Oduda
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As you know @Kikigirl I do not play on official pvp servers. I do not play on official servers of any kind.
AoW chapter 3 has made my desire to play at all next to nil, and chapter 4 even less, to the point that I have not logged in more than twice in the last two months, and I have been playing since early access. That being said I do have some experience with pvp, though not the kind that you have had to suffer though.
I can say that from my experience with Age of Conan (the other Conan based game from Funcom), there is a trend to follow. They had very grand ideas for the game (and it was a lot of fun to be sure!) but from a PvP perspective they had the mentality that “pvp content is generated by the players, so let them be as brutal and savage as they want in this brutal and savage land set in the Hyborian Age”. This lead to every single PvP server being strife with toxic behavior, which in turn drove any new players straight away and even older players out due to the never ending toxicity and their numbers plummeted and every single one, which the PvE servers were also not high in numbers they were much higher. As Funcom continued to merge servers over and over and over they were down to just 1 single PvP server and even that was a baren wasteland that no one wanted to play on due to the toxic nature of it, and yet Funcom would never address this issue in any way shape or form. They would just let it fester, wither and die (well the whole game basically did though there are still people playing it there are not many very likely). I actually started off on that game on an RP-PvP server and I enjoyed the PvP, until on day out of no where Funcom decided to just abandon their RP rules (without any announcement or warning) and the toxicity took over within a 24 hour period. 75% or more of the RP players left the game within the week. Some went to the “unofficial” RP server which was PvE, eventually I migrated there as well.
But that is just how Funcom operates. They have no real “vision” for PvP other than “here is a map, now it’s lord of the flies time”. They have no real idea how to balance anything (not back in AoC and not in CE either. Since 2008 they have not yet learned HOW TO BALANCE ANYTHING!). They put rules into place, and then drop said rules without announcing them or anything. Why? Reasons! So I feel for you and @biggcane55 and @Barnes and the rest of the PvP community that is out there dealing with this garbage. You shouldn’t have to! But for the last 15 years of playing Funcom games I have seen nothing to indicate that anything will ever change, at least not for the better. Though I do not recall the cough issue that is currently plaguing exiles being this prevalent in AoC, but that could be for several factors.
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