The intent behind this thead wasn't to bash the devs, but to give feedback, constructive criticism, and ideas to help the devs improve the game that we all love. I know quite a few of the people that have posted already, and they all want to keep the game going strong for a long time. When you see problems and you sit back and do nothing about it, then you are part of the problem and not helping to do anything to find a solution. When people voice their opinion as they have in this thread, it is because they CARE and just want things to improve. Do people really think we have nothing better to do than spending days typing things up in the forum for no reason at all? As if, behind the scenes when the cameras stop rolling, that we are all laughing about how awesome the invasion is, and high fiving each other whenever mentions at how great last year's Santa event was?
I know the devs are not required to respond at all to us unless it is an important issue, but it is really discouraging when we have multiple pages on this thread already that still hasn't gotten a response, acknowledgement, or even wave of the hand...but other threads get a response in far shorter time. I'm not going to take it personally or dwell on it, it is what it is.
Believe it or not, our ideas would put money in the Devs pockets if taken seriously. Instead of worrying about the 20-30 people that can "infinite mist", how about the thousands of people that would be buying gems left and right to take advantage of the Santa Event? Sure, you can look at it with the 48 mystery boxes that you are giving away every day, and all of the nice little bonuses that the players get already. But what about the money that you could be getting hand over fist if you had a few little tweaks to the game that drove the player base nuts with enthusiasm? Your top players are what...a hundred people? If you go by the numbers, you still have about fifty thousand or so more. How many of them would eagerly plunk down money, especially over the holidays (nice xmas bonus from work, received cash gift etc) if they had a reason to? The players that "infinite mist" won't stuff the devs pockets, but the players that are trying to take their game to the next level will. Those are the players that the devs should be trying to appeal to, and those are the players that are discouraged right now. You don't believe me? Go searching on this forum for complaints about the same people hogging the same spots on the Fallen runs, or for people that have said that the invasion has become too boring and doesn't yield enough experience.
I have no intentions of causing headaches at all for the Devs...my ONLY mission is to help them get more money in their pockets. Why? The more money in their pockets, the better the game is doing, and (hopefully) the better product the players get in return. I won't lose any sleep wondering if all my suggestions are being laughed at before going into the recycle bin, but three months from now when people are complaining that the Fallen runs are still being monopolized and no one has a fair shot anymore and that the Invasion is pointless, bla bla bla...look back on this forum and remember the day where multiple people pointed out things that need to be addressed and they were all ignored.