Problem With PWI and FC..

Very little about this game has anything to do with skill or learning. It's an old game that isn't all that complicated. Essentially given enough money I could probably beat you with even a class that I have never played beyond fc and maybe 40 hours of pvp practice.

Euthymius - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Ah, I still remember when PWE "broke" Frost by having hypers disabled like their CN counterpart on accident. It may have been just for a week, but the world came to life again.
...Perhaps some things are better left "broken".
*sigh*

When was this?! That should have stayed

FCC noobs provide the biggest income for PWI after packs addicts if you look at it like this, players make a new character and power-level it to lvl 100/101 as fast as possible, thus it will require rank gear, either r8 or r9 or even nirvana 3rd cast which appears to be more popular nowadays, and the problem occurs that those players are usually poor, (and who will drag along an under-geared player in an endgame instance) and in need of said gear, some will charge zen to buy it others will work slowly towards it, either way profit for PWI.

Hey OP, you think you could stand to add some capital letters into your posts sometime? Along with some proper punctuation. And maybe even paragraph breaks. Seriously, as far as I can tell, they're nice things and won't bite.

There are a hell of a lot of problems and causes we can look to and blame for the dying interest in this game. The general mentality of powerleveling and pay-to-win is just one of them.

Some people quit because years ago when they started, they were teenagers with lots of free time on their hands, and now they're grown up, either moving on to other games, or starting work/college. Others quit not because they don't have the time for this game, but because no matter how much new content is pumped into the game, it doesn't really change the fact that the most significant parts of the game only happen at 100+. The gameplay is boring and limited, and sometimes it feels more like I'm living on a social network rather than an actual game.

Personally, I'd say that's the main appeal of PWI. It's not meant to be gameplay-centered. The main selling point of this game, as I see it, is the sheer amount of customisation available for your characters. You can control almost every aspect of your appearance, from your hair to your face to your clothes. The problem is, the vast majority of players don't truly acknowledge this in any way.

Krisnda wrote: »

When was this?! That should have stayed

The question should be, "where were you when this was a big huge deal?"

Well, people were wanting it to stay in place, and apparently, "traditional leveling" back, aka questing and such. I didn't play during that time, but I still posted here, so I have no idea the extent of the effects the "mess up" had.

Even changing anything won't make any difference i believe, there are full of hyper babies all over and in every server.My own Archer is a hyper baby lolz b:chuckle

So, do you think changing FC back to its old days or disable Hypers in FC only will change anything?

You ever tried running PV? Yea gives alot of XP too.
With changing it in however you want it, will make FC a dead instance and we dont need another dead one.

People will Hyper PV then and play even less, because PV is limited, do you really think they will go out and Quest again for EXP?
I doubt it.

lol i just had to leave my faction because i dared to lvl my archer the old way, without fcc or bhs most time. I did that before on other toons because i wanted to be able to solo things so i powerlvld my barb and cleric, but its not fun at all. I wanted to get rid of every quest my archer had and i still have about 50 left lol, but yeah questing doesnt give enough exp to lvl as fast as fcc-buyers.

One of our 12 years old guild mates who knows absolutely nothing about the game told me im a noob because im so slow while he was the same lvl and asking EVERYDAY people over 90 to give him heads, even if they told him they cannot solo it yet. His regular answer was that he read sins can solo everything so they can solo fc at 95 easy, and of course he wouldnt pay faction mates for it. Funny thing was that he actually was an Executor.

Well later when i left i got some pms from other faction mates and they told me that they hate him too lol ....

Yeah there are other ways to powerleveling as well but fc is the ONLY one where nobody needs to do anything and so they have no clue how to play their class. I usually wouldnt care about it if it wouldnt ruin other players fun ingame as well.

Lucrecia - Momaganon wrote: »

lol i just had to leave my faction because i dared to lvl my archer the old way, without fcc or bhs most time. I did that before on other toons because i wanted to be able to solo things so i powerlvld my barb and cleric, but its not fun at all. I wanted to get rid of every quest my archer had and i still have about 50 left lol, but yeah questing doesnt give enough exp to lvl as fast as fcc-buyers.

One of our 12 years old guild mates who knows absolutely nothing about the game told me im a noob because im so slow while he was the same lvl and asking EVERYDAY people over 90 to give him heads, even if they told him they cannot solo it yet. His regular answer was that he read sins can solo everything so they can solo fc at 95 easy, and of course he wouldnt pay faction mates for it. Funny thing was that he actually was an Executor.

Well later when i left i got some pms from other faction mates and they told me that they hate him too lol ....

Yeah there are other ways to powerleveling as well but fc is the ONLY one where nobody needs to do anything and so they have no clue how to play their class. I usually wouldnt care about it if it wouldnt ruin other players fun ingame as well.

"EVERYDAY people over 90 to give him heads"

lmfao....no comment except "That's what she said" lol

I remember when FC was broken. For one week, people actually played the game. It was one of the greatest achievements PWI has ever attained, even if it was only by accident.

I also remember v4liance saying that for the time being, it would be restored, but that we could all take a look into it down the line. I feel that the time has come for us to rise up and take a look at this issue.

In the mean time, the OP should put up a poll asking whether FC should be changed or not, with options as follows:

Yes!
No...
Level Cap the Instance

If a MOD would be so kind, could they poke Hey, You! for us? I'd like to get his opinion on the matter, so that we all go about appealing this in an appropriate manner.

- Crix

i still dont believe after all this years people opening threads about FC

FC was there and it will be because its a great source of rl money for PWE


why would they stop it??there is no better way then having someone to level fast and cash for their gears,refines,gems

PWE been running business like that for year and thats why server are so low populated

its money over anything


anyway game is free and if you dont care about people,gears etc you can have fun playing your own way

Jadsia - Lost City wrote: »

Ever hear of the expression "A bulb that burns twice as bright lasts half as long?"

What is there at end-game that is so appealing other than PK? And even that is not what it once was on the PK servers. One thing about driving slower on a country road is that there is so much more to experience than flying above it in a hurry. But I'll ask again, what is so appealing at the end-game? Not much in my opinion. A game is no longer a game when there is no real challenge and nothing left to conquest. I imagine that the majority of chars in the player base are just alts to the minority of real people that play. When they get bored of leveling chars they quit like the rest of the others because the end-game is not very appealing.

Technically the game is "over" at lvl90..

There really should be more repeatables(that don't require a squad..) at 100+ but whatever..

Crixxix - Raging Tide wrote: »

I also remember v4liance saying that for the time being, it would be restored, but that we could all take a look into it down the line. I feel that the time has come for us to rise up and take a look at this issue.

That would be nice, but I wouldn't get your hopes up. PWE is not particularly prone to action unless it affects their income. It would have been easiest for them to just leave the hypers off, since it would require no further action on their part. But since they turned them back on, that's a pretty good sign that they've already "looked into it" and decided having hypers on in FC is best for their bottom line.