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honestresearcher
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Snake Wildlife here...im' finally calling it quits, enough is enough...its embarassing logging in.
My soul is free
So as one of the die-hards clinging onto hope...how has it come to this?
Well here goes the steps of doom:
Step 1: You took our money and didnt invest it back into the game.
You DID put it into STO (must have been well over 1million $ considering Co's fantastic Launch income), and very likely you put STO's cash boom into Neverwinter.
Step 2: Screw you subscribers.
You did everything imaginable to screw over subscribers. Freeform slots, 1 month of gold unlocking all expansions and more benefits, and more...
Nobody ####in' cares about a big-nose title associated with subscribe-time.
Step 3: Lack of content.
The first year of CO was very promising, but after Resistance..you blew it. Again this is a whole other topic...or 50 of them rather...
Step 4: You VOIDED over 80% of the current games content.
Alerts ruined the content provided, as barely a handful of people now actually are playing the content. The remaining <20% is content which contains costume pieces or a rare drop. Aka; is meaningful.
Step 5: Knowing your own game
You guys didnt, you keep adding stupid ### to the game that causes severe imbalances, which if you guys played your own game you'de know this and not release such stupid things. Im running around with 6x Pheremones... another toon with Infinite Psionic Accelerator capability..and i could have gone for x5 Necrulls Elixir for Godmode (YET ANOTHER godmode mechanic with the right combinations in CO...) You guys clearly have no idea what youre doing, i know that I could do this job better than you.
Step 6: Infinite Money foul-up
The only economy on CO right now is from false Global.
This is what happens when you dont Test anything and release it, and also, this is what happens when you DONT LISTEN TO ANYONE ON TEST SERVER OR THE COMMUNITY.
Most of the money floating around on CO even now is false because of an old exploit, hundreds of thousands of globals still floating around on people...you messed up bigtime here. Todays Broken economy and high prices are people simply trading with THAT global, exchanging it for goods.
Step 7: The difficulty
Its a insult to peoples ability to play this game, you can find more on this topic here:
http://co-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=197191
Step 8: You're ignorant to the community.
You arent reading more than 1% of these threads, and youre replying to less than that. You havent responded to over 1 million tickets, infact at the beginning of the 2nd Year of CO, you erased a backlog of over half a million tickets/complaints without responding.
Tickets themselves have a extremely low chance of being responded to unless its to do with Billing or the Zstore....how greedy.
Step 9: You hired Tyshen
Of all the people you could have had here (like Smackwell for a good example!) do a decent job...you brought in what appeared to be one of your girlfriends who had a fetish for banning people for fun, who had no clue what this game even was. I remember when i was forum banned for apparently making Real Life Threats...which was BS, and everyone here knows that. My points might have been extreme or even incorrect (which at the time was exploits that YOU IGNORED AGAIN AND AGAIN, i have video footage), but the ban was absolutely f#### up. Many people were banned and removed on false terms, including Falchoin; argueably most dedicated test-server reporter in CO...wow.
Step 10: You wiped your Calander blank.
Might aswell have added "We Quit" on there too. Because since then, you've been MIA.
Step 11: The real life cost for Vehicles and Rank 8>9 Catalysts etc....are out of this world.
It has been calculated on test server that on average it takes approximately $80 (80 real life US dollars) to get the salvage to buy the best vehicle...that is freakin insane...and wrong. The catalysts..they speak for themselves. The vehicles of which are far weaker than most characters.
Step 12: You are giving a Gambling Machine to Children without any supervision or +18 warning.
THIS....IS.....WRONG. Im pretty sure this is also very very illegal...
You should always recieve the same amount of drifter salvage from the bags, not between 1 and 10...youre throwing children into a pit of Poker sharks in Las Vegas, and then shaking the kid upside down for anything else he has if he has spent everything and couldnt make it to his vehicle
Step 13: Bugs from launch, reported to you en-masse are still there.
I dont think i need to write a huge list here, some of you guys here from launch pretty much know yourselves. You only fix what 'you have to' so the servers dont crash. Didnt help the fact you left Lemuria a LAG-HELL zone for over 5 months in the late portions of the first year, and ignored all reports and topics for a loooooong time.
Step 14: You bailed from your own events because you werent having fun.
Suuuurely this should have made you guys wake up to the problems of the game (if you bothered to play it). One example: I remember when Tyshen hosted a PvP event, she lasted 3 minutes before quitting and cancelling the event.
Any real employee would have examined what was the cause of things, taken notes and gone to the right person to discuss changes to better suit the game, but no...you did what the rest of the CO staff did to this whole game and its community, RAGE QUIT when the rest of us here who would like to help you, are being very very VERY patient with you...well my patience has ran out, and i dunno how long other people are going to last.
That about wraps up my MAIN concerns...theres a lot more but it just aint worth bringing up.
Well ladies and gentleman, only thing i can really add to this is that Secret World has gone subscription free (after purchase of the game). Im already having a lot more fun...its harder, and the shear amount of content is mind blowing.
See you on there if youre moving on. I dont know how you guys can still hang around here, but if your plan is to stay on CO...i wish you all the best in finding the next best thing for yourselves, adios!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year aswell to all those i dont get to see again! You deserve better than this.
Fun times:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRqnlg7bThI Unleashed Rage BOOM! (including the famous 1527762 Critical hit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HQMNgnF2dU Infinite Psionic Accellerator Madness
My soul is free
So as one of the die-hards clinging onto hope...how has it come to this?
Well here goes the steps of doom:
Step 1: You took our money and didnt invest it back into the game.
You DID put it into STO (must have been well over 1million $ considering Co's fantastic Launch income), and very likely you put STO's cash boom into Neverwinter.
Step 2: Screw you subscribers.
You did everything imaginable to screw over subscribers. Freeform slots, 1 month of gold unlocking all expansions and more benefits, and more...
Nobody ####in' cares about a big-nose title associated with subscribe-time.
Step 3: Lack of content.
The first year of CO was very promising, but after Resistance..you blew it. Again this is a whole other topic...or 50 of them rather...
Step 4: You VOIDED over 80% of the current games content.
Alerts ruined the content provided, as barely a handful of people now actually are playing the content. The remaining <20% is content which contains costume pieces or a rare drop. Aka; is meaningful.
Step 5: Knowing your own game
You guys didnt, you keep adding stupid ### to the game that causes severe imbalances, which if you guys played your own game you'de know this and not release such stupid things. Im running around with 6x Pheremones... another toon with Infinite Psionic Accelerator capability..and i could have gone for x5 Necrulls Elixir for Godmode (YET ANOTHER godmode mechanic with the right combinations in CO...) You guys clearly have no idea what youre doing, i know that I could do this job better than you.
Step 6: Infinite Money foul-up
The only economy on CO right now is from false Global.
This is what happens when you dont Test anything and release it, and also, this is what happens when you DONT LISTEN TO ANYONE ON TEST SERVER OR THE COMMUNITY.
Most of the money floating around on CO even now is false because of an old exploit, hundreds of thousands of globals still floating around on people...you messed up bigtime here. Todays Broken economy and high prices are people simply trading with THAT global, exchanging it for goods.
Step 7: The difficulty
Its a insult to peoples ability to play this game, you can find more on this topic here:
http://co-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=197191
Step 8: You're ignorant to the community.
You arent reading more than 1% of these threads, and youre replying to less than that. You havent responded to over 1 million tickets, infact at the beginning of the 2nd Year of CO, you erased a backlog of over half a million tickets/complaints without responding.
Tickets themselves have a extremely low chance of being responded to unless its to do with Billing or the Zstore....how greedy.
Step 9: You hired Tyshen
Of all the people you could have had here (like Smackwell for a good example!) do a decent job...you brought in what appeared to be one of your girlfriends who had a fetish for banning people for fun, who had no clue what this game even was. I remember when i was forum banned for apparently making Real Life Threats...which was BS, and everyone here knows that. My points might have been extreme or even incorrect (which at the time was exploits that YOU IGNORED AGAIN AND AGAIN, i have video footage), but the ban was absolutely f#### up. Many people were banned and removed on false terms, including Falchoin; argueably most dedicated test-server reporter in CO...wow.
Step 10: You wiped your Calander blank.
Might aswell have added "We Quit" on there too. Because since then, you've been MIA.
Step 11: The real life cost for Vehicles and Rank 8>9 Catalysts etc....are out of this world.
It has been calculated on test server that on average it takes approximately $80 (80 real life US dollars) to get the salvage to buy the best vehicle...that is freakin insane...and wrong. The catalysts..they speak for themselves. The vehicles of which are far weaker than most characters.
Step 12: You are giving a Gambling Machine to Children without any supervision or +18 warning.
THIS....IS.....WRONG. Im pretty sure this is also very very illegal...
You should always recieve the same amount of drifter salvage from the bags, not between 1 and 10...youre throwing children into a pit of Poker sharks in Las Vegas, and then shaking the kid upside down for anything else he has if he has spent everything and couldnt make it to his vehicle
Step 13: Bugs from launch, reported to you en-masse are still there.
I dont think i need to write a huge list here, some of you guys here from launch pretty much know yourselves. You only fix what 'you have to' so the servers dont crash. Didnt help the fact you left Lemuria a LAG-HELL zone for over 5 months in the late portions of the first year, and ignored all reports and topics for a loooooong time.
Step 14: You bailed from your own events because you werent having fun.
Suuuurely this should have made you guys wake up to the problems of the game (if you bothered to play it). One example: I remember when Tyshen hosted a PvP event, she lasted 3 minutes before quitting and cancelling the event.
Any real employee would have examined what was the cause of things, taken notes and gone to the right person to discuss changes to better suit the game, but no...you did what the rest of the CO staff did to this whole game and its community, RAGE QUIT when the rest of us here who would like to help you, are being very very VERY patient with you...well my patience has ran out, and i dunno how long other people are going to last.
That about wraps up my MAIN concerns...theres a lot more but it just aint worth bringing up.
Well ladies and gentleman, only thing i can really add to this is that Secret World has gone subscription free (after purchase of the game). Im already having a lot more fun...its harder, and the shear amount of content is mind blowing.
See you on there if youre moving on. I dont know how you guys can still hang around here, but if your plan is to stay on CO...i wish you all the best in finding the next best thing for yourselves, adios!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year aswell to all those i dont get to see again! You deserve better than this.
Fun times:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRqnlg7bThI Unleashed Rage BOOM! (including the famous 1527762 Critical hit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HQMNgnF2dU Infinite Psionic Accellerator Madness
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This was awesome while it lasted
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I dont think this game will make it that far.
I might have a mess around with for 5 minutes it IF its out, but yeah, im completey gone.
Me, kro, kali, steve, loj, A LOT of us oldies have moved over there bud, you should pop on vent and come check this out man its pretty awesome. Free trial too, you've got nothin to lose
Mix CO with L4D2 and add a lot more diversity in powers and you get Secret World.
Im not killing Clarence for the 10,000th time
Nor going to talk about the insane price of those 3 Become devices people already have a tonne of from last year and year before selling for super cheap in the AH..
Ahem...yeah.
Check the AH before Cryptic/SW rips you off ppl ;3
What a shame. See you next month!
I apparently left a 1st time?...
Not that i need it since the game playing has gone close to zero, but it's allways polite to ask.
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Hopefully, the grass actually IS greener on the other side.
In b4 Nepht.
I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
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Nah, its darker... grittier, and covered in Filth all over.
Are you referring to the controls?
You controller... fascist. :P
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Nope, the grass
Hah! No, not even. Don't get me wrong, if ever a game needed gamepad support it's that one, but even with the KB+M the controls were assome.
Camera was garbage, turning while running was painfully slow (it was faster to stop, face the direction you wanted to go, then go), selecting things in the UI was very inaccurate, response was just not very good and equipping was extremely awkward, and that's the stuff off the top of my head that I noticed in the week that I played.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeew......
Yeah I feel ya, the controls in that game are pretty blah. I just started playing it, not sure if I'll make it a week. I mean, come on, I stepped right into a zombie game? Has this not been done to death already (no pun)?
Game would have impressed me more if it didn't feel like I'm playing through The Walking Dead.
After this topic, probably gone, not even posting on forums.
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When I see complaints about:
It just paints a picture of complaining for the sake of complaining, regardless of how much I may agree with certain other complaints.
Regardless, I highly doubt we've seen the last of this one.
It is? I get a much bigger hit on MI than anywhere else no matter which card(s) I'm playing on at the time.
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This is kind of embarrassing. Did anyone else see the MMO site...thing? We had like 15 votes and we're allowed to vote repeatedly. Thundrax's facebook thing has 23 for all that we claim to want the Foundry.
So.... I guess I'm in Doom mode now... That makes me very sad.
Being completely unfacetious here; it seems to be the zone where I crash the most/get the most lag. To be fair though it gets this honor from my system by only a small margin, so...
Not sure where you are reading this but on mmosite we have around 300-400 votes for each of the category and it is ranked in the top 10-20. These mmosite awards are mainly about the community proactiveness. I suggest you go inside the voting and see which games are topping and you will be surprised.
The facebook thing is kind of new, I just posted there.
I was going to vote, but then i felt like I was lying, because this game doesnt deserve it.
OP: You had great points, but i cant agree on your Tiyshen complaints, but that is simply because i never had a bad experience with that Dev.
As I am very sick and tired of where this games seems to be going, I wil always be here mumbling to myself but trying to enjoy the game.
But Facebook has you...
Also lacks any semblance of action. Honestly, it was two hours before I gained any experience points in that game. Sloooooowwwww.....
Same here... I love what they are doing on TSW, mind you... but my real focus is on superheroes... and this game is failing miserably... no communication, no love... I spent years on CoH and was unable to do every single mission there... it took me less than 1 month to do all the missions available on CO. More content is REALLY needed. The game is good and has a lot of potential but it can't be abandoned like it is right now.
If the Devs read any of the threads int he forums one would think they could take his feedback constructivly...it is a little pointless since that wont happen, but I for one thank him for his opinion, which he is free to give.
Well if i want to look like how i want my character, Second Life is better than CO for customization, EASILY. Now if i want a GAME..which is what i need right now, CO isnt a game anymore, its a slot machine for children, TSW wins it.
You should care. Every person leaving this game reduces the likelihood that the lights will remain on. After enough "no one cares" You might be left wondering why the game is closing?
See, its that attitude that makes me completely neutral to you leaving.
I don't see 'NCSoft' on the masthead here.
And yet we've been dealing with people leaving for 2 and a half years now. How long does it take to turn the lights off?
Pay up to $50 and you too COULD get the pheremones.
..just wrong.
... why? Why do I need pheromones? I haven't spent a single zen on a cosmic key, my ranged DPS with silver champ R5s can tank almost anything, and I'm still having fun with the game.
Its not what you want, and that's OK. Just don't call us 'children', capiche?
Im not calling anyone children...im saying the game submits children to this, this is a game with a low-age rating.
You've misinterpreted what iv said and dove down my throat out of context.....like a lot of people seem to be doing lately. Please read the posts clearly.
If you want to go ahead and twist everything to your liking, whatever, i dont care, but so everyone else knows, i am not calling YOU a child...for ###k sake why am i even having to correct this...
TSW is not action oriented per se (though, the combat is far more challenging than CO), but a more cerebral game that emphasizes investigation and puzzle solving, with combat in between. Some missions (called Sabotage missions) even focus on avoiding confrontations altogether and attepting to achieve your objectives through stealth and evasive strategy.
Other missions focus on combat (particularly as you advance further in the game), but combat in TSW is about facing off against supernatural horrors and struggling to stay alive rather than just roflstomping through them. So the battles take longer and you have to work harder to stay alive than in most other MMOs.
The action and XP gain also picks up as you progress to the more advanced areas, and becomes significantly more challenging around the third zone (Blue Mountain) you hit in the earlier sections of the game.
What mean by weird difficulty levels I mean by the.....for example... you fight things and they are real easy...then suddenly get some mission thats supposed to be lower level....yet same enemies and they are alot stronger.....what is really weird is the the tough rated enemies.....granted they are supposed to be tough....but at times I find I run into some 3 levels above me and they are super easy.....later same enemy type at my level or even lower by 10 levels and they hit harder and have 10 times more health....very strange.
When I refer to boredom...its because 90% of the game is in the open world.....thus you end up traveling all over or grinding enemies to get 5 of something....all i needed was a key the other day......I defeated over 200 of the correct enemies before i got one....took almost an hour..stupid incubater guards...>_<
And then there is the fact there just isnt alot of team missions.......with the idiocy champion thing having a fairly short range....makes teaming difficult.....not sure I can do story stuff with someone unless they have a gold account.....and so many things seam level locked.....so I couldnt invite some low level friends for a few missions because they have not unlocked the area the missions are in.....no they get the you are too low a level message.
And then there is some stuff that should be repeatable....but isnt....instead the misssions to defeat 150 of something is the only repeatable stuff....but the monster island crisis....oh no...cant que that up again.
I could go on......but I guess I got spoiled by city of heroes.......trying to get the legion of catgirls doing stuff together again since coh's demise.....is tough with the cave man chat ui system....missing the extra windows options.....and being able to put buttons anywhere.....
If a developer reads this...fix the crime computer....I found exploits in it...and found it doesnt work for 90% of missions.....only thing it does well is let you leave a map.
I know something is planned......because silence means non-disclosure agreement.
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