3 Main issues of TOS in YOUR OPINION

[Noxot]

what has directly affected me as of late are: not being able to see mobs and your char in certain areas due to the 3d nature of the game + a wall or building existing to block your view. fear of dying by my own attacks. the slavish design of having to do X every day or miss out though that is a problem that i don’t know if any mmo has solved. desyncing of mobs but rest assured if they are in hayama that is the area that you should attack. skills making mobs unresponsive such as hayama. some mobs constantly knock you down. it gets really old. try to cast fire pillar… the first attempt always seems to not work. having to press enter twice to make some skills cancel properly. zombies bug out and make me unable to utilize certain questing mechanics unless I fade and drop all aggro. zombie dance perma-paralyzes certain mobs in parts of the map… this is perhaps what makes me unable to channel certain quest items until I fade? every once in a while the loading screen gives me the eternal mining goblin though it hardly ever happens now. controller issues… I can’t use the second set because it automatically makes me use the first set.

top 3? ummm…

1. things that are broke and not fixed forever or fixed but then reintroduced at a later time. might as well throw bad optimization in to 1. since I consider it to be an aspect of what “broken” means.

2. the seemingly never ending amount of people who quit playing which means eventually the servers will be shut down.

3. the cheaters. if you don’t cheat chances are that people you know such as your guildies and friends do. ,|, might as well include broken class balance in this category. i.e. wugushi sucks, sadhu sucks, necro sucks, ect.

[Jargs]

1. Bridging of hardcore and casual players. Let’s face it, a hardcore player will be infinitely deadlier than a casual player. Even if the two were playing together, a hardcore player simply carries. The concept of teamwork is lost as majority of the events/content relate to a DPS check and highly upgraded equipment via silver.

Should be events where there is a mixture of DPS, investigation/object breaking, and scouting should all be involved to promote a sense of unity in the community. (I’m looking at you guild events)

2. The incredible time sink of alts. While you do have a choice, this hardcore element can drain even the most dedicated. Tokens need a change that would give player ‘choice’. If you want money (IMC), learn from your costumes. Some like to have a closet of clothes, others may want a variety in how they can play the game. Give players a choice on how they want to enjoy.

For example, on top of our current token, there would be tokens where…
a) No extra instances, but xp/silver is 1.5x (so you lose out on an extra cube)
b) Instances reduced to 1, but drops are 3x the amount (xp is lost, 2x for non dungeon/mission related instances)

3. Transcendence. Yes IMC admits that it has done quite the damage in the game, and people rage when they get something like Canyon/Royal Mausoleum. To alleviate such ridiculous stuff, each one will give a different number of blessed cubes.
   Convent - 1
   Lake - 2 (since it has a boss)
   Canyon - 3 (save ruina and destroy the portal along with the final boss)
   Royal - 4 (1 for each half, 1 for clearing the 2nd achat, 1 for the final boss)

[c2gaming.seetoo]

All these ideas are super exciting!

You see, we the player base don’t actually “see” you doing your job as the messenger between player and dev. All “we” see is you reacting to what we say. We don’t see you taking down notes, or actually delivering our messages to the devs. What “we” see are results shown in the weekly maintenance.

Sometimes we get thrown a bone or two with the dev talks, but that’s dev to player talks (“without” the in between).

What we regularly get are tp shop changes. This basically says you and your co staff people have only been listening to the people throwing feedback regarding tp stuff and have been ignoring the game play feedback.

I mean, just look at the activity you are responding to. You’re already “more interested” with the tp related topics than you are with game play topics.

If we don’t see any of the game play stuff mentioned here in the hunting grounds patch, do we assume you ignored all that just like you’ve been doing in the past (more than a year if you count the betas - note flat scaling issues have been around since the betas - people saw that from the start)?

[Jargs]

In a Korean MMO, this is typical. They look at the motherland and treat it as best as they can, other places around Korea are treated much like a seed planted in the ground. Even if the motherland is in shambles and disasters all over, Korea will tend to its wounds. If the motherland bore no fruit though, they they would migrate to “greener” pastures until the motherland bears fruit.

Over the multiple Korean MMOs I’ve played, the amount of support is near zero. It would take someone to do major damage in the Korea servers for the developers to listen. Extreme, but this is what drives “changes”. We were sold on a promise of content exclusive to regions, but I’m quite sure we haven’t seen one thing (and even if they did, it would be something terrible like the British Soldier costume for Fedimian, Loud and Proud American for Klaipeda, Hue costume for Orsha/Silute, unfortunately I ran out of ideas for Varena/Telsiai), but as usual, the results shown are “none”

[Tsugumi]

I have a bigger list than 3 but for now, I would like to list the top 3 main issues in my opinion to the game, without relating to the illegal players and management of the game.

1. No shared achievements (Map Exploration, mob kill counts, etc)
   First things first, there are over 80 different classes in this game. Having such diversity at the fundamental level of the game would definitely mean several characters being made by the same person.

Hence, why this is at my #1. Why are all our characters called a “team” anyway… ugh!

2. The way parties are matched up and damage/defence penalties +5 levels onward.

3. No penalties for AFK / Leeching people in Auto-Matched party dungeons

[SlyGoat]

Most people left before the introduction of gacha and transcendence.

That’s exactly my point, though? Who left because of the cash shop? Hell, tons of people quit before you could even buy TP. The cash shop got progressively worse BECAUSE the game was dying and they decided “■■■■ it, milk the few whales we have left.”

[olivier-benard]

1. Grinding : Having to kill 10000 mobs to get an item is plain stupid – even more when those mobs respawn every half an hour.

2. Queues: You should be able to enter a dungeon with any amount of players, not just 1 or 5 – 2, 3 or 4 should also be fine. In that case, the difficulty of the dungeon should adapt to the total level of your party, not simply be a fixed values based on 5 players of the highest level.

3. Spammers in channels 1 and 2. I’m tired of those characters named “shdfsjhvfsjd” spamming “www” messages about buyable crap. Please add a “preferred” channel, so that you don’t get spammed when you come back to a town from a field where you can only access channels 1 and 2.

[ri0ti0ri]

The first biggest ■■■■ up IMC did was making shards and end game gear like lolo/solmiki tradeable.

That change alone killed the game.

[hei_1]

1. The new character experience. Horrible for new players, horrible for old players. New players will be faced with having to quest down a linear path with lots of running around doing “kill X creatures or collect Y items” ■■■■ that nobody enjoys. They’ll have trouble finding dungeons because nobody does those low level dungeons anymore, which is a huge amount of your EXP and without them you’re forced into doing inefficient low level grinds and hitting every single side quest. Additionally, there’s really nothing else interesting to do for the entirety of your journey to rank 8. There are just quests and instances, there’s nothing to alleviate the monotony. It’s entirely linear and one-dimensional. This is where most people end up quitting as shown by the horrible player retention. For veteran players, making new characters basically comes down to doing the main questline and using a bunch of instance reset and instant dungeon clear vouchers. What a joke.

2.The “end game”. In some ways, R7 had more endgame than R8. R8 added some things but also made some things irrelevant - for example, world bosses are all pretty much pointless now except for one or two, and most of the dungeons are now irrelevant as well. Your new “end game” is orange weapon grind and transcendence grind. For what? In order to even do the “end game” content at all, you have to already be geared. You’re gearing up presumably so that you’ll be ready to do R9 content when it’s released, because R9 will probably be yet another enormous spike in difficulty. This also makes the game horrible for new players because if you haven’t been playing since release, with the funds and attributes and transcendence levels to kill R8 enemies, you basically can’t progress. You may not even be able to advance to R8 at all if you have a difficult class advancement (I know the really broken ones were toned down but IIRC there are still some tough fights that expect you to already be geared). What else even is there? Earth Tower? PVP? Neither of those have ever been a real end game because they’re so niche you can’t even participate without a specific build. For most people who don’t want to metagame specifically for one of those goals, there’s nothing for them to do but grind in preparation for R9 - which, given the state of the game, may never even come.

3.Missed goals and total lack of direction. The entire concept of this game from the start has been totally lost since release. In the earlier betas, they actually seemed to have a coherent idea of what they were doing and the game felt pretty good. Up to rank 6 there were balance issues but aside from a few they weren’t super severe, there were actually things to do in the end game because most of the dungeons as well as most of the world bosses were relevant, there were things to grind for in fields, there was actually a decent selection of gear instead of just going straight from blue to best in slot orange (notice some of the best in slot gear is still the same as it was with max rank 6 though), the game got progressively more difficult but it wasn’t an insane spike that made you hit for literal 1s and die in 2 attacks if you weren’t super geared. PVP would probably have been much more fun and better balanced without R7 and R8 classes, too - a lot of people enjoyed just dueling in town and it felt way more balanced than it does now. There was also a point to classes like Squire, Pardoner and Alchemist - awakenings and buffs aren’t worth anything anymore because they’re such a small bonus in R7+ content. Alchemist in particular is a much less interesting class, since they decided to just take all of its R6 skills and divide them up so that in R7 it had nothing new and in R8 it barely got anything either. So many of the features and interesting things about the game have been totally lost and made irrelevant with new content. I would’ve been perfectly happy for R8 to not have been released, and for IMC to instead continue expanding on R7 content, working on adding new stuff to the existing game and fixing up the balance to make it as good as R6 was. The content that’s added in is so hollow and empty it honestly feels like we have less to do now than we did before because so much has been made totally irrelevant. It’s just daily log-ins to do your instances and maybe try to grind for orange materials a bit and then log out. There’s absolutely nothing else to do. The potential this game had in beta has been totally flushed down the toilet and now it’s just a completely generic low quality Korean MMO. You might as well play Maplestory or RO2 at this point.

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[Yukaru]

1 - game is pretty unbalanced both pve pvp
2 - staff needs improvements and play the game themselves more to have some more knowledges (not saying is bad, but it really needs improvements to avoid some misunderstandings)
3 - need more blessed cubes or clothes for us to buy.

ok joking,
3 would be - the lack of some kind of system to report\punish toxic players and exploiters IN-GAME, since western comunity sometimes has that kind of player unfortunately (but the nº2 needs to be completed first, because if not done, this may lead to other misunderstandings or punishes which it wasn’t supposed to happen)

[A_Bot]

1.FPS problem
2.There is too many BUG
3.Bad GvG & TBL Design

[strawhatcrewz]

simple for me

1. game stability - not stable, always lag, fps drop, crash, freeze bla3
2. bug - its like everytime IMC touches the game, a crack appears.
3. unbalance - pvp unbalance, class unbalance too many unbalance lel

[Latte0]

1. Broken balances in between classes.
2. TBL = who has better gears + who can chain CC first.
3. Abnormal amount of bugs for a published game.

[olivier-benard]

Point #2 has now been implemented… woohoo!!!
… but you need to wait FIVE minutes to enter the dungeon if you wish to do a 2-4 party run boouhouhou

[leleconildo]

1- The playerbase

2- The people who play

3- The people who play on forums

[MagicOne]

1- The playerbase

2- The people who play

3- The people who play on forums

So you’re saying the solution is to have everyone quit

[celgaming]

1. Transcendence
   It’s too powerful and time consuming and forces people to do repeated chores for years.
   It doesn’t fit this game at all.

2. Performance
   Love how this game feels to play, but not when the frame rate dips to 10 FPS all the time.

3. Balance
   Some classes feel so underwhelming and broken it feels like they have been abandoned since day one.

[TeamChespin]

1. IMC. I milk cows
2. IMC. I make customers. quit.
3. IMC. I am Motivated by Cash.
   .

[Musqi]

1. Bugs
2. Bugs
3. Performance and Balance