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QOTD: what part of the dev stream 2 days ago excited you the most?

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  • LeiloniLeiloni Member, Alpha Two
    Noaani wrote: »
    Leiloni wrote: »
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    Vhaeyne wrote: »
    When Steven something to the effect of: Were not making a game that tries to appeal to everyone, because when games do that they tend to fail. Not gonna dig through the live stream to get the exact wording.

    I have seen so many games change scope overtime to appeal to a wider audience and thus appeal to no audience.
    It might seem small detail to some, but it is big to me.

    I agree with this, I just wish they would nail down exactly who it is they are aiming the game to.

    When I first signed up and put some money in to teh game, there was a lot of talk about PvE raid content, what they wanted to do with it and how they wanted there to be a solid progression in that area.

    There hasn't been any real word from Intrepid in that regard for over 2 years - which would be about like them starting to talk now about PvE and not mention anything more at all about PvP until 2023.

    And now with the plan of adding a summons in order to facilitate casual players - something this game was never aimed at until a few months ago - I really can't put my finger on exactly which group of players it is that Intrepid are trying to make this game for right now.

    That said, it was comments made to this effect back in 2017 that convinced me the game was worth putting money in to, combined with the lean on raid discussion (and the fact that a large number of the development team are familiar to me).

    I'll be honest I've been following the game since Kickstarter and never once did I have the impression they were planning on doing a serious WoW/FFXIV style PvE endgame. Perhaps some comments were misunderstood?

    I gave you a few quotes in another thread, but here is another quote for you.
    Question - how will you make instanced raiding competitive with games like WoW?

    Jeff; Like, you mean in terms of would I rather play an AoC raid vs a WoW raid? I mean, a lot of that stuff just has to do with how fun you make it, right? I mean, obviously we would love to compete with WoW on that stage. We have a bunch of designers here who have made raids like that before.

    So, umm, I mean, it's certainally a target of ours to, ah, crush them.

    Steven; Yeah, absolutely.
    Link

    Obviously there is no expectation that Ashes is going to "crush" WoW, these comments simply do not square up with your assumption (as well as the assumptions of a few peopel that have liked your post here) that Intrepid have no plans for a serious top end PvE game.

    As I said above though, there are other quotes in another thread for you to read to get an idea of what has been said in relation to raiding in Ashes.

    The tl;dr version of it though, is that top end raiders have every reason to assume this game will be as suited to us as PvP players have to assume it will be suited to them.

    The problem is, for the last two years, there has been no new top end PvE information.

    OK I went and answered your other post for you - https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/comment/266197/#Comment_266197
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