2018-12-20 Content Update (261657)

[Uber Lycan]

Helix was a non-tradable endgame vanity. It was so unremarkable back in the day that as soon as DL raised the endgame cap to L36 almost everyone stopped carrying them. They weren't tradeable. Then DL stopped upgrading DL and tens of thousands of players quit. Most people on my friendlist are the old PVP gang from my old guilds. They've all quit. Almost all of them had Helix axes. They've all quit.

You know why they quit. It wasn't because of too much new content. And they certainly didn't stay because they owned Helix axes. It was because there was NO NEW CONTENT AT ALL for over 2 years.

Just. Have. New. Content.

It was a HUGE mistake to make the Helix axes tradeable. You want to keep high-value players returning, don't devalue their content by appeasing whiners, just keep creating cool NEW content.

This really isn't complicated.

TO REPEAT... I had TWO THOUSAND people on my friendslist in 2014. Almost ALL OF THEM had Helix axes. The Helix axes didn't keep them in the game. The LACK OF NEW CONTENT drove them away.

You guys did this to yourselves.

You're creating new content every few months. It's hit and miss, but creativity is like that. No worries. A lot of the new content is effing awesome. The Arc Sabers are JUST as cool as the Helix axes. People are retards so the Arc Sabers are currently listed at 35 million, I got mine for 1 million and am never selling. Just like I'm not selling me Helix axes. I EARNED THEM for being an ORIGINAL LEVEL 26 ENDGAME player.

You guys are investing time and energy in making a 6-year old game work. You're doing a good job. Separate the signal from the noise and keep going.

It's okay to recycle tradeable vanities on a once-a-year basis for high plat... but Helix axes were never tradeable in the first place. They were a Level 26 endgame vanity. The mistake was making them tradeable. No amount of degrading the value of vanities will keep people in the game.

NEW CONTENT is the trick.

Keep up the good work and big thanks to very secretly making SOLO PLAY the game mechanic for farming the Christmas Event.

This. Very much this. Helix isn't even a great weapon tbh. (I'm waiting for people to say I only don't like it because I don't have it) But most of the old players who originally had axes didn't care about them because they're so unremarkable. The point of them is for everybody to see that you're super rich but the stats are garbage even at 26. I sold mine for this very reason and only partially miss them because they were one of the few things that separated old players from the new. Now anybody with billions of gold to scrap away for a conversation piece can get them. Love the game but it's by no means perfect, mostly due to the player base in all honesty. 99% of these players now have absolutely no idea about the days where you had to use energy to do missions, which took forever btw and so the only thing to do while you waited was to PvP or just talk to people. But, I digress.

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