the gear needed up to that point.

Then, when g12.5 came along, each and every one of those Right Hand Side pieces was crafted from a mixture of more new gear pieces and some existing gear pieces. And it’s the fact that those existing gear pieces include mk3 carbanti, mk3 cuffs, mk5 stun guns and the gold eyeball pieces that I find unsavoury from CG. Because as soon as they did that, the concept of “g12 gear” was partially lost.

Furthermore, when the scavenger was introduced, it is quite frankly insulting that the devs didn’t include all g12 gear as possible sources of the top end relic materials and then subsequently claimed that this was due to a technical limitation on the way the scavenger was set up. Do they honestly expect us to believe that? Especially seeing as the ones that can’t be used for relic materials are the g12 pieces that are most frequently awarded in HSTR and least needed among the character base.

So, ask yourself, is there any point in asking people who implemented those game developments to ease the gear crunch? It feels like they want it to be like this.

Of course some changes would be better for the player base - but it strikes me as very naive to expect them to take account of that!

I can't do anything but AGREE with this entire statement.


And I'll add one more.

One of the things that many people have said is "fix the stores" by giving Stun Guns their own dedicated node or at least stop having totally useless junk in them & only do a rotation of good choke point items.

Now I'm sure CG feels that would actually take time to "fix" and they can't afford that no sir.

So here is what doesn't sit right with me.

A BRAND NEW store, only a few months old, that they had to create from scratch.

So no extra effort to at least give us GOOD items in it.

And yet, THIS is what I have available today.




SERIOUSLY?

And that is after I just converted a ton of those 2 items the other day with the scavenger.

Its mind boggling to me that with all the other nodes/slots that give us junk gear that no one is their right mind will pay for that they couldn't have set up this store to rotate the choke point items.

I won't give them my $$ when they keep putting out low quality, bad design set ups like this.

Everyone knows the top 5-10 most in demand items in the game.
They could have just had those key items on rotation in a BRAND NEW Store, but chose not to.

Incompetence? Ignorance? Malicious Intent? Take your pick.