Why do bugged punishment systems such as DR remain in the game?
Y’all should seriously come roll with the Legend of Xericor, as I seem to avoid all this DR nonsense. I even posted findings in previous threads with photo evidence.
Loot – yeah, farm the same area and the same bunch of monsters and it kicks in.
Karma – no DR on karma from events. I have the photos
Dungeons – they already said how this works, and its far from as bad as people think
Only hits those who play like the bots
Because, even though it might be affecting more than the exploiters, it is doing the job that needs to be done to stop the exploiters, which is what’s the most important thing. As far as whether or not it is “unfairly punishing” people is a matter of debate. The few times I encountered it weren’t that big of a deal; because I’m not one to stay and do one thing over and over anyway.
I’m not saying the complaint isn’t legitimate. Just give them time to tweak it and figure out what they want to do with it.
Everyone else is asking themself the same question.
a) It’s to get rid of bots. Is it getting rid of bots? No. They’re increasing and now know to avoid the DR system, so what do they do, they all gate-crash my DE, rendering it useless for me to take part in.
0/10 for implementation and effectiveness.
Or…
b) And some people have actually said this to me in the forums today:
“ANet is trying to get you to change your play style and see more of the map, experience new things and do things their way.”
Give me my money back and force other people to play your way and do what you say. If I wanted to live in North Korea, I’d be booking my flight to Pyongyang instead of investing time and effort in an MMO.
-50,000/10 for making sense and being a normal thing to do.
Either way, it’s the biggest joke to end all jokes and is a potential game-killer.
Ask Square Enix about FFXIV or the makers of Darkfall how well a DR system works. If you can stop them crying into their cereal about how they let the “big one” go.
Only hits those who play like the bots
Not true. You inference that I play like a bot is wrong.
It’s very very evident by just doing some reading on the forums that it’s effecting people who aren’t trying to play like bots.
Just because you’re not being affected by your workaround, or logging in and out, doesn’t mean other people aren’t.
I’m telling you they are and that the evidence is all over the forum.
Simple fact – Devs designed a mechanic to target the behaviour of bots. Therefore any legit player who has a style the same as bots will also be hit by the mechanic.
My ‘workaround’ is real real simple, I play the game. I move around a lot from one DE to the next and I usually fight and gather materials on the way.
I have said it a million and one time – folks are more than welcome to jump to Aurora Glade, game with me, and avoid all DR. Or keep farming your grubs oh no, they stopped that as well
Because, even though it might be affecting more than the exploiters, it is doing the job that needs to be done to stop the exploiters, which is what’s the most important thing. As far as whether or not it is “unfairly punishing” people is a matter of debate. The few times I encountered it weren’t that big of a deal; because I’m not one to stay and do one thing over and over anyway.
I’m not saying the complaint isn’t legitimate. Just give them time to tweak it and figure out what they want to do with it.
People won’t give them time. You get all the time in the world to devise these ideas and strategies to combat bots, before you release the game. There’s an alpha and a beta you know?
It’s not like they released the game and thought “OMG! There’s bots out there you know! We really should have thought about that! Hold on I have an idea, I call it DR and…”
That didn’t happen. Bots/RMT have been a problem for over 10 years. This was their half-baked half-kittened idea of a fix for it and it’s really showing how bad of an idea it is now.
When it starts to have a real effect on corporate profit. Even a real “projected” effect on money in the company’s eyes, it’ll disappear very very quickly.
It won’t take long for this to happen.
IT’S BUGGED!!!! People who are not exploiting/botting/grinding/farming are getting hit by it. It is bugged. I did Twilight Arbor explorable (two different paths) for the first time EVER today and the first path I got 15 tokens when everyone else got 60, the second path I got 6 tokens (and only recieved one of them) when everyone else got either 45 or 60. The DR code is bugged, it is triggering on people who have never ever done the dungeon before, let alone meet the minimum requirement for it.
Read the bug forum, this has been reported several times by several people since the last update. It’s a real bug and it’s hurting a lot of people. Running a dungeon trying to get this armour and getting 6 tokens is an INFURIATING experience. It’s not fair and it’s absolutely unacceptable to say that stopping speed clearers is worth throwing honest hard working players under the bus with an untested and buggy DR code.
If it doesn’t work properly and it’s hurting some players, it shouldn’t be in the game at all. Let the exploiters run free until you can deal with them WITHOUT hurting other people.