My concerns is mainly from playing on official servers. I don’t do mods/private servers were you can’t 100% trust the admins can’t cheating or giving their buds perks.
You are right CodeMage, a new game would not help, but being able to travel between the two with same character/thralls would of helped greatly. Since hearing about a map all I wanted was more land expanding the map. Make the world feel bigger. It is just highly disappointing. But I can see they cater to the PVP, and the people who can play more per week. I am on a PVE-Conflict, and play 10 hours a week. I bought all DLCs, and like to build, and defend from purges. Collecting is also something I enjoy. This expansion ruins most of that for me.
I know you said English is not your native language, so let me clarify: “speak for your self” does not imply you were talking about you, it means “what you said may apply to you, but it doesn’t to me”.
Like I stated before, the definition of an expansion pack is something factual. It’s kind of like the definition of “software exploit”. There are some on these forums who try to argue that abusing a specific bug is okay under certain circumstances, and therefore it’s not an exploit. Is using exploits sometimes justified? That is something to argue about. But the definition of exploit is crystal clear, and you can’t just redefine it any more than you can redefine the Earth to be flat. You can have opinions about factual definitions, but you can’t just decide to change them on your own.
I don’t believe in “alternate facts”, not even when discussing video games.
Ignoring the context once or twice is an accident. Ignoring the context every time it suits your narrative is intellectual dishonesty. My usage of the phrase “best of all worlds” is highly contextual, and the context is the comparison of the current situation with the hypothetical situation in which the Isle of Siptah is a completely separate game.
And it would have sucked for a whole lot of players, too. Imagine a horde of level 60 players storming onto the new map, covering most of it with new, huge bases built from the mats they farmed up in the Exile Lands, strolling merrily through all of the dungeons with their level 20 Dalinsias clearing everything for them, and then going back to Exile Lands to bring all the stuff back while those who didn’t want to fork over 20 bucks just watched.
That’s why I strongly feel that the link between the maps should be something for private server admins to decide to use or not.
My conditions are similar to that. When I was active on officials, I played PVE-C exclusively and I would put in a variable number of hours a week, but never enough to get a Purge on my own, without clanmates.
I like exploring, I like optimizing, I like collecting, I like the Purges, and I like hanging out with people.
That’s why I’m excited about the new map – I get to discover new ways to level, new ways to farm, new ways to catch thralls, new ways to defend from the game (the Surge), and there’s a whole bunch of new stuff to collect.
I understand you feel different. But I honestly don’t think it’s going to be as bad as a lot of people on the forums are predicting right now.
Of course. But there’s always the question of what’s feasible and what isn’t, what’s expensive and what’s cheap, what is better for business and what is worse, etc.
Yeah, I bet that would be popular with everyone who is right now complaining about how Isle of Siptah makes them “lose their progress” in Exile Lands. Imagine how spectacularly glorious it would be to make you pay 20 bucks for the privilege of having to delete your current character so you can play the new content you just paid for.
I hear them loud and clear. I just happen to disagree with them about whether it’s a good thing to allow that on official servers, and I engage with those who are reasonable in their discourse, and explain why I disagree.
Sure, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see that this early access is all about getting feedback and making the game better for everyone.
worst idea ever. if you want to sell copies you should never ever gate your expansion behind such stuff. I know not one single person which really cares about the exile lands remove bracelet end. so none of this players will buy the expansion becuase they can’t play it.
This makes two separate threads where CodeMage and Palm522 took over the thread for their arguments. Guys, just play and enjoy the game. Starting over in Siptah ain’t no thang. You’d laugh at how many times I’ve started over in the original map just to test out a new base location.
Yeah, I apologize about that. When people go from thread to thread spamming the same thing over and over again, I tend to engage them everywhere, instead of doing it only where the discussion belongs and flagging it as off topic everywhere else.