1st Anniversary Celebration lol

chronofox · September 2018

This is the biggest joke yet that iv seen from this company. Anniversary events are meant to be a show of thanks for the continuous support from its players.And we get a we made it 1 year now give us more $$ event.

Also to note it does say v1 so maybe something better will come but if that is the case the cash event should have been the last part not the first.This is not how u show thanks to your player base by wanting more $$.

on a side note.
Im not tring to fear monger but this does feel like what nm did big cash event every thing low price buy get something free /more ingame currencies for lower cost and so on.thin they closed...

lefox271 · September 2018

To be fair to Papaya there has been a series of events over the last few weeks which provided direct benefit to the player base. They have done well in supporting us.

But I share your concern over the 'last chance saloon' scenario.

viennas · September 2018

It's bizarre how this company is running this game, miracle that it still has so ''big'' player base as it has. Looking at prices, they are 3x till 4x so high as anything Guild Wars 2 has to offer, this is a top class mmo. This is not an exaggeration. Not even to mention the absurdity, now you can buy directly ships with a credit card, cost; 27.000,...what's wrong with those people.I don't know if you can find anything in any existing MMO with a cash shop price of, give it or take 220 Euro. I know, i know there will be few here, who will support this company and prise it,..if a game ticket would cost 100 uwc would be still expensive considering the tiny player base and state of the game.

chronofox · September 2018

Wile true we have had some ok events they where not for the 1y Anniversary.they where with the new patch.And that's something that's normal with every new chapter.

hitting the one year mark should be a huge thing for this game under a new co as old as the game is.And the players that stuck to playing over the hand offs and reset .

As a long time player from the start till the end we that have been around for a long time have a lot of history with this game.in the good and the bad updates we stayed.

so to me seeing something special like a 1y Anniversary turned in to cash grab feels like a kick in the balls.I dont think we will make it to a 5year one under this co and i dont see the game getting picked up after this game oneday is dropped when ever that will be.

Even as old as this game is i think it could shine like the old days with seas filled with people if only a co would do it right.There would have to be some big changes and a lot would not like .

But at the end of the day enjoy whats left of the game till the end.

carlalex · September 2018

@viennas What are you blabbering about ? The most expensive item in the UWC shop costs 5080 UWC and you can only get ships as part of chest which contain more than the ships (2180 for MC + some stuff, 2950 for CTC + some stuff and 3800 for a CV + some stuff).

And you really dont need to spend ANY real money to play this game. UWO really is free if you want it to be.

CrzyPsycoChick · September 2018

I'm not opposed to the buy now get a bonus sale but...honestly for what we been through I think they should go WAY HARDER for the players.

For goodness sakes...

We had our 80/80/80 toons deleted had to start from scratch

We were told our data was "lost"

Stayed loyal playing the game after 30% of the community left.

After all this I think they should do and give way more, if the player base wasn't so loyal and determined to make uwo and Papaya to succeed it would have imploded a long time ago. PP needs to do way better with this 1 year anniversary. If there was EVER a time to say thank you for supporting UWO after constant hardship let downs and set backs NOW is that time...

SUNDOGG97 · September 2018

1st Anniversary Celebration Vol1

I hope their is more to this event, it is very telling that the 1st part is about money.

What about in game events

Phoenix1492 · September 2018

Admittedly I play this game as a "free player" so respect folks who spend cash in game to support the development; hopefully the stuff I craft and sell contributes back :-) <>br>
However... when I see companies suddenly raise the cost of an (cash) item by double and claim that it is compensated by a slightly higher chance of getting a good item that concerns me; it sounds like lets get what we can while we can... ah..lets throw in a cash purchase event to get a bit more...

I hope I am wide of the mark, and this game has a good couple of years left in it, personally I think it does rely on a hardcore player base, but that will dwindle over time, I have not seen this game actively marketed, so player base is only going to shrink not rise over time!

So from the free player point of view the anniversary V1 event is a non starter, hopefully V2 will have something to caters for the both the cash & free players. Last thing this game needs is more players leaving or Papaya cash grabbing and then deciding not to carry on.

Finally congratulations to Papayaplay on reaching a year bearing in mind quite a few of us had free uwc for a good number of months :-)

calicaddy46 · September 2018

Vol.2 is in Sep 2019

naginaginaginata · September 2018

stupidly the 20$ pack used to be 2k uwc now its down the drain to 1770? whats with that how come thats a promo if it drops to that point? @.@

chronofox · September 2018

@Phoenix1492
that free uwc was because we lost everything in the server wipe they had to give us something or no one would have stayed out side of a few people.

i am not going to fight some of u on what a Anniversary is and how past event have nothing to do with it and how its meant to be special in its own right because clearly some people don't get it or just don't care .

@naginaginaginata

common lowball thing done even in the real world prices are uped before a sell over time thin dropped back to normal or a bit above the old normal price and called a sell and most people never even know lol.Walmart and other places do it all the time.

stoicc11 · September 2018

what's really disturbing is the way they designed the reward system to purposefully elicit irrational, impulsive behavior from us the players.

Most of the players, I believe, would not have few thousand UWC charged in their account.

That means most of the event's reward requires people to first charge UWC, and then spend them.

You've already spent ur money the moment you charge UWC. Whether they spend UWC on cove or UWC shop or not, Papaya has already reaped the sales.

So telling the players that they only get their reward once they spend the UWC they already paid with deliberately encourages them to purchase things they would not have purchased in greater degree.

All this process is done without Papaya earning no extra $$$...unless they're banking on their users being hooked to spending UWC regularly, and expect them to still spend UWC next month after this event at regular pace they used to spend.

That's borderline malicious marketing - actively promoting an event that's designed to work due to people being a reckless, irresponsible spenders. This event would not have disturbed me the slightest if the reward was given at the amount UWC was "charged," not spent

ryukryuk · September 2018

Am I the only one who noticed that Papaya changed the terms of the event? Prior to 9/26, spending 16,500 UWC would give you Vagrant's Wear, Forbidden Alchemy Book.

Anybody charge 16,500 UWC thinking they would get those items and then got screwed because they didn't spend the 16,500 UWC before 9/26?

LyonesseJoseph · September 2018

I don't like how they handled event because it's P2W big time. IMHO, they should have waited till 1st week of month that's when players get paid. I think they're too greedy just like OGP did when they promoted discount Astro and urged players to spend more money on Astro.

They should have gone with long term stability rather than get desperate of making money big time because that scenario will cause players to stop spending on UWC after they have everything they need.

eyuhfy · September 2018

BTW, do we really have 2nd year of Maris server?

purplepirate · September 2018

If they really wanted to thank the support of us players that have been here for the past year, then they should've given us some free rewards. They could've set it up like the tiered founders rewards, where you gets free items based on your log in commitment over the past year. Doesn't have to be anything overly amazing but something free would've been better than 'we have to pay for rewards'.

rangerzfan · October 2018

We still have a few weeks and a couple Wednesday updates to go before we are at the one-year mark. Let's see what happens from now until Oct. 17th. This may be just the first part of a bigger celebration.

ccsray88 · October 2018

So far, I am not impressed by the 1st anniversary celebration, I feel it just another sale promo with nothing related to the celebration.

lefox271 · October 2018

Come on folks stop manking and moaning. We are getting a discount. That means a saving for us. Let Papaya make some money.

LacisLV · October 2018

I remeber A lot of events from Netmarble and OGP but this anniversary celebration shoked me--readed like couple times--was thinking its some kind 1 aprils joke--but nop!!! ok i understand they need money so they can live but common--if this continue like this--this gona be stupid--like others said--whe "LOST" our years grinded characters and whe get like 4 chests to open!!!i comed back only because friend said: give it a try--now i started to think if it was worth--gona see what next events gona be and then think if itsworth playing!!!

LaBonita · October 2018

Still a couple of weeks until the actual anniversary. I think Volume 1 is just part of the real celebrations. If they put this reward list out later when the actual anniversary time comes then all the crybabies would be screaming that this was not announced while the sale on UWC was happening. It's impossible to please everyone.

Maybe hold off on your vitriol until the actual anniversary comes and goes.

SUNDOGG97 · October 2018

Well here is Vol2 and it is wanting.

1 year anniversary and they run the same old events as usual, The most suckiest events I ever seen, GM BINGO and Auction for 2 days, and a daily log in ticket, A reward we should be mostly likely getting every day for logging in.

No this Company does not get it, THE GMS do not get it. They do not want to put in time in it, to learn the game or find out what the community is about and what we will like.

It is like they really do not care if this game survives or not.

They do not put enough effort in the game to make it a great success.

Ginny1 · October 2018

Hey Guys,

I think

Papaya should be thanked for picking up the game from OGP.

Papaya should be congratulated for trying new ideas and incentives

Papaya should be thanked for trying to build up the player base.

If you point the finger at Papaya because they haven't done more,

You have 3 fingers pointing back at yourself for not inviting new friends to try the game.

If you want more, participate, help find new players, and stop the moaning and groaning.

rangerzfan · October 2018

@Ginny1

While I understand what you are getting at, this is not some multi-level marketing scheme. As a business, PP should be proactive enough to fight for their own survival. They do not come across as learning the game. Nothing they are doing is really growing the game. We still have a couple weeks before the true 1-yr mark so it is fine if part 3 is something more conducive to a player appreciation vs events which they run during regular times. So far, the player appreciation is nothing special at all. It is just rehashed events from non-special times.

As far as inviting others to play, all the people I have tried to get to play this game have started and were just overwhelmed by the learning curve and the depth and scope of this game. In general they all said they are not looking for something that would require the amount of time and thought needed for this game. They liked what they saw, but they were all looking for something much less complicated and time consuming. They never made it far enough to understand the silly economy that has developed. Piracy was not an issue for them because they never made it to the point they were even trying to sail out of EU waters. As others have said before, this is a unique game. IMO, it does not resonate with the current general gamer population.

pekkauwer · October 2018

@Ginny1

hi gm, who are you in papaya?

regards

chronofox · October 2018

@Ginny1

u are right on at least 1 think we are happy they picked it up

but new ideas ...its the same as when it was under ogp . events are the same .nerfs and buffs are nothing new.

Papaya should be thanked for trying to build up the player base.
Not once did i see this co put out ads to try and build up the player base

the game is worse off thin it ever was.
player eco went to hell things cost 100x higher thin before wipe
we lost the perma exp skillproff we had under ogp so lv and grinding is slower thin it use to be out side of random events.
Its more pay to win thin ever before.

And yes the players are to blame as well for somethings greed over pricing .
But at the same time the wipe was pointless nothing changed for the better every thing got worse.

Katanauwo · October 2018

*Grabbing a bucket of pop corn and watching the papaya fruit drying everyone’s purse before selling the game to another papaya fruit*

Anyone seriously tell me Papaya sincerely wants to revive this game, rather than just another cash squeeze before letting it fall.

carlalex · October 2018

Actually most things cost +-20 % of what they cost before the reset, and plenty things have become so cheap players can no longer be bothered to craft them.

1st Anniversary Celebration lol

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