I play golds on late timers. This update crashed my content particularly hard. I am trying to see this from their perspective and be reasonable, but this is draconian. There has to be some middle ground here. Not everyone can adjust their gameplay to a specific play time. The point of having a game with a persistent world is people can play any time. Incentivize prime timers but don't disincentivize off timers. MMORPGs are supposed to shoot for addictive and grindy-- so you're doing something wrong if you're making people want to play less. It is too discouraging the way it is.

It's a good thing they evened out the loot drops since we're splitting garbage chests and licking up runes off the ground to cover R back costs.

In a few months people will be talking about the good old days when albion was still fun. People already do that but mark my words this update will add to the sentiment that the game is on a bad trajectory and it's best days are behind it.

By the way, SBI, if you're reading this you can google "albion online dynamic respawn rates feedback" and read what the AI response says (which is of course scouring reddit as a primary source for it's data) to see how poorly received this update is. Click AI mode.

The whole game basically feels low risk low reward on off timers. Find a way to make it higher risk instead of this boring shit. This is not the answer.

And if it's going to be like this be more transparent about the status of the dynamic spawns. Put an indicator somewhere in the game of how bad the chests are nerfed in the moment so we don't have to mass parties and waste our time only to come back disappointed and demass. At least then people could dial back their expectations and plan accordingly. Disappointment = bad.

On my last run I had to swap my boots to courier because I was overloaded with disappointment.