Thoughts on Casual Players 2 (electric boogaloo

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I made a thread for this a little bit less than a year ago now, and now that the game has more content (especially with darksea adding more PvE content and with the empires update right around the corner) I want to revisit the community’s opinion on casual players in the game that don’t engage with the PvP aspects much, and simply play the game at their own pace. More specifically, I want to see if/how the opinion changed, and hear your guys’ thoughts on the matter. I’m also adding a second poll related to casual clans this time around since the empires update is coming out sooner rather than later.

Poll about casual players:

  • I enjoy seeing them around!
  • As long as they mind their business, they’re alright.
  • Casual players exist to give me free renown.
  • Casual players shouldn’t exist in this game at all.
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Poll about casual clans (ones that don’t participate in PvP a lot, just having a clan for their close friends or something)

  • Casual clans should be encouraged more!
  • Casual clans are fine as is, so long as they mind their business.
  • Casual clans exist to give my clan free infamy.
  • Clans should be PvP only, casual clans shouldn’t exist.
0 voters

I’m interested in seeing how the results may differ this time around, so fire away with the discussions!

Here’s a link to the original post, if you’re curious.

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I think casual things are what makes AO AO

If you rush through the game and play 24/7, nobody would want to really be around you bcuz you are too good and make it less fun

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I enjoy having random funny interactions, spontaneous boss raiding parties, and gimmicky fights.

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better to see a guy fishing and fish with him than to see a guy fishing and get jumped by that guy and 3 of his friends

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whoever voted “casual players exist to give me free renown” is evil

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there was a lot of them on the last poll, as well as a handful thinking casuals shouldn’t exist whatsoever

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They’re either trolling or mindnumbingly stupid. Not entirely sure how you make a modern game without casuals.

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I make these polls anonymous so that people are free to express their true feelings in them for more accuracy, if I didn’t do this then people would get flamed for their choices

the point being that we’re not gonna know who did unless they come forward

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I suck and nobody wants to be around me anyways :frcryin:

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IMO this poll should be reversed, like “Thoughts on competitive players” would be more relevant since I hardly ever see anybody complain about casuals, it’s usually the other way around

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it’s too late to edit now without trashing the poll results that are already here, but if I ever do a thoughts part 3 i’ll definitely keep that in mind

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casuals exist to boost my kill count and fill my coffers with infamy :innocent:

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I love helping out random casual player with boss and goes around to even avenge them too

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to be fair vetex did say ao is meant to be a pve game, as a pver myself i think pvp adds flavor to the game but it’s just not fun when we get ganked randomly 24/7. plus majority of this game is actually just casual players :sob:

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same, i remember once fighting calvus with like 5 other people and the boss’ hp spiked to 27k

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New Players and Casuals are the BEST! Some have fun and awesome personalities, totes fun to hang with them! Its to me what makes this game fun!

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bait used to be believable

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really love it when casuals get together to explore dark sea together or just start a new file save and do the story together. it shows that the community isn’t as bad and toxic as everyone says it is ^^

me personally, i love helping newbies get from place to place on my ship so they can progress the story faster

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Hahah ya! I like taking stepstone peoples done with that story into my sailors lodge detour (The Dark Sea) “on accident”… Most get out alive and I give them the chests

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I remember you doing that but

You were summoned by the Teal Light when you were supposed to take me and optie to sailors.

So I Boat-Jacked you and went to sailors