If a solo player’s game without trade. You’ll enjoy it since you don’t have friends to play it together with; you can do it solo as if its a single player game. Unfortunately, I do, and I need trade to interact with them, and to interact with other players with either Alchemical services, to get the materials I need, or to be nice to others.
You know, the stuff the majority of players like to do in MMORPGs: Interact with each other.
If happens several time a day with me and my four friends. Remember, this is 30 trades a month, and its using TWO trades per person, so its $1.20 total between two people to trade. We’d be out of trades within a few days between just us.
While the game does need better drop/loot systems, that doesn’t help with general interaction between players, such as Alchemist/Pardoners, those who need materials for such classes to make their items, and those who likes to help others.
this is the most idiotic thing I’ve ever heard. That’s like saying “Every existing MMORPG game was screwed up because it had free trading. After 20 years, this game finally got it right”. Please think a little before you say things.
The Market Place fails to do its job. Players are hesitant to put anything up in shop. They can only have one item up at a time, so generally they’ll want to put up something that’s actually worth something. Things like materials probably wont be readily available, just basic weaponry. The time it takes for your item to even show up on the AH as well as the time it takes to receive your silvers interrupts the entire process of making silver. Again, I’m not going to pay for the silvers to come to me immediately. “Its my money and I want it now” as that commercial goes. The game will get a few less players if things aren’t fixed by the end of the founder’s month, and I’ll probably be one of them. Its a shame.
In any case, the company is trying to feed off the hype around this game under the guise of “stopping RMTers”, which does not stop RMTers anyway, hoping the weak and stupid will fall for their token nonsense for basic things like trade, a market, and even trading items between your own characters.
Without Trade, there’s no economy. IMC is trying to force the economy to their own design with lack of trading and a constrained market system. They are also trying to force their tokens for silvers, making them their own RMT, basically saying “We don’t want you paying someone else real money in order to get your silvers, so instead you can buy our ‘Tokens’, sell those, and get your silvers that way!”, and try to make those Tokens more appealing by giving taking away our basic features such as trading and team storage all just to make their money. Even with the tokens, trade is extremely limited.
As I said before, without players, you aren’t going to be making much money. “You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar”, or so the saying goes. This token scam is the vinegar and I’m not touching it, and if it doesn’t change, I’m not staying either, meaning they will never get any money from me, and my friends feel the same way, to which I’m currently playing with 4 others. If they choose to treat us better, maybe we can stay for the long haul and have no issues supporting the game.
In the end, just because you really want to like this game doesn’t mean you should accept the crap the company is feeding you. If they’re treating you wrong, you let them know you wont stand for it, because without players, there’s no game, so its not just about “IMC’s decisions” as you guys like to prattle on about. Our decisions, especially the one to not support with money until things change for the better, shows judgment to their “decisions”, and they will have to “decide something else” if they want to save the game and see more money in the long run.
When the game dies and the gaming website headlines say “IMC’s Tree of Savior shutting down”, after reading about the unethical trade restrictions, shady token for silver transactions, and pay to win features like enchant scrolls (and who knows what else in the future), maybe the next company that might be interested in licensing this game wont make the same mistake.