Doubloon Currency - Developer Update

Thank you for the clarification, looking forward now to the commemorative doubloon cosmetics and what they will look like (Title guesses: Hoarder of Wealth, Doubloon Hoarder, Blue Coin Bandit etc. one of these would be fun!). Hoping I can bag myself all the items considering I have 26k-ish sitting there, but maybe it won’t be enough! 😅

Don't want exclusive new commemorative Doubloon-themed items for my Doubloons. I gathered them for a reason to buy stuff I missed in the past not be forced to buy new stuff only to those old items show up after the reset. Thats another FOMO tactic, another time limited offer, another time limited event, another hey we reset your progress so you will stay with us longer.

@sonicbob
Sharing the cost of the items ahead of release would be a good step in making sure they're right.

I think part of the outrage is from how sudden this is, with the reveal being dropped on everyone at once (insiders, public, partners, etc.)

I hope that the bilge rat weekender won't be all around pvp, bc as a solo player im sick getting attacked by brigs/gallies most of the time, while I have over 400 hourglass levels and did a lot of pvp, its just frustrating and punishable if you are solo.

Blaming veterans because you ignored doubloons for 5 years is really something.

@jumperovsky I think you're misunderstanding some things

I think a better way to go about granting these doubloon commemorative items would be to grant them based on your lifetime doubloon count rather than being able to be brought as many players' doubloon counts are extremely low due to the extortionate pricing of past season items. Missing one season could set you back nearly 10k doubloons to buy it all. If players have decided to catch up their doubloon count will be low as an insane amount of nearly 300k doubloons would be needed buy every season item.

TLDR: Players who should have enough dobloons to buy the items dont if they missed a few seasons and decided to catch up on lost items. Granting the items based on lifetime doubloon count would alleviate this issue.

@ablepirate agreed, it would be nice to have clarification on that

@bar00kablast What did i misunderstood?

Oh, so it's really the same old [announce controversial update in a video] / [explain the decision in a dev update post a few days later after the playerbase gets angry] / [change nothing and go through with the update] routine.

Also, called it re: the exclusive items that most players will never use (a title, really ?).

if most of the comunity wasnt rageing to devs, this is not a bad change. But people are egzhousted about time limited events and they are thinking this is another think to be hurried to ddont miss anything.

Thank you for clarifying all this, it's much appreciated! I'm really glad you guys are taking steps to prevent FOMO for some people at least, it would have been easy to just let them miss out. Overall I think this is all pretty good, and I'm pretty excited to see these new commemorative items and to see the Black Market.

I'm glad to see you've opted out of the usual doubloon reset in favor of converting them to gold.

One question remains: what rate will the automatic exchange take place at, @Sonicbob ?

i genuinely do not understand the thought process. some people have a lot of doubloons that's for sure. i play nearly daily and i have like 600. So if someone could point me to the magical doubloon voyage where i get hundreds of thousands of doubloons that would be awesome.

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You're joking. You announced that doubloons were gonna be reset, so I got on to spend them in advance, now you tell me that there are cosmetics for the doubloons? I DON'T HAVE THEM ANYMORE.

This has been horribly handled

And the same announcement said there would be unique rewards before doubloons were completely reset (6:13). But it's Rare's fault, not your attentiveness. /s

My thing is the reset is a worthless solution to an issue only rare created and that action won't change anything and have the exact same problems immediately.

Ive been playing since release and have 80k doubloons with nothing to spend them on because I've played through all the past seasons. When I get my doubloons reset I'll end up with thousands of doubloons with nothing to spend them on since I already have all the past cosmetics they are putting in the black market.

As a new player you need to grind thousands of doubloons to get cosmetics from previous seasons,h when the reset happens a new player will have to grind for thousands of doubloons to get cosmetics from previous updates.

There is no change , we have actually done this previously with the black market and doubloons previously. Doubloons were first used to buy from Dukes black market, for time limited items. Then that got scrapped and we used doubloons at Larinnas for recoloured event items. Then that got scrapped and the. We used doubloons for things like the barrel hide and dice emotes and now that's got scrapped. Nothing changes at all and this iteration will be no different.

@bar00kablast Could you elaborate what exactly did I misunderstood? Or you just said that just for saying that.

Great changes the best year 1 moments were meeting people doing dukes adventures and this will hopefully bring back some of that cooperative gameplay instead of just sink on sight. Looking forward to new challenges for earning doubloons just please don't make it " kill 3 megs" " do 3 forts " these new bilge rat adventures need to create stories and it can be a great chance to bring pirates together again like hungering deep did.

Well shoot. I wish I had known about the exclusives before I blew all my doubloons.

It is exactly what I said it was on the insider forums so I am just going to copy and paste my message here :

• Be Rare
• Introduce a new money for time limited cosmetics because people have too much gold
• Don't do anything with the new money for years
• Players start hoarding the new money like dragons because what else is there to do with it ?
• Add even more ways to get the (not so) new money over the years
• Still don't add anything to buy with it for years
• Player population starts free falling
• Only do FOMO content
• Player population dives even faster
• When your reputation and playerbase confidence is at an all time low announce that you are replacing the old new money with a new new money that will have the exact same theoretical purpose as the old new money
• surprisedpikachuface.png when the community is not happy about it

Rare, you brought it upon yourselves. You allowed people to hoard doubloons for years without adding anything to spend doubloons on except gold, you know, the one thing players are already drowning in despite all the gold sinks you added and now you are removing those years of grind to introduce the exact same thing but harder to get to drive player engagement up. See you in a few years if the game is still there for the next doubloon reset and the new new doubloons introduction

As I said, if you're not around during "Bilge Rats Weekender," we have no way to get a reasonable amount of doubloon since they're going to nerf other doubloon sources.

You do realize that people can't play 30 days a month, and knowing you, like with Community Week, the event will only last 2 days at most.

More gatekeeping of content reserved for those who spend their lives on the game.

It's not like I'm not used to it; in 4 years you've completely destroyed the single-player experience, creating a monstrous imbalance between solo and multicrew players with all the new tools you've added without thinking about balance.

I imagine I should expect another event where all the multicrews will gleefully focus on kill all solo players, making it unplayable like all your recent "events" and "quests" where you've made a habit of placing markers to pinpoint players' positions on the map, just to further ruin solo play as usual.

I imagine we'll have to search for Bilge Rats chests marked on the map during the "Bilge Rats Weekender" to really rub salt in the wound.

This will be a good change. Just like the weapon swap change the outrage will die down once it releases and players realise that it’s better. That’s my prediction.

While Doubloons can still be earned at sea from activities such as cashing in Reaper's Chests, earned as part of the Season Renown track, etc., these will be changed to only offer small amounts under much tighter control.

How about commendations that give doubloons? Will they be adjusted or changed to not give doubloons?

During Season 19, however, a new monthly recurring Live Event, the 'Bilge Rat Weekender' will be introduced, providing ways for crews to earn (and steal) Doubloons and browse the items held within the Black Market.

Those of us who work a lot of weekends are going to miss out on this event a lot. It's already bad enough that we rarely get the most out of a Community Weekend, now we going to miss out on a key way to get Doubloons.

Looking forward to the dublooncost anouncement, for the time limited items before the reset and a list of items that will be sold in the blackmarket, after the reset.

@bar00kablast just make sure to log in for every monthly weekend event. This totally isn't a way to create fake engagement at all.