suprise meFollow

loved guivre. also had fun with the random NM pirate attack on the ferry and getting a unique whm hammer from it.

I wonder if surprises like these would make people rage quit in this day and age? I get that feeling from when I was failing my job quests and got the "echo" buff against my will. I was ok with failing and planning a better attack next time. But noooo.... evidently SE was so terrified of me rage un-subbing since I had hit a bit of a hurdle with a silly class quest instance that they felt the need to give me easy echo mode just because I died a few times and OH NOES my gear got damaged!

On a good note, at least I'm getting some challenge in the coil. Oh wait, they gonna nerf that too? Extremes still offer what I think is an appropriate "extreme" challenge. I'm very satisfied with ultima hard mode, since it's too tough for me. Most endgame is fine. Levels 1-20 are easy as they should be. 21 - 49 is almost as easy and that is where my major issue is. And then after you've floated comfortably though .... BAM TITAN HARD MODE!

I like that yoshi is listening to the masses, but he needs to ignore whiners that are PISSED b/c they die sometimes and don't level 1-50 in a day. I feel a bit of a difficulty and surprise bump (especially mid level) would make SE lose some subs initially, but retain subs that appreciate the journey such as old ff11 players that have already voiced similar concerns multiple times.

DkS2 has just as much rich gameplay as FFXIV. The only difference is DkS2 is over in <20h while in FFXIV the same amount of rich gameplay is scattered over hundreds of hours, with most of that being repetitive.

Now the difference between the modern MMO and the relic MMO is that nowadays the gameplay is richer and scattered over hundreds of hours instead of thousands or tens of thousands.

The difference between DkS and the relic MMO is that DkS is actually fair in presenting its challenge and does not hide it's difficulty behind obscure mechanics and rules that take ages to figure out.

MMOs may have better days ahead but MMO players will continue to be miserable. What is challenging about getting owned by a monster that didn't offer you a fair shot in the first place? That's the MMO middlefinger.

Edited, Feb 13th 2014 1:53pm by Hyanmen