U12 - The worst update ever

[Malky]

U12 : Rise of the Store

'nuf said

[The_Wolf]

I have to agree that U12 isn't a very good update. Now I was particularly hurt by Update 9, causing me to TR my favorite character... but this Update is just... non-existent to me.

I've played since Beta 2006, and I'm a Premium player now. I own all the content, but I will not buy the Challenge system in it's current form. And the main reason isn't that the challenges aren't interesting... it's the rewards.

I've also played Lord of the Rings online, and I was hoping the reward structure would match what they have there. There are many different reward vendors with pages and pages of DIFFERENT items (not small updates to like eight items). There are class-specific armor sets, weapons, cosmetics, crafting mats etc...

As is, I play three characters mainly - a rogue, a cleric and a FvS. There isn't ONE starting item in the reward list I can use for any of those characters. Sure, there is a situational weapon for Undead and a Dragon... but how often am I fighting those in Epics (which this game is more and more geared towards)?

How about a reward for tanks (Heavens forbid a good new shield is ever made...)? Healers? There's just... nothing. Which is exactly what I'm willing to pay for content with no usefulness for my characters. I have 7000 TP sitting there... and I'd spend 1500 of it for Challenges if they make it worth my time.

Outside of that... shared plat feature... 50k plat? Really? What use is 50k plat? Plus, it takes all of 30 seconds to send your character 5 mail messages with attached coins if you need 50k plat.

How about fixing the Quicken bug... now that would be useful.

Anyway, I can't even remember anything else U12 supposedly brought to the game... so U12 is just... meaningless.

Telaeus

[wonkey]

Wow, a new update comes out, and there's a thread declaring it as the worst update EVAR!!

Colour me shocked

[smatt]

U-12 Oooopppsss (You know what I'm talking about, economy borked for many months)
U-12 More Lagtastic than ever
U-12 More unfinished stuff
U-12 More Borked stuff that isn't even finished yet.
U-12 More junk that doesn't even go into the already over packed bags
U-12 More bugs and almsot zero bug fixes.
U-12 VIPs hae to grind a stupid amount of favor to get race that should've been included for nothing.

The quests...

Shroud , ya OK it's a bit ore interesting... Abbot is stupid.. .Not interesting at all... E-Velah more interesting, moved out of the annoying U-11 crawtastic version. E-DQ.. Nope still sucks withthe lag that is DD-slow....

Challenges... Um ya haven't bothered yet... Can't comment... But likely not my cup o' tea

And yet again the negs far out weigh the postives... IMO one of the worst 2 update spreads in a long time.

It's clear the current Dev team is stretched to thin by poor leadership at the top. They dont' ahve the time to complete, debug, QA much of anything anymore. And the game is running at least as poorly as it has in a couple years. Bad days indeed...

Just my opinion, your's may differ...

[elg582]

I think it's that we got spoiled since we actually had a few updates there that fixed things, and now we expect that to continue, when in reality they are just returning to the same sloppy attitude they have always had.

It's back to where trying to compensate for lag is the most challenging aspect of the game.

As for the new quests, I want the gear, but I hate the BS quest mechanic from cove; at least give us another way of getting the ingredients.

[Cyr]

Nah U12 is not the worst update ever. That title certainly goes to one of the many that added things which outright infuriated the masses.

This update is more like the update that never happened. It feels like there was not an update and just a patch to screw with some people (shroud). Nothing update worthy though.

[Postumus]

Nah U12 is not the worst update ever. That title certainly goes to one of the many that added things which outright infuriated the masses.

This update is more like the update that never happened. It feels like there was not an update and just a patch to screw with some people (shroud). Nothing update worthy though.

Got to agree with Cyr. U12 is like the Lost Update.

[grandeibra]

+1 to this thread

I am pretty much always on Turbine's side against much of the vitriol they receive from players on these boards. The game in general is just so much better it is incredible compared to what it was in 2006. However, that is no excuse for the rehashed **** that is u12. To even call it an update is a joke. How many players actually asked for constant crystal cover variants instead of new content?

[Entelech]

I would normally agree that this was a "nothing to see here" expansion, except two things changed my mind to push this into the "worse than nothing" category.

(1) Soul-crushing lag.

(2) It used to be that the end chest in the Shroud gave 1 random Large, + a chance at a Supreme Shard. Then the end reward was a vendor-trash weapon.

Now, the Supreme Shard *replaces* the large ingredient in the end chest. And the end reward is a list of small and medium garbage ingredients plus a Heroic Deeds or some such.

I have far more Supreme Shards than I will ever use. Given how much harder Part 4 became, only other experienced raiders tend to succeed, so THEY do not need the Supreme Shards either. Shrouds now are harder, more expensive, and have a good chance of giving you ZERO progress to a Tier 3 Greensteel.

Bite me, Turbine.

[elg582]

OK, have to chime in again, done 3 or 4 shrouds since the change, now, and can we PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE HAVE THE OLD END REWARD SYSTEM BACK?!?!

The absolute last thing I need are more small and medium ingredients, yet that is all I ever see for end rewards (when it's even mediums; usually it's only smalls), so I wind up taking Heroic Deeds or something. 50 renown for a level 16 raid!

Seriously, it's like this company actively dislikes its customers.