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Crowfall - A Chat With The Devs
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Crowfall - A Chat With The Devs
Crowfall attempts to get ahead of their competition with a new event over the holiday weekend and big changes are in store for PvP-focused backers as new game modes come online. Red Thomas takes a trip to Austin and sums up the details for readers.
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They have hyped it so much already and not delivered in my book and seeing the current direction there is no way I will touch this game. Many others I have spoke to are watching it, but very leery of it (as we all should be nowadays with these Kicks/Alphas/EA titles flooding the markets lately.
Red is not tripping down to Austin out of his own accord,he has been paid to go ,given free accommodations in hopes he comes back to write a favorable article.Then often what happens is before the article is posted,he gets confirmation from the Crowfall team to release the article as is or needs ...ahem fixing.
Immersion is such a key idea that makes a rpg world happen and done well.This game is like many others doing ideas that ruin immersion or completely remove it.The world should remain 100% within the world and untouched by outside interference like packages or cash shops.
Do i think J.Todd and team is smart enough to GET IT ? Yes i most certainly do think he is and why it bothers me more that he would try and sell this crappy half assed non immersion world pvp game.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Though the take with you beta already ruins the best part of an mmo where e everyone plays what will be considered jank builds in a year.
Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent.
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Err....this is the definition of an item of power, which atm appears to be only available to players who paid for early access. It is not at all "cosmetic" no matter how small the benefits are.
If this item carries forward past the final wipe then it firmly crosses the line into P2W territory and sets a very bad precedence for the future of this game.
I realize you like to spin the games you support in a positive light but please stop trying to redefine well understood terms like "purely cosmetic" to suit your narrative.
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I just wanted to put this in different context to show how silly the statement is.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Secondly, I only write about games I like for the most part, so there is no narrative other than, "I like this game and here's a functionally cosmetic item based on an off-the-cuff idea one of the developers had."
A more appropriate analogy would be, the down marker serves no practical purpose other than reminding everyone what down it is and marking the last location of the ball, which results in 2% fewer bad calls.
A 2% more improvement in something that has a... say 10% chance of happening is 10.2% vs 10%. It's statistically irrelevant.
Crowfall, as it stands, is not a bad game, they are just taking it in a direction that does not appeal to me. It flows better than some released games I could name, it has some really good ideas and I like the three faction warfare system. My issues lie in making it more of a guild based system, where, in my opinion, the biggest guild will win. That is not an unfounded opinion, but I won't say 100% that will be the case.
At any rate, they do not hide the fact that it is still in alpha, and it will be a while before a final release, which if nothing else is at least honest. Again, unlike some other "released" games I could name.
As far as Pay to win, lol are you serious? Have you recently received a sharp blow to the head? because you can't buy power with RL money in this game, which is the definition of pay to win.
If you want a new idea, go read an old book.
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I would like to suggest that if you don't want to read about unreleased games, then don't. No one is forcing you to do so. I generally ignore most games until they launch, and sometimes until well after launch. It's really not that hard to do.
I've been monitoring Crowfall a little because they're doing quite a few things substantially different from anything else I've seen. Maybe the game will be good or maybe it won't, but at least it won't be a mediocre knock-off of some other game.
My basic theory is that Red likes computer games. He writes about games that he likes, or games that he's excited about. The articles are generally pretty well written. Isn't that what you want for articles on a site like this? I mean, a weekly doom and gloom article about how there hasn't been anything good since FFXI would have gotten old a long time ago by now.
In games most improvements due to gear are added and not multiplied meaning a 2% improvement to something that has a 10% chance of happening means there is now a 12% chance for that to happen.
It's possible I'd have worded it differently had I realized before writing it that there was a buff on it, but considering I literally call out the 2% buff in the same sentence, I think the idea that I was trying to somehow obfuscate that fact is a little far-fetched.
You did so, and continued to defend after. Can't speak for anyone else, but that's what's throwing me off.
I used a steroid/pill analogy and you brought up legal gear, missing the point (and actually normalized cheating at the same time
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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More importantly Have we worked out yet if this game is in pre-alpha, alpha or what? When I saw they were having events I assumed it was in beta.
If people actually paid attention to the game instead of just pulling one sentence out of one article and making a bunch of assumptions, they'd know that this type of reward is nothing new. Artcraft has been giving out similar accessories for each of the Trials they have been running. It's simply a way to engage and reward the people who are testing the game. Again, every one of these bonuses will be available on accessories that can be crafted in-game, they just won't have the same art.
The game is still in pre-alpha. Whatever you want to define that as aside, that is what ACE is calling it. The next major update is 5.11, which is going to add the dregs ruleset, among other things. Alpha is expected to begin after that. Alpha and beta are not expected to be overly long.
Still clearly not a cosmetic only item but Red already explained what happened there which is fine.
I just get a bit twitchy when I think I've detected "NewSpeak" about words and terms which require no redefinition.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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I hear Alpha, I expect something nearly unplayable. Clearly, that's not how it's being used these days, though. I think we'll probably see it switch back. About 6 years ago, everyone was avoiding terms like MMO, which is in part why Crowfall is a "throne war simulator." lol