Rojjin
01-20-2020, 07:57 AM
Hello everyone.
For anyone who does not know, I am Rojjin, a "veteran" player from days long past. I took quite the extended break (nearly 5 years) as life had its way with me.
My return has caused a lot of confusion and honestly been a little upsetting so I would like to clear the air:
I am glad to see the game change over time. I am ecstatic that Citan has been able to grow his team and mold the game to his vision. I do not wish to see progress hindered or halted in that direction despite assumptions by a few members of the community.
I will however open state that I do not whole heartedly agree with all of the changes that have come. As I prefer to play games, yes, even MMO's.. in a solo capacity, and much of the design philosophy behind content development has moved towards forcing the need to group.
This does not mean I endorse, encourage, or in any way advocate "exploiting" be it "meta" gear builds like the current anti-melee molten veins setups 1 shotting the highest tier of content in the game. I have worked over the years to shut down exploiting for the greater good, against my own ambitions, for the health of the game.
What it does mean however is that I would like content to be clearable (all content, "intended" for groups or otherwise) by solo players, at the cost of more time, and less quantity, but maintaining the same quality of rewards.
Last night a conversation took place that came with instant misunderstanding and a fairly pointed attack against my character stating "You don't want anything to change so you can keep exploiting things"
Jackncola was asked about the games development roadmap, and I responded "it's better to not discuss things in detail, because if things change from the stated path, people get pissed off." which seemed to be mistaken as "dont change the game so I can exploit".
This is not what I expected coming back to a community that has grown in my absence and I hope that this has served in some capacity to clear up my stance on the state of the game. More general content viability, without hyper effective cheesey strats.
Best of luck in all your adventures folks.. Feel free to drop me a pm in game if you want to hear about the old west of P:G.
For anyone who does not know, I am Rojjin, a "veteran" player from days long past. I took quite the extended break (nearly 5 years) as life had its way with me.
My return has caused a lot of confusion and honestly been a little upsetting so I would like to clear the air:
I am glad to see the game change over time. I am ecstatic that Citan has been able to grow his team and mold the game to his vision. I do not wish to see progress hindered or halted in that direction despite assumptions by a few members of the community.
I will however open state that I do not whole heartedly agree with all of the changes that have come. As I prefer to play games, yes, even MMO's.. in a solo capacity, and much of the design philosophy behind content development has moved towards forcing the need to group.
This does not mean I endorse, encourage, or in any way advocate "exploiting" be it "meta" gear builds like the current anti-melee molten veins setups 1 shotting the highest tier of content in the game. I have worked over the years to shut down exploiting for the greater good, against my own ambitions, for the health of the game.
What it does mean however is that I would like content to be clearable (all content, "intended" for groups or otherwise) by solo players, at the cost of more time, and less quantity, but maintaining the same quality of rewards.
Last night a conversation took place that came with instant misunderstanding and a fairly pointed attack against my character stating "You don't want anything to change so you can keep exploiting things"
Jackncola was asked about the games development roadmap, and I responded "it's better to not discuss things in detail, because if things change from the stated path, people get pissed off." which seemed to be mistaken as "dont change the game so I can exploit".
This is not what I expected coming back to a community that has grown in my absence and I hope that this has served in some capacity to clear up my stance on the state of the game. More general content viability, without hyper effective cheesey strats.
Best of luck in all your adventures folks.. Feel free to drop me a pm in game if you want to hear about the old west of P:G.