Soldato
- Joined
- 28 Oct 2011
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Game itself is fun. Too bad about the bugs
Usually it wouldn't phase me.. I'm of the generation that cut their teeth on games like UO (before EA went to the toilet on it) where you actually had meaningful consequences/penalties for failing
And I've seen most of the big hitters which followed before we even had the likes of theme park MMO's (WoW)
So its from a position of patience but also disbelief when I see the entire EU cluster taken down because somehow they (allegedly something to do with confusing a "." with a ",") gave swathes of players hundreds of thousands of coin, causing a trade post Armageddon.
I'm not actually sure at this point if they have the capability to perform a roll back.. I mean the time to do it would have been the duping thing a fortnight ago
The genre as a whole needs a kick up the backside
(ff14 is not my cup of tea, though I will say the developer doing interviews is hard not to like)
The whole industry needs a kick up the backside, but they know they can release any old trash because pre-order and simp for terrible products. Look at BF whateveritisthisyear - they took two years to make this rather than one, and it is still absolute garbage, completely bare bones and stripped of features, but on sale for $70-$130. You cannot produce quality AAA titles.
There's no way AGS were ready to pull off an MMO, and they haven't because this isn't one. They have proven they cannot manage an economy or PvP, so what is left exactly? the story and lore are non-existent, the quests are the worst kind of copy pasta, the dungeons aren't good, there's no end-game, not enough content overall.
People have enjoyed the grinding it seems and it looks pretty...
No clear vision, not enough talent on board, and not enough time. This game needed two more years at least. This game were it not made by AGS and had endless marekting would be totally dead by now.