Common sense

[Pinkleet]

It is so common these days is not even funny. The lack of knowledge of the designers of their own game, the lack of understanding why people play the game. Take a look at Wildstar (MMO) as a recent example.

WS gave hard content - fail as most players are casuals who don't have time to spend 6hrs a day to raid.
Beefing up TSO and shifting time spend to managing your island instead of doing adventures - rings a bell?

WS reward for doing content was a complete mess - fail as most players don't even find raiding worth it.
Nerfing loot in adventures beyond the point of players finding it worth of doing - rings a bell?

WS pvp was (still is) a mess and end game pvp is just pure horror with imbalances of classes - fail most pvp crowd already left the game.
Introducing pvp without pvp essentials (score boards, matchmaking system, duel invitations, guild/friends matches possibilities -rings a bell?

WS dev team went into silence after overwhelming number of players express their disappointment and left the game - when no answers were given by devs.
If you read test forums you notice a lot of frustration - no clear explanation was given to how and why changes are needed, moreover testers kept proving to devs with the hard core numbers it will not work - and still no answer from design team - rings a bell?

If a designer of a game can't predict a simple consequence of shifting few numbers in the code, as testers caught quite few times on test as some changes being just illogical (don't want to use harsh language) than something is terribly wrong.

The simple truth is this: You guys design the game it is your work, but we play it. If the game becomes a chore (or rather if the chores part of the game outweigh the fun - its over. Your game is gonna tank no matter how much fluff you put in it. It is a proven historically formula. No game in history of MMO survived a complete overhaul.

From test server most people were open up to a change until the numbers started coming up over and over again magnifying the scale and the result of the combat balance. Then a snow ball effect was in full swing ending even in a whole guild openly asking on forums what's going on.. Till today no one even answered it...

You guys are designers, not gods. As we all, you CAN make mistakes we understand. Communicate, give directions of what you are planning or thinking of, poll it up on forums rather this will enhance the playing experience or the opposite. Yes you will have to endure some whines, but there will be plenty of respectful feedback in it. And even in whines there is a grain of truth too. Last 2 years of us asking, whining, complaining about more space. The truth was we needed it.

[Troll-Phu]

can you plz complain in smaller posts? you lose me on the first line

[Snacknado]

im going to go ahead and complain about your list of complaints, its getting old.....

[RachelGreene]

The lack of knowledge of the designers of their own game, the lack of understanding why people play the game.

While there ARE some new business models emerging, please let's bear in mind that BlueByte management is, I feel safe to assume, still operating under the archaic notion that Success is equivalent to Profit...

Under this model, we (the players) are nothing more than a resource to be harvested, and any proposed changes for the game are most likely induced by management's perception of what they think their competitors are doing, despite the fact that "Free to Play" must be such an alien concept to their reptilian manner of thinking.

Meanwhile, they offer us a few concessions now and then, in order to maintain the appearance that the player community is something important to them, but they are already aware that we are powerless - the only way to get their attention is to hit 'em where it hurts: in the pocket-book! (and they believe this is impossible, since we are only allowed to speak as individuals, as opposed to having a single voice.)

If BB Management had any amount of Common Sense, they might try to offer us a means to negotiate some kind of Partnership between the Dev Team and the Player Community, but that sort of innovation and creativity may be too far outside their comfort zone (even though word-of-mouth would probably double their player base in just a few weeks - judging by the amount of lag lately, bigger market-share doesn't seem to be a priority..

[Perwyn]

im going to go ahead and complain about your list of complaints, its getting old.....

+1

[Hobknocker]

It is so common these days is not even funny.

You realize, I hope, that your first sentence, coupled with your thread title ... makes NO FREAKING SENSE AT ALL, RIGHT?

[Aurboth]

Could we get all these whines moved onto the same thread? They seem to be spread out to every other topic and thread.

[Moonlime]

I haven't read them. Sorry, but it's too long.

[Spikescopilot]

I think that all translates to: "Spikescopilot will rage quit when her gem mines run out. Create your Ares account NOW."

[Troll-Phu]

better yet transfer to zeus and send that stuff to me