Ashes of Creation
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Daidraco
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Zindan
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You're delusional if you think a flood of new players isn't going to equate to a flood of ganking, lol.
While I know all things revolving around aesthetics is subjective, in this particular case, the game has dogshit character models / animations. This is an objective fact, especially if compared to what -is- possible. Now the game world is great.
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Chimney
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Agree, if they weren't going to juice things up with modern graphics/animations they should have went with an art style where it isn't so obviously dated looking. Maybe in 2035 when/if this releases it'll look better.
It isnt. I know because im playing, are you?
I did say that lvl 1 shenanigans are probable though. But you wont see ganking at higher lvls, too much risk
Zindan
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You've been playing with at most a few thousand other people who bought access, right? At most you've probably been on a server with 300 or so people prior to this, people who probably just want to "test" a game that gives them a hit of nostalgia. Give a much much larger group of people the chance to PvP is different than what you've been experiencing. Not sure why you're even contesting this. Also, in case you missed it in your rush to defend the game, I said such ganking would die off after a week (in this EA). On release, if there is a large playerbase, it will last a bit longer.
Zindan
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Hm, I think very little of what you're going to experience in this EA will change drastically, unless they plan on staying in EA for the 4+ years. Stuff that will be changed are going to be system lvl stuff, graphics are set.
No, I mean right now. I am playing right now with 25-30 people spread out across the starting areas. Noone is getting ganked anywhere. I understand you really want to be right, but you arent.
I am only 'contesting' this because it seems like you fundamentally do not understand the game yet you are very adamant about how much you know. MANY people think there is alot of PVP in this game, and there just isnt. There most certainly will be when the game is 'done', however right now you have to go looking for it if you want it and 90% of the game is EQ style PVE farming. I do not like PVP for the sake of PVP myself, this game has amazing PVE which is why I play. Some lvl 1 shenanigans is very different than "expect to get ganked alot the first week".
Also, once again, there has never been a server with '300 or so people' on it since phase 1. There has been phase 2, 2.5, 3 and now the EA. Last phase, there were over 6 thousand people on at any given time of the day (U.S. prime hours) the first week. The peak on the most populated server was pushing 10k.
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Daidraco
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For that many people, and as few servers as there are - whatever they have worked out on the back end is working pretty fantastic.
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Mahes
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Yeah I was pleasantly surprised at how long the servers went before a restart to fix characters getting stuck. I am enjoying the Summoner as I am able to solo at a descent clip for the moment. Looking forward to trying out group stuff. Hit 7th and actually did some alchemy. Will play some more tomorrow.
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need to be lvl 10 to make guild, ill have it up sometime in the am
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Daidraco
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Why in the world would you release a game, and within 24 hours, have a 1.9gig patch for it already... The 3 hour downtime after the servers went down (someone said 7 times) was to be expected though. A peak of ~26k players doesnt seem like it went very far with word of mouth or marketing, also.
Flobee
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If I had to guess it will hit its peak population over the next few weeks. A lot of people, myself included, couldn't get in yesterday for a number of reasons. Once the population spreads a bit I bet you'll see more people on at once. What % of people bounced off day 1 due to queues, down website, etc? Some amount will try again I'm sure
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It is a game with very limited appeal. At a time when WoW is adding single button playing, they are going for hardcore grind/grouping required and PvP. It is also the type of game where if you aren't on the winning team, you aren't having fun. They are taking all the worst ideas of failed MMO's and putting them into one game.
Not exactly a recipe for success, and people experienced with the genre know this....thus the low sales numbers on Steam.
This is all academic, though. The game will never see full release. Even at some Pie+Sky Steam sales of 100k units, this only gives them 2 months of runway before they are back to being out of cash. Releasing on Steam despite them saying they never would is a pretty clear indication there is no clang in their coffers.
LOL. They are perma-banning people from their forums for voicing any kind of negativity about the game. Not exactly the sign of a stable leadership.