Feedback - Patch notes 3/27

[imdean]

the new type attacks brought into the game by the ranged and wpp was the best thing i've seen happen here in the three years i've been playing! NOW, you are changing them and the adv drops to get them fairly easily. THAT is a set-back of immense porportions and a slap in the face of hard-playing adventurers server wide (in my opinion). i hope this will not cause severe attitude changes in the players and therefore cause them to find other games where they will be treated as valuable members and shown the respect and devotion they deserve. long live THE SETTLERS!

[Vettius]

Why would you change the use of Range Support and Weak Point Potion? The purpose of buying these special items is because they are "special items" and now your reducing there function to only a single one time hit per camp. That's a bad team decision and in doing this change were is the game value on these "special items" ? The purpose of having special items that are additional purchases or rewards is because they offer a twist or a value to the game, in other words it becomes "FUN" and interesting (especially for lvl 50). Now you are taking away the "FUN" from the game. So disappointed in this BB team decision on this one... This is an "F" on the grade scale. Changes are made to attract players and to keep the game fun, fair and interesting this change doesn't fall under any of those headings.

[Aquila37]

I don't understand, something is working just fine. So let's fix it. Leave the weak point potion and range support alone. I looked forward to using them for 6 months I've been with the game from it's beta time, not getting help when you ask for it(waited 10 days) And the continuing bug, and the Nerfing, this game is one I think I would have others play

[Troll-Phu]

so no one wants to read the new patch notes they put out?

Dear Settlers,

Thanks for your feedback about the planned changes to the Weak Point Potion and Ranged Support buffs.
The mechanism controlling how these buffs work still needs to be changed, but the modification will not affect already-acquired buffs.



The recently announced changes will still take place,
but they will not affect already-acquired buffs.

Next steps:
• The aforementioned buffs will be temporarily disabled in the Shop during maintenance on 03.27.2014
• Behavior of already acquired buffs will remain unchanged
• Two buffs will be reintroduced in the future with a changed behavior

Happy settling!
BB_Rawren

there you go. made it easy on you.

[KLAUSEN]

Why does 'The mechanism controlling how these buffs work still needs to be changed' BB_Rawren ?

[RomanGodCamper]

Because people are using them to quickly complete DB Adventures

[Superdave]

Given that I bought over 300 of these adventures mainly for the buffs and now I'm being told that its being changed on the fly is unacceptable. I would not have spent gems, money, and other resources to buy so many knowing that it was not going to function as it was promised. Now i am told that i have 1 week to run over 150 that i have left, or lose the entire reason I bought them? There are better options to just springing on the community with 1 weeks notice.

A. Make a new adventure just like MSE with a different name and buff drops to act like they want, so it doesn't affect the original adventure.
B. Allow a refund of gems/presents/ adventure exchange.
C. Delay this change for a month or 2 to allow people to have an adequate amount of time to run their MSE's. You can do this while you rework things and also remove it from the Epic items in the gem shop. This would give players time to run the MSE's they have remaining.

If this change goes forward on the 27th as planned with no changes and it renders all my MSE's worthless.... then I will be voting with my wallet!! No more money at all for BB, ever. I have played for 3 years now through all the glitches, resets, server crashes, ect..... and i have spent money on this game. I stood by this game. You sold us a bill of goods and a promise with this adventure, its time you live up to it and honor this. Just as you did when you messed up the pricing on an item in the guild market!!

[Leau]

I agree with the others - why change this? We've had these buffs how long - where was the notice that it wasn't as you had planned? Didn't you guys test this and see that you were able to use multiple on 1 camp. I'd think that if that was in the design of this buff, it wouldn't have been in production this long. You would have 'pulled' it a lot sooner!

I also think changing the school to be better - is horrible as well. I bypassed getting the school, as it was useless and wasted space. Now your making it better - and those of use that didn't get it when had the chance - are screwed.

Understand if we have the buffs we can still use them, but the MSE's that we currently have - should still drop just as they did previously. Create a second adv that does what you now choose...until you change your minds next month. 1 week notice isn't enough time to complete these adv that people took time into getting during the event.

[Geboren]

I think the only reason they are changing the buff is not because the 'mechanics' are wrong, but because they think they can sell them for gems. Its the only explanation I can think of that explains why they allowed them through testing and to last this long. So many players use them to run quick adv, that BB/Ubi have recognised the money making potential of these kind of buffs.

[Braddicus]

You suck sometimes. You've gotten a few hundred bucks from me. So I'm stupid. But keep trying to ensure you never get another penny from me? Maybe you're stupid too?