There are probably a lot of players who would come back to play once it seems like there are no more exploits floating around every other day - IF they can come back to a fresh start server where none of those people who rushed to 60, got their watermark and got their crafting by taking advantage of all the stuff that got fixed/nerfed exist.
Boar farming, hatchet bug, killing bosses that should not even have been reached, killing bosses that can’t fight back, town board quest exploit - none of this resulted in anyone being punished. They only banned for duping, and everyone cheesing their way up to max their level, craft, watermark are laughing.
I can’t be alone with being willing to give the game another chance and start again from scratch - on a server where THOSE people do not exist.
The crazy thing is they didn’t even ban all the dupers, people have shown proof of still having duped voidbent sets and trophies with no repercussions.
Yeah, been playing since day 1, hit 60 pretty early, but decided to spend my time pvping and crafting instead of watermarking, because it seemed a viable path to basically equal strength. But now I’m slammed way down beneath players with the same hours played simply because I didn’t choose to run chests and picked one of the other options to get gear.
You may not be alone. I do not think you are even a minority. BUT that number is not infinitesimal. The real question is what supports your faith in the product to even consider such a course?
So yeah, i’m really worried there will be a large portion of the current player base who will get to abuse the advantage they received from using said exploits like “hatchet”, “instant respawn bosses”, “unnerfed chest / priest runs”, etc. A lot of people will be GODS for months before people ever catch up… That can’t go well for any game.
My take is that we just have to take it for GS 600. However, when the new gear comes in with 650 (whatever it will be) the old system/advantages becomes defunct.
I was actually surprised they didnt wait for the new tier to make the expertise change.
AGS will be rewarding these players by converting all their watermarks (a mechanic that had NOTHING to do with gear performance when they leveled it) into expertise and giving them an unfair advantage over other players in the game.
This ^ will be consistent with how AGS has always rewarded players that exploit and take advantage of bugs in game for an unfair advantage over others. They drag their feet for weeks allowing them to spam these exploits, keep the loot, keep the watermark level, and now they will double down on rewards by handing these players conversion points on a mechanic most exploited to get which had NOTHING to do with the reward AGS will be unfairly handing to them for gear performance.
The tentacle is slow as hell. The two priests in Myrkguard were significantly faster before they nerfed them. Right now, Sirens boss loop is only significantly quick way to level WM and that caps at 577.
I’d consider rejoining a fresh server in the future. Not now. AGS still clearly do not have a handle on the technical side of an MMO. Still making technical mistakes that mmo’s made 20 years ago. Its astonishing really.
My actual hope is that like a year from now they do like a whole game relaunch with new fresh servers. If I dont feel like the game will be hit with game breaking bugs over and over, I’d be done to play.1
Agreed. I would much prefer AGS stop wasting their time trying to patch their way out of this mess they’ve created. It’s obvious this is just a beta.
They need to shut this shit down and dedicate that time to fixing the fundamentals of this game. They can bring it back in a year in a working state after they’ve settled on a fucking direction.
