What you fear the most that can happen to ashes?

Micromegas

This is what I fear the most XD

I feel like at the end character design and combat will be huge let down for me, as I dislike how it is in apoc >...<

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Damokles

We have to see about the character design.
I quiet like the the combat tbh, they just have to show us some more real magic, and scale the stamina costs etc.

Nagash

MY.COM

Azathoth

F2P, or being able to earn coin in the game to pay for time.

Nelirya

I know combat is important and all, but my "biggest fear" is that they focus so much on combat that other vital game aspects like the crafting/gathering/processing professions become an afterthought.
Don't get me wrong though, nothing so far has lead me to believe that this will be the case in Ashes. I am just pointing it out as this seems to be the case in many other MMO's.

Shoklen

Taking the EQN/Landmark path --- MMO scrapped to be replaced with the BR.. and it failing and closed down in several months.. Would be very sad.. No signs of this quite yet.. But that would be the biggest fear.

StreetCornerPoet

Their marketing keeps derping and the communication to people that haven't been following AoC keeps being difficult to actually follow or keeps being uninspired to the point that it drives more players away then it catches the attention of.

George_Black

1) No cooldowns on abilities.

2) Glitched looking combat animations if animation cancelling allows abilities to register input/output effects.
Imo only block dodge and counterATK should cancel animations in order to react to an opponents move. But if a player choses to dodge while in the middle of performing an ability, that ability should not register.

3) Instanced PvE dungeons becoming the prime source of gearing

4) Instanced PvP battlegrounds becoming the prime source of PvP gear

5) Non open world PvP

6) Ridiculous cosmetics and mounts

7) Character bound items (gold farming control can only be achieved with active GMs, not bound items)

8) Combat becoming less than 60% of the gaming experience, meaning that a player in order to progress in normal pace will have to spend A LOT of time micro managing army of NPC servants, refining endless material, having to organize sales for endless little products that each one offers very little reward. Being forced to build let's say a ship solo, instead of a group effort.

9) Solo content being more than around 5% of the experience.

10) Bad server performance that would lead to high ping and rubberbanding

Makinoji

Gets scraped and they focus only on BR

Kaien

Nagash wrote: »

MY.COM

Word.

Nagash

Makinoji wrote: »

Gets scraped and they focus only on BR

well......

sunfrog

It runs out of money.

Professor Posh

It's a bit dark but uh... they go boom.

caedwyn

1: the community being toxic
2: economy being controlled by bad people
3: game becoming p2w
4: support and company not listening to the people (which as long as we have @LieutenantToast im not worried about that, she is always with us)

Wandering Mist

caedwyn wrote: »

1: the community being toxic
2: economy being controlled by bad people
3: game becoming p2w
4: support and company not listening to the people (which as long as we have @LieutenantToast im not worried about that, she is always with us)

1. That will undoubtedly happen
2. That will probably happen at some point
3. if that happens the game will die
4. That will probably happen when push comes to shove

Nagash

The comunity is as toxic as the Pripyat River but its still a great one ^^

insomnia

That all these hardcore elements just kills the game plus that they seem to put to much trust, into the players doing what they want them to do. I think we are quite dependent on other players for selling stuff and getting new gear, with crafting caravans etc. Past games has just shown, that players often don't do, what the dev's want them to do

Varkun

As above runs out of money before the game is complete if development drags on too long, which is a double edged sword tbh. Release too early incomplete game crashes and burns, run out of money nothing gets released.

Blackhearted

What I fear the most is game publishing well and running for a year.
When everyone has gotten comfortable in game they sell it to a greedy company that ruins it.

BedDave

New here, don't fully understand the corruption system. Most red/blue flagging systems have a flaw (at least I see it as one) that gankers normally take advantage of that I call the Gankers backdoor. The Gankers backdoor (If I attack you and you don't fight back, It's bad for me. If you fight back, you're fair game) allows gankers to bypass the system and go after the loot pinatas for free money and equipment. Since such systems normally don't turn the attacker red if the victim fights back, gankers don't fear getting flagged. Most of the time the victim will fight back meaning free loot and no flag. I would prefer it if that backdoor wasn't so open. Now the corruption system appears to be trying to patch this backdoor but a ganker can still avoid the flag. A level 50 attacking a level 10 character should get nothing from that battle, except turning red. Nothing should EVER encourage ganking. This backdoor normally does.

It's this backdoor in red/blue systems that always makes me uncomfortable. If the devs can make it so the backdoor is mostly useless to them, I see no problems with the system. I just fear that the gankers will just abuse the flaw and get away with murder, weakening or maybe even ruining the game.

I get it, PvPer want to PvP, but ganking is not PvP and shouldn't be encouraged.

Azathoth

As far as looting, there will only be gathered (maybe processed) supplies from PvP.
If you are flagged red, when defeated you have an increasing chance (based on amount of corruption) to drop gear.
This doesn't address the 'backdoor' or provide much insight, and I am not hear to talk about the merits of such system. However, it was stated you didn't fully understand the system and you mentioned loot, so I wanted to clarify that point.

Welcome to the community @BedDave!

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