Originally Posted by
Mellaus
The point is that any power gear sold in a shop is plain wrong.
When FC put the T1 PvP set in the shop, many actually complained about it, but FC still kept it there. At the time, most PvE players did not care much, PvP was already dead anyway.
Now the whole thing reaches full scale, and the entire game balance is being compromised, since it affects PvE as well.
It's not to say that all of a sudden everybody will run around in T5 gear. And if it was the case, no one would care per say. The issue is that it effectively negates any kind of effort put into the game prior to T6.
The community has to react.
And remember, nobody cares about FC itself, everybody knows how bad and fishy that company is.
Unfortunately for us AoC players, they still have the rights on Conan, so we have to endure and deal with their scams on a regular basis.
So if we don't want to have more power gear pretty soon in that damn shop, the message has to be clear.
Now i understand that people who have never done anything within the boundaries of the game itself feel differently.
If you have never tried to get a world first on raid encounters, if you have never pushed to progress through some challenging content with your guild/team, if you don't have a basic sense of competition, then i get that.
I get that you do not understand the notion of being deserving.
And that's cool, some people just like logging into a game and within 10 minutes, being able to buy everything and sense that they won the game.
But i would hope that AoC is not the kind of game that allows it, that would not sell itself short and cheap.
I would hope AoC is the kind of game that requires to grow in skills in terms to achieve things. And when you achieve one thing, then you deserved it.
This is what gives the time spent its value.
Without that recognition of the effort and dedication, that time spent loses its worth, loses its meaning.
If you enter a dancing contest, and the gold medal is handed to you right away, it has no value, and thus no meaning.
You have to work for it for it to have any sense.
Those are basic concepts anybody should be able to understand, even those chimps at FC.
Even the most "modest" MMO player should be able to grasp the idea.
Even if your job is mind numbing, even if you don't know what working means, even if you have never taken part in any kind of sport or competition, i mean come on, this is not some earth shattering discoveries that are unravelled here.
Power gear in the shop is wrong, very wrong. Get rid of it.