Game Breaking Expansions/Changes

DagerNexus

This thread will consist of two separate purposes cause I'm just too lazy to make another thread...

First... a specific topic opinion poll:

In a few days, CCP is coming out with their newest update to Eve Online - Dominion. Who thinks that this expansion will be game breaking since it screws with the end game antics of powerhouse alliances?

And second, feel free to elaborate on any game breaking changes to your pride and joy that you have lived through:

Of course the big one on everyone's mind is Star Wars Galaxies with the NGE, but its not as game breaking as some would have it, more like tearing your ACL. After several months of physical therapy and PAIN, you recover,but you sure as hell aint going skiing anymore. I take this as a more accurate analogy since some people now say that the SWG has become a better game and still enjoys one of the better crafting systems in the MMO genre. Flame on...

Another game breaking change would be Vanguard: Saga of Heroes when they made the oh so subtle shift between beta and release. Oh how I remember the hype! Everquest masterminds group together to bring out the next level of gaming. Terrific synergies and... aw hell I dont remember anymore. But I do remember a nice can of W   D   F when I started paying for the game.

 

I guess in the end you can expand the thread to "Why did (insert feature here) in (insert game here) cause me to unsub?"

Zarraa

While NGE is the most notorious nerf in MMO lore second place easily goes to Cryptic's hatchet job of COH.

The combined 1-2 punch of  issue 5's global defensive nerf and enhancement diversification easily cost them 30% of their player base. Trying to shoe horn in crafted IO's clearly designed around the Vilians expansion was a strategic blunder.

The game has never recovered and now nearly half it's servers are ghost towns.

NC Soft better bring it for the up coming Rogue expansion or it's curtains..

Quirhid

What I've come to believe in my 4-5 month history in Eve is that both the devs and the players agree that the end game, such as it is in Eve, sucks. That is why this will propably be a good thing.

Agricola1

CCP screwed up EVE along time ago when they changed the war dec system as Privateers had war deced everyone and were raping empire space. Carebears cried and CCP changed it and said it was a "bug fix", I and many others came to the conclusion that Privateers had won EvE and quit. After the change EvE was just a meh carebear mining simulater with some empty PvP areas.