Why promote a Custom Portal Game Mode
Am I the only one who finds it tone deaf to promote a new community portal mode on Fridays? I mean you can't even progress anything and there's still an xp cap on portal mode at this point. They have...
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@DominickB3 wrote:Am I the only one who finds it tone deaf to promote a new community portal mode on Fridays? I mean you can't even progress anything and there's still an xp cap on portal mode at this point. They haven't given any updates on a return or progression or full xp to the mode, so why keep trying to push people into it.
https://twitter.com/Battlefield/status/1479484585247399954?s=20
Because the customization is fun and many have liked the content in Portal. Don't blame DICE on the xp cap, blame all the people who decided on taking cheap shortcuts to boost their status instead of grinding like everyone else.
- @VBALL_MVP My only issue is, why does it matter if people waste their time doing that? It doesn't make them any better, the challenges in this game are not difficult just time consuming. Does anyone at this point really brag about their rank or mastery as a way to feel better in this game? They have lost so many players, they may as well open everything back up. It might increase the player base again even if it leads to farming.
@DominickB3 wrote:
@VBALL_MVPMy only issue is, why does it matter if people waste their time doing that? It doesn't make them any better, the challenges in this game are not difficult just time consuming. Does anyone at this point really brag about their rank or mastery as a way to feel better in this game? They have lost so many players, they may as well open everything back up. It might increase the player base again even if it leads to farming.So if it doesn't matter so much about progressing, why you complaining about it?
Here is why it matters: since progression unlocks guns, people can have all the top guns and attachments ahead of everyone else. We saw that with people melting the competition using better unlocked guns on day 2 when others are still trying to grind it out. What a great way to keep the player base.
- @VBALL_MVP What player base? The game has already lost like 70 percent of it. Besides it's not that hard to unlock attachments. And it's more of a balance issue in the game if the higher unlock guns are much better than the initial guns.
I am complaining because I paid for the game the same as everyone else. Why should my progression be limited in the official AoW mode just because some people decided to farm?
@VBALL_MVP So odd to me that you would blame the users when they were using it as intended. Ripple Effect claimed they had measures in place to prevent XP farms, but clearly that wasn't the case. Now people have to deal with the consequences of that, not that people used the system.
- @suika_1138 if it was being used as intended, they wouldn't have put a XP cap would they? You are right that they did claim they had measures in place, but obviously they thought the community wouldn't still try to find a way.
So now they made a change to live up to their claims that they had measures in place to ensure no more XP farming. This consequence is all due to players trying to find easy exploits, I don't see why it would be odd to point the finger at them them for the current outcome.
- @VBALL_MVP DICE is solely to blame. It is irrelevant to the game if people abuse that method. There isn't any negative effect on players. They stopped it to help their bottom line (loss of players in a shorter period of time). They are simply incompetent.
@VBALL_MVP You have to think they knew what would happen before launch and let it go to get sales. Only turning the XP off after everyone had paid for the game to prevent progression has to be something they knew they would do. As everyone that sticks with the game will get everything anyway, It is really only a launch problem that will quickly go away. Unless of course there is going to be a requirement to grind in the season passes, etc, which although I own, am unlikely to ever bother with now.
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