Snakespeare
10-13-2010, 12:14 PM
I'll be back, but I need a break. This is not an "I'm leaving PL" thread.
I feel like whining, a lot. Problem is, I could care less if my main reaches 50, but I feel some sort of requirement to do so. I was having a lot more fun actually playing, using my xp-frozen characters in their appropriate levels, even though someone (who knows exactly that I am referring to her) called me a leech for it, and has yet to take it back. As most people who know me will understand, being called a leech by a rush farmer was almost incomprehensible to me.
But now there is this new campaign, and it's a grind. I can't find anyone to play with because nobody wants to actually play. They only want to grind xp or rush farm. So, naturally, I am deriving zero entertainment from it. For the money I've spent overall ($25), I was hoping for at least some entertainment.
The devs made a good campaign. I do not mind having to buy tank pots. Overall, they have paid for themselves. There are levels that could be played as a standalone. The one where you have to defeat the three lesser champions and then fight the ten times champion of the universe is GOOD. The one where you have to run for the orbs for protection when the Overlord growls is awesome.
But the thing is you can't find such games, and you can't even try to play a game correctly when someone is in there because it takes a team, and the team is all afflicted with greed. Either that or it's Mynas noobs on a deathmarch in some sort of Dantean circle of Hell, forever walking into groups of aliens, using zero teamwork, only to die, respawn and die again, or quit.
This greed is caused by the game's structure, which puts too much focus on the acquisition of rare, collectible, and expensive items. Skills mean next to nothing, and stats barely affect your performance. Only items give you the capability to succeed. For instance, as we discussed in the chatbox yesterday, you could never get 8 H/s through stats, and the items which confer this can only be obtained through farming. So that is how the game itself requires farming.
Which makes me wonder why they even bother being creative. I love the creativity that went into this campaign, but it is being ignored, and it seems to me, abused. And I read people speaking of their activities in this regard with pride. I see greedy behavior that would make me unfriend a person if they did it in real life, so I have to ask myself why I tolerate it in my cyber life.
My break will probably last only a few days, but I will try to stay away longer, at least a week but hopefully more. It's not really healthy to only do one thing. I'll be writing. The missing sense of story that I feel as I see people revelling in their acquisitiveness can be found by writing, I know, and the transference of my addiction will not take long. It was transfered to this game by way of the story elements, and can easily be transfered away now that the story is so widely ignored by so many other players.
And really, I am still insulted to the core for being called a leech for taking my level 25 into a map that is accessed from Glumdoll Cemetary and the loot is all level 25, in short, meant for level 25 players. Leeching is getting xp from other people's activity while you yourself do nothing but stand there. I have opposed leeching behavior, made many threads on it, offered people many alternatives. It really galls me because I bite my tongue when I see a bunch of level 45 characters running past the skeletons trying to get Vyxnaar to respawn. "Then solo the boss" the insulting person said. Yeah, let's see you solo any boss that is the same level as you! I'm sure. It was meant for a team, not for rush farmers.
When I come back, look for me playing low level PvE twinks, because I do not find much in the way of like-minded players among the l33t.
I apologize for being so harsh. It feels like I've been wasting my time and my money, but that's not true. I got my money's worth, surely. But I'm not a leech, and I'm not a rush farmer, and I find no pleasure in xp grinding, so what can I do?
When Alien Oasis has quests, there will be more story to entertain me. When we have guilds perhaps I will find like-minded players. If they change it so stats and skills predominate while items are just nice variations of reasonable bonuses, the rush farming will end. But for now, they have created this thing this way, and people are playing it this way, and I am simply not able to find people who want to clear the levels.
I don't blame those who say "Don't let the door hit you where the Good Lord split you." I feel the same way myself. But my play schedule (bus rides to and from work) does not seem to coincide with that of similar players.
See you all soon.
Snake
(Please don't move this thread to off-topic. It is totally on-topic and belongs in General.)
I feel like whining, a lot. Problem is, I could care less if my main reaches 50, but I feel some sort of requirement to do so. I was having a lot more fun actually playing, using my xp-frozen characters in their appropriate levels, even though someone (who knows exactly that I am referring to her) called me a leech for it, and has yet to take it back. As most people who know me will understand, being called a leech by a rush farmer was almost incomprehensible to me.
But now there is this new campaign, and it's a grind. I can't find anyone to play with because nobody wants to actually play. They only want to grind xp or rush farm. So, naturally, I am deriving zero entertainment from it. For the money I've spent overall ($25), I was hoping for at least some entertainment.
The devs made a good campaign. I do not mind having to buy tank pots. Overall, they have paid for themselves. There are levels that could be played as a standalone. The one where you have to defeat the three lesser champions and then fight the ten times champion of the universe is GOOD. The one where you have to run for the orbs for protection when the Overlord growls is awesome.
But the thing is you can't find such games, and you can't even try to play a game correctly when someone is in there because it takes a team, and the team is all afflicted with greed. Either that or it's Mynas noobs on a deathmarch in some sort of Dantean circle of Hell, forever walking into groups of aliens, using zero teamwork, only to die, respawn and die again, or quit.
This greed is caused by the game's structure, which puts too much focus on the acquisition of rare, collectible, and expensive items. Skills mean next to nothing, and stats barely affect your performance. Only items give you the capability to succeed. For instance, as we discussed in the chatbox yesterday, you could never get 8 H/s through stats, and the items which confer this can only be obtained through farming. So that is how the game itself requires farming.
Which makes me wonder why they even bother being creative. I love the creativity that went into this campaign, but it is being ignored, and it seems to me, abused. And I read people speaking of their activities in this regard with pride. I see greedy behavior that would make me unfriend a person if they did it in real life, so I have to ask myself why I tolerate it in my cyber life.
My break will probably last only a few days, but I will try to stay away longer, at least a week but hopefully more. It's not really healthy to only do one thing. I'll be writing. The missing sense of story that I feel as I see people revelling in their acquisitiveness can be found by writing, I know, and the transference of my addiction will not take long. It was transfered to this game by way of the story elements, and can easily be transfered away now that the story is so widely ignored by so many other players.
And really, I am still insulted to the core for being called a leech for taking my level 25 into a map that is accessed from Glumdoll Cemetary and the loot is all level 25, in short, meant for level 25 players. Leeching is getting xp from other people's activity while you yourself do nothing but stand there. I have opposed leeching behavior, made many threads on it, offered people many alternatives. It really galls me because I bite my tongue when I see a bunch of level 45 characters running past the skeletons trying to get Vyxnaar to respawn. "Then solo the boss" the insulting person said. Yeah, let's see you solo any boss that is the same level as you! I'm sure. It was meant for a team, not for rush farmers.
When I come back, look for me playing low level PvE twinks, because I do not find much in the way of like-minded players among the l33t.
I apologize for being so harsh. It feels like I've been wasting my time and my money, but that's not true. I got my money's worth, surely. But I'm not a leech, and I'm not a rush farmer, and I find no pleasure in xp grinding, so what can I do?
When Alien Oasis has quests, there will be more story to entertain me. When we have guilds perhaps I will find like-minded players. If they change it so stats and skills predominate while items are just nice variations of reasonable bonuses, the rush farming will end. But for now, they have created this thing this way, and people are playing it this way, and I am simply not able to find people who want to clear the levels.
I don't blame those who say "Don't let the door hit you where the Good Lord split you." I feel the same way myself. But my play schedule (bus rides to and from work) does not seem to coincide with that of similar players.
See you all soon.
Snake
(Please don't move this thread to off-topic. It is totally on-topic and belongs in General.)