InfiniteVizard wrote:

So If the players are experts why are you not listening to the expert advise we give in telling you to NOT release any gear for real money in your cash shop as it unbalances everything and makes being in a guild worthless. Then again I also understand it cost money to run stuff

Simple...they listen to the QQers who want to make this game a single player thing where you don't need the guilds, the ones who complain because guilds are over powered and it isn't fair that you have to get into a good guild in order to farm, etc. This game is no longer a guild game, but a money game because they listen to the wrong players.

Superman0X wrote:

I apologize if you didn't get the sarcasm, it doesn't always translate well. The irony involved was that Aeria is concerned about the gameplay... and the players are concerned about the money. If more players would see our view, everyone would be happier. Our view is that bringing entertainment to our community will make money... not that to make money we need to bring entertainment to our community. Aeria Games is a service company. We provide entertainment to our community, and operations/service/support to our developers. Our expertise is in making the game accessible to our customers, not in playing the game. We consider the players the experts. Sure we could play all day, and just ignore our customers... but we think it works better if we ask for their input, and spend our time helping them enjoy themselves. The GM Team is basically customer service. They are there to help you. They do stuff like answer tickets, and perform services (like enchants). They don't code the game, or make any changes to it.

So maybe You should start playing game You advertise as best free to play MMO on the world.... and hey hey .... play it free. Dont play it like mighty [GM] with all possible enchant OJ and link .. try to play it like free to play with no ur mighty AP powers introduced.
- Go to 1 -15 with in game dropped gear and get killed(farmed) instantly.
- Do pointless quests that give nothing valuable.
- Go farm tokens and try to get lapis from the box and then try to link it.
- Find yourself company and go to ROTCO to try adventure...
- And at the end go to KI to find urself some fun in PvP stand against fully geared AP buyers.... and try to play it.
You want my opinion go to see my post in: http://www.aeriagames.com/forums/en/viewtopic.php?p=12975443#12975443 with description :things you did to ruin the game try to answer it....
cause you guys ... not the devs ruined the game

Players are not experts ... the only expert is game developer... architect... designers...
Players represent testers .... nothing more...they don t see the numbers behind the toon... it s not like Matrix- the movie...

Superman0X understand everything about game at a different lvl then people on forum... aeria take risks if is driving bussiness based on players-expert feedback...

If players will want gear to drop only in game then best gear should be made untradeable unsellable... that will solve every qq then...

In my opinion, Quests should give valuable items that can be equal to the items AP spenders ge tin Item mall. Armor n Weapons should be farmable.. Game should be giving us the needed things to play. not the item mall.. Trust me.. there will be so many people playing it, and still ull get money outcome cuz some of em would like to spend money to skip the quest.. But making the AP buyer 500 times stronger than the normal player .. excuse me.. Maybe you should start playing the game as normal player as it was suggested... or just check the other companies that offer same service... Cuz Atm they are way better in getting new players, and really free to play MMO without milking the costumers.. There is entertainment, balanced PVP and gear / weapons are obtained by quests and dungeons farming. Still their wallets are getting more money than yours...

For Superman Entertainment is new Ep.. for players new EP means **** load Max OJ, new gear, enchant, weapons, thousands OPs to buy and link gear.. to confess it in AH cuz there isnt pvp... new money for AGE but more players quitting cuz basically spending money on nothing.. No pvp, no action, or even reason to go farm.. = bored player = quit = no money.

Even if you want to improve the game is tooo late... There are alot of MMOPG games which reset the servers at 2-3 years and players starts from the begining, still their population is pretty high... equal start for everyone, more players to come play. Then you can try balance it.. but putting new things/ weapons/ gears/ Eps to something so damaged only leads to damaging it more.

In my opinion as highest ranked mage on Gaia Light and one of the rich players,who spends AP this game is boring.. Currently I am on break, but I dont see any reason to come back at all.

Superman0X wrote:

FaeryWar wrote: Superman0X wrote: MadKeen3 wrote: I have Translated it. EP6 - The Wallet Invasion. New Lapis - More harder to find and even harder to link Lapis. Do not worry it will be available to buy along with Perfect Linking Hammers. New Gear - More hard to find Armours and weapons that have a 0.000000000001% chance to drop ingame. Do not worry these will be to be bought in Tiered events. More Max OJ on gears- Why stop at 3 OJ per Item. Do not worry GM Enchants can be bought. No in game way to max it. Currency / Economy Improvement to remove OP Hammer as currency. The Auction House will be overhauled so that Gold Bars can be used to buy and sell equipement, thus removing the use of OP Hammers as in game currency. Gold Sinks will be implemented to bring economic balance and stabilize inflation. LOL - NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Improved UI Interface - A $$$ meter will be displayed above each toons name. That is how much you will have to spend to be able to compete against that player in PvP. Improved PvP - Have the satisfaction of greater imbalance of not even getting close to competing against people with Maxed Gear. Extra Digits will be added to the damage display so you can enjoy seeing the bigger critical hits against you. PvP action will also ramp up with Lvl 80 raids taking on on single grinders in their 50's. Even with all these changed will I continue to play. Yes I think I need help.   Thank you for the suggestion. We will forward this to the developers. It is important for them to know that our players are not really concerned with gameplay and such... and that all they really want to focus on is $$$.   Wow please do relay that to the developers because in case you are not aware the $$$ does concern the gameplay. If you think it does not then make a normal acct and play like a non ap buyer and tell me you don't get pawned constantly by ap buyers on a FREE to play game. Maybe that's why players are leaving and you struggle for player retention? While you are at it go to the ah and check prices on things now compared to 2 months ago and tell me $$$ does not concern the game. Also before you try to troll on a player saying what they think maybe you should work on finding out how to fix the game bugs that already are ingame rather than just blame the developers. The choice of what content etc.. you put in for patches shows that aeria controls the game as much if not more than the developers. Also if the developers are in full control of the game content then what exactly do the GM staff do besides the GM enchant etc... because it is not fixing game issues or they would be fixed. Before you try to defend that take your GM toon to Arena Stronghold on Teos and tell me if you notice anything missing like the auction house quest npc. Instead of a GM just running through Apulune or Iris in transparent since there is more to each faction than capital cities. Also how about changing the free loot box to actually give gear we want not free noble walkers with no oj you got to rec rune instead of just farming the oj walkers in the map 1 dungeon? Not that this is going to matter since this reply will be edited or deleted or discussion locked because you don't like what I said.   I apologize if you didn't get the sarcasm, it doesn't always translate well. The irony involved was that Aeria is concerned about the gameplay... and the players are concerned about the money. If more players would see our view, everyone would be happier. Our view is that bringing entertainment to our community will make money... not that to make money we need to bring entertainment to our community. Aeria Games is a service company. We provide entertainment to our community, and operations/service/support to our developers. Our expertise is in making the game accessible to our customers, not in playing the game. We consider the players the experts. Sure we could play all day, and just ignore our customers... but we think it works better if we ask for their input, and spend our time helping them enjoy themselves. The GM Team is basically customer service. They are there to help you. They do stuff like answer tickets, and perform services (like enchants). They don't code the game, or make any changes to it.

The problem is Superman is this, your listening to the WRONG players, you should be listening to the free to play players THEN you will actually get somewere, you guys have listened with your greed to your AP buyers and look were it has got you, stupidity obviously runs fast and thick in the offices 'eh ?. STOP saying its all about the players fun when its only about turning a profit, and you guys can STOP banging on about how you cant change the codes etc etc etc WE ALREADY KNOW THIS !!!! BUT !!! you can fix the item mall but you wont simple as that, it hasnt been the Dev's failure in fixing the game thats upset each and everyone of us here who plays, its your lies and manipulation that has upset us all, the ONLY people who have ruined this game is you guys plain and simple, now stop BS'ing everyone and and stop making AP wallet warriors through the item mall, because THERES YOUR D8MNED PROBLEM !!!!!!

Amael30 wrote:

Players are not experts ... the only expert is game developer... architect... designers... Players represent testers .... nothing more...

Your logic is flawed. players do not represent testers - players are the consumer, the customer, the market base. There is a massive difference.

It will be interesting to see how AGE plans to deal with the massive difference in current to newly introduced content and skills, or if it will simply be left to the players.

So far my concern for shaiya's future is only getting worse. These changes seem massive and so far there has been little help from AGE to digest the changes from the last new content release. At the end of the day there is a reason that people are leaving shaiya in droves and as much as I enjoyed the game this might mark the time for me to leave as well.

Dunno what the big fuss is about. This game is running its course and EP6 will most likely be the last episode anyway. Cherish the memories guys, and make the best of what may very well be the last lap.

*lights up a cigar*

This thread is just becoming lol...

A Trinity Token will represent a piece of gear (such as boots, tops, gaunts, etc) from the FIRST new set

You stated "first" in your token post. Does this mean there will be more then 1 set coming out like in ep5? Like dreamy and 65+ gear.

itchago wrote:

A Trinity Token will represent a piece of gear (such as boots, tops, gaunts, etc) from the FIRST new set You stated "first" in your token post. Does this mean there will be more then 1 set coming out like in ep5? Like dreamy and 65+ gear.

Ofc, why would they be doing this otherwise? lol