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Announce News Post #2258

Giftbags

Written by: Razmael, the Synthesist
Date: Friday, May 2nd, 2014
Addressed to: Everyone


Hey folks,

There's been a lot of negative reaction to the implementation of giftbags this month, and I want to take the time to properly address these concerns.

First of all, allow me to state how we'll be changing them:
a) You'll get one giftbag per 10cr purchased.
b) You can do GIFTBAG CLAIM once per Howling to claim a free giftbag. This will lower, and potentially trip, the GIFTBAGS counter. You must've played for 60 minutes that day to claim a giftbag.
c) Several things now have tradein values. Refer to HELP GIFTBAGS for more information.

Historically, our giftbags have been the best across IRE by far. So much so, that we had been asked to lower their average value. I fiddled around with this, adjusted chances, added in new prizes and undid the giftbag per 10cr change. This was obviously the wrong approach to take.

With the giftbags once again being at 10cr per bag, I'm going to have to readjust the potential credit value of the giftbags to compensate. The free giftbag per day is one of the ways we will make up for this. Going forward, we'll probably be looking at making giftbags more about neat things like vox, and giving them small credit tradein values if you don't want them. The artifacts will still remain in the chance drops, but will be a lot rarer to come by.

For those of you who have already purchased giftbags, I will be going through the purchases and manually compensating you the appropriate number of giftbags you would've gotten under the 10cr per giftbag system. Your patience is appreciated as I work through this.

We hope this will make giftbags a better experience. We may change things more as the month continues.

Penned by my hand on the 2nd of Haernos, in the year 418 MA.


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