You are not supposed to 'forget' a promise that has been made because that promise actually has never been made. Perhaps there were vague statements that eventually something of that nature might occur plus, later on, two screenshots of the 'new system' being posted. This entire rumour 'i heard ngs comes next week' or stuff like that is made up by the attention-seeking gossiping part of the community. The devs could not have announced anything in the first place, but then wouldn't everybody be complaining about how there is zero will of the devs to improve anything?
Now you will argue that, if it wasn't certain when exactly a new system would come, the devs atleast shouldn't have removed the 1k hats this early. May I ask you if you ever thought through why those got removed at all? Do you think the devs were like 'were planning a new guild system in which we wont need the 1k hats anymore so lets already remove them now, oops now suddenly we realized this new system takes us much longer than we thought, sorry about that'? The 1k hats and the other towering reward hats were a MISTAKE and they corrected that mistake. Would you have wanted them to wait correcting a mistake instead of doing that instantly?
(The reason they were a mistake are obvious, I think I already talked about that in some previous threads: noob abuse, unfair distribution and more. We can talk about how guilds and towering should work in a separate thread.)
Now, your thesis is that by removing those rewards, the motivation and the fun are gone.
Perhaps at first, spontaneously, that is understandable. Something has been taken away so the situation must have gotten worse, that is the reflex of the brain. Thinking it through though, the 1k hat removal has improved things by alot because (trying to sum it up in one sentence, I wrote an essay about that topic on my website) since there are no material rewards anymore, players are forced to base their strength on a good spirit only instead of making random players hat promises so they quickly help out.
For classic 'towerers' who did those 1k trips for years, that might take some time to realize. The 1k hat removal has definitly improved the spirit of fighting. There are two reasons for towering being 'dead':
1) major pkers retiring because they feel scammed by the devs with that NGS issue, causing an avalanche of more retiring until we now have a bitter, ridiculous bunch of Graalians who feel like there is a conspiracy going on
2) (and the MUCH bigger issue) the increasing amount of treshold country players who swarmed over the server - talking about their unstable connections obviously. THAT is the real problem of Graal Classic.
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What are you even saying, that all leaders before the removal of the 1k are scammers trying to get their own hat? I agree with some of that, but there is only a few that even made it to that point. Also, that's the most hypocritical thing with you've said with you saying that leaders mostly scam noobs into helping them. But that's is the
same degree that the devs are doing to the ENTIRE community. Yet you're defending them.
The next thing I don't understand is that you said, that the removal of 1k has improved a lot of things. Yet you just said that the removal of the 1k cause an avalanche of MAJOR pkers to retire. Which are, believe it or not, the soul of the community. How are we supposed to keep calm and look for guidance when the soul is gone?
Mistake or not. 1k was the motivation of the community. And the removal of 1k's devastated the community.
THERE WAS NO SORRY, THE NGS TOOK LONGER THAN EXPECTED. You heard it from FP4 himself! He's too lazy to work on it! He's not even busy! He's
lazy!
Look at the big picture. The devs took out a reward system we relied on. And still do, I know you see
many guilds with their 1k goal up there. We still do it. Also, things such as 5k and 10ks, shouldn't have been taken out in the first place. They are a very rare goal which are met by guilds.
The overall of the decision made was one of the most
poorest decisions I've EVER seen during my history of gaming. I honestly see no point in this "spirit" thing you're talking about when not even the people we look up to are gone, and the devs not giving explanations.