109382-why-i-am-leaving-an-honest-and-genuine-thread

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This isnt an attention seeking "goodbye" (please ask me to stay) thread. Its a explanation why I personally believe this game won't survive. I love this game, I wan't to play but when a game stops becoming fun and starts becoming hard work I guess its time to leave.
 
I remember the day the game went live, I hadnt been so excited about a game release since Ikari Warriors on the C64 ;)
 
The game launch pretty much went without a hitch, certainly a lot better than ESO lol The comms on twitter was excellent and "The Devs are listening" seemed to actually be the case. 
 
Since release the constant maintenance (please check the dates on the maintenance forum and tell me that much maintenance is normal) and constant DC's on my server (Eko EU) have driven me to the point where I cant take any more. I just had 3 random DC's and massive lag. Died 3 times with 3 long runs back to the quest and then another death due to lag and then not even being able to rez due to lag. I got to the point where I thought "whats the point in leveling when A not many are doing end game B those that are doing it are talking of quitting due to various issues and finally C why level when endgame will be unplayable with these constant dc's, lag and heavy maintenance routines"
 
Enough is enough, Sure probably a restart would fix it or maybe maintenance but I was hoping for a day where we don't have maintenance as for the last 2 weeks "planned" maintenance has turned into 6 hour affairs where the servers were brought back down due to issues with stability. Yes, I am aware its a new game but that has nothing to do with server stability and in my opinion less people playing should equal less need for maintenance? Just an opinion. I put planned in inverted comma's earlier as it seems 5 or 6 hours notice is considered to be enough warning to class it as planned it seems, Personally I don't. 
 
The comms on twitter has died, We barely get notice of maintenance and if we do its to tell us the servers are down, not that they are going down, these days the twitter feed is full of cosplay, screenshots and meet up information, How about less meet ups and more keeping the game up? I find it very hard to take all these server issues when I log into twitter to check if they are working on the latest issue and see screenshots of about 20 devs in exile and dominion hockey shirts raging battle on each other in the car park with the caption "We here at Carbine Studios take the #wildtsar Exile vs Dominion rivalry pretty seriously. " maybe take the game a little more seriously?
 
Two weeks ago my GM asked if I was going to play WoD, I said this "ive pre-ordered but tbh im happy here, I cant see me going back", well that has now changed and I am about to login to WoW for the first time in 3 months. £11.99 a month for this is unacceptable but i am pretty sure it will be F2P by christmas anyway.
 
When I started this thread I intended to make it a simple list of reasons but as I wrote I felt my emotions creep in, A sign that I do love this game and carbine have something good here but enough is enough.
 
The Devs are listening? I think maybe now they have their fingers in their ears and are going "lalalalalalalalalalalala" I don't see any sign of them listening. 
 
Bye Cupcakes! ;)	
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			I was stoked for the release just as you. It was what I was most excited for since Rift. I played really slow and even now am only a level 21. That being said, I have seen a LOT of this, and have seen population decline in the city. I have read these forums for a while now, and only now came back to take a look. It seems things are close to the same. I do NOT want to waste time on the next AoC, Warhammer, etc. It seems to be heading into a decline, and really, I just want something popular. I understand population is not a key indicator of the quality of the game, but it is the most important thing in making the game feel like an mmo. An mmo should feel like a new world, and this just.....didnt do that for me. I would be willing to give it another try, but they need to do something drastic for it to stay very profitable.	
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It's pretty sad you're leaving because of DCs and maintenance. I've never experienced a single one on Hazak and I just do something else during maintenance.
 
I don't think that's a real reason to be honest. If you really enjoyed the game you'd reroll on another server or transfer? In any case i'm not too worried, if you say you loved the game you will come back! (I know i did).
 
And no the game is not going to die because of DCs and maintenance.	
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			If there's been an issue in this game, it isn't connection problems for me.  I never get DCed out of this game.  I'm probably on some kind of personal record since I used to DC out once a week in other games.	
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That wasn't his only reason.
 
As for the OP, I'm sure the 2-3 typical Carbine defenders will be here shortly to tell you how wrong you are. That, or this thread will be locked.
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That wasn't his only reason.
 
As for the OP, I'm sure the 2-3 typical Carbine defenders will be here shortly to tell you how wrong you are. That, or this thread will be locked.
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			that was definitely no attention whoring at all. move along folks, nothing to see here.	
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Dear Diary,
 
This isnt an attention seeking "goodbye" (please ask me to stay) thread. Its a explanation why I personally believe this game won't survive. I love this game, I wan't to play but when a game stops becoming fun and starts becoming hard work I guess its time to leave.
 
I remember the day the game went live, I hadnt been so excited about a game release since Ikari Warriors on the C64 ;)
 
The game launch pretty much went without a hitch, certainly a lot better than ESO lol The comms on twitter was excellent and "The Devs are listening" seemed to actually be the case. 
 
Since release the constant maintenance (please check the dates on the maintenance forum and tell me that much maintenance is normal) and constant DC's on my server (Eko EU) have driven me to the point where I cant take any more. I just had 3 random DC's and massive lag. Died 3 times with 3 long runs back to the quest and then another death due to lag and then not even being able to rez due to lag. I got to the point where I thought "whats the point in leveling when A not many are doing end game B those that are doing it are talking of quitting due to various issues and finally C why level when endgame will be unplayable with these constant dc's, lag and heavy maintenance routines"
 
Enough is enough, Sure probably a restart would fix it or maybe maintenance but I was hoping for a day where we don't have maintenance as for the last 2 weeks "planned" maintenance has turned into 6 hour affairs where the servers were brought back down due to issues with stability. Yes, I am aware its a new game but that has nothing to do with server stability and in my opinion less people playing should equal less need for maintenance? Just an opinion. I put planned in inverted comma's earlier as it seems 5 or 6 hours notice is considered to be enough warning to class it as planned it seems, Personally I don't. 
 
The comms on twitter has died, We barely get notice of maintenance and if we do its to tell us the servers are down, not that they are going down, these days the twitter feed is full of cosplay, screenshots and meet up information, How about less meet ups and more keeping the game up? I find it very hard to take all these server issues when I log into twitter to check if they are working on the latest issue and see screenshots of about 20 devs in exile and dominion hockey shirts raging battle on each other in the car park with the caption "We here at Carbine Studios take the #wildtsar Exile vs Dominion rivalry pretty seriously. " maybe take the game a little more seriously?
 
Two weeks ago my GM asked if I was going to play WoD, I said this "ive pre-ordered but tbh im happy here, I cant see me going back", well that has now changed and I am about to login to WoW for the first time in 3 months. £11.99 a month for this is unacceptable but i am pretty sure it will be F2P by christmas anyway.
 
When I started this thread I intended to make it a simple list of reasons but as I wrote I felt my emotions creep in, A sign that I do love this game and carbine have something good here but enough is enough.
 
The Devs are listening? I think maybe now they have their fingers in their ears and are going "lalalalalalalalalalalala" I don't see any sign of them listening. 
 
Bye Cupcakes! ;)
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			deadpool is omega... or gamma... whatever he wants. maybe even alpha	
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I didn't see anyone ask yet so I guess it falls to me to do so...
 
Can I have your stuff?	
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Hello,
 
I'm sorry to hear that the game was no longer fun for you - bug fixes are certainly something our team is hard at work on and I know players are impatient to see these things patched into game.
 
That being said, safe travels no matter where you end up. :) 
 
- Team WildStar	
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