i agree i might make a thread on it
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Please no more new ages, we Desperately NEED a age of bug fixes!
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they only like money so ermmm uhhh find a way to monitize bugs and they might
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The Freya quest, after I did it reminded me of this video:
You start with some interesting plot, and the cinematic on YT is kinda nice, as if even knowing it is a pre rendered CG, the story is kinda interesting:
but when you go to the game …
So, lets kick some bunnies … rest 8 hours.
Kick some 3 blows mini bosses … rest 8 hours.
See some sights … rest 8 hours.
something … rest 8 hours.
When you have her as a companion, she is just “another one”.
I dont really know what they were thinking about in the “end goal”, but whatever it is, doesnt seem to be working very well.
Usually I can understand the reason why, but this time I cant.
And I fear we will be starting the trend of copying things other games do without really knowing why they should be in this game.
I am kinda relieved Dennis said “there wont be romance”, but the way he said that seems like it was a conversation like this:
Higher Ups: “But BG3 has a ton of players and prizes and it has them”
Devs: “But it sucks. And it has nothing to do with the game”.
Higher Ups: “But players mean money.”
Actual Money guys: “nope, they do not. Players are always a cost, but not always revenue actually.”
Higher Ups: “But what do YOU know about money ? What do YOU know about develpment ?”
Devs: “well …”
Actual Money guys: “Well …”
Both thinking: “if we actually say it we might lose our jobs”.
Then conan exiles has companions.
Why didnt we upgraded the thrall system to work better, in a way it makes sense in the game, and start to make even those crappy procedural quests and other interactions, instead of making a system in which probably scalability is bad and we wont be drawing anything from it ?
Why didnt we added certain interactions with crafters instead of adding a tons of sources of bugs to be fleshed out, when simpler more useful types of “interactions” would suffice in most cases ?
Why didnt funcom leave “daredevil development” to modders and round up some small yet more consistent updates that direct the game to its chosen path ?
If you want a cRPG with story and theme park elements, why not create one ?
I guess the best age we could have is “Age of Survival” in which the survival game goes back being a survival game. But that seems a “crazy idea”.
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How long has it been since you played on siptah?
It’s had a volcanic island/biome for years.
Isle of dusk is very volcanic especially the farther west you go on it.
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Don’t give them ideas! Next they will start charging 300 Crom Coins per bug fix.
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If Funcom was the kind of company to charge for “everything”, you would be paying for each age, paying each companion, paying for each set of armor.
We can be critical without requiring to appeal to nonsensical crap.
its fitting how its called the crom store because crom never answers prayers
much like how funcom never answers feedback or bug fix reqeusts
ok but counter point
its funny
i meant like an actual volcano maybe on an island coz galapagos islands kinda stuff
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Fun is subjective, something that most gamers ever keep saying to game companies, even.
I find funny only that which makes sense. So accusing someone of doing what someone never did, to me, is not funny.
It is like the “latest trends of trolling” you see in TikTok and YT shorts. Things that make no sense but it seems some people find it funny because it “makes noise”.
The problem with it is that it turns into the stupid stuff you see now trending around everywhere, and it serves nothing, but it makes a disservice to everyone. While people are “making fun of nonsense” , they are distracted to issues that would be worth of making fun or drawing attention to.
The people who complain, make fun or satirize things without any sense are by definition what Urban Dictionary calls “Useful Idiots”.
It is the actual purpose which “powers that are” hire comedians and entertainers: To direct attention to fake problems while they are distracted from the real problems.
So unless you think it is nice to be such a tool, literally, I would not think someone would find it nice to claim to be one.
exaggeration is done to make a point come across more clearly
im sorry you do not understand this
poking fun at an exagerated point is done to lighten the mood
just because they arent doing it 1 to 1 doesnt mean their monitization issues arent horribly anti consumer and overpriced
ur just making a fuzz out of nothing
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Zero issues with the game until this Age of Heroes.
Vanishing crafters on officials is game breaking for me- i cant work around it.
Private servers have the system turned off until further notice.
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To clarify my comment was intended as sarcasm while once again pointing the greed of Funcom’s parent company in a humorous way. However I have posted several threads of a serious tone on the same subject in the past. Unfortunately those threads were never taken seriously presumably because of counter productive posts such as yours that attacks the poster and takes focus off the issue at hand. So do the community a favor and practice that which you preach. Apologies if this sounds aggressive or offensive that is not my intent.
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Yes, this. They should put the brakes on the Ages updates for a while and focus on bug fixing at the very least. Of course, as I keep explaining, the easiest move for them to immediately fix all the new bugs since AoS launched is to roll back patches to pre-Age of Sorcery. Imagine having less bugs, fun gameplay, and none of the bad changes they’ve made in the last few years with a simple patch roll back that can be done in mere minutes? 
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reductio ad absurdum.
So you quit paying before the age of sorcery and came back for the age of heroes?
Been turned off on the public servers since Thursday{?}
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Parent company is not the adequate term to define it. But ok. THAT I could let slide.
What I cant let slide is:
By any measure of a smart person, you can know that Funcom does not want to profit as much as it can from as many things as it can. I myself as a player dont have the opportunity to pay Funcom for things I would if I could, and that by definition is not profiting from everything you can as much as you can.
You can spin that as much as you like, that assertion is stupid. Funcom, as most of Tencent involved companies, are not the ones making the garbage you can factually demonstrate to be the worse on the industry.
Microsoft, who everyone is drolling about “Making Blizzard Great Again”, is the one who owns the most disgusting monetization leeches known to man. You dont need even to touch the search, just the recommendations of YouTube if you have been watching gaming related videos, to see at least 3 Microsoft owned companies having their shameless strategies of milking franchises laid bare.
On the other hand, if I go right now to the Bazar in Conan Exiles, there is nothing for me to buy there, because everything there has been there before, and I bought it, or it has been there before and I did not wanted it (which is rarely the case). I can fire up the game and play every single aspect of the game that is “feature” of the game, either in my account that I bought everything I wanted to buy and could be bought, or the account I had only bought the game itself, not even a single DLC.
If you mention “Siptah” or DLC content, nothing of these are unique features of the game that you only have access if you buy them, besides the CONTENT (which is not a feature). I dont need to buy a license to use mods, I dont need to buy a license to build in specific places, I dont need to buy specific companions, I dont need to buy level packs, and I dont need to buy even what could be sold, the expansions.
So, that assertion is not fun, it is not true, it is not serious. It is stupid fake news.
And one last thing people often forget, so did I …
It is very strange that someone talks so much garbage about Tencent, and nevertheless, ask every game under the sun to be made in Unreal Engine. 
People love to say Larian is “the benchmark for years to come”. Among other some such types of hyperbole that on top of being idiotic, still telling everyone that “what Tencent makes happen is the best”, but Tencent is somehow a bad company.
And my personal experience is beyond that. Tencent has a stake in the Bank I presently use mainly, NU Bank, which is a Brazilian bank which Tencent helped “take off”. As Banks go, Nu Bank is my choice because it is a bank that offers you the best rates, the least bothering, and you dont even pay to have the account or the common things people pay, like brokerage, or deposits.
There isnt one single aspect that scrutinized substantiate ANY of the claims people make. So why do they ?
The same reason they say a lot of things: You hear someone saying something and if you hear someone clapping for it, those people will repeat it.
Like a saying we have “among my people”: Hear the rooster singing and start saying its morning. Alluding to the fact that roosters sing each 3 or 4 hours even when they were asleep, they wake up to sing. Regardless of being morning or not.
No ive been playing since the beginning - i never stopped.
I put my crafters on the benchs before the weekend. Now they are gone. actually at the 0.0 spot on the server but there are so many there i cant get to them.
Im still playing , just on private servers where its disabled and my crafters havent disappeared.
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This isn’t a “New Age” …
Has anybody noticed a similar situation occurring before with things showing up in unusual places. (Namely human and animal NPCs).
It’s a repeat pot dunk that’s just been dressed up with a new face.
The issue just resurfaced.
The significant difference now is we get the option to turn it off.
Never mind Officials, they turned it off for now.
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I think all the new content is OK and we need more…
But all that “rebalancing” changes to “loot” changes to combat system… it all has to go to “before AoS” to bring back the fun factor to PvE and PvP.
But guys have too big ego to do this and eradication had told them that these were amazing and long awaited changes 
If they touch things like balancing, they should consult wak4863.
But nobody asked for rebalancing these things in the first place…
These Ages are like…
“Son I will get you a Porsche on your birthday”
The birthday comes…
“Look son, I bought you a Porsche… but I also took away your bed and wifi and shower has now only cold water.”
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This is exactly why I keep asking for a patch roll back to pre-Age of Sorcery. I think most of the game needs to go back to that point in time. If they roll the patches back then they can re-implement the half dozen or so good things they added from the “Ages” after proper testing.
Something like that, except the Porsche isn’t even a Porsche - it’s a 1970 AMC Gremlin with the word Porsche spraypainted across the hood.
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I personally think that the sorcery stuff was a mistake for some parts. Things like the ice bridge and flying bats had a huge impact on PvP gameplay but as many other changes have shown Funcom doesn’t really care about that aspect anymore. The game has become a roleplay building simulator.
There’s no way to build a properly defended base anymore since you can just fly on top with a bat making climb proof walls useless. Then you can just kill every defending thrall even when you are naked since the perks are hugely out of balance and after looting everything from the base you can just simply remove your bracelet and go to your little harrypotter circle and magically call your corpse to your base with all of the loot. That’s just nonsense.
Those things and the snap-on explosives made me and my friends lose interest in PvP which we had played for 5 years, there just isn’t any sense in it anymore. It used to be fun to try and build a base in a location that was very hard to raid and think of all kinds of little things to build that make attacker’s lifes hard. Now it’s all gone. And getting everything handed out to you without having to play contributes to the fact that the game is just outright boring. Now we just log on to our PvE servers every now and then to keep the buildings alive or check what nonsense new updates have brought to the game.
This age of heroes seems once again an age that brings nothing to the gameplay. Couple of dragged out missions and you get yourself a fairly useless sorcerer. I don’t yet know about Freya since i’m still in the middle of getting her but my expectations aren’t high. The amount of time it takes because of the ridiculous cooldowns and the fact that you have to even take a trip to the volcano means that Freya should be the best fighter in the game. Because why would you go through all of that when you either already have your chests full of bought Dalinsias (ridiculous) or can knock out Berserkers with a few blows and break them in an hour (nonsense)? It’s like the Mal-Bröötwhatever fortress, you check it out once and see there’s nothing interesting and you go there just to quickly grab the free katana, ram and 4 bombs without any fighting.
I really wish that Funcom would create some content that would actually make the gameplay more interesting or at least different and not just pointless things you try once. I would like to see more traveling options like carriages and wagons that you could also use as means of transport for materials and knocked out thralls so you could capture 2-3 on one trip instead of hauling them to your base one by one. Of course the wagons would be slower than just a horse so you’d be easier to catch up and get robbed. Something like that, these new additions have been pointless, boring and they just don’t do anything to the gameplay in the long run except some only damage it.
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