I never played live, I know several that never played live either... maybe I am just part of the 10%...Collateral wrote:I'm sorry but this is such a stupid comment. I can't understand why YOU are still playing the game if you admit this "harsh truth". People here seem to ignore the facts for some reason. And believe it or not, there are actually people who never played this game, did you ever read the introduction threads? I wouldn't say it's only 10% of the population, as the server develops more new people are bound to come (plus, these 'fanatics' as you call them are very few and far between, and we are one of them). Also this thread is not just about "morale good morale bad" , did you even read any of the other proposals? No you didn't. And tell me, why wouldn't the devs strive to improve some obviously very bad designs of this old game that will in turn improve everyones experience? Why not make new, better memories? People don't 'only' play for memories either, they play to have fun, and I think RvR is not fun for quite a few of them.Spoiler:
Anyways, over my few years of playing ROR, I have noticed a MASSIVE resistance anytime anybody wants to change things from "how live was", it got to a point where Convert and I joke about it now... there ARE some bad designs, everygame has them, especially 10+ year old games. People walk around acting like live was flawless or something... There is a reason it died, and it wasnt because of the power creep broken gear sets they released either.
personally, I would LOVE to see things updated. On the flip side, I am discouraged because I know the DEVs only do about 1% of what is written by player feedback, the other 99% that they do, they do based on their vision and desires... which is fine... but I see guys like haojin - who has done more for this games population than anyone else I know - who deserves massive respect for what he does and continues to do in organizing RvR play... who in my humble opinion, should be consulted and asked about direction things, about mechanics, about basically this thread and what its about... Now, I also respect its not my project and I dont call the shots, of which I am also thankful because I dont want the burden that is this game, that the DEVs have...
But I guess my point is... Haojin and others like him ARE the core of this game, and the "target audience" who ALSO has an extremely high working knowledge of this game, and opinions and perspective like his should be weighed a little heavier than the average bloke... failure to do so, is only going to be detrimental to this game. I see others like him as well, that make very thoughtful posts, who have A LOT of knowledge about how this game works, its flaws, etc. who should also be consulted, but arent...
Anyways, I really hope the DEVs take more of an open mind in communication with the player base. Given this is a private server, it would be really cool to see more relationships built with players and more open communication with players... In some sense it feels like we have so much "distance" from the DEVs - almost like a major game company and its dev team... but this is a small team, in a game with a small population on a private server and I would think and hope that feedback and open discussion could be had among a select few players to help this game an its general direction.
All of this, again is just my humble opinion.
-Gate
