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^^^^^^^^^^^^a reply to a post Champion made about things I foresaw and spoke about that happened.^^^^^^^^^^^
My reply.
Want to know what I predicted? The Item Mall absolutely being crutial if you wanted to contend. Trust me. I've come back and checked things every couple years and I've watched it tip more and more into serious cash to win.
The economy CRUSHING itself. 300b for items. Being unable to reasonably able to grind yourself into decent gear without "the economy fix" ...ding dong...Item Mall.
I saw the Item Mall get updated for YEARS without any noticeable game updates, My "whining" days were ALWAYS about this. They had time to make a new wing with high high stats but they couldn't cookie cutter some new maps on a planet with some new mobs? YEARS of character stat adjustments and joy/joy love of PVP while PVE just sat there and did nothing. I personally hate PVP and the game was PVP for a LONG time.
More abortions in the game. I remember launcher clerics ANNIHILATING for a month before it was fixed.
Them destroying the unique things of this game that were so special, I could almost TASTE people's jealousy in things I owned because I worked my freeking ass off. I WORKED MY FREEKING ASS OFF to earn every last Zulie, special item, super rare uniques and things that just don't exist in the game anymore. I haven't logged into my character holding all my unique uniques...as in all the items missing a U but purple...as in they just don't exist anymore and I'm CRINGING thinking they backwards slapped like they did when they did Castle Gear. People WANT to be able to earn diversity. I WANT something some other kid with no life can use his mother's credit card and buy. I want to be SPECIAL and the game has left that behind quite horrifically.
I had half of a Castle Gear before it was even officially in the game with all the INSANELY hard drops like needing 50 of a schematic for just a wooden leg along with pink hearts and other things. One day I have 400 million in Castle Gear parts and schematics, the next when they brought CG in I have a bunch of "worn out schematics". We're talking when 400 million was enough to empty half the 100 shops up in Junion. I spent MONTHS earning for CG to have them make all that work irrelevant because of their OWN screwups. CG schematics and pieces shouldn't have been in the game but they were. I made people rich in paying them for all the pieces so I could be the first CG(I did end up being second but that's another story).
People always say "LadyPsybre rich!"...they don't realize how much work to make myself rich. I'll say one thing that might piss people off but it's the truth. When Evo came and I saw how the Item Mall was going, I boycotted the damn thing. TO THIS DAY I HAVE SPENT MONEY ON TWO THINGS...TO REGISTER MYSELF AND MY SON FOR EVO WHEN IT WAS P2P...that's it. I've not spent one other dollar in the Item Mall in order to earn, buy, get things. WHY U SO BAD FOR GAME LADY? Juuust as I was going to start buying, I saw the Item Mall start to twist into a money store. As in buy in IM, sell items in game, get rich. I went one better. I DIDN'T spend money in IM, I bought IM items cheaper in the game, sold them higher and got rich/used my earned IM things when needed. IM was relayed to us as being a WHOLE other thing than it's turned into and I understand the model has had to change to keep the game going but it's cost the game one godly amount of users. IM was going to "augment" the game in places. IM as it is OWNS the game...there's no subtle "augment" at all.
We were going to maps in the game that they didn't even acknowledge existed when someone would find a little bump in the game. We went to Orlo six months before it was up...even as broken as it was...SIX MONTHS to plot Orlo out which turned out to be damn near cookie cutter maps when they first released it. Each new part was just harder mobs without any new real graphics. How can you keep killing the same mobs over and over for...years??
I saw they were going to sit on lvl 160 forever...people were HOWLING for an upgrade but I guess all the developers were afraid of that 160-200 stats upgrades meant to the game so it stagnated.
I saw that the game was melting. Every day a store that had been around was gone. I told everyone Junion was going to be a ghost town and it is. I remember when ZANT had fifty or a hundred stores. We used to have to speed buff so we could get closer because it was impossible to be seen by all the people around the banks. Now you walk anywhere and there's just missing people. I don't call it space, it's a spot where someone would be if they felt they were progressing. I was progressing...making more money and that's all I was doing because there wasn't anything else.
And you want to know what I REALLY saw before anyone else? I saw this game was never going to be roSe. Not ever. This game isn't roSe, it's roFe. Where's the seventh episode? I see new maps cut in on Orlo but where are the funky higher planets? I saw that, saw all the rest, saw things I worked harder than anyone else to get just turn into empty inventory spots or suddenly copied into mass Unique drops that someone playing a week could have when I spent weeks and weeks working my ass off for something special. And then I gave up.
You add it up and depresses you. I WAS whining in here, not just whining...I was complaining A LOT and I realized why...it was because the game was depressing me. Look, unlike a lot of people who say they were here for closed beta, I WAS here for closed beta. That's FOURTEEN years ago. I was rocking pre EVO, got smashed by EVO and just over time got smashed by quick fixes to keep the game going and reactions to problems as opposed to creating new content.
Now for my non rant. The graphics and gameplay in this game are more than still relavant. Look at bloody Minecraft and then log into a sixteen year old game that OWNS it!. JESUS. People play that stupid thing mindlessly on MSN. Doom and Duke Nukem had better graphics and about as stimulating gameplay. This game needs a push. I can only surmise what it's codebase/graphics engine design is a nightmare and what it requires given it's path but there needs to be trusted community developers who love Rose more than anything and refuse to accept anything other than driving us to Seven Freeking Episodes. There is so much potential in the game! Unrealized potential but potential nonetheless.
When I think about it...when I logged in for the first time after a five hour download...all I could think of was WOW...seven planets with cool things like Zant/Junion had. That's really all I really wanted.
Edited by LadyPsyber, 10 November 2017 - 06:52 PM.
