Message to "Defenders of Defiance"

[Durva360]

I still enjoy the game due to playing it with friends. Sometimes we screw around doing silly things but other times we do Arkfalls. About twenty minutes ago pulled off 3.2 million damage at a Hellbug Major using only a Wolfhound

[KOLZ]

Now we all know this game has cool details, but really? You guys act like your still REALLY enjoying this game.

Now out of curiosity, I ask why? Is it that you play with your friends? The lack of content has stopped me from playing for quite some time.

Ah another one of those people that spend over 15 straight hours everyday on one game religiously and finds no content..Amazing how that works.

[Jarazar]

I enjoy it because I am sick of orcs and wizards. My all time favorite MMO is Star Wars Galaxies, and this game kind of reminds me of the days when I played my non Jedi classes in SWG. I can see me playing this game for a long time to come. Besides, I played Rift for a couple of years and I know Trion will make Defiance a great game eventually.

[Myst]

I would be enjoying Defiance right now but I'm also a full time college student, and this is the last week of the semester so right now while I should be working on putting together a presentation of a project for tomorrow morning, I am instead procrastinating, reading these boards and checking different vendor specials in-game.

The way college should be!

[Sarin]

Now we all know this game has cool details, but really? You guys act like your still REALLY enjoying this game.

Now out of curiosity, I ask why? Is it that you play with your friends? The lack of content has stopped me from playing for quite some time.

There's no act. The gameplay is enjoyable, even just simply roaming reminds me of the fun I had in Mercenaries on the xbox. I'm usually a hardcore pvper and raider but I still have fun running through co-op maps and the overly limited PvP Defiance has.

The game needs work but to be honest, no other game delivers this kind of gameplay in an online environment. Personally if I had a PS3 I'd be playing Dust514 more than this.

Plus, this game just fits well with me, not sure why. Just very keen to see where they go with this, have high hopes but little expectation.

[Schwa]

I tear the game apart because of its incomplete design, though I enjoy playing it as nothing more than a guilty pleasure. That's absolutely the only way I can defend the game: a guilty pleasure.

I will say, though, the korean grindfest that is 2500+ is not a good solution to the current state of the game. The developers need to reexamine what they want from players that have finished the "tutorial" of the game's storyline, and implement content that acts as a legitimate challenge to those players. Not just bigger numbers.

Not the ******** gold star co-op missions or the laughable difficulty of pretty much everything else currently in the game.

Keep in mind I do not want multi-tier raiding in this game, nor am I some super-hardcore MLG GAMAR. I simply want the developers to finish what they started, especially since the game's prototype is such a solid idea.

[Numina]

The way college should be!

Indeed!! Are you a fellow procrastinator, Ark Hunter?!

[BrownstarrAJ]

Because I don't see the game as having a "lack of content" .. it has about as much as most MMOs I've ever played (which includes every major MMO since UO..) .. let me explain. People say "Psshh, this game has raids, and PVP and blah blah .." about games like WOW .. but break down the end game of those games.. what do you do? Ultimately you grind the same raids over and over and over till you get gear. Thats what happened in GWs, GW2, SWTOR, DAOC, EQ, EQ2, etc. Ultimately.. you end up repeating the same events towards one goal. Stuff.

Now I am sure people will chime in here and say "yeah but you don't fight the same four mobs over and over.."! Don't you though? I mean you can dress it up as an orc warrior or gnoll fighter or whatever you want to call it ... its a berk swinging at you with a sword. Pretty terrain and a ton of zones are fine and all I guess too .. expect how often do you go back to those zones once you actually out level them other than on an alt and for that matter, how much time do you truely spend looking at scenery?

Why I like Defiance is I can log in and work towards "stuff" in a much wider variety of ways, because Key-codes, even though they have made them a bit harder to get, can still be acquired in alot of different ways. I can run Co-ops, I can do ark-falls, I can revisit mines and farms... I can even still get them from emergencies via breaking down loot. Ultimately, I can get the goal we all actually are after in MMOs .. stuff.. by just doing random stuff. I never have to repeat my actions. I don't have to find a massive raid, I don't have to paint by numbers my way through a dungeon, and I don't have to worry about 'maximizing' my character either. I have the freedom to play my way and still prosper as a character. Thats freaking awesome to me.

On top of that its the first in a long line of MMos to try the twitch play and really get it. Its the only one I can remember since really Fallen Earth or DDO where I felt my hand eye coordination actually meant something rather then stupid mechanics.

So do I genuinely like Defiance and am I genuinely still enjoying myself after months... cause yes, I was an alpha tester... of play? Yep yep and yep.

I agree with everything you said

[Myst]

Indeed!! Are you a fellow procrastinator, Ark Hunter?!

Was, I somehow made it out alive

[Numina]

Was, I somehow made it out alive

This gives me hope for the future, lol!