Let's be honest. Who is close to quitting?

[Nevzat]

First impressions ARE important for veterans that have played many MMO's.

I appreciate alot of people playing are quite new to MMO genre, and so this game will be a breath of fresh air for a long while.

But the hardcore amongst us (Nothing wrong with it) are not going to stick around, and sadly it is the hardcore players that ultimately drive a game. Hardcore players achieving things that your average player can't will only create gossip, theories, strategies and discussion. The game is really needs work, and quickly.

There is just nothing to do, this "open world" is just one large barren desert with the same TWO quests, a few dungeons that are all the same and a couple of very short pvp zones with unbalanced pvp.

I feel like I am playing a Beta and not a developed game.

Not everyone should be equal, those who put in more effort should be rewarded. In a FPS I think weapon balance shouldn't be as much as an issue as a roleplaying game - a skilled TPS player will outright demolish a noob with an OP gun - this creates excitement and will only drive people to want to play more to get that great new op gun.

It works two ways, one game you may get demolished by a skilled player with a godly weapon, but your next pvp match you will dominate a player less skilled than you are. I think itemization is key and the ultimate downfall to many games

[Zengrath]

I would never quit all together. This is a very fun game overall. I may retire for a while and come back later once more updates come out or i get urge to shoot something again, but as long as there is no subscription then ill be back every now and then to check things out. Sorta like Guild Wars. Sub games on other hand i rarely ever go back to once i stop playing because i don't want to pay $14 to hope that enough has changed to keep me around another 30 days....

[Gryn]

thats good to know, thats how i agree things should be, as long as the vanity stuff is only skins for things and not increased stat wise over normal stuff

Vanity stuff? 40 dollars for vanity stuff?

[wilks]

Kudos for being the first person to not go and flame the game too excessively.
I encourage you to hold off making the definitive choice to quit for at least until after the show airs and the new episodes are patched into the game. Make your judgement then, that's when the game begins what it was intended to do.

This is what is keeping me playing too. I really am interested to see how this show tie in goes. This is new ground for a game of any kind.

[Xaearth]

I'm probably close to quitting...
Need... sleep...

And I've been seriously neglecting Monster Hunter 3U and the new Luigi's Mansion...
Not to mention a random assortment of Steam sale games...

Too many games, too little time, too much Defiance.
No time to ride the line.

Edit: Oh wait, by "quitting" you didn't mean "not logging in every second the servers are available and you're still conscious". My bad.

[Raserei]

Quit? No.

Take a break for a few months? Yes.

This game needs more depth in the item system and character progression

[NeoDraven]

Not really anytime soon Im enjoying the gameplay plus it has a pursuit system that mimics Fallout 3's achievement system for doing stuff ingame.

[Zeldron]

i dunno if i'll quit, but i am definetly getting bored quickly with doing the same things over and over again, so i will at the very least take a break until they add more content and tweak things.

i agree that the game feels like it was released too early, it just doesnt have enough to it, and what it does have are just the same things you are expected to do over and over again

nut you will play COD for hours or something a long those lines even if you go to another MMO its the same thing so why dont you just chuck your system and computer out the first window so the real people who enjoy playingg a game for what it is can have less babies and wow criers in it

[Zeila]

Seeing as the game is B2P, imo can't really quit it unless you shun it away and sign a pact never to play it again when content patches come out. Other than that I believe people will just break away from it for an extended period of time until it catches their interest once more.

It's definitely not a MMO"RPG" but just more along the lines of a typical FPS/TPS Shooter on a massive scale. Granted it could use some more progression type aspects to it but not enough for me to light it on fire and quit.

[Angeleus09]

Like a lot of other people in here I have not poured most of my hours since release into this game. I feel like I can't play nearly as often as I want to which keeps it fresh and interesting to me. I'm definitely not anywhere near quitting especially with the show around the corner. I play MMOs for the story and the world immersion, and I've already commented elsewhere that I feel the side quests come across as placeholders, missed opportunities to introduce the player to the quirky, unique and interesting inhabitants of this new Earth. I don't care if the actual gameplay of a quest is identical to the 4 before it, as long as it shows me more of the world identity.

I actually like the gameplay overall. I do wish there were some customization options for armor, vehicle and gun color just to spice things up. I expected this to be DCUO with guns and that's exactly what I got which is excellent. I want a game that I can put down for a while when I've got other things going on and pick back up without feeling like I've been left behind. Defiance is that game, even more so than DCUO and I think that's awesome.

The show will provide lore and content in a way cutscenes can't and hopefully the promise of the unique ability to handoff the story to the game between seasons and then pick it back up will be fully realized. Personally I'm hoping for some off-season webisodes (BSG style) that take place in San Francisco and maybe feature those characters from the motion comic and live action game trailer.

I'm not saying you guys are wrong to have the critiques you do of the game as a stand alone property. Just remember that it is only half of a whole that was designed to grow and develop together.