As a casual pvp oriented player who also has a job, it's becoming really hard to play this game, I have more gold than I could ask for, already unlocked every skin I liked, same story with tall tales.
So now there's nothing else for me to do than to enjoy the unique and extremely fun combat system you created.
Arena used to give me that chance of just hoping in, having some fun, and hoping out, all in under the avg 2 hours I have to play games on my regular days.
Now that arena is gone and I'm kind of forced to go back to adventure, I must say this down times are killing my motivation.
15/20m avg gathering supps, 1-2h avg looking for some other players.
And this days most folks just turn around and run away at first glance, even to the point of scuttling after getting tired of being chased for around 20 min.
Most of my sessions, I run out of time with out even having one decent, enjoyable fight. Either servers are empty, or every ship flees on sight.
Add to all of this the fact that fights last for about 5-10 minutes (if both parties are at a similar skill level) you find yourself wasting about 2hs of your life for 15 minutes of enjoyment at best (if you even find other players who are willing to fight).
And what are the other options?
- Doing pve events who most pvpers find extremely dull, repetitive and boring (btw i've been on full servers doing a FOF and people would stay far from us just because of having the reaper flag up, just imagine)
- Endless server hops (the worst kind of downtime) looking for decent emissaries. (and by decent I mean the at least try to fight back just once or twice)
- Quit the game...
So before you try to anchor down this thread, no, I'm not asking to bring arena back, I know it's not going to happen. What I'm wandering is, Rare:
1- Do you actually aknowledge all this issues?
2- Do you have any plans on improving the user experience over all, specially the insane amount of down times?
3- Or adding a new gamemode, playstyle, objective, or whatever you want to motivate and encourage pvp interactions? Or to gather pvpers where they can find each other and have fun fighting without ruining other more pve oriented players fun?
Because all I see is:
. Completely fresh new players being, harassed, spawn camped, etc. By far more experienced players (I usually board this kind and steal all their supps while cracking jokes to later leave them alone so they don't tilt) to later uninstall.
. Decent or semi experienced players spamming new servers all day long until finally locking a server up with all their friends, endlessly farming pve until reaching max lvl on everything and then uninstalling.
. Pvp oriented players, fewer each day, roaming around the seas engaging on anything they come across out of boredom, using other ppl ship to gather loot because it's way more fun than running around countless barrels.
. I've found myself lately more than ever running out of time without even shooting a single cannonball because servers are either empty or the few ppl we cross paths with just surrender or sail away.
Now for all the folks that will surely come up with those creative never seen before replies such as "Look for another game" or "uninstall" please save it.
Thanks.