First of all, I’m thankful for the free skins, and especially thankful to all the people subjecting themselves to those chores so that they, and we, can all get those skins.
That being said, even combat in the best combat game can get too much, and you decide to make giant to-do lists filled with mind-numbing chores for an event?!
All that’s going to happen is people will push themselves to get the skins, then leave for months to recover from their burnout, and many of them are streamers and content creators, which makes it doubly bad.
Seriously the more I play and follow this game, the more I feel like you took your Amazon warehouse worker playbook and are applying it to your player base.
Seriously, these event challenges feel like they were designed to be as boring and grindy as possible. I’d have liked to see just general tasks that you’d expect from normal progression, like gaining expertise to certain levels, equipping full epic gear → legendary gear, etc. Things where people can actually learn how to play optimally, get fully geared, run mutations. It should be like a speedrun through endgame where all of your game knowledge and theorycrafting come in to actually determine which server is the better ‘gamer’. Then, everyone on the server who participated in the event now has a fully geared alt to continue playing after.
But instead what we got was a task list of boring repetitive tasks that turn your brain into gelatin. It’s also awful content to stream, awful content to watch, and at the end of the event everyone who seriously participated in the challenges gained nothing from a progression stand point aside from decent gathering skills.
I feel they set the tasks expecting 2500 players on a server, but most servers are way under max pop. They need to scale the tasks based on average player counts or something. If they had 2500 players on a server, the tasks wouldn’t be as tedious.
I take it back, I’m not thankful for the skins.
Nobody seems to know how exactly to get them, everyone explains it differently and the official page doesn’t explain it at all.
AGS when your gaming and even viewing experience is twice as frustrating as it is enjoyable, you messed up hard.
You are pushing in a bad direction where games that have gone down that right only retain a loyal but tiny playerbase.
If streemer like asmongold will play for like 1 month everyday neworld numbers will be big.
I know you know and your mama know after event numbers will go down
