So frustrated, that I've stopped mostly playing

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There are specific perks on gear, like Resilience that should just be disabled until they have a fix. The hatchet buff stacking that is making OPR almost unplayable is another armor perk. Fortify stacking that’s not intended, for lifestaff, again another armor perk.

With this newest patch also introducing perma bloodlust and other items that weren’t even part of the intended fixes.

AGS has continued to just allow abuse of exploits and bugs, with only gold dupe being addressed as ban-able.

I hate to agree with people, but core features of the game simply don’t work properly which is indicative of an Alpha.

What’s annoying is some have stretched back since alpha.

It’s not a timeline or expectation, but as others have said, an issue of inaction, to stop or discourage exploiting.

Again, why am I AVOIDING the best gold option for end game, why do I have to compete with bots or limited resources on extremely rare drop rates?

I don’t mind “fighting” the game to an extent, but when its 80%+ of what I’m doing, that’s when its pretty unacceptable.

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Cause they were instructed to play on a placeholder server when every original one was full. “play solo for now, then transfer with your friends later”. Thats exactly the plan of many people.

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Why are you frustrated because of game

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We expect from the game which have been 2 years in beta phase to be better at the start.
We are not beta testers any more. so stop defending them so much.

Also remember, that they are a big big company, not a small studio with 2 people. So yea, we expect more.

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Why are you on forums making such a low intellect reply?

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Yes , why ?

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I have a suspicion. Last time I saw a game so filled with bugs, was Runes Of Magic, acquired by Lameforge, I sense they might have something to do with all this. I also not playing so often as I wanted to, when I log in, I spend like 20 minutes blocking the 128787 gold sellers every single day, I’m not even near endgame content, decided not to rush and take a slow pace until the major issues are fixed.

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I can confirm they ban botters.

FOR 2 WHOLE DAYS image

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sadly i’m feeling pretty much the same… i’ve been playing NMS, which was my filler while waiting between the betas and launch, because i’m so frustrated with the state of the game. it has a lot of potential, the core is there, but… every day it’s another broken bit or exploit, plus i’m pissed about the female characters. asking for a refund would be silly, but, just not logging in is a more appealing option daily.

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if you think that 5 bug fixed that can be made in a few hours will fix duping gold, balance issues and pretty much dead factionso n dominated servers then good luck with 10k ppl in a few months :slight_smile:

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if they do that… the game is done, not because players wouldn’t return, but because of those in charge would toss it.

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Well that’s worthless.

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Relaunching did wonders for FFXIV, so I’m basing it off that. I don’t mean they should just issue refunds and be done with it (like close the game), but offer them in good faith. I like the game, but it just doesn’t excuse the poor state it’s in right now from a development standpoint and it’s not like we could see all these issues the game is plagued with in the first few hours (hell, even days) of gameplay.

I honestly don’t know how they could go about this, but what I re-emphasize is that it’s clear the game just wasn’t ready. It’s normal for a new game, specially one of this scale to launch with issues and a few bugs, but those in New World are nothing short of game-breaking. For example the gold and item dupe exploits are just impossible to completely solve without a rollback because the already bad economy is beyond salvaging at this point.

I don’t think it’s absurd to be asking for the Cyberpunk 2077 treatment with all that in mind. I’ve been taking a break for a week now and am waiting for them to fix their game or reimburse their players.

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Many of the issues in the game, they have proven they can’t solve with any real urgency. Most of their issues are going to take at least a month to fix unless they pull some magic out.

Honestly, at this point they are having us test their game, the very least they could do is over everyone 20$ in in-game prem currency and ask us to patiently wait for them to fix all the game breaking exploits/bugs.

The reality is they probably aren’t going to fully ban anyone and just outside of the current rampant dupe exploit, so many other people are exploiting a bug or two, as they are the majority of the current player base. I honestly feel like I’m losing out not soloing some 65 ePOIs with hatchet exploit. There are YouTube videos out there with 50k+ views on how to do some of these exploits, that’s more than the # of players actually playing in NA East.

Even if they mange to fix an acceptable amount of issues over the next month, what and how are they going to handle the players who abused the exploits or benefited from others abusing them? The reality is, they won’t and if they did, they would need to do basically semi-full sever wipes.

Like it’s so frustrating that I have to agree with you, some kind of a soft-relaunch is needed at this point.

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ummm that’s not what i’m saying… you might want to look up amazon’s previous games and what they did to them…

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Ah, that. Well, nothing much I can say about that. The game is just unfinished and still needs a lot of work. A LOT. Can’t have a title from a major corporation break even harder every time they try patching things up. The quality of the product we’re receiving is grounds for reimbursement in most other places if this were to be a physical product, no matter how many hours of playtime invested.

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They claim to be banning bots

On Xibalba, there’s a running joke about a bot named Iron8888. It sits on the same iron node near Armine and has been there 24/7 for the last month. Never moving, never logging off. It’s gotten from level 8 to 27 farming that singular iron node.

Every single player, each and every one reports Iron8888 every single time they go to windsward. It has to have been reported thousands of times. It’s still there as I write this.

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How many hours have you played? I have seen some players with 100-200 hours and now wish that they could refund. I find this to be so stupid, you got great value but since there is alot of bugs that are really bad at lvl 60 you should completly ignore that you had a good/decent time for houndreds of hours?

Not defending the bugs, but there is alot of other things to do in the game that are not affacted by most of the bugs and exploits we are struggeling with. Take a day or 3 off PvP or a week. Level to 60, level your crafting or harvesting skills, farm gear/watermark, farm atchivments.

Its not like PvP is the one and only thing to do or only way to progress in the game.

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I’ve played close to 315 hours and don’t get me wrong, I think a good 60 hours of that was thoroughly enjoyed barring all the issues in the first week. But I don’t think simply tying time to the value I got is acceptable in this case. I typically think if I got 60 good hours out of a 40$ game, then I can walk from it seeing that I got my money’s worth but…

It isn’t just at end-game. Majority of 1-60 was riddled with bugs, that if I didn’t have 10+ years of game testing and know how to manipulate systems, I would probably be like many poor saps stuck at some point of progression. That’s besides the fact that for the first two weeks we couldn’t even do Tier 4+ portals, so many were stuck running level 35 portals at levels 45-60. Meanwhile we were still dealing with exploits and bugs that would stop a friend or two from being able to progress or keep up. Even upon hitting level 60, all we could do is ePOIs for 2-3 weeks and farm for Voidbent.

Then the fact that Oric Veins have been camped by bots and players since the third day of launch, So it’s been a constant competition to even have a chance to get rare/lego drops from Ori. I mean the list goes on of issues from 1-60.

This is subjective, but at the same time, why should I be considered “satisfied” if that during my entire 315 hours, I’ve had to deal with significant bugs and exploits along the entire way. It wasn’t just small things, it was core gameplay affecting issues.

Gathering and Crafting, that was about the ONLY thing not affected by a bug or exploit. Hell, technically the duping exploit ruined that too.

I took a whole weekend off, after seeing this last patch, doesn’t change the fact that I’m hemorrhaging members from my company and that I still have to organize and dedicate time outside of the game to keep my company from imploding over the development of the game.

The High Water Mark system is a horrible system, I’ve been doing solo scorched mine runs and doing ePOI clears with my company since day 4, my sword is still only dropping around 530 GS, while my gloves are already 581+. The HWM is an obvious gate progression decision, and I thought Destiny was bad with their light system. Weapons are obviously going to be the grindiest part, but with or without luck gear, it doesn’t seem to improve my odds. I’ve gotten more Blisterweave without luck gear, than with it. Even in Division, they at least made sure you got some kind of specific drops doing end game so you could target them, in NW it’s completely random and even the Devs have confirmed your better off just farming named elites off CD, which leads to a EXTREMELY boring end-game loop.

Lets not even start delving into what is “Expeditions”, the keys are not even worth using until your GS HWM is 580+ and even then, the chances of you getting any specific drops you want is so low, while the cost of making a key is so high.

I’ve gotten my Harvesting and Processing to 200 in order to expedite myself acquiring Voidbent and have a few crafts over 100, but I’m not a crafting type player, I only did it out of necessity.

This makes up a large part of the Endgame. I’m not running a competitive company and spending hours outside the game, just to have 30-60 people sit around in exploited Outpost Rushes and Lagged out Wars. We owned brightwood for the first 2 weeks before we lost it. We went from spawn camping out competition in a defense, to getting wiped due to not knowing how to deal with lag spikes on the point. We could do the same thing and get the land back, but land ownership is so expensive and with our loss of members, there just isn’t a point in taking it back until the lag in Wars is fixed.

I could keep going about the timeliness and lack of inaction, the continuous flood of bots, and many other aspects that have negatively impacted the game as a whole and not solely just my experience.

Yes, games have bugs, yes people use Exploits, but there is not enough action from AGS and not enough actual “fixing” going on, to warrant me feeling that I’m getting the product promised or the product I paid 40$ for. As many have said, in countries outside of the U.S. this would be grounds for a refund and it has surfaced that if you bought the game from Amazon, you could still get a refund after 200+ hours.

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