Yeah, it's honestly been really interesting to watch LW specifically. Trades are a lot more even and long-lived than most other sites I've seen released. When Furvilla released, the first 24h was basically 100% FR->FV, but after the second or third day, it was almost entirely reversed to be FV->FR. DV I was paying a bit less attention to, but seem to remember a few friends saying that turned within a week to be mostly DV->FR. LW by comparison has had a really interesting diversity in that it really depends on what market you're looking at, and most of them have remained relatively stable across the last month-ish.
I think, personally, it points to LW having staying power barring some sort of active colossal fuck-up that sends people away in droves (nerfing WW encounter rate looked like it had potential but also felt like people overreacting, and it was reverted within hours). It'll be interesting to see how it goes.
In LW's favor, the daily activities are arranged so that you can do as little or as much as you want, provided you have the time, and it doesn't punish you for not logging in every day -- on the contrary, the wolves recover stamina on their own over time.
If enough people join and start spending real money to buy currency and put that into circulation, it might get closer to FR's levels of feasibility of acquiring premium currency without spending money.
Yeah, I think LW genuinely does a pretty good job of balancing the tightrope between hardcore 16-hour-a-day grinders and "log in for 5 minutes for dailies once a day" players.
That said, it actually turns out that even just buying pebbles is difficult, which I wasn't expecting. I've been trying to offer gems for pebbles (figuring I could then later convert the pebbles on LW to MS), but even that's been really difficult to find. So it seems like, in general, KS items on LW are oversaturated, but currency in general is highly prized, with wolves being somewhere in between.
"Yeah, I think LW genuinely does a pretty good job of balancing the tightrope between hardcore 16-hour-a-day grinders and "log in for 5 minutes for dailies once a day" players."
The pebbles you get for not excessively grinding though generally can't be used to buy much for you on the site though, at least not right now. KS backers also get help from the big pebble rewards their companions give them, but not everyone bought into the KS.
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Re: da
(Anonymous) 2023-05-31 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)If wolf customization leads to cooler/prettier wolves at some point, LW might have some staying power.
Re: da
(Anonymous) 2023-06-01 04:41 am (UTC)(link)I think, personally, it points to LW having staying power barring some sort of active colossal fuck-up that sends people away in droves (nerfing WW encounter rate looked like it had potential but also felt like people overreacting, and it was reverted within hours). It'll be interesting to see how it goes.
Re: da
(Anonymous) 2023-06-01 05:37 am (UTC)(link)If enough people join and start spending real money to buy currency and put that into circulation, it might get closer to FR's levels of feasibility of acquiring premium currency without spending money.
Re: da
(Anonymous) 2023-06-01 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)That said, it actually turns out that even just buying pebbles is difficult, which I wasn't expecting. I've been trying to offer gems for pebbles (figuring I could then later convert the pebbles on LW to MS), but even that's been really difficult to find. So it seems like, in general, KS items on LW are oversaturated, but currency in general is highly prized, with wolves being somewhere in between.
Re: da
(Anonymous) 2023-06-03 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)The pebbles you get for not excessively grinding though generally can't be used to buy much for you on the site though, at least not right now. KS backers also get help from the big pebble rewards their companions give them, but not everyone bought into the KS.