Has Vetex lost his passion for AO?

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its so over

we are so back

repeat 100 times

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Has vertex regained his passion for AO?

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acting like we wonā€™t bitch about the next update as always then post threads like this 2 months from now on

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the next update will just make the game perform worse : /

unless vetex actually gets competent people like scandin on the team, the game will remain badly optimised and poorly managed due to vetex admittedly being a bit of a jerk

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AO players try not to rubberband opinions at the slightest sign of an update challenge (they fucking failed, obviously)

So your head dev decided to tell you he was taking a breakā€¦ after the break ended. Great, I guess itā€™s a small nudge toward the right direction. I do appreciate him acknowledging this, though.

But, just like you canā€™t polish a turd, you also canā€™t put sprinkles on burnt food and expect it to taste good. While content updates are obviously good, they fail to address the actual core problems with the game that lead to playercounts plummeting inbetween updates. Vetex does deserve praise for deciding to add the QoL changes/additions (of which we donā€™t know the specifics of), but did it really need to take this long?

It honestly feels like some of you are in an abusive relationship with AO development progress. They ghost you for ages, but you immediately let them back into your life at the slightest sign of a text back.

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Dude, people sit and brag about how bad game and vetex are for likeā€¦ days, weeks, months? With barely any text back if any at all. Sometimes I think forum turned to have something like tsundere-like relationship with this game, but a bit different though, lol.

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Stockholm syndrome :broken_heart:

Mhm, any acknowledgment at all is great, though as you said; he acknowledged it after the break, which is the part Iā€™m annoyed by.

Said issue is the lack of proper player retention, the Dark Sea is supposed to be the center of replayability, except all it provides are really temporary achievements which result in players no longer needing to go back.

more content updats is a band-aid solution for player retention, it temporarily increases it until it plummets even harder than before.

and wrapping back around: ā€œStockholm syndrome :broken_heart:ā€

Don't be Rash
I may be more competent than the people who are on the developer team, but that does not make me competent.

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again. fleets were a mistake. but who am I to say anything!

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entirely true, cause to be honest i dont see seasonals retaining their value in the slightest, not to mention auction having jacked up prices

i think vetex lost his passion once people cried out for things to be reverted, cause oh my gosh we would be way better off in some mechanics being deleted

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stuff i suggest:

  • remove/repurpose fleets - (it just killed any reason to go to the darksea) and causes massive inflation. Alternatively just have em be a clan/guild exclusive thing if not removed entirely
  • Lock professions to only 3 being able to be maxed past a certain point (professions rework) - Tiers I-V, locked at a max of Tier III if its not one of a selected 3. you can switch ur professions u just have to relearn them and reupgrade them.
  • Remove/repurpose dragonblood (perhaps smth like progressive luck maxing out at like 50% chance to roll a second item or smth) ā€”> Killing the dragonlord should give a title as well
  • Remove dirt, tanning, and armor breaking (or alternatively just armor breaking since the other two dont piss me off as much)