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By not fixing some extremely annoying bugs and, instead, adding nearly useless "features"; the dev team is killing this game. I agree with that sentiment. Many of the veteran players of this game do, I think.

 

Drakensang Online is a sinking ship at the moment. New players catching up with all the old players withing months. Well yeah and all the bugs etc, that doesn't get fixed. Activity in this game has fallen for sure. Not only from my side, but for many other old players too, if they didn't quit by now. Some of my friends did at least.

Even smaller games or at least it was. Example: like Path of Exile (Just recently added new content) seems to be working much harder and probably having more active players then this game, while also listening to their community.
- Is a good example because.. That game was as said at least once smaller then DSO and now.. Well Let's say they are having success, while DSO is having none at the moment. (Not playing PoE myself though, but once).
+ DSO is F2P, but paying gives you a good advantage, meanwhile in PoE paying doesn't give you any advantage.

How and why you may wonder, since DSO "could" be an amazing game. Well PoE just seems to know what *Working And Listening" is, which usually also leads to success.

 

100% agree with You!!!... and i now games where if thay make same fault thay give compensacions for all players.

 

Sorry to ask you but what about the players that had good drop in that event when the old set was a reward ?
Is it fair from BP to ask over 6000 draken now for the other palyers while some had that set in their drop ?
And if I saw that Rick didn't answer to me in the "cunning plans" theme for a long time I'll ask you again here:
Can you tell us why noone does nothing for the old and fair players in this game ?
Why do you let them go and kill Khaly, Mortis, Destructor and 0 unique drop for them ?
Why there are players who are searching for Keen/Roshnan/Yaczak sets for over 2 and a half years and nothing ?
Why at New Moon event Karabossa drops white items ?
I mean white items at lvl 45 , white items at Destructor and so on.
Why some players kill for the first time a boss or about in 1 on 10 kills they have unique item drop, and other players don't have unique item drop in hundreds or thousands of kills ?
Why don't you listen to the community ?
Why at Gnom exists a 12k set of items and it's very weak comparing to the number of drakens needed for it, why don't you modifi the bonuses of these items ?
What reason do you think players have in this moment to make draken in events for this set ?
These are the most important answers I would like to have from you.
Hope you answer them.
My achievement sistem is that I played this game for about two and a half years and I still don't have Yaczak set, Predator, Bow of distruction, Amulet of distruction and so on, but I need another 1500 draken and I complete the 12k Gnom set, cause I have all the Dark set, after that I'll delete character beacause of the reasons explained here, and also beacause I need about 160.000.000 glifs to upgrade all equipment to lvl 50 ( now I upgraded them to lvl 46 - 48 ), and it's too much grinding for nothing.
Lvl 45 legendary weapons much weaker than lvl 40 unique weapons.
I'll offer you pictures if you want, cause I opened a lot of them, and in my case unique item don't exist, with the exception of Blackborg and Varholm event's but thouse items are usefull only for glifs.

I play with Archer and I identified over 50 bows, never found bow with speed more than thishttp://s1349.photobucket.com/user/Idiocracy7/media/arc_zpsf5963fe2.png.html?sort=3&o=5
and it's lvl 45 lol, compare it with Predator.
Also compare this with Predator :
http://s1349.photobucket.com/user/Idiocracy7/media/Items/arma_zpsfa820e2e.png.html?sort=3&o=3
And this :
http://s1349.photobucket.com/user/Idiocracy7/media/arma_zpsf640b221.png.html
Also you could compare lvl 45 legendary bow with lvl 37 legendary bow :
http://s1349.photobucket.com/user/Idiocracy7/media/lvl37_zps4c8d20aa.png.html
It's ridiculous.
I say it again I've opened an average of 50 bows and nothing good.
And I also killed Destructor over 100 times and nothing, look here:
http://s1349.photobucket.com/user/Idiocracy7/library/Destructor kills?sort=3&page=1
No drop, I quitted making pictures after 100 kills and nothing.
Although I would like you to see my character with the gnom set:
http://s1349.photobucket.com/user/Idiocracy7/media/cum_zps4060e3cf.png.html?sort=3&o=6
Nearly finished without the amulet.
Also you should see it here, how it was with another kind of items:
http://s1349.photobucket.com/user/Idiocracy7/media/Items/picture1_zps06bfdef9.png.html
Compare the 2 photos and you will realize that the 12k set it's useless, my Archer will never be the same again.
Ill remain with 218% critical damage after I complete the set, and no increased HP, no increased base damage ( it's decreased base damage lol ), no nothing.
Without exagerations I have over 8.000 kills at Khaly and the drop was many unique masks, over 200 kills at Mortis and many unique amulets, and over 200 Destructor and 0.
@Multi-Sev "Persistence can pay off in the end, though."
I'm tired of so much grinding.
And I tell you there are many players that are in the same conditions as I am.
With this items you want me to make pvp ?
here is the link :
http://ro.bigpoint.com/drasaonline/board/threads/producer-dialogue-cunning-plans.43731/page-8

I'll ask again : why BP doesn't listen to the players ?
And from what I saw in this release 133 legendary items are much weaker then before, players wrote in forums about this aspect, I should ask you now, why should we play this game, when noone listens to the players ?

Do you want pictures with legendary items opened at patch 133 ?
Hope you answer all questions sincerelly.
Working and listening is a clear path to success, that's the way it should be, but it's not, cause ....
I just love the message written by @Apolon80 in this topic ( post 152 ).
And a friend from the game told me "the game is allready dead, the problem is BP doesn't realize this".
It's good to say it in the face Greg.
Cunning plans indeed !

This is two hand weapon opened before patch 133:
http://img.plici.ro/image/zMs
87,2 more weapon damage
And here are is two hand weapons opened at patch 133:
http://img.plici.ro/image/zPr
26,4 weapon damage
http://img.plici.ro/image/zPR
48,1 weapon damage

Compare them Greg.
I should ask you at patch 133 lvl 45 players open lvl 45 legendary items that are at what lvl Greg ?
Do you know what you are doing to old players or don't ?
Do you have any specific plans or you have just cunning plans ?
Pictures are taken from other players who played this game untill today.
Do you think they will play if this ridiculous things continue ?

Although you wrote "
Level 50
If you check facebook its actually quite interesting to see that people believe that we would not introduce new items/monster etc to the game.
OF COURSE we will do so - it would be silly to simply allow players to level up their items up to a certain level without providing new content.
You will be able to get new items from monsters (level 50) but we will make sure that you ca level up your existing ones as well until a higher level.
Whether this will be just level 50 or even level 55 is not clear yet.
However, I can definitely talk to the game designers to do so or at least explain your interest."

I think I explained your interest to keep the players into the game for dust in the wind Greg, and if you compare the items in the pictures you will come to the conclusion that we are not silly, the developers are if they consider us that way.
So maybe you will provide new content in the future and players will work to open lvl 50 items that will actually have properties of lvl 45 items or lower, cause we see what the developers did at patch 133.
Good luck finding players that will continue plaiyng for dust in the wind Greg.

Also I think you should explain this video Greg, at second 22 :

BP takes away base damage from players when entering pvp, in my case at patch 130 when I made the film from 751 to 685, Greg can you explain this ?
Do you want me to make a movie now, at patch 133 ?
Now it's from 588 to 540, Greg !
So, continue doing things like your head's dictate, and dont't listen to the comunity Greg and pretty soon you won't have any players and money also, cause it's bugging me that after all of this I still get many offers from BP to buy ander at reduced price, I'll ask you, for what should I get you 1 cent ?
The game doesn't deserve it !
And if you check in the last months how many players deleted characters, or didn't play for a long time you will be amazed of the downfall, also you could check how much money BP earned in the last few months from this game and you'll see that there is also a big downfall.
How do I know ?
I see the reality every day in this game Greg.
You should tell warriors to buy Damnation Greg, cause it's useless to farm for cristals and open 2 hands weapons at patch 133.

 

I totally agree with you, with the exception of one part in which you mentioned that new set with 4k drakens is weak, is not weak it is quite good that's why many players want it, but i can say that 4k drakens are too many for 1 piece, just 2 or 3k would be fine.

 

I think 4k is to cheap for peace need put 5k for peace Because that set is wery good and i have bought all what can by for drakens and nowhere else to spend it for me

 

The 12k set doesnt have critical damage ( it should have +45% critical damage as a final bonus + 100 damage + 500 to all kind of rezistances ), then it will worth fighting for it.
Also developers could scale the items for each character depending on other items a specific character could find in the game, cause you don't want to have a warr for example with over 300% critical damage and over 2300 critical hit value ( 65% critical damage from the Khaly sword and 45% critical damage from the set would be to much in case of wars, especially if they eguip themselves with other items that give critical hit value ).
As the set is now, characters loose much critical damage in the absence of unique items like Destruction bow ( Archers case ), lvl 40 Khaly sword ( for warriors ) and so on, that's why 12k set it's not good.
Also the ring from the set should give by default + 45 damage and 10% speed.
Bonus for 2 items should be also a + to concentration points, and so on.
It will worth fighting for it.

 

I have a comment for our Community Managers:

The new item comparison tool is next-to-useless. All it accomplishes is doing some very basic, grade-school level mathematics for us that we should be able to do in our heads. The worst math students may have needed a handheld calculator to do these comparisons. It does not show the % change in statistics on the character sheet, which would have been the helpful thing to do. The only players who may think this is a cool addition are going to be those who have played less than two weeks and do not know better.

Instead of these unhelpful features, the vast majority of us would like the dev team to fix the position bug! Please reiterate this to them, as often as possible!

The problem stemmed from the increase in hit-box sizes, I think? Well, put the hit-box sizes back to what they were. Admit defeat in that area, in order to improve the gaming experience for all players! We don't care if we have to click two times to start attacking that little spider (which is not even a threat in the first place) if it gets us our freedom of movement back! (Heredur help those with less defense than I have, who probably die regularly because of this ongoing bug).

Just do it, please!

 

I think you are on to something about the hitbox. We've seen similar effects in the past. If you want to see how hit box effects a NPC jump skill, head over to Eternal Watch. The six Red Elementals in the upper left of the screen have a jump skill of sorts that is impacted by hitbox. If you hide your character behind the column, they are unable to jump. Yes, I sent this to support as a documented glitch. The NPC in that area were easily glitched by knowing the basic mechanics of a jump doesn't allow jumping into a hitbox. You can only jump adjacent to a hitbox. Thus, the NPC was stuck and your Toon was invincible. But the point is that hitbox broke a NPC jump skill so it stands to reason that your theory is also correct.

 

I'm fairly sure, about 95%, that hit-boxes are related to the bug and this is why:

The position bug appeared immediately after R129 was implemented. This is a quote from the release notes for R129:

Hitboxes increased
All little spiders, for example the Light Weavers of the event The Rise of Dragan, can now be attacked easier. The hitboxes of the spiders have been adjusted in a way that allows characters to hit the spiders without having to aim precisely.

The above is the reason I'm starting to get very impatient that there has been no fix for this bug. It only mentions spiders in the release notes but I'm willing to bet they affected (probably mistakenly) all monster hit-boxes with the change.

I imagine the team knows, in general, what is causing this and approximately where in the code to look for the problem - but they have not been able to fix it for nearly two months? (It started July 7th.) In my darker thoughts I wonder if this is (dictated from above) for financial gain? Maybe it's just a sign of incompetence? Regardless, it needs to be fixed ASAP. Results are all I'm interested in, not casting blame.

 

Hello,
I decided to give a game 1 more try after 2 week's of not playing it at all, I was hoping the game is more lag free but to my surprise it's even worst then it was when I left, you seriously need to do something about lag, you need to optimize game better so players would have good overall experience about the game feel. If you continue way your going am not returning any time soon or maybe even never.

Second problem is unbalance betwen classes, am a DK and I find rangers and dwarfs very week and mage overpowered and let me tell you am no newbie or have bad gear. My damage is 980 with Cloaked Wrath +295% critical damage, armor is 4.3k with 2550 block and 911 damage reduction with 9.2k life and I get kill so easy by mage, so mages have to much power and all other classes have less then them. Back when 40 level was max game was perfect, you made all the wrong choices.

Gear, what the heck? Focus cristal that gives 1000 critical but -35% armor and that is unique? 0.o That does not make any sence at all. or some other stuff like Cloaked wrath that gives no speed, no critical and has +65% critical damage? what where you thinking? seriously. Poor gear design.
So all in all, I seriously think am gonna change game, couse you (dev's) destroyed game I liked very much.

 

for todays live stream's Q&A section please Greg ask developers why is it so hard to fix the dislocation bug(or whatever it's called) or why it isnt fixed yet. it is the number #1 annoying thing in game right now and it has been for so long that players start to abandon sinking ship

 

It's the reason I'm taking a break from the game. Two months to suffer with a very major bug is unheard of in the gaming community. There are some less-major bugs that have been in the game for over six months. This game is a disaster, and they claim that "bug fixing is our #1 priority". It's hogwash.

I'm not coming back until, at least, they fix the position bug. I suspect they could have fixed it a long time ago. They probably get more premium memberships because of it. They probably won't fix it until they start to lose players over it.

 

I am a sw in game and your kidding yourself thinking mages are so overpowered, sw have least armor and hp of all the classes, fact is, if we don't kill fast we are dead. Most sw's realise this and focus on damage and critical hit for the fast kill.
DK's only need to up their resistance and sw's are literally dead in the water against dk's.

I'm tired of hearing people say spellweaver's are over powered, and felt the need to speak up about this. The only thing we have going for us is high damage which when you compare sw to a ranger is frankly a joke, now you wanna take that away also???

Spellweavers have no speed up skill for movement and no heal ability, think about that please before suggesting spellweavers need to be nerfed down even more. oh just for an added bonus sw's also have the least amount of attack speed given by equipment or skills, if we want speed we have no choice but to buy sapphires to be a serious contender in pvp.

--MERGED--

If the ladies who play drakensang are destined to have only one dress can it please be made so we can dye it to different colours?

Please can something be done to cater more for female players?

I'm getting so despondant about this it might actually make me cry, I'm a woman and proud of it, can I express my sexuality more in the game or is it wrong for me to want to do this?

If it is wrong, then surely it must be wrong for men to be able to do it also.....maybe all the characters should just be cartoons with no sexual gender basis in this case.

Please give me the ability to be a powerful attractive woman, I believe I have earned it.

Did I mention I'm a TGC member?

 

hi,

I was watching that TV thingy, and ...

are those two for real? or are they somebody's nephew? LOL

sorry for my sarcasm, but were they talking (parts in english) about the game for recently born? or do they don't play it at all?

thanks

bye

 

The fact is you can buy stones for more HP, or use Sargons + Roshnan + Mortis amulet or ...
Critical damage you can't buy.

 

Mortis amulet? Yes, it gives me so much hp and armor I wouldn't change it ever.. Oh wait.
Critical dmg you can't buy, right. DKs (who also have much more hp and armor, no matter what equip they use) have it for free in khalys' sword..
Ayyy boring topic to put in this thread. Just.. move on.

 

The Queen is right, as always .
Couldn't say it in a better way .

 

Only thing anoying in pvp with mages class is their exploading skill lv 40 in fame.Thats overpowered and to long AOE, and i donnt see a point having so big dmg on explo if they are dead.Many just do suicide thing to die so they got chanse to kill somebody after all.About class balance i think its +/- ok, depending of your gears and using skills most.Best regards

 

I think there is no difference between these 2 patches. Maybe you are just having a "bad luck". I'm getting same kind of items as patches before.
Bad ones and good ones Open more, and you will find the good one you like
I think you should consider the tone of your post there, you are going a bit too personal there.
Let the things argue, not the persons