Anyone that knows me personally is aware of a few things.
1, I've BEEN a "crotchety old man". I have very little patience for other people's nonsense.
2, I'm a level headed guy most of the time but when I loose it, I do so with style.
3, I hate the forums. I usually avoid them like the plague. So if I'm feeling strongly enough about something to get past my hatred and get on here you better believe it's going to be a strong post.
4, I love this game and respect the people that make it. I've had the pleasure of meeting some of them in person and they're great people who really seem to love what they're doing. However, I'm not a "yes" man. I'm not going to blindly praise the game or the team when I feel that they've clearly screwed up. Never have, never will.
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I've played many MMOs including WoW, DCUO and SWG. So I'm aware of what other games do. It's not like the similarities escaped me. When I played through DR I kept thinking about how much it reminded me of the awful level grind in WoW. Again, it PROBABLY wouldn't have felt so maddeningly awful IF there was more to do, but there wasn't. By my fourth run of mind scape I was sick of the entire mission.
I think the similarities are imperfect though, as I keep saying, if there were 40+ new missions, this rate of progress might be reasonable because we'd have no gaps. Even new players are unlikely to have the other 20 missions needed unless they're Feds who leveled on bonus XP weekends.
When DR first launched I thought they were just making the new content so difficult to make us buy one of their poorly designed intel ships, I resisted for a while but eventually gave in and bought the phantom, then I hit the same BS level gap, now I'm sitting at lvl 55 with nothing to do, replaying missions only gives about 700 or so xp, patrols give about the same, raids are just frakking boring and don't reward any xp aside from npc kills, pvp is my personal enemy and I'm just ranting now but *censored for the sake of the kiddies*.
Seriously, EFF DR! (not meant as a belated political statement)
Also, if it weren't for the 2500 zen I had saved up from lifetime sub stipend, there's no way on this Earth or any other that I would have bought a T6, £30 for a piece of frakking code?!? Get outta here!
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I'm not THAT difficult to please, I just have a very low tolerance threshold for stupid BS! - George Carlin.
When DR first launched I thought they were just making the new content so difficult to make us buy one of their poorly designed intel ships, I resisted for a while but eventually gave in and bought the phantom, then I hit the same BS level gap, now I'm sitting at lvl 55 with nothing to do, replaying missions only gives about 700 or so xp, patrols give about the same, raids are just frakking boring and don't reward any xp aside from npc kills, pvp is my personal enemy and I'm just ranting now but *censored for the sake of the kiddies*.
Seriously, EFF DR! (not meant as a belated political statement)
Also, if it weren't for the 2500 zen I had saved up from lifetime sub stipend, there's no way on this Earth or any other that I would have bought a T6, £30 for a piece of frakking code?!? Get outta here!
:mad:
Remember...Cryptic thinks you don't exist...they won't accept there is a terrible NERF issue...nothing to see here and move on...hypocrites :eek:
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I think the similarities are imperfect though, as I keep saying, if there were 40+ new missions, this rate of progress might be reasonable because we'd have no gaps. Even new players are unlikely to have the other 20 missions needed unless they're Feds who leveled on bonus XP weekends.
The only thread that's been closed around here recently has been the EP's .
That's how far the forums have started to resemble the Mirror Universe ... :eek:
Seriously, EFF DR! (not meant as a belated political statement)
Also, if it weren't for the 2500 zen I had saved up from lifetime sub stipend, there's no way on this Earth or any other that I would have bought a T6, £30 for a piece of frakking code?!? Get outta here!
:mad:
I'm not THAT difficult to please, I just have a very low tolerance threshold for stupid BS! - George Carlin.
Remember...Cryptic thinks you don't exist...they won't accept there is a terrible NERF issue...nothing to see here and move on...hypocrites :eek: