Actually, I played here before Moltdown just lost everything and account info so I had to start from scratch when I came back.
So they originally changed something that gave more than they intended, but didn't want to completely remove something all in one go around. So they did one change, and are now doing more changes. I agree about the communication, but I can't agree with your "No incentive for me anymore" because you were going to reach that point no matter what. Your logic dictates that the VP shop was basically useless to you in it's current state, but then complain that you still need it for other things.
So, as a player who has many high GS characters, you are at a point that the VP shop doesn't add value except for alts. Ok, I get it. Now, imagine if you can, that other players will be at the same point in time with the VP shop not adding value. Which essentially this change does. It just takes that non-value added place on the GS graph, and lowers it. This allows two major things to occur.
1. Gives players a longer "end game" experience that requires them to play the game instead of hanging out and getting free gear.
2. Counter-intuitively to what most people think, actually forces new players to gear up quicker. The time line of gaining points from the website doesn't change, but taking out high value items and only keeping lower ones forces newer players to spend their points on more items instead of just one. So now instead of one, 264 item... they have two 220 items. So overall, their GS just increased by 176 in the same amount of time. Sure, they don't have one high GS item, but their overall score is higher because of it. Now, this feeds back up into my first point because it now forces them to run actual ingame content to get those higher gears, which in turn gives them a better chance of gearing up quicker, rather than waiting 30 days for a single upgrade.
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