100,000 DOLLARS!!!
Good, now that I have your attention, I would like to talk about the issue of gem augmenting that is causing players no end of grief and that you have not properly addressed at all. From what the community gathers, you guys and gals don't care about the player base at all, but what is in our pockets. I guess that's what a lot of developer teams do from other games, but you are better than this... or at least you should be. Secondly, the new gem augmenting system you implemented is awful. It's so bad. I'm never augmenting my gems again until it's fixed. First of all... it costs Lunar souls to change a stat on an item, which means that at MAX you can change the stat of two gems per week. But that's only scratching the surface because today I rolled my gem on my gunslinger from max health to... and get this... PERCENTAGE MAX HEALTH. I wanted to die. I had just wasted 3 lunar souls, 2100 eyes of Q'bthulu, and 4 binding darkness that I will never get back. Fix this problem so that you can choose what stat you want and so you don't make multiple people put holes in their computer screens.
The other thing about gem augmenting is improving the stats on a gem. For those of you who don't know this, the bronze augment item is the best one there and it is the only one you should get. The other two may improve the stats a LITTLE more, but they cost 5-6x the price. It's not worth it at all. MAKE it so that it doesn't cost as much flux so that free to play players, yeah, you know... the ones you don't care about because they're smart enough not to spend money on this game, can actually get somewhere in the game.
The last point I want to make is one everyone has been yelling at you for as long as I can remember... and it is... MAKE GEM DUST/BOXES/ACTUAL GEMS tradable. Do you know how long it takes to farm 10k gem dust? And do you know how much gem dust it costs to upgrade stellar gems? If you did, then you would have fixed this problem already.
I want you know that it is not just me thinking this, but almost everyone else out there playing the game. You are turning this game into Spiral Knights. If you don't get the reference, look up the game, it's bad.
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