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Always a bit silly to limit it to those two countries while the website is internationally visited.
The good news is, I've heard from most people that the game is extremely mediocre at best, so you're not likely missing out on much.
Seriously, it's even a digital download so it's not like they have shipping costs/time to worry about, the winners will just click a link. With most games being availible digitally these days, restrictions like this shouldn't really be kept in place. Seems like a very dated way to do it if you ask me. Most dissapointing.
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An extremly mediocre game, and you hear this from "most people" ?
I do NOT believe you actually heard this from any players , most likely you heard it from pisst off Free to Play freeloaders that has a grudge towards this game because it would cost them 60$
It may be many things ...and It's cartainly NOT flawless, but for me It's almost as good as Borderlands, and I can't wait for what they have in store for this game down the road, I'm glad I bought it.
even totalbiscuit thinks its a mediocre game ~_~
gameplay videos were all i needed to make my opinion
hallo ~_~
I paid 60 bucks and currently playing the game. And I can say it's mediocre at best yes!
Very tiny map for an MMO. Very thin on content. Even the most casual gamer will have finished both main and side missions within two weeks (three weeks tops for the very casual crowd).
On top of that... the game is extremely unpolished and has tons of issues.
I am very dissapointed in TRION! Especially since Rift's launch was one of the better MMO launches and was a very polished product.
It's hard to believe DEFIANCE is done by this same company. /shrug
Same company, different developtment and release team...it's always about the team.
It's still no excuse to deliver such a mediocre game! It's still the same VP that leads TRION and is responsbile for both games and the state they release in.
And did I mention that they pretty much designed the entire game around lock boxes? /shrug
After the recent loot nerf, it's insanely hard to get any decent loot in the world, other then grinding keys and scrip or spend "real" money to buy and open lock boxes in a "chance" for good loot!
With Defiance TRION has pretty much joined the rank of Cryptic Studios with this whole lock box crap. Absolutely terrible.
Its funny to hear all these people complain how
'I paid 60 for a game I finished content in 2-3 weeks'...not sure what kind of job they have with all that free time and yet make money to pay for a game. -id like one of those!
and then theres the ' the game is bad - will be 10.00 in a month ill get it then'... freeloaders that has a grudge towards this game because it would cost them and cant download for free.
and the' Its not RIFT!- not worth playing crowd...'
that is all i see in this thread how abt leaving it to those you actually are playing the game and can discuss it.
<.<
That said the game is borderlands look n feel with tipical mmo Launch bugs here n there and yes Thank you XBOX for delaying many things TRION needed to get done post launch to the game...
Last I check this is a discussion forum! Not a Hype only site where only positive praising is allowed! /facepalm
So it's not possible to have PAID for the game. PLAY the game, but are dissapointed with it and have critique on it?
Sorry, but if you cannot handle any critique... maybe it's you that should stay away from public discussion forums and stick to fansites.
hey JeroKane:
Ive recieved 2 orange and countless purples= yes in lockboxes. and nice purples in mission completions.- (my lock boxes have been bought with resources not bits)
But i rerally dont see how one should be granted orange so soon in a game in content- i forsee oranges may come into play through vendors on contract rep.
yes its grindy but legendaries should be earned not handed so soon ingame becouse u did an awsome arcfall
I have played a full week now and most decent weapons have come from Lockboxes only!
Most missions rewards are just regular green weapons with the ocasional blue.
Arkfalls have so far only given me white and green grenades and shields. A lot of people are complaining about this.
I am not asking for a constant drops of orange legendaries. That's not the point. And so far after a week, a lot of lockboxes I have yet to see a single orange weapon.
Mostly got green weapons from lockboxes and maybe 2 or so purples. That's it.
They recently nerfed the loot drops in the game world considerably.... to the point that you pretty much only get good stuff from lock boxes! Absolutely ridiculous.
Sure there some idiots who were exploiting sertain side missions that were dropping too much. But instead of fixing that exploit.... they just did an all out blanket nerf across the board! Just stupid and it's seriously going to hurt the game... as people will get tired of this whole lock box crap sooner than later. Which is just nothing but an ordinary cash grabbing gambling scheme.
How can any of this possibly be the fault of the Xbox?
First, there was no Alpha and only one weekend's Beta for either console -- frankly I'm amazed things have gone as well as they have on the consoles -- not that they can reasonably be said to have gone well. Second, all those bugs and UI problems? They have existed and been reported for MONTHS. They shouldn't have needed to fix them post-launch, the game never should have launched with broken quests, easily borked hotshots, skills that reset to 1 if you hit 20 (that one is going to be biting a whole lot of people on the arse about now, I imagine), text chat that's so many forms of unusable it's almost hard to imagine it's not intentional, no PTT, and god knows how many other issues.
The game should have never launched in the state it did, it's embarrassing that they're waiting until the 15th to do anything about it, and anyone who can't figure out that the reason they're waiting is because of the show and not mean 'ol MS or some other crap is lacking in basic cognitive skills.
Honestly, I've never before seen a supposedly AAA MMO that needed a Jesus patch on launch day, that's just sad. I really, really hope said patch is everything it is being built up to be, because so far there are a whole lot of expectations being put on what are some excruciatingly vague and non-specific comments from Trion.
To be clear. I am fairly rabid with this game. So bias declared~ I'm going to un-dis-inform the populace.
To those saying Mediocre from "most players"? I call BS been playing since launch. It has problems but it's pretty solid.
They update and fix the servers daily. Whomever you've heard from on the "waiting until the 15th" is complete BS.
As for the "skill reset" oh you mean the free respec?
@20? 20 what? Ego?
What is 20? 20 ego is starting right off of the tutorial so I am confused. Skill points @20 points? In which case this has never happened to anyone I play with. Ever. Even with launch lag.
Hotshots only break on occasion and simply walking out of the area and restarting is easy enough.
Beta: I dunno I had it for some time on Play Station +. I logged in quite a few times during the week to test the game play.
The chat is pretty ugly I'll agree to that, they have been alerted by "us all" on that.
@Lockboxes: I've had a few OJ's at this point. Try using Tier 4?
@Items in general: This isn't like a mmorpg x23. A white weapon is fine even.
As a matter of fact whites are more often to be found fully moddable compared to blues,greens,purples and oj's. Many green weapons are epic. Also until towards SF you won't be getting great rewards it's a newbie-ish area after all (Mount Tam).
A very vast newbie area.
All in all Defiance is alot of fun. If you are looking for something super deep? Meh probably not for you. This is much like Tabula Rasa except the aiming is more inspired on TPS rather than "Cones of death". It's about the only MMO on the consoles and it's a bloody blast as a team, XboxLive so far is my favorite flavor. The community while very silent is very team oriented. I've never relied on strangerX until this game, now strangerX most likely will help me.
It's an action game with rpg elements tossed in a MMO setting, it's a MMOTPSRPG
Regardless of your dislike of the game (or disapointment) it's rather trail blazing if you stop whining or validly griping about things.
The whole reason is that they have to wait till the 15th is because of the Console versions.
Those patches need to go through a validation process at Microsoft and Sony.
Hence there will be two weeks between each large patch.
Small hotfixes they can and seem to push through at least on PC, but that's it.
Highly dissapointing that the PC platform needs to suffer due to the console versions!
ty!!!= finally someonelse with comon sense! and an abvious Defiance player.- no that dosent make us fanboys, just active players who know what we are talking about on the state of the game.
I entered, I got a beta code, but had things come up, and I could not try it out, so I gotta win, or wait on a free trial, can't get myself to blindly buy this title, without trying it.