Go through and give your honest opinions of the game on the multiple choice. I would appreciate it if you would copy and paste these words in the feedback opinion at the end of the survey.


Give new content, delete the warlock class. Balance bonedancer pets by giving less pets and not allowing them to split attack, and also create an Origins server. Any new server would completely revitalize the game for sure. The game has been improved soo much over the last 2 years that people wouldn't even recognize it if they were given the chance to play again. Also, I would redo the user interface to be exactly like Ghost UI with the old icons that were initially launched with the game. This would bring back and retain many many many people.

 

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I know that you believe your suggested paragraph to be true, or you would not have posted it, but it is not really true for most MMO players (not true for the typical MMO player).


(It is a totally different subject but I find it interesting that you felt the need to tell players to be "honest" when answering the multiple choice questions.)



Of all hundreds of problems that you have to pick from, you pick those? And only those? As if all the other game problems do not matter much or are of lower priority? (rhetorical questions)



Right now a new server would kill the game. It would split the population and RvR would no longer be viable. There was a time when Origin could have happened, but that was before the game population shrunk to the point where the final clustering (Ywain) became necessary.


Clustering was only done to keep the Frontier population above critical mass. As the Frontier population drops, there is a point at which the Frontiers RvR is no longer viable. The only reason for clustering was to ensure that the Frontier population stayed above critical mass, and you want Mythic/Bioware to split (un-cluster) the Frontier population and spread it over two different servers? (rhetorical question)



The game has changed a huge amount but I would not call much of the change an improvement.


Over the last two years the game has been trashed, not improved. It may have been improved for you, or for the small minority that still play, but for the typical MMO player the game is a hodgepodge of eclectic weirdness. It is defiantly not what the typical MMO player wants.



But why copy Ghost? Are you assuming that if you like it then everyone will/must? Then why do so many use Bobs if Ghost is the best? What of those that love something other than Bobs or Ghost? Huge percentages use something other than those.(rhetorical questions)


The big thing the new UI needs is not Ghost. What the new UI needs are things a Custom UI can’t do. Like a UI for putting money on a CM or a UI for removing money (instead of using slash commands to remove money). The tool tips need changing so that when you mouse over a spell/ability you get the info you need and do not need to select “info” just to get info. The icons for weapons need to change color when poison is applied to the weapon. There have been improvements on the UI for purchasing items from merchants but it needs to be better. The quest UI needs to be uniform for all parts of the game. The quest journal needs to be accurate and actually keep the exact wording and instructions for the quests. The UI for pricing things on the CM needs improvment. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc.


The big changes the UI truly needs have almost nothing to do with Ghost, but your suggestion about Ghost does have merit. The game does need a new UI that incorporates features of many custom UIs, but please not Ghost. Not Derida. Not Bobs. Not. . .etc. The new UI should be customizable enough that if a player wanted their UI to look like Ghost the player should be able to pick those options. Any UI should be customizable enough to be able to look like Derida, Ghost, Bobs, etc. . . . The user should have the choice to make the UI whatever they need from a UI.





Sorry but I disagree. You may believe it to be true, but that does not make it so.


It is true that the game needs a better UI, the game needs a UI with more features, and it is true that the game needs some work on some of the classes but most of the points that you hit on have very little to do with why the typical MMO players have been leaving the game.



I am sure that my list will include some of your points but when I cancel I will create my own list of things. Thanks though.

 

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The search engine alone is HUGE. The new RAs revamped and allowed for more customization is HUGE, nerfing slam to 5 seconds is HUGE, increasing dual wield to 25% pierce on block/evade is HUGE, buying MLs now with Bps and glass and eliminating all ML xp is HUGE, allowing BP items / ML items / encounters / scrolls / infernal sleeves / etc. to be tradeable is HUGE, creating currencies for all the best items in the game except for the absolute best master level items dropped from Draco which is free for all pvp is HUUUUUGE, making quests for the bgs where you level very quickly and get aurulite as a reward to buy gear to lvl is HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGEEEEEEEEEEE.


All this combined and you have a game that is hardly recognizable that used to be bugged / unpolished / ignored and not responded to. I believe that if most people gave the game a try again ESPECIALLY on a new server the game would explode if the word spread. To each their own...do I disagree that they can't improve? OFF course not. I'd like to see friar / vale haste timer made into self haste buffs, and poisons for assassins get a timer effect put on their poisons once it has run its course or been purged but one can still dream....DELETE WARLOCKS FOR THE LOVE OF DAOC......

 

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HUGE changes does not mean GOOD changes. Some of those changes were good but almost none of that is what keeps players away.



You seem to think that most players are like you, that they like what you like, play like you play, etc. . . that is not true.


Most MMO players that like what DAoC has become are already playing DAoC. There is no market for what DAoC is. All the MMO players that would like what DAoC is, are playing DAoC.


Most MMO players do not like what DAoC is. Sad but very, very true.


The typical MMO player is PvE centric (the vast majority of MMO players are PvE centric) and Mythic has all but destroyed DAoCs PvE game. While the changes you discuss have changed the game, to a PvE centric player most of the things you list are far down on the list of things they care about.

 

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Well...I disagree almost everything you wrote, so why would I copy/paste this as feedback

Sure, the game needs some improvements/fixing. And you are certainly entitled to your opinion. But....
Origins? No thank you. Please God, no.
Delete Classes? Uh, as cheesy as some classes are, no.
Bonedancers are only a problem in BGs, which the game was never intended to be balanced around.
Forced UI change - why not Derida's? Or Bobs UI? You mean people have different opinions? Yikes, how about we give them the option to make their own UI's? Oh, wait...

Sorry, you get +1 for coming to the match with a bow and arrow, but you get -10 for hitting the wrong target.

 

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I liked the bit about Ghost UI - the rest was just crap!

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Now show me on the doll where the bonedancer and his pets touched you. Why did you only mention 2 mid classes but left out Necro, vamps, tic?

Pretty much agree with everything you said. If 'new' content was simply the origins idea, or any new start from scratch server-it would be enough. Sadly, since they can't even revamp a website in a timely manner, everything you mentioned would require a miracle at this point.

 

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Yeah, he left out some other classes from other realms, but the bonedancer and warlock would be on my list if I could cut 2 classes per realm for a fresh server.

Other realms to be fair:

Alb- Theurgists and Necro

Hib- Vamp and Bainshee

 

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