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
thanks staff for the update!
The removal of the RLC gacha system is great. 10/10, thank you, it's illegal for a reason.
I really don't understand why people are claiming that the previous system was horrible, illegal, and questionable. Everything about it was clearly outlined to work just as everything else does in the game, and honestly, it's probably the nicest gacha system I've ever played. You were GUARANTEED an item worth something! You had the choice of rolling for the item you wanted, or guaranteeing the full set! And if you are free to play, or just didnt want to spend money, it was easy to buy something off the market.
I'm sad to see that system go - I had a lot of fun rolling, and then trading for the items I specifically wanted. I'm not angry at the team for this decision, but I'm disappointed that fellow players thought lashing out at you guys was the right answer.
I've seen so much negativity towards the team lately and it felt like people were trying to force dappervolk into the mold of other, similar games and are going to continue to do so. I've appreciated the vision that Quislings and the rest of the team have been piecing together and showing us of the world of dappervolk, and am more than a little ticked off of how people are so quick to rip into a site that hasn't even been out a month. The dappervolk team has been incredibly quick to respond to the userbase, and be as transparent as possible with the small team they have and the amount of pressure they've been under from said userbase.
Is this a one-time grace for current premium users, or a monthly 600 credit?
I had thought the previous system was extremely fair since it was so easy to trade with other users for items I did not have. I expressed my opinion in threads suggesting otherwise in hopes you would take all opinions into consideration. I hope that it helped.
I do appreciate the dev team properly coming forward with a statement and commitment to hopefully making the site a more user friendly experience. I hope in the end people won't take it for granted though, expecting every change to be made.
But the math is just so unkind to subscribers, I can't justify it.
2000 for one free item.
600 "credit" per month for premium users = 1800 over 3 months.
So this means that you're asking for us to pay you a subscription fee per month to financially support the upkeep of the site, but *also* telling us that we need to pay more money on top of that to actually use our "reward", which we can only get once every three months unless we spend quite a bit more?
:S Couldn't you just give us one free item per month, thus actually rewarding us *monthly* for giving you money *monthly*? If someone subscribes for one month, they get one free item that month (200t value) and no credit. If someone subscribes for 3 months, they get one free item per month for the next three months (600t value.) If someone subscribes for 12 months, why not give them 12 items (one per month) and throw in the 600t "credit" as a bonus thank you?
You'll get way more people willing to give you money if they feel it's worth the value, instead of relying on a limited pool of "whales". With more people spending, the site economy will do better as well, as there won't be money being made via reselling in *only* that small population of whales.
Hope you guys might consider a premium exclusive monthly item going forward still! Keep it in your thoughts?
Anyways, thanks a bajillion so glad to see this post! Overjoyed!