Aragnok

You guys are missing the whole obvious point here that is stated by you a number of times...My medium geared toon can't beat a whale so now I have to gear up... If you are a software company, trying to make money from your players, and they are all happy sitting at medium gear and not spending money to get new gear, how would you do make them change? You would create a new challenge that makes people have to get new gear. TaDa!

I am really unclear how you guys feel this is a P2P or P2W game. I came to this from a game that I had actually invested over $4000 in over 5 years. It was a P2W, as buying items for gear upgrades was the only way to compete. However, with daily limits to useful locked mats and the ability to trade upgrade items that seem to inflate the market that mean nothing to lower level players, Also, with the limits on what can be purchased, gold income is minimal from reselling market items so the only way for nubs to get gold is to grind. Giving newer players free gear does not help the game. I actually really enjoyed working on gear upgrades. Now with the nerf, there is no way to even afford to do an upgrade, even if I grinded enough mats. Hell, I would spend money on mats for upgrades, but you can't get enough from the market in a week to perform upgrades, and no way to sell anything of value as a lowbie to get gold from the market. On top of the fact that i spent a month upgrading equipment to have it eliminated and replaced with the next tier free. My purse sits with about 50G in it regularly as every G is spent on making transformation crystals, or doing an item upgrade, or crafting crystals or stones. I don't buy from market, and there aren't any other good gold sinks. Hell, make a world chat system and charge a ticket for each chat and sell those tickets for gold or ncoins. You would see a huge sink from people just wanting to be noisy. I am in gc+4 weapon and base accessories and that upgrade cost me 250g and about a week of dungeons for mats and gold. now you are saying it will take me about 3-4 weeks and about 6 months until I can upgrade high enough to run higher dungeons that give less gold too. Why am I even trying to upgrade? You have eliminated my need to play. There is no content, event, or fun stuff to do outside of the daily runs. Remove the reward for those and I have no reason to play. Thanks.