While I can see this writers view, I hate the mentality of “Well, you chose to play this, so deal with it.”
A player should not have to deal with a time-limited experiment that has a renown track. (Edit: For Clarification, A renown track like this)
Currently a player has to do the following just to get to renown 40:
Collect 100,000 Plunder.
Seems pretty simple… but let’s peel back a layer here.
Let’s take into consideration that on average you MIGHT be able to get up to 500 plunder per match. You will need to do 200 matches.
Now granted, there is the daily which gives 800, and the initial welcome quest provides 1k
So if you were to only log in once a day, do the one match a day, and get 500 additional plunder on top of the 800 from the daily. That equates to needing to do about 75 matches.
Now granted that there isn’t 75 days in a 6 week period. There is only 42
So with that in mind. Over a 42 day period you would need to get 2,350sh plunder everyday. Meaning, if you were to get 500 additional plunder every match on top of the 800 provided from the daily… You would need to at LEAST do 3 battles a day, everyday for the next 6 weeks. (Edit: 21 matches a week, 126 matches total)
Now Let’s take into consideration that you can’t get 500, and you are able to get the mystery picked quest done to only get 250 per match.
This would transform the needed 2,350sh per day into requiring you to do 6 matches per day for the next 6 weeks. (Edit: 42 matches a week, 252 matches total)
Edit: And Let’s not forget about the mysterious locked “Feat of Strength” for getting 1 Million Plunder. In order for a player to get that achievement they’d have to get roughly 24,000 Plunder per day everyday for the next 6 weeks. or 46 matches a day by only getting 500 per match.
I don’t think I need to spell out how bad that is.
Players are right to not like the way this event is unfolding. When a group of people becomes silent about a thing, that’s when you worry. That’s when that group has given up even trying. If we’re vocal about things, we still care about it.
Advocating the trope of “If you don’t like it, don’t play it.” is a horrible statement to a person voicing their concerns about a thing. You practically told that person to “Shut up, nobody cares what you think.” They cared enough to voice their concern, and instead you wish them to become silent or stop playing entirely. This is what is going to end this community, is this mentality. The mentality that we shouldn’t voice our concerns, that we shouldn’t play that thing, “It wasn’t made for you”, “Just deal with it”, “Stop complaining”, or I guess even as the writer states inside their article from a known streamer “Just be … happy”.
Silence about something is not good. It never is. Voicing concerns, or praising actions is good. The mixture of the two is healthy.
Now, there will be those… outliers where it’s not… but for the most part it is a healthy thing