145123-feedback-shades-eve-shop-general-thoughts

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I've never really left any in depth feedback for a game before so I hope I'm not too bad at organization or getting my thoughts across. I also hope it's okay to put all this into one post. If it's not, please let me know and I can try to better group ideas into different posts in the future.
 
These are my impressions so far.
 
 
 
 
Shade's Eve is AWESOME!
 
I love that everything from the Shade Silver vendor has a chance to drop in the dungeon. I don't have to rely on a drop to get the hoverboard and I don't necessarily have to farm 950 Silvers for the board with a set of flairs if I get lucky with a drop or two. I REALLY appreciate being able to run the dungeon as many times as I want each day. Others can run it however many times THEY want to run. This may seem like a small thing, but it's really not. There are many reasons why I love this option to obsessively run it if I so choose. I can go in depth if you'd like me to but I find it fairly obvious. THIS is mainly why though. (Warning: don't click on the link if you have sensitive ears.) This is something that I feel is slowly leaving the MMO genre.
 
I love how much detail was put into changing the capital. It wasn't just a few pumpkins thrown around in the corners and a few candles nearby. It was ALL OUT decorating! I noticed things like old steel doors (in Thayd anyway) that were changed into wrought iron gates just for this event! Some of the quests led me to areas I hadn't had any inclination of exploring before. I found out there's a Challenge in Thayd that is basically a DDR game. It cracked me up to find it. It's my new favorite Challenge and I wish there was some way to make it into a FabKit for our houses to be honest.
 
I love the option to farm Silvers for outfits from the vendor, farm the dungeon for outfit pieces, AND the option to just outright throw cash at my screen to get them. I've always been of the mindset that more options is better as a general rule of thumb. That way everyone can get the same thing in a way that they find fun and enjoyable.
 
Shade's Eve improvements
 
I do feel that there a few things that could be made better in the future. This is going to jump around to different aspects of the game so I'll do my best to keep it organized.
 
Housing: The new decorations were a GREAT idea! BUT. I propose next time, have each item able to be found by two tags in the housing vendor. One is by their normal tag that we can find them under right now (trees, fences, and whatnot) AND also have a second tag that is specifically called "Holiday" in the dropdown menu. "Holiday" would make it possible to find the new decorations for any event that was currently going on without having to sort through all the jumble that is normally found in the vendor. This way I can see all the new decor in one search without the chance of missing something. Small issue, but still an idea.
 
Cash Shop: This is bleeding over into the hoverboard holiday a little too but as most of my encounters with it are due to Shade's Eve, I'll keep it in this section. The issue of too many items being sold for $20.00 and only being redeemable on ONE character is beyond dumb. Stupid. I am honestly flabberghasted at that this is a thing. The Pig mount, the Haunted House, everything that was single character unlocks NEEDS to catch up and be an account-wide unlock. Yes, I understand you need to make money. What also needs to be understood is that this move seriously makes many people, people like me, question whether we will even buy anything at all. I recently came back to the game (I played during beta and for a few months after launch) from GW2. My biggest problem with their shop? I couldn't STOP throwing money at it because everything was account-wide and relatively cheap. Tonight I'll be buying the Hoverboard that was just put in the shop. After that, I'm done with all purchases. I feel that this system is a HUGE rip-off. I have plans to have an alt of each class and eventually start on some for the other faction. There is NO way I can justify investing money into cash-shop items if it's going to be a purchase for each individual character. If the devs/shop people want more info, go ahead and ask. I feel this is all straightforward and rather self explanatory. The shop isn't pay-to-win at all but it really leaves a bad taste in my mouth and a huge sense of disappointment is left behind each time I close that window.
 
Auctions and Commodities
 
The system needs a few tweaks in my opinion. Mostly it's okay but there's at least two issues that really bother me.
 
Buying from the commodities vendor is an issue when I want to buy in bulk. Say I want to buy 20 of an item. Not too big of an order, right? Well sometimes it'll return a message that there's not enough at the current displayed price to buy 20 of that item. So I have to try 19 of that item... and then 18... and then 17. Eventually I'll find out that there were 6 items of one price left and I had to buy those before I could buy 14 at the next price. I shouldn't have to play that guessing game. Really I shouldn't. It should either tell me there's 9 left at the displayed price and I have to buy those first OR automatically calculate the total cost of buying all 20 items with the price differences taken into account. Basically I shouldn't be getting stonewalled by an error window while trying to buy things from the Auctions and Commodities vendors.
 
When posting an auction on the normal auction vendor, the system should be a little more modern. I shouldn't have to type in a one, then a five, then a zero, another zero, another zero, another zero, you get the point. I should have one box for platinum amount, one for gold, one for silver, one for copper. If I mess up the number input just a little, I have to spam the backspace button and clear everything out. Default UI should have separate spaces for these currencies. 10000  should not get me to a gold. Putting a 1 in the gold amount box should. Hitting tab should move me from my current box to the one just to the right of that.
 
Crafting
 
I'm working on finishing out Expert Architect currently. I love looking through and seeing what I can make for my house. I'm really hoping the items we can make gets expanded in the future. I love how crafting is designed with the coordinate system. This is the only game where I ENJOY crafting. Yes, I felt a little queasy typing that out but it needed to be said. The word "crafting" used to make me cringe. I love that coordinate system so much though and I don't fully know why. Please keep the crafting as close to what it is as possible. Don't change it out for the traditional style where you hit "craft all" and go afk for 2 hours.
 
One improvement could be made though. Currently we can right click and preview the primary item we can craft in a pattern (again I'm an architect, I don't know how other professions work). We cannot however right click and preview the variant pieces that are shown in the lower part of the window where mats are listed. I have no idea why this is but it would really help me out a ton when trying to figure out if I want something for my house or not. I would rather preview it in game than try to pull it up in a google each time.
 
Generic Feedback
 
Make sure to keep the humor in the game!! Don't phase it out! The DDR challenge is one example. That was an awesome fun thing to find. I also saw a Reddit post from a guy who opened the Bag of Infinite Frustration or some such thing. He posted screenshots in a link. I had been wondering what was in one since I saw it a while ago. Gotta say, I laughed entirely too hard at the results! Seeing humor in a game and the devs on the stream acting like normal people and not just salespeople, it really makes me enjoy things a lot more. The devs and in game humor are never over the top with things. The devs are "normal" enough that I never forget they're just people too.
 
 
 
 
Feedback on my feedback is welcome! Let me know if I need to adjust anything for future posts like organization and such. All my housing suggestions in the future will be put back in the housing section. I had one or two in there already but thought I'd include these ones in here due to the other topics.	
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IMO the shop needs a ton more stuff for shades eve.
 
I miss fluff items that give my character a green glow, ghostly things or bats flying around me, monster masks, a stitched puppet face with buttons as eyes or pumpkin head shoulders, flying broom companions, raven pets that talk weird stuff...you name it, i want it!
			
				
	Edited October 24, 2015 by f234r2gh	
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I have thought about the shades eve and hoverboard issues with the shop.  I did purchase one of the hoverboards with my omnibits and it is a pretty cool board.  I had hoped it would be faster than normal like the glitter kitty, but it is average speed. :(
 
Here is a thought:  What if the cash price was for acct unlock and the omni bit price was single character?  Seems like that would be a good compromise.	
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Pretty much hit the nail on the head. I've refused to buy anything from the shop, or give Carbine any money at all, until they sort out their business model.
 
 
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Here is a thought:  What if the cash price was for acct unlock and the omni bit price was single character?  Seems like that would be a good compromise.
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			Would LOVE to see shop mounts become account bound.  This needs to happen!	
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