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onesixtwo posted:It's fun because this exact statement makes the supporters rage at the concept. Leveling content in MMOs for me involves watching netflix and sometimes saying fuckit to dodge mechanics or being 100% optimal at all times. Clearly I'm not hardcore enough for Wildstar's level 20 leveling content. Realtalk I resubbed WoW a week or so ago and I've been catching up on TV while I level to 100. So far I've banged out two seasons of The Shield and one of Justified, this is easily the best way to play WoW.
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Literally The Worst posted:Realtalk I resubbed WoW a week or so ago and I've been catching up on TV while I level to 100. So far I've banged out two seasons of The Shield and one of Justified, this is easily the best way to play WoW. I stopped playing mmos when I sat down and considered the fact that the only way I could enjoy it was by enjoying something else while glancing at it every so often.
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Byolante posted:I stopped playing mmos when I sat down and considered the fact that the only way I could enjoy it was by enjoying something else while glancing at it every so often. To me it's the other way around. I can't just sit and watch TV without doing something else, so I play MMOs to give me something to do while I watch TV.
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Apr 19, 2015 19:42
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I play mmos to do something while I drink. 
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Apr 19, 2015 19:46
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Avynte posted:I play mmos to do something while I drink. i drink to do something while i play mmos
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Apr 19, 2015 19:55
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A reminder that this was the gif posted by the lead raid designer when he found out a guild finally cleared one of their lovely raids.
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Apr 19, 2015 20:04
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Pesterchum posted:A reminder that this was the gif posted by the lead raid designer when he found out a guild finally cleared one of their lovely raids. Wait are you serious, he's saying that their overly powerful poo poo was actually too easy? Jesus Christ. Someone link one of the old threads, I need something new to read.
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Apr 19, 2015 20:19
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I think it was because they found a way to boost their DPS in a pseudo exploity way so he threw a tantrum
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Stormgale posted:I think it was because they found a way to boost their DPS in a pseudo exploity way so he threw a tantrum I thought it was because the encounter was literally impossible with the current level of attainable gear so the devs had no choice but to tone it down, so when it was finally beaten he acted like a baby throwing a tantrum.
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Verranicus posted:I thought it was because the encounter was literally impossible with the current level of attainable gear so the devs had no choice but to tone it down, so when it was finally beaten he acted like a baby throwing a tantrum. This is the right memory. The first clear of their content happened after months and months of guilds burning out. They nerfed the content prior to killing 40-man raids, and that allowed their top progression guild to get a kill. The gif in a response was posted to the reddit thread, and obviously people saying the GM was being an rear end in a top hat were ridiculed and hidden.
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Bauxite posted:The WS devs didn't understand the importance of having leveling mobs not being assholes. Downtime from the AWESOME fights is actually a really important thing, just like the pacing in a good suspense novel has downtimes where the characters aren't in immediate danger of getting their assholes ripped open. I remember there were some random deer in the snowy zone you had to kill for a quest that would absolutely annihilate you if you weren't 100% on point (at least with certain characters or builds). I saw something like 20 people complain about them across 5 different forums. I posted a thread on the official forums that amounted to "you should maybe tone down these deer because they are literally causing people to unsubscribe" and got the predictable official forums response. The straw that broke the camel's back for me was that the performance got worse and worse with every patch until doing some boss fights was more or less impossible. That and my first month was up.
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Pesterchum posted:A reminder that this was the gif posted by the lead raid designer when he found out a guild finally cleared one of their lovely raids. Is ncsoft management developmentally disabled or something? Why do they continue giving money to these pissants? 
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cthulhoo posted:Is ncsoft management developmentally disabled or something? Why do they continue giving money to these pissants? Sunk cost fallacy?
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At some point one would imagine ncsoft management to step up and tell them to stfu with their retarded user-hostile poo poo. e: since carbine higher ups apparently consider this a proper way to do business going by how this idiot bitch of a game designer has not been fired on the spot after making that post.
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Apr 19, 2015 21:26
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Here's the other relevant screenshot.
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Wow... I actually had a lot of fun in the 20 man raid despite the insane amount of bullshit that the game had and well I was no where close to a defender of Wildstar that story about the 40 man raid and that screenshot make me hope that guy doesn't work on a game ever again and is forced to do something he hates for money for the rest of his retarded life.
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Haha, the forums are going nuts over there with F2P threads.
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Sankis posted:oh yeah i totally forgot about the hilarious disconnect between the writing. There was something they did early on on the bad guy side with comic books that I thought was really cool. I think you collected them and they had lore in them? I actually liked that. It was referential and silly without being CUPCAKE NOM NOM NOM CUPCAKE CUPCAKE like the rest of the game was. I enjoyed the art style quite a bit. What gave me issues was that the humor was just god awful and being called a cupcake every two seconds got old fast. Between that, the optimization, and the medal system for dungeons, I just couldn't keep myself playing.
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Verranicus posted:Haha, the forums are going nuts over there with F2P threads. What these idiots do not realize is that absolutely nothing they say will make a difference short of campaigning successfully to get a ton of new people to sub to this mmo. It is all about the numbers now and not about the opinions. The numbers probably lean towards favoring f2p and that is not going to change.
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I still find it hilarious that the #1 guild in WS outright cheated like hell on the first weeks, and Carbine wasn't willing to do poo poo to them. The Moon Monster posted:The straw that broke the camel's back for me was that the performance got worse and worse with every patch until doing some boss fights was more or less impossible. That and my first month was up. Yeah, I gave up on the silver medal grind when the server loving up killed a great attempt on the one dungeon I needed.
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Deki posted:I still find it hilarious that the #1 guild in WS outright cheated like hell on the first weeks, and Carbine wasn't willing to do poo poo to them. Was that the one in Skullcano where that one required miniboss would just sink 6 inches into the ground and go untargetable?
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Xavier434 posted:What these idiots do not realize is that absolutely nothing they say will make a difference short of campaigning successfully to get a ton of new people to sub to this mmo. It is all about the numbers now and not about the opinions. The numbers probably lean towards favoring f2p and that is not going to change. But Xavier, then they'll have ~filthy casuals~ playing alongside them! I actually played WS in the beta and pre-ordered and everything, but didn't get far enough to do anything raid-y. I think I stopped around level 20, where you had to do the first three-person mini-dungeons? It's been a while so I don't remember exactly, but even at that early point the grind turned tedious as poo poo.
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The best part is the idiots saying "But Carbine will spend time on things I don't want them to" as if Carbine has been spending time on things that they have confirmed that the idiots want, at any time since beta, with Wildstar being a subscription-based game.
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Pesterchum posted:Here's the other relevant screenshot. Are you serious? what a circlejerk that community is.
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What has the content release of WS been like since it's launch almost a year ago? I remember they had to cancel their whole monthly drop schedule and then cause they released a lovely game they had to spend what updates they did put out mostly focusing on fixing their existing game rather than adding new content. To anyone who still keeps track of this game can you compile what actually new content has been added?
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Pesterchum posted:Here's the other relevant screenshot. lmao imagine how bad the holiday parties and poo poo are at Carbine with people like this
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Apr 20, 2015 02:14
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Like "We literally cancelled Christmas" Carbine has holiday parties.
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If the glassdoor reviews are accurate then holiday parties were either a let down or barely existed.
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Xavier434 posted:If the glassdoor reviews are accurate then holiday parties were either a let down or barely existed. "hey look its christmas coming up and you've been working hard, there's free pop in the fridge"
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Pesterchum posted:Here's the other relevant screenshot. I want to remind people that the person who posted that image macro? And the person in this screencap? That person is the lead raid designer. This is a person who I stress again was completely open about the fact he had deliberately made bosses impossible. Stormgale posted:I think it was because they found a way to boost their DPS in a pseudo exploity way so he threw a tantrum No, that was well previous to the world's first and it wasn't really an exploit either. There was an accessory in Wildstar with an active effect that sliced off a decent chunk of your targets armor, and a guild managed to clear an impossible DPS check by loading up on said accessory and using it repeatedly to meet the damage requirements. I want to keep reiterating that I mean absolutely no hyperbole when I say impossible, Timetraveller, AKA the jackhole who posted that macro on Reddit was open with this guild and told them that the boss they killed wasn't supposed to be mortal for at least another month. Unsurprisingly that particular accessory was smacked by a nerfbat quite fast, it was actually patched much more quickly than many other balance issues or design flaws.
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Byolante posted:
 I have difficulty believing anyone volunteered FnF emails knowing of that policy. I have to assume that their friends could get them fired by talking about it, was actually a pretty funny surprise when the emails went out.
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Omnicrom posted:I want to remind people that the person who posted that image macro? And the person in this screencap? That person is the lead raid designer. This is a person who I stress again was completely open about the fact he had deliberately made bosses impossible. Timetraveller didn't just drink the kool-aid that they were serving to the "hardcore" whiners, he replaced his blood with it. What a dense motherfucker.
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FrostyPox posted:I'm surprised this game hasn't gone F2P/got shut down already, but I'm with the "will play when it goes F2P to drink pubbie tears" crowd. Man, there's been multiple threads that do nothing except talk about how lovely this game is and yet people constantly post this to fool themselves into thinking they don't just wanna play a bad game. Man up and admit you want to play bad game, or have some self respect for your free time and spend the 15 bucks it takes to get a game on sale on Steam or sub to one of the like, two MMOs that aren't dying right now.
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https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/124774-q-carbine-are-you-changing-your-business-model/page-1 Another F2P thread, this time with bonus dude claiming he worked on GW2 for ArenaNet so everyone should totally listen to what he says.
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Carbine could be making anything and with people like that timetraveller guy in senior design positions it would still be a steaming turd. If you game is not fun then it has failed in its most basic criteria for existing.
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Deki posted:Yeah, I gave up on the silver medal grind when the server loving up killed a great attempt on the one dungeon I needed. Five straight nights of disconnects midway through attempts to beat the timers on stormtalon just ripped any will to do this poo poo out of my entire guild.
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reminder that one of the dungeon silver medal times was 75 minutes, literally over an hour for a speed clear of a dungeon, and you had to hope that the servers which were notorious for making GBS threads themselves didn't do that once in that hour, and also that everyone played very well for that entire time oops you hosed up at the 65 minute mark and wiped. start over.
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Wait, 75 minutes to clear 5 man content is considered a speed run? Holy poo poo. Last time I spent this kinda time on dungeons was back in cata heroic pugging days (hi grim batol  ) and boy did it suck.
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cthulhoo posted:Wait, 75 minutes to clear 5 man content is considered a speed run? Holy poo poo.  GOOD OLD DAYS OF HARDCORE MMOS FOR HARDOCRE GAMERS
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