A Q&A from Etaew's 7th March Livestream Answers Transcript.

[crasher]

Yes. I still don't think deaths should have a penalty with the WM, or any event where death has a high chance of happening due to complete randomness.

That or they need to add 2-4 minutes to the timer now to give people a chance now that rezzing will be heavily encouraged.

Of course...Due to the WONDERFUL RNG, I never get the weapons I need anyways, so I've already kind of stopped doing them.
I hate hate HATE RNG, but man is the RNG bad in this game compared to many other MMOs.

Thats part of that whole 'We can't figure out how to make it challenging, so we'll make it crazystupidhard, instead, and call it good.' thinking that is in so many things here.

[Bonehead]

"but man is the RNG bad in this game compared to many other MMOs."


I will take "yes" for 1000 Alex.

[drackiller]

But we paid for the fracking DLC in my case a season pass, and we have to pay what we should already have !?

Not that i care for the stupid outfits, most of the times i use my initial survivalist outfif. Now i`m using the collective infiltrator, but I EARNED it.

[plebeian27]

"The Design Team" just doesn't seem to be pulling in the same direction the player base who pays the bills is.
And it's getting harder and harder for the declining player base to keep dragging this pow towards the finish-line.
I'm already seeing some of my remaining friends logging in a whole lot less or 'not at all' since ESO weekend, and almost all of them say that they just don't see the point in it anymore.
[Plebeian27, you're one of them.]

My dear friend Crasher - what can I say that hasn't already been said...other than add my two cents worth.

The ultimate problem I find with this game is that people like it. If we didn't like it we wouldn't still be here. And just like your best friend who keeps repeating the same mistakes over and over again, you sit back and hope they get it right this time. That's the point I feel like I am at with this game. Trion has made mistakes over and over again, some intentional, some not, but I still sit back and wait for them to get it right.

I'm not stupid or naive by any means; I haven't pumped near the money into this game that others have. It is a F2P game where they try to make you pay more in the shop. I don't spend my hard earned in the bit shop so I feel I don't have a whole lot to say about the bugs and direction the game is going. Do I care about it? Yes. Do I see an answer down the road? No.

I have made some lifelong friends during this year and will miss the game when I'm gone. I'll probably check back in from time to time but, in the long run, a game who has listened to me more and fixed more problems in the beta stages than this game has in a year is going to get my business.

Love ya Crash!

[j3crow]

What has two thumbs and WON'T pay $20 for a 7th Legion skin?

<<< This guy.

I agree. They've pretty much lost me as a customer at this point. It very much reminds me of another title by PWE. I won't play that game ether, because it's monetization model is extremely exploitive. And in some ways, that was a fun game. I am left very disappointed in the development of this game

[N3gativeCr33p]

I hate hate HATE RNG, but man is the RNG bad in this game compared to many other MMOs.

TESTIFY! Very very true words there, kind sir!

[Riz]

Ah, the Warmaster... Yes, i remember him...

That's the beast who's instance kicks half the clan when they try entering it's Arkfall. From the 25 people present and fighting outside only 12 actually make it through to the inside. Sadly, there is always a dumbazz amongst those 12 that doesn't understand it's better to wait for more players to return then to instantly break the locks the moment you may go down.

That Warmaster, yes. 50% chance to actually enter, and if you actually make it in still 50% chance to fail due to lack of players present or having a r3t4rd present that spoils it all. Got the Trophy, mates! Succeeded once in being in right and lucky group and defeat the WM! Not ever i'm going to go it again. Simply not worth the trouble.

^^And then to think DLC 2 actually IS the best that was offered to us so far lol. We have a broken DLC topping the other 2, YEY!

[bigguy]

The fact that they called the salvage cost to open slots reduction a mistake is a COMPLETE LIE!!! , i remeber when it cost me 1mil ark salvage to open 8 mod slots and i was pissed. They are doing this on purpose and its COMPLETE BS!!! , over and over i keep thinking they want this game to fail. So to the wise people who keep saying they want this game to be challenging i hope you enjoy doing events for NO REWARDS. Oh and does anyone else feel like they are pumping out garbage dlc as fast as they can so that the season passes are fulfilled and they can try and charge everyone full price for the much wanted map expansion.

[Nefarious]

I happy there's penalties for getting killed. Its about time. This game since day 1 the events have been 'always win' situations. Enemies were never a threat since getting killed yielded no consequence, you could simply have a superman syndrome and run up to them all point blank and just unload your gun into them.

Now players will be a bit more weary going into the least threating situations and very cautious of the most dire ones.

The consequence of death is a good thing and it gives a much needed boost for the sociological effect enemies will now have. Enemies will now be looked at as a threat instead of just a target to shoot.

[r2nddan]

The most interesting thing about all these posts recently is the absence of the regular fanboys defending trion. Interesting maybe they are embarrassed or scared to try. Or, maybe they gave up trying.