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[Discussion] New content vs fixing existing issues
fuacccreation
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Hi everybody, first of all i think it's great cryptic releases new modules that frequently and i really enjoy the new content.
BUT I've actually just started to play the current module and now they've announced another one already. What came to my mind immediately was that there are a lot of issues with the current game that need to be fixed and i don't feel there's much effort put into it (like server stability, class balancing, glitches and bugs etc.)
So im asking YOU (the players): Would you rather have new content (as well as events) every other week and month or would you like the game to be stable, balanced and enyojable in its core? An therefore have to wait for new content a bit longer? Or do you think new content is the only thing that keeps a game alive and is most important?
Of course this is a question the devs should think about too, do they want their game to be enyojable? yes certainly. But how can they achieve that?
I would really like to see a game that is stable and balanced in its core, and of course i enjoy new content once in a while! But it really doesn't have to be every other month. I could wait for new content, if the core game was well-engineered.
BUT I've actually just started to play the current module and now they've announced another one already. What came to my mind immediately was that there are a lot of issues with the current game that need to be fixed and i don't feel there's much effort put into it (like server stability, class balancing, glitches and bugs etc.)
So im asking YOU (the players): Would you rather have new content (as well as events) every other week and month or would you like the game to be stable, balanced and enyojable in its core? An therefore have to wait for new content a bit longer? Or do you think new content is the only thing that keeps a game alive and is most important?
Of course this is a question the devs should think about too, do they want their game to be enyojable? yes certainly. But how can they achieve that?
I would really like to see a game that is stable and balanced in its core, and of course i enjoy new content once in a while! But it really doesn't have to be every other month. I could wait for new content, if the core game was well-engineered.
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You wouldn't want your artists doing debugging and coding. You wouldn't want your debuggers to work on animation. And you certainly wouldn't want QA or artists working on server infrastructure. Why? It's not their area of expertise. Yet all of those roles are necessary to make the whole of the game--working within their own sphere, instead of thrown around haphazardly.
Bottom line is that it's a bit unrealistic to say "put THIS on hold while you do THAT" because then you end up with teams of dead weight.
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The Tiefling racial ability has been bugged since launch.
The GF ability "Knight's Valour," has had multiple bugs since launch.
The GF ability "Knight's Challenge," when it changed last patch, came with a bug that was reported mutiple times on the test shard.
Several CW abilities have been bugged since launched, and do not benefit from the Armor Penetration stat.
I could go on.
Obviously a hard bug to fix since it only occurs in CN, all other dungeons have no issues with doors...
<fry>Not sure if sarcastic...</fry>
That's true if there really are multiple teams. I develop software for a living, and I can tell you that often as not, your new development team and your bugfix team are composed of (at least some of) the same members.
If the art team is ever involved in bugfixing, something is badly wrong with the application design.
What PW really needs is a new network team.
When a company is departmentalized and hours are added or subtracted from those departments, they would re-staff accordingly. This does NOT mean sending employees from one department to another.
But you will put the game on hold if any bug effects the precious Zen Market and money in your pockets.
Cryptic is notorious, since City of Heroes, to neglect issues that need to be fixed. We had an Astral Diamond bug where people could get unlimited diamonds. The bug was reported over and over during testing but never fixed, but when people started exploiting it, and destroyed the Zen Market and ruined the economy, you finally fix it. And rolled back the servers to fix the damage it caused.
There are bugs I have reported over and over since Beta but you refuse to fix.
One such bug is with Skill Nodes/Treasure Chests. If you use the chest/node after someone that leaves a single junk item behind, your use of the node/chest will be that junk item. If you neglect to loot it, the next person will be plagued with the junk item and it will never reset until someone finally loots the item.
I feel the proper fix to this would to be to make all nodes/chest instanced. Similar to how resource nodes are in Guild Wars 2. But if that is too complex for your staff, make it so that anyone that leaves items in a chest or node cannot access another chest/node for 24 hours until the prior node/chest is resolved by that player or another.
This bug has been here for 2 years. Don't you think it is time to fix it?
thanks.