Allow me to tell you something Mr. Locket, there’s a surge of new mobile games introducing equipment gacha in their games, sometime ago gacha was only for premium hero summon. VF have easy ways to level a hero to MAX (not MLB) with XP potions. So the focus is not exactly the hero. You will certainly spend a lot more gold and resources with Equipment in the game. Why you ask? Because equipment’s are not exclusive and are interchangeable. Once I have Max Set Equips for every class in the game, every time they launch a new hero, players will just switch equipment’s around, you already have perfect equips!Why would you guys be salty over a teased implement of a new feature
Too many walls of text and I didn't read each of them carefully, but my understanding is that people think that changing item suffix will eventually leads up of collapse of the game itself (like WTF?)
So, many posts I came across is that people use the argument of similar as follow:
Able to change equipment suffix -> P2p player able to get perfect 6star equipment from prestige -> Godlike player proceed to pwn every noob in 1 hit ko (no one mention pvp or pve, in arena perhaps? and also ignoring the fact jobs are constantly changing and being balanced, ensuring no "perfect squad") -> F2p players get salty and quit because they can't fight them at all -> Massive decline in player base -> No more noobs to feed godlike player -> Godlike player quit because of either no challenge or no purpose in spending anymore -> A farewell to a short-lived game
You know what, here is a perfect example to show why this is going to be true:
School give us exam -> We feel stressful -> We got sicked -> We died. So... Please don't give us anymore exam?
At first, please don't think based on your impulse, think as a whole. Sure p2p players are going to whale their way to full prestige equipment with perfect suffix. But will the spending end there? There are so many more things for them to spend, refresh arena orb, job keys, drawing event heroes, buying golds, upgrading and training and promoting, equipment is just a small part of all the spending. Even if they have perfect suffix prestige equipments, that would make them like, 20% or 30% stronger? or maybe double up the strength but that is impossible, they will still have to constantly struggle with squad formation, combo, offense and defense, and many more.
Ok, maybe f2p can't compete with p2p anymore(?). But please tell me, do you think you can reach with top 50 of both ladder and arena without spending a single penny? (there is a f2p player who did this and he is awesome, the sole, the one and only, capable of being called as the best f2p player, I forgot his name, sorry). If you can never hope to reach top 50 of arena then why are you arguing with something that's simply out of your reach? Ok maybe you have a big dream and you wanna be top 1 as a f2p player as you are determined to. Do you think, a perfect suffix prestige equipment will help f2p player stay on top forever? No. VF is a game that constantly evolve and upgrade, there will be much better equipment in future (why you guys ignore the fact that the heirloom equipment is a new thing, and there probably will be more heirloom that surely beats the prestige equipment in future?). What I can tell you about this, is, prestige equipment is going to be staying inside the wardrobe forever, sooner or later.
Tl;dr : The feature of changing equipment suffix will not make everyone quit VF, nor make dev being fired from their job.
Why break the Equip Summon system? If this don’t break the system it will at least make devs create a lot more powerful equipment sets to call our attention to Summon again. And Free things / premium will start to have more disparity in quality, a free equip with max upgrade and perfect suffix seems a temptation right? Wait for more OP new equips to outclass that.
Devs created all our RNG walls as a way to keep the progress of the game slow. Now we will all be inside that kid car wanting to drive as fast as him, or even faster. Remember slow player progress is not the same as slow content progress.
I don’t understand the part you were saying a F2P using a Prestige perfect suffix. How a F2P player would get his hands at prestige equip? Really makes me think.