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I have been here since Beta. I have long ago surrendered any hope that Defiance's biggest problems, that have also been here since then, will ever get fixed.
I will continue to play as I STILL enjoy completing Arkfalls with my fellow Arkhunters, but my avatar should say all there is to say about what I believe Defiance's future holds.
The game feels like it has been a "back-burner" project/product since launch. My feelings about it fall more in the area of disappointment than resentment. This game is like if Will Hunting decides to stay a janitor/laborer at the end of the movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOz
What're you guys, on drugs? The game never left beta testing! That's why there's the alpha server for upcoming additions to the beta! Any word on a final release?
This is a perfect description of my sentiment as well. There are people like me, and the others in this thread, that love this game. Unfortunately, the people that NEED to love this game have treated it like a red-headed step-child.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryme
Been here since about three weeks after launch. It's been a long, bumpy ride. There's just something about this game that I love. On a positive note, it is so much easier to get great oranges now than when I started playing a year ago. I think I've played this game more than all other console games I've ever played, put together. And I'm not a young man, by any means- I've been playing console games since the Atari and Intellivision. I am hopeful for the immediate future of this game.
Still here, been a long bad winter and not able to play as much as I liked with the gang. When we do it still cuts us off as much as it did. Hanging on for the second season to see if things change or gets worse.
Same here. I have even gotten some of those absent friends to come back with the knowledge that it's going free to play. Not sure why that did it but it did. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Odessa
Day one-er/preorder. Though i admittedly tend to play off and on, generally when one of the dlc gets released or a major patch.
Keep returning for reasons i can only laugh at.
Interesting thread. I'll do something I normally don't do, tell some history about myself.
Before Defiance was released I had read about it and thought the concept was interesting. Not the typical game created or inspired by a movie or show, but rather with the intention to work closely and in conjunction with a show. I thought it had so much potential.
So I picked up the game at the local game store about the 2nd or 3rd day after release, so while I'm not a "day one-er" I'm close.
I'm not a huge gamer, and by that I simply mean that I don't purchase many games. I'm very picky about what I choose to spend money on, and more importantly what I choose to spend my TIME on. To give you an idea of my gaming experience and how many games I've purchased in the last 20 years or so, keeping in mind that I've played games since my Atari 2600, which I still have in a box and it still works believe it or not. Here's a rough list and it's mostly in chronological order:
Gemstone III (text based MUD)
Xcom (the original)
Almost all of the Bio-Ware AD&D games (Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment, etc)
Everquest (The last Sony product I have ever purchased, their rootkit debacle caused me to boycott ALL things Sony)
City of Heroes (played it from beginning to end, was sad to see it shut down)
UFO Aftermath (an Xcom inspired game)
UFO Aftershock (a sequel)
UFO Afterlight (a sequel to the sequel)
Champions Online (It's the only Super Hero MMO out there that I can play currently)
Defiance
Rift (Mainly out of a desire to support Trion, I normally don't like the heavy loot based grindy nature of Sword and Sorcery type MMOs, and Rift is no exception. I play it sporadically)
Xcom (The new one)
As you can see that's around 20 years of games, which would indicate that I purchase about one game a year, give or take. There are a few other games, but nothing really worth mentioning, you know, a game that seemed interesting at the time, saw it for cheap, and it ended up being bleh.
So, now that I've covered all of that, folks might get a better understanding of the fact that I really do want Defiance to succeed, mainly because I tend to be a loyal customer. I want to get my money's worth, but even more importantly I want to get my TIME's worth.
I put time and money into Defiance, so I would really like for Defiance to do well, because doing well means they throw more resources and funding into it, thus making it even better. If the game just goes downhill, it's not just simply a matter of me bailing the sinking ship onto the next new shiny because I will lose my invested time in the process, and I hate feeling like I've wasted my time.
I've been around since mid-late april early may and I think it's a great game besides the server issues. I enjoy the increased cap and the damage scaling on higher ego weapons. I took a hiatus for 8 months and in the ~2 months that I've been back I've managed to go from prepatch weapons to everything I want from loot drops and/or trading. Trion just needs to get the servers in order and fix bugs.