So, where's our solo incarnate content?
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Posted on: 2011-12-10 19:30 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
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One of the recent problems regarding this is that the devs seem to consider a single comment in the middle of an hour long Ustream chat an adequate "announcement". In the case of I22 it was announced at a live event and they seem to have relied on Ustream and media coverage to disseminate the information. I don't think there is any official announcement for I22 anywhere on the forums or the website. I don't even recall seeing one on the facebook page, but then I don't go there often.|
Originally Posted by catwhowalksbyhimself
This is the second time recently I've seen somebody complain about the devs not fixing or adding something even though in both cases they had already announced those things are coming. Gravity Control revamp is the other one, in case anyone is curious.
The lesson here is please do research before you rant folks. You look more intelligent that way. |
As it stands right now, if you don't listen to their Ustream broadcasts you are out of the loop.
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You can also read Von Krieger's summaries in City Life, but naturally that's not dev communication. Can't search for it in the digests.
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Originally Posted by Kosmos
As it stands right now, if you don't listen to their Ustream broadcasts you are out of the loop.
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Originally Posted by Fugacity
I agree completely. Why should I have to work with a group of players as a team in order to accomplish a goal in an MMORPG? It just doesn't make sense to me.
The devs need to make an iTrial specifically for a single player to beat. It should involve the AV walking right up to where I stand, challenging me, and me pressing buttons for my optimal attack chain until victory is achieved. It shouldn't involve any sort of strategerie or thought on my part, just pressing buttons until I inevitably win and claim my E-merits. Faceplanting is not an option! So if an AV attack is about to bring me below 1 hit point, the AV should stop, laugh, and explain some of the story about how weak I am and how he is going to win(allowing me time to regen some and heal up!). I should have as much time as I need to read what is said before the fight begins again, at which point I win. The bottom line is, I must win in order to have fun. |
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Oh, no doubt there, the OP was doomed from the start. |
Originally Posted by Bosstone
Sure, you can't make dev communication reach everyone. What are they going to do, broadcast system messages every hour about game news? It'd just tick off the people who otherwise don't care.
Where the OP went wrong (and I'm not trying to flame, here, trying to be constructive) is that he came to the forums to ask about solo content. At that point, why not look around a little? Check Community and Dev digests. Check the Announcements forum. Look in City Life (though someone new to the forums wouldn't know about VK's coffee talk summaries). At the very least, ask the question politely and neutrally. Getting snide about it just means you look silly if the question has a good answer. "Are there any plans for solo Incarnate content yet?" is cool. "Where's our solo Incarnate content? Clock's ticking, guys," opens you up for ownage. |
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Originally Posted by Protonic_Flux
Because these itrials totally blow. I would love to get a grasp on the story but faceplanting over and over just does not appeal to me.
The new trials are not fun, in any way, shape, or form. So where's our solo content. Or give us something that's at least beatable. Really dont want to turn this into a rant or flamefest, but I'm sure everyone and their kid brother is gonna say. Well, we can win the trials. Just keep those posts to yourself please, dont want to hear them. What I would like to hear is a ETA on something that I dont have to join a group of 24 to fail on. Thank you. Clocks ticking. ToR's going live soon. |
Trials are fun and all, but I want to see something different then what they got now to unlock the incarnate powers.
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I'll have to check those out. I normally don't go to the City Life forum. I don't think many go there looking for game information.|
Originally Posted by Bosstone
You can also read Von Krieger's summaries in City Life, but naturally that's not dev communication. Can't search for it in the digests.
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Zwillinger should have a stooge, er... intern, making chat transcripts for him to post.
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I've often thought that "Game News" would be a useful thing to repurpose
the old info kiosks for, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it to happen. 
Some of us old-school folks don't give a rat's patootie about all that social
media crap, but an In-Game place to find news might be helpful.
That said, I just read the forums... 
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On the topic of communication...
I dont use facebook. Or twitter. But thats my choice obviously.
I can look on youtube. I can search the forums.
But-
Would it really be so hard to have a forum area, right under announcments, called "Coming Soon!" that has brief dev posts about features they are working on? Then, lock them, and post a link from them to a discussion thread.
It would be like the announcments, except way more focused, And much much easier to search or look into to see if there is somthing you like on the way.
Also, it would make it really easy to find the discussion thread for it, for both forumites and dev team to track.
I dunno, I mean it seems like it would be easy. For referance, I come here farily often, and I did not know about the Astoria revamp until like late last week because of an off handed post in a totally unrelated thread. Same with Archtype O's, enhancment converters, etc. A thread with posts from POsi and crew with like a paragraph or two about the ideas would really be nice.
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