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Well, I quit this game about 1.5 years ago because of the spammers in-game. Lately I thought to play it once more and to my surprise I notice nothing really changed. Although the player base dropped quit a bit.
My feedback is:
That its kinda silly nothing is done against gold diggers and obviously, who ever is responsible, does not really care about that. No wonder player base is less than it used to be. And for a fact I know Neverwinter is one of the few mmo's where these spammers still are allowed.
well done, hurray!
My feedback is:
That its kinda silly nothing is done against gold diggers and obviously, who ever is responsible, does not really care about that. No wonder player base is less than it used to be. And for a fact I know Neverwinter is one of the few mmo's where these spammers still are allowed.
well done, hurray!
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Just an fyi @megnatar I like your signature, however, can you please change its colour, it is very difficult to read as it blends into the brown of the background
...no longer BiS is a standard thing in all MMOs. On a side note, apart from the - totally unbalanced - PvP part of the game, there's little to no real need to get BiS, all it does is make the infiniGrind(TM) faster. But the way to acquire BiS gear is extremely boring and annoying in this game, which made many players give up and look for more entertaining greener pastures.
Also, in between, the game was put into a balance which made all the prior BiS totally, completely, utterly useless all at once, by attaching 2/3 of the char's hitpoints to the novel gear (Mod 6) - that wasn't taken up so well by many, and quite some of those left, never to come back.
Furthermore the infiniGrind(TM) is dealt out in such fat chunks that it's all but impossible to keep more than two or maybe three characters afloat, or one for leisurely players... ...in the formerly alt-friendly Neverwinter :^/
Though in hindsight I gotta admit that, as Mod 8 didn't introduce too much new stuff (almost none, TBH), it's potentially possible to catch up with some chars...
Spammers? Botters? Those are not bothered, and taken as a convenient excuse to wreck the players' income via Leadership, while before all resellable consistent gear drops had been removed from Dungeons and such. Only a few 0.5% drop chance left to make some bigger AD, and infiniGrinding Dragon Heralds for small-ish amounts.
But if spammers are what made you quit, you'll have a hard time in any free to play game. They all have them to varying degree's. It's difficult to ban them automatically because they keep changing up the way they advertise and as soon as you block one account, another pops up, and IP bans in this day and age are ineffective. It's a never ending battle. At least cryptic do work to battle it (AD changes, recent ban sweep for buyers and bot users/supports etc.)
As for player base drop, steam has a pretty nifty chart showing NW activity (though I think it may be steam based players), which helps reflect things.
http://steamcharts.com/app/109600#1y
The player base since mod 6 in particular, has dropped off and that lies squarely on the poor development decisions that were made and, unfortunately, seem to be ongoing (mod 8... bored already... 3 skirmishes and a mini-map is not an expansion).
There is just this one tiny remark:
ALLOWING SOMETHING THAT IS NOT RIGHT IS JUST AS BAD AS THE DEED IT SELF.
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