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mdrake1
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Is this game dead on pc?
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With the future so uncertain, people are reluctant to invest any more time or money in the game.
Once mod 16 hits some of the playerbase will return, and some will conclude the changes are to big or the end result is too bad and leave. Time will tell.. for now people are just sitting tight and accumulating RP and AD to meet the storm.
My VIP comes up at the end of April, and if nothing much changes from preview and I'm still having zero fun with it, I expect that will be the end of my 6+ years here.
...just like the rest of us.
If they didn't butcher the gameplay with their dogmatic dumbed down approach, I could at least enjoy playing after being pretty much ROBBED of everything I grinded towards. But really, start all over and grind spamming the same very limited encounter options to knock out enemy by enemy. This new @#$%in horrid gameplay was designed for parties and dungeons. It's not fun for everything else.
Even the healing and tanking is dumbed down to archaic levels. There WERE dynamic options, why they didn't just balance things and focus towards that is beyond me.
If I wanted something this simple I'd just play a @#$%y phone game.
My answer to this question (for all online games) is; Can you log in? Is your account still there? If you answered "yes" the game is not dead yet. Does low or high populations matter? Since you don't have any friends, I doubt that matters much. Just log on to the game and make up a character and start playing. You will probably want to name your character something with numbers for letters and lots of X's (e.g. XD R4WR XD) Then you should beg people for PvP at level 20 in chat. Rage quit at level 30, then come back in 5 more years and ask us this same question.
Have fun!
Also I was around for a fair while before I posted on the forums, and I'm not sure if the date is thefirst time on THIS forum or on Arc forums, could have played another game and be newer to this one ?
> Is this game dead on pc?
Greatest, most overasked, most superficial, most overly simplistic, most under-thought hyperbole question of all time.
I am Took.
"Full plate and packing steel" in NW since 2013.
I expect quite a lot of people to try it and play the new levelling stuff on at least one character (I know I will), but after that will be decision time. I'm helped by the fact that my VIP runs out then and that will sharpen focus.
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> It's not just that, but we're in that quiet, between mods moment, where some players have finished the AI campaign, and gone elsewhere for now, others aren't as anxious to get the campaign done (as they've finished it), some might just be logging in to get keys / get 100k rAD, and be done.
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Not only that but since m16 makes a lot of things obsolete, there isn't a lot of reason to farm certain content, Crown Seals, Soulmonger Ampolues, KTeam IOUs are all basically irrelevant now. I don't know how mod 16 will turn out, but in the meantime, a lot of things I might want to do have become pointless. Since I have a massive RAD backlog, all I need to really do is claim my key, refine 100k and log out. There are few odds and ends I've found to work on but after an hour each night, it is easier to log out and read or do something around the house.
I don't invoke anymore - had one coal ward in three years?
I don't really bother getting rAD anymore - can't see the point.
I would never buy VIP again until the lockbox loot has the carp taken out of it.
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However, maybe MOD 16 will be great and bring in floods of new players. Things have to change. Evolution is a mixed curse and a blessing.
We would probably all be happier if we were still bacteria or amoeba
But that being said, doesnt mean people who are here now.. will love it.
Invoking - it takes less than a second, gives a freebie thing. But you aren't bothering to invoke? What??
RAD - Again, What?? The entire game economy runs on AD, so have you got that much backlog on the one toon that you don't forsee yourself ever bothering to earn RAD again?
VIP - Pretty much acknowledged as best value for zen you can possibly get. You DON'T have to spend the keys you get when you get it you know. You can just store them till you see a lockbox you like. Now, if you didn't want to spend any money on Zen that's a different matter, just don't buy anything. It is technically FTP after all.