So it's becoming more and more apparent that the developers were out of their depth on this one, like a bunch of kids saying "hey, lets make an MMO!" and implementing ideas with no real synergy and no real foresight into their implications in a fully operational game.
The question is, as the bugs, functional flaws, and design miscalculations pile up do you think we'll see a roll-back, a relaunch or, worse yet, the dreaded white flag of the NGE with such things as an AH, single guild system, instanced dungeons, etc.
Thoughts and speculations on where you think this this runaway train is headed are appreciated.
seeing yours and your commentor's comments i actually wonder one thing
how quick does memory fade ^^
this ain't the first mmo with a dupe problem (actually that is quite common now and then) and it will be handled like every time:
dupers banned, items removed, and i play my game as usual.
incase you didn't know, items have a quite unique ID, and if duped, that ID does not change and is actually just copied.
seriously, this is one of the easiest probs to handle, so please, take your chill pill and move along. there is nothing to see here.... just play your game like a nice little gamer and nothing will happen to you.
"believe me, mike.. i calculated the odds of this working against the odds that i was doing something incredibly stupid and i did it anyway!"
It was very clear to many beta testers months ago that this game needed a lot more development time. Some of the specific issues plaguing the game were identified and ignored, but at a broader level there were a lot of design issues that needed to be addressed.
It's a beautiful game that had some real potential, but the rush to market has probably killed the long term prospects of the game, short of an FFXIV-like complete reboot. It's a real shame. Things like this were way to common a decade ago, but we've had a number of titles in recent years that were at least pretty solid at launch.
I don't think the game is as far short as FFXIV was at launch, but it really needed another six months, at least, not only to address obvious issues, but to do some focused redesign of certain elements. Another year if they decided on a more major overhaul to make it more like an MMO Skyrim and less like another stale, status quo MMO genre clone.
Most of the compromises they made on Elder Scrolls game design when converting to an MMO could have been avoided entirely if they had tried to be an innovative MMO, rather than following the same tired design tropes.
I'd like to apologise to all the haters, because I still enjoy the game.
Clearly your opinion is more important than mine.
Playing: Darkfall New Dawn (and planning to play Fallout 76) Favourite games have included: UO, Lineage2, Darkfall, Lotro, Baldur's Gate, SSX, FF7 and yes the original Wizardry on an Apple IIe
Bug abused happened before. Bug abuse will happen again. No matter which game.
I recently hit lvl40 and am still enjoying the game, too. So far, only one single quest actually disturbed my gaming experience. The bug was fixed 2 days after reporting it. In the meanwhile I could do other quests. So, no problem at all.
This thread is lasting for days... I have never seen a hypothetical thread like this last for so long.
This will never happen! You want to know why?
My beta character lasted over 6 months without ever getting Rolled Back, Relaunched until Early access. I think its safe to say that the characters are staying forever. Its silly to go on hypotheticals when the odds of the hypothetical is less then 1%.
Roll back or relaunch would be a disaster for me, I havent personally had much problems, and I've enjoyed the game as it is so it would be completely a slap in the face "do it all again till where you were" - They should handle the dupers and the likes case by case.
It should not be my problem how much work it is for them, because I dont personally exploit in games no matter how easy and on your face the method is, and I dont care about those who do. So no please, deal with the individuals and move on.
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seeing yours and your commentor's comments i actually wonder one thing
how quick does memory fade ^^
this ain't the first mmo with a dupe problem (actually that is quite common now and then) and it will be handled like every time:
dupers banned, items removed, and i play my game as usual.
incase you didn't know, items have a quite unique ID, and if duped, that ID does not change and is actually just copied.
seriously, this is one of the easiest probs to handle, so please, take your chill pill and move along. there is nothing to see here.... just play your game like a nice little gamer and nothing will happen to you.
"believe me, mike.. i calculated the odds of this working against the odds that i was doing something incredibly stupid and i did it anyway!"
It was very clear to many beta testers months ago that this game needed a lot more development time. Some of the specific issues plaguing the game were identified and ignored, but at a broader level there were a lot of design issues that needed to be addressed.
It's a beautiful game that had some real potential, but the rush to market has probably killed the long term prospects of the game, short of an FFXIV-like complete reboot. It's a real shame. Things like this were way to common a decade ago, but we've had a number of titles in recent years that were at least pretty solid at launch.
I don't think the game is as far short as FFXIV was at launch, but it really needed another six months, at least, not only to address obvious issues, but to do some focused redesign of certain elements. Another year if they decided on a more major overhaul to make it more like an MMO Skyrim and less like another stale, status quo MMO genre clone.
Most of the compromises they made on Elder Scrolls game design when converting to an MMO could have been avoided entirely if they had tried to be an innovative MMO, rather than following the same tired design tropes.
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I'd like to apologise to all the haters, because I still enjoy the game.
Clearly your opinion is more important than mine.
Playing: Darkfall New Dawn (and planning to play Fallout 76)
Favourite games have included: UO, Lineage2, Darkfall, Lotro, Baldur's Gate, SSX, FF7 and yes the original Wizardry on an Apple IIe
Bug abused happened before. Bug abuse will happen again. No matter which game.
I recently hit lvl40 and am still enjoying the game, too. So far, only one single quest actually disturbed my gaming experience. The bug was fixed 2 days after reporting it. In the meanwhile I could do other quests. So, no problem at all.
This thread is lasting for days... I have never seen a hypothetical thread like this last for so long.
This will never happen! You want to know why?
My beta character lasted over 6 months without ever getting Rolled Back, Relaunched until Early access. I think its safe to say that the characters are staying forever. Its silly to go on hypotheticals when the odds of the hypothetical is less then 1%.
Roll back or relaunch would be a disaster for me, I havent personally had much problems, and I've enjoyed the game as it is so it would be completely a slap in the face "do it all again till where you were" - They should handle the dupers and the likes case by case.
It should not be my problem how much work it is for them, because I dont personally exploit in games no matter how easy and on your face the method is, and I dont care about those who do. So no please, deal with the individuals and move on.