Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Friday Feature Errata: PvP Insurance Yes, 1% decay, not gone.
LOL you fan boys really crack me up... Yes, with out a doubt and without question this is about the bucks at this point... There is a reason why SOE is offering the free two week"come back" trial... People are LEAVING.
One thing that SOE WILL understand is people calling and cancelling their accounts and telling the person who takes the call WHY. Yeah they keep a log of it. If enough people cancel I GAURANTEE you they'll pull a "miracle" fix outta their third point of contact within a week. If they do get serious about taking care of fixing all you have to do is call and reactivate your account, if not WoW beta is coming up soon and there's other games on the market as well...
LOL money talks fan boys/girls don't ever forget that... We have every right to expect the dev team to DO what they say, and do it WHEN they say they will do it. Doesn't have squat to do with "crying" because you didn't get your candy. Heh, I really feel sorry for you all if you really believe that... You've (fanboys)all really been brainwashed to believe that you have no VOICE!
I was going to try my first PVP. Now I will not.
And we need to unionize or something.
Joslo wrote:
Terreur69 wrote:
Complaining is one thing.. treathening is another..... the choice of one or another usually show the level of maturity of someone
As a paying customer, it is perfectly within my right for me to say that I will no longer pay for a service unless changes are made. It happens all the time in the real world.
Stupid text box ate my post....
I had like4 paragraph about that fact that "yeah its your right" and "no, its not what 90% of the poster here are doing " and about "those who complain in fact want to keep the service, otherwise they would just go to another service right away ( a sociological fact that had many studies BTW)".
I was going to rewrite it all when i realised that..... i dont care!!! I dont care about proving my point to the whining mass because it will become another form of whine... I think its nietch(sp) that said that "the one that fight the monster will became the monster himself".....
It was the same old story back in EQ. the same old story in daoc.. now its the same here. The whining and treatening that do nothing but pollute the board and fill tread like this one with nonsence and supposition instead of realistic proposal for solution.
I skimmed all those pages in this tread. Between the mass of nonscence, some really good proposal where made. Its just really hard to find them with all that "noise"
Its not inacceptable that they do not remove the 1% decay. Its innactebable that the decaywas there at the first place. Something must be done. something REALISTIC.
I am done with this tread. I have nothing new to bring( and i had nothing to bring anyway),i would just add whine about the whiners.
Man, Thunderheart, you really made a mess this time.
Care to answer on the contradiction? Or are we hoping it goes away?
I am betting you and your group "the Devs" are betting that a week after the patch everyone forgets.
I am betting they do not this time.
I read as many of these posts as you all do. and i can see the frustration building up seriously this time. I would not make like an ostrich this time. Stand up and explain that contradiction. I have a 100 dollar bill I am right, that this one doesn't go away.
I was about to go PVP again. but again due to this insane insurence the pace the armor falls apart isn't worth the time to purchase it. Hence the armorsmiths are losing money on my server. Why do we need a double decay rate on THEE most expensive Item in this game, it truly makes no sense.
Before this "Decay" crap showed up i was burning out "mainly chest plates" armor on a whole and replacing it every two weeks. Now. i am burning it out every couple of months... actually i haven't burnt my armor out since this was implemented. SO how was that "love" to the Armorsmiths? Read back through my posts you notice i was complaining about prices. up til the decay came out. now i do not say a word. Why? simple they could barely keep up before , but were gaining ground as i saw. now they couldn't keep pace with the decay rate if there lives depended on it. I certainly would not pay 15 a month to live at a factory. I do not expect anyone else in this game to do it as well.
Kill the decay, til, you get some 10 year oldsto explain to you all how to make it work.
This is not right i do not care what explanation you give.
This is not a money sink , it is more of a black hole. and you are really killing the pvp in this game.
Anybody mind if I call BS? if the system cant tell the difference between a PVP death and a PVE death for decay then how can it tell the difference in reguards to insurence? If one system can tell the difference then why cant another system that is closely related? Now if its a mater of one system tracks it and the other dosent and it isnt an easy job to link the two (not sure why you couldnt though) then thats one thing. However if thats the case why not say so instead of saying it isnt posible? The statements are contradictory.
Thunderheart wrote:
The reason is because there is no way to tell the difference between a "PvP Death" and a "PvE Death".I will continue to try and get the development team to remove the 1% decay with insurance. (Any good ideas from you folks for an alternative might help).
There will still be a 1% decay penalty in pvp death but you will not have to re-insure after that death.
This is correct and clearer I hope.
Message Edited by Thunderheart on 02-03-2004 07:27 PM
Just so everyone knows when mass exoduses happen most never come back. Anyone remember AC2? Anyone remember the community clambering about the fixes that MUST be done? AC2 will never recover and it did initailly have a very devout following.
Turbine is SO desperet that they have now purchased the rights from MicroSoft for AC1. Yeah, they are going to re-release it! (They jacked up AC2 SO bad they have NO chance of ever ressurecting it.) With the new AC2 graphics engine and some other changes etc. The dev's attitudes in that game completely killed it for the people who did actually like it to start with!
So YES we can make a difference make your voice heard... please.
P.S. Yes I know they are different games/players etc but the theory is still the same...