I want to start a topic regarding concerns that have been expressed to me and in the chats.   1) Costs of items. Many items have a highly prohibitive cost and no way to obtain without spending an exorbitant amount of money. Many of the recent "events" have included so very nice prizes, but require spending amounts of money that are just ridiculous. Calculations on the panda mount during a recent event would have required someone who wanted the item to spend $800. This amounts to an entire months rent or a down payment on a car. No digital item can be worth this. We understand having premium pay-to-win style items. VIP is a great example of this implemented in a positive way. But when something as central to this type of game as wings requires at minimum a $20 expenditure and isn't even permanent, this is near-sighted and not customer friendly. 2) Many of the games higher level features are inaccessible to someone who can't/won't spend money. Items such as Talent Cards, Astral Engraving materials, and Breakthrough Stones are not available to obtain in any way other than purchasing with gold. In many cases you need an amount of gold far beyond what can be easily earned through normal playing. And that's in the rare cases when you can use "Reward" gold and aren't required to use "Refilled" gold. This is driving away many non-cash players. 3) Gold should be gold. No more of this "refilled" vs "reward" stuff. 4) Resource scarcity. Some resources, specifically mithril, is unobtainable in quantities that can be useful. Molding requires such high amounts of the material, but you acquire it at a rate 1/10th of the other materials used for molding. I currently, for example, have enough Rank 2 Diamonds and Metorites to mold 2 thunder swords. However I only have a quarter of the mithril needed to mold just one. This rate of return makes no sense.   These are just a few things I have heard from players and feel like I should be bringing to the attention of those who can make a change. Please take this under advisement before more great players leave this game.   thanks. 

Had previously opened this topic and had it closed. Needed my guild to level again to verify. Previous response is below. The problem, however, is that the reward chest does not give gold or tickets. Can you take a look please? http://forums.creagames.com/index.php?/topic/707-guild-level-reward-gold/&do=findComment&comment=3864