The one thing I think is actually bad about Wynncraft

I legitimately love this server, but there is one thing that legitimately angers me about it, and that is the fact that petting your pet is locked behind a steep paywall. I think that is kind of scummy, but the thing that really angers me is how high the paywall is. The ability to pet your pet is a level 24 pet ability. To level up a pet above level 20, you need to get a rank. What really angers me is that the rank required to do this is the Champion rank. AKA the most expensive one, costing $170 unless its on sale.

Now, I think petting a pet should be a default ability, however I have a suggestion to make the paywall more accessible to people who might not be able to spend $170. Make it so each rank lets you level up an extra 5 levels per rank. That way, the way cheaper VIP rank (only $7) could unlock the ability to pet a pet, as their cap for pet level would be 25. It could also be done where they give you a set amount of extra levels per rank, because there are a total of 100 pet levels, players without the Champion rank only have access to 20 of them. Maybe VIP could add an extra 5, VIP+ could add an extra 20, Hero could add an extra 50, and Champion could add the extra 80.

 

I agree that leveling pets past level 20 being locked behind a paywall is bad, but not for the petting part. More for the pet tasks that are on the line of being P2W features. However petting really isn't the issue. When you pet your pet it just says in chat "You pet your 'Pet'". That feature is basically useless.

 

Champion since release has been hated for its absured amount of P2W content. IMO the rank was added as a money grab for players willing to dish out a month's rent for a minecraft rank so they can get small fun cosmetics and for honest to god pay to win pet/housing/market/playershops content. IMO ranks should always just add cosmetics since its not cool nor fair to make ppl pay 170 to do content in a free game

 

Where do you live that you can get a month's rent for $170?

 

petting pets has literally no actual purpose that isn't cosmetic

however it should probably be available to all if not vip and above

i voted no because i didn't think it through at first and you didn't add the option to change votes, consider my vote a yes

It really sucks that they can't remove the p2w champion features for fear of chargebacks, I'm sure it's probably the main reason they haven't yet

They certainly could just remove the p2w stuff but there would be a lot of chargeback bans to do. Maybe they could compensate with a ton of free bombs or something but i'm not sure


I personally got champion rank because I like supporting the server and i got a good discount on it (hero rank discount earlier in the year combined with pre-order winter discount).

In fairness to the p2w stuff, I'm not sure what cosmetics could possibly justify 170$ but p2w isn't the way to go

 

While the petting feature with pets is cosmetic, I kinda feel like locking 80 levels of pets behind a paywall with no other ranks having any bonus pet levels is kinda flawed.

I personally think here's how pet levels should work:
Unranked - Lv 20 Max
VIP - Lv 40 Max
VIP+ - Lv 60 Max
Hero - Lv 80 Max
Champion - Lv 100 Max

I think instead of removing Champion's features, I think instead some of these could be moved to lower 'minimum ranks,' like Class Backups for VIP+, and a way to balance the Bomb Bell imo is like this, similar to pet levels:

Between Bomb Notifications timer:
Unranked - 24 hours
VIP - 12 hours
VIP+ - 6 hours
Hero - 1 hour
Champion - 30 minutes (or what it currently is set to)

While I would say it can be a bit flawed, I think moving some perks of Champion to a lower rank could work better as there might be fewer chargebacks than if some features were outright removed.

 

And make the other ranks P2W? No.

 

I would rather not the solution to "These ranks give players non-cosmetic advantages, or things that only benefit it." be to make every rank have them.
That doesn't solve the issue, if anything it makes it worse.

As for class backups specifically, this is done because Wynn doesn't have enough money to allow everyone to do this.
This is one of the features I understand being exclusive to Champion rank.

 

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