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Trion went through a few rounds of raising money from VCs after Rift launched. Expectation for greater profits that comes with that lead to a lot of cuts to cost centers like customer service and a general slide into sleazy business practices as they tried to extract every red cent of revenue from their games to please investors. Basically, the really lovely short term profit driven form of capitalism that's popular lately happened to Trion.
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Well, I was planning on trying it at least a month, but what I've been seeing was so very bad (not the fps/performance thats playable for me, but choices they made for the game. The combat system sucks, the English translation is not good, there's literally no endgame right now, etc) that I felt I couldn't pass up the "everyone gets a refund" offer that steam is apparently giving out right now. Its the first time I ever asked for a refund for a game. Good luck, folks.
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May 31, 2018 07:00
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Blazing Zero posted:i want to believe this is faked for views He also says that his neighbor died and he didnt care because he was playing bless. He says he bought a ship in star citizen. He also talks about crowfall. He wanted to live it and make friends. And he talks about wanting to buy all the cosmetic items. I just don't buy it. His channel does have video guides for bless so it could be real or faked for views to get noticed as the guides have like less than 100 views. Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 08:22 on May 31, 2018 |
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May 31, 2018 07:35
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Saradiart posted:Stormblood is still the worst MMO launch (at least if you were part of EA). lol
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May 31, 2018 11:45
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I admit I'm disappointed the wheels fell off so quickly to universal acceptance. Was hoping for a staunch holdout or something defending this product against all reason because that usually provides cheap laughs. Can't find one anywhere.
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May 31, 2018 12:38
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DancingShade posted:I admit I'm disappointed the wheels fell off so quickly to universal acceptance. Was hoping for a staunch holdout or something defending this product against all reason because that usually provides cheap laughs. you can still find a couple here and there on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Bless/comments/8ngdun/how_i_feel_about_all_the_refund_posts/
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May 31, 2018 12:43
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Look for streamers that were made "emissaries" or whatever. I peeked in to one and he was arguing with his chat, saying "everyone has a bad launch, you should expect it, it's still early access, etc." Streamers are stupid. (This is a subset of MMO players are stupid, which is a subset of gamers are stupid.)
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May 31, 2018 13:56
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Saradiart posted:Stormblood is still the worst MMO launch (at least if you were part of EA). Never tried Stormblood, hard to imagine it was worse than Anarchy Online.
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May 31, 2018 15:13
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Tenzarin posted:He also says that his neighbor died and he didnt care because he was playing bless. You may not want to believe it, but I can point you to the Star Citizen thread and single out a number of goon whales who make this guy look downright normal 
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May 31, 2018 16:20
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Xolve posted:Back to waiting for Brad McBenzo to either: my man 30 days until camelot unchained
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May 31, 2018 17:18
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DancingShade posted:I admit I'm disappointed the wheels fell off so quickly to universal acceptance. Was hoping for a staunch holdout or something defending this product against all reason because that usually provides cheap laughs. Usually a game needs to have more hype generated for people to get so invested in it that they just refuse to see all the problems it has. Bless just kind of came out of nowhere so I guess that didnt have time to happen.
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May 31, 2018 19:49
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from every video I've seen this looks like a bootleg GW2, at least looks-wise
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May 31, 2018 22:47
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Saradiart posted:Stormblood is still the worst MMO launch (at least if you were part of EA). Not sure if I know this one, have a link about what went wrong?
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May 31, 2018 22:58
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Zil posted:Not sure if I know this one, have a link about what went wrong? There was an instanced solo story quest you had to complete to access much of the expansion's content. So many players were doing it all at once that the instance server more or less crashed, or at the very least filled up to full and wouldn't allow any more instances to be spun up, meaning players couldn't access the expansion. This sums it up pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abTRxOM81Bc Also, not the worst MMO launch. Not by a long shot. FF14 still largely worked, you just couldn't get into the expansion content the first couple of days.
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If you think Stormblood was the worst launch in MMO history then you either can't have been trough a lot of them or have poor memory. Far as SB launch went, it wasn't bad at all compared to others, sure 90% of the expansion content was locked out for the first 24hours of EA but rest of the game was very much playable. Now their dumb idea to restrict the free server transfers to the day of the expansion launch is a whole other issue not often mentioned, but even with that included I'd call that launch pretty average for how bad poo poo can really get.
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Stormblood launch was just fine. Sounds way blown out of scope.
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Which WoW expansion was the one where the queues and outages were so frequent that the guy who ran /r/wow had a meltdown and took the sub hostage? He closed the sub and threatened to keep it closed until Blizzard bumped him to the front of the server queue. That particular launch seemed pretty bad. Although none of these are AO bad.
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CoffeeBooze posted:Which WoW expansion was the one where the queues and outages were so frequent that the guy who ran /r/wow had a meltdown and took the sub hostage? He closed the sub and threatened to keep it closed until Blizzard bumped him to the front of the server queue. Warlords.
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Jun 1, 2018 02:04
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Anarchy Online launch is easily one of the top 3 worst launches of all time.
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Vintersorg posted:Anarchy Online launch is easily one of the top 3 worst launches of all time. It was really bad inside the newbie zones and main cities, once outside though the crashes weren't as bad.
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Vintersorg posted:Anarchy Online launch is easily one of the top 3 worst launches of all time. I played ao launch and I cant even remember how it was. The game had so instanced that I almost want to say I didn't notice it.
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The game just plain did not work the first month or two to the point they didn’t start charging the monthly fee till about six months in. I think you can probably still find the articles Lowtax wrote about it in the front page archives.
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Zil posted:Not sure if I know this one, have a link about what went wrong? So the reason I hate it the most out of any MMO/expansion launch is because you could actually get in and play. You could see glimpses of the new stuff. However, there was a story quest that took you from the start of the new areas to fantasy Japan. Due to server instability issues, 95% of players could not actually initiate that MSQ. You would have literally an entire server crowding around the NPC, hoping that their attempt to trigger the instanced part of the quest would actually progress. So, it was this infuriating thing where you could actually enter the expansion, but you were immediately walled off from doing anything. Beyond that, no instances worked most of the time, so it was difficult to try to level up the new jobs. I dunno. I've been through a lot of bad launches, but I hated that one the most.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:The game just plain did not work the first month or two to the point they didn’t start charging the monthly fee till about six months in. I think you can probably still find the articles Lowtax wrote about it in the front page archives. Well I'm not going to deny it happened, because it was so long ago I barely remember anything. I remember driving my car that was slightly slower than walking. There are most likely some bad memories but I kinda just remember having a fun time with AO at launch. Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Jun 1, 2018 |
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Okay what's the next MMO launch we can get people excited for shortly before it collapses under it's own weight on the runway during boarding and bursts into flames?
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reddit is praising the sweeping nerfs to every class because of reasons i guess
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sexy mouse posted:reddit is praising the sweeping nerfs to every class because of reasons i guess The game did feel a bit too easy but this is kinda overboard without making changes to mana or considering individual class balance. Mages have huge mana problems now and rangers don't do nearly enough damage. Paladin damage is a laugh.
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Guys quick rebuy the game they released a battlefield that was in the prior versions of the game! /s
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Tried Bless at a friend's house It's supposed to be an RvR game but there is no PVP to be found and melee classes have around 1 CC what a 10/10 experience that was
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So what you're saying is...another party can buy Bless when it fails shortly and rebrand/develop it as a Dragon Riders of Berk MMO?!?
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Dragon's Prophet already exists. E: It's also a better game than Bless. Pokémon + bits of Monster Rancher. Everything is a dragon of some kind and you tame and breed them, then summon them to fight with you Schubalts fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Jun 1, 2018 |
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Manifest Dynasty posted:Look for streamers that were made "emissaries" or whatever. I peeked in to one and he was arguing with his chat, saying "everyone has a bad launch, you should expect it, it's still early access, etc." Was his name King_Krotha? God I hope it was Krotha
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Schubalts posted:Dragon's Prophet already exists. Dragon's Prophet is awful, did we play the same game? I was the leader of the goon guild when it came out. It did not last long.
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Jun 1, 2018 23:33
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Now that everyone hates this game I'm going to buy it I think
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Akumos posted:The game did feel a bit too easy but this is kinda overboard without making changes to mana or considering individual class balance. Mages have huge mana problems now and rangers don't do nearly enough damage. Paladin damage is a laugh. Trait your 1 ability in fire, ice, and wind to restore mana on hit. It helps a lot.
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desudrive posted:Dragon's Prophet is awful, did we play the same game? Didn't say it was good, just that it's better than Bless.
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Is anyone just loving done with this artstyle? I swear if they removed all the banners and text that said "Bless Online" from their website they could slap Final Fantasy 14 / Tera / Black Desert (or any other clone) and people would mostly accept it.
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Generic Cash Grab Online
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hobocrunch posted:Is anyone just loving done with this artstyle I think the artstyle of this is closer to GW2 than Tera though without the painterly aesthetic and a lot less consistency. Unless you mean the random anime creatures and uncanny valley-looking characters due to beforementioned anime/korean style in which case, yes, it's feeling pretty drat bland at this point, imo. I know it's perhaps a bit close to going "mah immursion", but when some of the npc:s are entirely unlike everyone else for no concernable reason, it just feels jarring to me. Though I'll give the game this - its armors seemed a lot less terrifying than Tera's for females, though I'm sure there's groanworthy ones here too.
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