After the launch what do you think is most important for new players to get engaged in the game.

Regardless of what happens after the launch, new players have to be introduced to the game, in your opinion what ways do you think would be most beneficial?

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Noaani

To me, there are a few key things to get new players in to the game.

The first - and arguably the only one that matters - is that the existing players need to make sure everyone knows how much fun they are having at the end game.

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The next, which almost touches on what was said earlier about keeping end game within reach - there needs to always be spots for freeholds available. They don't need to be optimal spots, but I saw more people not stick around in Archeage due to not getting any land than any other single reason.

If a freehold is necessary for any crafting, then there new players will need to be able to get a freehold. This shouldn't be controversal.

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From there, the next most important thing in my opinion - assuming we are talking about people joining the game several months after launch - is there actually needs to not be a reliance on grouping to level up.

Nothing is worse in an MMO that needing a group when the only groups available are those that are mentoring down to your level in order to do some daily quest or some such. The developers put them in to make sure lower level players always have others around to help them through content, but those that are mentoring down aren't interested in the player, they are only interested in the reward. More often than not, the player is told to stay put.

These mentoring systems were put in place to solve the issue of lower level players not having a large pool of similar level players to group up with in order to take on the content the developers expected players to level up on. There has to be a better solution to this problem than giving people a reason to sideline the player that we are trying to help.

George_Black

AoC aims to be competitive and there will be, thank god, new lv caps, new zones, new gear sets/tiers, rebalanced and new abilities every 6-12 months.

New players will be left behind very quickly.
Personally I wouldn't play an open world PvP mmo if I missed the opening by 1 year, unless there was a plan for new servers. And then I would wait for them.

There are many paths a game can take when it comes to appealing to new players. Some go with the route of making all content easy, reaching the current cap within 2 weeks or less.
XP pots/scrolls, vitality systems and random buff pack drops. Straight up "seasons" with global boost to XP.

Other games try the mentor system. Returning to ffxiv I found how meaningless it was. There is no real insentive for gamers to go out of their way and help strangers.

L2 did a good job in 2005 with C5 when they introduced the academy, with a newbie armor for new members and guild points for the leader. It didn't last long.
There were easier ways to get guild points than helping new players.

We can always go with the direction of ESO, making all content accessible to everybody that just logged in and groups of players from lv 810 to 550 to 12 all together in the same raid.
So what's next? We demand that no new gear is introduced, no new abilities, no new areas so that ppl can say "AoC is new player friendly! Come see how much fun we have with the same lv 50 builds 2 years now.

You either come up with solutions or stay at wishful thinking.

I am not offended by opposite views. I am annoyed. That's the word. Annoyed that people start screaming p2w in the event that somebody would waste $15, waste 2 months to raise a new char and tick off all the milestones so that the guild leader can earn enough gold to buy a mid lv, top tier pair of gloves.
What's next? No trade between players so that we avoid gold sellers?
Ye. Annoyed is the word. Not much more to add. I will leave some of you to skim through posts just so that you can quickly type your pretedermined response.

KeeperBrGO

@George Black

KeeperBrGO

Vhaeyne wrote: »

Videos of people getting rekt in open world PvP.

For sure LOL.

VmanGman

@George Black yikes. I didn’t say any of those things. Have a good one guy.

WhitneyHagasMatsumoto

Let's see, does the new level cap every 6-12 months mean that AoC is using a system where the limit goes up?🤔

If so, I apologize.
It seems that my understanding of the premise was not clear enough.

If that's the case, then I hope there's some sort of benefit to players at lower levels!

Merek

George Black wrote: »

AoC aims to be competitive and there will be, thank god, new lv caps, new zones, new gear sets/tiers, rebalanced and new abilities every 6-12 months.

New players will be left behind very quickly.
Personally I wouldn't play an open world PvP mmo if I missed the opening by 1 year, unless there was a plan for new servers. And then I would wait for them.

There are many paths a game can take when it comes to appealing to new players. Some go with the route of making all content easy, reaching the current cap within 2 weeks or less.
XP pots/scrolls, vitality systems and random buff pack drops. Straight up "seasons" with global boost to XP.

Other games try the mentor system. Returning to ffxiv I found how meaningless it was. There is no real insentive for gamers to go out of their way and help strangers.

L2 did a good job in 2005 with C5 when they introduced the academy, with a newbie armor for new members and guild points for the leader. It didn't last long.
There were easier ways to get guild points than helping new players.

We can always go with the direction of ESO, making all content accessible to everybody that just logged in and groups of players from lv 810 to 550 to 12 all together in the same raid.
So what's next? We demand that no new gear is introduced, no new abilities, no new areas so that ppl can say "AoC is new player friendly! Come see how much fun we have with the same lv 50 builds 2 years now.

You either come up with solutions or stay at wishful thinking.

I am not offended by opposite views. I am annoyed. That's the word. Annoyed that people start screaming p2w in the event that somebody would waste $15, waste 2 months to raise a new char and tick off all the milestones so that the guild leader can earn enough gold to buy a mid lv, top tier pair of gloves.
What's next? No trade between players so that we avoid gold sellers?
Ye. Annoyed is the word. Not much more to add. I will leave some of you to skim through posts just so that you can quickly type your pretedermined response.

The first part of your post sounds like they're intending to drop some Fortnite-esque seasonal content. If that's the case, I'm out. That's absolute shit. I do agree that FFXIV feels meaningless, I felt that way myself, it's an odd one. But other than that the rest of your post is an odd rambling of your personal concerns, if worded differently, I may agree with some of them. I must point this out, because I really don't understand the wasted $15 comment, I'm guessing it's about gear score/gear strength (?). I'm personally more for player growth over gear score growth.

McMackMuck

For new players to get engaged with the game the most important thing is a non-toxic community on that server. A helpful server population that will support the development of that player and allow them to contribute in their own way to the economy. That is not to say that it should all be rainbows and bunny rabbits - there's plenty of PvP that doesn't involve ganking noobs - so a gentle introduction to PvP would also be desirable for many players.

I see guilds having a large part to play in helping new players settle in and contribute, although other social networks (for example, regular attendees at a tavern, which happen to share a discord channel) may also fulfill this role.

It is in every servers' best interest to retain an active population otherwise the nodes will atrophy and there will be less content, ultimately leading to a dead server and enforced migration / mergers. I've got a feeling that some unlucky players will see Sanctus for a second or third time over the next ten years!

Noaani

George Black wrote: »

Other games try the mentor system.

The problem with a mentor system is either the "rewards" for the person helping the new player out are good, and so the veteran helps out to get those rewards, or the rewards aren't good enough and so the veteran simply doesn't engage in the system.

If the rewards are good enough for the veteran to want to engage in the system, then as soon as they are finished with one new player, they will simply move on to another new player. If they can't find a new player - and if the rewards are good enough - they absolutely will create accounts to participate in this system.

These systems are not a good means to get people to help players that they otherwise wouldn't care about - because there is no reason for them to care about that player when they have made use of them in regards to these systems.

Mentor systems only work to retain new players when the player in question is someone that already knows people in the game, and those veteran players specifically care about the player and want to assist them in getting to the same point in the game as the veterans are at.

As such, these systems need not offer any reward at all to the veteran player. The only "reward" needed for such a system is an increased leveling speed for the new player, as leveling that new player is the purpose of everyone involved in the system.

Mentor systems are good, and if implemented under the understanding that they only work when all parties know each other prior to initiating the system, they are absolutely worth having.

However, they are of no real use to the bulk of potential new players that may look at a game a year or two after launch, and believe it or not, there are more MMO players that are not interested in being around for game launches than there are MMO players that want to be there for them.

WhitneyHagasMatsumoto

I fully agree with the idea that no reward is necessary.

I think a simple "thank you" is a much more valuable reward than a reward for the game system.

voidshadow

Bikini armor will bring in new players kek

Jk. If I had to say, make the world feel alive. Give the player something to do always without the task being mundane like fetch quests. For the competitive types, i suppose end game is always going to be a problem. For people like me who like exploring and just having fun with discovery, this has always been the most important aspect. Of course, we'll eventually reach end game, but with Ashes, it seems a lot of supposed endgame is rooted in player conflicts of interests and wars and such which I'm totally cool with

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