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The game HAS launched. What Cryptic is doing will destroy the MMO industry. Companies will start using these "soft launches" as a money grab and as a way to release an unfinished product.
Guess what? They took your money and the characters are not getting wiped- the game has launched.
Veni, Vidi, Vici
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Cheese?
Pretty sure they didn't take my money like some deceptive villian. I paid them money willingly. Hope that doesn't make you mad or anything. Im having fun, when I can actually log in that is. :P
Whilst I agree with yout hwe game has actually launched I find the rest of your post kinda melodramatic as these "Soft Luanches" have been standard practice for F2P MMORPG companies for nearing a decade now.
Same here... Lets see in 15 minutes from now if the server upgrades are enough to hold the hordes of players or that we have to wait again...
I saw this game for what it was way before Beta... sometimes you just go with your gut instinct, and my belly was grumbling the day I heard of Neverwinter... such a shame to sully such a great IP.
But seriously, "Destroy the MMO Industry" ? C'mon now...
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Nope, just getting timed out every time.
The miracle patch will fix everything...
What money? It surely wasn't mine.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Not to be a pain here, but your making multiple threads trying to tell people that this game is shallow. I understand you don't like it, but do you need to create multiple threads about it? Not only that but your spreading mis information in your other thread, I suggest you take care of the other discussion you started before starting new ones. And do some more research please.
Yes fans of a game hate it when all you do is post trash about how much you hate the game over and over again. If you hate a game its best to move on =-)
Saying "OPEN BETA" is a great way to fool the drooling hordes.
DONT BE WORRYZ GUISE! ITS ONLEE BEEDA.. behuerh
To be fair this isn't that much worse than what FFXIV did at launch.
I think this topic was throughly cover in a similar thread, only without the sarcasm in the title.
Oh no what FFXIV did at launch was 10 times worst. They launched game knowing full well it was broken at it's core for no other reason than to collect box sales.
Not that I am one to give PWI/Cryptic license to do this crap either. The game is launched and honestly it should be judged good or bad for what it is just like any other game. I don't think it's a horrible game personally but it's not a long term home either.
Expresso gave me a Hearthstone beta key.....I'm so happy
It's what Cryptic does. They're the equivalant of used car salemen in the gaming idustry. This made be beta, but don't kid yourself for a minute the game will release wi a lot fo the same issues that it had in beta. It's how Cryptic rolls , look through CO and STO's issues.
Beta is pretty much the released product most of the time for F2P games regardless of the company. You don't normally see huge changes even in some AAA games until major patches down the road. I wouldn't put the blame solely on Cryptic but realize that this is a industry wide problem of developers hiding behind " its beta". Companies are giving us incomplete games... have been for a long time.
Yeah, and they learned about it... new FFXIV beta will be more than half a year...
Other companies didnt learn a shit, they still trip over stone twice.. and more if they see a dollar close
I agree with you completely. This game is launched, no amount of arguing, changing definitions or calling things a beta will turn it into a beta.
But... Cryptic isn't anywhere near the first to do this kind of thing.
The main culprit recently was Path of Exile... though they seemed to get a free pass because thier ftp model is probably the best ever made.
um no...I remember threads like this when PoE launched to so they didn't get a free pass.
I didn't see much about it.. not like this anyway.
That's not the point though. The point is, yeh it's shit that companies are starting to do this more and more but the blame shouldn't fall on Cryptic just because they are the last ones to do it.
Hehe 'companies will start'...
It's a longstanding practice for F2P titles. Open beta for a F2P is the launch, then after a while it becomes 'official' (usually without many people noticing it even happening). It's been used to excuse bugs for a long time, only people didn't used to defend it as a good move as much...
As I have said before it's a cynical marketing ploy that treats it's customers as idiots, or profits from apathy. Though the end of MMOs it is not. This isn't even the worst culprit in gaming, WarZ has this beat hands down, they didn't even let reality get in their way.