Greetings, warriors! I created this topic to talk about the future of the game, because to me it seems like the game is slowing going downward for various reasons, and I want to at least make people know the consequences of some bad attitude towards the game.
I will start saying this: I like the game, the mechanics are really good, the characters are really cool, the maps are really enticing to me; the only thing I am sad about it's the fact I have an old PC and I can't enjoy the graphics of everything, and I wanted to get a decent one to put all settings at max. The story, I enjoyed every single part of it, I always watched all the story cutscenes and even dungeon cutscenes, especially the ones related to the story (mainly the Raid ones).
[WARNING, SPOILERS! DON'T READ IF YOU ARE NEW TO THE STORY OR IF YOU DIDN'T REACH THE LAST CHAPTER!]
[I wasn't happy about Chol Mugo betraying us in that way, after we were allies against the bad guys; I was really really really pissed off about the fact my students died like that, it was so random, I think they could have survived if Bunyang just said 'I got a bad feeling about this, I think we should run for our dearly lives and never look back.', and instead nope, he jumped down and then Ryu appeared and said 'Sup guys? I'm evil, and you're gonna die, bye.' and Bunyang was annihilated (the body disappeared as if he was a monster); I went into the Talus prison to find Bunya who was completely destroyed by the grief, and she was blaming me for what happened, and I couldn't tell her otherwise, it was something it could have been avoided; but it was only the beginning, because then that Mushin guy came after I don't know how many months and in a matter of seconds even the other two students were killed in front of me and the poor Jinsoyun, I was like 'Wtf man, first Bunyang and now the little Bunah and the spiky guy too? No no no no, that is not acceptable, I'm gonna beat Ryu's mother first and then deal with Ryu in a more private way!' (10.000 stabs)]
I am glad they didn't decide to eliminate the little Jinsoyun too (I swear, I would have thrown my Pc out of the window), but after what happened I simply came back to windrest to grief for my students, and when I saw their spirits I was like 'Omg, please tell me they are coming back due to the power of love or something, or I will find that magic talisman to bring them back alive.'...nope, chapter ended, and it even gave me a black outfit that I put for 1 week.
Now, for the point of the post, all I wanted to say that in my opinion this game is really good; of course, not all the events I participated to were acceptable, like the Valentine one in Cinderlands (it was a bloody massacre, it was nonsense, like you put normal players with average gear to spin a wheel with ultra instinct players around, who could sneeze you to death), or some decisions regarding items or upgrades were questionable, but I didn't complain about those in the forums except for the Bloody Valentine. However, what I see in the forums is people complaining about EVERYTHING: they don't like the events, they don't like the fact you use tokens for the events, they don't like the rewards for the events; they don't like servers merged and the fact they lost 1 DAY OUT OF 30 DAYS of Premium, and whale players say 'I lost 1 day of premium benefits, I am pissed off, never gonna pay for this again, I want 100.000 gold of compensation and 10 rare items for free or I will leave.'; they don't like this and that etc etc etc. All these posts or comments about in-game stuff is going to destroy it, and one sign is the fact servers merged, and if you think I am exaggerating I can tell you this: you have a standard game, with 10 servers that can host 5000 people each, and the people are distributed randomly in each server; 5 servers have less than 2500 people in there, so they company decides to merge those servers with the other 5, so their capacity go to 10000; with time 4 servers happen to have less than 5000 people (due to various reasons), so the company decides to merge 4 in 1 server of 25000 people; the capacity increases again, this causes more lags problems and overcrowding, but people still keep on leaving the game because of those issues and even if the server can host 25000 people only 10000 actually play it, and there's no merge possible anymore. As you can see, a game can't go on for long time if there's only 1 server that is overcrowded that causes continous lags, and if the people that are playing are still minor than those distributed in more servers; then, add the fact people are not even trying to be understandable about the work developers are doing, and I am not justifying all the things they do, because as I said before some of the events were really awful; but, how do players respond to devs? Vulgar language and insults (i saw them censored on some forum posts); also, I can't believe players are even complaining about an event THAT IS NOT LIVE YET!
With that said, I wanted to tell you this: if you really like the game, try to help this game alive with suggestions and constructive arguments, instead of throwing everything into the trash because you are not happy about 1 thing, or because you lost some hours of your precious whale in-game life. Thank you for your attention.