Seriously this is just a rant and has no place here. If you wish to discuss some actual points or thoughts you have on the game, please do it constructively, thanks.

The following is the exact comment that I left on the facebook page under a discussion about the upcoming changes. I'm not the only one that said similar things but am apparently the only on they've blocked. Whats really funny is that they blocked me, but didnt block the people that were responding to and agreeing with me. so.. for all to see anyway. its below...


""smaller clusters would fix the lag issues, with a game as immense as daoc you cant cluster 7000 people together and expect no lag, no matter how good your equipment is. mythic/ea should understand this.

the revamping of the ra's is coming from them listening to their token whiners about what makes the game bad. lag casting does indeed need to go, but the ra changes are a laughable idea from the onset.

imbalance, at the moment you've got casters in the game that can cast continuously either because their pet block all melee attacks, or they have a primer for not being interrupted. both in the same realm. lifetaps that do more damage than most tanks, again in the same realm. they claim that they want balance but they refuse to put everyone on even ground. casters are supposed to do hell damage... from a distance. tanks are supposed to be able to do high damage up close and personal. i've watched a spirit master take down 3 arms and 1 pally at one time because the tanks couldnt hit him (that is one bad pet being able to block so many attacks), warlocks in laby are basicly unstoppable(rvr as well). rangers can take down tanks with 3 maybe 4 shots (shield tanks take 5 or 6 shots), and my goodness they still havent fixed LOS that allows bainshees to cast through walls, but in alb you can have clear visible no walls included LOS and 'cant see the target'. Necros if played properly can take down 2 to 3 groups of people, two theurgists can destroy a tower or its gates in minutes, and vamps, dont even get me started, no matter how many times you nerf them, they're still claw spamming fools that are wayyyyyy to op'd. (even if i DO love mine)all this power is fine and dandy, IF its counterpart is just as powerful.

IF its balanced, IF IF IF IF IF IF if's and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a wonderful christmas.

Stop screwing with things that arent broken. fix the floors for pete's sake so the mids will stop abusing the 'drops' in the laby.

Fix the fact that in most cities you can fall through the floor at any moment. STOP the ability for anyone to lag cast (losing window mode would be a good start). get rid of the ability for guys like openbook to abuse mechanics (ie camping places where people have no option of zoning to) or place a system in that prevents people from being attacked before they can see their screen (how lame is it that they cant get their rp's by actually earning them). and it IS mechanics abuse no matter how you look at it. the people being farmed have no options of where to port in. give me an option and i'll choose a safe point every time. even better, when the relic gate is close.. nobody from another realm should be ABLE to be in there. when its open the villages should remain secure no matter what.

make my more expensive horse run faster than that free 10th lvl horse.

make my achievements worth something. when i make 50 i should feel like i've accomplished something.

I shouldnt be walking away thanking the heavens that the chinese macro team doesnt charge more than the already outlandish prices they already charge. matter of fact while we're at it... get rid of the farmers in general. they wreak havoc on the player housing market by flooding the market with purchasable plats, rare or impossible to get items, and power leveled imbeciles. there are people in the game that have so many plats on their merchants that you cant buy anything from them.

PLATS omfg plats... what IS this strange little coin to the left of plats in my inventory section... is it usable or just for decoration? is there a reason i cant carry more than X amount of plats? when the merchant is so freakin rich that i cant buy anything from him, shouldnt that merchant be 'delisted' until the plats are removed?

Shouldnt player crafted items be the most powerful in the realm? Sure have a few strange items that defy logic (artifacts) but i mean really, no mob should drop anything more powerful than what Winky the wonder crafter can create. LGM is afterall so each to achieve that anybody with nothing else to do (cant solo anywhere anyway) can achieve it in a week or so. I bet those farmer groups have a way of doing that for you as well.

lets talk casting speed... i love my casters, i really do, but even I find it a bit ridiculous that i can cast 10 times in 10 seconds. cmon this is based on arm movement and hand movements. only a crack addict can move their arms that fast without breaking something. especially when casting spells that do more damage than 3 tanks put together.(this by the way is a problem in all 3 realms). thats not to say how deadly it is with the aforementioned uninterrupted casting factored in.

lag jumping, i just love standing on top of the stairs in darkness falls, and be ganked by that stealther thats figured out a way to lag jump all the way up there. /appealed... nothing done.. aint CSR's grand?

CSR's... what a joy of a topic, they can never seem to do anything, fix anything or help in any way, and basically refuse to correct any problems. their job is apparently to apologize for your frustration, tell you to send an email (which is never answered or even so much as glanced at) and then to say , Thanks for playing anyway (you dumb sucker, we just want your money and for you to shut up, will you EVER understand it?! sheesh whats wrong with our customers?!)

Calling in for mythic to fix it? LOLOLOLOL OMFG ROFLMAO LOLOL im sorry we can only handle billing and nobody that can do anything has a phone number, what kind of idiot are you that you really believe we communicate with other people here in the same office?!

did i mention that they cancelled classic? against the wishes of something like 3000 people. and now that we've started getting used to getting bent by mythic, they wanna do it some more.

To those of you that i've offended I offer only the consolation that this is real life, and I PAY hard earned $$ for my current subscription(s) and I have a right to speak up/out. Not only that but i have the option of shutting up and going elsewhere, i choose not to utilize that option as i prefer daoc to that gimped out WoW that everyone seems to love. Have tried others but still remain loyal even though mythic doesnt seem to care. one of these days, this whipping post boy is going to go somewhere else, this new change (depending on how bad it screws me... and its not looking good) may be the one that pushes me too far. i wonder if everquest has changed any...""

obviously my choice of wording could have been 'lighter' but the fact is that they blocked me from posting on the site not from the language, but from the fact that i was posting things that others were afraid or unwilling to say. this was the post that 'tipped the bucket' apparently.

so much for appreciating customer base. so much for listening to your customers, freedom of speech only exists if you're saying something nice as far as ea/mythic are concerned.

hehe they actually blocked you, thats hard core

 

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That is a amazing wall of you created there.

 

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With that use of the language, you might be lucky not to be banned from the game itself.


Mythic like feedback, pointing out good and bad things, however, when the language is offensive, whatever you'd type, no matter how valid, it goes out the window.


When you give feedback, and/or argue about something, keep it civil and be polite as well as respektfull. You could choose to see it as a lesson for life, because if you manage to bring those simple "rules" out IRL, you'll have all the more for it.


Good luck, and take good care of your new insights.

 

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i only read half of his wall of fail, and most of that was terribly wrong..

but, i'll respond to parts that i read...

lag casting, and window dragging... that has already been fixed.. people that lag cast still do it purely unintentional... they cannot cause it.. it just happens because of general lag, not because of people purposely trying to pull it off...

smaller clusters... FAIL... the PLAYERBASE ... decided to abandon the smaller clusters and they rerolled and all started playing on the 1 cluster... thats what triggered mythic finally getting ywain out, and why they did classic server transfers as well, when there initial reports were they'd leave classics as it was... but everyone saw the massive migration to devon or what ever and abandon'd classic servers... so mythic decided to put them with ywain too...

but its the playerbase that initialy choose 1 giant super cluster by all going into the 1 anyways...


achievements being worth something... well sorry, but thats long gone, mythic has been nerfing pve and removing any feeling of acomplishment or challenge sense 2005, why would they all of a sudden turn back around and make the game challenging again? and the current playerbase would never go for it.. if mythic made the game harder again it wouldnt bring anyone back, but it would drive off the current players..

 

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After reading, I was gonna post, but THIS is well said.

 

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