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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.
Just wanted to share my thoughts about how smart the creators of AoC were
When I was thinking about what made MMORPGs die - and a lot of online games also suffered from this for a long time - I came to a conclusion: Static content = Death of the game. When a game has a long gap of time without polishing its content or adding new features or renewing itself, he dies.
Then I was thinking about why MOBAs got so popular and it is because the exactly opposite reason the MMOs were dying, MOBAs
had constant updates, so a character that is strong now may not be in 3 patches later and those 3 patches will come in a short period of time compared to other games. You may not like the system of buffs and nerfs they have - for example LoL, one week character X is OP, 2 weeks later he is trash and Y is OP - but this creates the feeling of the game always being new, so you can't stop learning how to play or else you will fall behind and not get a good ranking or just suck and lose, no one likes to lose. With this it's clear that the game renewing itself is a great way to keep the game alive and the player interested in playing.
Then it comes Ashes of Creation and the great idea of making a world that reacts to the players, this means the game will keep renewing itself without the need of the creators to directly make new content, on day X you and your guild can control a castle near a node, you all have the complete line of production of a special type of armor everyone would like to have, so you all profit, but on day X+50, the node your guild had was destroyed by the alliance of two other guilds that didn't like yours, now your guild fight as bandits to destroy the caravans of this guild alliance because they are the ones that controls the production since they have a far away node producing this armor. This event can happen in the game, it's something that every player and there is a chance that even the whole server would know about and the devs didn't have to touch one finger so it could happen, the world changed, the roles changed, the game renewed itself.
I hope I made my point clear, maybe it's not even that impressive, but I thought it was aa great move by the devs, so I had to share my thoughts.
Then I was thinking about why MOBAs got so popular and it is because the exactly opposite reason the MMOs were dying, MOBAs
had constant updates, so a character that is strong now may not be in 3 patches later and those 3 patches will come in a short period of time compared to other games. You may not like the system of buffs and nerfs they have - for example LoL, one week character X is OP, 2 weeks later he is trash and Y is OP - but this creates the feeling of the game always being new, so you can't stop learning how to play or else you will fall behind and not get a good ranking or just suck and lose, no one likes to lose. With this it's clear that the game renewing itself is a great way to keep the game alive and the player interested in playing.
Then it comes Ashes of Creation and the great idea of making a world that reacts to the players, this means the game will keep renewing itself without the need of the creators to directly make new content, on day X you and your guild can control a castle near a node, you all have the complete line of production of a special type of armor everyone would like to have, so you all profit, but on day X+50, the node your guild had was destroyed by the alliance of two other guilds that didn't like yours, now your guild fight as bandits to destroy the caravans of this guild alliance because they are the ones that controls the production since they have a far away node producing this armor. This event can happen in the game, it's something that every player and there is a chance that even the whole server would know about and the devs didn't have to touch one finger so it could happen, the world changed, the roles changed, the game renewed itself.
I hope I made my point clear, maybe it's not even that impressive, but I thought it was aa great move by the devs, so I had to share my thoughts.
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Then I was thinking about why MOBAs got so popular and it is because the exactly opposite reason the MMOs were dying, MOBAs
had constant updates, so a character that is strong now may not be in 3 patches later and those 3 patches will come in a short period of time compared to other games. You may not like the system of buffs and nerfs they have - for example LoL, one week character X is OP, 2 weeks later he is trash and Y is OP - but this creates the feeling of the game always being new, so you can't stop learning how to play or else you will fall behind and not get a good ranking or just suck and lose, no one likes to lose. With this it's clear that the game renewing itself is a great way to keep the game alive and the player interested in playing.
Then it comes Ashes of Creation and the great idea of making a world that reacts to the players, this means the game will keep renewing itself without the need of the creators to directly make new content, on day X you and your guild can control a castle near a node, you all have the complete line of production of a special type of armor everyone would like to have, so you all profit, but on day X+50, the node your guild had was destroyed by the alliance of two other guilds that didn't like yours, now your guild fight as bandits to destroy the caravans of this guild alliance because they are the ones that controls the production since they have a far away node producing this armor. This event can happen in the game, it's something that every player and there is a chance that even the whole server would know about and the devs didn't have to touch one finger so it could happen, the world changed, the roles changed, the game renewed itself.
I hope I made my point clear, maybe it's not even that impressive, but I thought it was aa great move by the devs, so I had to share my thoughts.