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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Tearofsoul
Ancient MMO noob
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According to Steam chart, they held around 100k players from Dec to Jan, then finally cracked 100k and now it couldn't even break back up to 80k.
Daidraco
Avatar of War Slayer
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I imagine that they have a cash shop overhaul being worked on and that they are eventually going to push it live and make the game F2P instead of B2P. What implications that means for the B2P audience, we'll just have to wait and see. Im hoping for the people that still/eventually play the game, that that route will be a less restrictive Season Pass and not some over bearing "1 Orb allowed a week, purchase another for 200 coins!"
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Cybsled
Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
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The new patch does a few things wrong. Mutators have a bad mechanic - if your average gearscore is below a certain threshhold, then you do dogshit damage and mitigate like shit. So essentially if forces you to run the GS treadmill to even be able to attempt the new dungeons if you aren't already at 590-600s.
You do get good GS bumps from the regular dungeon runs, but those are still orb gated as well
They also made it so if you buy crafted shit about your GS, it gets nerfed to a midpoint between your expertise level for that slot and the level of the item bought.
You do get good GS bumps from the regular dungeon runs, but those are still orb gated as well
They also made it so if you buy crafted shit about your GS, it gets nerfed to a midpoint between your expertise level for that slot and the level of the item bought.
rhinohelix
Dental Dammer
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You would think , after all this time, someone would think to study what happens to games that release without an endgame plan, or an endgame plan that sucks.
We just keep seeing it. Failed game after failed game. Doesn't anyone look to see how these things go wrong? You are investing millions of dollars, right?"
"Players will make their own PVP end game! For PVE We can develop content at ___X___ pace."
Players blow the doors off what they planned. Player numbers start to dip.
"New System to limit access to endgame"
Still doesn't work
"HOW ARE THEY DOING THIS. NERF. EVERYTHING."
Game mostly craters.
"Blames players"
We just keep seeing it. Failed game after failed game. Doesn't anyone look to see how these things go wrong? You are investing millions of dollars, right?"
"Players will make their own PVP end game! For PVE We can develop content at ___X___ pace."
Players blow the doors off what they planned. Player numbers start to dip.
"New System to limit access to endgame"
Still doesn't work
"HOW ARE THEY DOING THIS. NERF. EVERYTHING."
Game mostly craters.
"Blames players"
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So, this was not only talked about internally but documented. I personally gave feedback that the end-game was not just a void, it was a cliff. They did not care. There was a sense of 'we know what's best' among the top leadership to such a degree that I bailed. The very senior leaders (Frazzini) had zero idea about games and what players want, and worse, they really thought they did. Much of the team working on the game came from Daybreak, and hadn't shipped a modern game, and were very out of touch.
My exact statement in my exit interview: "this is schizophrenic game design, the game doesnt know what it wants to be or who its audience is. It will make a good splash at launch but from mid to late, will be a massive player exodus. The execs do not understand what a successful title is and will think week one numbers = great success. It's not"
Amazon paid a TON of money for ppl to work there. I left a lot of money on the table. It was that bad.
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Tearofsoul
Ancient MMO noob
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There are people there just for the $ and do not care much. Nothing wrong with that, it's just a job.
moonarchia
The Scientific Shitlord
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Yup. The guy coding the engine doesn't have to give a fuck about content. That said, it seems noone at any level gave a fuck about content, so that didn't work out so well for them.
Tearofsoul
Ancient MMO noob
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The content guy would just be like whatever higher up want, be a yes man and get those sweet sweet $$$
RobXIII
Urinal Cake Consumption King
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Welp, the pop held out admirably, stayed around 90kish for about a month. But it looks like population is now in a death spiral with the latest patch nerfing and time gating stuff. Also no real new influx of players, can you imagine starting out fresh in this game? Would take months of grinding to catch up lol. Ah well, another failed MMO.
Daidraco
Avatar of War Slayer
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I think the "death spiral" has pretty much ended. The game will continue to lose people, but as we can see, its just at a much slower rate at this point. A GOOD expansion is the only thing that will change its fate, but I just dont see it happening anytime soon.
Tearofsoul
Ancient MMO noob
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