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Of the dozens of friends I began playing Neverwinter with back in 2014 and the dozens of friends we all brought into the game subsequently, I can count on half of one hand the people who still play Neverwinter. Primarily because of the too frequent and too radical changes.

We can all understand when new content is released the play style, mechanics and even gear value will sometime change for that new content but why do those changes have to effect existing content. Most of us aren't what some may consider dedicated players who spend hours upon hours playing the game since most of us also have careers, families and responsibilities outside the game. So to spend days, weeks or sometimes months to collect the items, gear and experience to conquer one zone map but to have the parameters changed either before or shortly after an area has been mastered is beyond frustrating. Especially since it has become evident it will only happen again in a new area at a later date.

I mean we all have items and currency that are presently next to worthless, some of those items we've spend a great deal of time in the game to accumulate and this is particularly frustrating if someone decides to spend a little real world currency to expedite obtaining items, which again has happened to multiple people, myself included, more than once.

I never mind paying a little to play (even in a free to play game), so long as I feel my purchase has lasting worth but to spend then have my purchase or the reason for my purchase negated does not encourage me to keep spending money - as a matter of fact it has just the opposite effect.

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I remember doing coding in high school and college. The one rule we had to abide by was that everything gets documented regardless of the language used, so that people coming after you can go through it if they need to, at the very least to understand what and how you did it, and so that they can change what needs to be changed if necessary.

I guess the gaming industry doesn't follow such logical processes.

apparently cryptic didn't in the past. not sure if they currently do. i suppose it's also possible that they actually did and the whole " we don't know the code and it's too much work trying to not break undocumented code " excuse was also just... another lie trotted out to the players to 'justify' bad decisions, shoddy work, and what, when compared to other games in cryptics portfolio, appears to be a serious lack of giving a HAMSTER about neverwinter.

the reworks aren't for the sake of the players, and they never have been. some of the removed content was removed because the devs were being pushed to do things with the game that neither they nor the players wanted, so the devs.... left, and had to be replaced with new devs that didn't know the codebase, which led to inability to maintain, which led to removal, eventually that all led to the reworks - to replace code people didn't know properly, with code they did, which were used as excuses to do other things, some of which were good, most of which were not.

don't expect a voice-comms rework. it isn't going to happen unless they can figure out how to monetise it. if you want comms for just you and your mates...honestly, just use discord, or teamspeak/ventrilo/mumble or somesuch.


on the subject of movement speed..... remember how it wasn't that long ago that they were telling us they *couldn't bring it back because it was too much for consoles to handle without major performance impact* ?