I'm not ashamed to say it but I was using Zombie mode to grind out T1 skins for my least favourite weapons but now DICE realized they just gave ANOTHER xp farming method basically and it went poof already (it lasted what? A day or 2?)Honestly, everyone has been grinding out the T1 stuff on it so nearly everyone has most of it done... Whats the harm in it now? Apart from the previous XP farm at launch and this one, nobody can tell who earned certain badges "fairly"...This whole progression mess is becoming a joke at this point...

@Daeyon-be wrote:I'm not ashamed to say it but I was using Zombie mode to grind out T1 skins for my least favourite weapons but now DICE realized they just gave ANOTHER xp farming method basically and it went poof already (it lasted what? A day or 2?)Honestly, everyone has been grinding out the T1 stuff on it so nearly everyone has most of it done... Whats the harm in it now? Apart from the previous XP farm at launch and this one, nobody can tell who earned certain badges "fairly"...This whole progression mess is becoming a joke at this point...I honestly didn't even know what to think when I tried that mode...They basically killed Portal to prevent people from farming XP, and now they decide to release their own XP farm as a featured mode.

@Daeyon-be Whole-heartedly agree, this game is a slow burning dumpster fire from how bad their management is.

Anyway guys, what is the point of these XP points? you play like a month and you got all the attachments and weapons you need. If you’re coming to play for skins and XP etc. you’re playing it wrong I say. The game itself supposed to give you fun and It does for me for sure. I don’t care how my character looks like etc. I don’t see myself anyway. I’m just trying to understand where does this obsession come from? I’m around 50 years old when I was a child I played lots of computer games and didn’t have the desire to change the character like having a blue ninja instead of a black ninja etc. lol so the game Hass to be interesting instead. If the game is not interesting to you, it is very weird for me that you keep playing to change the looks of your character lolEdit: i’m going to take this a step further, this character customization obsession is driving the game in the direction it is going. It’s all about micro transactions for a customization.

@Daeyon-beBecause Dice knows that if people get T1 skins then what is the point to come back to the game when it has zero re-playability after that. The icing on this cake is that they know the AI is quite possibly the worst made AI in gaming, that's why they don't want people "farming", they have zero clue how to code for anything more advanced than them walking everywhere and shooting their guns inconsistently at us. If they knew how to make something more advanced, maybe it would be different.

i think the issue is and remains that DICE is scared people will grind out any upcomming seasonpassout so fast that it becomes irrelevent what and how much is in there.... at the end of the day a seasonpass should be just grindy enough to make a 08-15 player with disposable income cash in to skip the grind.... if XP farms were there noone would pay for boosters or streight up buy the stuff outright...also any weapon that will be introduced in a season pass i sbound to be overperforming out of the bix to give incentive for players to grind as fast as possible i.E cash in....EA will find every possible option to milk every last cent out of this game to appease the most likely ver very pissed investors

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DaddyWarBukx
4 years ago
@Daeyon-beBecause Dice knows that if people get T1 skins then what is the point to come back to the game when it has zero re-playability after that. The icing on this cake is that they know the AI is quite possibly the worst made AI in gaming, that's why they don't want people "farming", they have zero clue how to code for anything more advanced than them walking everywhere and shooting their guns inconsistently at us. If they knew how to make something more advanced, maybe it would be different.
Daeyon-be
4 years ago
@DaddyWarBukx Seems like an oversight in their whole "live service" thing... If you make a game and release it in a horrible state, remove all progression on portal because "abuse" (even though they said FULL progression), then go poof for a long time to come back and say "hey, next month we'll have a scoreboard!" and no word on actual improvements to the gameplay or an idea for new content...

I'm sorry but a game's lifecycle is already very short without new content, not to mention the state of this game... replayability should come from content and fun gameplay and not a measly badge or skin that only says "I played with this weapon a long time."
X-Sunslayer-X
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
i think the issue is and remains that DICE is scared people will grind out any upcomming seasonpassout so fast that it becomes irrelevent what and how much is in there.... at the end of the day a seasonpass should be just grindy enough to make a 08-15 player with disposable income cash in to skip the grind.... if XP farms were there noone would pay for boosters or streight up buy the stuff outright...
also any weapon that will be introduced in a season pass i sbound to be overperforming out of the bix to give incentive for players to grind as fast as possible i.E cash in....
EA will find every possible option to milk every last cent out of this game to appease the most likely ver very pissed investors
haumissedme
4 years ago
people were finally playing the game ;-)
i was raking up the xp, leveling up and unlocking stuff...
they should have left it since at this point they have no other way to make players happy.
BizzyVaping
4 years ago
@Daeyon-be wrote:
I'm not ashamed to say it but I was using Zombie mode to grind out T1 skins for my least favourite weapons but now DICE realized they just gave ANOTHER xp farming method basically and it went poof already (it lasted what? A day or 2?)
Honestly, everyone has been grinding out the T1 stuff on it so nearly everyone has most of it done... Whats the harm in it now? Apart from the previous XP farm at launch and this one, nobody can tell who earned certain badges "fairly"...
This whole progression mess is becoming a joke at this point...
I honestly didn't even know what to think when I tried that mode...

They basically killed Portal to prevent people from farming XP, and now they decide to release their own XP farm as a featured mode.
DaddyWarBukx
4 years ago
@Daeyon-be Whole-heartedly agree, this game is a slow burning dumpster fire from how bad their management is.
Daeyon-be
4 years ago
@haumissedme Haha so true (and so sad too)

Gotta say, the mode was kinda relaxing too xD
Spidder81
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@X-Sunslayer-X I honestly dont think this game will go past the year one pass. Unless drastic changes are made to this game I think most of us wont be spending a penny on it. Seems like they will just se if they can milk what they can out of it, and abandon it after they have given us a year of the passes
fragnstein
4 years ago
@DaddyWarBukx if the game was any fun to play, the game itself would repayable not grinding out some skins
X-Sunslayer-X
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Spidder81 EA is either obligated to put out 4 season passes (the quality of what is to be in it is up to them they could release a specialist and a skin and call it done) or refund everyone the cost of the season pass which was 15€ to my knowledge...
everything else will open them up to legal consequences