starting to lose faith

[stargazer093]

firstly, sorry for my poor english, `tis not my mother language
secondly, I know this is but another whining thread (which there are already a hundreds) but still, this is a forum, so anyway

to be honest, I really don`t want to have to post this, nor do I like to have this feeling..I`ve been playing PS1 since beta. Like many of you guys around here, as a vet, I have a very high expectation for PS2, I used to dream it as a perfect replacement for PS1, which I could find many of the old feeling there. When the screenshot of that Vanguard came out, I couldn`t sleep well for almost a week, thought my dream would come true. I started to translate even a little bit of news of PS2 to my motherlanguage so those vets like me could know about the latest infos too, every morning, even still in bed, the first thing I did was open PSU to see if there were new infos.

Later, with more and more information emerges out of the dark, I understand that SOE thinks PS1 isn`t as much as succeed they had hoped, so they took a completely different path in PS2, yet, they said they will be watching the community closely and listen to our voices and feedbacks. I was very exiting and happy about this, because as far as I know, few game developers have ever bother done this, so I had faith on them, because I was so sure that they will do it well.

After the beta started, many problems emerged. I won`t bother summary them up here, I m sure all of you people who have been in tech test and beta know what I m talking about. Anyway, SOE did what they said they would have done, they did listen, then making changes even to the core game mechanics. So still, I had faith on them

During the later stage of the beta, compare to the tech test, PS2 is already a whole new game. Yet, more and more problems emerged, countless of glitches, many balancing issues, etc. Yet, I know the devs will listen and make changes because it is what they have been doing for the past months. Meanwhile, Devs talk about their visions and the current stage of PS2 on the interviews, Smed`s wall of text http://john-smedley.livejournal.com/2412.html which is typed by Smed himself to just answer over the questions and comments.. Facing all these passions, I still had faith on them, I mean, how couldn`t I?

Nevertheless, it is at this stage of the game - which obviously isn`t ready, that SOE has announced the release date - not early 2013, nor end 2012, but mid November 2012. I still recall how many shitstorms and havocs and chaos have appeared on the forum, both on the official forum and in PSU, and countless fan-community all over the world as well. They have a single voice: "`TIS TOO DAMN EARLY!" Although I agree with this, I saw Smed on twitter, said he was so sure that they would do well. Looking back at what they`ve done before, I still had faith that the game will be good and give back all my feeling of PS1.

So it has come, at November 20th, PS2 has officially launched. It is a great success - severs were booming, epic big fights can be found all over the continents, positive rating and awards are everywhere... Despite the problems showed, I still had faith on them because I was sure that these will be fixed, soon.

Yet, two months have passed, not only many the previous problems still appears, none of the promised contents have been added (mission system, new player tutorial, for example), most importantly, number of player starts to decline: sever statues fell from high, to medium, then to low; epic, prolong fights were almost no more and can only be seen at certain locations of the map (yes, you there, the Crown, I`m talking about you)... And still, none of the promising new contents have been added, nor many of the old problems have been fixed (Air, grinding, spawncamp, vehicleside, balancing, new player tutorial, zerg spam, etcetcetc). At this point, it would be lying to say I still have the same faith as I had before. I down from two hours of PS2 per day to one hour, then some day I don`t even touch it, then to semi-quit... I recommended PS2 to many of my friends, now all of them are gone, none of them are left, either due to lack of tutorial, or due to balancing, performance, "would be better to play CS", etc. And guess it would be confident to say that, I won`t go back until they have actually fixed something either... yeah...

Years since PS2 emerges from the dark, for years I care and put my faith and trust and confidence into devs and SOE, but now.. they are going, and won`t be coming back anytime soon..

so here`s all the whining from a young vet. Alright, its 12:32 pm, time for the combination of breakfast and lunch! then French essay


edit: no I never mean to say "DIS SHOULDA BE PS1.5!!!SOE YOU`VE RUINED PS!!!" I fully understand why SOE has toke this move in going to a completely different path...what I am worrying about is the game at stage it is now.