Originally Posted by
Spaartacus
You guys are really delusional.
How many new players do you guys see stay and play? 99% of them you see for 2 weeks and by the end of that you wont see them again, I guarantee you. They get targeted ASAP in pug mini games, guess who gets pad farmed in pug mini the most? New players. Guess who dies 17+ times on a winning team? New players. Guess who hates pvp in this game right now? New players. They are leaving in masses.
It doesn't matter what % winning chance PUG mini offers, new players gets the worse end of the stick regardless. Also the 50/50 Pug win is not true. That is only true if everyone is 100% equal in skill/gear/AA/classes are balanced. Right now its 90% bad/new players, 10% decent/good players. The pug win/loose chance is purely luck based, I had time where 3 hours of pug mini all got pure farmed and lost. This is happening more often.
Pug mini also brings the AFKers, it is getting worse and worse. Vote kick isn't an option as you said the population dose not support it. Why are they going afk? well they have no incentives to play, they only play for tokens and if they see no chance of getting that token they will not play. PVP became meaningless in mini games. These players kept thinking as long as they avoid pvp get that token so they can be pvp 7+ they'd be able to compete.
Guess what? News flash they wont do any better than they did before. If they sucked, they will still suck. Its like saying, hey I don't know how to play soccer, I can run but I don't know teamwork or soccer in general, but let me wait a year and buy new soccer gear I bet that will make me good at soccer. See how ridiculous that sounds? Reality is, if you are bad you will remain bad no matter the gear/level. That is why its so crucial to learn the basics and fundamentals of pvp and group pvp early on. How did you think the good players started? Not just in video games, in sports in real life in general, they faced challenges and confronted them instead of avoiding it, thus they got better at the game.
Another thing I don't understand is why do you all kept on saying "pug stomp" What do you call the matches in every other mmo or online games that ends in a better team slaughtering the other? Do they just force them all to split up? In games like Battlefied and Counter strike, matches ends in farming and or even worse than pad farms in aoc. Man up
Why do you guys have this mentality that we are the only guild on the server that will sign up with 6 BEST possible PLAYERS every single minute of the hour/ 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week. NEWS FLASH not all of us even play at the same time.
What happened to other guilds? Are there no one out there that has guildies, friends or groups that can sign up?
You know back in 2009, we had to make premade groups with random people to sign up, we had team barbs, team hox, team tos etc whatever it is we had fun. We'd even beat the premades too with our pug premade team. That's the joy you get for a challenge.
So what im saying is, allowing 1-2 players to sign up together could benefit everyone. No longer can people just sit afk and expect team to do all the work, no longer can people expected to be carried 24/7 no longer can people just tunnel vision on either kd whore or objectives. People would have to play as a team now to win. New players would greatly benefit too, because they could team up with good players to sign up and have a much better chance at pvp and winning. The new players would actually have chance and the incentives to get better at pvp. On top of that funcom will get tons of veterans coming back to the game.
Stop looking at negative side of things and see what positive things it can bring.