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Same happened in my clan. We always had like 15-20 persons online every day just some months ago, and now you are lucky if you find someone else playing when you login. We went from doing 2 VT raids, 4 BT raids, 1TT and prepare 1 ET every week, to now not even having enough people to raid. I don't even have any wish to keep playing the game as is, and even if I think UE4 will be great for the game, I don't think it will solve anything if the developer keeps doing changes on their own without listening to the community of players. You can't keep milking the players to the limit, reducing the rewards and increasing the costs of basic things like the weapons, repeating again and again and again old events, and expect players to applaud when you announce UE4 for 2020. Blade and Soul is a game that doesn't have any social feature, it is based completely in character progression and combat. Combat is very fun, that's true, but last patches have completely screwed character progression, at least for those of us who had to level up our GC weapons. You can't expect to keep increasing the costs of things (like weapon upgrades), and have the playerbase happy. Also RNG is good at some degree, but you just transformed this game to Blade and RNG... Just let the players chose, add guaranteed rewards or RNG boxes, and let the players chose what they want (with chance of RNG being worse or better than the guaranteed reward), at least then we won't have the feel that we are farming for absolutely nothing. And really, if we are doing an event to get tokens of that event and then get a selection of clothes or accesories, don't ask for fabrics to open the boxes of clothes, we already worked in the event to get the tokens and get those boxes, for god's sake... There are so many things to be fixed right now, things that you changed to the worse slowly since Jonathan Lien left the team months ago... I really hope that the big patch in december will be good for the players, because sadly, lately every single patch has changed the game to worse for us.

They already answered: There are no plans to change this. Did you ever see a company sabotage their own game before? Here's a perfect example, it's what NCWest has been doing in the last 3 to 4 months.

I'm completely tired and unmotivated to play the game as is right now, I can't even afford to level from GC6 to GC9 thanks to the wonderful "reduction" NCWest gave us. And every time I think in a frash start in UE4, it sounds better for me, as long as adds enough changes to not be just the same with better lightning. Just play, enjoy, and not caring about having to buy things from F10 to be able to progress like they pretend you to do right now.

I've been watching the stream for 3 hours to get the assassin's suit. After 3 hours, I've tried to claim the reward, and for like 5 minutes only said "Server Busy, try again later". When I finally could try to claim the reward, this is what I got: :claps sarcastically: If you were half decent, you would let claim the suit for at least half an hour to avoid those server busy situations.

Why I'm not surprised? One day we will get patch notes or event description that will prove to be accurate, and we won't know what happened there. Lately I prefer to laugh at things like this, in the end it's only a game. You just have to learn to not trust a single thing they say about the game, and if you do that, playing is always an adventure. You never know what will happen next, like surprise changes to the game hidden in patch notes, changes that are completely different as stated, different rewards that change after you get them... I used to get angry about that but not anymore, I guess I'm just tired of getting disapointed. What amuses me the most is that most of the time, they seem to be as surprised about the changes as we are.

I don't think he's insulting you. Maybe he was slightly mean, but he's right. I'm afraid you missunderstood what the new jewels were for, but in the article it stated correctly what those were for. Maybe you can ask support to revert them back to legendary Jewels for you. NCSoft is lately making many mistakes to be blamed for, but in this case, I'm afraid it's only on your side.

Do you really think that after the last few patches we don't deserve a clarification? Im sure you expected all of this when you read that letter on June, right? At least I didn't read "We will increase the ammount of effort you need to do to get lower rewards than before. We will also put wrong patch notes, and hide changes that we know you won't like.".

When Jonathan Lien was producer of the game, one of the things he usually did was writing Producer's letter where he explained what were the plans for the future of the game, and what we should expect to see in the game. That was very useful for us, the players, since we learned what to expect in the next months. Now, with the new management of the game, we are lost. And what's worse, in the last few months the game is becoming worse with every patch. Yes, there's usually a few good changes in the patches, but mixed with those are usually horrible changes to the game that no one asked and that makes everything more and more expensive for the players. I used to be optimistic, but lately what you are doing as a company leads me to think that there are only two possibilities: You don't know what you are doing because you don't know the game at all, or you just want to destroy the community of players and close the western servers. You now may think "What an as***le this guy is", but let's face it, this is what it seems for almost every single player in the game. You can't keep doing what you are doing in the last few months and think that we are just a toxic community because we don't like any changes, when almost every one of those changes are making the playing experience worse and worse every single time. Just one year ago I was always expecting new patches with content, but right now I deeply fear them... That's the level of confindence you are giving us. We have FEAR for any change you can do to the game. And let's face it, you have your statics and you know the game is losing it's playerbase day after day, so you must know there's something that isn't right. So that's why I think you should write a Producer's Letter explaining what will be the direction of the game, what you think about the recent changes, and what do we have to expect in the future. At least you should let us understand why are you doing all of this... I know in a recent post I said I wouldn't care anymore about the game or what you are doing, but this is my last chance trying to get at least some common sense from you, and I thought I had to try.

Exactly. That got lost around one year ago when they removed almost every single blue quest in the world and left only a few. You can find almost every outfit of those lost quests in a merchant in Mushin's Tower, you buy them with pvp arena points (they are not expensive so even if you don't like pvp, it shouldn't take you much time). Sadly, Secret Agent is not one of those, there's no way to get that outfit anymore in any way.

I think it would be easier to just make a both-factions chat channel. That would do things way easier when trying to recruit for weeklies, raids, etc., specially if you are on the lowest populated faction (Cerulean in EU, for example). And since we are losing population everyday, it will be harder and harder.

I used to care about thie game, it's the game I play with my clanmates, I made friends here, and I usually enjoy it. But when you notice that lately they keep lying, increasing prizes and making horrible and never asked changes again and again, you realize there are only two possible reasons: They don't know what they are doing, or they just don't care about what we think. Neither of them is good. So I decided not to worry anymore for this, there's no point. If you think for a second, you'll notice that they are following a pretty simple strategy: They make a horrible patch to increase the needs of buying from F10 and milk the players to the limit. Then people complains a lot. Then they just act like if they care about our opinion, and change the game a little. The end result is that is still worse than before the first patch but slightly better than with the patch, and people is happy because "they have heard us". I don't know if they are doing this on purpose and are the personification of evilness, or they just don't know what they are doing because they don't understand their own game, but as I said, the reason is not important, only the facts are. And you just have to take a look to the game right now to see things are not working. You know, some days ago I was planning to write a new message with ideas to make the game more fun, like givin second lifes to now dead content like they did with poharan's dungeon, etc., but then yesterday's patch arrived and as we are used to lately, for every good change there are 3 or 4 horrible ones that didn't appear on patch notes. And again, I don't know if they are doing this on purpose or they just don't know what is happening, but it's sad either way, it's sad for a player, it's sad to see a company doing this type of shameless things. You know, it's not possible to please every single player, but when with every patch they release almost every player get's disapointed, that's the time when NCSoft should reconsider their plans and try to understand what's failing, something that is not happening. But as I said, I decided I won't care anymore about this, I will just keep playing, and I won't pay premium or a single thing until things begin to change in the right direction, until the game dies, or until I get bored and frustrated to see how every day that happens, we need to do more for less. There's no point in trying to give them advises, since they will ignore us and we will end completely frustrated, even more than now.

"Reduction". I don't know if If I should laugh or cry. Another perfect example that shows they don't know anything about the game or what they are doing.

Sure, just buy 6 to 12 resets with ncoins or hmcoins before next wednesday to get your wonderful 6 elder scales. *Sarcasm mode Off*

People who bought resets are the people who, in the end, support the server and the company. Until NcSoft realizes that the best way to get income would be a good premium subscription everyone wants (for example 50 daily hcoins if you login instead of 15, discounts in every item on f10, a free weekly box with granted materials and chance of goodies instead of those crappy 30hcoins premium boxes, etc), those players who buy resets and things like that are the ones that keep the game going. And what NcSoft did with this is just slap them in the face. Dont get me wrong, changing the price of the bracelet is the right thing to do, the problem is the timing. They should have done that the first week after the patch disaster, like they did with the dungeons. But they waited until most people bought the resets to announce and do it, and that's a very abusive and shameless strategy. To be fair with all that people, they should reimburse the coins of the resets, at least as hcoins, but let's face it, they won't do that. I really, REALLY hope they are learning something of this series of disasters. Otherwise, the ship will sink sooner than later.

I agree that more stamina would always be nice. When I leveled up my archer this last few weeks I missed more stamina so much... But then I remember Moon Refuge, where you have infinite stamina, but the area is so extremely huge, that it still takes 27 years to get anywhere and is boring as hell... So I guess that only would help in certain areas and while you are leveling your characters.