How everyone feeling about the game?

It's coming up to the 4 year anniversary of the launch of the Ashes of Creation kickstarter and I'm wondering how everyone is feeling about the game. How have your expectations faired over the years? Do you feel let down or do you feel like things have gone roughly as you would imagine?

For me personally this is basically how I imagined it to go. MMO development takes a long time and I'm pretty happy with the progress its made.

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Merek

I've personally lost a lot of interest due to certain choices made by the developers, partially due to their need to sell cosmetics for funding, which look horrendous. That along with the lackluster combat just isn't really reeling me in, so, I'm not completely disinterested, but I've put the game at the back of my mind.

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Merek wrote: »

I've personally lost a lot of interest due to certain choices made by the developers, partially due to their need to sell cosmetics for funding, which look horrendous. That along with the lackluster combat just isn't really reeling me in, so, I'm not completely disinterested, but I've put the game at the back of my mind.

I have to agree about the cosmetics. I have faith in Intrepid's ability to listen to player feedback as far as the combat is concerned, and I can accept that it is still a work in progress. But while I'm not entirely opposed to a cosmetic shop, and understand it's important to continue funding for the game, it really doesn't feel good to know that we're going to log in day one to a brand new world where everyone is level one...and the dude next to you is already decked out in flaming volcano armor and looks like he's already cleared max level raids even though the game hasn't even been out for a full 24 hours...

It definitely conflicts with the "effort = reward" part of why I like MMO's, but I'm just hoping that it ends up being worth it in the end. Steven understands this point of view and he is sympathetic to it, but he is doing what he knows he has to do to keep a part of the MMO audience that, sadly, just cannot stay interested in a game unless they can buy their way out of wearing "boring armor" for the first 40 levels.

I also have to agree that the cosmetics so far tend to be really over the top design-wise and I'm not a huge fan of some of them, but I'm still optimistic that it won't end up being a big deal in the end. Eventually, people will be walking around with cool looking armor and weapons earned through actual achievements, and the store cosmetics, while flashy, will pale in comparison.

Patsold

Whitout reading someting , for me the game make only slowly steps.
I think the developer fokusing to mutch on cosmatic at the moment too.
i like the game idea , the dream of this game but i have many worryies abaut the game balance, the combat ect.
so mutch special ideas .. i hope they will creat a fantastic game, and i try to chat around here and hope , that i can help.

Cypher

Feeling decent about the game. Pretty deep into the wallet already and not much else matters aside from seeing what this supposed combat overhaul will look like.

neuroguy

Excited to learn more, especially about crafting and gathering. I specifically want to know if they are keeping the visually based 'gather' method or if they have pivoted to sparkling things that you press 'E' to gather from like what we see in the recent videos (hope they stick with the visually based gather skill).

Saedu

I don't mind too much that the purchasable cosmetics are a bit meh. So long as what you can actually get in game looks good

. If something looks cool, I'd rather earn it than buy it with real world $$

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