I’mDone, I legitimately do not think you guys even know what stability is

I do think it has reached a point where even people that spent years leaning more in defense of Rare and/or challenged a lot of the criticism are starting to change their views.

Whether it's the forums, social media, twitch, just general chill spots around the community I've observed people change their tune quite a bit in the last few+ months.

To me it was always about direction of the game. I can deal with bugs, cheating, lag, hit reg. No problem.

Completing the transformation from a risk filled adventure game into an extremely cheesy farm game that is filled with non stop extreme exploiting by regs just made the above more potent.

It can still be enjoyed at the super casual level in smaller doses but it's in a frustrating condition outside of that.

It's not really even enjoyable to watch anymore. Seeing someone deal with bugs and issues from the first outpost to the end of the session just isn't very appealing anymore. Especially as it gets more and more rare to find anything interesting at an experienced combat/risk stage of play. Only get so many cool moments, unfortunate to see so many of them negatively affected by the game's performance.

@metal-ravage said in I’mDone, I legitimately do not think you guys even know what stability is:

It can be frustrating dealing with all that is going on, yet let's not forget this is a 7 years old game. The devs are doing their best to keep it afloat and add more content imo.

Sometimes it might get too much to cope with this game so take your time and play something else for a while. Meanwhile let's hope the devs with solve some of the major issues with SOT.

People aren't falling for it anymore.

This state of play cycle has been going on for years, over and over. Rare says and does the same things, the community reacts to it the same way, short and long term.

They have people that play this game because they are hooked on fomo, they have people that play this game like it's a job to watch easy gold numbers going up. They have people that will say this or that because they wanna be partner, or wanna get a title or some attention on the socials.

They are losing the adventure in their game though. Issues go up and they just keep throwing counter-productive mass rewards out there to keep people from completely avoiding each other or playing games that run better.

Right now there is zero point to taking risk because nobody else is and because pvp is in such horrible condition that it's losing to the game, not players.

The thousand cut bugs just add on to that, session after session.

The whole "let people make bajillions of gold and hundreds of faction levels a week so they forget about it" thing is gonna end in disaster. It's not even good short term, it's awful long term.

There is already way too much to do organically, which is why so few players attach to it anymore. What are we gonna do? raise the levels to 10k so the regs can keep on cheesing as a reward for a game that doesn't work well? Add 100 million gold cosmetic sets that new players will not even try for? That's what gonna happen with the direction they have been going in the last year.

@unleet1 said in I’mDone, I legitimately do not think you guys even know what stability is:

Revert game back to roughly Season 1 state/code, and start back from there. :D It was far from perfect in '21 but at least workable/playable.

'19 -'21 was prime SoT for experienced main gamers imo

Risk/reward wasn't good for casual players at all but for main gamers it was a good mix of solid state of play, thrilling adventure, plenty of significance, and a lot less cheesing/cheesy design.

They've added a lot of cool stuff here and there but the experience was much higher quality and more consistent for experienced players.

@fysics3037 said in I’mDone, I legitimately do not think you guys even know what stability is:

@callmebackdraft we're all hoping SoT gets good one day, but I'm with you. It's terrible right now, and has been for years, not worth sinking anytime into when there's better options just out there for free.

For some people

I think what separates SoT from a lot of games is that it attracts people that aren't really that into variety gaming or gaming at all. Some games just hit and to many people it's the only one.

It's a different kind of frustration when it's really the only one that some enjoy.

Better performance out there but not a better option, for some. SoT is something truly unique.

@realstyli said in I’mDone, I legitimately do not think you guys even know what stability is:

Season 16 focusing on the Reapers gives me even less hope.

Like I said, it's depressing.

Reminds me of sitting around in Season 7 while they were hyping up HG for season 8. There was very little interest in that sort of content in general and the specifics of HG were even less appealing.

Not only has the base not ever really been sitting around waiting for more contrived combat, they've been running the game in a way that has people avoiding combat more and more and more.

Any season that is advertised as a pvp season is gonna lead to a lot of players tuning out. Not just because they hear "pvp" but because we as players know what that means for a season. Regs cheese it and then expect everyone else to take the risk, it runs out organic participation. and then the first patch almost always makes content worse and less organically appealing.

People have gone through the nightmare of hg fomo, siren song being abandoned almost immediately (and then we get stuck with the respawn manipulation), the BB being a very unappealing piece of content. Not much to be confident about contrived combat when it hasn't had a lot of player support since Arena.

They don't even kinda sorta have control over the mass exploiting in this game so I highly doubt 16 ends up much differently, even if it has a better design than usual.