So I just found out every new player gets a Free gold card along with a Free booster along with the ability to get arsenal cases easier for the first time.
This to me seems like just fucking us up cause you know what we the people who have atleast more than 200 hrs played on this game get? Nothing, absolutely fucking nothing. Has SD just don’t have the knowledge to make stuff retroactive or are you trying to fuck us over. I worked for hours to get my first gold and these sons of bitches can get it in less than 24 hours? Cause let’s admit it leveling up isn’t that hard when you start which brings me to the other point of arsenal cases, getting one of these for each fucking level you get is amazing makes leveling up actually worth it but wait, if you are like me and have gotten to the point where each level is like 400,000 XP (not sure about the number but it is still high) guess what happens? That’s right, you need to fucking grind harder than the players who are probably gonna leave this game when they reach level 10 anyway cause guess what they had a Fletcher encounter.
TL;DR make arsenal cases and free gold card and booster retroactive. Cause when it comes to fairness life isn’t fair, but if you can make it fair you damn well go for it.
SD, stop fucking up your veterans.
Hopefully you had fun during those 200 hours I mean that’s what you’re here for after all right
More seriously:
You had opportunities to get things they might not have though: ReV suspect loadouts, Dickings, CW, Humble, whatever else. They’ll probably look to you and think how unfair it is you’ve got all this crap just because you’ve been playing longer and they can’t possibly get them. This happens in phases and people eventually get over it. Spare a thought for the guys who’ve clocked >1000hrs.
Also don’t know if I’m misunderstanding, but have you played 200 hours and made nearly 1500 forum posts? If so, wat. Maybe take some time off the forums and you might actually get a few arse cases m7
edit: how many hours have you been playing it must be more than 200 hours surely
Arsenal cases are a new feature. Leveling up past 10 takes the same amount of XP - 400k. It makes little sense to make them retroactive.
I can give you a much better example of screwing up long-time players - introducing 2nd gen of cards without any reasonable way of converting 1st gen cards into 2nd gen.
Some cards are straight upgrades resulting from abandoning Cool and Pineapple Juggler. Trade ins/ups are not reasonable. I sure as hell won’t be throwing my Gold K51 Fragger (Cool -> Tough) into the meat grinder. You can’t even do that with special cards - Obsidian Phoenix, ReV M62 Fragger, Logitech M62 Fragger, HB K51 Fragger etc.
As much as I would like to get something retroactively for my 40+ levels, even I find, it would be just too much to get almost 40 Arsenal Cases at once. Maybe getting an Arsenal Case for every 5 levels would be a good compromise. But as @MarsRover said. If they want to show that they care about their older players, make the 1st to 2nd generation transfer possible, immediately.
@blonk The problem is that most of the stuff from those events are pure crap. All the stuff from the Arsenal Crates is useful.
I’m here for the game itself and not some artsypartsy cosmetic stuff. Sure getting fancy silver/gold/cobalt skins doesn’t hurt but it’s not mandatory. I’d much rather buy skins directly because I don’t sink money into gamble, but meh.
I’d rather have SD / Nexon starting to push towards REALLY necessary features instead of having to answer to whiny stuff like this. As in community servers, getting ranked more appealing, map SDK etc.
Loadout system is already a lost cause since they don’t seem to want to change it, now they just have to just make up for that horrible arrangement with rock-solid gameplay.
I’ve also said that on TS… 1 case per 10 levels… or something similar to that.
Even if we got the same amount as ev eryone else is getting it wouldn’t be an issue. It’s the same amount of total things at the end of the day, just like what others are getting. The thing is, when you run a free to play game it’s more important to attract new players than keep current ones. A small percentage of people even spend money but word of mouth goes quite far. Even if the person who invited players quits, they and/or friends could possibly have spent money or continue to do so. The cycle never ends as more people are brought in by the players who were brought in by the first guy.
As far as people who have come a long way and have 1,000+ hours they’re already into the game and this likely won’t cause most of them to quit.
The thing that pisses me off the most is the incredibly weak foresight of the developers. They planned the 2nd Gencards for long time according to Exedore. But they apparently never thought, hey what could we do about players getting pissed about event cards that are even weaker now. It´s not like some of them spent money to get some? Srsly i can´t even imagine how many people got a shitty event sparks cards lying around which are basically unusable because they lack quick charge or get up.
I completely agree, especially for the gold case.
I mean, even if I don’t think this is normal at all, at least they kind of have an excuse for the arsenal cases since it doesn’t take longer for old players to get them. Still, we played more we should get more, and yes they’re just trying to fuck us up since that wouldn’t be hard at all to make cases retroactive.
Oh and for people who said that receiving 40 arsenal cases at once would be too much, what exactly is the logic behind this? Some people just save their cases and open them all at once, it wouldn’t be any different. And even if it’s not 1 arsenal case per level (lost hope for this) there should be a compensation, even if it’s 1 for every 5 levels.
BUT for the gold case, they have absolutely NO excuse. We didn’t get it and will never be able to get it anymore. After 1 year and about 450 hours in the game, I have never ever gotten a single card above Silver in normal equipment cases, nor in the free elite cases they gave away sometimes, nor in anything else.
I have 1 gold in my inventory, which was very hard to obtain for me, and at level 7 all players will have as much gold cards as me after all this time? What a joke.
I dont care about the newbie rewards and I dont feel fucked over as a “veteran” player.
What I do want though is to make some of my S.E. cards updated to gen.2
isnt it unfair how you are born earlier and do not get the new technology gimmicks until way later in your life than those young f€&@*$ who get it from the moment they are born?
UNFAIR!
you sure can make it fair though! ban all new tech until the person catches up to us in age, and release it gradually
Same here. The only thing I really care about is to convert my special edition/cobalt loadouts into gen 2.
[quote=“grandioseCutlet;183033”]I completely agree, especially for the gold case.
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0:00 - pitching the idea internally at SD
0:34 - blonk’s input
1:59 - ancient DB players with over 9000 ingame hours react
[spoiler]who even cares about a single gold layout for sky/aura anyway don’t be a baby[/spoiler]
[quote=“blonk;183046”][quote=“grandioseCutlet;183033”]I completely agree, especially for the gold case.
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0:00 - pitching the idea internally at SD
0:34 - blonk’s input
1:59 - ancient DB players with over 9000 ingame hours react
[spoiler]who even cares about a single gold layout for sky/aura anyway don’t be a baby[/spoiler][/quote]
It’s not even that much about the gold card, just about fairness.
In another thread you said you wanted a way to modernize rare 1st gen loadouts to 2nd gen loadouts, but come on don’t be a baby, just buy the bronze ones in the store.
[quote=“grandioseCutlet;183062”][quote=“blonk;183046”][quote=“grandioseCutlet;183033”]I completely agree, especially for the gold case.
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0:00 - pitching the idea internally at SD
0:34 - blonk’s input
1:59 - ancient DB players with over 9000 ingame hours react
[spoiler]who even cares about a single gold layout for sky/aura anyway don’t be a baby[/spoiler][/quote]
It’s not even that much about the gold card, just about fairness.
In another thread you said you wanted a way to modernize rare 1st gen loadouts to 2nd gen loadouts, but come on don’t be a baby, just buy the bronze ones in the store.[/quote]
If you actually read my post in that thread you’d see it’s because I think SD are dodging the issue of balancing useless perks by removing them in the 2nd gen but nice try buddy…err…baby…cakes
I know it’s not really fair that they get a gold card for Aura or Sky (I personally think they should change it to a free expert case with only Aura/Sky instead so they will probably just get a bronze), but note that if you are already a veteran you already have at least 3 golds and unlocked at least 50% of the mercs available. Also maybe you got special items that the new players can’t get and will never get, such as limited edition cards and trinkets.
The free booster (idk if that’s true or not because I don’t know anything about newbies getting a free booster) is actually a really good idea because it gives them a head start to unlock the merc/s they want easier, we don’t want this game to be pay to win and the vets already have a lot more mercs and loadout cards.
Arsenal Crates only start dropping after you reach level 7, which means you get a crate for level 8 and 9 before you reach the point where they need 400,000xp for each level. Fom level 7 to 8 you need ~150k xp and from lvl 8 to 9 you need ~350k xp. This means they get 2 crates for 500k xp, that’s only 1 crate more than us (and not even because they do need to get another 100k xp for the 2nd one) and earning xp is harder for noobs because the vets are usually better at the game and will rek the noobs easily which makes it harder for the noobs to earn points.
Nobody is getting trolled by Splash Damage, everything is fair, just because you didn’t get a free gold card and a booster doesn’t mean SD trolled you.
I agree that instead of a gold they need to get just an expert case which will most likely include a bronze but even if stays gold it’s not that bad, the only problem with it is that when trading is introduced people might spam accounts for a free gold card unless they make it a paid game or just make the gold card untradable (the better option) but other than that it’s really not that bad. With 200 hours you should have at least 2 golds by now
What free gold card for skyhammer / aura? I just reached level 7 the other day on my alt and didn’t receive it. :#