Spot on. I had 1700 hours in the game and reached level 286 when cap was 330 cause I just loved going everywhere, doing every single quest and making other builds.
I was that guy who’d join alemeth grind parties with my doppel when people wanted a pelt taunt and say “I can taunt with warcry”…
I spent so many hours of the game in early levels and I have great memories of it, everytime it gets me nostalgic.
Nowadays new players get T8 +11 free weapons at level 230, x8 exp tomes, or even those wake up pakages.
You can’t expect people to stay in the game if you boost them so fast to the “end game”, but the end game is nothing; you’re literally pushing them towards nothing, so they leave.
There’s 3-4 months gaps between patches and sometimes they’re half assed, like those savinose items we got that we’re double-ichorable, I went on a 3 month break and came back and ONLY THEN the double ichor patch got released. Why?
It reaches peak level when it comes to balance, be it PvE or PvP, you give buffs in premium-pass to some classes making them completely busted and pick or meme, and since we’re the unloved child the cancer you give us stays meta for the 3-4 months until the next patch where you decide to nerf it or give us worse.
To me there’s 3 main points you can work on to tremendously improve not only the game, but iToS:
- You don’t advertise the game (how do new players even find this game?)
- You don’t ask for precise feedback from us and we have to give it in a ranting manner, I know staff members are here lurking and passing some of our feedback but it feels like it’s tossed somewhere in a corner of Kim’s office and forgotten if it’s not marked “kToS wants zircon in HGs” on the paper.
- Each monday after 3 months is a day of “is it a patch day or is it a letticia/goddess cube and a skill tooltip fix day”
At one point, it felt like IMC was actually listening to iToS for a short period, and now it feels like we’re back to just being milked and fed some crumbles that kToS gets so we don’t abandon the farm.
It’s still not too late, there’s many things you can do to bump up the daily players you have a dedicated playerbase, we’re all ranting because we all want the game to be what we know it deserves to be, I’ll never say that enough.
/r done