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we’ve had our differences, but all the best. I feel exactly the same as you, but I can’t bring myself to call it quits after sinking 10 years into this fiasco of a game

If everyone knew the Essentia store was "better" I wouldn't have spent several hours writing up a pricing breakdown of the Essentia store.

Also, the low conversion limits were not even the problem in my opinion. Someone would have complained about them regardless, but the real problem was the old stores disappeared at Essentia launch which meant the conversion sales were the only way to spend those currencies for several weeks or possiblyly up to a month. If the old stores ran concurrently with the Essentia store launch, the conversions would have been seen as a way to double dip - we could spend in the Glory store and then on top of that convert some into Essentia and then spend there above and beyond normal glory purchases. It wouldn't have mattered as much if it was low, since it would have been genuinely extra anyway. Instead, the conversion was the only way to spend Glory, and that was compounded by the fact the Essentia launch did not factor in normal player behavior which for many players was spend Glory when the counters reset, then claim older AQ rewards before they expire from the stash.

To me, this was the biggest, most obvious problem with the Essentia launch, and it placed everything else - justifiably so - in a bad light. The conversions looked not just low but punitively so, because players were going to a) lose currency and b) be unable to buy anything with what they had. It amplified the pricing differences in the Essentia store because it was much less obvious that the Essentia store had much better pricing, if you had enough currency on hand to take advantage of the lack of Glory store-style escalating prices. It fed into the narrative that Kabam was adding unnecessary and arbitrary constraints that did not previously exist (like the far lower availability of lower rarity rank up materials in the Mysterium store). The Glory mistake was in many ways the Original Sin of the Essentia launch. It was not the only problem, but it made every other problem look worse, and made every other problem look deliberate.

As always @Kabam (Osaurus) Rex I appreciate the response, and I personally do not hold any of this on your head, none of the frustration is aimed at yourself. Might mean something might not but just want you to know that.

That being said, you ask me to stop claiming people don't care but your entire response on the issues is down to neglect and lack of care…

Incorrect purchase caps, incorrect amount of sigs, glory situation was an oversight, raid tickets were poor tuning. Every single reason is just something wasn't checked, if these were being handled with care there wouldn't be multiple oversights, incorrect numbers coming to game.

This is all down to lack of care, there shouldn't be this much chaos in a game that's existed 11 years, you know what you're doing, you know how the community will react and, as a lot of people are saying, it feels like you are genuinely pushing the player base to the limit, see how much they kick off and then give an inch

They’re gatekeeping essentia like it’s a premium resource. It makes no sense.

It’s intentional, it’s obvious, it’s just plain disgusting

Third person I have seen so far leaving the game, alongside BeroMan and Andy

Congratulations Kabam, you finally made the contest unplayable

Goodbye Scuffed Sigmund.

Its a good thing Crashed saved the game.

Madelyne is going to be insane there is no point in even arguing that, and Strange and Pav are both very strong as well. The difference with the ones I mentioned tho is these three actually have damage and you could even argue that all three of them are interchangeable with Nico depending on the meta, the others however are not. It’s been 6 months since Mr. Knight was released and so far he hasn’t dominated anything in-game other than his own deep dive.

Ascenscion killed the game