Hmmmm, This patch reminds me of the US government...
Some minority voice out there says that it's not fair that the "haves" have what they've got, and the "have nots" who are to lazy to figure it out, shouldn't get it for free...lol
Funny how an asian company resembles the US government so well...
~Tease~
I joined a few days before the game came outta Beta. As I've been playing various types of online games for many years I learned a long time ago that when a game exits Beta it doesn't mean there isn't a load of things that are going to be changed in the next year. I also learned that sometimes the changes make the game better and sometimes they make the game worse. Over compensating for a perceived imbalance means nothing but that you've moved the imbalance. You haven't fixed anything. I also learned that if you spend money on a game that radically overcompensates for an imbalance, and moves from any semblance of reality with that overcompensation (siege weapons moving into range? How ridiculous), you could be throwing your money down a rathole. Experience can be a hard teacher. I have experience.
I've spent no money on the game. I won't spend any money on the game unless I see more communication out of the devs and a much more logical and realistic approach to battlefield conditions and to correcting inbalances. I am a patient person and am willing to give a game a chance but my patience isn't limitless. Kindly get your act together or I'll be moving on to Evercrack or WoW or something different.
Last edited by Arlan; 06-01-2009 at 05:49 PM. Reason: misspellings
Folks, first let me say i am as angry as everyone else about these changes. I can't feed my armies and when i run out of food i will probably just quit and move on.
However, i think people are being unnecessarily cruel to Dawnseeker who is likely just doing her job and relaying information as soon as she gets it (i could be wrong, but am kind enough to give benefit of the doubt). I also imagine there is no reason to tell her to get a life when the time she spends on this board, taking abuse today, is likely a job. If so, I imagine she hates her job at this very moment even if she won't admit it.
We are all angry and upset, and rightly so, but let's not take it out on the messenger, eh?
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ~Napoleon
Dorsai Alliance
http://dorsai.guildportal.com
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ~Napoleon
jeez everyones so upset. its called a nerf. and a necessary one. if you dont like it find something else to play because i dont like u cheezin a buncha ballistas anyhow.
You have created a problem for me feeding my army, here is my solution. Every small to midsized player within 10 miles of any of my cities is doomed. I will conquer them or drive them out of the game and turn their flats or cities into level 5 barbarians so that I can effectively farm them. It will take time, but I will sustain my army on the few level 5 barbs close by and what I can plunder. You have destroyed all the small gamers any where close to me on any of the 3 servers I play. I hope that is in line with what your intent was, because as I see it, it is the only recourse you have left me after the moronic changes made this morning.
Michael
Kiss my ass... too little too late.. you have lost my confidence in your ability to want transparency and legitimate intercourse betwene game developer and game consumer.
I spent over $100 for in game coins... only to get the shaft by the dev's and ignored...
I an EXCEPTIONALLY agitated at the indifference and lack of care/concern by the game providers.
Had you CARED at all.. you would have put up a test server and released notes about CHANGES prior to going live. Instead, you pass yet ANOTHER patch at 4am (when the majority of players in USA are sleeping) and then let us find out by continuing to play the game by the existing rules/normal game mechanics... only to find out that our ballista DIE when they used to be fine.
You devs made this game what it is. You later revealed to us that we were members of a beta test, long after we all had assumed that we were 'LIVE' as your website and advertisements had declared... only to find out that we're forgotten and ignored... as you continue to put in stealth-nerf-patches and devalue and deflate the hard work that your STRONG player base has committed and invested in this game.
So.... it is my personal and professionally opinion that the game is progressing AS INTENDED. There is no excuse as to why a professional game developer would not release notes on major game changes (such as changes to the game economy or game mechanics of combat) prior to sending those changes live onto the servers. This is as intended. The developers have expended more time and energy promoting the 'queen of evony' project.. than they have promoting real changes to game mechanics...
Case in chief:
Civony becomes Evony. The game participants were unaware that we were members of a beta test or unfinished project. Many of us had fallen in love with and supported the game by spending $$$ on it.
At first, it was a novelty to think that we had been members of a beta test... then came the changes.. without input or prior knowledge.
First came the medal nerf. We had to endure 10 days (give or take) of gameplay without ANY input from the dev staff. Gazza and Thor scrambled to try and appease the player base with promisses of “well, they're in a different time zone” or “we will here from them shortly on these changes, be patient...”
Then came the 'Queen of Evony' blitz. A juvenile attempt to distract the player base with fanfair player pictures of scantily clad young women, prostrating themselves for the favor of all Evony in a high school prom queen fanfair publicity stunt.. all the while, the coders and the devs were pumping out nerfs to the game, knowingly adding them to the servers without warning or prior knowledge...
The first nerf: medals. Followed by npc town refresh rates. The players who used this game dynamic to it's full potential became demonized and ignored by the devs and forum monkey-mods. This sealed the deal on any new player being able to compete or close the gap with players who had been on Evony since going “live” (which we all now know is bull$h1t).
Then came this last nerf at 5am... the stealth patch which changed npc town defenses. It completed the evisceration of the player base who have supported evony since it was Civony... our armies decimated, unable to feed them.. and now our ballista wiped out without warning due to a stealth-nerf.
I'm done.. I will revile in watching Evony dwindle and die out like so many other great games... games which began strong, and through greed and incompetent handling.. became utter garbage.
Of course.. this reply will be moderated and deleted.. but I'll save it and repost it again and again until truth overcomes stupidity.
Good bye Evony... this game once had potential to be awesome... and because of greed... the desire for the devs to sell overpriced game coins and items... this game has died...
GG. Evony.
Last edited by ByronXAN; 06-01-2009 at 07:31 PM.
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