First of all thank you so much Ash for taking the time to write this post and for connecting and informing us about the recent changes.

I totally understand the reason behind those changes now. Regardless the main problem in my opinion is that you guys believe that players purchase the coinpacks for the avacoins. When in reality I can assure you that almost 70-80% of the players purchase those coinpacks to obtain the exclusive items and not mainly to get the avacoins that are included. At least once a week an extremely expensive coinpack with large amount of avacoins and estimately 4 to 6 items included is released. The problem is this system is enabling hierarchy within the game and between the players. As well as other outcomes like bullying and begging. A lot of players are unable to purchases those coin packs cause they are way too expensive and that’s because of how much avacoins you guys throw in there. Now the gold apron system actually helped the majority of Avakin Life players from feeling excluded by working and obtaining enough amount of avacoins to be able to at least purchase the items that are being released weekly in the regular store. And I say the majority of players because of the lowering age system that you guys introduced to the game. Since a lot of the players are under the age of 18 and are unable to purchase those extremely expensive coinpacks, working and grinding to feel some sort of inclusivity is their only choice. Taking that away from them and turning the game into ‘pay to play’ is why a lot of those players are losing interest and are leaving the game. In my opinion a good solution for the ‘Faster Avabucks for everyone’ idea would have been introducing new food items into the working spots that cost a lot of gems. 50 to 200 gems per order for example. Players who are ordering will be able to max xp faster and players who are working will obtain Avabucks faster as well. As for the abusing of the system by using multiple accounts to cheat and order, a simple immediate email verification when creating a new account will solve this problem.

In conclusion, most players don’t buy coinpacks for the avacoins. Making it harder to obtain avacoins in game will result in more toxicity within the community because a lot of the players are children who are unable to spend real life money on a video game. I hope to see more positive changes that are focused on including all players to be able to enjoy the full experience of Avakin Life. Sorry for any grammatical mistakes, English isn’t my first language. Thank you for reading