New Daily Quest Prizes

[I_royalty_I]

So if what you say is true, a lot of old wealthy player played illegitly. And obviously, It is a lot easier to earn nps with bot and autobuy etc. So the whole omg making the game too easy argument is kind of hypocrite is it not? Not like they still don't have the advantage of having billions in the bank to invest like you just did. Sounds like TNT just leveling the playing field a bit
No judgement since I buy NC off site, people play differently and that is just the risk it comes with.

I spend an unhealthy amount of money on NC and a lot of my items got super deflated by rerelease. I'm fine with it, just means more people gets to enjoy what I enjoy. Happiness all around.
Yes I over paid with real money but hey the enjoyment I paid for is the same? I see it as eating out, 50 buck on a nice meal and the experience is great, if someone else paid 10 it doesn't make my meal any less tasty.

I do think recent event items should stay out of the prize pool though. Less incentive for people to play AC since it is already so grindy! Unless you bot lol, but not everyone likes to.

My particular example wasn’t based off bots or auto anything, mostly just buying/selling/trading. I’ve bought/sold/traded things to extremely well known accounts for things they were looking to add to their collections, swap for other items, etc. I don’t think it’s hypocritical to as anybody has the ability to buy/sell/trade in the “black market”, it’s been here for a long long time.

Maybe I’m just a bit more competitive than others. Maybe it’s just a little frustrating when people are simply handed things with no effort being put in at all. I’m a firm believer that life doesn’t need to be fair and people aren’t entitled to everything just because they want it. I do understand it’s just a game though, one that I can’t change anything in directly. I just hope it works out how TNT wants; that activity bumps up and they can make enough money to stick around.

It might have been a grind to get those AC and recent event prizes - but don’t you want everyone to be able to enjoy them as much as people who went through the grind? Maybe you had to grind hard, but it’s nice they can get them so much easier by just doing a few basic actions, right? I kid, I kid

[Teakwood]

My particular example wasn’t based off bots or auto anything, mostly just buying/selling/trading. I’ve bought/sold/traded things to extremely well known accounts for things they were looking to add to their collections, swap for other items, etc. I don’t think it’s hypocritical to as anybody has the ability to buy/sell/trade in the “black market”, it’s been here for a long long time.

Maybe I’m just a bit more competitive than others. Maybe it’s just a little frustrating when people are simply handed things with no effort being put in at all. I’m a firm believer that life doesn’t need to be fair and people aren’t entitled to everything just because they want it. I do understand it’s just a game though, one that I can’t change anything in directly. I just hope it works out how TNT wants; that activity bumps up and they can make enough money to stick around.

It might have been a grind to get those AC and recent event prizes - but don’t you want everyone to be able to enjoy them as much as people who went through the grind? Maybe you had to grind hard, but it’s nice they can get them so much easier by just doing a few basic actions, right? I kid, I kid

I'm just curious. What would you say your grind was to get what you currently have?

Did you spend countless hours restocking and reselling to get what you have? Or did you luck into breaking into accounts that just so happened to have high valued items in it that you were able to trade around.

Your argument is that things are being handed to people, yet you've had the same thing done to yourself. Yeah, you probably bought the hash lists, data leaks and what not. But you didn't have to grind to get those items/pets/nc items.

Are you more mad that your "investments" are now "worthless" to you as you cannot sell them to make a quick buck?

[I_royalty_I]

I'm just curious. What would you say your grind was to get what you currently have?

Did you spend countless hours restocking and reselling to get what you have? Or did you luck into breaking into accounts that just so happened to have high valued items in it that you were able to trade around.

Your argument is that things are being handed to people, yet you've had the same thing done to yourself. Yeah, you probably bought the hash lists, data leaks and what not. But you didn't have to grind to get those items/pets/nc items.

Are you more mad that your "investments" are now "worthless" to you as you cannot sell them to make a quick buck?

Everything takes time. Finding accounts and different targets doesn’t happen at the flip of a switch. It does take countless hours to accumulate stock. Maybe I went about it in a manner that most don’t, but it was not easy and I’ve probably put more time into the game than many many people, unfortunately.

I do have my own accounts that I play on, buy/sell/trade and build up into nice accounts. For those purposes I loved the re-restock of the cove items as it let me complete collections from people luckier than I at the cove. That was done in a smart way, not mass releasing and killing value though.

In reality, I don’t really do much selling now a days compared to years past, and I don’t rely on money from neo sales for any aspect of my life. So am I upset that what I have has had the value absolutely obliterated in some cases? Absolutely. Am I mad about that entirely? Nahhh.

I can see how somebody would make the argument what I have was “handed to me” but for anybody who has done what I’ve done knows - it’s not a cake walk and sunshine and rainbows. 20% luck, 30% skill, 50% grind and hours spent poking through and putting the time in. Everyone’s grind is different. Maybe I didn’t sit in a shop and restock for hours but I spent hours in other ways with the game. One could easily make the point that the “black market” way of doing things has assisted in keeping the site active and interesting for many years too. I see the point you’re trying to make and it’s valid, but not entirely accurate.

I am mad a lot of stuff has been rendered worthless but I’m also a little mad at how TNT is doing it and how it will change the game. Nobody will be buying anything with any confidence. Why would they when that thing they buy could be reduced to a buyable on a whim? I don’t know if this decision is a good long term decision and I think it’s silly to make the argument that everyone should be able to afford everything. In the end, I’m not TNT and my opinion is in the minority- mostly because I have achieved all my “neo goals” at one time or another. It’s nice for other people to be able to achieve the same but a can of worms has been opened. What high end stamps, weapons, etc will be mass released next? Will that just continue until there aren’t any valuables and the game is just a free for all eith junk nobody wants to buy because everyone else has it too? Who knows man, who knows.