Way to misunderstand and mistreat your own community...

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  1. parametriq

    parametriq Forum Greenhorn

    First, X-mas event with last year's prizes(without 1000 drakens in progress, mind you) and then, to follow up in good manner, Gnob's shop without usual 15% Christmas discounts. Way to go, Bigpoint! I remember times when we had 20% discounts during Christmas. Too bad you can't keep your own good traditions.

    Also, marketing slogans aside, your patch that you meant to reduce "grinding" was actually meant to increase it! Only now instead of CoT we will grind GOLD even harder, huge improvement, huh?! Besides, you claimed that you would increase drops of legendary items, why is it that now legendary items for left/right hand are nowhere to be found then? Even more so at low levels. Maybe you increased only drop rates of SOME types of legendary items? Only the pieces that noone needs at level 45 anyway, because in their place we, seasoned players, wear some mix of unique sets? I wish I could tell that situation is better with premium account, but no, 99% drop of purple items from mystic cubes will still force you to waste and grind gold for crafting. So, people, keep grinding for gold, glyphs and drakens at constantly reducing rates, all for nothing, because this is how this game works...
    Or be forced into PAYING for PA to get somewhat better drops, then PAYING more for crafting a legendary weapon, then PAYING even more to buy 5 larger gems for that weapon(when you finally open 1 perfect-ish among 60-100 useless ones) and then again PAYING some EXTRA for drilling 3 additional slots for gems in that weapon since legendary weapon with decent stats ALWAYS has 2 useless slots. Want to pay real money 4 times to get each 1 legendary weapon with good damage in a buggy game, anyone? Not me, sorry
     
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  2. trakilaki

    trakilaki Living Forum Legend

  3. Firefly

    Firefly Active Author

    Yes and now because we need to farm gold all the time we don't get glyphs anymore -> BP 100 - players 0

    Yes before R139 you looked your character and thought i need better legendary weapon (just throwing some item for example). you farmed and crafted and opened let say 10 legendary weapons. Now after r139 when they have increased drops to superhyperlevel like they are marketing that you get 20 to 30 legendaries in the same time you got 10... BUT!!!!.... theres only 1-2 weapons that you need and the rest is that head,shoulders,armor EDIT :D so you get MORE legendaries like they said... you just dont need most of them.
    again BP 100 - players 0 :rolleyes:

    And how about that. when the game was having so offline for so long that they needed to give some compensation... let's give everybody some taste of the new prepmium. the free 2 weeks i got around 30-40 cubes with big gem and new premium uniques etc etc.... i thought wow premium is really good now and bought it for 6 months. after that (= at the moment) i could/can get only max 10-15 cubes per day with only small cyanites/pink items inside. i think they just cheated me (and probably some others) with a marketing trick.
    BP 100 - players 0 :oops:



    At least something isnt changed.... the good old good legendary - bad slots-ratio :rolleyes:
    This is how this game is working now. they give you something with a big sign in their left hand saying look how generous we are when their right hand is taking something (equal amount or more) away from players at the same time o_O
     
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  4. GroovieGimp

    GroovieGimp Forum Apprentice

    Look.

    Yesterday, I was ready to quit. My son, who also plays the game, begged me to give it another go. Why? He has no desire to party up with other player's he doesn't know, and even less with anyone he can't communicate with. I can't say I blame him.

    Against my better judgement, I gave in and logged on.

    Until now, with one exception, Xmas day, the rate of return was absolute garbage. I really, really hope that yesterday's results signify the change we all want. I received 3 uniques, 2 of which were new for me, 4 legendaries, and roughly 20-22 extraordinary items as drops from kills.

    Now, I may be able to actually upgrade my main weapon, the first legendary weapon drop I received, to my actual level. Before yesterday, that possibility was unfeasable, as the GoP cost to level up the lvl 27 weapon was on the order of 125k for just one level. It is still insanely expensive, but with drops like yesterday's, I may be able to get at least that one item to my character's level in roughly a month.

    Unfortunately, however, my work hiatus is coming to an end this week. This means that the amount of time I will be able to devote to this effort will be significantly reduced. At least. it will be, if I am to maintain my relationship with my wife, family, and employees adequately.

    Since there are no guarantees that yesterday's results were just a fluke, though, I will continue benchmarking my results to see if in fact this a pattern.

    Why?

    I'm not a fool. If there is a bait and switch scenario going on, I'll be gone.

    My son will just have to make do with EDIT , both of which are games where I know he is getting his money's worth.
     
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  5. Trailboss1

    Trailboss1 Forum Mogul

    Wow, seriously?

    I haven't been posting much lately cause it seems the person that tries to look in a different direction gets the criticism. Well, bring it on.

    Y'all are never happy huh? I use to be very vocal in my observations about this game, but I will say BP has actually been trying. I've seen such an improvement I re enrolled in my premium. I have played many online games over the years and have NEVER found a perfect game. So what, Gnob doesn't have the discount this year......gives you more time to save up draken.

    There's gonna be bugs/glitches on any online game, even console games has flaws.

    Lighten up. If you can do better than apply for a job. If not, find another game. OR, do like I did. When my dragon galloped I mentioned it in every single post. Even if it wasn't on topic :cool:. Do y'all listen to friends or acquaintances when they start EDIT about this or that?
     
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  6. Darwarren

    Darwarren Count Count

    We trade our time and energy for pleasure. The happy ones can find work to be fun.
     
  7. VMmage

    VMmage Someday Author

    BigPoint couldn't pay me enough to work with the buffoons who develop/maintain this game, so I chose option 2 months ago. I still like reading the forum entries, though. It's a shame that BigPoint fails to realize that the community provides the spice that enhances the game.
     
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  8. Trailboss1

    Trailboss1 Forum Mogul

    Last 2 updates made me think otherwise. Whether they continue on that path....I can only hope so.
     
  9. SailorSaturn

    SailorSaturn Padavan

    Funny enough, I came to this game because of leaving behind another game that I find has a worse amount of grind and impossible missions with unrealistic means to get good gear/weapons (i.e. high percentage of permanently breaking your items with each crafting upgrade, terrible auction hall with capped players controlling the pricing market). P2P players in the game I left bleed way more than the players shelling out bones for this game. This game has more annoying glitches and hiccups, but it's not impossible to get decent gear to get by in this game than the game I used to play.
     
  10. Rhysingstar

    Rhysingstar Forum Ambassador

    Agree 100%... Obviously DSO isn't listening to their community on the topics that really matter.

    I still believe DSO is one of the better games, but that doesn't mean that they couldn't vastly improve with some very simple changes. As far as trying goes, their "improvements" came with far more headaches than they needed to.

    I also came from far worse games, and it really seems that DSO is following the flawed model more than trying to change it.

    Every similar game has the same complaints on their respective forums. Unbalanced, too much grind, lack of good gear drops, etc..

    Now I am not a programmer/developer and I don't play one on the internet either, but commonsense would indicate that if DSO wanted to separate themselves and create a superior game they would listen to what the entire gaming community as a whole wants...

    Realistic odds of getting gear.. This really shouldn't be a difficult task.
    Reducing the grind by offering more quests, prizes, maps.

    Everyone in the game knows that there are certain maps (Stalgard) that aren't worth playing, yet does DSO change this ??????????????
    Everyone knows that the rewards for fighting Destructor (and other bosses) aren't worth it, yet does DSO change this ??????????
    Everyone knows that certain end game quests are ridiculous at best, yet does DSO change this ?????????

    Again I am not pretending that I know what programming it would take, or how easy it would be, but significantly changing the drop rate and amount of grinding time would vastly change the game for the better...
     
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  11. Duriastriker

    Duriastriker Forum Inhabitant

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