Figured I’d throw in some food for thought as one of the older players in the game who just retired.
1. Story of ToS and lore doesn’t interests me.
And believe me I’m one of the lore junkies on the forum who can name every Emperors and history behind it all from reading every books you find in game along with reading npc dialogues. It feels like it’s poorly written but that’s from personal pov and no offense to those that genuinely enjoyed it. Good on IMC dev team for trying but the story is very linear and with every Goddesses I’ve met I wondered why they’re Goddesses in the first place when they mostly sat on their arse and expected to be a damsel in distress 90% of the time. The Saviors are more or less a glorified Janitors that has to clean up after the royal mess they made of the world.
2. Grind is good content?
With R9 we got several new classes, class reworks of old circles, few new maps, new HG and Challenge Mode. I’m relatively casual nowdays so I took my time clearing, trying out the new content but it provided little entertainment. Granted I’ve solo’d everything on Marnox most of the time so maybe it might have been far more entertaining if I found friends to play with on those new maps, but it provided very little challenge and since it’s not story driven the only reward to look forward to is potentially getting new random stat rolls from random gear that drops from monsters . I won’t say I have the BIS gear but I’m more geared than the average players, the way I found it there’s little improvements and upgrades I could gain from the new equips so I didn’t particularly found the new rewards tempting. When I’m already one shotting most things with 160k aoe dmg per 2 seconds, what will extra 10~20k dmg bring to change my gameplay? Things dying 0.2 seconds faster? lol At this point I was starting to wonder why I was even gridning on this game and questioning are the new maps, new modes enough to keep me entertained?
3. New Dungeons?
Most games usually introduce new dungeons with each expansions, giving the community a method/reason to form parties even though in ToS that’s a flawed design with little to no conversation. In ToS? We get less dungeons the older this game gets and with R9 update we lost even more dungeons which now has increased lvl gaps between. Granted most people hated how long the old 170 dungeon was, IMC could have made new dungeons to replace the old but instead decided to re-hash old dungeons to be the new dungeons. Where’s the effort dev team? It’s like eating the same cup ramen for the past 2 years I’m sick of it.
4. ToS is a Single Player Game
With the exception of few instances you mainly play this game solo. I seriously have to wonder why this game doesn’t have an offline mode because it wouldn’t make a difference for the average player. You can argue that I don’t have any friends to play the game with and sadly I can’t refute such claims because the few trusted friends I’ve met through my guild often play at different time intervals making it very hard to play together. Mind you I did try to ask for my guildies to play together but living across the different parts of the globe really makes it difficult to play together which I can’t fault them. Maybe this is less of an issue on kToS where most people that play on it are Korean so there’s more chances to make friends and form parties, sadly doesn’t seem to work as intended on iToS.
5. GMs are in game to answer irrelevant questions.
For those of you who genuinely find entertainment/joy/enlightenment whenever the GMs decides to hop in game and grace us with their presence good for you. For me however they hardly ever helped nor answered any of my questions/problems during most GM Meets. I understand that there is probably a limit of what they can answer as far as problems within the game goes and some questions are beyond their capability to answer, so yes I understand why I’m often ignored when I’m asking questions. Still didn’t make me feel any better when they choose to ignore me and answer ridiculous questions instead. Here are some key re-occuring examples below.
-GM plz wear (input name) costume and show us what it looks like
-GM Are you boy or girl in real life?
-GM can you plz LIKE me?!
-GM how do you do I am doing fine thank you
-How do I use imgur to post screenshots of bots?
-Can you teach me how to use google drive?
-What do you think is a cute headgear?
Instead of acknowledging and addressing problems with the game (Again I sympathize mainly because this game releases new bugs every 2~3 weeks with potentially no fixes) I feel like GMs do more harm pissing people off by roleplaying as the village idiots. If anyone is happy to convince me otherwise I would be happy to hear them out but so far I’ve never seen them doing anything more than hosting gatherings to answer some of the dumbest questions you can possibly ask.
I think those are the main reason why people aren’t coming back to play ToS and the reasons why after almost 2 years of playing ToS, I’m regrettably quitting the game for good.
