Whelp, as is tradition on forums I will supply my feedback for the people at EME to print out and use as fuel to keep their office warm!
TerA was a decent game for a while, basically until you hit the QUOTE end-game UNQUOTE. In a game that boasts 1,400 quests.. it takes maybe 2 weeks to hit cap playing at a casual pace. Too many things to do and not enough 'time' to make use of them all.
No need to comment on the RNG in this game, if they don't know how much it's hated by the sheer number of people who have left the game and made complaint threads then that's there own business. Who knows, maybe they are waiting to implement some cash shop buffing items? Maybe they want a niche game for the 10% of people from launch who are still playing.
Some people love the enchanting system.. good for you, grats on your stuff or whatever :D.
Combat system. At first, I thought it was great... then after playing for a while (at max level) you realize it's no different than a tab target MMO. Yeah, it's no different. You do the same thing as a TAB1234 game... maybe even less. TAB 1 spacebar spacebar spacebar repeat, over and over and over. "But you have to aim, it takes a lot of skill unlike tab targets". Not really, if you have trouble aiming, then you are retarded. Flat out special ed. BAMs are the size of a house, if you can't hit them you're on full derp mode.
Most if not all of the skills have AoE, in fact playing as a warrior you really don't even have to hit on the mobs, you can hit behind, to the side, whatever and it still lands. Not trying to take away from the combat because it's fun for a while and it is a bit different, but it's not as innovative as they make it sound. In other tab target mmo's it's the same way, you basically need to be "close" to your target to hit them.
I will say that the defensive moves, dodging and moving is really good. This is a good aspect that I feel is pretty innovative, it beats the typical "don't stand in the red spots" that tab targets use.
In conclusion for combat, it's not that great and it's pretty much the same as a tab target after a while, aiming is hardly a factor. But it's not like EME/BHS would change anything, it certainly works for this game but seeing as this is the drawing factor of the game it's not as innovative as they make it sound. Yeah yeah yeah you love the combat it's never boring I get it fanbois. But ask yourself.. aren't you just repeating the same actions like a tab target that you "hate" so much... literally TAB 1 2 3 4 (or TAB spacebar spacebar spacebar)?
Graphics and art style are great, but once again you don't spend enough time in the zones. It's such a quick breeze through a lot of them that you don't get to see a lot of the finer details.
So leveling, I wouldn't want a FFXI (Zilart style) leveling grind.. but just a bit more, that's my personal preference. Why spend time making great lower level zones and dungeons only to see them for a few hours? Oh well.. they won't change this either - not really a big deal, faster leveling is par for the course in the current mmo gen.
Gear grind in this game is just awful.
The constant non-stop money farm in this game is awful.
The seriously diminishing population is a killer for this game that relies so heavily on partying.
Random thought - I got an email "Newsletter" from EME telling me to check out the preview for QoA2 patch. Why did they add that stupid 1-60 marathon that some random kids did for 1000 dollars to the email? They have no other news themselves? They also talked about a guild scavenger hunt that some guild put on. Like really? All you have to talk about is player generated events.... that is pretty bad.
Sure they also talked about Leaderboards; though those are pretty pointless.. lmao seriously waste of time... even the small amount of time they put in them.
Oh they also talked about the "Suit of for Summer" event "Starting August 3rd"!!!!!! Yeah summer bro... get those swim suits for summer lolol.
I won't say this game will die and go F2P... but it's certainly not going to be a well known game. As a matter of fact... anyone I've told the game about (in the past) had no clue what it was. This game will be a niche and might stay P2P, especially if they keep adding cosmetics to the cash shop. They don't have much overheard at EME... a few dozen employees and some garbage unstable servers that have instance lag, they do virtually no developing, so yeah..
Oh how about their customer service.. I was #1 in queue and had an estimated wait of 15 minutes the other day... though I only waited 6-7 minutes. But really? I was first in line... it was 5-6pm PST.
Vanarch system is garbage.
PvP is lulz.
Lacking end game (inb4 "its a new game") - the game is coming up on 2 years, fact.
** Oh real quick.. the suggestion for "Subscription only forums". **
Take a look at the forums general discussion section - after 4 threads, the 'last post' is starting to hit into the hours mark. If the forums go subscriber only, their will be even less activity. I mean really 4 threads that have a comment within the past 2 hours? In the most populated section of any forum?
Look at the other sections, some of them don't have posts for days... many hours etc.
It's the most obvious sign that this game is dying in population quickly. It's true only a portion of players use the forums... but when the # of people on forums is so small that their is basically no activity it really shows you how few people are in the game.
Not to mention the 3 servers that are housing 90% of the active population.
** So please, make the forums subscriber only and see comments flying in at a speed of 1 per hour, 3 new threads a day, less complaints and more white knight defensive which causes players who frustrated to leave**
So this is my final goodbye thread rant lol about this game that started out so well and turned to a feces sandwich so fast. I don't have any particular hates on this game... this is just the most obvious stuff that EME / BHS "should" already know about. Personally, I just don't like the end game... grind dungeon for gear, grind money to enchant, repeat forever. That's just really boring to me... if you like it, good for you.. you probably like watching paint dry too.
You know the game sucks when people say "make your own endgame".
TLDR: Don't bother responding to this, just wait for them to lock it and I'll not be here anymore. I had a lot of fun trolling the forums the past two months as a non-subscriber but these forums move so slow it's hard to get a laugh out of them now. So goodbye forever, please permanently ban this forum account - that's what it says in your rules of the forum. Thanks!
TerA was a decent game for a while, basically until you hit the QUOTE end-game UNQUOTE. In a game that boasts 1,400 quests.. it takes maybe 2 weeks to hit cap playing at a casual pace. Too many things to do and not enough 'time' to make use of them all.
No need to comment on the RNG in this game, if they don't know how much it's hated by the sheer number of people who have left the game and made complaint threads then that's there own business. Who knows, maybe they are waiting to implement some cash shop buffing items? Maybe they want a niche game for the 10% of people from launch who are still playing.
Some people love the enchanting system.. good for you, grats on your stuff or whatever :D.
Combat system. At first, I thought it was great... then after playing for a while (at max level) you realize it's no different than a tab target MMO. Yeah, it's no different. You do the same thing as a TAB1234 game... maybe even less. TAB 1 spacebar spacebar spacebar repeat, over and over and over. "But you have to aim, it takes a lot of skill unlike tab targets". Not really, if you have trouble aiming, then you are retarded. Flat out special ed. BAMs are the size of a house, if you can't hit them you're on full derp mode.
Most if not all of the skills have AoE, in fact playing as a warrior you really don't even have to hit on the mobs, you can hit behind, to the side, whatever and it still lands. Not trying to take away from the combat because it's fun for a while and it is a bit different, but it's not as innovative as they make it sound. In other tab target mmo's it's the same way, you basically need to be "close" to your target to hit them.
I will say that the defensive moves, dodging and moving is really good. This is a good aspect that I feel is pretty innovative, it beats the typical "don't stand in the red spots" that tab targets use.
In conclusion for combat, it's not that great and it's pretty much the same as a tab target after a while, aiming is hardly a factor. But it's not like EME/BHS would change anything, it certainly works for this game but seeing as this is the drawing factor of the game it's not as innovative as they make it sound. Yeah yeah yeah you love the combat it's never boring I get it fanbois. But ask yourself.. aren't you just repeating the same actions like a tab target that you "hate" so much... literally TAB 1 2 3 4 (or TAB spacebar spacebar spacebar)?
Graphics and art style are great, but once again you don't spend enough time in the zones. It's such a quick breeze through a lot of them that you don't get to see a lot of the finer details.
So leveling, I wouldn't want a FFXI (Zilart style) leveling grind.. but just a bit more, that's my personal preference. Why spend time making great lower level zones and dungeons only to see them for a few hours? Oh well.. they won't change this either - not really a big deal, faster leveling is par for the course in the current mmo gen.
Gear grind in this game is just awful.
The constant non-stop money farm in this game is awful.
The seriously diminishing population is a killer for this game that relies so heavily on partying.
Random thought - I got an email "Newsletter" from EME telling me to check out the preview for QoA2 patch. Why did they add that stupid 1-60 marathon that some random kids did for 1000 dollars to the email? They have no other news themselves? They also talked about a guild scavenger hunt that some guild put on. Like really? All you have to talk about is player generated events.... that is pretty bad.
Sure they also talked about Leaderboards; though those are pretty pointless.. lmao seriously waste of time... even the small amount of time they put in them.
Oh they also talked about the "Suit of for Summer" event "Starting August 3rd"!!!!!! Yeah summer bro... get those swim suits for summer lolol.
I won't say this game will die and go F2P... but it's certainly not going to be a well known game. As a matter of fact... anyone I've told the game about (in the past) had no clue what it was. This game will be a niche and might stay P2P, especially if they keep adding cosmetics to the cash shop. They don't have much overheard at EME... a few dozen employees and some garbage unstable servers that have instance lag, they do virtually no developing, so yeah..
Oh how about their customer service.. I was #1 in queue and had an estimated wait of 15 minutes the other day... though I only waited 6-7 minutes. But really? I was first in line... it was 5-6pm PST.
Vanarch system is garbage.
PvP is lulz.
Lacking end game (inb4 "its a new game") - the game is coming up on 2 years, fact.
** Oh real quick.. the suggestion for "Subscription only forums". **
Take a look at the forums general discussion section - after 4 threads, the 'last post' is starting to hit into the hours mark. If the forums go subscriber only, their will be even less activity. I mean really 4 threads that have a comment within the past 2 hours? In the most populated section of any forum?
Look at the other sections, some of them don't have posts for days... many hours etc.
It's the most obvious sign that this game is dying in population quickly. It's true only a portion of players use the forums... but when the # of people on forums is so small that their is basically no activity it really shows you how few people are in the game.
Not to mention the 3 servers that are housing 90% of the active population.
** So please, make the forums subscriber only and see comments flying in at a speed of 1 per hour, 3 new threads a day, less complaints and more white knight defensive which causes players who frustrated to leave**
So this is my final goodbye thread rant lol about this game that started out so well and turned to a feces sandwich so fast. I don't have any particular hates on this game... this is just the most obvious stuff that EME / BHS "should" already know about. Personally, I just don't like the end game... grind dungeon for gear, grind money to enchant, repeat forever. That's just really boring to me... if you like it, good for you.. you probably like watching paint dry too.
You know the game sucks when people say "make your own endgame".
TLDR: Don't bother responding to this, just wait for them to lock it and I'll not be here anymore. I had a lot of fun trolling the forums the past two months as a non-subscriber but these forums move so slow it's hard to get a laugh out of them now. So goodbye forever, please permanently ban this forum account - that's what it says in your rules of the forum. Thanks!
