What is the worst idea you can think of for Ashes?

And by worst I mean something actually within the realm of possibility, and not a completely out there suggestion, like "It gives you a plague when playing it, that kills you and your family in RL", or where the barrier of entry is so high almost no one could afford it. Like, 1 billion dollars to play.

My worst idea suggestions are adding NFTs and cryptomining:

All items in the game are NFTs, handled via a blockchain. Sales and purchases of items are done via Sandalcoin, a currency you mine for while playing the game. The more processing power you have, the more coin you gain, so maxing out your GPUs and CPUs is optimal. The game can run on properly set up mining rigs.

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Vhaeyne

I agree, I am hard-pressed to think of a worst idea for Ashes than using NFTs or blockchain shenanigans...

Maybe something like family summoning or RP servers?

JustVine

A combination of F2P on release and prox chat implemented. With the lowered barrier to entry it would be as toxic as any other f2p games with prox chat but even worse given Ashes scurrent social centric design making encounters with the most toxic segments of the population even more likely. Yeah you could turn it off but the cultural impact would hit the over all community feel pretty hard. The player base would drop like a fly. That isn't even mentioning the gold farming that would happen or the overloading of gm resources causing people to lose faith in gm resources creating a bad feed back loop.

Rasper Nor

Personally, I'd love it if the cosmetics and collectibles were NFT's, and purchasable/tradeable. But I get that I'm probably the minority.

CROW3

Cross-platform support for consoles and mobile devices. At face value it seems like a good idea, but it ultimately ruins the game by trying to make too many people happy.

Nerror

Rasper Nor wrote: »

Personally, I'd love it if the cosmetics and collectibles were NFT's, and purchasable/tradeable. But I get that I'm probably the minority.

Oooh color me intrigued. Why? Do you think the game will be better for it?

McShave

Selling gold in the cash shop has to be the worst by far. With such an emphasis on economy, including economic node mayorships, it would ruin the game.

Sathrago

A premium subscription that gives players things like infinite crafting material storage to "fix" the artificial limitation on ordinary item storage.

LOOKIN AT YOU ESO!

MybroViajero

That they begin to be dishonest with the information they give us.

One of the best things I have seen is their transparency, it can be a double-edged leaf but they take risks and that is grateful to a community that esteems, supports and believes in them.

Vlahkmaak

Trolls are not a player race. Absolute worst idea ever.

Ravudha

The labour point system from Archeage...or just full on P2W - pay to walk...a P2W shop so extensive that you need to buy steps (think I saw this in a Viva La Dirt League video or some mmo comic)

Noaani

Ravudha wrote: »

The labour point system from Archeage...or just full on P2W - pay to walk...a P2W shop so extensive that you need to buy steps (think I saw this in a Viva La Dirt League video or some mmo comic)

I thought the concept of that was good, it just shouldn't have had options to buy labor pots. It should have had crafted pots, which should have taken 10% more labor to make than they give.

They also needed to make purses not use labor, and perhaps adjust the contents to match.

McMackMuck

Immersion breaking cosmetics. I really do not want to see neon colored fairy wings on players.
Everything needs to fall within the already wide remit of "high magic", but some things go too far for me.

darthaden

Bunny outfits or other lore breaking cosmetics

Ironhope

Besides stuff said so far (such as the game going p2w, immersion breaking cosemtics, etc) a really bad idea for me would be....

the game being too easy, much like retail wow where lvling/adventuring out in the world is just a snoozefest because virtually every NPC is very weak.

and/or the world feeling dead/empty due to server populations being too small for the size of a map.

Noaani

The worst thing I think Ashes could likely do is already being done.

They are making it so rewards for PvE content are performance based, and not giving players any legit means to objectively assess that performance.

This is essentially the same thing as giving all raw materials (common, rare, literally all of them) an attribute that determines the quality of the finished item that the material is used to make, but not showing players that attribute, so you go through the entire process of acquiring materials, finding crafters, getting components made, assembling the final item, only to realize that what you had was actually junk and you now have a worthless item that cost you a lot of both time and money.

Truthfully, I can't think of anything worse than this that any game developer is likely to do to any game - and I am saying this with New Worlds current issues in mind.

Fenloh

Having ressources spawn at the same locations every time. Having mobs spawn at the same locations and having no "lifecycle". (Wolfs not hunting in Packs, just walking around in a 3 by 3 Aerea). Not having a day and night Cylce, not having NSCs have at least a bit of "life" and always stay on their Post. Having all Materials build up on each other, just do maximize the necessity of farming..... basicly anything that is done in another "new" MMORPG "World" that was created.

RahlSingh

Having Dailies to give people that "dopamine" hit on doing something. Dailies make the game just annoying and grind fest. Log in everyday do XYZ if you don't you feel left behind. and when you do it gives you that small dopamine shot for a while and then the effect fades with time.

George_Black

And then you log out.
I also dislike currencies awarded by dailies to be spend to NPC vendors selling gear related to those dailies.
Not only it promotes fomo, but it also limits the player agency in getting gear.
You have to do them X times and you will get the item in X days.

Plus it chips away from the player driven economy by forcing you to interact with the NPC vendors.
Plus it prohibits you from adventuring or gathering for wealth, since gold cant buy the gear from the daily vendors. Only daily currencies.

And on that note Ill be making discussions regarding multiple currencies in the game, and their negative effect on mmo gameplay.

Jonta

The rush to max lvl and little end game content, you know it's going to happen and pvp only stretches so far, put it behind a gear check to slow progress down.

make the journey interesting enough to beat the rush..

Happymeal2415

Worst things that could happen would be:
1)P2W
2)DPS meters

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