KickTheBox

Dungeons and raids are the only gold sources generated by the game and the only ways to earn gold by playing the game. Now the gold from dungeons will be nerfed by about 66%, i.e: you will gain only one third of that gold. Calculate that with the gold from bt/vt/sk and you lose about 45% of your weekly gold. Now you say this will help the market prices drop but you haven't considered what this means for gear upgrades. The gold required for upgrade costs wasn't nerfed. So in order to get the gold needed to upgrade a certain item, you'll need to grind nearly twice the amount of grind you need now JUST to get gold for upgrades. This really sucks for several reasons: 1) f2p players will have their income cut down with nothing to balance out their loss. 2) Whales who already have a surplus of gold will be able to buy upgrade materials (oils, pts, etc...) for cheaper prices from the market. i.e: whales will benefit more while f2p players lose more. 3) Any consideration for new players was completely thrown out of the window. Not only do new players have no experience with market sales, but the game just turned into hardcore difficulty for them. A clear example for this would be the following: Non-crystal pts success rates were significantly nerfed so, besides whaling, they have no real access to it. Now let's say a new player needs to upgrade their weapon to gc3 which doesn't require pts, not to mention it's mediocre AT BEST. The cheapest path from riftwalk/dawnforged 3 to gc3 requires nearly 1300g without adding in the price of gc weapon material. New players that are fresh out of story can only go as high as TSM, or rather get carried up to there. So if you add up the gold from those dungeons, the gold from moon refuge and the gold from raids then you get about 330g-360g per week. This means that new players will need to hardcore-grind every single day for a whole month to ONLY get a mediocre weapon that will STILL not get them anywhere higher than TSM. In other words, they'll grind hard and won't be well rewarded for it. 4) This nerf is apparently based on the assumption that people already have a larger amount of gold than ncsoft wants so everyone will start conserving their precious gold. This assumption only applies to whales and not people who constantly need gold for upgrades. 5) The korean server has multiple times the amount of gold available on the western servers so why can they have their gold while we get the gold nerfs? Is this nerf ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤? Yes. Is it necessary? No. Will the prices adapt? Yes, it will adapt to benefit whales who will find a way to make use of this nerf. You can still play the game and enjoy it as much as you like but this nerf is just bad and unnecessary. TL;DR: f2p and new players will have to grind more, whales will adapt to it, this nerf is ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ and unnecessary but the game is still playable if you use the market.