Please increase gear drop rates

"UnstopableSteve;c-1621327" wrote:
I agree its very little in this game it gets you nothing. There really should be pricing laws and I'm sure in the next few years there will be.

Developers are taking extreme advantage of people regardless of their wealth.

Fixed price points in the gaming industry have forced their hand on alternate monetization methods. During the Super Nintendo era, the price of a full cost AAA title was 50-60 US dollars. Today, the price of a full cost AAA title is about 60 US dollars despite development costs growing tremendously, and the value of a dollar being a little over half what it was 28 years ago, but any price hike and the market refuses to buy.

Variable and voluntary price structures are what let companies stay afloat while bringing the quality of games the market demands.

"YaeVizsla;c-1621336" wrote:

"UnstopableSteve;c-1621327" wrote:
I agree its very little in this game it gets you nothing. There really should be pricing laws and I'm sure in the next few years there will be.

Developers are taking extreme advantage of people regardless of their wealth.

Fixed price points in the gaming industry have forced their hand on alternate monetization methods. During the Super Nintendo era, the price of a full cost AAA title was 50-60 US dollars. Today, the price of a full cost AAA title is about 60 US dollars despite development costs growing tremendously, and the value of a dollar being a little over half what it was 28 years ago, but any price hike and the market refuses to buy.

Variable and voluntary price structures are what let companies stay afloat while bringing the quality of games the market demands.

This brings a valid point. People will refuse to pay price increases yet spend thousands on low quality games like this.

That is because developers exploit peoples addictive tendencies and also people forget the value of money when it is not physically in their hand. I bet if you put a few thousand in a whales hand then said give it away for a few crystals they would refuse.

"UnstopableSteve;c-1621340" wrote:

"YaeVizsla;c-1621336" wrote:

"UnstopableSteve;c-1621327" wrote:
I agree its very little in this game it gets you nothing. There really should be pricing laws and I'm sure in the next few years there will be.

Developers are taking extreme advantage of people regardless of their wealth.

Fixed price points in the gaming industry have forced their hand on alternate monetization methods. During the Super Nintendo era, the price of a full cost AAA title was 50-60 US dollars. Today, the price of a full cost AAA title is about 60 US dollars despite development costs growing tremendously, and the value of a dollar being a little over half what it was 28 years ago, but any price hike and the market refuses to buy.

Variable and voluntary price structures are what let companies stay afloat while bringing the quality of games the market demands.

This brings a valid point. People will refuse to pay price increases yet spend thousands on low quality games like this.

That is because developers exploit peoples addictive tendencies and also people forget the value of money when it is not physically in their hand. I bet if you put a few thousand in a whales hand then said give it away for a few crystals they would refuse.

This statement is made a lot, and it's really a little but of a misunderstanding. We all have different levels of disposable income and our own values of what is worth it for our personal enjoyment.

How much someone will spend "at the drop of a hat", is sometimes hard for others to understand and lead to assumptions about other people, that doesnt make it true.

"UnstopableSteve;c-1621340" wrote:
This brings a valid point. People will refuse to pay price increases yet spend thousands on low quality games like this.

That is because developers exploit peoples addictive tendencies and also people forget the value of money when it is not physically in their hand. I bet if you put a few thousand in a whales hand then said give it away for a few crystals they would refuse.

This is not a low quality game.

That said, gaming compulsion and gambling compulsion as it applies to games are a severely underresearched subject. The data is not out to make definitive statements as you are, nor to legislate in an informed fashion.

The structure of income in this sort of game is generally fractal. Let's say 50% of income for the game comes from 20% of the players. I do not know if that is the right value for this game in particular, but it's a reasonable ballpark.

That rule applies to both the upper and lower 20/80%. 25% of the game's income comes from 4% of the players. 12.5% comes from .8%. 6.25% of income comes from the top .04% of the player base.

Meanwhile, on the lower end, 25% of the income is from the lower 64% of players, and 12.5% of income comes from the lower 51.2% of players.

If you cater solely to one end of the spectrum or the other, you lose a large portion of your income. Low spenders and high spenders are both very important for sustaining the game, and neither can sustain on their own.

Individual disposable income also varies broadly.

Financing this game is not a matter of a handful of mega-whales. It's about the entire player base, including the free players.

Exactly! So increase drop rates and help us f2p and low spenders out.

They've already made gear significantly more available numerous times by adding more vectors for gaining gear, rather han raising drop rates.

Energy is not the primary source for rare gear.

"YaeVizsla;c-1621381" wrote:
They've already made gear significantly more available numerous times by adding more vectors for gaining gear, rather han raising drop rates.

Energy is not the primary source for rare gear.

Its still to slow. People discuss it every day, on here in guild chat, discord, reddit and Im sure other places. Surely you can see the frustration.
The game has lost £200+ from me because I really want Embo but will not spend £1000 to gear him. There will be many like me.

The talk of the gear crunch does not necessarily mean there's a problem.

This is a long term game, that needs to last indefinitely. But as of now, it needs to last long enough that there's still content for people who have been playing since the very beginning.

Not having everyone ready to go right now is not a failure of the game. It means there's still game to play.

So ignore newer players and drive them away. Sure that works to

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You don't need to have everything capped to have fun.

You're in a shard with people who started the same time as you.

Yes, people who started a year ago will have less stuff than people who started two years ago. In one year, the people who started a year ago will have more than the people who started two years ago have right now, because the game has been accelerated.

Other people having nice things is not you being punished.