Yes, and people have complained about most if not all of those btw.
The new model just adds a sense of urgency with FOMO apparently, and Bazaar items have been quite consistently more than “just cosmetics”, so my personal view is that it’s just more visible and more present than before but still the same issue 
I would put Siptah aside if Siptah content was never made available in the Exiled Lands.
Siptah Weapons would stay in Siptah; Siptah owners would not have an advantage over non-Siptah owners since they wouldn’t meet on Siptah, and they would be the same on the Exiled Lands.
On that note, the Stormglass is equivalent to Reinforced Stone, but Floatsam is not equivalent to Sandstone (use more wood and less stone, giving the opposite crafting option) which does fall into the debatable “P2W” territory if you ask me.
I don’t recall if the siptah slave armors also have a base game equivalent or not, but they also give an advantage in knowledge/feat points, because you don’t need to spend feat points to learn them. This can also be considered “P2W”.
The weapons and armors however are crafted with Eldarium and learnt on Siptah, so if Exiled Lands and Siptah were fully separate (as they should IMO) then there wouldn’t be any issue with them 
It was never advertised as 200 slots. The only people ‘duped’ into buying it was those listening to a youtuber who was like, “Look at this, get this and you get an advantage over regular chests!”
A youtuber who very well knew the cabinet was about to get fixed at that.
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erjoh
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If you remember, you crossed that line first with commenting on Pokemon playstyles. You still haven’t shown battle tests of how these are meta or even remotely useful in pvp. To which I equate your testing to the vid offered by Tera. PvE benefit for sure but not proven op since authority build was used.
Tera
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thing is-i test 3 cimmerian zombies(10k hp each) with autority build+ well trained perk against arena champion.Champion kill them and still have 50 percent hp.So you cant compare them with snake
erjoh
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What food are you using? If memory serves right, brimstone is a good source for healing. Without healing, all followers die.
Oduda
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Easiest method is not always the best method. Why would one settle for the easiest way out if there is a better solution. I mean, the skins already exist in game for the giant snakes, they do not event need to make a new design. Just take the existing one and add that to an item (such as the egg I mentioned) to skin the pet snake just like you can with the battlepass snake skin and you have a BETTER solution. Is it easier? Potentially not, but still better and you will make more people satisfied. For one you will A). not piss off the people who already have the battlepass snake and have it get nerfed (everyone is already sick of their pets / thralls getting nerfed into the ground) and B). you will provide a better and equivalent snake option to the rest of the players as a base game option.
So you could go with your option and leave everyone pissed off because those who paid had better items (for a time) with no base game equivelent without providing others with an option to earn the same item AND you will piss off those who HAD the item which is now garbage in comparison to how it used to be. Which solution would you prefer as the end user? 
EDIT: And I would like to point out that I neither have any snake pets nor have unlocked the battlepass high enough to get the giant snake yet so I don’t care about the snake personally. I’m just pointing out that for someone who has not purchased the battlepass, or who might join the game just after this battlepass is over, there is no in game equivalent for them to possibly earn. Sure it might not look the same but that’s not the point. The look of the item is not the issue, that’s cosmetic. The statistics are what happen to be relevant here.
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erjoh
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Yeah it definitely sucks in that sense and I’m with you on easiest isn’t the best and most of the time that is true. But the reality of the situation is outside of fixing game crashing bugs and preparing the new content, how much time do they have to tweak the systems in a holistic way that seems to be the agreed upon solution from the player base? On top of that, where is that in the headline (IE original post) of this issue? I’ll go off on a limb here and say Den and team don’t have the time to scour through the messages that Andy’s team forward to him. So like anyone else that is multitasked to the core, you look at the ‘headline’ of the complaint. Maybe skim scroll through for anything that jumps at you and then if you agree (which we can all agree that the base cobra and the giant snake are different) then make the adjustment to equate them using the simplest approach because you got your bandwidth focused on how to make PVE trebs damaging to the stygian base and not to the others, or what is so dang different about PVEC that makes it more taxing on PS community, or create fancy battering ram weapons that do damage to building but not make it OP for PVP (IE bring Siege Hammer mechanic back as a functional raiding tool again)
Tera
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Zombies is different from old undeads and best food for them is feral flesh(of course number 9 but 10 is heart of hero and they not stack and is rare).Just boss damage is high and food regen in short fight not to much helps.Problem is different-arena champion have 97 percent damage reduction an zombies dont do normal damage after all nerfs(and dont have armor).
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The drug supplier never gets busted for selling it. Just why do you think there is a beta server? It certainly isn’t for testing.
The best solution is to simply not create the problem. And your solution would require too much effort… isn’t cost effective. So you know it wont happen.
Oduda
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Well yes, but the problem has already been created so we cannot pretend that it isn’t.
Taemien
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Public Beta or Closed? I’ve played on both, and you’re severely lacking in information, context, or experience with that one.
Public beta, seems to be more a prerelease for video producers.
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This has been the case since the first DLCs - you get feats without spending feat points. Originally I found this problematic.
But these days, feat points are unlimited, you can get more by playing the game. and has been for quite some time now. So just “you don’t need to spend feat points for this” is hardly an advantage anymore.
dorpie
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Im pretty sure they would get more people to buy stuff if they actually fixed the bazaar prices.
The thing is game has always been a little bit p2w before but they also always tried to fix it somehow. With bazaar they said to us it wont be p2w and price on stuff would be looked into after they got enough of feedback and such.
Im pretty sure they got the feedback that the prices is to high for most people. But they simply dont give a dam since other people compensate for it and giving them the money they probably need to keep it alive for a little bit longer.
It’s just sad to see how the game is digging it’s own grave.
There’s not a lot of games out there that is like conan exiles if they really took that in advantage and developed it better, im pretty sure it would be as successful in the long run as Rust or Ark.
I have always hated the battle pass. “Sharpens my sword with rocks”.
I’ve given up on that one.
It’s funny to me people think bazaar prices are “broken”, they are priced exactly how they want them to be and tencent probably loaned them one of their monetization experts to really help them iron out the system. The reason the prices are so high is because they are aware that most people will not buy them, but they don’t need to because they aren’t trout fishing they are whale fishing. There are many people in this game who own damn near everything they’ve ever sold in the bazaar… that is the target audience not normal players.
If people stopped buying the stuff I can 100% guarantee you the prices will go down, but they won’t so yeah just give it up at this point.
So? Who’s gonna build a giant alpha snake army in PVP servers?
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dorpie
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Yes me too ofc. Just mentioning it. I dont get how they thinking.
erjoh
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I can just see it now. Your game crashes as the sound of 200 snakes rendering hit your system from the server when you get within a grid square of the target.
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