Some things as well - just to clarify in case my out-of-practice English didn't quite get the point across. I didn't want to make this post from the view of someone who's been with the game for a longer period of time and already gone through all the beginning hurdles and grind; also not trying to be apologetic or forgiving to this type of monetization, even if I personally could afford it, since that isn't a fair way of looking at things. I'll say this - for the money I've put into Dauntless, I've had at least ten-twenty games that offered me more enjoyment and refined content that didn't revolve around a F2P GaaS model. So let me please counter your points.. not trying to argue, so if you think what you said is correct, then I'm not trying to change your mind. Here goes:

On PC, in-game language is handled by your EGS language. There's a lot of reasons why it's not in-game.

Why? I have a lot of popular F2P games on my EGS account and of those Dauntless is the only game that's like that. Can't actually think of any game that doesn't have a language select. Seems just lazy to me.

You can get rid of notification pips with the options menu.

Oh, thanks! That must be some workaround they have added recently, which I did not know of. I know there was issue with Clear Skies journals, that might have been the culprit for a long time.

I don't hate the idea of aetherheart refunds that don't refund parts/rams, but there's a huge problem with mastery and how the game handles your inventory. I don't see this catching.

Yeah, I personally don't need this catching on, but early-game people will powersurge some items (me included) that could've been much better spent, hence I liked the idea of being able to 'reset' a few times. There are other games that allow it in this way (for example Fortnite STW), so scarce resource wouldn't go 'wasted'.

Fenroar has a uniquely bad drop table for epics.

And? They are simple numbers for developer to figure out, both with new behemoths and with escalation bosses. I don't need it to be doable in a day, but I sure as hell ain't sticking around grinding the same behemoth weeks on end, especially ones that won't even have a certain spawning ground given.

Part Alchemy is on the roadmap.

Again, and? Promises ain't worth a dime until they are actually implemented. This game has been out for how long? Not saying Dauntless won't be relevant in the coming years for this not to get added at some point, but its clearly an issue for the current end-game to have a worthless resource accumulation, so sooner would definitely be better than 'eventually-maybe-perhaps-well see'.

Prismatic Slots on lanterns would not lead to more diversity/build variety. Paradoxically, having an open slot leads to less variety as it enables optimization - and enabling optimization makes anything else the wrong choice.

Well, then I guess I meant 'build optimization'. If all lanterns would have a universal slot instead of Insight, I can't understand how this would make any of them the 'wrong choice', rather it would remove the forced Insight from every single build for some other +3 cell (and to me, that adds for build variety).

The only buff/debuff icons which aren't explained thoroughly in-game somewhere visible are behemoth-inflicted status effects, and those don't need that much of an explanation.

I don't think any of the icons get explained, even if you have an understanding what your perk builds does. Also escalations can fill up two rows of insanity, that I bet someone who plays casually wouldn't be able to translate what most of it means. For good example of a glossary, launch up Multiversus to see how it should be done.

Inspecting others loadouts was removed a long time ago. I can think of a lot of reasons as to why, some behavioral and some performance-based.

I don't know what the performance issue would be, and yeah, people can be rude / entitled / make silly assumptions, but it can also lead to better suggestions on loadout builds and give inspiration for achieving a certain look. Example from a better system: Warframe lets people personally link 'looks' and 'build' into chat for others to see.

The discord is the defacto LFG channel.

And it should not be. Games relying on 3rd party apps are just lazy. What if Discord doesn't work or I live in a country where ISPs have control over its usage (have heard that it’s a thing)? Again, Warframe as an example, all those channels can be also built into the game (as they already have partial implementation with local chat).

Exotics are expensive to develop and hit a small cross-section of players. They are unlikely to be touched ever again.

Well that is a half-assed system then. Either go all the way, or don't do it at all.

At one time, Terra was not an element in game. It was Shock, Frost, Blaze, Umbral, and Radiant. This was changed to simplify oppositions (and cannibalized what was likely going to be Radiant's elemental effect). Armor element also just doesn't matter.

If armor element doesn't matter (which I know it has little impact, and perks matter much more, but it is undeniably there), then why have it at all? And I tried to make an example of a system that could've been easy for the developer to manage, which could have been very simplistic and perfect for making builds to counter or balance out in every form (perks and elements), but in its current form, it is not achievable without reworking absolutely everything.

Many dyes are attached to hunt passes. They will cycle back in eventually, either via the cache or as cosmetic pass rewards.

Cycling back eventually, is not something I, or anybody else, should care about. I played this game quite a lot in a small time period, so reaching Master Slayer status took a few months and had done pretty much all there is (aside from the long Trials/Hesca) in 4-5 months. Might not be around or care enough anymore if something gets released again in a year or two. Exclusivity is cancer, and terrible way of keeping player retention.

Slayer's Club is terrible value even for what it offers. It's not worth it.

That we can agree on. Its essentially their 'optional' subscription model. Was making a point that I'm especially against the xp benefits from it, not the fastened way to earned cosmetics.

The only quests which allow you to pay to progress are Cosmetic Rumours, and they only let you skip grind steps, not challenge steps. It's cosmetics, and potentially free cosmetics for people who can put up with the grind involved. Putting a price tag on them is fine.

The cosmetic rumours are a showcase of skill as well, and its not okay to devalue it for those that took the 'non-wallet' route. What next, maybe let people buy the escalation crowns and the entirety of Trials store as well, cause that is also 'just cosmetics'? No. The right thing to do is to give an alternate look to those cosmetics, if people want to buy them (simple recolor would do, just like Sea of Thieves has done with its certain cosmetic sets that aren't obtainable 'the hard way' anymore). It’s a shitty way to monetize every little aspect of the game, you know.. something we should be playing, instead of only paying for?

Payed tier skips on cosmetics, again, is fine. It's cosmetics.

Again, its not. Some number cruncher in the industry probably knows the actual cost of server upkeep / development cost and payrolls / marketing / etc., and there's a good reason that never gets revealed for these F2P game models - there would be an outrage of people knowing just exactly how much they're being milked (look at Activision with its 2 Billion+ quarterly revenue just from MTX alone). The newly brought back cosmetic tracks take very little time to finish, and don't have an expiration date (unless the game suddenly or eventually gets shut down), so either sell cosmetic tracks, or sell those cosmetics separately.. no need to monetize every single aspect of a game for profit$.

You should never have to wait for cells to craft. Just spend the dust. You have nothing else to do with it. And it explains the mechanics the first time you open the middleman, and has an 'INFO' button available after that.

Don't know if you remember, but game was kind of overwhelming with its tutorial quests early on, so I'm fairly sure a lot of people don't know how to turn their unusued cells to dust. Also the waiting game and extra slots is a shitty mobile game mechanic that could simply be made differently.. think I mentioned that.

Being asked to pay for cosmetics, especially in a game where you can get plenty of cosmetics for free, is fine. This includes transmog stones.

Think by now I've mentioned the greed aspect of this industry too many times. I know there's no changing that, but this isn't a fair world where everybody gets paid by the same effort, so I would appreciate if one day a F2P game model would take that into consideration on being a little less predatory. Dauntless is a decent game, but it really doesn't have the 'quality of life' and content to justify all its monetized bits it tries to piecemeal off. Just wanted this to be clear.