Yet Another Fusion Thread: The how and why this event made everyone angry.
Let's get the ugly truth out there. The event is bad. Objectively, it is not the creator of a service/product that decides if it's good or not. It is the consumers/customers that decide that. When the consensus says it is bad, then, sadly, the company needs to revisit the drawing board.
With that in mind, let's get more in depth of this event.
The Towering Titan Event: A 10+ day grindfeast, that required players to log in and use any energy reserve they had to finish, with some even buying the extra energy to push themselves that final line. Total cost: 10k+ Energy, countless hours of gameplay, and, many shards to make up for food deficiency(This is important for later, so keep it in mind). Those who finished it did it by burning months of stockpilled energy/resources, and, in some cases bought it.
The way the rest of the companion events played out was very nice. Some easy events that could be completed alongside the TT event without distracting those that wanted to farm for foli, and easy enough to complete for those that couldn't, so they weren't left out.
Then it was the DD, which, frankly was not hard per se, but it wasn't a breeze either. Not the easiest, but not impossible.
And then comes the infamous Centurion event. Why people are angry:
After going through all the afford mentioned hassles/resource to get to this point, leveling up the materials and ascending them,
You pull an impossibly hard event to get him, AFTER most of the work was done, AFTER many players(yours truly included) had spent their shards to make up for foods to finish the TT event.
BUT! The event in on itself is not why people are angry. The main reason is Transparency, or rather, lack of it.
Many people, me included, would most likely not bother with this event had we know beforehand we can't complete it. We know it. And so did you. We would invest neither the time, nor the resources(digital or physical) for this.
Had there been foreshadowing about the events, about what we should expect, what resources we needed and their quantity, there would be no backlash over it.
IF the event also run concurrent with the TT event, a lot less people would be angry as well. For me, I used around 600 green shards for foods, and 10+ blue shards, and the 2 void shards. That's 1040 points. At this point, i'd be willing to spent some more to finish it.
Just the two cents of a most definitely irrevocably former spender, and a mostly-not-yet-quited-but-with-a-dying-interested-in-the-game-player.
PS: Your official reply comes as mostly condescending in that it says that people who got all materials except Centurion did not work hard and thus shouldn't really get him. Expect lots of backlash from it as well.
