World Domination Series Honest Thoughts (State of the Game)

[snoopadoopa]

Hey all SnooPSton here with my two pennies on the WDS series. Enjoy !

[ringring]

Nice vid .. and I agree with everything you said.

[Escroteitor]

I agree with everything I understood from your vid.

[Calista]

I am more and more convinced every day the root problem of most of this game is its business model. Is that ever going to change? Hell no but the problems associated with it are numerous.

[Emperor Newt]

Originally Posted by Calista

I am more and more convinced every day the root problem of most of this game is its business model. Is that ever going to change? Hell no but the problems associated with it are numerous.

Well, the business model itself isn't a problem. SOEs usage of it is. Especially with the emphasize on forcing the player to pay instead of making him wanting to pay. The large discrepancy between the character progression (the only kind of progression there is) of a free2play player and a boosted member (that knows how to farm certs) just makes it feel like a grind for the f2p users. And that might work in Asia, in Europe/US it doesn't. If people feel like they have to grind, they quit. Combined with all the other issues the game has the low player numbers we see now are the result. And yes, I know, if they are here for the progression they are playing the game wrong and all that BS. But I'm sorry, that's not an option for a free2play game. Either you have no progression at all, or one that feels great and (especially!) almost equal between f2p and paying users. PS2 has neither of those.

[Bulltahr]

How about a 1 month trial, then if you like it, you buy membership??
After all, it's the paying users that keep the game on-line remember.

[DirtyBird]

I enjoyed your video thanks.

[SconX]

hi snoop! & thanks for this video

i completelly agree with you. the population problem ist the biggest at the moment and honestly i dont understand why SOE is reacting so lame. We both know which is the situation on ceres, but the same we have also on the other server. New people join a faction on a server, they play some days or weeks and build a new char because the frustration is huge. As Vanu on Ceres i have not win any Alert over month. Togheter with my outfit we have tryed a lot of tactical movements but nothing helps. When i seriously play i get the most kills on the server, but this is not the way to push outfitbuilding/fun/challenge or anything else. It is just a scream of help. The overpopulation is destructive and when we speak about sustainability SOE will loose not just the people because they dont have fun to play anymore, they will loose also a lot of money.

Some questions to every dominating faction/people on each server!->is this the challenge that you expecting from this game? how long are you happy after winning all the alerts all the time? and the last one: how long do you think that you will have fun playing in this art?....

The first step in the right direction to solve this shit is a very simply algorithm and it works immediately on every server. Every computer science student would build it in max. 5 min. When you have the factions x,y,z and the population of x is more than 2-3% (example)-you wanna logg in/switch, than you have just the posibility to join faction y or z. Nothing more...The suggestion about booster is in my opinion the wrong way, because when you have played enough time, you skilled everything-Certs/XP or LVLs are over longer time uninteresting.

I really hope that people will recognize and open their eyes to see what is the real problem of this game...

[Shamrock]

Some good points made.

[PortlandZombie]

Great video friend, you have a new subscriber!

[Ruffdog]

Good video. Subscribed

[DredVS]

The WDS to me is just a stopgap to prevent people from quitting the game while SOE works on optimization, Hossin, Battle Islands, and Continental Lattice.

[VaderShake]

One of the biggest problems with the game is that you can have multiple faction characters on 1 server. Promotes point chasing rather than territory capture.

[EVILPIG]

Originally Posted by VaderShake

One of the biggest problems with the game is that you can have multiple faction characters on 1 server. Promotes point chasing rather than territory capture.

That means nothing. It's a F2P game that requires no verification to create multiple accounts. Limiting players to empires per account/server would just punish players who legitimately play multiple empires.

[VaderShake]

Originally Posted by EVILPIG

That means nothing. It's a F2P game that requires no verification to create multiple accounts. Limiting players to empires per account/server would just punish players who legitimately play multiple empires.

"Punish players" Really? Thank you for reinforcing my point, the fact that players can hop between factions on 1 server is a big part of the problem. Pick your team and stick with it. Go play another faction on a different server if you would like instead of being a point/ fair weather faction whore jumping between factions on any given night so you increase your chance to get certs or increase your KD because you jump on the front runner. The only people getting "Punished" are the ones who are sticking to their faction as the whole mythos of PlanetSide was built on while their enemies/others routinely undermine the core concept of the game by switching factions.