The thing is once started, it just never stopsOriginally Posted by MegaGame
The thing is once started, it just never stops
I agree with you 100%.
How did no one at Trion (who, keep in mind, already made a big MMO) realize, that so crucial things like a ****ing CHAT SYSTEM (are you kidding me?), or a proper UI navigation (the UI is a bad joke. Just a ****ing bad joke) are essential for an MMO? It is beyond me.
How did this even get out of beta the way way it is?
(Deadline, I know. Do not have a deadline though, if you cannot make it. IMO they suffer a lot more damage now, than if they would have held it back until it is a properly finished product.)
Look, we all get it. Server/Login/DC/hell even missing preorder items issues, are all things which are normal and OK on a freshly launched MMO title. These things can, and will always get fixed quite quickly.
But getting essential mechanics and features wrong is not acceptable, nor should it ever have went live from a company like Trion in my honest opinion.
The real problem I see with this is, that it will take a long time until we see any changes in regards to the big things, like chat or UI etc. Clearly there isn´t anything else in place, otherwise that would have been used.
That means they need to start from scratch, and who knows if that even is a high priority for them atm.
Some of these problems are no minor issues, and will drive ppl away from the game. And this is essentially what I am scared of, because I would love to see this game working out.
I hope, that all these things will be fixed in future patches. Hopefully sooner than later.
I will say one more thing:
I am not sure about which platform has the highest and most dedicated playerbase in the long run.
Let´s not kid ourselves, it is most definitely the PC.
And starting out, having a really bad port, was a bad idea.
Don´t get my wrong, I really enjoy the game. I love it actually.
But damn, addressed things from OP are mandatory to be fixed in order to keep ppl playing.
ZOMG! Read the Developer blog. OMG THE BEEES THE BEEEEEEES GRABABALALAOBAB (Nic Cage bat**** insane moment).
http://community.defiance.com/en/
THEY KNOW!
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you should check your facts, it's there, but hasn't been implemented into the UI at this point.
This is a mistake I saw being made repeatedly over Defiance's development - too many people assuming a game being developed by Trion is a game being developed by the same people involved in Rift, and it's just not the case.
It is this same kind of unfortunate thinking that led to SWTOR being the the disappointment that it is, because it was impossible to make a criticism about SWTOR during development without hordes of angry Bioware fans rushing to the game's defense, despite the fact that SWTOR was developed by a completely new studio staffed by people who had never worked on a Bioware project before in their life.
Your argument is not valid. Afterall the game is created, developed and produced by Trion.
May it be a new staff or not. The company itself, the brand released the game.
And you cannot tell me, that on the second big game they make, they take no knowledge or knowhow from their first big game (Rift) with them whatsoever. That is like shooting yourself into the knee for no apparent reason.
New staff, or not new staff. No one cares about that in the end. People want a functioning game ultimately. No matter what company, staff, CEO or whatever the balls you want to think about is behind its creation.
The only reason why the name Trion and Rift comes up from time to time, is because people (like me) just cannot understand why they wouldn´t use their already knowledge and knowhow on such a big game release and just fail on highly critical and important things, like a Chat system or the pathetic UI.
The UI is not bad. I kind of like it after figuring out where everything is at. It has a console design to it but it works okay for PC too. I wouldn't want the traditional mmo UI for this game since its a shooter. It would be a pain to stop, go into mouse pointer mode, click on whichever tiny icon you need to bring up the menu you want. Now you can do the same thing by just pressing control or esc, and you dont have all those little icons cluttering up your screen.
For once PC is getting a title built for gameing systems not PC mainly. I dont see the problem of why some of you think you should get better or diffrent than this and that of the other systems. So just understand your not the main focus for once and get over it. You are not going to see alot of changes that cant be done on the PS3 or the Xbox.
Also what they learned making Rift dont help as much as you might think when it comes to a game like this one. Its two or in this case 3 diffrent creatures.
PC is a totally different system to Consoles
We have more features, which have been stripped
Better graphics, which have been stripped
Stability Issues, thanks to porting
The PC games quality has been lowered dramatically because it has been ported to Xbox and PS3.
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