Saturday, March 19, 2011

What Do Players Want?

A selection of assorted feedback from the past week:

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Text: Guys i am dying for more hotbars. This game is incredible, but ten hotbars isnt enough! =)

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Text: i think there should be more guards patroling new halas just for protection and to make the city feel alive

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Text: please make key mobs un-despanwable for idiots like me

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Text: thanks for yet more crap loot from the PQ chest. I hope your hair falls out in patches.

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Text: Fighters should heal crit! :(

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Text: I must say that I really love the number of easter eggs the quest designers put in - npcs that give lore when hailed afterwards, or as additional dialogue options, or even giving hints if you hail them after. This is the first expansion in which I've genuinely been interested in what npcs have to say. Great job!

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Text: No difficulty nerfing please!!!!!


the game has only been out a couple weeks - it should not all be beatable right way.

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Text: make an instance where each named is a froglok clone of a group member and at the end all the shadows unite and turn into a massive froglok that squashing people with his feet!

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Text: screw you and the ice in the hold of rime ascent thats the stupidest bullshit you morons ever put in the damn game RETQARDS

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Text: OK! I love the expansion. Love the flying mounts!! Just amazing how beautiful this game is.....can't wait to see if this post makes Dommino's blog lol.... Please can we have a "tinkered flying baloon ship" and can you also offer it as a historical Guide Quest!! Those have been so fun! This would be awsome for tinkerfest coming up.

(Hi! But I don't plan to post any other comments that say this, otherwise everyone will start to do it.)
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Text: love the Guillermo Del Toro/Neil Gaiman feel of Pools in Velious :)

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Text: DELETE ALL MAIL BUTTON NOW!

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Text: Suggestion: Possibly a yearly event:

Camel and Flying Carpet Races in Sinking Sands where prizes are camel mounts, run speed 75 for the land bound (those who are too low a level to get the flying mounts). But there could also be sky races for prizes and for new flying carpets (really vivid color styles), that when the flying gryphon quests are completed, they can be a true flying mount (much like the Gnome aero race mounts...love those btw). Race courses would be in SS and PoF for these.

There could be an Arabian Nights type of event in conjuction with it where we can get outfits like 'I dream of Jeannie' and jeweled bottles that, when placed in house and rubbed once a day will give us some special (time limited) boost for battling.

Also, awesome bejeweled scimitars could be available for our appearance slots, and turbans for the guys heads, and for the girls, a shear veil for across her face that would mysteriously enhance her make-up around her eyes and make her eyes sparkle. There could be silly silk slippers (where the toe part curls up) in various vivid colors.

Your imagination could go wild with this...perhaps an Aladdin's Cave and a sleeping dragon where a number of stashed treasure items need be be stolen from the dragon successfully to win a prize.


Thanks for considering this,

( I thought of it while here in SS and saw the Camels running by)

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Text: So very cool.... these Public Quests are AWESOME and so much social time spent with many players :)

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Text: I find your lack of Sundered Frontier Wisdom-based quest rewards disturbing.

I mean, a Shaman can only take so much Str/Sta/Agi gear before he goes insane. >_<

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Text: I adore the developer that wrote the quests for the Othmir. Never before have I felt so involved in a developing storyline that phyiscally changed the enviroment of the people I was doing quests for. Thank you, you are a wonderful game designer and deserve a promotion to lead designer.

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Text: Some new hair styles would be nice. Something between super fancy frilly and just out of the shower would be nice.

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Text: Now that we have flying griffens we can ride all over the place, you guys should make some flying pig mounts!

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Text: Must we really take a furniture item from each repeatable faction quest from othmir & snowfang EVERY SINGLE DAY? How many othmir hammock's does one need? Could we have an option to perhaps say 'No thanks, I don't need furniture'.


The entire forest will surely be cut down for this multitude of wasted furniture that is forced upon us. The poor Othmir must do nothing but harvest wood and craft furniture for us like sweatshop workers. And the poor Snowfang gnolls have enough problems without taking up half their day making chairs for us.

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Text: Did you know: shadowknights do not resuscitate little otter pups. nor do they rescue kittens from trees. make them into handbags, maybe. make them into shoes or slippers, yes.

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5 comments:

  1. Oh... wow, did you bring back ice? Real, slippery ice, like in old-school Velks and Thurgadin? I was so disappointed that Thurg no longer had an icy entrance. I may have to visit Ascent just to relive old times. Count me as a supporter of "stupid bullshit" :)

    (By the way, what players *really* want is armadillo pets...)

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  2. We've had real slippery ice since at least the Christmas before last, which is when it was added into the Frostfell Village zone! And Gninja had much fun placing collectibles on the slippery ice that it's very difficult to stop and pick up without sliding past. It is, indeed, much fun.

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  3. I second that. Getting your character to stop right near a shiney in the Frostfell zone is an art! A lot of fun to master!

    Also, I would like to counter the hope regarding the PQ loot table designer's hair, and say that I wish him or her many, many years with a full head of hair.

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  4. Oh! Yes, I'd forgotten Frostfell. Yeah, I like to skate around the ice at high speed without bumping into islands. I've missed it in adventuring zones, though.

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