So let me get this straight. The Age of War is released, making legendary items non-repairable. A Developer Letter is published, explaining that the intent behind this change was to force people into engaging with the content, meaning world bosses, among others. As a consequence, players on official servers are, indeed, farming bosses like crazy and it’s harder than ever to get the loot, because everyone is trying to do it.
And in the middle of all of that, Funcom staff sits down and decides that blocking world bosses is no longer against the Official Server Rules?
There are only three ways to explain this decision:
The company is so dysfunctional when it comes to communication, that this “internal discussion” never included game designers, or indeed anyone who understands how the game is played.
This was done to “save face” because an admin made a mistake and rather than admit that, the rules were changed.
Nobody actually cares about anything other than cutting costs, and reducing the admin workload is a way to cut costs.
Pick your poison, ladies and gentlemen, but either way this company has become an utter disappointment.
I honestly regret being one of the voices that kept asking for server moderation, back in the days when any troll could wall off anyone’s base on PVE. In my years of playing Conan Exiles, I’ve come across several of those trolls, and all they ever accomplished was to make me even more determined to play Conan Exiles. Funcom, with their latest streak of utterly incomprehensible decisions, has done more damage than all the trolls I’ve ever met.
I understand that fully, and I also have done things like that back in EA when dealing with the exploiters of that time. We fought fire with fire, and I dont deny that. I just get a chuckle from people who would claim never to be like that (or at least they appear to be like that) then jump ship just because the opportunity is there to.
How long do you think it will take for everyone to realize they can have their own personal and private legendary source?
It takes a special kind of $$@# to come up with this rule. Read @CodeMage and @SpherisCore posts. They detail it pretty well.
Legit question: why would anyone want to have their own personal and private legendary source? It’s entirely counter-productive. Much more efficient to run laps around the map, killing world bosses and looting chests, instead of focusing on one specific boss and its chest.
The only way I can see that becoming a real concern is if we get a bunch of people going from the forums (and YouTube) to the servers, deliberately enclosing “their own” boss to make sure they have one “before everyone else blocks all the bosses”, turning the whole thing into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Which, after all I’ve seen here, wouldn’t surprise me
Honestly, I was much, much more concerned about the effect of this decision on the building practices in general and the effect of those on the legendary grind. Despite the few voices that keep repeating that “grinding for legendaries is not an issue” – because their playstyle obviously applies to everyone who isn’t an utter fool – the grind is actually much worse than before, precisely because everyone is trying to keep the handful of truly unique legendaries in stock.
The last thing we need right now is to have a bunch inconsiderate asshats blocking bosses and/or skeleton-key chests with their bases, and then refusing to fix that because “there are other bosses and chests, so it’s not against the rules”.
It will be commented everywhere. Then players will start seeing it in game. Monkey sees, monkey does.
On pvp you at least can do something about it. On pve you better change server, at least until it becomes a plague.
But in and off itself the fact that blocking a wb becomes acceptable explains a lot about the current state of the game. Idiots have taken over. Nobody with a sound reasoning would fail to immediately understand the shit storm that awaits us if this isn’t quickly reversed.
Because they can. It will be cool to have a wb as a kind of pet. It’s not about efficiency either, but you can go afk, check from 15 to 15 min and you have a new key. Your thralls will kill the wb and all you have to do is collecting the key. 30 min refreshes the chest.
Don’t worry, they’ll find motives to do it, sound or not.
I got a necro toon going with base in Silkwood. It’s been nice having 2 world bosses around constantly and a chest. Its only a week old character and I’m sitting at a chest and a half of legendary gear.
On the one hand, I’ve always agreed that spelling out the rules will lead to “rules lawyering”. On the other hand, nobody forced Funcom to make a truly awful rule change like that.
Not to mention that their admins still have the last word, and could ban you regardless of any “rules lawyering” you thought would save you, because there’s really no “rules court” to be a “rules lawyer” in.
In the end, all they did was shoot themselves in the foot, then proceeded to demonstrate how it was all part of their master plan by blowing off the whole leg with a shotgun.
Wait, no, I take that back. They didn’t shoot themselves in the foot. They shot the rest of us.
I’m just arguing: there must be some serious rational reason that forced them to discuss the problem and revise the logical rule that worked for years?
I think its a result of what has been called “the report meta”. Enough people are flooding the report system with violations because the funcom servers are lets face it, full of violations. So they drew a line in the sand, probably where they would have preferred not to, but the state of public servers has never been a surprise to me. That’s fundamentally why I dont play there; those servers are already too permissive and playing there requires you to be okay with it. It cant be too strict cuz they cost money and is likely a loss kept alive purely out of obligation (guilt might be a better word). People have been saying they are banning too easily… well, this new evidence suggests that is definitely not the case. I’m surprised that it is acceptable clearly, but I’d be lying if I said really that I cared…
Clear and concise explanation of a rule.
Less draconian measures.
Now you all get to build in more unrestricted places. I know PVPers will be happy they might have a few more choice spots open to them. Some PVEers will also be happy to have a few more locations available to them.
Just make sure to check in with your server admins in case you’re not on one of these servers. Not all servers share similar regulatory practices to FC servers.
– the grind is actually much worse than before, precisely because everyone is trying to keep the handful of truly unique legendaries in stock.
