This is true. Had this just been a normal game with a patch, the patch notes would have said "gave you different color Hellbugs for the heck of it. Enjoy!" and we'd all be like "squee!"
However.. you have to recognize that many people would not have ever bothered buying this game in the first place had it not been advertised as an MMO (with all the expectations that come with it), in addition to the way content delivery had been hyped during development.
So, the "my $60 worth" argument doesn't really hold any water in this game, because that "$60 worth" was also packaged with a lot of hype and promises which have to still be delivered.
I don't really care that we just got hellbugs this week. I just wanted to address your comment.
TBH if at least they would have bothered to actually have a different model desing aswell... not just "lets add element and change the effect color".
But see... all the weak minded are ******ing already and Trion succeeded.
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Hard for me to even care about Rainbow colored hellbugs when simplistic crap like reversed accuracy stat and 100% broken pvp pursuits is still a issue
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Same old easy to beat hellbugs with just different skins! I honestly lmao when i first saw them,if this is trions idea of new content,im gone!
They do have new particle effects for their attacks too...
But yeah, after checking the events out, and realizing that just adding nano effects doesn't make them interesting/challenging enough, kind of disappoint.