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Post by Gunga_Din on Feb 17, 2015 4:53:37 GMT
Why I am wasting time on a game that is gonna flop and never see an episode 2? Seriously, Unless everyone in this forum is put in charge of the game development at this point, are we really gonna see it improve? lol.
I hate the housing, crafting, combat, overall look....blah blah blah.. I don't seem to like any aspect. I'm wondering why I even comment about a dead game. Its such a waste of time and I feel sorry for the friends I talked into pledging and for the friends that pledged over and above what they should have.
Whether its the communication with the backers, the changes in rewards, asking for positive votes on steam ! , they just keep getting it wrong every fucking week that goes by. When was the last time they emailed us a great update that instilled some confidence in what they are doing?
This would help "Card Combat System Canned, new system will be installed" , or "Stupid skill trees removed , moving towards on use skill based system".
They don't listen to anyone that has better ideas. *bangs head on desk*
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Post by Membrane_on_Vacation on Feb 17, 2015 11:36:48 GMT
The last time in the past year I think I've seen anything good in one of those E-Mail updates was just very recently with the updates to the look of the Overland Map. I'm going to be a right twat right here because I have always said that the graphics don't matter much to me because they dont. I would have been happy with the last Overland Map if they had just simply increased it's functionality, camera views, shit like that. Will it come in time? Will I see for example a marker over a hex that shows me there has been heavy PvP activity in the past 30 mins or something? Heavy mob spawns or PvE attacks? Or anything? Fucked if I know, but that is the shit I am after. They have a lot of friggin work to do, that is for sure. I have a decent amount of cash tied up in the game and I don't know if I could recover all of it if I sold out. I think though that the recent bank fiasco might just add value to my account though as it limits bank slots and my account has quite a few. To boot, makes owning a house for storage more valuable as well. So I don't know why the fuck all the house people would ever complain about the bank slots. Cock-holsters. But yeah, it is a realllll mess and the communication break down is at a high point. Or so I think every week before something else takes place which makes me say it again Why bother? I am not sure, if it wasn't for my pledge I can honestly say I wouldn't bother! That, and all the time I've put into my blog trying to shed light on the shit
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Post by Mordecai on Feb 17, 2015 13:38:24 GMT
If you feel that let down by the game then you probably shouldn't stick around. I sold my account after asking myself the same questions and it hasn't lessened my ability to enjoy the community at all. That, and it put almost $1,000 back in my pocket.
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Post by Gunga_Din on Feb 17, 2015 17:44:17 GMT
If you feel that let down by the game then you probably shouldn't stick around. I sold my account after asking myself the same questions and it hasn't lessened my ability to enjoy the community at all. That, and it put almost $1,000 back in my pocket. Yea, well I still have a smaller acct (thx to some referrals) and like many of the community members. Plus friends involved, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Post by grimgryphon on Feb 17, 2015 18:38:27 GMT
I'd love to sell my account, but my ban is still in effect. lol
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Post by Joviex on Feb 17, 2015 20:00:58 GMT
Why I am wasting time on a game that is gonna flop and never see an episode 2? Seriously, Unless everyone in this forum is put in charge of the game development at this point, are we really gonna see it improve? lol. I am right there with you. I want to sell my account, but I fucking cannot do it because of the permaban from the forums, which is the only "place" I can sell my account. Why would they continue to want me around if they are going to be total assholes about my presence? I even asked Rick during the email BS back and forth if they could facilitate exiting my ass. His answer was to use a third party to talk to the third party doing the selling? Da wut? How would I contact anyone, third party or otherwise, if I am banned? Make an ALT? He said I better not make an ALT. .... this is the undercurrent of logic from the entire team since the beginning of the project.
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Post by Joviex on Feb 17, 2015 20:01:47 GMT
I'd love to sell my account, but my ban is still in effect. lol Yeah exactly! WTF do we do to get them sold!
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Post by grimgryphon on Feb 17, 2015 22:43:09 GMT
I'd love to sell my account, but my ban is still in effect. lol Yeah exactly! WTF do we do to get them sold! Chargeback from Visa? ;-)
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Post by Joviex on Feb 17, 2015 23:59:06 GMT
Yeah exactly! WTF do we do to get them sold! Chargeback from Visa? ;-) Couple problems with that. Upgrades over time. I pledged 04/2013.
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Post by Membrane_on_Vacation on Feb 21, 2015 7:45:26 GMT
I don't know about you all but the why bother for me also comes to beg why I bother writing about all this any longer either.
It does take a bit of time. Just keeping on top of the forum, I've got 4,421 files in 979 folders taking up 2.05GB of space. Then there is spending endless time reading posts from oh so many lost fools on the forum to get through all of it, try and make sense of it, and produce something mildly comical from it.
If the moderating and secrecy problem was solved and there was a way to constructively both engage with the Devs and provide something they wanted from the community I would have stopped long ago.
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Post by Gunga_Din on Mar 4, 2015 16:01:13 GMT
Thinking its time for me to just forget about SotA. I predict it will fail, most likely within 6 months. Any future episodes will most likely require further Kickstarters too. The fallout from mega backers 1k-10K will be a huge fiasco when they realize their pledge was wasted. I'd like to not be around for that.
I heard somewhere that RG believed he was gonna raise 20 mil (KS and post KS). Since they never hit that perceived goal, I think it just sent this whole project into chaos. There isn't gonna be the funds for an episode 2 , unless they do have more kickstarters, but those won't perform well enough anyway.
Looking at the game itself:
Graphics/point of view : I would have liked it too look like wasteland2 (from above, closer to UO etc)
Housing: Just a complete mess, towns cities being sold. The architecture is all over the place, towns are gonna look horrible.
Combat : Worse design i've ever witnessed
Skill Trees: Make no sense, lower spells or skills look to be obsolete as u go higher up.
Crafting: Boring , dull, recipes for everything. Should be skill based like UO. U have wood, the amount of wood and your skill should allow u to make higher end furniture etc. Why make it so tedius and boring.
Overhead map: Probably the only thing I like.
PvP: Zoned areas etc. Plus the lackluster combat system = uneventful.
Gear : too complex and I can't stand gear based items.
Level system : Dont like levels, I really just think a skill based system was better. Direct from use to gain in that skill.
I just think there is nothing I like about SotA. So I won't be playing it and don't feel like wasting time on it in any capacity. AFter this week i'm just gonna stop posting on any forums related to this train wreck of a game.
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Post by Mordecai on Mar 4, 2015 18:05:52 GMT
While I agree with all of your evaluations of the game, I urge you to consider the flourishing parkour feature in SotA.
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Post by Gunga_Din on Mar 5, 2015 1:22:51 GMT
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Post by Housewife Brittish on Mar 5, 2015 4:41:44 GMT
If you are permabanned, I would try making another account and contacting support to get a pledge transfer to the new account. Don't mention anything about being banned, maybe you will slip under the radar and get the transfer, it's worth trying. If you are looking for someone to help you find a buyer for your account, contact Andernut, he's a great guy and it has been very safe, I can give you his email if needed. He won't touch anything with a permaban though, so selling will all depend on if you get the transfer or get unbanned.
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Post by Gunga_Din on Mar 5, 2015 5:09:10 GMT
If you are permabanned, I would try making another account and contacting support to get a pledge transfer to the new account. Don't mention anything about being banned, maybe you will slip under the radar and get the transfer, it's worth trying. If you are looking for someone to help you find a buyer for your account, contact Andernut, he's a great guy and it has been very safe, I can give you his email if needed. He won't touch anything with a permaban though, so selling will all depend on if you get the transfer or get unbanned. dude, i sold my knight acct off like 12 months ago. I saw the writing on the wall...
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Post by Membrane_on_Vacation on Mar 5, 2015 6:47:31 GMT
If you are permabanned, I would try making another account and contacting support to get a pledge transfer to the new account. Don't mention anything about being banned, maybe you will slip under the radar and get the transfer, it's worth trying. If you are looking for someone to help you find a buyer for your account, contact Andernut, he's a great guy and it has been very safe, I can give you his email if needed. He won't touch anything with a permaban though, so selling will all depend on if you get the transfer or get unbanned. dude, i sold my knight acct off like 12 months ago. I saw the writing on the wall... I am still waiting for them to really come down hard on vendors and crafting. Severe public vendor limits, severe public crafting table limits or charges or whatever. = house value, then sell for $$. I am very much a Lord British fan, if this game comes out this year then the Devs have a bloody lot of work to do before it is enjoyable, and I am not sure it can be accomplished without stringing us along until episode 2 in 2021. It looks like most everything other than bare bones is pushed out of ep1 already. Fucking shame.
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Post by Housewife Brittish on Mar 5, 2015 7:24:24 GMT
I can't see anyone profiting in anyway for this game, as it now RF and F pledges are valued at below the cost the person first paid for it, unless it's something special, like a first day account. By the time the game is live I think enough people will have caught onto what a rip off this game is and it'll be harder to sell. You'll have to hope someone extremely dumb and desperate comes along at that point. I think it's a good time now to sell, some of the hype is still there, still seeing some retards flocking in with the same ole "I played UO" statement, like anyone gives a fuck and pledges for sale are at a low, which will increase what your pledge sells for because of demand, the people that help sell accounts do take this into account. I think you'll be lucky to make your money back in any scenario.
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Post by Membrane_on_Vacation on Mar 5, 2015 7:59:49 GMT
I've got the same thing in mind about prob not even breaking even, but don't underestimate their desire to make more cash off the backs of new pledgers, then also create more situations to place people into micro transaction purchases. Value went up at the onset of bank slot limits. Not enough after the PoT and Row houses, but some.
Also, location seems to be a big factor which fucking amazes me, people already claiming that their properties can't be placed on waterfronts because a certain pledge level only is accepted there hahahhahaha. Nubs. So good location later on down the track but before Carebears get tired of /emotecirclejerking and may actually have a chance to recover some cash.
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Post by Recommendation? on Mar 5, 2015 12:39:57 GMT
I wanted to recommend to you Life is Feudal as this seems to have all you are asking for. It will have Full Loot, it will have the Ultima Online Skill System, all you do impacts to skills, one faster, one slow. Just as Ultima Online. It will have a open world. Housing will be crafted , you do not need to purchase. But then i think Insane would have to work overhours, because look at this comment about Life is Feudal: Read this: Muadjin Sep 20, 2014 2 The forum moderators on steam delete every single negative post about the game. You 're warned. I actually think they put in more effort in moderating the forums then they actually have put in this broken game. The things that it promises look very tempting, but the game itself is broken and is littered with bugs, laggy crashing servers, items dissapearing from your inventory, things you build just disappearing right in front of your eyes with no valid explanation and last but not least INSANE CENSORING OF forums Collapse Source: www.metacritic.com/game/pc/life-is-feudal-your-own
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Post by Joviex on Mar 5, 2015 19:48:51 GMT
If you are permabanned, I would try making another account and contacting support to get a pledge transfer to the new account. Don't mention anything about being banned, maybe you will slip under the radar and get the transfer, it's worth trying. If you are looking for someone to help you find a buyer for your account, contact Andernut, he's a great guy and it has been very safe, I can give you his email if needed. He won't touch anything with a permaban though, so selling will all depend on if you get the transfer or get unbanned. Absolutely this. Ive been out for over a week. They let my sellout go through most likely because I used L.A. as a mediary. Out with a profit no less. Best to do it now before people realize what a huge waste it is.
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Post by Housewife Brittish on Mar 5, 2015 22:51:46 GMT
The fanboys can pretend that their locations will be worth money all they want but in reality they are just overwhelmed with fanboyism, which makes them think all kinds of dumb shit. I'm sure there will be a few good locations, a rare amount, the majority of people won't even get a chance at those spots. It's not going to be how UO was and I think a lot of people are comparing it to that. In UO you could place houses almost anywhere outside of city/town limits which created a lot of great locations people were jealous of. In SotA you are stuck in preselected places, you can't go plop down a house in resource oriented area, or get the closest spot near town, etc. Those are things that make locations sought after. One of the only things that could increase the house location value in SotA is vendors but by the sounds of how they plan to setup vendors, letting people place vendors in towns etc, will take that value away.
I've kept an eye on Life is Feudal since pretty much the beginning, the game is focused on a lot of great ideas but I'm wiating for it to be a lot more completed before I give it a try, hopefully they pull something decent off.
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Post by Membrane_on_Vacation on Mar 6, 2015 0:16:51 GMT
If you are permabanned, I would try making another account and contacting support to get a pledge transfer to the new account. Don't mention anything about being banned, maybe you will slip under the radar and get the transfer, it's worth trying. If you are looking for someone to help you find a buyer for your account, contact Andernut, he's a great guy and it has been very safe, I can give you his email if needed. He won't touch anything with a permaban though, so selling will all depend on if you get the transfer or get unbanned. Absolutely this. Ive been out for over a week. They let my sellout go through most likely because I used L.A. as a mediary. Out with a profit no less. Best to do it now before people realize what a huge waste it is. Well done Joviex! Will we see you at all in the future?
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Post by Joviex on Mar 6, 2015 1:15:39 GMT
Yup. A) They made me keep a 45$ bare bones account because of STEAM. I call horseshit on that, but I didnt want to fucking argue and just get out as much as I could. B) Like anyone, I dont mind turning my head while passing by a great train wreck, esp when you cant do shit to stop it and its all in slow motion. Meanwhile I will be enjoying LiF, Crowfall, and a bunch of board games I resunk my KS money into -- thanks Port!
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Post by Housewife Brittish on Mar 6, 2015 1:36:31 GMT
I think it's well worth keeping 45$ on the account just to see what happens with the game, especially since you probably have the alienware bonus. I'm sure they are more than glad to get rid of some of us too.
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Post by Membrane_on_Vacation on Mar 6, 2015 1:37:57 GMT
Yup. A) They made me keep a 45$ bare bones account because of STEAM. I call horseshit on that, but I didnt want to fucking argue and just get out as much as I could. B) Like anyone, I dont mind turning my head while passing by a great train wreck, esp when you cant do shit to stop it and its all in slow motion. Meanwhile I will be enjoying LiF, Crowfall, and a bunch of board games I resunk my KS money into -- thanks Port! Maybe I should check out LiF. Maybe stay away from the community if it really is as bad as they say above... Post your board games somewhere in here under Good Bad Ugly( shroudunlimited.boards.net/board/7/games), I'm interested in that stuff too!
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