Blackmoors
07-24-2012, 05:57 AM
Greetings Developers!
Ive been a great proponent of DDO and specially the Menace of the Underdark pack. As I said in another thread, I even bought (by silly mistake I may add) the pack twice for me and one more time for my brothers account. This post is not much about me and more about my brother who doesnt post in the forum. My brother (who has been playing DDO almost as long as me - Im playing since beta and he since the game was released) only plays repeater builds since he loves FPS games and decided to build his character (he has only played one character for 6 years) around that concept.
Well, as a European player, much has happened to us as customers. Our servers were merged with one another in europe then eventually europe got closed. Players there (paying customers I may add) were left in the blank for ages until eventually we knew we were gonna be able to get our characters to USA servers. I waited for that option to start playing the game again. My brother wasn't playing anymore so I offered him a 3 month subscription so he started playing again. He did that and after 3 months he went premium, buying this and that pack.
When artificers were released, I knew that was a class he would really love, it had all the things he wanted as a ranged class, with trapping abilities to boost. It lacked self healing so I bought him the Artificer class + the WF race and he now had the character he always tried to build - a fully self sufficient character with great fire power, spells, self healing and capable of feeling almost any role ingame. So, a few months later, expansion is announced and I convince him to buy it under the premise it would be great. At that time he already had some complaints about how ranged combat wasn't evolving in par with melee. Expansion is released and it destroys ranged combat (which is vastly inferior already to melee in various aspects I wont mention here, just go ingame and compare both styles) since basically it gives every mob ingame "displacement" abilities (missing on a 2-8 means you have a 40% chance of missing each bolt you fire). To make things even better, next patch will destroy ranged combat even more...
What bothers me a lot is the fact its a know bug/issue that hasn't been addressed or even acknowledged by the devs, it seems as if it doesn't exist and people are just crazy by mentioning. Ive seen threads were devs type a simple post saying its a bug or its wai, or even just saying read by a dev, but here days and days have passed and nothing. Nada! It seems as if theres a sort of denial in this boards when you brought up some thongs game related...
So, pretty please with sugar on top - is this BUG hitting live...? Do you know that you will destroy a complete group of characters...? Why dont you acknowledge the feedback people are giving you on lamania in regards to this? Do you expect people will continue to beta test the game for FREE if you ignore their feedback?
Im asking this (and apologies if my "tone" seems harsh) because I know for a fact my brother will stop playing if he knows such thing exists (he doesn't even know this exists on lamania since he seldom reads the forum) and will be ingame and I would hate that, it would make me consider do the same tbh. Im also asking this cause I payed in particular for the WF race (which you guys decided to nerf the immunities and now break with healing amp) and the Artificer class (which you guys are going to lengths in screwing by putting ridiculous weight amounts in bolts which makes a Artificer - which doesn't need STR per se - require a barrow to carry them, and always messing around with the ranged combat - which is a very big aspect of the class - to the point your now breaking it) and now im feeling somewhat cheated since what I bought clearly isn't what it was and what it promised to be. Mind you im not even mentioning the fact I convinced my brother to invest money in a expansion that broke the only character he ever played...
So one more time, please acknowledge, address and fix this BUG (I would ask for you to completely review and fix ranged combat but that would be asking too much...) before its released and reconsider your position towards your clients. You should at all times have the same policy when treating customers, replying to questions asked and addressing threads, you shouldn't (as you do) ignore some customers and their issues while constantly focusing on others just because they kick and scream the loudest...
Best regards,
Black
A faithful paying customer since more than 6 years
Ive been a great proponent of DDO and specially the Menace of the Underdark pack. As I said in another thread, I even bought (by silly mistake I may add) the pack twice for me and one more time for my brothers account. This post is not much about me and more about my brother who doesnt post in the forum. My brother (who has been playing DDO almost as long as me - Im playing since beta and he since the game was released) only plays repeater builds since he loves FPS games and decided to build his character (he has only played one character for 6 years) around that concept.
Well, as a European player, much has happened to us as customers. Our servers were merged with one another in europe then eventually europe got closed. Players there (paying customers I may add) were left in the blank for ages until eventually we knew we were gonna be able to get our characters to USA servers. I waited for that option to start playing the game again. My brother wasn't playing anymore so I offered him a 3 month subscription so he started playing again. He did that and after 3 months he went premium, buying this and that pack.
When artificers were released, I knew that was a class he would really love, it had all the things he wanted as a ranged class, with trapping abilities to boost. It lacked self healing so I bought him the Artificer class + the WF race and he now had the character he always tried to build - a fully self sufficient character with great fire power, spells, self healing and capable of feeling almost any role ingame. So, a few months later, expansion is announced and I convince him to buy it under the premise it would be great. At that time he already had some complaints about how ranged combat wasn't evolving in par with melee. Expansion is released and it destroys ranged combat (which is vastly inferior already to melee in various aspects I wont mention here, just go ingame and compare both styles) since basically it gives every mob ingame "displacement" abilities (missing on a 2-8 means you have a 40% chance of missing each bolt you fire). To make things even better, next patch will destroy ranged combat even more...
What bothers me a lot is the fact its a know bug/issue that hasn't been addressed or even acknowledged by the devs, it seems as if it doesn't exist and people are just crazy by mentioning. Ive seen threads were devs type a simple post saying its a bug or its wai, or even just saying read by a dev, but here days and days have passed and nothing. Nada! It seems as if theres a sort of denial in this boards when you brought up some thongs game related...
So, pretty please with sugar on top - is this BUG hitting live...? Do you know that you will destroy a complete group of characters...? Why dont you acknowledge the feedback people are giving you on lamania in regards to this? Do you expect people will continue to beta test the game for FREE if you ignore their feedback?
Im asking this (and apologies if my "tone" seems harsh) because I know for a fact my brother will stop playing if he knows such thing exists (he doesn't even know this exists on lamania since he seldom reads the forum) and will be ingame and I would hate that, it would make me consider do the same tbh. Im also asking this cause I payed in particular for the WF race (which you guys decided to nerf the immunities and now break with healing amp) and the Artificer class (which you guys are going to lengths in screwing by putting ridiculous weight amounts in bolts which makes a Artificer - which doesn't need STR per se - require a barrow to carry them, and always messing around with the ranged combat - which is a very big aspect of the class - to the point your now breaking it) and now im feeling somewhat cheated since what I bought clearly isn't what it was and what it promised to be. Mind you im not even mentioning the fact I convinced my brother to invest money in a expansion that broke the only character he ever played...
So one more time, please acknowledge, address and fix this BUG (I would ask for you to completely review and fix ranged combat but that would be asking too much...) before its released and reconsider your position towards your clients. You should at all times have the same policy when treating customers, replying to questions asked and addressing threads, you shouldn't (as you do) ignore some customers and their issues while constantly focusing on others just because they kick and scream the loudest...
Best regards,
Black
A faithful paying customer since more than 6 years