Simple: What do we, as a community need to do to get someone to own up to, and do their best to resolve precrafting? Every single day that passes allows the gear gap to grow wider and wider, and it will kill the game if not dealt with. Directed to players and developers alike. Let's get a civil discussion going.
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Players precraft gear > gain a massive advantage over non-precrafters in PVP and raids > allows them to finish higher in PVP and raids > rewarded with more crystals and unfarmable raid gear than non-precrafters > continues widening the gap between precrafters and non-precrafters
Their response was basically (and I'm paraphrasing ) "oh we see all your points about precrafting being unfair; but just wait we have some a amazing stuff in store that will fix everything!"
Then no other responses after comments like that and merging threads to ones that had official responses similar to what I wrote.
Now this leads me to believe that the official response is, they don't care about this advantage. Some people got a leg up and it is still helping those people in raids and pvp stay ahead of others. The big things they mentioned obviously were raids and guild shop with salvage peices. I guess they assumed that adding those sources/content was enough to make things better and everyone to forget about this issue.
I'm over it now. I was pretty upset when they first did the precrafting since I could have done it but didn't. At this point it just is what it is I doubt aNY retroactive actions will be taken.
Sorry bro, it's over. And most people are catching up because that's how long ago it happened. Did it suck? Yeah mega. Did they throw the non-precrafters a bone? No not really. Does it matter? Not much anymore.
Be glad, at least Fusion Furnace 5 is purchasable now.
Is this serious or just a troll? Checking the forum more often means they were "smarter"? Players who started playing the game earlier are "smarter"?
I've finished higher in arena, higher in raids, top three most of the time now. So I've been able to take my raid drops, combined with some farming, and purchasing items in the guild shop and I've crafted my first two pieces of gear this past weekend.
Sometimes people make it sound as if you have to spend money to pre-craft, but that's not the case.
How are people catching up? Are there not huge threads from people who have still never gotten a single piece of raid gear from 10+ completed tier 5/6 raids? And from people who have still not seen a single furnace in shipments?
It's far from over. I'm glad you've caught up (that's what it sounds like), but I'd be extremely hesitant to generalize like that. Our guild has finished 8 raids (not at full capacity) and no one has even a half of a piece of gear yet. "Catching up" will at least another 6-8 months at this pace.
Guy in my guild has placed between 40th and 50th every heroic raid has gotten 4 full pieces and crafted another.
Stop doing T6.
Never forget precraft day!
If that doesn't work, try again. Third time is a charm.
Nah, I haven't caught up with gear that much. I just know it's past the point of action. I feel you. You need a solid guild commitment to make even the least comfortable amount of "progress" with your Guild currency to buy the stuff in the Guild Shipments.
I just wish I had read the update and pushed to "pre-craft" myself before that update hit. It was a missed opportunity. But anyone playing after December is already at a sever disadvantage just because of how much costs went up everywhere. Then in January, when they took away selling the stuff you couldn't use. I mean, we can split hairs. The pre-craft was just the most recent issue.
I'll be hoping that your anger can subside soon. Because it is/was VERY frustrating to miss that.
Sorry for generalizing.
Unfortunately, I agree. They monetized their mistake and doing anything about it now would likely cut into profits in shipments. There's no real incentive for them to even attempt a fix at this point. Personally, I waited patiently to see how the raids would solve it, as they said they would. When it became apparent that the advantage was permanent, I changed my rating from 5 stars to 1 star, citing the disadvantage newer players are at now. That's about all I could do. After that, I'm ashamed to say I bought gear in shipments to catch up, so people like me probably made it less likely they would ever do anything.
BUT...
If they fixed the raid rewards to be even and balanced for everyone who participates and made these items readily available, none of this would matter anymore.
Not even smarter, just more addicted to forums.
This is it. Two things would make it mostly better:
A) Some human decency and respect. An apology.
A notably improved raid reward schedule, with a "contribution" and payout system that has had some thought put into it, and permits players to gear their characters at a rate so that they will have a visible path to catching up to precrafters.
Smarter. Because they'd been playing longer. I'm not seeing the correlation. Perhaps one of these "smarter" people who precrafted can explain how this is actually perfectly fair, or makes any sense, and why EA should continue to make new content and requirements more difficult for new players than it was for the people who have been playing longer. No other game that survives does that.
A) No apology is necessary or appropriate.
B...) agreed if you exclude the concept of catching up. Someone without precrafting can dump cash into buying furnaces and be ahead. I do thing a better way to get unfarmable gear should be introduced.
But that's how this game tends to operate. Instead of improving and adding to the game, the developers decide to tinker with the old stuff. I'm glad I didn't wait a day later to start playing this game because I can't imagine how hard it must be for newer players now.
BTW, I know many care, but it's more of a saying to reflect my feelings in this case.
So how exactly will that happen? Let me have a guess at that: "The whales that support the game will get so fed up that they will all quit and the revenue will dry up". How close did I get?
You do realize that not that many of the whales will continue to spend another 3-6 thousand into the game over the next few months? Thousands of dollars into a mobile game is not a recurring thing for many people. They will need new players to hopefully convert into whales, and this game is only getting more unfriendly to new players with each update. I'm sorry if you don't see that.
I'll tell you, thousands of people care, if not dare I say millions, so there's no point in downplaying the OP concerns and jumping on the bully bandwagon. I am compassionate towards this subject. I lack to find words to describe how angry this made people. It was wrong. It deserves an explanation at the least from devs. However, the reality some are stating here is true. It was intentional for money Grabbing AND creating a gap between players (as whales were complaining about their money having no value) most likely, as it would appear. If not, they are being negligent to have allowed this to go on for so long Either way, it has sadly become a mass beating of a mutilated horse. One user suggested to get over the anger and move on. It's a tough pill to swallow but it's the best solution I believe. We have made the topic heard and for a long time. It's a lost cause =/
So they made it harder to gear up and created a gear gate.
Precrafting is somewhere in the middle there. It's a mistake they made and honestly they don't say anything about it, because why would they own up to their mistakes?
Thanks. Not really sure why people are so hostile towards trying to improve their gaming experience. It's baffling.
We have looked at the data and determined that less than half of unbtainium gear out there is precrafted.
The heroic raid is doable by anyone with 10 7 star
By finishing last in heroic raids you get 1 piece per week plus 1 from guild currency Therfore you get two droid callers a month.
QG and RG each need a droid caller. Rey needs a furnace and a Nubian. Therefore in about a month everyone can have a full arena team.
Therfore precrafting is becoming a non issue.