what in the game mechanically/content has gotten worse in the past 2 years?

Yellowside.....

Nothing about yellow is used or liked by the players in general, go to any yellow map and its always empty. More difficulty enemies and less reward is never going to tempt players.


Redside population is diminishing, this isnt all the devs fault, but its not all the players fault either.

I almost think it might be time to abolish alignment all together and just make everyone able to team with anyone at anytime. Spending forever vainly looking for a red team that never seems to show up seems lame at best.

Pure villians and vigilantes almost seem surpurflous in the game right now, there is very little redside a blue player wants enough to go vigilante but there is ALOT the most important being people that a redside player wants from blueside.


This is a mess that has been dragging on for a long time.

Ragdoll physics is the only thing I can think of. I've seen some nasty death poses lately.

I liked the new starter missions, but they get old.

I enjoy the Incarnate Trials, and I enjoy DA.

About the only thing I DON'T like is how the devs handled the death of Statesman.

I mean, really? He dies and you just act like he never existed in the game at all? Not cool. He's the most iconic character the game has ever had, and was the marketing face of the game since launch.....and he's being treated like a chump that outlived his usefulness.

Purely game mechanis?

Nothing. It's been pretty much clear improvements across the board.

I'm fine with the game as it is right now.

Right now, I log in my level 50 characters almost every day, in order to collect my auction house riches and post more loot up for sale (I do a combination of crafting and flipping). I leave them all in one of the universities (I have access to the /ah command, so parking them in front of an invention table is convenient!), save for one who I leave in DA. The one currently in DA, I join in trials, so that I may earn more Incarnate salvage, Astrals and Empyrians. Once I've gotten every Incarnate power up to its tier 4 ability, I move that level 50 character out of a DA, park it in a university, and bring in another level 50 into DA!

About every 400,000,000 inf, I make a bid for a purple or pvp IO. Every 40 emp merits earned, I make a trip to Ouroboros to buy a purple recipe. And then of course, I get lucky and snag a purple recipe drop while in an incarnate trial. Converters help me to change those into what that character needs, or what another of my 50s might need.

Once all of my current level 50 characters on Virtue have a tier 4 ability in every Incarnate slot, they'll all be parked at universities as I switch to an alt to bring that character up to level 50, so that I may unlock their incarnate slots and play more trials.

This is what I consider fun and exciting! It totally is. Dunno about anyone else.

SSA 1 was terrible, and still makes me mad. Statesman walking into an obvious trap like a putz, Sister Psyche being taken out by a "hidden" obelisk. You're never offered a choice on what to do, when there were so many ways Wade's plan could have gone wrong. The ending was even more aggravating, Lady Gray and Penny basically show up with some McGuffins they were keeping for just such an occasion and then Wade gets smacked down. No karmic backlash from stealing powers, no vaguely clever trap or outwitting him, just a gimmicky fight and then a smackdown with Recluse to back you up (or if you're not already incarnate, you to back up Recluse).

The other problem, though this one is less of a problem for some characters, are some of the new mob designs. A little mez is fine, but some of the new mobs have mezzes that are spammable or have ridiculous durations which makes leveling an AT without inherent mez protection an exercise in frustration. I'd love to see a breakdown on Inspirations bought by players, I would guess that Break Frees and Lucks far outstrip the others. The other problem is more technical, powers that summon Boss class mobs do so regardless of difficulty settings. It's aggravating to see two Hercules Class Titans fuse into a Zeus Class, or to see one of those First Ward possessed turn into a boss apparition.

Other than that, though, things have been a solid improvement since I joined in issue 21. DA was very well done, very thematic and the mission mechanics were fairly good. I like all the optional mechanics they're using now, though the "rescue all the civilians" one gets old fast. SSA 2.1 was pretty good, it's nice to finally tie all the way back to the beginning, and using Pandora's Box to explain old villain groups being boosted to incarnate levels was a very good use of a Chekov's Gun. I haven't run the new content in issue 23 since I don't have a character in that level range.

I think one thing that has gotten worse is that the devs have gotten a little lazy when placing certain art elements. IE the tunnel system portals just sitting out there and the portals to praetoria for first ward.

Also im not a fan of the new tutorial.

Holidays have gotten worse - it's harder to do other stuff now when they give us more and more holiday content.

It was only one little word

Going Rogue, and everything that came with it and everything that has come hence, has been one massive mistake.

The biggest issue that has been pissing me off lately is the Alignment system. At first, I thought it was a good idea. Then I took the time to think about it and came across the one, game-ruining flaw that the devs were either oblivious too or couldn't be bothered to address:

There is no reason to play a villain.

Paragon City is a nicer looking place. Heroes get access to more content. Hero storylines make you feel heroic, whereas villain storylines make you feel like a chump. The Hero population has always been larger due to being the older game. All of this makes playing a hero the obvious choice. What reason is there to play a villain? Personal character lore, something that fewer and fewer people give a rip about these days. ANd frankly, before CoV was added people were already playing "villains". We've come full circle, and now we're back to pre-CoV. I feel like a friggin' squatter, one of the few stubborn a-holes left who refuse to give up on the red side, despite how ridiculously unenjoyable it is when there's nobody to team with. It's infuriating beyond words how far my favorite game has fallen into ruin.

The Rogue Isles could be deleted from the game tomorrow and I honest to God don't think most of the players would notice, and those that did would most certainly not give a ****.