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Phase I of Alpha Two testing will occur on weekends. Each weekend is scheduled to start on Fridays at 10 AM PT and end on Sundays at 10 PM PT. Find out more here.
Check out Alpha Two Announcements here to see the latest Alpha Two news and update notes.
Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
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A few points you are saying that you really, REALLY should be thinking on;
1; most games that aim to be PvP focused are either shit (as in, poorly developed), or are pay to win. What this means you are saying is that any competent MMO developer that knows how to do market research is keeping clear of this type of game, leaving it to those that can't make a decent game.
2; when PvP players feel a game isn't for them, they are more than happy to jump ship for multiple different genres. This has two distinct things you should be considering;
2a, these players you are talking about are going to be tempted to other games multipe times a year due to many of the games in the genres you are talking about have anual release stratigies. In the 10 or so years I played EQ2, the only game release that saw players consider leaving to play was Oblivion - PvP players have multiple every year that they will consider, and many will leave.
2b, even if players don't intend to leave the MMO, they will still spend a lot of time checking out each of these new games. This will still cause issues in regards to population - and from experience those players will bitch to the developer that they have fallen too far behind while they were away. In my experience, no MMO player whines more than a PvP player that feels they have been left behind (a generalization, obviously, but accurate).
In regards to both parts of this second point, keep in mind that I have said many times that PvP focused MMO's lose population much faster than PvE focused.
3, you complain about games shifting to a more PvE focus at the expense of PvP. Ask yourself why they do that - but be honest. Do you think they do it to make a few more dollars when there are (seemingly) no other MMO's out there catering to the crowd they are trying to cater to, or are they doing it because they realized that the crowd they are trying to cater to isn't large enough (or stable enough) to keep the servers up?
Surely if there were no other MMO's focusing on the PvP market, if that PvP market was viable, they would stick with it as the only option.
Could Ashes be different? I mean, anything is possible - but we have literally no reason at all to think it would be if Intrepid didn't actively try to get PvE focused players in to the game. As such, we would have to assume it will just be more of the same.
There's many ways for players to enjoy the game but its endgame is more player driven opposed reaching some relative end point so you can collect everything on a plethora of alts across the theme park.
I think my concerns are alleviated about this issue for the most part. I think the lack of fast travel and other pursuits the game has to offer might keep this mostly from happening especially for the low levels who have yet to explore more of the game. Maybe the higher levels will rampage across world for server firsts, but good for them oh well. Hopefully there will be multiple branches simultaneously open when world events trigger that will help for server history to be written by multiple groups. Not too worried about that aspect. I was mostly just worried about what I saw in the New World video. Looks really boring. get 100 pll and just 1 shot it.....great.....
Clueless youtuber, trying to get some attention.
There is the problem. 0 understanding of this mmos structures.
Example- boss 1 respawns in 5 minutes, boss 2 in 3 minutes, boss 3 in 5 minutes, boss 4 in 6 minutes.= easy to just rotate the bosses and have minimal wait time as they form a train to farm them.
However if each boss sometimes spawns in 5 minutes and other times 30 minutes after dying this creates more difficulty in coordinating. As few will wait around for 2-3 hours to farm 3 or 4 bosses at random. Hopefully with lack of flying and the size of the map it would be harder to pull off being able to farm every boss doing a loop.
Yeah, I mostly think this is true. I'm open to not worrying about this issue any longer. I'm moving onto other stuff like catching up on all the dev diaries. Each time i hear more about the game its gets better and better. Thanks for all the input.
Most probably (and I hope) they will go for something like Lineage2 boss and epic boss respawn timers. Example: 12h + 24h random or 24h + 12h random or anything like this for bosses and for epic bosses from 2 or 3 days to 2/3 weeks or more + some random hours.