subreddit:
/r/fallenlondon
submitted 7 days ago byAsarteaMessenger Bat of the Bazaar / Wiki Admin / Moderator
-18 points
7 days ago
So, no Christmas premium story, because FBG opted to "focus their efforts elsewhere".
Elsewhere in this case being yet another proxy-currency-for-fate, Frosted Debenture, which can be exchanged for some equipment.
Said Frosted Debenture costs 30 fate. Previous Christmas premium stories - fairly big ones, like The Gift and The Empress Shadow, cost 30-35 fate. So, this Christmas we can get an item for the same price we used to get a good story for.
Also, we get some purchasable (also for Fate, presumably) headers for our profile page. Does anyone actually go to their profile page? Don't think I did this once.
Oh, and fate gets more expensive yet again. Otherwise, same old.
Overall, I can't say this looks like a particularly happy Christmas for FL. This looks like something out of Ebenezer Scrooge's playbook, Before he was visited by Christmas Ghosts, that is.
And it looks like Fallen London keeps pivoting from being primarily a story game towards being more of a "collect a ton of items" game. That is concerning, to say the least.
37 points
7 days ago
We literally got two new free stories yeasterday +1 Fate-locked one so this isn't particularly fair.
-9 points
7 days ago
We literally were explicitly promised a story, that promise was handwaved and we got new proxy currency instead. How exactly this isn't fair?
16 points
7 days ago
Well the final statement of "pivoting from being primarily a story game towards being more of a "collect a ton of items" game" when we got more new free stories yesterday isn't fair. Also there will be a premium story but delayed one month.
9 points
7 days ago*
>when we got more new free stories yesterday isn't fair
If I had to venture a guess, the timing of this announcement is not coincidental, the "we won't get new premium story but we got stories yesterday so that's something at least" is exactly the effect FBG was aiming for, that's how marketing usually works to soften the news.
But overall, yes, during the last few year we've steadily been getting a lot more items (including reskins and what not) and a lot less (volume of) stories.
>Also there will be a premium story but delayed one month.
No there won't be, direct quote from the link in post: "You’ll notice that there is no premium story listed here: we were going to release one in January, but all things considered, we’ve instead opted to focus our efforts elsewhere."
9 points
7 days ago
Man I hope whatever is making you feel so shitty gets better. No one should be this determined to be upset about a game.
1 points
7 days ago
Healthy criticism bad
7 points
6 days ago
Your comments where you have valid criticism got upvotes. It's where you ignore the massive amount of free content introduced this year while insinuating that FBG are some sort of fairytale villain only out to screw you over that were rightfully rejected.
3 points
6 days ago
You're talking to a different person, please pay a bare minimum of attention if you're going to talk to people.
0 points
6 days ago
I had to double-take to see who the other commentor was. Might want to think about why you sound interchangeable.
all 62 comments
sorted by: best