Virg, in my opinion, the only reason people leave Ryzom is the lack of freedom in the gameplay and NOT the lack of OP battles. It's the contrary.
"Lack of freedom" in Ryzom????? Ryzom, a classless, fully sandbox MMORPG known as one of the few with a real freedom for the player to build its own character?
Yes, lack of freedom.
Actually to fully play the game a new player have no other choice than follow what some other people decide.
Even in the RP part there is a lack of freedom, because all decisions are simply made by one RP community and nothing seems can be done to change this.
In the past, there were real alternatives in the gameplay, and PvP was not the main part of it. Tho, it was a fun activity to do sometimes, for both losers and winners. Now PvP is the main focus of the game. More, since the merge, Ryzom turned as a full PvP game.
A strong community is a real good thing for a game, but when this community is not guided and mitigated by correct game mechanics and by an experienced team of developers that actually care of the game, and never favour a single side, then everything go broken.
When a game is owned by (some) player, unbalance and frustration is the only possible result for any new people that want really experience the no-more-as-in-the-past freedom of Ryzom.
This is just my opinion.
"Lack of freedom" in Ryzom????? Ryzom, a classless, fully sandbox MMORPG known as one of the few with a real freedom for the player to build its own character?
Yes, lack of freedom.
Actually to fully play the game a new player have no other choice than follow what some other people decide.
Even in the RP part there is a lack of freedom, because all decisions are simply made by one RP community and nothing seems can be done to change this.
In the past, there were real alternatives in the gameplay, and PvP was not the main part of it. Tho, it was a fun activity to do sometimes, for both losers and winners. Now PvP is the main focus of the game. More, since the merge, Ryzom turned as a full PvP game.
A strong community is a real good thing for a game, but when this community is not guided and mitigated by correct game mechanics and by an experienced team of developers that actually care of the game, and never favour a single side, then everything go broken.
When a game is owned by (some) player, unbalance and frustration is the only possible result for any new people that want really experience the no-more-as-in-the-past freedom of Ryzom.
This is just my opinion.
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