So this is the second weekend you leave us with nothing exciting going on, STS. I had hoped given the overwhelming negative feedback you would act swiftly to remedy the train wreck that is the goblin event; after all you have a reasonably good track record of quick response to feedback. Instead you are going to leave us hating the event, the game, and you even more throughout the weekend.
This event is the complete opposite of your previous events because of the energy system. Previous events leave the majority of players--plat spender or otherwise--richer by the end of it. The dailies give more payout. Everyone gets a chance to get valuable items in chests, from dailies and boss drops. This event will likely leave a lot of us broke either from buying energy kit or event items that stay expensive since they are farmed only by a minority of uber rich, plat buying players.
Previous events give multiple incentives for players to run maps, either for killing boss for portals and drops, collecting essences for special gems, or chance of getting egg from event enemies like Jack. The goblin event makes going to map annoying because of the multiple portals that open that some can enter while others can't and have no other choice but to go through the rest of the map alone. And then you have to put a portal in event town. What incentive is there anymore to run map? You can say we can do our regular activities like farming and dailying as usual and leave the event as extra activity. But in that case just omit the portals entirely from normal maps, why don't you?
Previous events boost activity and build camaraderie. More people come online to play and stay longer to complete quests and to hunt. Friendships were built, guilds got stronger as members run hunting parties together. The goblin event makes guild chat full of frustrated and disappointed comments and a lot of unanswered call for parties.
It seems the only ones who are happy about this event is your precious leaderboard leaders.
In all the ways that count, this event is a major failure. And your failure to act quickly to salvage it is even more disappointing. Do you actually believe people will stay in game to do the Ursoth event if this event is any indication as to how it's going to be?
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