The duping has been going on for a minute. The only reason I believe it wasnt super obvious is because the benches werent high enough to make the high end shit. Never mind that someone gave me 10g for a green wolf mount at the end of the first week. Not only is that a lot of gold for such a short time frame, but for a green wolf mount? Easy af to get? I aint going to say no, but gtfo.
Every single chase / goal for me in the game has been hollowed out with just how… i guess I should say, its Alpha state? Devs poor choices? The cheating is just kind of icing on the cake
When I flew out before my families big Christmas dinner - i was already kind of pessimistic towards crafting. Item drops from mobs being able to drop, plentifully, at blue con (hi2u Ashen gear and similar). But the occasional drops from heroic up to legendary, too. That shit wouldnt be so bad if you, as a crafter, could make similar gear at the same time - but the tables werent even high enough to make similar or better gear yet. You know - during the actual fkn rush period where everyone is in that level range?
Worse yet is the time commitment to make something similar in the first place. How long do you have to gather to get the blue components just to match the quality of the same armor that drops within 30 minutes of solo farming ghosts? Hours at the very least and that’s not including the time commitment in order to get your crafting, processing and gathering skills up to that point.
The little things like no actual LFG tool and the terrible balancing between classes is to be expected in an alpha. And really, the cheating is too - but the streamer is right. Nothing seems to be happening to these people. It took me all of 30 seconds to find a cheat that gives you up to 15% server side attack speed boost. Flying hack that was mentioned. Up to 55% server side movement speed boost, regardless if you have a crate or not. Etc. Everything that walks the tip toe edge of “Easy Anticheat’s” detection.
Sure, itll get fixed and patched out. But lets not pretend that these individual accounts being investigated will fix the economy. Or that with each account they ban, two more dont get brought online in its place. Gold is already 0.77 cents per. Play for an hour and gamble wih crates? Or just spend less than a monster energy drink and get guaranteed gold in an instant? Hrrmmmm (as if crates were even remotely balanced at the moment between caravans and mules).
So I guess the real recourse is just a wipe. I already knew another one would eventually come, but this whole ordeal has likely moved it up substantially. Faith in the system, much like what New World experienced, has crashed quickly.
Again, I know its Alpha - but my desire to play isnt going to peak over casual. Just too much wrong with the current game, like how idiotic flagging is and at the same time… isnt?
I hope that the steam launch netted the company enough money to get the momentum needed to get the game in a solid place eventually, though. So its not all doomer. Just eventually came to the same conclusion that other people had when they said it wasnt ready for steam. .
