New Update 08/16/2012! Reduced Prices & Refer A Friend Program Now Live!

[Nate]

Refer-a-friend Program

The Arena of the Great Realm is an exciting place to be and we want all of our players to share and play with their friends so we have created a referral program to encourage players to get as many friends as possible into the game and reward them for it! As your friends' gladiators progress through the game you'll be awarded with FREE TROPHIES! The more players you recruit the more trophies you can earn!


Blacksmith


HUGE 15%-50% price drop on all weapons and armour
Blacksmith now shows 28 weapons and 28 pieces of armour
Cost to cycle weapons or armour before the blacksmith brings out new items at server reset time is 1 trophy
Purple items available for GOLD ONLY


Arena

Lowered fight token max to 8


General

MASSIVE 200%-460% price drop on gladiator stable upgrades
Ability to award gladiators FREEDOM
Gold exchange replaced with refer-a-friend program
Auto-heal, auto-repair and auto-contract price change
HUGE discount on memberships


Good luck in the Pit!

-Nate-

[johnh10]

Hmm so once a warrior visits the blacksmith, all the items are locked to that character's level?

I visitied with a lvl 50 char and saw lvlish 50 items, then switched to my ~30 lvl char and the items are all still lvlish 50. So I pay a trophy to reset for each character each day?

Any chance the 'untrain skill' trophy cost will be looked at as well?

[Apoca1ypse]

The stable upgrades being cheaper is a huge plus!

I like all these changes except for the Blacksmith inventory refresh. finding 1 item with the stats you wanted sometimes too over 200-300 refreshes. Needing to spend trophies to refresh your inventory for glads of a different level is going to frustrate people too.

[axus]

You did not announce the most important change of all. You can no longer buy 1 trophy per day at the Bank. Once everybody has been referred to the game, there will be no more trophies without spending money.

If there is no predictable way to earn trophies inside the game, people will be frustrated and quit. Only people buying trophies will play, and there will be no free players with low skills to pick on.

[Kreegan]

I don't really see how someone will manage to hoard 500k gold for even one purple item for less than several months, provided that he has a top-level gladiator (one who will really need a purple item) with all the repairs, injuries, achievements and of course Jimmy's associates. Looks like a cosmetic change. The lowered prices for the memberships and the stable facilities/staff benefit only the paying players, without the "one trophy per day" the other people will probably not buy them anyway (i.e. in the their price is largely unchanged, the memberships are even more expensive now). Nothing's really changed in this regard.
The freedom-granting part could be interesting though.

[Prinny]

Nice and all that there are now 28 weapons and 28 pieces of armour but only like 6 of these are purple, the rest are blue, green, white so it's more costly to find those weapons you want now since it costs 1 trophy to reset them~

Not to mention that outof those 6 for a lvl 50 glad they range from lvl 50 to lvl 47 and that when you reset at the blacksmith for a trophy it only counts for either the weapons or the armours, not for both^^

[eisenfrau]

without the daily 'gold to trophy' exchange there's not much space left to delevop. referrals aren't likely to yield one a steady income trophy-wise, so it's practically a dead end but for the 'buy' option. which, in turn, makes the game not free.
gladiators without cash investments were already slower in their progress and losing to the paying members, and now they're even more disadvantaged. no fun to play now when you know you can't possibly win.

[CaineDeSoulis]

First point
Refer-a-friend Program
•The Arena of the Great Realm is an exciting place to be and we want all of our players to share and play with their friends so we have created a referral program to encourage players to get as many friends as possible into the game and reward them for it! As your friends' gladiators progress through the game you'll be awarded with FREE TROPHIES! The more players you recruit the more trophies you can earn!

This is pretty cool BUT as a replacement of 1 trophy per day it's not a very adequete replacement. as a program its a great advertisement tool but we should probably not have it as a "Hard" Replacement of 1 trophy a day.

Blacksmith

•HUGE 15%-50% price drop on all weapons and armour
•Blacksmith now shows 28 weapons and 28 pieces of armour
•Cost to cycle weapons or armour before the blacksmith brings out new items at server reset time is 1 trophy
•Purple items available for GOLD ONLY

Cost to cycle is ridiculous. 90% of the time spend trophies and money to BUY weapons and also Spend trophies and money to just look for them?. ive spent alot of time cycleing the the gear. upwards of 1000 times cycleing for for a single piece 10k in gold. this trophy expense is time consuming for the sake of consuming time.

everything else is pretty cool.

Arena
•Lowered fight token max to 8

Cool

General
•MASSIVE 200%-460% price drop on gladiator stable upgrades
•Ability to award gladiators FREEDOM
•Gold exchange replaced with refer-a-friend program
•Auto-heal, auto-repair and auto-contract price change
•HUGE discount on memberships

•Auto-heal, auto-repair and auto-contract price change
why was this increased? i dont know about anyone else but i only used these when kills still netted trophies as a luxury NOW its silly.

The other changes were a long time coming no surprises here.

Overall alot of changes were made to the BASE of the game. and only time will tell how the vets and new players will like it.

My first impressions are that i'm not going to like this update very much :(.

also i have 10 fight tokens :)

[Rex Nex]

You've got to be kidding me.

[Laivendur]

Is anyone else having a problem with serious lagging?

[Nate]

Hmm so once a warrior visits the blacksmith, all the items are locked to that character's level?

I visitied with a lvl 50 char and saw lvlish 50 items, then switched to my ~30 lvl char and the items are all still lvlish 50. So I pay a trophy to reset for each character each day?


That was a bug, each gladiator is supposed to get one free cycle of the items per day. This has been fixed.

Good luck in the Pit!

-Nate-

[CaineDeSoulis]

http://www.pitofwar.com/images/pit_of_war_raf_banner.jpg (http://www.pitofwar.com/ref/a1t1693)

how come i can get this bbccode to work here and not in my signature?

been at this for like 20 minutes lol >.<

[Nate]

how come i can get this bbccode to work here and not in my signature?


I'm looking into this for you now.

Edit: Give it a shot now.

Good luck in the Pit!

-Nate-

[CaineDeSoulis]

thanks nate :)

[vihorsthename]

That was a bug, each gladiator is supposed to get one free cycle of the items per day. This has been fixed.

Good luck in the Pit!

-Nate-


Sorry Nate, it still doesn't work for me. I have 3 level 50 characters and one level 34. The weakest item at blacksmiths is around level 48 for all my characters.

[Nate]

Sorry Nate, it still doesn't work for me. I have 3 level 50 characters and one level 34. The weakest item at blacksmiths is around level 48 for all my characters.


Hey vihorsthename,

The first gladiator to walk into the blacksmith after the server resets will see a new set of items tailored to them and if they want to see different items it will cost one trophy, however if you switch to your other gladiators you'll notice it costs 0 trophies to see new items. Please let me know if you don't see this happening for your gladiators and I'll look into it further for you.

Good luck in the Pit!

-Nate-

[sevenseas]

Nate...buddy...I don't like complaining, but i don't think i'll be able to keep playing for too much longer after the new update, i LOVE this game, but the hook is now almost completely gone...the hook WAS trophies. If you had a good gladiator you would be rewarded with trophies, now....If you have a good glad, you have to keep paying for it. The first trophy choking you did was almost enough that i would need to quit, now i don't see how it's possible for me to keep playing. I realize i am just one voice, but really the only changes i can get behind are the price reductions...The purple for gold thing was bad ...Doubling the price of auto-heal/repair was extra bad...And Choking out the rest of the trophies (the hook) was extra extra bad.

You were getting $20 or more a week from me ($80-$120) a month...which was already ridiculous, now i think there is just no way i can continue. I'll give it one more month to feel it out. I'm mad and sad over this. This was a great game.

Feel free to PM me Nate, if ya want.

[eisenfrau]

there's also a very curious change in the amount of protection money. paying 20-30K this way, even every other day, makes saving up on gold for items impossible.
so, good-bye, Pit of war. been with you for a couple of years, it was fun while it lasted.

[vihorsthename]

thx nate, did't notice 0 trophy refresh thingy

[Dainoji]

You guys are funny, you realize you only have to recruit seven people and help them along to level 50 and you'll get the same amount of free trophies as before and help the game in the process. I've already got over 30 recruits and stand to make way more trophies than before, like 5x more and that's just after a few days of trying. And with the decreased prices on things those trophies have a lot more buying power than before. It never ceases to amaze me how people focus on the the perceived negative when huge opportunity is staring them in the face...Anyhow, to each their own I guess.

Eisenfrau, not sure what you're seeing but the amount Jimmy takes is the same for me as it has been for the past year or so.

Nate, any chance you can let us know what you'll be working on for the next update?

[CaineDeSoulis]

You guys are funny, you realize you only have to recruit seven people and help them along to level 50 and you'll get the same amount of free trophies as before and help the game in the process. I've already got over 30 recruits and stand to make way more trophies than before, like 5x more and that's just after a few days of trying. And with the decreased prices on things those trophies have a lot more buying power than before. It never ceases to amaze me how people focus on the the perceived negative when huge opportunity is staring them in the face...Anyhow, to each their own I guess.
The Price reduction to stable upgrades was a long time coming anyway. And yes the RAF program *Potentially* Can earn you some of trophies and is a positive. But as a replacement to a ONE trophy a day exchange it takes away the time vs. money. how about one of your 30 recruits how is he supposed to make it with 0 trophies and no real way to earn them on a *regular* basis. those extra stable slots are pretty far out of reach now. and forget about vault slots. I used to use the daily trophy just to sustain my stable's membership's. now I'm spending 4.99$ a month on them. which Isn't bad and I'm okay with a subscription I'd rather see the pits in a straight subscription format anyway. 10$ a month everyone gets 100 trophies at the end of the month. have some cool booster type things. for an additional 5$ a month get a trophy for each kill. or for 20$ get a trophy for every 5 stable wins. Setting up a revolving door of new players that spend 5-10$ and leave is just bad for everyone.

Hell the only reason I'm still here is that I like to build new unique glads and help the new players and chat with the other vets.

But besides all that I'll stick around anyway and see if i cant do some advertising for the pits and maybe build another cool gladiator :).

Also whats the good word on the skill update Nate?

[Rex Nex]

I'd like to be able to enjoy the game without being turned into a marketing tool. If I play the game and its fun, I'll show people it. If I can barely play the game without being told that I need to invite people to get anywhere, I'm just going to throw my hands up and unfavorite the website.

It really sucks, because I was super interested in this update when I saw it appear in-game. It was worded to sound like a constant barrage of "AND IT GETS BETTER!". Then you go and look at what actually changed, and see that you just got screwed. Oh, hey, you can get purple items now with gold! Too bad it's impossible to make that much money, just a way to tease you. Oh, hey, you can invite people now, we have a system for it! Oh, yeah, and sorry, we took away your measly 1 trophy/day.

Look, I know you're trying to do your best to run something and be able to profit off it, and that's fine, but this isn't the right way to go. By making these changes, you're charging headlong into becoming the stereotypical "browser based game that tries harder and harder to monetize you before losing its playerbase and ultimately dying". You're not quite there, and you have some really gorgeous artwork and a solid base game, but things aren't looking to bright right now.

Anyway, that's just my take on this. Maybe you guys can prove me dead wrong. Good luck.

[Prinny]

Oh, hey, you can get purple items now with gold! Too bad it's impossible to make that much money.

Actually i bought a purple weapon yesterday with gold, to bad it cost me 30 trophies to see it in the blacksmith though so all in all I lost way more money to it compared to how it was before :P

[eisenfrau]

the case of the protection gold skyrocketing was on 08/15 with 32213 gold, on 08/16 with 23735, and on 08/17 with 22216. can't attach screencaps as i haven't enough posts. true enough, today it's back to the usual 200+ gold, but how do i get my 77+ thousands back? nohow, i guess :confused:

also, about the proselytizing, err, recruiting: i, for one, am not an active fora/social networks user, and one of the hugest appeals of the Pit was its setting without the usual alliances/guilds/other promotive social interaction. yes, to some it was important, this opportunity to play for the game's sake.

[Dainoji]

the case of the protection gold skyrocketing was on 08/15 with 32213 gold, on 08/16 with 23735, and on 08/17 with 22216. can't attach screencaps as i haven't enough posts. true enough, today it's back to the usual 200+ gold, but how do i get my 77+ thousands back? nohow, i guess

I think you are confusing protection money with what you get from Jimmy's boys when your guards beat them up. Jimmy takes 10% of your gold when his boys come around, it's been like this for as long as I remember. Sometimes your guards beat Jimmy's boys up and take from THEM around 200 or so gold. So the only way Jimmy would be taking 200 gold from you would be if you only had 2000 gold to begin with which clearly isn't the case given the other amounts you have cited.

When you take from Jimmy you get a message like this ALERT: Confiscated Money!
When Jimmy's boys collect you get a message titled: ALERT: Protection Money!

[johnh10]

Nate can we have some refer-a-friend banners in sizes 728x90 and 120x60 ?