Since my “goodbye thread” or whatever you wanted to call it was taken down because “it had no valid contribution”despite having legitimate concerns for the game, I might as well re-post the same concerns and add some without the backstory so I don’t get infracted again. So without further ado.
- Less build diversity with the expansion due to the elite specializations being too strong
- No solo Q to separate solo leagues between teams. Therefore causing 500-0 games which is unfair to people unfortunate enough not to have a 5 man of their own, or who simply want to play alone and still participate in the “challenging” league system.
- A league feature that is meant to be the gateway into pro league but instead is exploited “for understandable reasons” by players in order to simply play a game without a 30+ min or more in a que waiting.
- A unfinished league system that punishes players for unjustified reasons when it comes to pip loss.
- Leagues completely lack player skill but instead show how much time a player has invested in killing off their own brain cells attempting to get a shiny irrelevant back piece.
- No word on smaller game modes which would bring life imo to this game. Less players = more teams , more teams = more competition. Less players per team also = easier to shoutcast. And you simply cannot give me the it will split the playerbase excuse anymore since stronghold exists. And while were on the topic stronghold’s failure was due to the simple lack of mechanics and overall just bad design, which has nothing to do with dividing the playerbase. If stronghold did anything right, it was to show the SPvP community one more reason to continue playing conquest.
- For whatever reason A-net thinks that the majority of the skills in the game will be balanced for SPvP, WvW, and Pve, but sadly you’re never going to find a happy medium “and further drive players away from your game for attempting to do so” for trying to balance the game around three different game types.
-Game breaking bugs that now are pushed further in the dark due to the recent expansion.
- Mid air immob
-Dodge While immob – “doesn’t hear as many complaints anymore because of the stupid amounts of resistance of some classes”. Therefore nullifying the effect to a degree.
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- Also, asking the wrong players for balance suggestions can be very problematic, esp if said people are involved in your game in anything related to winning money from a organized tournament. There’s really no telling whether or not people are in it for the good of the game overall, or whether or not they’re ruining the game for their minute of fame that might contribute from their own selfish involvement. Also a side note from this one, anyone who can give or have any type of sway in terms of balance decisions should not be able to compete in any type of organized tournament where money is involved at the very least.
TLDR"ish": version: Complete in this order
1- Do not introduce pro league season 2
2- Fix all the bugs first “This way you know what to balance out afterwards, obviously”.
3- Have three separate states of balance – SPvP, WvW, PvE. So everything flows smooth.
3- Reduce the power creep from the elite specializations
4- Balance the game last after bug fixes. This ensures that no balance decision was made when major bugs could be effecting the meta instead.
5- Reintroduce the pro league when it’s ready, because it simply is not ready at this current point in time.
Once you do this you would prove to the community that you are truly listening. Because from my understanding aka the current implementation of the game I beg to differ. Hopefully this falls upon the right ears. Thanks for reading.
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