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  1. If enemy radar is built-in now and u guys are set on not changing the vacuum, why not make it ''built-in'' then and free to slot for something that is going to be a tiny use for pets instead? While most of these changes are nice, I honestly expected a bit more. By stats, my Helios with deconstructor prime clapped more enemies than Kavat did and I have used Kavat 2x more. Legit stood on the side and watched Vulpa struggling against lvl 70 single basic Moa, just to die from it. On a side note, my Kavat has 5 forma and a good build. Deconstructor was so-so, not even using its full potential. Some alternatives and suggestions that are more than mod value changing: - available captured animals as pets, if nothing else, at least as a reskin - animals and/or captured animals roaming freely in Dojo (perhaps some special room or any room? Or I can even go further with this and suggest kubrows being able to roam in Earth-themed rooms, kavats in infested, moas in corpus etc. to avoid being too crowded. Also captured animals could be donated instead to the Dojo and have them roam freely - so those who have bunch of floofs already and/or don't want them can do something else with the animals) - improvement to Al - give more mod slots (like Necramech). None of these are game breaking, it might just help em survive more and/or be slightly more effective with what they do - remove completely that X pet is down (with Vulpas it's just spam on the screen in a short duration)
  2. Ah yeekes, didn't even know this but I logged in less than 10 times past 2 years. But that's the solution - what you did and quit purchasing something that didn't meet your expectations or their promises. And at least rivens you can farm (or plat to make up for that loss of rifle riven by getting another one). I had a lot of things to catch up on and what I notice, those little subtle things in the past year that Hespar/Aeolak drop and abnormal prices on the market for the parts, the introduction of Chinese year event items (what was the price again, 500pl for the full pack?), some new player traps, circuit on purpose giving you constantly the weapon you don't have/even if you ever did think of yeeting some of the weapons to have some free slots, now you won't and so on, and so on. Imagine celebrating your bday, but you tell guests to bring their own drink, snacks, dinner and cake and to not forget 90$. Lol. I'm done with own salt regarding this topic, I think I said all that is on my mind.
  3. Haha regarding Ow, I have played it before the competitive was a thing. One of my fav stories regarding it is Blizz saying they have 50mil players... This was the account number, not the player number and it happened after season 3 where people were quick to forget how for the 3 seasons straight tanks and support got fewer points on wins, but lost the same on loss in ranked. Instead of resetting it for players after this was discovered, they left it as it is, ur points perma screwed unless you played way above the current rank. Not even going into coin flip, no limit in ranked, and that S#&$fest of water testing. So ppl bought a second account to reset their rank :) I did not, why the hell would I purchase a second account for the game I already got the biggest pack that was offered. When they pushed out ''Ow 2'' I laughed (quit long ago their games, except for HoTS, which is without a doubt 100% f2p but didn't get much-needed attention from players cuz LoL exists) and my very first comment on it was: Watch this, they had to ''make'' it Ow 2 for the excuse to remove lootboxes (HoTS originally had what Ow has now - no lootboxes, skins that you purchase with irl money which is fair, then they swapped to lootboxes which basically gave u everything for free just as Ow lootboxes did and after that they pulled every support from it, just keeping servers alive). I didn't play it for a long time and last year I got back into it a bit to see how things are going. That 10$ for battlepass seemed alright price, individual skin for 20$ did not. Then they put Lifeweaver, took me less than 5 minutes of gameplay to say: this is bad, he desperately needs a buff. Took this small indie company to buff him 1-2 days after I said it, oh my, they sure couldn't notice or afford a proper QA tester during that 3 months before he came out. Didn't log in ever since and the last thing I saw was them saying how PvE won't happen, it's expensive project just to push it out a week or two later after being slammed on the internet for it. And imagine, you again pay for it. Haha. I like the story from Diablo, but Diablo IV is something I won't purchase. A friend was about to buy Heirloom pack and I diverted him from it. He doesn't play Mag or Frost and to make it even worse, he has the most dreadful fashionframe you can possibly imagine (he didn't even care to check what ephemera is lol). He said it himself how he feels pressured by time and how he fears he gonna miss out on it. Just an impulsive purchase, not even something he would be super excited to have. And another one of my favorites - NCSoft and their whale tier. For those who dunno, NCSoft customer support will treat you according to the money spent on the game. I also have a plot twist here: 100$ didn't mean much to them every month, so I decided to make it 0 instead. :) I'm editing to actually give more details on this, cuz I believe it's an interesting story, especially since you could point out with a finger who purchased Heirloom pack just from their comments. I was not affected by this treatment by any means, their support even recovered me right away some items I accidentally deleted and personally never had issues with their support (but that's cuz they did get money from me). There was an event where you purchased some keys to open rewards. Now, those rewards could give you cosmetics and the rest just p2w stuff, to make it short. The clan I was in had completely free-to-play players, occasional smaller buyers, regular buyers (me), big boi whales (500$ and above monthly). One of those whales complained to customer support about ''bad luck'' with boxes, they gave him free keys (about 20 if I recall correctly, which wasn't a small amount), apologizing to him that he had a bad luck LMAO. Since I had absolutely horrible ''luck'' as well, we did a test. Now I contacted em, they bounced me to 5 dif people, avoiding answering why they gave only to specific people ''apology for bad luck''. F2p players would normally get ignored by their support for anything. So, you see, this never really was about me since I was getting answers. I just didn't want to spend time in the game which has that system and treats players like that. Final Fantasy XIV is fairly ok, except that you feel forced to keep buying monthly sub for the sake of keeping your virtual house that you tossed out already a lot of in-game money to get (and hey, it has a limited amount too!). You purchase DLCs, you purchase some of the deco with irl money, and then you lose that same house lol. Lost Ark I quit very soon after the game felt like work that you are not being paid for. You farm with the same people, the same amount of time, exact same things, to be set down back because of constant ''luck'' that ohohooh, you can purchase. The worst is how I did like some of these games and I would have played them more (and kept purchasing stuff in it, cuz I said, I do like supporting and cosmetics), but it's really sad to see this repeated pattern of ''millions are not enough, billions are not enough''. What will ever be enough, then? They are milking people and players who mostly earn less than them. People purchasing packs for 90$? Let's make it 120$ in 3 months. Gaming companies treat people like they should purchase monthly the amount that is higher than monthly bills or food, which keeps you alive and healthy. This is a damn hobby and it's a choice to play it and support it. The reason why I did support Warframe is because I never felt like the game is constantly forcing me to buy something. You don't ask for it, I'm going to do it. Force it on me and you going from X amount to 0 real quick. And it could have been years of financial support and good word instead.
  4. Maybe I wasn't clear enough with what I said. I don't plan on sitting and commenting here every day or something like that. When or if this repeats, don't rush to swipe the credit card, but choose the uno reverse - you gave me 3 months to purchase something at the abnormal price? I give you 3 months to change the way you work instead, otherwise my purchase will be a grand total of 0.
  5. While that is possible indeed, I wouldn't rely on Tennocon views. Some people might be just curious, then Tennocon also attracts a fair number of people to try the game out - that doesn't mean they will stick around as well. Never said that every or even half of the players come from Steam, just that the number isn't drastically higher compared to Steam (like 40k Steam, 400k official). It is difficult overall to rely on any of that information because you have ''monthly active players'' which I assume counts each player that logged in once during that month. I can log in one day for 5 mins and then the rest of the 30 days be offline. Was I really active? To who, my clan members, my friends, random players in the game? No, I claimed one my daily, put another forma to craft and went off. Was I active by some list? Yeah, I logged on. Like hell, I even want this game to have as many players as it can get but I also put expectations to have that respect in return, which this pack unfortunately was everything opposite of that. I'm going back to the topic of the pack. This again comes from someone who has over 4k hours in-game, helped a bunch of players, financially supported the game whenever I could, always had nice words to say about it even when I disagreed with things they did or wasn't playing as much, and never went on a big rant/got offended by something they did. Until now. Ironically enough, I'm heavy into fashionframe and like a gremlin who likes shiny things (which these skins are and I do like the design), my starter was Mag and for that reason alone she always gonna have a special spot in my heart. But from someone who knows how this pack would work if everyone or the majority would remain silent if that was the case, we would be getting in the future every pack with this price. Now, even people who have purchased it fail to see the bigger picture. 1. Unlike the rest of the things, this isn't affordable for 1/3 of EU (I'm just mentioning only EU here because the monthly salary in EU can be either 500, 1500 or 3k) 2. As mentioned above, I would like to get a skin for Mag. But then, I would also have to purchase for Frost (no hate for Frost, just that I almost never play him). Would I buy food in the amount of 35-45$ or some clothing that I would never eat/wear? How did we as humanity come to that point to pay more for digital items than irl items? Digital stuff have no date of expiry, they don't take spot in stores so other new items can't come and can be purchased in endless copies. 3. For those who afforded it without issue, wouldn't it still be better for everyone if they paid less, more reasonable price? At the end of the day, not like you lose anything, more like it's a win/win for everyone involved (but the greed). 4. There are only 2 profile titles - for founders (never spoke on this topic here before, but in my opinion, that is absolutely fair, they saved the game and company from drowning and made it possible for the rest of us to play it later on) and ''10-year supporter'' (just the name itself is very wrong). I worked as QA and just for this alone, I could give at least 5 other alternatives to how it could be handled which wouldn't hurt players or the company. And I really hope players won't drop this soon and pretend it never happened.
  6. Tbh I think it's 300k at the best. Doubt downloading from the official site has more compared to Steam and NA def has more Xbox players than PC compared to EU (I frequently switch between the two). In NA time even on the web market, you see like 5 ppl online that sell some item (I don't ever recall this being so low, but I was mostly off the past 2 years so some things they did in the game got a bit easier for me to notice as well. Hespar and Aeolak drop winkwink, people selling parts for the price that might be lower for 10pl than going straight to the in-game market and purchasing it for full price). Once they are done making this better for new players (lololol), maybe they want to sit and wonder why clans of 30-50-100 members end up having 2-3 active members in a duration that is less than a year. I'm not even counting players like me who barely have anything to do at this point and how it's completely normal for us to step back when it comes to playing, which is normal.
  7. While it's not the nicest way to say it, it is also frustrating to see someone making up numbers after being corrected multiple times. If you go to the previous and current pages (comments above that), you can easily see what am I talking about. He said he works in finances, then goes ahead and divides the number in half. Like... You could barely pass the math and you would know how to do this, nothing to be involved with finances.
  8. Buddy, I've been trying to tell you this, but you can't get a math out of it. You would need specific data to know exactly how many and who purchases. The average Wf player def does not spend 20$ weekly, even those who did pay here and there. Then we have Tennogen, where not the entire profit goes to DE. On top of it, where there are sheep there is wool, so you never gonna be able to convince every single player to not buy something. However, you can advise in them in talk to reconsider or not do it. A friend told me that there is a discord group for Fashionframe and that not a small number bought the pack to show it off there. Lol. On the topic of people expecting that they might gonna add at some point just a skin for 20-30$. They won't. You have a pack that has glyph, emote nobody gonna use, title for your profile, palette, and a bit of plat for 30$. Clearly, they won't add the skin for that same amount. Don't be naive.
  9. Originally in your comment you stated that the game has 34mil players, then made a whole math out of that number. The average player number on Steam is below 40k. The game doesn't have 2mil active players, if that is what are you aiming for (just to say this right away, I'm aware that it's not only Steam counted in this but there is no way that the rest makes 1.960.000). So I really dunno where you got that number from. Neither you nor I (or just an average Wf player) knows wassup in any of these companies and precisely how the deal between them functions, what you doing here is just pure assuming. And even if you work in that company, it doesn't mean such information would be disclosed to you. If nothing, you have Blizzard right there with a great example of how someone started well and cared for the player base to turn into this. Not claiming DE will ever do it, but it is a possibility, as it is with any other gaming company.
  10. Math is not mathing. There are no 34mil players but that's the amount of made accounts. It's also never about how many play, but how many ppl and who purchases. Do you really expect that MR 5 will buy this pack (plot twist, most of them quit around this MR) or someone who is MR 20-33, ''invested'' time and money in the game? You are a customer of both of these companies, obviously, if people go strong against something BY NOT PURCHASING STUFF THEY ARE UNHAPPY WITH, there will have to be changes made because they need/want money. If you really think only one company is responsible, while the other is like ''oh no, please don't make me live better and earn more (do I really need to explain to adults how everyone likes money, either gifted or earned when ur payout shows in ur bank account?)''. Because DE doesn't have any pack that contains X things that you don't need or want, but there are those 1-2 specific items on purpose locked behind it? They, in fact, should have named this pack Digital Extremes. Because it sure damn is digital and extreme in price.
  11. Perk of not being born with 0 value for money that I could randomly throw around and not feel it at all, I guess.
  12. Nice to see how the title for 10-year supporter went to people who tossed out money for one pack, instead of people who overall supported for years and spent much more than this and helped a bunch of new players so the game can keep going and make this enjoyable experience. I guess ''support'' is something that you purchase these days as well. Overall I'm fine with some things even when it's questionable, but this is sort of where I draw the line. DE didn't start the company and the game yesterday, ''oh we made a mistake'' really isn't valid. Not gonna even go into ridiculous pricing, you also had to know that it would sell more if the price was 20-30$ and that would also make it affordable for those who, you know, need to work 4-5 days to earn that 90$. Really offensive and a slap in the face for long-time players. Edit: I like to speak with my wallet instead and when I notice the game gets greedy, I cut off every sort of payment for it and normally quit the game. How I viewed Wf over the years is the game that ''accepted'' me back as a player whenever, regardless of whether I had the money at the time or not - unlike the subscription games, for example. When I could, I always supported it with purchases, as I have some prime accessories, more than half of the tennogen market, and made multiple plat purchases. I was more than happy to do so and again, the amount I have spent on this game is far from small (four numbers). But the fact that I check on forums maybe once per year, I never in all these years complained anywhere (forums or twitch), yet I logged in now to type this, DE could easily make an office meeting discussing how the hell they managed to do that. I don't mind how these cosmetics are being time-limited and locked only behind irl money payment. Making players buy both skins, making absurdly expensive packs of a damn digital item, then justifying it behind adding a bunch of items nobody asked for (and also easily could even offer that option for those who wanted to purchase it) legit have no excuse and not sure how blind one has to be to look at that and say ''yeh, this is completely fine''. Might as well give us a free glyph of a middle finger instead, at least I would appreciate honesty and boldness.
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