I started posting this reply on Claudia’s post a few days ago. I had a reply to it, and it turned out to be a lot longer than anticipated, so instead of hijacking his post with a long-ass rant of my own, I am posting why I’m taking a break from a game that I, at one point, didn’t even want to try, but am glad I did.
WTFBugs
I logged into game a few days ago to find Yvi homeless (and in turn, Sorceress-less since she was in my home), broke(r–I only have 600 mil in bank), and can make pega axes (I think the best I used to be able to make was walachia…), Granted, they found a fix, but it required me to go into their files and (potentially) screw something up. Since then I think they’ve had a maintenance, but still worried that my home (and Jemima) is still floating in oblivion.
WTFSupport
My fiance’s had issues with their support regarding his alt not getting the boxes for leveling up to 3,15, 25…etc. It took them about a month to get back to him (and one time flat out saying that he wasn’t getting the boxes!), and then they managed to fix it and he got his boxes. However, I think it took at least a month to fix it, and before then, those having the problem (my alt didn’t have this problem as she was made after it was implemented) was given the run-around.
The only issue I had with their support is actually their billing system, which isn’t entirely Nexon’s fault–they use UltimatePay as one of their billing partners. I used a gift card that I got for my birthday to buy NX. It got denied. I tried it again thinking I missed a number or so, got denied again. So we figured that we’ll use it on something else. When we went to this place, it said that it was denied (WTF?!). So it opened a bigger can of worms since it got denied by Nexon (UltimatePay) twice, so it should, in theory, still have the $25 that my sister put on it. She called AmEx where she got the gift card, and AmEx told me that UltimatePay actually TOOK THE MONEY OUT, but it went unclaimed by Nexon somehow, and they eventually credited the money back on the gift card, but UltimatePay almost cost me my birthday present. Since then I used karma cards, but now I don’t play as much anymore to justify buying from IM.
New Stuffs
Since I’m no longer in a guild (and the one I was in before it disbanded wasn’t active enough), I haven’t seen the new training center. So I dunno how awesome it is (but I hear it is). But I hate TBS. DESPISE IT. The only reason why I do it is for income. As you said, crafting gear is useless for money (or anything for that matter), and I dunno how crystal prices are, but even if they’re decent for making money outside of TBS, some folks, like myself, run AO on a less-than-perfect laptop, and skirmish grinding can be deadly (and since they’ve knocked my main down from 47k to 42k hp, I seem to die more, which is annoying as hell, and lag doesn’t help that cause).
The 120 upgrade “revamp” wasn’t really needed; I never got my cannon alt to 120, so I don’t know how badly nerfed it was, but it was extremely easy (in comparison to 2 years ago). Making things easier actually drives people away. Older players are like “this is way too easy anymore” and leave and newer players will say “hey this is easy…but kinda boring”, and go away too. Games evolve, understandable. I learned that with PWI and that actually devolved more than anything. But gotta find that middle that doesn’t involve shoving soloing stuff down folks’ throats in an MMO.
Milking you for your monies
18 mil an atlas, eh? Maybe need to reconsider my break. Okay, only kidding, although if I were stlll an atlas seller, I’d be lying if I didn’t jizz a little there, I’m just saying. However, as someone who needs atlas for other stuff, 18 mil is a bit much. But can you blame the atlas sellers? When was the last REAL non-IM-related event? Mussen? Okay, that wasn’t too bad an event. Warlord event? Nice one, even if I felt like acongs were going to kill me after having to kill so many. Fishing event purely served to get people to buy atlas ore, IM or otherwise. I wasn’t around for last year’s fishing event, but I did hear that before that event, atlas ore was 3 mil a pop? Then jumped to ~5 mil-ish. And thanks to these nice atlas “events” we’re getting, it’s only going to be worse.
A while ago, I crafted an Evil Instrument. To my dismay, it came out +0. Since Yvi’s DG instrument is +4 (I did it for the shine), I’d lose quite a bit of damage, which has been amped a bit thanks to the ammo. So I tried to resell it. It sold for less than 300 mil, which didn’t cover the cost of the materials I had to buy. So if I wanted to buy like a +2 evil, I’m shit outta luck.
I admit it, I feel naked in the rain without teleports. That is mainly what I use my warrior package for (and auto-battle purposes). If they got rid of the need for a teleport license as they are going to be getting rid of health check licenses in a future update, then I’d never buy another warrior package again. I’ve done without bl. I don’t have a 3 bil-a-week income to afford it, so I use the potions (which I yell at myself for forgetting to turn off every time) or if we get compensation packages, the 7-day licenses.
I’m worried about Atlantica. I love the concept. But there isn’t another game like it. And what if another under a different company with better support, user interface, and not a huge IM whore? Then the pioneer is forgotten. That is what I’m worried about. I’m hoping that Nexon shapes up or someone’s gonna find a way to clone this game’s concept and leave Atlantica in the dust.
Sarcasm and a Guitar 