Yess!! <3
I agree with everything Zeuss, Redd and Lurvi are saying ....
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This wasn't true when the game didn't suck, and I'm talking about 2010, you want the gear, you earn it, and you have to play solo, raid and do 6 mans to get it, and a lot of it was challenging content. This is a rather recent thing that started with the world boss and has continued to the raid finder which has ruined PvE.
As in 2016 you're not wrong there at all and current players are either aware of that and enjoy it for what it is or are masochists. The game has no substance anymore and and there's no coming back from the mistakes they've made.
I remember serious discussions in the old days, about raid gear not being sufficiently superior to loot from Khitai dungeons. But these were educated discussions, which focused on incentive effects (you need to give people incentives to invest time in raids) versus appropriate rewards (as, prior to the big nerf, some Khitai dungeons were considerably more demanding on the individual player than raids).
You cannot have an educated discussion about the mess we are in now. The incentive effects are counterproductive from a business perspective (as players are not incentivised to form social bonds, which are the main contributor to player retention in MMOs), and the risk-to-reward balance is just a joke. What makes me scratch my head though is that none of the business people at FC seems to be concerned about this. But I guess further losses don't really matter as long as sugar daddy pays...
hitting the nail on the head here.
draining what is left of a playerbase so greedily. instead of keeping the game healthy, which matters. Not only for exisiting players, but there are players returning. I see on youtube very often, names with thousands of subs doing a replay/review of the aoc of today, or trying it out for the first time. Like reddsghost said, it's still a totally unique game, almost 10 years after.
I mean, raid finder and arena wouldn't be bad additions to the game. sadly they are so poorly tuned, and forced on us... I feel we were close to getting fixes done to the arena, as the devs at the very least were answering some PMs we sent after its release, but now it's completely out of reach.
With raidfinder, we were pleading not to make those rings/tokens RF exclusive, but not a single response...
lacking communication, what is next? is there something community manager could do? =)))
I agree on all.. but not much to say really.. they completely destroyed PvE as well, after PvP was already dead.
Personally, I stopped playing also for personal real life stuff.. but moving from playing a game 40+ hours per week to ZERO - ZERO, I haven't logged on for months - means they really have destroyed everything.
Sad to say, for real.. makes me said to write this after all the time spent in game during last few years, but playing this game now is completely dumb, as the game is.
Not that wasting time on a videogame ever deserved a nobel prize.. but at least this game was challenging, fun.
Now it's seriously 100% a waste of time imo.
..and it's not going to improve
"The trend of slowly declining revenues on the
current Live Game portfolio is expected to continue
as in previous quarters due to the ageing of the
games. The Company will continue to support the
current Live Games as long as they continue to
contribute positively to the Company’s results"
Source: http://cdn.funcom.com/investor/2016/...rt_2016_Q3.pdf
Cheers Euklid
Free "translation" : "This is going to ****,eventually we 'll pull the plug unless by some miracle players sub our unattractive sub vs f2p model"
I thaught raid finder and giving "the casual masses" what they want would increase the revenues...what in the world went wrong?Could it be the awesome shop ?Could it be the lack of content?Could it be the crap content additions that made 90% of the rest of the game obsolete?NO!It's Ageing....purely !
For me its simple, they stopped having any interest in this game other then to collect the few subs they still receive , AoC is nothing but a cash grab to work on other games, has been ever since TSW , the updates they release are sloppy and lazy, easy cheap content to keep the remaining subs paying, They can not even be bothered to reply on the forums 99% of the time, is zero activity from them , Hell look how long the new sub revamp has taken, its beyond a joke , This was a great game back in the day, but Funcom insist on giving us the content they think we want, not the content we actually ask for, For how long has the PvP community been asking for more mini maps, more pvp lvls, pvp vanity gear and so on, In Pve, whats being planned for the next Tier of raiding, they just sit there in silence cashing our subs and putting it into other ventures, Now more then likely Conan Exiles, but who is going to trust them and buy that , only the most die hard would be foolish enough to trust them to come up with the goods there as well.
Funcom i love the way you bought Conan to life, but you lost your way a long long time ago...