Well Jade Dynasty was a beautiful game so romantic and i enjoy it. We were all waiting for the new expansion "Ascension", but when it released the systems requirements of the game for the computer changed and my gaming experience retrograded and was extremely hard for me to achieve a good performance in pvp. If i want it to work the same way as before expansion i would have to buy me a new PC.
I tough on buying a new CPU but i encountered some problems with the game company, Perfect World. With much effort and a lot of cash shop i had a decent gear not the best but decent. This game you cant really have good or godly gears if you don't spent a large amount of dollars to leave that very clear, you need to spent thousands. They had something interesting going on! a International PvP tournament, this is what made my whole vision of the game and company change. First they made in forum interviews were you can do a short essay and show your knowledge and skills. Then they made a lil pvp tournament not related with this one just to take a peek of the choices they have.
There was a few country's involved into the International Tournament like Korea, China, Japan, Vietnam, Russia, Thailand, USA and more. Those country's part of the same company had a legit tournaments full of promotion, advertising and prizes. They give so many freebies like cellphones, computer in one of those country's even a car!
This was our tournament:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed2rPh-jKXE&feature=channel_video_title USA Perfect World asked for a few of 1200 in Game Gold to be inscribed, was a 3 vs 3. The price was a percent of the total of that money, nothing else.
They did this tournament to meet a requirement to enter the big tourney, to have some sort of pvp tournament so "they wont brake any rule".
WE, USA players had always kinda feel a reject from the main Perfect World Company located in China because they do not release the same game content for American users. They have so many advantages, gears, they are a few versions forward on everything including cs, mounts, quests, that really made us in a big disadvantage and we are gonna pvp vs them and their big knowledge on the tournament.
2 months before the tournament starts and we have any information of how everything is gonna be. They are already practicing in their own private server, team work and strategy, they already seen the map were the tournament will be, the spawn points, the hides, the ups and downs, etc. We will see the day the tourney starts, our team will fight in a non known area and we cant do any strategy's at all since the gears we gonna have amount of skills affinity points are unknown and the possibilities are thousands. But who to blame for this miss information? The company itself.
Every company hired a team for this tournament, presentation was essential also Press, advertisement and a collaboration of "gifts" from every country for the price to the winners. USA contributed 6 iPods. Other country's contributes reliquary, like a boat made by a renown artisan and covered by gold.
Personal point: I felt embarrassed. Japan i think they contributed Kimonos and more, everything hand made and wonderful.
http://www.perfectworld.com/blog/?p=90131Theres was a forum contest about the gamer girl, do we really exist gamer females? The chosen pictures will receive epic prices, capsule packs. This packs is a treasure box that will open on a certain number of lvl, giving free food, free timed mounts and many other good things. Ive always seen a lot of contest that i know i don't have a possibility to win but this one was different so i gave my shot and published in their forum my photo a big decision for me to make cause im shy and i like to have my privacy 100%. I gave a shot and they said everyone will have a price everyone won even a boy who was wearing a dress, was funny and fun.
Well they make another picture contest, show us how much you like jade dynasty and my bf and I got a picture together showing our computers, etc. The winners of that one will be shown in the official Chinese site, yes we won, they also offered capsule packs and a costume Forum title. Wow awesome ill have my own title!! that was in august 2010, right now is March 2011, i didn't received my capsule packs or any other good price. I randomly received a Christmas sock at middle of January, yes the one i didn't received on the week of Christmas in the game, some players got it and some didn't. The Christmas sock is a gamble device that the highest price i believe is a talisman that adds +16 attack something like that, .... capsule packs exchange for this? also i receives a coupon for a free mount timed which was cool kinda, doesn't compare with like 3 mounts only one but oh well and one mega small battery that is the weekly reward for the fort in game holder... nothing special we won i feel so disappointed of the cheapness of this company while they are really expensive in terms of the game. You cannot play this game for free, you cant! You need to upgrade your gears with real money, is too hard to buy the currency coin for the cash shop in game, is hard for high lvls is impossible for new players.
And is all about the gambling worst than a casino, every cash shop releases a mount that you cant just buy for 30 or 50 dollars, is a gambling and most of the time you have to spent 150.00 or more in lotto that cost .50 in game, yes not cheap also, not like 10 cents per lotto, is .50 - Personally i do not agree with lotto is like a rip off i don't know something i cant trust and makes people addict and sick.
Facebook events - They been giving out non timed mounts, cs and pets just for liking a picture on Facebook.. why then they just didn't gave me a pet or something, sometimes i believe they just wanted me to quit on purpose and they just plain didn't liked us.
Like the only time ive been banned in my life.
I GOT BANNED---------------------------------
Yes! they made a new policy from day to night, surprise rule that you cant multibox and banned a lot of people including me, yes because of that picture i tough but they didn't gave any explanation, they always ban people and don't tell them why, they just say sent a ticket and you'll get an answer as soon as we can and some people is banned and they get an answer 2 days later like me.
They made a multibox topic on their forums and i kept bothering them for an answer, cause they didn't say before was braking a rule, they should just warn us first and we will stop. Others players got mad too was a riot, more than 20+ main players banned and no conformation, warning , of why, anything.
We do invest large amounts of money on this games, characters, we do believe is ours, but at the end they aren't, we just renting them and everything we buy with real money can disappear at any moment if an administration is like this unprofessional, unstable and had no compromises on their promises to the gamer community. Also even if they remove the game, were all your money goes? you think they will refund? your character and all your effort and money wasted will disappear forever, gone.
Also like i was saying going back to topic, in that international tournament the REAL company that is located on China, gave advantages to their teams, yes teams, they sent a few Chinese teams while all other countries were allowed to one. They wanted to win at any cost. All servers were pvp and Chinese team is the only one who had things like battery, a large amount of esper resetting skill gems so they can get the skill they need or want on it a large amount of puppets to prevent their gears to brake or to drop, their gms gave them all the stuff, while the gms in USA had nothing to give till laaaaaaaaaaaaaaater when the USA team started complaining and theres things they never got that other teams got. I was sitting here by my boyfriend who was in the team watching everything. Sometimes i wanted to work as a reporter since all other teams have their own reporter to announce the wins and loss and news to the game community, but i didn't since they was being kinda weird company since before and more in that moment. Is like they didnt really cared about the tournament but for the team was everything, they was taking it very seriously and so exited, yes! they are gamers and they are in an international tournament! those days we merely sleep because they made us wait hours and the time in China was inverted as our time.
The Chinese team knew the map of the PvP tournament, the spawn points everything, they been there before, they had strategy that i found into their forums, everything they was practicing for it! they knew the flaws, like some skill wont work because the gears are highly upgraded now, so we need to make strong the skill by doing this or that, they were calculating everything and their GM helped them to correct their issues before they arrived to event etc and during the event. But out team never practiced together since they belong to different game servers, they meet up each other there at tournament and the way each of them fight and styles... they had to evolve and adjust as soon as possible with all their limitations.
First fight they got spawn camp they couldn't re group they still won! I found them info and showed the Chinese strategy, the Chinese was in our forums too checking us out. While i navigate the other team pages i saw the big prices they got for participating or winning this competition some was giving computers, ipods, cars, money and more... Our company only saying epic prices. Excuse me i dont think i explained myself good, they got their prices already and will get more if they win.
Well our USA team made the 3rd place, they didn't even expected us to get there. Our team got one kirin sigil which is a good price is to upgrade one piece of your gear to +10, if your gear is not +9 which is hard!!! to make you can just use it to +9 but will be a waste. And a capricorn essence, is hard to get in game. They said they will give them a rare mount also and nothing and a special title in game... and nothing.
China had a consideration