And by choosing this title i don’t mean the game isn’t fun… it actually is… at times.
Just to make an example i really wanted to have my character with black hair… so i looked up in the achievements how to get the black hair… i went to kill those 500 enemies… i spent my time there 20-30 minutes… i got my prize.
That was fun.
Exactly in the same way it was fun to eplore for map completion, hidden quests, collection boxed, questing. grinding etc etc…
So why did i choose this title? Well because the more you rise in level the more an absolute boredom the game becomes, losing all his “fun-appeal”… and let me be clear about this… i’m not talking about trade restriction or other social aspect of the game… i’m talking about the fact that…
… if i have to walk around an empty map for 20 minutes in order to find 2-3 enemies to kill… that is NOT fun.
And this happens regularly in a LOT of lvl 150+ maps.
Let me share today “gameplay session” experience with everyone:
I logged in, made my mercenary missions, then the daily mercenary quests… then i decided to go and grind for some materials and, in the meantime, to find out if i missed some quests… my lvl is 172.
So i went into the Viltis Wood area to look for enemies and i found out i completely did miss out on sub quests from that area when i first run trought there.
So i tried to do them… mostly killing quests nothing extraordinary.
The problem was that the map was so empty of enemies i actually managed to watch 2 full movies, and i’m not joking… 2 full movies before finishing them… that’s about 240 minutes: 4 hours.
I had to run in an empty map for about 4 -5 minutes every single time in order to find one single enemy to kill… that time increased to about 10-20 minutes when other players started to appear.
I’m only reporting today experience because it was the last one… but this is something that happens way to many times after a certain lvl.
So let me say this again:
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make me kill enemies nonstop for 40 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours… i don’t care it’ll be fun… expecially since this one is a grinding game and grinding has to be expected.
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make me run in an empty map for hours, looking in vain for enemies to slain, lot of times seeing other players killing that single enemy that spawned by pure luck a second before you becasue they happened to be lucky enouhg to be nearer when the enemy spawned… and you’re basically asking me to leave the game and go playing something else.
This is because a game is supposed to be fun… is a game is boring there’s no point in playing it… and if you create a grinding game where everything revolve around kiling enemies BUT you don’t give me enemies to kill because you decide to put too few of them in the maps giving them, at times, even 5 minutes of respawn time… you’re really deciding that no matter what your game has to be a boring one.