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My problems with this game. [RANT]
DISCLAIMER: Funnily enough this is my opinion.
I never really liked Nexon, but I had always held them in a higher regard than Cherry Credits; and the transfer is proving my point.
I despised the transition from Magic grade costumes to Rare grade costumes when they first came out, but it was nothing compared to my disdain for the Marine set.
Personally I absolutely hate how "Pay to Win" this game has become with it's EC accessories and costumes, especially the fact that it is against the rules still to sell EC, I don't particularly like people being able to gold buy but it's a lot better than this massive gap between "Free to Play" and "Pay to Win", I understand there will be somewhat of a gap with premium items available to people who pay real money, but come on, does it have to be a huge as it is now?
Every other server is able to trade and sell EC items via the marketplace, why don't we have this feature yet?
My second issue it the gold influx vs gold sink ratio.
The reason why our economy sucks ass right now is because we don't have enough gold coming into the server compared to the gold being eaten by enhancing, buying items from the Lament shop, buying items from the Aura shop (with the exclusion of the Legendary Ice Dragon Main Weapon Converter). the Goddess Medal shop.
I take issue with items costing x material + gold, I believe that it should purely be with the material (Lament/Aura/Medals/etc).
The removal of the old farm crops was a serious blow to the economy, with apple of life being the only viable crop to farm for a large sum of gold.
Hate apple farming as much as you want to, but it is one of the things trying to keep the economy ticking.
The enhancement of Legendary Ice Dragon gear is just ridiculous, EVERY PIECE IS AS EXPENSIVE AS THE MAINHAND. Admittedly this issue would be a LOT worse if the stats were still primarily on the enhancement instead of the base, but the expense of it all is too much for NA at this moment.
Removing gold flows such as Abyss mode dungeons (below cap level) and the farm was a huge mistake on the developers part. Gold injections from EC items such as Golden Eggs are nonsense, just another excuse to throw money at this poorly managed game.
My third issue is the decline in PvE nest/raid/dungeon quality.
Prior to 90 cap the game's content presented a challenge, punishing you for being hit and having decent mechanics. Ice Dragon Nest had it alright for a little while, but then it was made easy with revives. I realise that Ice Dragon Nest was going to get revives as we did not get it in it's corresponding cap, but now all the content is easy facerolling.
I was initially excited to see the revamped nests from earlier caps being reworked, except to my dismay when they were released, they had become excessively less challenging, even the Hardcore modes.
I'm disappointed in the quality decline of content, I play this game because of its combat system and how well it flows against other MMO's, however the combat system being the only positive about this game right now is making many people turn away from this game.
This needs to be a time where the Dragon Nest developers step up their game as newer MMO's are released. This game isn't going to forever be able to call on peoples nostalgia for players. FIX AND ADVERTISE YOUR GAME.
My fourth issue is the amount of bugs and glitches still in the game since we first transferred in September 2016.
Tying in with the gold problem, golden goblins have been broken for MONTHS now and all we have been told is "the developers are looking into it". Sorry, but that isn't good enough for the time frame it has been an issue.
The bugs each Awakening class has upon release is absolutely unforgivable. EYEdentity is as bad as EA in the sense that they both ship unfinished content.
There is a whole bug report thread in general discussion and only recently have CC and ED spoken up about acknowledging these problems.
I understand CC having two other servers to manage, but talk about biting off more than you can chew, those two servers are going to shit as much as NA is.
Lastly and most importantly to me, is the lack of communication between the players, the game masters and the developers.
The sheer amount of backlogged tickets and the complaints from players is sad, with most tickets being ignored and closed after receiving an automatic response.
There has only been one time the community has seen a GM in game trying to answer questions. Props to Hobbs.
Yaya and Visage have made minimal effort to respond to and moderate posts on the forums, the thought of bots even having a chance to spread all over the forum is repulsive.
Hire more people if you really need to, don't be stingy or this game will die. One would think with the amount of P2W being forced down our throats you guys would be able to afford it.
My hopes is for the community and game masters to read this and start a discussion about it.
To be honest the only things keeping me on this game is the combat and my dedication to it. I've quit this game previously in 2015 for Tera, but came back to it because Tera's combat couldn't live up to Dragon Nest's, but I found that EnMasse's support team is leaps and bounds better than Dragon Nest's, as well as the amount of bugs the patches have comparatively.
Didn't want to put this in rants and raves, no one goes in there.
Whether you agree with my points or not, I hope this will start a discussion and just maybe some change. Trying to be optimistic. Thanks for taking the time to read, Peace.
I never really liked Nexon, but I had always held them in a higher regard than Cherry Credits; and the transfer is proving my point.
I despised the transition from Magic grade costumes to Rare grade costumes when they first came out, but it was nothing compared to my disdain for the Marine set.
Personally I absolutely hate how "Pay to Win" this game has become with it's EC accessories and costumes, especially the fact that it is against the rules still to sell EC, I don't particularly like people being able to gold buy but it's a lot better than this massive gap between "Free to Play" and "Pay to Win", I understand there will be somewhat of a gap with premium items available to people who pay real money, but come on, does it have to be a huge as it is now?
Every other server is able to trade and sell EC items via the marketplace, why don't we have this feature yet?
My second issue it the gold influx vs gold sink ratio.
The reason why our economy sucks ass right now is because we don't have enough gold coming into the server compared to the gold being eaten by enhancing, buying items from the Lament shop, buying items from the Aura shop (with the exclusion of the Legendary Ice Dragon Main Weapon Converter). the Goddess Medal shop.
I take issue with items costing x material + gold, I believe that it should purely be with the material (Lament/Aura/Medals/etc).
The removal of the old farm crops was a serious blow to the economy, with apple of life being the only viable crop to farm for a large sum of gold.
Hate apple farming as much as you want to, but it is one of the things trying to keep the economy ticking.
The enhancement of Legendary Ice Dragon gear is just ridiculous, EVERY PIECE IS AS EXPENSIVE AS THE MAINHAND. Admittedly this issue would be a LOT worse if the stats were still primarily on the enhancement instead of the base, but the expense of it all is too much for NA at this moment.
Removing gold flows such as Abyss mode dungeons (below cap level) and the farm was a huge mistake on the developers part. Gold injections from EC items such as Golden Eggs are nonsense, just another excuse to throw money at this poorly managed game.
My third issue is the decline in PvE nest/raid/dungeon quality.
Prior to 90 cap the game's content presented a challenge, punishing you for being hit and having decent mechanics. Ice Dragon Nest had it alright for a little while, but then it was made easy with revives. I realise that Ice Dragon Nest was going to get revives as we did not get it in it's corresponding cap, but now all the content is easy facerolling.
I was initially excited to see the revamped nests from earlier caps being reworked, except to my dismay when they were released, they had become excessively less challenging, even the Hardcore modes.
I'm disappointed in the quality decline of content, I play this game because of its combat system and how well it flows against other MMO's, however the combat system being the only positive about this game right now is making many people turn away from this game.
This needs to be a time where the Dragon Nest developers step up their game as newer MMO's are released. This game isn't going to forever be able to call on peoples nostalgia for players. FIX AND ADVERTISE YOUR GAME.
My fourth issue is the amount of bugs and glitches still in the game since we first transferred in September 2016.
Tying in with the gold problem, golden goblins have been broken for MONTHS now and all we have been told is "the developers are looking into it". Sorry, but that isn't good enough for the time frame it has been an issue.
The bugs each Awakening class has upon release is absolutely unforgivable. EYEdentity is as bad as EA in the sense that they both ship unfinished content.
There is a whole bug report thread in general discussion and only recently have CC and ED spoken up about acknowledging these problems.
I understand CC having two other servers to manage, but talk about biting off more than you can chew, those two servers are going to shit as much as NA is.
Lastly and most importantly to me, is the lack of communication between the players, the game masters and the developers.
The sheer amount of backlogged tickets and the complaints from players is sad, with most tickets being ignored and closed after receiving an automatic response.
There has only been one time the community has seen a GM in game trying to answer questions. Props to Hobbs.
Yaya and Visage have made minimal effort to respond to and moderate posts on the forums, the thought of bots even having a chance to spread all over the forum is repulsive.
Hire more people if you really need to, don't be stingy or this game will die. One would think with the amount of P2W being forced down our throats you guys would be able to afford it.
My hopes is for the community and game masters to read this and start a discussion about it.
To be honest the only things keeping me on this game is the combat and my dedication to it. I've quit this game previously in 2015 for Tera, but came back to it because Tera's combat couldn't live up to Dragon Nest's, but I found that EnMasse's support team is leaps and bounds better than Dragon Nest's, as well as the amount of bugs the patches have comparatively.
Didn't want to put this in rants and raves, no one goes in there.
Whether you agree with my points or not, I hope this will start a discussion and just maybe some change. Trying to be optimistic. Thanks for taking the time to read, Peace.
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