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ALM1GHTY B44L R00
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Posted - 2013.05.15 19:19:00 -
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CCP really needs to do a better job bringing new players into the fold.
This guy was reviewing the game for a major online MMO news/review site, and didn't even join any squads or try getting together with a corporation. Imagine how lost a MMO newb would feel.
This game sucks for lone wolfing, but is awesome playing in squads and CCP needs to make this apparent for new players. |
ALM1GHTY B44L R00
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Posted - 2013.05.15 19:26:00 -
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A short voiceover cut scene saying something like "New Eden is a harsh place, and you're not going to make it far on your own. You must find other mercenaries who share your goals and vision to fight by your side, and you by theirs." With some quick snips of how to invite players to squad, or search corporations, and then maybe some cut scene style "gameplay" where a Merc is getting owned and goes down, but as the voice says "you must find other mercenaries..." another merc comes into the shot and revives the guy, would do wonders. |
ALM1GHTY B44L R00
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Posted - 2013.05.15 20:21:00 -
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Infekti0n wrote:He only played 6 hours? And im supposed to take this review seriously?
He should go back playing with Lego's.
****** written review tbh.
6 hours is longer than you can expect a new player to spend playing before deciding to keep playing or not.
The first few hours of this game are pretty terribad. Nothing about how the game ACTUALLY operates is explained to a new player. |
ALM1GHTY B44L R00
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Posted - 2013.05.15 20:29:00 -
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FarVision1 wrote:Garrett Whetshaft wrote:ALM1GHTY B44L R00 wrote:CCP really needs to do a better job bringing new players into the fold.
This guy was reviewing the game for a major online MMO news/review site, and didn't even join any squads or try getting together with a corporation. Imagine how lost a MMO newb would feel. +1 my thoughts exactly The Academy was screwing up yesterday, so I manually looked for a Merc game. Found one with one spot open and figured what the heck. Full 32 man games. Full corps with full loadouts (heavies, scouts etc). Eve ship stuff from above. Or something coming down from above. Full voice chat with objective callouts. Revives, resupplies, the full experience. It was a thing of beauty. I had felt pretty smug with my 5.1 headset/mic and KB/M on Academy servers. This here - I was getting stomped hard. And it was awesome. Compared to Academy games, it might as well have been two different games.
Completely agree. There is no comparison between playing a random battle and playing a fully synced battle with your corporation. Unfortunately, CCP doesn't really have a grasp on how to present this extremely drastic difference to new players. |
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Posted - 2013.05.15 20:50:00 -
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hooc order wrote:ALM1GHTY B44L R00 wrote:FarVision1 wrote:Garrett Whetshaft wrote:ALM1GHTY B44L R00 wrote:CCP really needs to do a better job bringing new players into the fold.
This guy was reviewing the game for a major online MMO news/review site, and didn't even join any squads or try getting together with a corporation. Imagine how lost a MMO newb would feel. +1 my thoughts exactly The Academy was screwing up yesterday, so I manually looked for a Merc game. Found one with one spot open and figured what the heck. Full 32 man games. Full corps with full loadouts (heavies, scouts etc). Eve ship stuff from above. Or something coming down from above. Full voice chat with objective callouts. Revives, resupplies, the full experience. It was a thing of beauty. I had felt pretty smug with my 5.1 headset/mic and KB/M on Academy servers. This here - I was getting stomped hard. And it was awesome. Compared to Academy games, it might as well have been two different games. Completely agree. There is no comparison between playing a random battle and playing a fully synced battle with your corporation. Unfortunately, CCP doesn't really have a grasp on how to present this extremely drastic difference to new players. Academy is fun because there is no SP/gear gap....what you said has nothing to do with that gap......there is no reason why "big corp battles" could also do away with SP/gear and have the matches based on skill not how long you have let passive Sp accrue. If being fully loaded is so very very fun then why not let everyone be fully loaded? rather then waiting and grinding against horrible players with 10 million SP?
Having the grind forces players to specialize into specific roles. It really doesn't take long to be competitive, and once players hit proto gear everything evens back out again anyway. If everyone had every skill, then we would all be jack of all trades and the diversity and strategy of higher end play would diminish greatly.
Just because you personally don't enjoy the MMO style skill system doesn't mean millions of gamers don't enjoy it. |
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