I will pass your suggestions on.....

some of the changes we have made, is reducing the amount of daily exp gains and where exp can be gained....this will slow down leveling but its being down to address concerns over AFK playing, account sharing and power leveling....

2 part reason for that, one player threatened to create macros in order to gain exp and 2 because of the way players acted in COA with power leveling than complaining we rebalance the whole game to match their weakened builds....

The scrolls in game, yes, the price is high.... .The plan at this stage is to have the scrolls also in events.....

at this stage we are not changing the diamond cost of the skills because 1) the recharge cost has not been finalised and 2) player decisions on game play..... and 3) we have not finished with version updates.....

the overall plan is for RoG to be a game where players ( free and paying ) can get all items in the game, the question is how can they do it...and that is where psychology profiling comes into it... AKA the Pay 2 win player ( power leveler / big spender, ego driven ) the gamer who will play the game long term and also spend but spend wisely and plan their character, knowing that changes to the game, will change their decisions, the sole/ team player who knows that working with others, works to their best advantage, in guilds etc... the free player who can not recharge but wants to enjoy the game and play.....etc

so yes we have considered how to get things in the game with options like pay for and also level based unlock, which gives both paying and free players the ability to gain in game.... but also with guilds coming ( player requested ) the GvG battles that give guild members exp that they can use to buy items in the guild shop...

thats why scroll prices have not changed at this stage...

its a very fine line we walk here and I am expecting players to complain

1) I paid for x item why should other players get it for free.... answer you wanted it immediately, they had to work for it.....we need to keep the game in balance as best we can

2) its not fair that we have to work and wait for items, while others can buy it and get a big advantage over us.....answer, one person does not a army make, the system allows a team of weaker players to over power a stronger player....

ok, VIP system....

now yes, I can read your mind, there is not much on offer to vips for their money.....

vip is based around what you recharge... if players recharge just for vip, it makes no sense....thats like spending a fortune on recharging just for vip where as its what you buy in the shop that will really define a players spending...

and in that, is where we are running into problems with VIP benefits as the majority of what may be suggested, is already in the shops and available to all players....

there is also the card system in the shop ( 4th tab at the top ) where you can purchase a daily, weekly or monthly game that gives you free items each day for the period of the card....

BUT we are considering options like unique skins for items and skills, that will allow VIP players to stand out from other players.....however we want to do it in a way that does not unbalance the game...

dungeon drops..... thats a hard one.. I will ask about that, but the higher level weapons and armour are intended to be harder to find

pet system is already mostly finished, as I have shown with the teaser image, there is now 3 slots not one, that gives the player a chance of what pet they use because each dungeon is different and so is open world combat/ pvp..... but the pet does not fight in arena with you

I will ask about pet arena and pet arena tournaments... like a 3 vs 3 pet battle sequenced or all at once

and because I am a nice person.....

me and my novels.....

I am going to be honest with all players reading thing.... YES RoG is intended to make money, just like any game... thats the main requirement of a game is to make money and cover costs.....thats the nature of business and we can not change that......but we are gamers we understand the dynamics of servers and how cashers can see it is in their best interests to help the other players in their guild and also on the server as nobody likes playing on a dead server....but also nobody likes playing on servers where there is players abusing the system....

its for that reason that we are going to allow the players to help and support each other such as with the guild system where team work in guild battles means that the guild can benefit with guild shop credits to buy items that may also be diamond items.... but we are saying no to a in game market for selling items to other players .....

Unfortunate and unfair as it sounds, the decision has been made in the best interests of the game and servers......

as many years of experience in gaming has taught me that while the majority of players are honest, genuine and caring players, there is the small group that will abuse any market system and this does generate a lot of anger, and complaints to game staff with calls to ban the players, which results in a lot of extra work for the staff to check logs and when we do find that while there is abuse of game markets, there is no breaches of the game rules... and when we take no action, the game staff get abused.......

Another change to the game that I forget to add is that skill exp is gained from combat now...so as you do dungeons your skills increase

scraps thanks for the feedback, the devs have made changes to vip based on the feedback......

and as a thanks, I will give you some screenshots of some of the pets that are replacing the merc system, ithey are already in the english dev server now

Btw, there is only 2 players in the first screenshot, one in the second.....

Always good to hear one's time in whatever capacity has been appreciated. 

Should me eyes not be deceiving me I'm seeing humanoid "pets". (Insert crude S&M joke)

I look forward to whenever this next rendition decides to roll out, and thanks as always for doing your best to keep those of us willing to seek out the information informed. 

Also, something of a reminder, based on a snippet of your response in post #4. I can see that the intention is to attempt to harken back to a period before the extra incentive "entitlement" craze of overly indulgent rewards freely given, along with whatever the customer had decided to acquire. While I'm personally indifferent to this, as as a player there are pros and cons to either side, and however far of whichever way it leans only adjusts my own consumption; or lack there of. One must make sure you and yours are keenly aware that as this is oft the given standard for some time now; albeit to a varying degree, to lean too far away from this accepted norm may prove costly. 

there has been a lot of thought go into things.... while a cash heavy game ( loa 2 for example ) can generate a lot of money.... its geared more towards create and they will spend, where as rog is aiming more towards spend on what you need.....

so we did discuss the mounts which are now on the back burner as the idea of having ten different mounts but no real use for them, did not sit well with us..... the plan is for areas where mounts have more use, other than cash revenue....  the idea of mounts in open world pvp areas, did not sit well as having a mount giving a +60 speed boost ? thats like pitting a Lamborghini against a man with a sore leg in a race ..... and pvp with one player with a high speed advantage, would just unbalance the game so much....

The decision was made that guilds take priority at this point over mounts......

two areas came to mind with your feedback, scrolls and set items..... both are flawed systems, so the scrolls are now drops in dungeons and the set item packs are removed from the shop,,, both things will be in events.....

a major rebalancing of the game was done..... new skills and pets etc... so now its easier for a player to become a pure warrior or pure mage or pure archer...  yes I played runescape, I started when the dark green shields had only just hit the game and there was a handful of servers..... and I remember the talk about being pure ..... but for me it goes beyond that, because we also want the player to be able to see themselves in the role they play in the game.... where external chat programs can be used by players to relive the glory days of dungeons and dragons... or the arcade game gauntlet... ELF now has reflecting shot, Valkeyrie has invisibility.... sighs..

slaps myself on the face, wake up kit, stop dreaming......

Yes I am not just a online gamer, I did virtual person gaming where I role played near 50 individuals characters from vampire the masquerade, it was not common for me to be roleplaying 10 at a time, of both genders, different ages and different vampire clans and even now in RoG, in my head, I find myself living the character I play in ROG and imagine speaking as the character in world chat...... something that will become evidence when players see different forum / fb events written from the point of view as a character in the game

the majority of the game is not about winning against other players, its about challenging yourself as a gamer and thats the part that we are trying to keep......without losing the PVP side which we will increase with GVG events

 with the manual challenge in arena, you can test yourself against other players without losing ranking or challenge them for ranking... go out into the open world map and its not just PVP... its hunter / killer, you can be top in arena but that does not give you the edge in the world map because you may run into a team of players....

so yeah a lot of thinking has been done on behalf of the players and their spending...as we want to focus on spend wisely and enjoy the game more because its more interactive.....rather than say omg, 20 wings, 50 pets, 40 customes, click, pay, play and 90% of what they brought, is activated and never used again.....thats something that has never made sense to me as a gamer...... and while I played and enjoyed COA, I really did not want to spend a lot of money on avatars because to me they were only good for stats.....

so yes your feedback has been fantastic... and again in line with what the devs, AMZ staff and GMs have also said....but your feedback also is more valuable because you are the player and its players that are the life blood of a game....

lol the pets, the majority of them are mini me versions of dungeon bosses.... and as for a mini me kit version... no way to program a ego into a game lol