I miss the game, tell me why it's pointless to come back

rnd1055
rnd1055 Posts: 1 Arc User
edited October 2011 in Off-Topic Discussion
I played PWI since 2008. I really, really enjoyed it. I had a great time and a lot of fun. But in the end the whole experience started to weigh too heavily on me and I quit.

Even so, now and then I miss it so much that I think of coming back. But you can never go back, can you? The game I loved to play doesn't exist anymore.

The endless QQ threads say it all. Sins became a self-sufficient class that can tank, DD and self-heal; other classes became 2nd or 3rd rate and hardly any of them play their role anymore. Playstyle is repetitive and boring. Bugs and exploits are not corrected by the devs and GMs. People, for the most part, are rude. Or maybe it was mostly the gang I was running with.

It seems pointless to spend so much time grinding, so much repetition, so much boring inventory-handling, and after spending months and years playing, to be expected to spend thousands of dollars to buy gear so you can compete in TW, which seems to be the only thing that keeps people interested at endgame.

I halfway expected the Genesis expansion to make things better, but it seems that neither mystic or seekers offer a compelling alternative to sins at endgame PVE.

In the end, I feel sad and disappointed at the game and at people that I treated as friends. I miss all the fun I had when I was learning the game and leveling up. I don't miss the obsession, though, or feeling exhausted for playing so many late hours. It seems a large part of the playerbase are people that don't have a job or family.

Have you ever felt that way?
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  • Nowitsawn - Heavens Tear
    Nowitsawn - Heavens Tear Posts: 4,864 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    rnd1055 wrote: »
    I miss all the fun I had when I was learning the game

    Which is the only fun thing left. Funny how most new players still skip it...

    So, why it's pointless to come back? Well, I must say you summed it up pretty nicely yourself already.
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  • ClawCrusher - Sanctuary
    ClawCrusher - Sanctuary Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    honestly I really dont care how unbalanced the classes are...as long as you got friends with you it never gets boring. I agree it has been going downhill but only reason I stay is because the people I came to know on this game thus its enough fun it provides me to keep on playing.
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  • StormHydra - Sanctuary
    StormHydra - Sanctuary Posts: 2,221 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    For me the worst ever thing in this game is powerlevelling
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  • Typhyse - Sanctuary
    Typhyse - Sanctuary Posts: 3,469 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    I looked at the title and lost the game in 0.3 seconds.
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  • X$exyFox - Heavens Tear
    X$exyFox - Heavens Tear Posts: 92 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    StormHydra - Sanctuary wrote: »
    For me the worst ever thing in this game is powerlevelling

    I agreed so much with this. I think people who plvl are just too lazy or whatever to learn how to play their class and to learn how to lvl normally. What is so wrong with normal lvling?
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  • Esnemyl - Dreamweaver
    Esnemyl - Dreamweaver Posts: 3,079 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    X$exyFox - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    I agreed so much with this. I think people who plvl are just too lazy or whatever to learn how to play their class and to learn how to lvl normally. What is so wrong with normal lvling?

    Ikr? I do all my quests before FCing, for the grinding and playing with my skills :) I'm not a proper old schooler (late 09), but I like what I do.
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  • X$exyFox - Heavens Tear
    X$exyFox - Heavens Tear Posts: 92 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Esnemyl - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    Ikr? I do all my quests before FCing, for the grinding and playing with my skills :) I'm not a proper old schooler (late 09), but I like what I do.

    I do this too and I only do BH when I am out of quests. ;p
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  • NiightmareXz - Harshlands
    NiightmareXz - Harshlands Posts: 1,569 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Hardly no one stops to help anyone anymore, so if you happen to come back, have fun leveling by yourself. Almost all low leveled characters are shuffled through FC to get to 100, so any newbies you see in starter areas or low quest areas (broken bow bridge) are being shuffled along on their cultis by a higher level. If you come back, it's basically FC and be lonely at 100 or do your quests and be lonely at a low level.
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  • LordAllan - Raging Tide
    LordAllan - Raging Tide Posts: 29 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    ClawCrusher - Sanctuary wrote: »
    honestly I really dont care how unbalanced the classes are...as long as you got friends with you it never gets boring. I agree it has been going downhill but only reason I stay is because the people I came to know on this game thus its enough fun it provides me to keep on playing.

    Totally agree, I played this game in beta and stopped playing for a year or so to get my grades back up in school, and now that I work full days, its nice to get home and run fc with some friends, or help guildies with quests and every weekend I look forward to a good TW. The game has changed a lot over the years, the only thing that keeps me here is the friends I made and fun I have with them in game.
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  • ColdAsLife - Dreamweaver
    ColdAsLife - Dreamweaver Posts: 432 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    I was wondering the very same thing, although I quite the game later than you did ... Oh, hey Now!
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  • Hazumi_chan - Sanctuary
    Hazumi_chan - Sanctuary Posts: 1,264 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    GRIM *nomds feathers*
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  • Asgardeus - Sanctuary
    Asgardeus - Sanctuary Posts: 551 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Wifeh D:
    No nomming a strangers feathers Q_Q
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  • Hazumi_chan - Sanctuary
    Hazumi_chan - Sanctuary Posts: 1,264 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    I.. I didn't mean to T_T
































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  • Xainou - Sanctuary
    Xainou - Sanctuary Posts: 5,369 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    My screen is bigger than that space. Kthxbye.
    *kidnaps Hazu* XD
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  • Hazumi_chan - Sanctuary
    Hazumi_chan - Sanctuary Posts: 1,264 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    in soviet russia hazu kidnaps you >_>

    and my screen is too 8D
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  • Zanryu - Dreamweaver
    Zanryu - Dreamweaver Posts: 7,261 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Mineisn'tbutIhavepizza
  • _Akkyra_ - Dreamweaver
    _Akkyra_ - Dreamweaver Posts: 19 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Zanryu - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    Mineisn'tbutIhavepizza


    i see u =o
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