Continued questions about game breaking bugs that have not been addressed
Continued inquiries about the effects of the pending update that are met with silence
And it’s just Wednesday.
Tomorrow we get treated to, yet another, implementation of “You’ve been playing this game wrong” from the production team. No one knows what to expect because, as is normal, there has been no communication aside from a heavily flawed Beta and some “We hear you” meaningless platitudes.
As part of my testing, I did two playthroughs on public servers. On one I have the maximum number of thralls deployed and on the other I do not. Once the update drops, I will test them, secret my character to a mountaintop, and ignore the servers, going back to my private server where, at least, the rules are simple, known, and evenly enforced.
But, as I have said to the folks I play with, they may have, finally, removed enough joy from the game that I must step away for bit. This beta has been a complete and utter disaster and we have had zero meaningful communication.
Completely with you. It’s been awhile since I’ve played; asked my partner if we should prepare our bases for the updates but we’ve let our server rental run out so we’d have to spin up a dedicated and, honestly, neither of us care enough to put that much effort in. Even if we did, that server will probably be broken because at least 4 of our mods have been retired.
And with as often as Funcom changes things for the sake of changing them, plus the “we’re only developing EL” (I get it but it does make me feel stuck to one map), and the constant breaking, it just makes me tired. Why start again just to need to repeat the process with the next update? I think at this point my desire to play is fueled by nostalgia rather than a current enjoyment.
Yeah, they caught us with a clever combo: an announcement of the change in the release cadence and a new community manager.
The former gave us some hope that they were changing the way they were doing things. And since every new community manager starts by posting more than usual on the forums, some of us were fooled into seeing evidence for that hope.
I would quote that “fool me once, fool me twice” saying, but in my case it’s been so many times that I’ve lost count. On the bright side, I guess I should be glad that the only toxic relationship in my life is with Funcom