First thing first : Marble is now so much cheaper and easier to craft, which is REALLY GREAT for everyone !
But … What about the current and previous marble crafters ? Did they just lost Super Enriched Agent for nothing ? All of their efforts go in vain ?
Many people spent a tons of money to buy / craft them. Some of them even crafted ~50.000 of marbles and they havent used a single one yet.
Changing the recipe to make it easier to get is extremely welcomed, but there should be something in return to those who fell into this trap, dont you think Devs ?
I know you probably won’t like what I have to say but here it is. Everyone knew this was coming could have stopped crafting marble a while back when this went to the test server. Anyone who created marble prior to the patch is at a equal loss in prestige and materials. Boundless is constantly being developed and balanced I was aware of this when I started playing as everyone else should of been. Adjusting your builds and getting new materials might be neccessary this I feel is what drives the economy from patch to patch. New players have to do this constantly as more blocks come out and they are able to craft new blocks this is just part of the current state of the game. Sorry if this seems insensitive but that’s my point of view.
You aren’t wrong, and it does suck if this happened to you. This change was for the greater good though, because prior to this marble was a cool block but not worth most people’s time.
I don’t know what a good solution could have been though, and the previous cost was absolutely insane.
I mean honestly, I don’t feel we should be compensated for this, because what about every time any recipe changes. Then should we be compensated for every recipe change that has happened since launch and future updates? Of course not, that would be just tedious extra work on the devs for no real value of the progression of the game’s development.
Like @Deathwhisper said the game will forever change so no need to get to worrisome about it.
did you ever play other mmo game before?
you never spent countless hours grinding materials for crafting / spending hours in raids gathering tokens/currency for best gear ingame only to realise that after another update / expansion your precious perfect gear could be toss to trashcan and every new dropped in new areas gear got better stats than your sweet upgraded to max raid gear?
Not only that look at the prestige lost. Like everything. What’s the damn point now? Why keep this prestige system. I’m losing my excitement of playing the game this way.
I crafted just over 10,000 marble the week before the notes were released for testing. Spent all my resources and a bunch of cash for the materials for the super enriched bonding agent. Such a colossal waste… I’m mostly over it now, but I was very angry at the time.
The prestige change was mentioned in the discussion regarding the blocks and their updated recipes. But it could have been easily missed because it quickly got buried behind other discussions.
like in some random post burried in the thread? I’m sure it’s not reasonable to expect everyone to read every dramatic post in that thread to find this stuff…
Sorry to antagonize, I wasn’t replying to your post directly, just stating a fact. And yes it was buried and not clearly stated. I’m surprised I noticed actually, I typically just skim the dialog. There were a few other posts as well. But not much discussion.
This is a historical moment though, for the first time a recipe has been made EASIER!
I was so close to crafting tons of marble when I read there were changes coming.
I’m very happy for this change, but for you guys this is quite a kick in the ■■■. I just wish there was some way for you all to get at least the super enriched bonding agent back… like in the mail or something.
The rear door (testing) lol that word gets filtered contextually
It’s an MMO… nothing will ever stay constant. The game is like a living organism and there will always be balance changes. Some will be happy. Some will be mad. Hopefully most will “get it” and adapt.
We dropped a bit, but so did everyone so I’m not gonna stress. I get it. I don’t build for prestige, but I enjoy the healthy competition of being on top of the leader board… and, I’m here for the long game, so I sincerely take these changes in stride.
