DatGuy

I forgot to update this, and apparently I can't edit my previous post. The item was augmented, I just couldn't see it on the tooltip. I mailed it to my dwarf and saw it right away, mailed it back and it unsealed just fine after removing the augment. Not a bug, something on my end I guess.

Look, I kinda get it. When the bosses' voice booms out over the loudspeakers with some great new idea, and you look up at his face plastered across the giant screen on his zeppelin, you might think "wow that guy looks really successful, his ideas must be pretty good!" with his African Blood Diamond cufflinks and his monocle made from the cornea of the last Northern White Rhinoceros and all that. His ideas are garbage though. Listen to the customers, the player base. We know what we want and it's not this. ncplz.

I expected another fake feedback thread where feedback would simply be ignored, instead we got a fake feedback thread that's somehow supposed to make it look like we asked to be completely screwed over. This is some sodomy right here. We need more AA, not less. And certainly not "well it's less but not really because it's actually the same except we've moved it to content you can't or won't do but that's not really the same so it's less, but better! somehow! Trust us!" We need better value for hunting zones that we actually use, like oh I don't know, the zones this topic was supposed to be feedback for, maybe? Whomever is responsible for these changes needs to be drug tested.

@Juji Nope. Just clean Tallum Heavy Gloves. Not imprint. Not augmented, or SA'd or anything.

What's the deal?

It's not even that NCWest is overrun by business people. It's overrun by people that think they are business people. Customer satisfaction means customer retention. Repeat customers that spend smaller amounts regularly are always worth more to a business than a sprinkling of whales. Expecting all of your income to come from the top 1% of spenders is bad business. Making it nearly impossible to progress without spending a small fortune is bad for customer retention, and thus bad business. Business is not screwing people out of as much as you can before forgetting all about them. Business is meeting the needs of your customer base in exchange for profit. Some ham stuffed into a starched collar is waving around a quarterly report and screeching "look at all our profits!" whilst leaving even more potential profit on the table and thinking they're savvy corporate tycoons. The new leveling locations are worthless btw.

NCWest: Multiplying the cost of everything by 8x-10x compared to other regions. Nerfing the drop rate of everything else. Mobs that nobody wants to grind? Sure, let's do all of that. Making "events" that you can't participate in unless you got rich on GME? Absolutely, why not? Earing $200 from one guy is clearly better than earing $20 from 10 guys. Anybody remember those clean R99 weapons on Chronos/Naia that literally required you to spend $300,000 USD in less than a year to purchase? (Hero coin system) And when the player base got upset NCWest halved that cost to only the price of a new Porsche 911 Carrera with all the options and were like "LOOK HOW MUCH WE VALUE YOUR FEEDBACK! WE DID A GOOD!". If you want to fix things, fix them. You know what needs to be done. Stop putting up these so-called feedback threads that you will only ignore anyway. NCWest doesn't care and we know it. It's not even about money at this point, because if things were more reasonable to acquire, more people would play, more people would stay, more people would spend money. Wages are stagnated, cost of living is higher than people will even admit, and NCWest is just like I DREW A PIXEL ART, MORTGAGE YOUR HOUSE OR GET O̴̹̭͈͕̝͈̿̔̿̒̇̔͘Ņ̷̧̥̬͔͇̯̙̝͍̜͓͇̘̙͑̀̓E̵̡̨̜̙̙̼̞͙̬̰͙̺͓͂͂͑͝S̸̢̧̫̱̬̤̭̱͕̓͋̒̾͗̅̀̋̌̾̆̚͜͠H̵̨͕̬͇̱͙̻̥͠Ǫ̴̤̭̹̟̖͖̜̟̱̫̭̅̅͛͐͛͊̌̑̍̈́͗͠Ṭ̴̠̃̀̄̄̇̂̃̽̈́͋̚͜͠! PFFFFT!