I have been gathering Echoes of Ny’alotha on 24 characters for the last month or so, saving them to buy Rank 3 essences when I finally had them available. I have an average of about 1,000 on each of 24 characters, and had the day off today and was planning on going through all of these characters to buy Rank 3 essences on each of them.
Imagine my surprise when I discover that the essences I have been saving up for a month to buy suddenly cost not 500 apiece, but 2,500 apiece. In short, I have worked to save enough to buy 2 rank 3 essences on each of 24 characters, only to have the currency suddenly drop to only one-fifth of its original value literally overnight.
I understand that I can now gather them at 5 times the original rate, but what about the 25,000 that I gathered at the old rate? I now have to farm 100,000 /more/ Echoes just to get back to where I already was last night. This is literally the equivalent of having earned 125,000 Echoes, and suddenly being back at 25,000, with 100,000 stolen.
I’ve been a loyal customer for 15 years, and have never come to the forums to complain, but this is just off the charts, Blizzard. I didn’t complain when my 9,000 Shiny Pet Charms became worthless, because while it felt pretty bad, I hadn’t played in several months and chalked it up to something unavoidable when you’re out-of-the-loop. But this time I’ve been playing your game every single day, and was given got not a single whiff of warning that what I was working on for a month was about to be taken away. Why would you do this? Why would you do such a thing with zero in-game warning, and less than one day of out-of-game warning in the patch notes? With just a bit of notice, I could have spent them all over this past weekend, and would not have had a stockpile that dropped in value by 80% overnight.
This is dirty pool.