Originally Posted by
Hellkaiser
My issues with the game, are only vaguely related to my issues with the forum. However when there's a deliberate and overt censorship of even simple things as claims that analogies are out of context, whilst blatant SPAM threads are left alone so long as they are positive about the game no matter how asinine their content is. Well at that point one can only look and think, is this a bit of a liberty they're taking? are we not allowed to have a negative opinion of the game insomuch as we're also trying to be positive and support positive ideas and resolutions to said issues?
It's very easy to say "hey it's their forum, if you don't like it don't post there" and in many way's you're right, that doesn't mean we should be so forgiving of that sort of approach they take, the idea that posting on their forum is a "privilege" when it is the most direct line you can get to them to give your opinion on aspects has always irked me, as has their somewhat open to abuse policies disagree all you want but from what I'm seeing on the forum and others who normally are calm and forgiving of heavy handedness, they're being ridiculous at times. When you add the faceless aspect to their moderation, it always just seems too oppressive but that's just me.
As for their manifesto not matching their direction:
I don't actually mind that they've added in a new tier of gear, they can add more if they like for all I care it won't change the aspects of the game that need fixing for me as a player and in my personal opinion, if their idea of removing grind was only for leveling up, why stop there? and why then have such a sort of "culture shock" when after not being forced to grind for levels all the way up, are you suddenly faced with the same grind centric content that people clearly were not expecting given the complaints, and most certainly didn't want?
Would it have killed them to say "our leveling won't have grinding, we don't think that's fun but later on you'll have to inevitably grind for gear"
Then at LEAST they wouldn't have such a huge backlash from the community and the feeling of betrayal, vague marketing is BAD marketing, defend their intent but as much as I cannot prove they didn't intend this from their manifesto, you cannot prove otherwise except to claim it's "contextually correct" as all it comes to is just conjecture.
And that's because their manifesto can be misinterpreted. And it if can be misinterpreted, then it can be considered misleading.
"We don't find grinding fun, we don't want you to grind" can be interpreted either as
a) "We're not going to let you grind by adding in a ton of DR and gate you"
b) "We're going to create a game where grinding is not necessary for anything and goals won't take you months of repetition"
Which sounds more like what they've done? remember I'm not asking what they meant in their manifesto which can be interpreted either way, I'm asking what from a subjective opinion as a player, which seems more likely from the above two interpretations?
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