Friedrich Psitalon
02-20-2012, 07:38 PM
Since both my thread in general, and the Official "Discuss this patch here" thread are both locked, I'm going to repost my comments here. Presumably, this isn't a quash-negative-commentary campaign (after all, Trendy has wisely allowed it to continue before) I'm going to repost and request new commentary here:
I can't use the official thread, so I'm going to at least talk about it in the PC Patch Notes subforum.
----------As Finally requested, repost begins here-----------
I'm not going to talk about Valentine's Day, except in an oblique reference, but that deserves its own thread.
1) This is not a pvp game. Just calling it out. Designing an event around pvp is a very dubious decision at best. I'll let that go, though.
2) Designing a pvp event in which the most important factor is the location of an unkillable super NPC who can one-shot any hero, any time, anywhere, on any difficulty is NOT a pvp event. It is a survive-the-juggernaut-while-trying-to-kill each other event.
3) The duration of this is absolutely ridiculous. PvP - which clearly is not a Trendy specialty - is not about long endurance matches, except in TBS, occasionally RTS (LoL being an exception, though those matches are usually decided in brief spans of seconds and have a lot of wasted time), and Chess. PvP is short, violent, and then you start the match over. I can't imagine trying to dodge Nightmare Kobolds and Ogres for the required time - all the while noting that the slightest error causes you to lose points when half the arena becomes lethal because of the flying demon.
4) President's Day, last I checked - and Trendy is American - is supposed to be a day in recognition of certain old, long-dead leadership figures of this nation. Arguably, it might be about more current Presidents. It is certainly not about who I got to my horror with my huntress: Michelle Obama. Nor is it about this ridiculously-colored, oafish looking little quasi-mutant "Democratic Donkey." It certainly has never been about candidates for office who have not even been so much as anointed by their own party, if other threads are to be believed.
With all due respect, in view of this "event" and the Valentines "Event" I would like to suggest that Trendy switch from a policy of quantity to one of quality. This event wasn't paid for - and wasn't required. Have your art assets do something more useful to the Eternia series. Have your design team code some new, interesting mechanics.
Have your beta testers be given a chance to tell you that being one-shotted on any difficulty with any character BY A MONSTER when you're trying to pvp is NOT fun pvp.
Quantity is only greater than Quality when it is enjoyable. A lot of us were looking forward to a boss battle zone after certain recent comments.
The only thing worse than Valentine's I can think of, sadly, is this. I hope I won't say "the only thing worse than President's Day" on the next one.
Quality please. Not Quantity.
I can't use the official thread, so I'm going to at least talk about it in the PC Patch Notes subforum.
----------As Finally requested, repost begins here-----------
I'm not going to talk about Valentine's Day, except in an oblique reference, but that deserves its own thread.
1) This is not a pvp game. Just calling it out. Designing an event around pvp is a very dubious decision at best. I'll let that go, though.
2) Designing a pvp event in which the most important factor is the location of an unkillable super NPC who can one-shot any hero, any time, anywhere, on any difficulty is NOT a pvp event. It is a survive-the-juggernaut-while-trying-to-kill each other event.
3) The duration of this is absolutely ridiculous. PvP - which clearly is not a Trendy specialty - is not about long endurance matches, except in TBS, occasionally RTS (LoL being an exception, though those matches are usually decided in brief spans of seconds and have a lot of wasted time), and Chess. PvP is short, violent, and then you start the match over. I can't imagine trying to dodge Nightmare Kobolds and Ogres for the required time - all the while noting that the slightest error causes you to lose points when half the arena becomes lethal because of the flying demon.
4) President's Day, last I checked - and Trendy is American - is supposed to be a day in recognition of certain old, long-dead leadership figures of this nation. Arguably, it might be about more current Presidents. It is certainly not about who I got to my horror with my huntress: Michelle Obama. Nor is it about this ridiculously-colored, oafish looking little quasi-mutant "Democratic Donkey." It certainly has never been about candidates for office who have not even been so much as anointed by their own party, if other threads are to be believed.
With all due respect, in view of this "event" and the Valentines "Event" I would like to suggest that Trendy switch from a policy of quantity to one of quality. This event wasn't paid for - and wasn't required. Have your art assets do something more useful to the Eternia series. Have your design team code some new, interesting mechanics.
Have your beta testers be given a chance to tell you that being one-shotted on any difficulty with any character BY A MONSTER when you're trying to pvp is NOT fun pvp.
Quantity is only greater than Quality when it is enjoyable. A lot of us were looking forward to a boss battle zone after certain recent comments.
The only thing worse than Valentine's I can think of, sadly, is this. I hope I won't say "the only thing worse than President's Day" on the next one.
Quality please. Not Quantity.