And that right there is a pretty good insight into what could happen.
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People are reading the point of this post as the TP being shut down again. That’s not it.
I really wanted the devs to see how they’ve created a game where every simple action is a pita to the casual player. As I said, if their goal was to create a toxic sandbox, then good job. If not, they need to rethink some things:
Constant invasions
Crafting downgrades
Out of control Azoth travel
Crazy taxing
Now we add the TP getting shut down, which would be fine, except they also didn’t freeze the taxes, listing expirations, invasions, etc.
We also have crafting nerfs looming and nerfs to FS and LS.
It’s a lot. There’s no shame in rethinking some of these choices. Both EQ2 and ESO were horrible at launch. Their devs put some thought into their games, reworked them, and ended up with great games. I’m not asking for easy mode. I started in EQ1. But the current state of things in NW is insanity.
I hope these devs will listen to their players. I know I’m not the only one who loves the game but feels like the current path is untenable.
Thank you honey. I love you too
I too am upset about a lot of their changes but it’s a side step, and maybe one that will end up being amazing and resulting in great results.
Unfortunately the lack of transparency or direction means we are left in the dark and left to wonder…
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/yawn
Tired old argument is tired.
As I’ve pointed out several times, every MMO has had multiple duplication issues. So far as I’m aware, only AGS responds by shutting down wealth transfers. So, either every MMO ever has a destroyed economy, or maybe the sky isn’t falling because there are some duped goods that will be removed from the system in good time.
Want to know what destroys an economy? Removing the ability of players to interact with it.
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So let cheaters continue cheating lol…
Server shutdown 
Bezos…'nuf said. 
It doesn’t take a genius, or even a developer, to come up with short-term solutions that are markedly less drastic than shutting down the entire economy.
Like what? Even if they need to find cheater querying the database if the database is evolving is very tedious…
But If I like you hear your eaasy solutions, maybe they read too.
See? Right away you came up with a potential alternative approach that doesn’t affect current gameplay at all. As for the issue you bring up, take a snapshot of the DB.
I’ll give you another potential solution. When Wildstar had economic issues relating to a piece of housing furniture, they disabled that recipe. Here, NW is having an issue with duplicating furniture having something to do with placement in a house (I don’t know the details). So, disable the ability to place that item. Or, worst case, disable the ability to place furniture in houses. That’s drastic, but nowhere near as drastic as shutting down the entire economy.
Right now, AGS has a hammer, and they are responding as though every problem is a nail. Sometimes the problem is an ant. On a glass table. With your kid crawling underneath it.
As soon as the first dupe wave happened (and it lasted a while) the economy was already ruined for the rest of us. High end mats and armor nearly 10x’d its price after this first wave…
Expecting sales : weird gamestyle, but sure. Not too bad to wait a few days. Quite normal for MMO’s
Downgraded crafting station : part of the game. Nothing bad.
Fast traveling full inventory = expensive : part of game, nothing bad. Quite easy to play around.
Temporarly disabled coin transfer : temporarly, nothing bad, as in it’s to combat duping.
Do you start your day to look at all the hyped reddit articles to load up the game and try everything that’s not working on that day… to go on the forums and complain that it’s not working?
Either stop playing the game enitrely, or learn the fact that sometimes you can’t do -everything- you like to be doing. It’s called growing up and in MMO(rpg) very normal.
I wouldnt read a book about someone feeling entitled to get all the gold and rewards everyday… When it’s an mmo… And just released and they see the problems but double down on attacking the devs instead of using their accountability skills to say smth like" i love this game i play it cause i bought it and read the reviews. I knew what i was getting into."
But literally the same posts over and over
" ohmshgawsh. I cant believe i cant do something cause of the game being fixed. Omg just give me my stuff. I work hard."
Like yo.
Go read a book and wait for the to implement the damn patch.
most the people complaining have chosen to not read patch notes or dont understand the process to fixing these bugs .
Childish arguements with people who dont care how the game is fixed. Just fix now. Give me money now. I deserve reprarations and rewards for my time or im quitting.
Like… What on earth happen to supporting the game?
What reviews, like everyone else we bought it at release assuming it was a completed game, because they said it was completed, not alpha.
We stopped after 6 weeks of the devs spewing bullshit probably coming from the retards higher up who don’t know how to manage a game and released it early.
There were multiple reviews.
They are still up from streamers like lazy peon first check.
Or even …
Okay i know you trolling me cause even on steam the reviews were positive but mentioned the bugs.
They tell you exactly what bugs you gonna see.
The devs even made a post saying the game isnt where they want it to be. So you want them full on embaress themselves? So the forums can castrate them for admitting working on an mmo is hard?
The game devs have even posted apologies.
The community is sick with this enabling disrespect for the fun of it culture.
There were multiple platforms to read reviews and NOBODY bought the game and saw the comments beforehand?
If that’s truly the case then i dont feel bad for anyone who isnt enjoying themselves. Cause they chose to ignore all the signs and when they use the already admitted bugs as a platform to complain it’s not criticism it’s nagging.
I cant over state this enough
You cant blame the developers if you choose not to do research. You cant blame the developers if the game has performance issues while they work on it. And just cause alotvof games lied about their features doesnt mean new world lied.
Ags been pretty upfront about everything.
The trolls made it redundant. Now complaining about old bugs iis all people focus on even if they are fixing the previous problems .
There will always be a problem but a community being vindictive cause they didnt do any research? That’s ignorance.
No beuno.
Lazy peon and potion shop are pretty big mmo channels.
Alot of honest streamers said the game would need an assload of work but for 40 dollars you can be entertained and find adventure.
The end game content is what’s mostly messed up atp.
New players have been having an amazing time if you interact with them at amrine or stars. Or read their forum posts. It’s the journey mate.
You aint wrong on that last part. The journey to level 60 was worth the 40$ alone. I could definitely stand to take a step back and appreciate that perspective, as could most of us. The problem is it’s an MMO, the journey to 60 is kinda not what I came for.
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Then what are you seeking?
What is you truly desire?
I feel like we domt check ourselves on this.
I was also contributing to the narrative there was nothing to do for a while till i tried everything.
It’s fun and keeps me entertained for hours if you enjoy what tools you already have.
You know the outfitting bug? Or armoring bug?
Just cause you cant use one thing doesnt mean you cant use another. You know? It might be frustrating but you work around problems all the time.
To me the real game is challenging.
Solving exactly what you want for the day in an mmo is akin to planning out your day irl.
Just an adventure. Things go wrong but that’s life.
I see it as you just broke your pan. So while you wait for a new one you use the pots. You know? Your tastes arent just refined but diverse.
Tldr : what do you want out of this compared to what is actually given?
What did better? Our server’s all people already have duplicated trophy, full server 2k people or more… i can’t count. Price for Chef’s Secret Techniques - around 200-300, Chef’s Secret Cookbook - 400-500, 70%+ have x3 Major Loot Luck trophy. Also 100 or more bots, economy fully dead, prices for Iron Ore ~ 0.05-0.10 its maximum!!! What do you expect they doing better? explain to me. Delete duplicted trophy? NO, they only ban people for Minimap and continue doing rubish updates, instead of take 10 game masters and read reports.
It gets harder n harder to login.
I’ve had a tonne of furniture stuck in my inventory for the last 10 days…
I just keep asking, why the F did they release the game in such an abysmal state? Did they think no one would notice? LOL
Edit: Didn’t mean to reply to you Tarv.