Athriaxo wrote:Hey guys!
Additionally while having Tutorials on the Forum etc. is a great thing you must remember that 85% of players will NEVER see the forum AT ALL! If this wasnt a game that I find so very interresting because its all about crafting I too would not have bothered to come to the forum after playing the game and having been disappointed about it.
Not to mention the fact that you are left with either logging out completely, reading... logging in hoping to remember what you read and executing it and then repeating that process every time you have a question. I learned the hard way that alt + tabbing isn't viable as you will most likely get murdered or KOed.
Regarding #6: While its makes sense that a custom UI could help, again one must remember that I am not talking about me personally but about most common players who would NEVER go thru such lenghts in order to play. A large part of wich would probably not even know there are such addons aviable!
Addon availability and support is a huge plus for me personally. More specifically with this game tho, the UI scale is HUGE and there is no easy way to move things or resize them without going in and doing minor programming changes.
#8 Again you have missed the point of what I was trying to say: A person coming into the game only seeing messages without names will be deterred by this and especially when the game has just launched imagine 100 new players all asking questions and not even knowing who is talking ... imagine having a screen full of people and there are chat bubbles popping up everywhere nobody would even know who is answering his question and if hes actually answering HIS question or some1 elses... example: Player ??? (1) asks: Where can i find maple leaf? Player ??? (2) asks: How to get away from here? Player ??? (3) answers: You need to take the boat! ... now how would player 1 or 2 (remember they are new) know if it was theyr question that has been answered by player 3? So you see in a game without such things as eye contact or sense of direction of sound this system is not aplicable.
I agree with this and it makes socializing annoying. In other MMOs I will often spend time hanging out in a major city or login screen where chat is still available just having conversations with people. That's the beauty of an MMO. The current process by which you communicate and befriend people is clunky and hard to manage. I still have trouble sometimes adding people to my kin list (tho I'm starting to wonder if this is not just a bug).
The bottom line is you may not want to hear or believe it but I guarantee you from my many years of experience in the gaming industry: This game if not drastically overhauled WILL COMMERCIALLY FAIL ON A MASSIVE SCALE!!!
I have to whole heartedly agree with this and I pray to god that you listen and don't fail because this game has really strong bones and is just what I've been looking for, it does have massive drawbacks though that need to be addressed before it will appeal to a commercial audience.
And let me stress this one more time: There is no use in recommending me to "play longer" because this topic is NOT ABOUT ME it is about the 85% of players who will never come to the forum because they are discouraged right away and never come back!
I play games for a living, specifically MMOs and I have to agree with this. While most of the time I fall within the "hard core" range of players who hates the noobs and wishes stuff wasn't dumbed down... like it or not it's the 'dumb noobs' that make games last and keep an MMO alive. They are the rotating audience that feeds an MMO and allows a game to continue to be playable for many many years. The way this game is designed right now, it is counter intuitive to sustainable play because it creates such a large divide between new players and experienced players and with perma-death... you will not see players who die in end game restarting as often as you might think.