The Iron Magus
Items/Features
What conclusions regarding the community's feelings toward gold generators can you draw from the recent
survey, and what do you plan to do to address them?
I will try to address this as concisely as possible but I have a tendency to ramble, so please bear with me. It’s extremely simple to say gold generators will never be sold again, but that would actually cause more damage than being helpful, and here is why:
Properly balanced Gold Generators allow us to make a certain amount of revenue that frees up our art and developer resources to work on features, new art and fixing old bugs. This is what it all boils down to- resources. We can easily say that given the survey results, we should only make black Fantasy items – but we won’t, we will make girl items, boy items YES EVEN YELLOW items. Simply looking at the Cash Shop at the only limited quantity items to sell out- most of them are GGs, and this conflicts with the message that users want them removed.
We have to look at situation as a domino effect. If Gold generators are no longer sold, it would mean we would have a harder time hitting our daily / monthly goals. With goals not being hit, cuts will need to be made, either in art, features, or updates to the site. In the past, we set a wrong standard of things by not limiting the amount of gold that can be purchased. We understand that introducing gobs and gobs of gold into the economy is bad, but looking at the overall data, we have remained steady over the last couple months, and even a decline of gold in the economy.
We have been consistently updating Loyal’s with LQI items, and since the start of this initiative, combined with the Loyal’s Gate series we’ve sunk over 3 quadrillion alone- trimming more than 1/3 of the gold economy. We are keeping a close eye on the economy as a whole and making adjustments as needed to balance and sink more gold out.
We are also trying to address the disparity from newly returning users and users who do not have the option to purchase GC by giving more ways to earn higher gold payouts- Switch-em, Booty Grab, Daily Chance and Pink Links have all been updated and we won’t be stopping there.
Not all Gaians will agree with the measures we’re taking, but at the end of the day, our goal is to provide you with the best possible items, and new features. We are almost on the cusp of releasing a Chat system, Avatar dream builder, Pet RPG, Mobile app updates and Guild renovations, and we hope that when these come out, combined with a stabilized gold economy we can all have fun on the site that has brought us all so many great memories.
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