Current state of the game
Here are some of my thoughts as well as those in my guild on where things have come to in this game:
1) Bored. This can be broken down into a couple spots.
1a) GW again is taking way to long. Many in my guild are unable to complete it day after day now. This is after months of being able to complete it. The June 15th update allowed us to spend maybe 20 minutes of our day on it. The June 29th has many of my guild mates spending 1+ hours on a single run through. So with the GW guild event, it requires 3+ hours of time for an event they cannot finish anyways. As many have said, if we wanted to spend that amount of time playing a game, it wouldn't be on our phone but rather exploring the worlds of fallout, elder scrolls, far cry, etc...
1b) The gear grind is to much of a grind. Most in my guild are taking nearly a month or better to add a single gear piece for gear 9 or 10 to a character. The raid drops are terrible. (We are a T6 raid and definitely not ready for T7) what farmable purple gear / salvage we do need is a terrible drop rate. I had 2 stretches for the MK6 syringe salvage where I had a 1/17 and 1/12 drop rates. Many of my guild mates are having the same issues. The challenges don't offer much help in the gear we need and could he reworked. But please keep the MK6 syringe salvage bc without that, it would take ages to get the 650 I currently need. Also, let's add more levels to the challenges.
3a) New challenges are to hard for many in my guild. I know plenty of you will say they are almost all f2p toons required. And while true, even as a f2p player you can only farm shards, training droids, credits so fast. Now, I'm not hating on these new events. I think it's great they are adding new content. But I'm in the group that would also like more tiers, easier tiers with less rewards to allow more folks to compete. The credit crunch is tough for many... And unfortunately for many, these events aren't helping like it does for many others bc they can't compete at or finish the event if they have just enough toons to compete.
Ok, I guess there was only 1 with a few sub points to it. But ultimately, the game is taking so long for lots of folks to build up a team. Events aren't helping most in my guild. GW has become frustrating all over again. The raid rewards and gear collection in general is terrible. Drop rates for shards (which most of my guild isn't even doing anymore bc gear has become to important) and gear is a joke.
Due to all of this, over the last 2-3 weeks our guild has had 6 members drop out. Not only drop out of the guild, but leave the game altogether. In general, they have all said its to time consuming, frustrating, to slow to build toons and grind gear. They simply aren't having fun.
So, those are some of the thoughts from myself and guild mates on what we've noticed over the last month or so. Do you agree, disagree? Or maybe agree and disagree with certain parts of this post?
1) Bored. This can be broken down into a couple spots.
1a) GW again is taking way to long. Many in my guild are unable to complete it day after day now. This is after months of being able to complete it. The June 15th update allowed us to spend maybe 20 minutes of our day on it. The June 29th has many of my guild mates spending 1+ hours on a single run through. So with the GW guild event, it requires 3+ hours of time for an event they cannot finish anyways. As many have said, if we wanted to spend that amount of time playing a game, it wouldn't be on our phone but rather exploring the worlds of fallout, elder scrolls, far cry, etc...
1b) The gear grind is to much of a grind. Most in my guild are taking nearly a month or better to add a single gear piece for gear 9 or 10 to a character. The raid drops are terrible. (We are a T6 raid and definitely not ready for T7) what farmable purple gear / salvage we do need is a terrible drop rate. I had 2 stretches for the MK6 syringe salvage where I had a 1/17 and 1/12 drop rates. Many of my guild mates are having the same issues. The challenges don't offer much help in the gear we need and could he reworked. But please keep the MK6 syringe salvage bc without that, it would take ages to get the 650 I currently need. Also, let's add more levels to the challenges.
3a) New challenges are to hard for many in my guild. I know plenty of you will say they are almost all f2p toons required. And while true, even as a f2p player you can only farm shards, training droids, credits so fast. Now, I'm not hating on these new events. I think it's great they are adding new content. But I'm in the group that would also like more tiers, easier tiers with less rewards to allow more folks to compete. The credit crunch is tough for many... And unfortunately for many, these events aren't helping like it does for many others bc they can't compete at or finish the event if they have just enough toons to compete.
Ok, I guess there was only 1 with a few sub points to it. But ultimately, the game is taking so long for lots of folks to build up a team. Events aren't helping most in my guild. GW has become frustrating all over again. The raid rewards and gear collection in general is terrible. Drop rates for shards (which most of my guild isn't even doing anymore bc gear has become to important) and gear is a joke.
Due to all of this, over the last 2-3 weeks our guild has had 6 members drop out. Not only drop out of the guild, but leave the game altogether. In general, they have all said its to time consuming, frustrating, to slow to build toons and grind gear. They simply aren't having fun.
So, those are some of the thoughts from myself and guild mates on what we've noticed over the last month or so. Do you agree, disagree? Or maybe agree and disagree with certain parts of this post?
