While I have many gripes, minor, to more important ones; most I can shrug off. In fact, I have. Mostly because honestly, I’ve seen enough of the complaints from other folks and know IMC is fully aware of the problems they face. Two important ones, one of which is the bigger issue to me.
1: Why does a game that is indeed beautiful, but looks like it should run 60 fps on my toaster, drop to 10-15 fps around 8+ people? Why is it, when someone spams chat, I stutter? The net coding on this game, was created by Hamsters eatting Ritz crackers while watching funny Cat videos on Youtube. No offense Hamtaro.
2: And my MOST important issue. I am 35 years old. I have been playing MMO’s since NWN AoL. I played EQ, and XI for 7 years. I’ve played pretty much every P2P (and 90% of F2P) under the sun. I have always run a very respected Linkshell, Clan, Guild. It’s one of the most enjoyable things I find to do in a MMO. I love meeting people, and having the community within a smaller more tight nit, family oriented Guild. Something that often lacks in F2P games and which normally keep me miles from them, is the community itself. So toxic! Don’t get me wrong, I can be pretty Toxic myself in F2P’s. I’m no saint as it’s brought out of me, but I digress.
What I don’t enjoy, is having to level a class that I would NEVER play in normal circumstances, just so that I may eventually, be able to do one of the things I love. So I gave it a shot, in fact I got him up to 130’ish, but I am struggling to push forward because I just don’t enjoy melee. It’s extremely boring to me. Although, I do enjoy melee/magic combo. It doesn’t help, I’m an Alt-oholic. I have 10 Character slots. I’ve spent 120$ of the game. (Bought the 30$ for a old guild mate). I have Characters Ranging from 52-130 with most being 80 and above, and hell, have made it to Team Rank 6. Least that 5% extra exp is helping.
A lot of these Characters I enjoy, but find myself going, “I need to get on my Swordsman… to… Ugh.”, and I literally feel like doing something else. I’m slowly pushing through it, and I do like the idea of making it harder then just, talking to a NPC, BAM Guild, but yikes… I think each Class should have had a Templar of their own sorts. Just a imo. Granted the thought of using up a Rank and gimping yourself makes me cringe inside a little.
Long story short, it’s miserable to play something you hate just to do something you love. I will get Templar, I will make a Guild, and never touch him again. Then cry for all the wasted hours I shoved into the worthless Swordsman, I begrudgingly loathe.
Signed,
Keep fighting the good fight~