Monthly Shop & Premium Changes!
Hello everyone, we are happy to be back with a major announcement regarding our plans and changes for the monthly shops and premium account upgrades! We sincerely apologize that we couldn't get this post out to you all sooner, as we needed time to discuss this matter with the team as well as to make sure the coding aspects of our decision would be possible in the backend. As always, thank you so much for your patience!
Originally, our vision was for the site to be a quaint dress-up style game with spinny gumball-type machines to get fun prizes from, as many of us had fond experiences and memories of these when we were younger. This concept was the inspiration behind all of our shops, including the monthly ones! When we released the very first test version of our Turnip monthly shop during beta testing, we got a lot of helpful feedback that eventually led us to make the following changes and additions to the feature during closed development:
Genuine effort was put into trying to find a happy balance of all of the suggestions we received during beta and our original vision for the feature. We had hoped that these changes would remove the harmful aspects of an RLC chance machine, particularly with the addition of the ability to buy a full set of Pai's items for a set price; however, we've read through and listened to all of your recent feedback and have realized that this was not enough. It was never our intention for Dappervolk to engage in harmful aspects of RLC chance machines, so we have decided that it is our moral responsibillity to remove the chance aspect of this feature.
Changes Going Forward
Starting on August 1st, 2020 players can expect to see the following changes to this feature:
Tied in with our Monthly Shop changes, we'd also like to add some additional upcoming perks to our Premium Badge that will be added from August 2020 onwards!
We will be posting the updated Premium Perks information into a thread in the Site Announcement forum, which will also be linked to from Agnes' Perpetual Shop.
Thank you for all of the patience you've afforded us thus far as we work to improve Dappervolk! We're excited to bring you more fun events and build upon the site step by step over time!
- Offered all Turnip monthly items in one set price box.
- Allowed for future opportunities to obtain retired monthly items instead of retiring them permanently.
- Lowered the spin price in Pai's shop, taking into account that turnips are based in CAD.
- Extended the free item claim expiration limit to 3+ months.
- Made spin points non-expiring.
Genuine effort was put into trying to find a happy balance of all of the suggestions we received during beta and our original vision for the feature. We had hoped that these changes would remove the harmful aspects of an RLC chance machine, particularly with the addition of the ability to buy a full set of Pai's items for a set price; however, we've read through and listened to all of your recent feedback and have realized that this was not enough. It was never our intention for Dappervolk to engage in harmful aspects of RLC chance machines, so we have decided that it is our moral responsibillity to remove the chance aspect of this feature.
Changes Going Forward
Starting on August 1st, 2020 players can expect to see the following changes to this feature:
- "Pai's Machine of Wonders" will change to "Pai's Shop of Wonders"
- Pai's chance machine will change into a permastock shop (all items at a set price with infinite stock for that month), with free claims and purchase points intact from June & July's records.
- Each item in Pai's Shop from August onwards will cost 200 turnips and will be purchaseable individually.
- "Spin Points" will be converted into "Turnips Spent" which will not expire; each spin point will convert into 180 Turnips Spent.
- Users will be able to claim a free item after spending 2000 turnips in Pai's Shop.
- Free item claims will still expire in 3 months and work the same way they do now.
- Since we're changing Spin Points into Turnips Spent, premium users will receive +600 Turnips Spent bonus per month in Pai's Shop of Wonders.
- Premium users will be able to use a premium-only forum post border through the duration of their premium status.
- Premium users will get +1 additional wardrobe save slot for a total of three additional saved outfits for premium users.
We will be posting the updated Premium Perks information into a thread in the Site Announcement forum, which will also be linked to from Agnes' Perpetual Shop.
Thank you for all of the patience you've afforded us thus far as we work to improve Dappervolk! We're excited to bring you more fun events and build upon the site step by step over time!
Comments
Idk, Im probs way minority here. But it just seems like a way to ruin the economy fast in terms of potato to turnip worth. If this does happen, I wonder how you will fix it. Hmm.
Either way seems most are happy, and I agree its a nice thing to see gone. But each item being sold in its own doesnt sound like a fix to me.
It is nice to understand the team's initial plans as well and to see no harm was intended. Thank you for the open communication and, again, the changes!
+100 honour Points <3
While I love this site, this one element I considered hightly questionable. It was gambling, with all it's drawbacks for the users. I do not see a problem with having items behind a pay walll. But drawing gamers into a gambling scheme gets a hard pass from me.
It's also a good decision from an economic perspective because there are countries which are working on a ban for all "loot box systems" or make them carry an age limit.