Talk:Strongbox/@comment-26373946-20150730044521/@comment-172.243.0.19-20150801204020

Be glad you're not playing on Mobile. Nantos consistently produce 15 - 30 levels below the listed drop rate. NK really fucked up listing drop levels with the Collections update because now it's obvious how much they're screwing us. And good luck getting any high level items without crap pre-augs out of ANY box dropped in game since the last update. You want clean? Ya gotta fork over the green.

Case in point: got a 10* RED Graphene Hood with 2 Resuscitating pre-aug'd out of the last Thulium my Lvl 100 Assault opened. Not bad given its drop level of 96... until you consider that this same character got a 10** RED Graphene Hood clean out of a purchased Promethium way back during Lvl 30-something. The preference for those who pay over those who play has been just that ridiculously obvious throughout the last two updates.

It's lazy overmonetization at its crudest, and it's clearly driving every single decision NK is making for the Mobile version: the Revive Tokens, the Reload Nerf, the Wicker fireball buffs... whoever's handing Mobile is clearly skirting more time thinking up ways to nickel and dime us than they have been fixing bugs. They've reached the very narrow limits of their competency as coders and now they're just trying to fleece us as hard as possible before they abandon the game altogether. I think the only thing that will keep Mobile going is the wet dreams that the execs at NK are having over how much they'll be able to charge gullible players for Black Keys. At least I know they won't be getting a dime from me.

Expect NK to go the way of Rovio and Zynga before them: layoffs, jacked-up prices, pay walls, fun pain -- every scummy little money trick that greedy lazy mobile developers use when they're incapable of truly developing a quality product -- and finally the full jump over to online and mobile gambling exclusively. They've already turned the Strongbox gimmick into a casino-level farce, so it won't be that much of a stretch for them.