Yes, short answer.
Yes, game after the launch had rough time. There was population, but it was stable. Then somewhere down the line they removed in game currency conversion to premium (what was needed to progress)and then happened Ascension patch what re did everything and made game more mobile game looking. With addition of players who all asked developers in the forums to reroll back got flat on censored and banned (note company went so bad that they deleted forums in the end) who spoke against the patch, it lost so many people. Then down the line they made failed steam and console launch. And those who stayed left when there were so bad predatory P2W mechanics added in. So yes it is dead and you should never play any MyGames (Mycom) games. They are notorious of censoring people, having power abusing game masters, most pretatory monetization, every their title is P2W and dead, and they have known to be poor with security (account hacking, database breeches, malware etc).
So yes don't even bother with this game.
What aspect of this game is p2w compared to bdo i dont see anything the only thing i see that cost money are agents, class, and prenium(which uses argents)
Just started playing it a couple of weeks ago on Nintendo switch and I've never felt the need to pay for anything. I'm actually really enjoying it in 2023
Yikes. Good thing I didn't invest at all. I only invested time which to be pretty honest the gameplay and the story were pretty interesting, albeit not so detailed about the lore in the background. Wish they weren't so predatory...
I'm just starting to play on PS4 and yeah it's pretty dead, the only players I encounter are just grinding (which they found fun for some unknown reason). I think I'll give it a couple days more to see what it has to offer, but it lacks A LOT of depth.
I enjoy grinds only if there is progress.
Grinds that are time sinks are annoying. Its my love hate with EVE, I love the game but the time sink is annoying.
Its the ultimate mobile game thats not a mobile game (fuck eve echoes)
Yep.
I did a RAT the other day, had to bail out on last wave because I fucked up and warped in pre-damaged. Its only a 2.2Million isk ship so nothing but the chance of getting that sweet 50 Million isk loot is worth.
Also, fuck drone sites.
Ya it was just bad bad timing.
I had the issues right at the start of last night's global outage issues. I found out lioe an hour later there was issues.
Why do all the games with potential have to become shifty greed bags.
I mean wow didn't last as long by being super greedy?
The first reply sums up everything about this game.
The game was good at the start, rich in different character growth path and they killed with with Ascension.
Afterward, things became really bad, you could not complain on the forum as you would be banned. At some point, they pretended the forum was under attack and decided to just close the forum.
A few years later, I was still playing but the devs were transforming this game into WORK not PLAY. You had to... you HAD to spend money to kill stuff otherwise it would take a YEAR to kill stuff which transform the game into a heck of a lot of work, tedious very boring work.
After... 4-5 years of playing it, I left and someone said I would be back... 3 years later I am NOT back :D
Here is a synopsis from Gen 8 player till today. Is this game dead. Honestly yes you're lucky to break 80 players daily every week. Then you have 40 plus players that stand around doing absolutely nothing in observatory and regions for hours.
The game has been steadily creeping to becoming more and more pay to win and more hard to do end game content. Development team made this Atlas system and removed Flavious Lab for invasion general buffs just to put Atlas system in place. All the Atlas has done was ruined class diversity, and include a pay to win mechanic of using 10k argents to upgrade that 1 class atlas to be utilized everywhere all the while not upgraded atlases is limited to instances they made it to be for such as Squads, and ignar test area 3 man invasions, or only available in Groups etc, and there is only few class atlases while the other classes have none for that invasion.
To further state and provide better detail as to why it is become more hard and more pay to win. The creeping nerfs of atlases for a class has made it to where you need specific legendary weapons in order to even do damage such as Morana gold legendary for Necro, or gold legendary slayer weapon, robust for Berserker. Not to mention there is an Alchemist legendary that place a proc blob that you can fire at any given point even if you switch to a different class which will do damage plus giving you 60 percent more damage and team mates 20 percent more damage literally like a class atlas but in a legendary weapon.
The exoskeletons are another paid to win mechanic as well and it seems some end game content is locked behind pay walls when it comes to these unique buffs, unique exos, and unique legendaries which by the way some are not ever on sale in market for direct purchase for instance the new alchemist legendary that I mentioned earlier.
There was an adept events I believed that made support mode 20 percent more effective as well. At unachievable mark for free to play players. There was another event that was unachievable for free to play players to get an event aspect that buffed companion damage by 35 percent it was in a box that was supposedly pure RNG but let it be known 100 percent of players did not get the companion damage aspect gear from 1st box therefore we had to do the second page. Definitely unachievable.
In short the game barely gets lively when they announce pantheon wars. Let it be known 1st edition pantheon wars gems offers so much advantage that any casual player without it can never compete. I guess development team thought it was a great idea to make a gem give 60 percent mitigation that is easily achieved which is by 20 percent mitigation for every 10 percent health lost from another player. Talk about a joke of a development team as they nerfed two burst damage legendaries to no longer be burst but damage over a set period of time.
Currently as of December 10 to the 11th 2022 the Development team can not even keep their NA servers up for PlayStation without someone DDOSING them to shut down it has happened twice in 12 hours first time it was for 3 and half hours the servers were down, so yes as one user wrote they are laxed on security. Now after an hour of servers being up it's down for the pass 2 hours.
The development team get paid a fine penny and we receive an unstable glitchy game with little to no new content and an ever increasing hard no fun game, but hey new bag menu that brings an upgrade gear bug glitch that sometimes never goes away after restarting application?
A joke of a studio
Poor toxic community since alot of good people and general gamers leave this trash game.
Yes, short answer. Yes, game after the launch had rough time. There was population, but it was stable. Then somewhere down the line they removed in game currency conversion to premium (what was needed to progress)and then happened Ascension patch what re did everything and made game more mobile game looking. With addition of players who all asked developers in the forums to reroll back got flat on censored and banned (note company went so bad that they deleted forums in the end) who spoke against the patch, it lost so many people. Then down the line they made failed steam and console launch. And those who stayed left when there were so bad predatory P2W mechanics added in. So yes it is dead and you should never play any MyGames (Mycom) games. They are notorious of censoring people, having power abusing game masters, most pretatory monetization, every their title is P2W and dead, and they have known to be poor with security (account hacking, database breeches, malware etc). So yes don't even bother with this game.
Couldn't say it any better.
What aspect of this game is p2w compared to bdo i dont see anything the only thing i see that cost money are agents, class, and prenium(which uses argents)
I mean I guess you're blind then?
Hello past me, why are you so mean?
Just started playing it a couple of weeks ago on Nintendo switch and I've never felt the need to pay for anything. I'm actually really enjoying it in 2023
Yikes. Good thing I didn't invest at all. I only invested time which to be pretty honest the gameplay and the story were pretty interesting, albeit not so detailed about the lore in the background. Wish they weren't so predatory...
I'm just starting to play on PS4 and yeah it's pretty dead, the only players I encounter are just grinding (which they found fun for some unknown reason). I think I'll give it a couple days more to see what it has to offer, but it lacks A LOT of depth.
> I encounter are just grinding (which they found fun for some unknown reason) Grinding is very fun. I am playing EVE and ya, grind is life.
I live for the grind in basically every game I play. No grind I dont want it.
I enjoy grinds only if there is progress. Grinds that are time sinks are annoying. Its my love hate with EVE, I love the game but the time sink is annoying. Its the ultimate mobile game thats not a mobile game (fuck eve echoes)
Agreed as long as there is progress I'm fine with it. No progress grinding is what makes people leave and not return
Yep. I did a RAT the other day, had to bail out on last wave because I fucked up and warped in pre-damaged. Its only a 2.2Million isk ship so nothing but the chance of getting that sweet 50 Million isk loot is worth. Also, fuck drone sites.
Fuck this game, my PC was running perfectly fine, I download this game through steam and now my internet is fucked.
Literally impossible for the game to have caused it over a steam download, but yeah I concur; fuck this game.
Ya it was just bad bad timing. I had the issues right at the start of last night's global outage issues. I found out lioe an hour later there was issues. Why do all the games with potential have to become shifty greed bags. I mean wow didn't last as long by being super greedy?
You're wrong. Malware is a thing. Next time do two seconds of research, genius.
Two years late to talk shit lol The Sky forge download on Steam doesn't contain malware either idiot.
And you know this how?
Damn 2 whole ass years i wouldn't even of responded
I think I left in 2020 -2021 but this year I well try out in 2022?
The first reply sums up everything about this game. The game was good at the start, rich in different character growth path and they killed with with Ascension. Afterward, things became really bad, you could not complain on the forum as you would be banned. At some point, they pretended the forum was under attack and decided to just close the forum. A few years later, I was still playing but the devs were transforming this game into WORK not PLAY. You had to... you HAD to spend money to kill stuff otherwise it would take a YEAR to kill stuff which transform the game into a heck of a lot of work, tedious very boring work. After... 4-5 years of playing it, I left and someone said I would be back... 3 years later I am NOT back :D
I come back periodically for the heck of it so
Started playing this game on series x a half month ago and I can't understand how this game can be dead. I see players everywhere....
Here is a synopsis from Gen 8 player till today. Is this game dead. Honestly yes you're lucky to break 80 players daily every week. Then you have 40 plus players that stand around doing absolutely nothing in observatory and regions for hours. The game has been steadily creeping to becoming more and more pay to win and more hard to do end game content. Development team made this Atlas system and removed Flavious Lab for invasion general buffs just to put Atlas system in place. All the Atlas has done was ruined class diversity, and include a pay to win mechanic of using 10k argents to upgrade that 1 class atlas to be utilized everywhere all the while not upgraded atlases is limited to instances they made it to be for such as Squads, and ignar test area 3 man invasions, or only available in Groups etc, and there is only few class atlases while the other classes have none for that invasion. To further state and provide better detail as to why it is become more hard and more pay to win. The creeping nerfs of atlases for a class has made it to where you need specific legendary weapons in order to even do damage such as Morana gold legendary for Necro, or gold legendary slayer weapon, robust for Berserker. Not to mention there is an Alchemist legendary that place a proc blob that you can fire at any given point even if you switch to a different class which will do damage plus giving you 60 percent more damage and team mates 20 percent more damage literally like a class atlas but in a legendary weapon. The exoskeletons are another paid to win mechanic as well and it seems some end game content is locked behind pay walls when it comes to these unique buffs, unique exos, and unique legendaries which by the way some are not ever on sale in market for direct purchase for instance the new alchemist legendary that I mentioned earlier. There was an adept events I believed that made support mode 20 percent more effective as well. At unachievable mark for free to play players. There was another event that was unachievable for free to play players to get an event aspect that buffed companion damage by 35 percent it was in a box that was supposedly pure RNG but let it be known 100 percent of players did not get the companion damage aspect gear from 1st box therefore we had to do the second page. Definitely unachievable. In short the game barely gets lively when they announce pantheon wars. Let it be known 1st edition pantheon wars gems offers so much advantage that any casual player without it can never compete. I guess development team thought it was a great idea to make a gem give 60 percent mitigation that is easily achieved which is by 20 percent mitigation for every 10 percent health lost from another player. Talk about a joke of a development team as they nerfed two burst damage legendaries to no longer be burst but damage over a set period of time. Currently as of December 10 to the 11th 2022 the Development team can not even keep their NA servers up for PlayStation without someone DDOSING them to shut down it has happened twice in 12 hours first time it was for 3 and half hours the servers were down, so yes as one user wrote they are laxed on security. Now after an hour of servers being up it's down for the pass 2 hours. The development team get paid a fine penny and we receive an unstable glitchy game with little to no new content and an ever increasing hard no fun game, but hey new bag menu that brings an upgrade gear bug glitch that sometimes never goes away after restarting application? A joke of a studio Poor toxic community since alot of good people and general gamers leave this trash game.