Because last month's(not a few weeks ago) event had **** for prizes. It was expected among veteran players for YNK ... or i guess PWI now... to put out such events. At least YNK's events were half decent. PWI's are a joke and a half. It's nearly a literal slap in the face to veteran players. YNK either did a face change and became more greedy thinking they could pull it off going calling themselves PWI... or... YNK actually managed to find a more money-grubbing company than they were to buy em out... which i honestly never thought could happen... but then it did.
I'm sure you've never spent a penny on the game.. but then again i'm sure you're a one shot non factor anyway. Keep playing these events, maybe you'll catch up in 10 years.
Personally, I have no use for these events. They're meaningless to me. I'm only looking out for players like you who are content with getting screwed over, thinking you're actually getting a good deal.
The GM's say they want to bridge the gap between pay to win and play to win. This event is only widening it with the ridiculous amounts of IP required to get anything half decent.
Something they could do, instead of events like this, would be to implement an in-game item mall. Spend crones to buy 50%-100% pt/solo scrolls, silver trophies, token of foresees, tokens of defeat, Scroll of challenge for 25-50 million, minor scrolls like the pdef/mdef/phys blow/ melee att/mag att/ranged att (BUT JUST THE MINOR IN GAME FOR CRONE) maybe even throw in deluxe abradants in for like 10 billion crones. 10 billion is a hell of a lot of crones.. but hey, it'll get people active and back on the grind. It'll bring activity to the server. Crones will actually have a use. Crones on EM are now 500 million for 100 RPS. 5 years ago they were 5 million for 100 RPs, IF YOU WERE LUCKY. Crones have become ridiculously devalued. If you want an active player base, give them a reason to be active.
Theres so much **** they can do to improve overall gameplay and boost player activity. They refuse to do so because they want to squeeze every penny they can out of the games diminishing player base before it's too late. They dont look at this game as one that will last. They want everything they can get now before it's too late and too dead. Its pretty much like life insurance, take people for all they have before they die. They have no desire to revive a dying a game, when they have many options to do so. They'd rather take all they can from everyone playing while they still have the chance. The only players left are the people that've been playing for 3+ years anymore and only reason they stick around is because of the amount of money they've invested. The few new players that are brought in, will eventually quit when there becomes an overwhelming number of bored people with nothing to do other than just go every grind spot and rpk everything in sight. I used to do it on my ranger 5 years ago... i doubt that's gonna change until they change the lack of things to do.
1 time per day for ele dung. 5 times per week in ash. Okayyyy... yeah... that leaves you with the majority of your week spent doing whatever makes you happy... which is quite limited.
Boss timers are ridiculously long also. 12-72 hours for any boss worthwhile... I understand some of the bigger bosses(silva[now with upg feath], beze, ruler, tyrant) should be that long because of their drops... but things like raymond, russell, ramos, all R5 bosses minus silva... Those should be on a much shorter timer so that the higher level players actually have something to do. Shorter respawn timers = more people actually going for them = more competition = end game players actually have **** to do instead of rpk lowbies non stop.
Maybe a revamp of the drops also now since they're pretty much meaningless since the level of the mobs changed but the drops are still meant for level 99 end game, with the exception of ramos/raymond/russell those three are meant for 110 end game. Still underpowered and quite useless.