First of all yes ofc f2p means p2w thats absolutely normal.
But it's not okay to cut gold income drastically on all dungeons including warped citadel etc which most people can't even run yet because they lack gear
Why would anyone want to run dungeons for 3hours to get 20 gold as reward when upgrades cost thousands of gold. This is not okay
Of course you can put a few thousand euros into trove and hope for luck but that's not how a game is supposed to work.
If you want to make your game more alive then make something like a dungeon that people with aransu gear can clear kinda quickly and give them 2g-3g each time they complete it.
Evolved stone sources? mainly gone. moonstone sources? pvp for max gear people. Sacred orb? gone
Solo dungeons? mainly for people with GC 9 or thornbreaker which require tens of thousands of gold to get.
Yes of course you can spend 500€ and buy 25,000gold to get that gear but that's just a plain awful concept.
I know it sounds like I'm just ranting but hear me out
I'm playing since this game came out, back then the dungeons dropped 5 frozen stingers and stuff which was a decent way to farm. Yes of course upgrades were expensive but
You could farm for 2 weeks or 3 and get your weapon upgraded, then you could do raids and stuff.
Now when even raids don't even give gold anymore and dungeons drop like 1 ss crystal and 1 sacred crystal when you need 2700 of each that's litterally just killing off your game.
If you actually would listen to the players then please stop with the gold nerfs, the material nerfs and so on. Most people can't even run the endgame dungeons and get stuck like
at a kind of gear that won't make them able to progress.
I know no one will actually read this and the devs and everyone will just ignore this but you drained all the fun out of this game.
Good luck and best regards
- A former player