Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33333968-20191218213728/@comment-33333968-20191221042340

Cloudist wrote: TonyPinesTheProtector wrote: Cloudist wrote: the only thing i can agree with is the god damn rarity of the gift and the tripod. ive been grinding all week in hr servers and have yet to nab the tripod. pr shouldve repeated what he did last event with the jet ski and just made a large chest for the mount.

the red gift has probably less than a 10% chance of spawning and virtually nobody has it because of that. on the other hand, the green gift and blue gift have a 20% and 70% chance of spawning (respectively) but it feels more like green has a 40% chance and blue has a 60% chance Probably is also what I'm trying to say, let me tell you the chances of the gifts:

Red; 5%, theoretically once every 20 rounds

Green, 23%, theoretically every 4-5 rounds out of 20 rounds

Blue, 72%, theoretically every 13-14 rounds out of 20 rounds.

This is theoretical, NOT what might happen. You could go hundreds of rounds without even seeing a red gift or a green gift at all. This year was terrible, I know some people might not even have a chance to get it because of limited playtime. not to mention that the boss is shite and caters to the high ranks who have too much time. ive played 5 rounds today and not once have i survived (im rank 60 and i brought bull to 3/5 of these rounds) either because the tornado throws you too far away from the map and you take a massive amount of fall damage or you get pelted with multiple iceicles I'd say the worst part of it all, was PR trying to decrease chance of gift to TRY to get people to purchase his gift gamepasses. He did something extremely stupid, by trying to monetize a population that doesn't pay for his game. I mean lets be honest, if he ACTUALLY did that during the non-event season, the game would be 9 players the day after. PR was trying to get money once again, and he realizes: You can't monetize your community, if your community has been set in its ways of playing for free. Just look at EVE Online if you want a good example.

What I'm probably trying to say here is:

Making gifts rarer doesn't earn you money, it earns you disresprect and dislikes from grumpy people. It directly encourages people to exploit/not pay, and not to mention people are asking you to put in an event item/mount that's actually worth the effort. He's created no money, and more pressure on himself to make something worth by basically inputting this strategy.

Making the boss hard doesn't do anything, it encourages newer people to leave your game and makes entitled kids more entitled.

He's already made terrible decisions before Christmas event. You might argue that it's PR's game, but unfortunately if he wants money from his game, listen to what people are saying.