Can we realistically defend terrible features such as notoriety, water poisoning, dirt accumulation and tanning, armor breaking and fall damage? Is there an actual good reason for them to be present and not that vetex wanted to make ao more immersive to an extent, like did he ACTUALLY think through …

[image] Head_of_Tomato: I’m just glad that Vetex hasn’t caved into the “norm” for some games where they make a problem in the game and sell the solution for IRL money. What do you mean? We literally have the magic change hecate shard things. That was the most garbage decision he ever took.

Still don’t get why is he so reluctant about letting people change their magic more freely than gambling on Far Reaches’ island generation. He allowed strenght to swap fighting styles by visiting pre-placed npcs, and weapons/spirit only need to do a long grind once, after which they press just a few…

Because he’s too stuck up on lore reasons. I kind of understand because I’ve done something similar but he’s awfully obsessed over it. You can’t treat a game like a book, Game design should be treated differently and you have to understand how things come across to your players. If a certain mechan…

Notoriety being included in the same conversation as the rest is a bit strange seeing as you have to basically go out of your way to actually have it be an issue. All the others are basically experienced by everyone whereas simply not having a bounty means no notoriety, and it’s not like having one …

[image] A fix to bounty players being forced to not play the game for 15 minutes after they die Suggestions I got to see this post a while ago, and I agree that the mechanic is too unfair and annoying. Despite many people in that topic’s replies not being very …

That stupid wind knockback thing boats got lowk pmo so much bruh

[image] delta_000: tanning is by far the most useless, maybe even annoying feature ingame Lmao, white people problems (my character doesn’t get that much darker)

Are AO'S bad game design features actually defendable

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BiologLOL May 15, 2026, 7:13am 52

Here. Also, when making this one, I accidentally stumbled onto the same exact suggestion someone has made before. Feel awkward now