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Abandon Battle Royale
So like many I got my first chance to participate in alpha this last weekend. I have to say that I was completely caught off guard when I dropped into the game for the first time and I was greeted by Battle Royale.
Graphics look good for this point in development, game is more responsive then some complete games, but I am struggling to understand why my first experience with this game is Battle Royale. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy BRs, but not in my MMORPGs. After 1 round, I logged out and I won't return until there is something else to see.
BRs are the hot thing right now and I get the temptation to get a piece of that pie, but as a backer I beg you not to go any further down this road, don't spend another second of development time adding, polishing, or refining BR.
Develop the game that will spur new life into the genre; Develop the game that convinced so many of us to back financially; Develop the game that you dreamed about.
Graphics look good for this point in development, game is more responsive then some complete games, but I am struggling to understand why my first experience with this game is Battle Royale. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy BRs, but not in my MMORPGs. After 1 round, I logged out and I won't return until there is something else to see.
BRs are the hot thing right now and I get the temptation to get a piece of that pie, but as a backer I beg you not to go any further down this road, don't spend another second of development time adding, polishing, or refining BR.
Develop the game that will spur new life into the genre; Develop the game that convinced so many of us to back financially; Develop the game that you dreamed about.
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Couple videos that might help you on this subject from a few of our wonderful content creatures.
Krojak
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KPf7U-E9T_U
Jahlon
https://youtu.be/_z3u_zSs_HI
He also said that he had come to a decision on whether the BR would continue being a thing down the line and was going to announce that in the livestream on the 23rd. That has now been pushed to Halloween, so we will have to wait another week to find out what his thinking on it is. I agree that they shouldn't waste time and effort on it, polishing and refining what is going to be a niche asset. They have already had to open up the testing pool ahead of schedule, mainly, I suspect because people log on to the BR, do a few matches, then just wait for the next test. Any data they gather that helps them is good data, but keeping the BR running and updating it and trying to balance the systems as they are now would be a waste of time and effort imo. But that is that, my opinion. The only one that counts is the Sandal Gods. Hopefully if he sees enough anecdotal evidence from the rest of his community saying that it is a bad idea he will adjust his plan.
Then they complian about common knowledge stuff.
How is it that you came to discover Ashes? If it was by recomendation by another site could you please give the link to the site as I would like to see how they are describing Ashes and what it is.
But a year ago it was nothing but "we need to see combat, we need to see combat, we need to know how action combat, we know to know that Unreal....."
Now they shifted gears to address combat, specifically COMBAT for seven months.
The Battle Royale mode allows them to do a LOT of things with a minimal number of staffers working on BR exclusive tasks.
Steven has already commented that the Castle Siege Mode testing is still on target for Dec 2018.
To answer Arxeon's question, through MMORPG.com initially to discover the site, then watching all of the developer content, then following the kickstarter campaign.
The problem is all the people who didn't.
https://youtu.be/rSdyJkvvjwQ