Well I love this game too, and Iām addicted to it. And Iām also not going to pretend itās in a perfect state.
But did you play this at launch? It was REALLY not in a good state. But itās progressed since then and become a whole lot better. And they are going to keep making it better.
The difference is, I have patience, and I can understand that this stuff takes time and needs to be tested properly in every aspect before itās rolled out.
I have played every day almost since launch. Yes. The game has improved in a few areas, but still has huge issues plaguing the game that have never been fixed which why players keep quiting and quiting despite all the changes. Until they fix these glaring issues the keep ignoring the game will die. These little videos just filled with excuses just do nothing but add fuel to the fire.
i mean, its better to tell us about everything even if it gonna take a year, this make us motivated to play and grind, to get gold and stock mats but rn nothing rly to do for a lot of us
Yeah, we know thats all you heardā¦
Itās okay You guys and the devs can continue to sit there and wonder why player numbers continue to keep dropping and dropping.
Ill just drop my yt comment here:
Make the company screen useful: add current gear score, weapons, armor weight and location; add company storage; display the gold limit; add the lvl watermark; add treasury and company storage logsā¦ You already have half of those in the expedition lobby system, just port them over
There are a lot of immature people that post on these forums. A lot of people that werent around when Wow launched and experienced the same bugs, performance issues and lack of content.
The devs are explaining they want to push these new features out yesterday but they cant and the features that are coming out, were already in production and as a guess have not taken as long to complete, so may as well get them out and move on.
They have repeatedly said, pvp content is being worked on but they are not prepared to talk about it yet however they will soon.
I see youāre still filled of copium and Hopium. Good for you.
No one did ask for leaderboards to be on top priorityā¦
Yet they didā¦
They are simply awful at what they are doing. And yet you are high on copium defending them with their excuses
new content takes time and that s fine! i think the issue most ppl r having is with priority, weapon balance and challenging, meaningful pve content with proper rewards don t need new tech, it s all there, just need tweaks and understanding where the game is at. But instead we will have exploitable leaderboards consuming devs time for how long?
20 years of a successful mmo, to look at its mistakes and learn from. Clearly they didnāt.
Ya they announced a road map with 0 pvp content going forward. Then after back lash and player numbers dropping heavily, they come out and sayā weāre working on stuff behind the scenes, we just canāt talk about itā
Just a bunch of PR trying to make the player base not as upset. Iām sure they are working on stuff but it will be 2 little 2 late. Games down to 30 players again. It was at 100k in November. By March we will be at 15k or less, unless they drop something huge but currently this ptr cycle just has leaderboards which currently will do more harm than good and some pvp combat changes yet to be announced so nothing of value to really retain players. If throne and liberty drops soon, the game will die, when lost ark came out the game dropped 30k players or more. The devs donāt do anything to address the issues plaguing the game. So yeah we complain, this game has the potential to be so much more, but the devs just keep dropping the ball.
Thank god!
There is people that isnt deep on copium feed here !
you are clearly pretty ignorant to how wildly complex some of this stuff is.
I have never denied how complex it is or isnāt. That doesnāt mean itās a good look making a video full of excuses. People just want to know what features are being worked on and when itās coming. When your game is dying, and making videos like these isnāt a good look. Should be making videos talking about things to look forward to or things that might be improved in the game currently. Not just a bunch of woe me, things are hard to do to get out to our customers. Just creates more negativity and more less desire to play.
A couple of tips, the game will be fine and the first expansion is going to be huge. But they arent going to reveal everything, thats not how the entertainment industry works. Meantime you can see they are optimising the performance of the game and improving whats already there Quality > Quantity. Then when the expansion drops, the 1-60 experience will be finished months earlier, ready to embrace an influx of new players who are tired of cartoon graphics and tab target combat. Its clear there are many whining here because they can see the potential, this is going to be a great mmo soon, they just dont understand why they cant have it now. Hence the need for the videos to communicate and buy time. Bill Gates once said, video game programmers are amongst the most intelligent people in the world. Have some appreciation for how complicated it is.
Given the amount of content, balance patches and fixes that have been put out recently, the arguments in the video only make sense if you are running a 20-people team to support this game.
In that case, of course it will take 6 months to release cross-server OPRs
If you want to use analogy so try going to a regular restaurant and request the food to be ready in 1 minute, then say theyāre giving excuses when they donāt meet your expectations.
Listen, I donāt think AGS is doing a good job either but the behavior in this forum is WAY worse than AGS incompetency. We donāt even know how many people work in the game whatās their budget.
Itās pretty clear in the videos is that the devs are really invested in the game (unless theyāre very good liars) and they also want to update things asap. Are they making mistakes? OF COURSE, but game dev is a long process even in a perfect scenario.
I donāt deny that adding brand new content (new weapons, gearset storage, heck even new maps) takes a different type of mindset and resources. Whats extremely frustrating is why its taking so long to tune EXISTING items in the game to improve the user experience. And I did not hear any explanation (excuse) as to why it is taking them oh so long to tune clearly broken aspects of todayās game.
2 examples:
1.) Weapon Balancing. This isnāt new development, this is simply someone editing the giant table/database of weapon/ability damages and perks. They should be able to iterate on this quickly, and Iād love to see balance patches every 2 weeks or 1mo (even if not perfect at least start moving things in the right direction). Obviously some problems in the game related to balance canāt fit into this category (ex: delete/rework musket, delete/rework defy death perk, etc etc), but you could at least make an attempt at balancing by dropping the time of defy death or changing it from immunity to damage to 75% damage reduction within the current frameworkā¦Or on the musket change base damage if damage fallout vs. distance isnāt something in the code today. Somethingā¦Anything would be better than the 4mo broken pvp balance we still have right nowā¦
2.) Colored AOE abilities. This will probably be a controversial opinion, but donāt try to tell me that this required a ton of brand new development. Obviously the system already knows which spells are friendly and which are enemy based on whether you get healing/damage or you donātā¦So lets not pretend that some huge effort needed to be done to figure out which spells were your team vs the other team. And the game already graphically displays spells that overlap (just look at two sacreds and how they overlay today). Iām truly perplexed how this took 1 year. I mean friendly spell = #00FF00 and enemy spell = #FF0000. Done, boom, lets go (OK OK iām sure its a little harder than thisā¦but its not ātotal new developmentā)
After listening to this video it just seems that the devs are caught up / prioritizing total new development (New backend / engine optimizations for upcoming features, bigger new content or systems like gearset storage or completely redoing the influence game).
My personal opinion is AGS would benefit greatly from creating a separate ātuningā team, whose sole focus is optimizing the game within the current framework (at the bare minimum balancing pvp or gathering/crafting/loot by tuning existing knobs (tables) within the current game elements & infrastructure). Then, let there be a separate total new content (ground up team) that works on conceptually new ideas and brings them from scratch into the game. They donāt seem to be able to do both in parallel at the same time, and in my line of work thereās a reason we separate development engineering from sustaining/manufacturing engineering (organizationally). Otherwise its too easy to get sucked too far into the vortex of one vs. the other. Theyāve even mentioned in the past no one wants to work on fixing bugs in one of the dev blog videos, but people work on that then move into developing new content again. I guess tuning/fixing up the existing game systems to make a product your customers enjoy is too basic/boring of a task, and everyone in the dev team wants to work on the sexy new ground up workā¦ Sadly thereās so much bang for the buck (developer hours) that could be attained from working on the little things.
If there were ongoing balance tweaks on a regular basis, I think the community would cut the Devs a lot more slackā¦compared to us all sitting here whining as the game becomes stale for months on end.
End of the day it comes down to priorities like others said, and theyāre just doing a piss poor job of picking and choosing where to spend their limited developerās hoursā¦
Like i said in discord, sure, all this technical stuff, servers, hosts, infrastructure, code, backend and yayada surely takes time.
BUT IT IS UNANCCEPTABLE TO TAKE TIME TO BAN BOTS i do not want to wait 1-3 months to a bot get banned while a streamer get banned in 10-30 minutes of mass report FOR BOTTING AT THAT. And their response as always?? āwe dont have mass report functionā yeah rightā¦