[2021] Guess I was right...

Tl:dr version by points:

• Elite pass has severely been nerfed in value. Previously included items have been moved away for another pay to skip system.
• Progressing past lvl 50 in hunt pass is basically worthless now. Getting Coisn means nothing, as you can only get a limited amoutn of Crystals needed anyway.
• Subscription model feel mandatory to be able to get enough crystals.
• Casual players/ players with uneven life schedules that can not play every day are severely hamstrung and hurt. (For example, sisters husband is a truck driver, gone 2 weeks, home 1 week would not be able to enjoy Dauntless if he played it.)
• This game starting to feel more like a job than a game.
• Vault couin getting split into 2 currencies was already bad for already stated reasons. But, they added ANOTHER currency ontop of this. So either way you wish to look at it, they either added 2 or 3 currencies in this patch alone.
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So, from my previous post:
[Slayers Club + Reward Cache] Probably the worst system you have constructed to date.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dauntless/comments/mks3zg/slayers_club_reward_cache_probably_the_worst/

It does indeed seem I was right...
And it does indeed seem that it was even worse than I could have imagined!
Because not only is the Vault system a complete joke now, with a MAJOR push towards strong-arming people into subscribing to get enough currencies to buy stuff.

But now, weapons that was previously included in the Elite pass are now moved to an free, but even grindier system that is going to need you dedicated the better part of your life to just playing Dauntless.
And I can tell you, I like Dauntless... but it has no way near the enjoyable enough to grind for previous systems, to now be have another system to grind for.

Which wouldn't bee SO bad if you could actually spend the Coins you get at the end of a Hunt Pass... but no, they are borderline worthless as almost all things you are going to want to buy in the new "Reward Cache" is based around both Coins and Crystals.
And since crystals is a limited resource/week - boosted by paying money, because ofcourse, that is the true limiter of what you will be getting.

"OH, BUT YOU CAN SUBSCRIBE TO MAKE IT EASIER!"

Which brings me to, as some fellow people contributing to said post had speculated; It is now pretty clear that it is a BIG push towards the subscription model.

I could go one but in reality...
I am done.
I am done hoping and wishing for this game.
I am done feeling bad for having spent money on this game.
I am done of this game fueled on the "fomo" loop.

I certainly do not want to add to that feeling that I need to log in every single day for dailies that will already be a drag on what will take WEEEKS of DAILY grind to acquire just part of the Reward Cache.

As of finishing this post.

I will say goodbye to you Dauntless.
I do not see you recovering.
Just seeing you get worse.

Goodbye everyone!

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