AO’s his job.[1]
Him saying its a passion project is to seem like a more chill developer without any restraints, except it’s quite literally his income.
He has been demotivated for months and have spent development time on other areas on Roblox, utterly unrelated to AO, sure this is a form of taking a break, but it’s also diverting development to another project when AO in itself is running quite low on concurrent players to begin with.
Yeah, I’d think with a passion project you’d want to do your best to make it the best you could for everyone that would interact with it, right? Even if you have to change your vision a little bit in the process, because that’s how life works anyway.
I feel like to an extent that if you rely on a project to be your primary financial support, you should be treating it at least somewhat like a business and make a consistent effort to keep it in a favorable state, while balancing it out with the passion with working on the most fun parts himself.
Actually, I think the new energy system was one of his few legitimately good ideas for Full Release. I actually find myself cooking proper meals now, unlike beforehand, and now having to manage energy in combat makes the game significantly more fair, as NPCs finally no longer have a leg up over us.
As said in another thread, it was meant to leave development youth with FR dropping.
I don’t even know what to believe anymore. Do I have faith and hope or not? I feel like I’m going crazy, I’ve seen good arguments for both sides and my room-temperature IQ doesn’t know what to think anymore
mmm yummy crumbs i love crumbs!
cant wait for full release part 2
full release killed arcane odyssey another one will cause the game to shutdown for full release part 3
big updates never actually work unless the game is critically reworked
oh my god bruh how many more of these are we going to make
It is unplayable due to updates not because there aren’t stuff to do, but because the systems that already exist are bad. Chess and tetris are not relevant today because they have five million side activities, it’s literally one single game over and over again; they are relevant because their core gameplay is something many people are invested into and people want to master it
This proves my point very well. If you think there is a “best build” in ao, then you’ve already killed the game for yourself, whether this statement is true or not, because your perception of ao is that it has no depth
For me personally, experimenting with different stat builds, viable or not, and trying them out in pvp was a big factor of my enjoyment, so much so that i made gen ai make a build for me solely because i get to try something i have never tried before (my video on that did poorly btw 
). To me, this gives ao enough depth for me to enjoy for at least a few hundred hours, which for me is a lot of time
On the flip side however a lot of the stat builds are just very cookie cutter; oracle feels like mage with less spells, less damage, better speed, and free regen and is easily the best example of a stat build feeling very basic. Terrible balancing is also a factor, making it so that sometimes there is almost zero reason to play one stat build over another (savantlord in early full release practically invalidated conjurer). It is something that even the most dedicated players trashtalk, which says a lot
Tl;dr a point has been made over and over again by many people – ao with as many features as it has is shallow as hell, even in the pvp department. No amount of side activities will save it, features need to be reworked and expanded upon instead
and because this point has been made like ten billion times can we stop making posts like these? im tired boss
can’t wait for fuller release and fullest release
Nah.
It’s public knowledge, if someone wants it deleted it’d be out of embarrassment.
Just a year ago this man was horrified by a roblox update threatening to take a big portion of his income away, mind you.
If we’re to believe vetex, his finances come solely from AO and patreon. If either fail, he imperatively must get a job or go homeless.
Then again, supposedly all the leftover money he has after covering his basic expenses goes back into AO development, yet apparently that is not true.
Mind you, the issue is not him thirsting over e-thots, the issue is him donating tons of money to them in spite of his supposed rough financial situation, when there are definitely already free alternative for thirsting.
And also doing it on his main account, as well as a second account (the Ryan in question). Apparently the idea of using two accounts hasn’t evaded him, so why not at least keep the thirsting on his obscure alt, and not his main account where he also posts dev updates for his game enjoyed by all ages.
*A theory.
Nothing was confirmed, granted it’s very coincidental that both Vetex and someone named Ryan donated to the same person, but unless definitive proof is provided the best we have is a far too likely theory.
granted yeah it’s no matter horrible.
How can I check the accounts on the leaderboard, again?
Cough cough
You can’t, the only reason we know Vetex’s is because it literally says @_vetex at T and the fact we’ve seen the tweet mentioning vetex, with Ryan it just says… Ryan.
As I stated, it could be coincidental… likely not but we can’t just say it is without SOLID proof.
