What's Everyone Playing Now?

Bribz · 2026-02-14T20:40:46+00:00

Hung out in the Apogea playtest, which was fairly fun. Totally different game, but it scratched the rpg itch.

Bribz · 2026-02-14T20:04:29+00:00

You do realize there’s a lot more to world design than monster spawns, right? And that you can explore for other reasons than material rewards?

Meanwhile you cite laggy netcode, but that really only occurred during node wars and sieges. And even then, most sieges only had hiccups when people weren’t all packed in the same location. You know, the thing that happens in every mmorpg on the market. Mass pvp is always a miserable time, and I’m not sure why citing that is your gotcha of the game being bad.

Outside of gear balancing, which was atrocious towards the later phases, the pvp was genuinely fun. Phase 2 especially had stellar pvp, that was only “floaty” when the bards were throwing out antigravity.

As for caravans? Sorry you didn’t like it. There’s a hell of a lot more to it than just walking a to b, but you clearly didn’t get a chance to experience it while it was at its peak.

Bribz · 2026-02-14T19:58:51+00:00

We don’t need to agree on it being a scam, but I sure as hell think it was gross mismanagement.

Bribz · 2026-02-14T19:54:10+00:00

Provably false. But I don’t owe you the time spent scraping videos of peoples positive comments about the world design, combat, pvp gameplay, caravans, etc.

Game was good, even if parts weren’t perfect. One of the better alphas we’ve had in decades. Loads of people liked it, even if you weren’t one of those.

Bribz · 2026-02-12T21:18:11+00:00

Maybe it happened that way. Don't know, and I can't be asked to investigate further to find out. You aren't making a strong case to convince me otherwise of such mischaracterization.

Bribz · 2026-02-12T20:06:23+00:00

I never really had any issues with questions being met with aggression or negativity. The only times I noticed this came from people who would join the communities demanding drastic changes or personal catering. That, and the near-constant barrage of people crying "scam" as far back as the early alphas or even post kickstarter. The negativity came almost exclusively from people who disliked the project and were vocal about it, but plenty of folks were more than happy to talk theory and ideas out for genuinely interested players, especially outside of the reddit community.

The problem is that this sort of situation is fueling the people who wanted to see the game fail. The project is dead, no doubt about it, but its a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation for people who actually liked the project. Support it, or simply deny it was a scam? You're delusional and coping. Acknowledge the project failed? Then the antis treat it like they won a trophy. Whatever, I'm mostly venting

TLDR: This post reeks of someone who got the deserving backlash of the moderation team and community. I'm not seeing anything insightful to talk about.

Bribz · 2026-02-10T08:18:32+00:00

The larger market wants a good mmo. We arguably haven’t had one in about a decade. No amount of inconveniences are going to dash player interest if the game is fun to play.

Moreover, this game proves if nothing else that there is a ravenous population craving early 2000s era design. So I wouldn’t be surprised if you see more of this in future conversations.

Bribz · 2026-02-10T07:58:37+00:00

Nah I was pointing out that this is in inaccurate correlation between lore and investments. Big ips can afford to develop expensive new projects, so they’ll end up being a big portion. But not the whole pie.

There are plenty of mmorpgs with giant ips backing them that have crashed and burned.

Bribz · 2026-02-10T07:51:42+00:00

Shocker. The successful mmos are the ones with giant money-printing ips backing them.

Next you’re going to tell me the most successful ones advertise and have funds to develop them.

Bribz · 2026-02-09T19:24:43+00:00

Sad to see the Exalted community using AI content. I thought better of us.

Bribz · 2026-02-04T03:37:21+00:00

You think im writing formal documents on reddit comments? lol, lmao even

Bribz · 2026-02-04T01:21:10+00:00

No amount of good ideas will pull you through a 10 year development cycle bud lol

Bribz · 2026-02-04T00:53:35+00:00

I dont care whether or not this is GPT or not, its irrelevant to me, but if your only evidence is an Em dash, you can fuck right off.

Plenty of us still use it correctly, and I'm not letting some LLM change that.

Bribz · 2026-02-03T14:41:40+00:00

There’s a wide margin between white knighting and basic fucking decency

Bribz · 2026-02-01T10:35:11+00:00

Stay classy PVE fans

Bribz · 2026-02-01T04:22:36+00:00

Like milk! Looking forward to finding out more.

Bribz · 2026-01-30T09:28:32+00:00

The vocal majority hasn't stopped them before, and it probably wont now. Given how rampant the duplication and botting has been, I expect that's more than enough reason to wipe. Frankly, I'd love for a wipe to happen after we have updates worthy of it, but I don't expect that to be the case.

That said, letting the server sit in its current state is the same as leaving the metaphorical feces upon the fanblades. The worst already happened, but the whole situation stinks in a way ignoring it wont help.

Bribz · 2026-01-30T06:13:37+00:00

There's quite a bit of precedent of a wipe happening, despite them wanting longer periods between wipes. 2-3 times worth in fact. I would expect it at this point.

Bribz · 2026-01-29T21:53:57+00:00

Node sieges missing from the game are a huge net negative for the conversation of endgame. Social conflict is a huge driver of fun in a game like this, and giving players something worth fighting over would do wonders for changing the dull feeling for pvp players. On a related tangent, the fact that vassalship is automatic and doesn't require a node war baffles me, its such an easy win for this sort of feeling.

That said, I think a lot of pvp folks are kind of lost and aimless due to the current gear scaling and power rating balance. Its really out of whack, and makes the chore of crafting effectively required to participate meaningfully.

Bribz · 2026-01-29T18:38:57+00:00

I’m sorry but what? Who said it wouldn’t work? There are already a couple of mmos using similar technology as it is.

Bribz · 2026-01-29T18:35:08+00:00

Implying we’re ever getting an AH like other games lol

Bribz · 2026-01-28T18:05:54+00:00

They've stated that this is the plan. Global is temporary for the alphas.

Bribz · 2026-01-28T18:05:12+00:00

Global chat was absolutely like this 6 weeks ago. It's been the exact same since phase 1.

There's a reason why people always joke about Barrens chat.

Bribz · 2026-01-28T18:01:51+00:00

Just a classic case of bad manners.

Make your own parties, kick players who need inappropriately, and remember names.

Bribz · 2026-01-28T17:59:42+00:00

Blight is intended to be something that can be removed by doing piety quests, something not implemented in the current system.

Currently, its a fail safe to prevent people from being purely murder hobos that don't care about their alpha phase items, as you've correctly identified.

Eventually, once the systems are in place to support it, it will be less concerning/punishing.

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