Here’s the frustrating part for most. It does work as intended for many players. But it doesn’t for many others.
If you’re on a Gportal server, your experience sucks. If you’re on another server host or single player. The game runs fine. There’s some other conditions that cause the disparity, but that’s the biggest one right now for the obvious reason that the officials are on Gportal.
Ironically if Funcom made no new additions to the game in early access to now. The Gportal experience would be fine. No map expansions, no new dungeons, no mounts, no combat changes, no mod support, etc. But lets be honest, none of us would be playing that game. There’s only so much you can build using sandstone, brick, reinforced brick, insulted wood, and black ice in the newbie river and desert.
But we’re here. We have a game that evolved drastically from its idea in early access. Unfortunately they made a contract with Gportal way too early on and for a duration that is too long. That is Funcom’s error, that is their fault.
But we have to deal with the consequences of that. We can sit here and whine on the forums about it. Frustrating ourselves and Funcom too because nothing can be done about it. Not legally or ethically anyway.
Funcom could come out and say, “yep, we screwed up, Gportal wasn’t a good choice.” But what does that do? Honestly? Is everyone going to be like, “well since you said it, we feel better now, that fixes all our problems…”
No, you all want an actual solution.
Funcom is responsible, they made a mistake (in hindsight) by going with Gportal with the agreement they did. But the solution they cannot give. Not legally anyway. You’d have to wait for that contract to end, and maybe they would change over to another host. But I suspect by the time that comes around, they won’t be supporting the game anymore. So that’s not a solution.
So you have to take matters into your own hands. You shouldn’t have to, but this the fact of the matter of where every Conan Exile player stands. Here’s what the players can do:
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Stop playing. Cut the losses and go for greener pastures. You have all the information you need to make this choice. You know it won’t get better going forward, is the condition of your play experience acceptable? If not, then consider this choice.
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Go singleplayer. You forfeit the ability to play with others, but the singleplayer works fine. Maybe that’s a good enough trade off.
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Play on a non-Gportal server. If you’re already on private but they’re on Gportal, or if you’re on Official, then seek another server with better performance. This means having to deal with non-Funcom admins, and your mileage will vary greatly from server to server. Some have good rules, some don’t. Many wipe occasionally. Most have at least the Pippi mod which you will need to subscribe to.
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Take a slightly unethical approach and put Gportal on blast. Give them negative reviews on every site they advertise on, blow up their forums, and generally be a nuisance to them. I call this unethical because they are fulfilling the contract they agreed to. Its just the requirements they agreed to in 2017 are not good enough in 2020. But negative attention to both Funcom and Gportal may cause them both to come to some sort of an agreement. Its not a guarantee though. But if you care enough about the character progress on the server you play on, then this might be an option to take.
Everyone has the information they need to make a decision. Complaining further isn’t going to make any results, and I’ve outlined pretty much why. I mean I can’t tell everyone what to do and if they just want to moan on, then that’s a fifth choice they are free to make. It just won’t yield results at this point. And that is the real reason why we have an ‘us vs them’ situation. Many of us realize complaints are futile at this point, and we poke at people who don’t realize that yet.