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6 hours ago, Jozzie McTowel said:

I don't know who's feeding you drugs but "Maybe ... more people" if you have spent some time on these forums + kept a close eye on the steam chart while comparing week by week in game on your own grid(s) you can't believe that. Heck the playerbase was already gonna drop to 10k peaks in the weekend without the wipe. Now after the announcement on stream they lost over 1.5k players from a Thursday into a Friday. As others mentioned plenty of games coming out this month, then u have to keep in mind GrapeShit and ETA's don't match so their announced wipe will either be pushed and rushed through within a week or two if they see how many players remain or it will take at least 2-3 months to release whatever they promised to be coming with the wipe. Meaning you're stuck playing a game that's already lacking content. You can now do this all knowing that what u lose will be lost anyway due to wipe, but do you really want to start grinding all that stuff like powerstones and key to go kill the kraken? Heck I've seen people who defended the devs for months who actually said fuck it after last livestream. Numbers don't lie.

You're clearly seeing what you want to see.  I'm going to stop playing until the wipe.  Many I'm playing with will do the same.  Doesn't mean that we're not coming back or that we don't like what is being implemented.

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2 hours ago, Talono said:

Games are marked „EA“ not to get customers opinion to make the game better but just to pull the  coins out of their pocket.

The wipe is a joke and is replacing a working open and free system by a regulation system. Welcome to socialism.

Then don't buy them.......

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     Just because another game made it through a EA with no wipe doesn't mean another game won't. FFS people!, stop your crying and see this as an opportunity to start fresh. If you think all your hard work is being wiped out then maybe Hello Kitty Online (or heaven forbid Fortnite) is something more up your alley. Did you have fun up until now? I am sure you did, as you are still here. Most people got their money's worth from the game so far.

     Use this time to find what island you want to live on, (specially to those that were stuck living on Lawless), start building your base (plan it, take screen shots to remember), build cool looking ships for future reference. Set all your tames on wandering, aggressive and watch them destroy everything in their path. Go have fun on the seas, be reckless! Who cares if you lose a ship..With the 6X you can build another one and in an hour be out again for fun. Go ram your ships into docks and watch them explode. 

     Meet people to form alliances with, use this month you have to YOUR advantage.. Stop looking at this as doom and gloom and put a positive spin on it. And before anyone says anything about my hours and blah, blah blah is.. I have over 700+ hours, shit TONS of tames, ships, base cities, ton of discoveries, and more. I am welcoming this wipe. 

     I have beta and alpha tested A LOT of games and over 20 years of online gaming under my belt. There were plenty of games that have had wipes, and many that should of had wipes. Nothing is permanent. 

P.S. Lighten up, enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things. There are worse things in life.

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Yes you lose "everything" in game and you will lose "everything" again down the line. It won't be the only server wipe which is why people need to think long and hard, do I really want to lose everything again later? If no then don't play, it's that simple really.

I have alot of stuff also, resources, 5 ship, a base and alot of gold, all gone.

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9 hours ago, =MGC=Ranger said:

Im reading there is a server wipe, are they completely wiping the game? Like Im losing my land and 300 hours labor?

Nope, the patchnotes said specifically that Ranger's stuff wont be deleted! Lucky you! 😛

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I mean how many games have all of us gamers played in our lives, invested countless hours, enjoyed the shit out of it and then just moved on to another game and never gone back. I fully expected a wipe to happen. I was shocked with all the Ark players going "Oh no there will never be a wipe they never wiped Ark they have legacy servers." In my mind that was just crazy that they would do that. I played 300 hours on official and lost all my stuff and never looked back I had fun while I was doing it learned a lot and switched to unofficial for a couple hundred hours more. Now with the big update both the official is being wiped and the unofficial cluster I am on is slated to be wiped due to the changes. The first run on official I was pretty inefficient at leveling and building. The second run on unofficial was faster and I knew what was important to do first. It doesn't take that long to throw together a small base, get tames, expand the base, build boats explore for more tames and before you know it your back right where you were again. I don't know how people actually were enjoying just having a big base all setup to defend and sitting around all day grinding to maintain the base. After I hit that point of having grinded a base, boats, leveling stuff up, grinding maps, grinding gear I got bored out of my mind. I hope they add a lot more content to do and don't expect the mindless PvP be the mainstay of what players do and enjoy. I want lots of PVE content on the PvP server in addition to PvP content so you can go do shit and PvP encounters are potentially apart of doing content on here not constant PvP. If I want to play a FPS or BR I will go play a FPS or BR.

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15 hours ago, =MGC=Ranger said:

Im reading there is a server wipe, are they completely wiping the game? Like Im losing my land and 300 hours labor?

I have been through this 2 times on Unofficial, and I assure you that once you start rebuilding, your feelings about this will be just fine.  It's a game, and building, taming, etc..all part of the game.  Think of it this way...this is much better than having to rebuild after being wiped through a raid.  If you are PvE, you don't know what that is like, but trust me, it's much worse than a reset where everyone is starting over.  You are playing a game, and this is part of the game.  Have fun with the rebuilding.  That IS the game.  This is Early Access, and some changes are going to require resets.  It is what it is.  You can let it get you down, or you can look at the opportunities.  Maybe somebody had the spot you had last time.  They may have their eye on a new spot too, so you can get that spot you want.  You know the game better, so mistakes were made, and you can do better this time.  It's a game...games often reset and start again.

If you are playing a football game, and the power goes out, you don't get worked up over losing your score you had, where you were up by 7 in an early game in the season.  You just enjoy playing the game again.  Maybe do better this time as you remember what did and did not work last time.

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Just now, Captain Jack Shadow said:

I have been through this 2 times on Unofficial, and I assure you that once you start rebuilding, your feelings about this will be just fine.

Although it's tough right now I think you are right. Upset and anger is pretty high right now, but sometimes people forget that starting from scratch isn't all that bad and sometimes fun. Plus we'll all have the knowledge we never had the first time round.

Come to think of it, I can't remember, when you start a new can you only spawn at freeports or lawless? Or could you spawn at other islands? 🤔

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11 hours ago, Talono said:

Games are marked „EA“ not to get customers opinion to make the game better but just to pull the  coins out of their pocket.

The wipe is a joke and is replacing a working open and free system by a regulation system. Welcome to socialism.

And some of this patch may not make it into the final game.  Give it a go, see what you like, and what you don't, and let them know here, what you don't like.  But give it an honest go.  I do that, and then I come here and state my honest opinion.  I hate the taming system, and hope they end up giving us something better.  I do like that it does not take hours like in ARK, but the breeding does, and that needs to go.  We need to be able to live life outside the game.  We need things that allow for that.  The war declaration, which was my suggestion, is a step in the right direction.  that does not mean everything in the patch is good, not does it mean it will stay a part of the game.  They are trying to figure out what works, and what does not.  Time, and actually trying it out, will help decide what is and is not a permanent part of the game.  I don't have a problem with the landlord scenario, but I don't like that they can kill you and destroy your structures, at will, and you can't defend yourself, or structures.  I honestly believe that will not be permanent.

1 minute ago, [GP] Guybrush Threepwood said:

Although it's tough right now I think you are right. Upset and anger is pretty high right now, but sometimes people forget that starting from scratch isn't all that bad and sometimes fun. Plus we'll all have the knowledge we never had the first time round.

Come to think of it, I can't remember, when you start a new can you only spawn at freeports or lawless? Or could you spawn at other islands? 🤔

When the reset happens, you will start at a freeport, and have the guy build you a raft or a sloop.  Honestly, I think the raft should just be deleted from the game.  I see no real value in it anymore.  It's slow, not stealthy enough, can't carry much, etc...  Just not worth it, IMHO.  I never build them after they gave us Ramshackle Sloops.

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show me anywhere official that the word Alpha was ever used when I paid for this game! Stop defining what early access means based on your subjective opinion that early access is same as alpha testing. Early access is not beta testing either.  Alpha testing is private while Beta testing starts moving into public realm (not always)

whatever it is or how steam defines early access is irrelevant, even after a game launches a game can be wiped by devs if something pervasive enough happens that requires the game to be saved because of exploiting, dupes, whatever.

When I paid for the game though regardless of alpha, beta , early access designation no where was there a disclaimer that said paid content could/would be wiped. 

a hat for compensation is not enough. Allow us to save tames that would help us rebuild after wipe. That would at least be something practical and useful. 

 

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    EVERYTHING in game is pretty easy to get ( well except land at times :classic_rolleyes::classic_laugh: ) .. with all the knowledge you learned so far you can be back to where you are now in the matter of a week or two. Which we would be playing and building and well doing the same things we were before. 

   To those that have a hard time reading, this was posted at the TOP of the games store page right from the moment the game was posted up on steam. Not sure how much more clearer it could be.

   Keep crying in your chocolate milks if need be, the wipe and changes are happening. Either you suck it up, plan out what you are going to do after the change or go play another game to pass your time. It is really THAT simple.

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6 minutes ago, Ivah BlackWater said:

    EVERYTHING in game is pretty easy to get ( well except land at times :classic_rolleyes::classic_laugh: ) .. with all the knowledge you learned so far you can be back to where you are now in the matter of a week or two. Which we would be playing and building and well doing the same things we were before. 

   To those that have a hard time reading, this was posted at the TOP of the games store page right from the moment the game was posted up on steam. Not sure how much more clearer it could be.

   Keep crying in your chocolate milks if need be, the wipe and changes are happening. Either you suck it up, plan out what you are going to do after the change or go play another game to pass your time. It is really THAT simple.

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Note: This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. 

That's exactly right, I saw that notice and I knew it was just in development but gave it a try anyway.

I didn't like the old style system of claim flags, I know alot of people disagree but that's my opinion. I left the game early on to see how it turned out and now they are changing it, great, i'll come back give it another go, if I like it I will stick at it.

I was under no illusions as to this game but you are totally correct, if people don't like it they shouldn't play it.

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28 minutes ago, MrMagoo said:

That's exactly right, I saw that notice and I knew it was just in development but gave it a try anyway.

I didn't like the old style system of claim flags, I know alot of people disagree but that's my opinion. I left the game early on to see how it turned out and now they are changing it, great, i'll come back give it another go, if I like it I will stick at it.

I was under no illusions as to this game but you are totally correct, if people don't like it they shouldn't play it.

OK, so  you rage quit because you couldn't find land and now those of us who did and are pissed shouldn't rage quit? Ofcourse youre coming back to the game. They made is so everyone gets a participation trophy at the expense of us who did put effort into the game. Its easy to have the "if you dont like it leave" attitude when you rage quit a game rather than actually putting any effort in. Sorry, those of us who did play since day 1 through the crashes, the bugs, the snakes glitching through walls, the gators spawing inside a house, gators chasing your raft out to sea, etc. are going to be pissed. 

13 hours ago, Talono said:

Games are marked „EA“ not to get customers opinion to make the game better but just to pull the  coins out of their pocket.

The wipe is a joke and is replacing a working open and free system by a regulation system. Welcome to socialism.

Exactly correct. People who put no effort in, whined like a bunch of SJW's about it being unfair they cant find land in 20 minutes are getting what they wanted. Leveling the playing field by screwing over the people who pushed through and succeeded. Socialism indeed. Will I keep playing? Dunno, I was pretty mad last night. If I do, itll be strictly on a boat. Land is useless now. Until of course Amazon's New World comes out.

 

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1 hour ago, =MGC=Ranger said:

OK, so  you rage quit because you couldn't find land and now those of us who did and are pissed shouldn't rage quit? Ofcourse youre coming back to the game. They made is so everyone gets a participation trophy at the expense of us who did put effort into the game. Its easy to have the "if you dont like it leave" attitude when you rage quit a game rather than actually putting any effort in. Sorry, those of us who did play since day 1 through the crashes, the bugs, the snakes glitching through walls, the gators spawing inside a house, gators chasing your raft out to sea, etc. are going to be pissed. 

Exactly correct. People who put no effort in, whined like a bunch of SJW's about it being unfair they cant find land in 20 minutes are getting what they wanted. Leveling the playing field by screwing over the people who pushed through and succeeded. Socialism indeed. Will I keep playing? Dunno, I was pretty mad last night. If I do, itll be strictly on a boat. Land is useless now. Until of course Amazon's New World comes out.

 

What do you play?  PvE, or PvP?  PvE is a toxic cesspool of babies who think they need a whole island to themselves.  This was the Dev's mistake.  They never should have allowed unlimited land claims.  They should have allow at max, one or two sea claims, and no more than a dozen land claims, but they should have written that so that most of them has to touch an existing claim.  At least in PvP, you could take somebody else's claim.  I wouldn't play official PvE if you paid me.  ARK had the same problem with the pillar spam because people couldn't stand the site of somebody else's buildings.  The ARK Dev's should have limited the number of structures a company could have.  You talk about SJWs?  Just because you were first to the game, doesn't mean you earned anything.  Some people just didn't hear about it right away.  Many people spend their gaming time, gaming, not reading about other games.

I was here day one also, but I don't feel any sense of entitlement over it, as you seem to.  So somebody comes to the game, and finds that people like you went on a land claim rampage, and now they can't find anyplace to put a claim down.  Think about it from their shoes.  You come to the game a month after it started, and find that there is no land left to claim.  Meanwhile, people claimed more land than they could possibly use.  You would not be happy either.  The land claim system was not well thought out, but then, in the Dev's defense, it's not always easy to predict how players will act.  Right now, they are trying to correct the abomination of a system they had in place.

You would think that PvE players would be more friendly to other people.  They were in unofficial ARK.  For the life of me, I have no idea why anyone would play ARK, or this game on official PvE.  What I have seen from the PvE community thus far..the official PvE community, is that you all are a bunch of entitled, self important, anti-social babies.  You would expect that from PvP players, but it's the PvE players sinking ships with weight, pillars under the water, blocking people's ships in, etc...  If you can't live with your neighbors, why are you playing PvE?


If you are playing PvP, why are you whining?  It's not like your base wasn't going to be wiped at some point anyway.  Not like your tames weren't going to be killed, and your ships sunk anyway.

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21 hours ago, Pirate Hawkins said:

ARK was EA, no wipe before or after release....only way I lost mo original guy was when they retired cluster servers

You're right, Ark never had a wipe...and they never totally fixed the build system because to do so would require a wipe.

And I played on official servers a lot, so wipes were always a possibility.  Either because of mod issues, owners moving on to other games or the server going down and never coming back up because someone didn't pay the bill.

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4 hours ago, =MGC=Ranger said:

OK, so  you rage quit because you couldn't find land and now those of us who did and are pissed shouldn't rage quit? Ofcourse youre coming back to the game. They made is so everyone gets a participation trophy at the expense of us who did put effort into the game. Its easy to have the "if you dont like it leave" attitude when you rage quit a game rather than actually putting any effort in. Sorry, those of us who did play since day 1 through the crashes, the bugs, the snakes glitching through walls, the gators spawing inside a house, gators chasing your raft out to sea, etc. are going to be pissed. 

Exactly correct. People who put no effort in, whined like a bunch of SJW's about it being unfair they cant find land in 20 minutes are getting what they wanted. Leveling the playing field by screwing over the people who pushed through and succeeded. Socialism indeed. Will I keep playing? Dunno, I was pretty mad last night. If I do, itll be strictly on a boat. Land is useless now. Until of course Amazon's New World comes out.

 

I didn't rage quit at all, I just decided to leave the game for awhile until it was fixed there is a difference. I know alot of people are angry but it's a waste of time directing that anger at people posting in here because I can't change it for you. I couldn't care less who is angry with me because I don't agree with them, I have an opinion like everyone else.

I hope the new system works but if you feel strongly about it I suggest you contact customer support. I've said in previous posts, if people don't like it then leave it to one side and come back to it at a later date like I did. One thing is for certain, I can't help you I'm afraid.

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2 hours ago, Captain Jack Shadow said:

What do you play?  PvE, or PvP?  PvE is a toxic cesspool of babies who think they need a whole island to themselves.  This was the Dev's mistake.  They never should have allowed unlimited land claims.  They should have allow at max, one or two sea claims, and no more than a dozen land claims, but they should have written that so that most of them has to touch an existing claim.  At least in PvP, you could take somebody else's claim.  I wouldn't play official PvE if you paid me.  ARK had the same problem with the pillar spam because people couldn't stand the site of somebody else's buildings.  The ARK Dev's should have limited the number of structures a company could have.  You talk about SJWs?  Just because you were first to the game, doesn't mean you earned anything.  Some people just didn't hear about it right away.  Many people spend their gaming time, gaming, not reading about other games.

I was here day one also, but I don't feel any sense of entitlement over it, as you seem to.  So somebody comes to the game, and finds that people like you went on a land claim rampage, and now they can't find anyplace to put a claim down.  Think about it from their shoes.  You come to the game a month after it started, and find that there is no land left to claim.  Meanwhile, people claimed more land than they could possibly use.  You would not be happy either.  The land claim system was not well thought out, but then, in the Dev's defense, it's not always easy to predict how players will act.  Right now, they are trying to correct the abomination of a system they had in place.

You would think that PvE players would be more friendly to other people.  They were in unofficial ARK.  For the life of me, I have no idea why anyone would play ARK, or this game on official PvE.  What I have seen from the PvE community thus far..the official PvE community, is that you all are a bunch of entitled, self important, anti-social babies.  You would expect that from PvP players, but it's the PvE players sinking ships with weight, pillars under the water, blocking people's ships in, etc...  If you can't live with your neighbors, why are you playing PvE?


If you are playing PvP, why are you whining?  It's not like your base wasn't going to be wiped at some point anyway.  Not like your tames weren't going to be killed, and your ships sunk anyway.

To be far, it's not like Ark's PvP community was much better than the PvE community.  Just the latter is very passive aggressive and don't want anyone around them and the later is either aggressively trying to wipe anything around them or waiting until you log off and THEN wiping your base.  But it would be a mistake to think PvE Player always equaled "fun-loving Carebear".  I remember how toxic chat was in Armored Warfare while I waiting on 5-10 minute PvP queue times.  They would be in their raging about how some player had just screwed up a match and how there win rate was gonna be under 90%.  Or how someone capped to quickly and they didn't get to farm enough XP and credits.  Never played a single PvE match of Armored Warfare.  Sounded boring as hell.

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4 hours ago, Slash78 said:

To be far, it's not like Ark's PvP community was much better than the PvE community.  Just the latter is very passive aggressive and don't want anyone around them and the later is either aggressively trying to wipe anything around them or waiting until you log off and THEN wiping your base.  But it would be a mistake to think PvE Player always equaled "fun-loving Carebear".  I remember how toxic chat was in Armored Warfare while I waiting on 5-10 minute PvP queue times.  They would be in their raging about how some player had just screwed up a match and how there win rate was gonna be under 90%.  Or how someone capped to quickly and they didn't get to farm enough XP and credits.  Never played a single PvE match of Armored Warfare.  Sounded boring as hell. 

No doubt that PvP players can be very toxic.  The mystery is why are PvE players so toxic?  Honestly, I tend to find less toxicity on unofficial servers.  I will not say that there is no toxicity...just much less toxicity.  Most likely due to there being active admins for unofficial servers.

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18 hours ago, Ivah BlackWater said:

     Just because another game made it through a EA with no wipe doesn't mean another game won't. FFS people!, stop your crying and see this as an opportunity to start fresh. If you think all your hard work is being wiped out then maybe Hello Kitty Online (or heaven forbid Fortnite) is something more up your alley. Did you have fun up until now? I am sure you did, as you are still here. Most people got their money's worth from the game so far.

     Use this time to find what island you want to live on, (specially to those that were stuck living on Lawless), start building your base (plan it, take screen shots to remember), build cool looking ships for future reference. Set all your tames on wandering, aggressive and watch them destroy everything in their path. Go have fun on the seas, be reckless! Who cares if you lose a ship..With the 6X you can build another one and in an hour be out again for fun. Go ram your ships into docks and watch them explode. 

     Meet people to form alliances with, use this month you have to YOUR advantage.. Stop looking at this as doom and gloom and put a positive spin on it. And before anyone says anything about my hours and blah, blah blah is.. I have over 700+ hours, shit TONS of tames, ships, base cities, ton of discoveries, and more. I am welcoming this wipe. 

     I have beta and alpha tested A LOT of games and over 20 years of online gaming under my belt. There were plenty of games that have had wipes, and many that should of had wipes. Nothing is permanent. 

P.S. Lighten up, enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things. There are worse things in life.

The difference between you and those of us who are against this are we have jobs, families and real life. We can’t log 700 + hours in a little over 2 months time because we have real life to deal with. 

I play every day and long periods of time on the weekends, I check the forums and such at work because I’m not able to play anytime I want. 

So in other words where you have the free time to build and play the game in order to log 700+ hours and complete the content that’s already out, the rest of us don’t. So losing what progress we have hurts. 

  And yes before you say it, we signed up for a EA game where we could have waited for the full release but honestly most of us wanted to be part of the game as it grows, not work our asses off for a POS cosmetic item. 

  There was no mention of a wipe anywhere in the EA agreement, in nothing Atlas had posted or anything else, do you really think any of who is against it would be saying anything if we knew it was going to happen ? I know I would have played the game a lot differently and wouldn’t have been so worked up on hearing the news about it.   If I had known the wipe was going to happen then I may have waited till the full release because at this point I’ve wasted over 400 hours of my life and have nothing to show for it but these forums where I’ve posted.

   Right now I’m trying to decide whether to give the game another chance or move on to something else and start building again.

  

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@Daemon Cross in those 400 hours, did you have fun? is the main question. Answer yes, then your time wasn't wasted. If you feel you have wasted 400 hours of your life in this game, and nothing to show, I am really sorry you are seeing it that way. You helped create and shape the way this game is heading. Do you play other games like FPS or some other genre and feel like you wasted your time in there as well because you didn't get a reward? Your show for it and reward is the fun you had, the friendships you built, things of that sort. I don't know, I guess I just look at gaming from a whole other angle. Maybe playing early access games just aren't for you. As in life, nothing is guaranteed and things will always be changing. And if you don't think I have a life and commitments you are wrong. I have lots of them. Don't assume things about people you don't know. Some of us deal with a hell of a lot more than others on a daily basis.

     It will be very easy to get back what you had and at a faster rate. With the knowledge you have learned from the game itself already, it should be nothing to re-build.

 

     And they did post things could possible change, with this statement here.... 

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Note: This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development.

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On 3/1/2019 at 8:23 PM, Archsenex said:

I would have no problem with a Wipe if it was explicitly defined in the EA information as it has been in every EA I have ever been in that had a wipe.

It amazes me that you need to be told beforehand that an EARLY ACCESS title might wipe your progress during it's DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES.

 

For the people saying that their time has been wasted because of the upcoming wipe, I have a question:

Would your time still be wasted if you stopped playing and, while you were gone, all your buildings were gone?  If you say no to this, then you're just proving that you're whining to whine.

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14 hours ago, Daemon Cross said:

The difference between you and those of us who are against this are we have jobs, families and real life. We can’t log 700 + hours in a little over 2 months time because we have real life to deal with. 

I play every day and long periods of time on the weekends, I check the forums and such at work because I’m not able to play anytime I want. 

So in other words where you have the free time to build and play the game in order to log 700+ hours and complete the content that’s already out, the rest of us don’t. So losing what progress we have hurts. 

  And yes before you say it, we signed up for a EA game where we could have waited for the full release but honestly most of us wanted to be part of the game as it grows, not work our asses off for a POS cosmetic item. 

  There was no mention of a wipe anywhere in the EA agreement, in nothing Atlas had posted or anything else, do you really think any of who is against it would be saying anything if we knew it was going to happen ? I know I would have played the game a lot differently and wouldn’t have been so worked up on hearing the news about it.   If I had known the wipe was going to happen then I may have waited till the full release because at this point I’ve wasted over 400 hours of my life and have nothing to show for it but these forums where I’ve posted.

   Right now I’m trying to decide whether to give the game another chance or move on to something else and start building again.

  

Exactly my point, thank you. 400 hours in game when you are a responsible adult with a family is a huge dedication. I expected changes in the game, sure. I did not expect a complete reboot nor in the many, many games I have Alpha'd, beta'd and played as EA (ark as well) I have never had to start from scratch. I would like to add the 350+ im at now is since day 1. I didnt walk away from the game, I stuck it out. Though the week long bugged out servers to the OP crocs..  350 game hours when you are married, with a career and kids, home, etc. is a huge amount of time to have wiped away. Sure, I had fun playing, it would be more fun if I didnt have to completely start over.

 

To answer this dude

"For the people saying that their time has been wasted because of the upcoming wipe, I have a question:

Would your time still be wasted if you stopped playing and, while you were gone, all your buildings were gone?  If you say no to this, then you're just proving that you're whining to whine."

 

No, because I am well aware that If I do not login by a certain time, my stuff is going to decay. If I fail to do that and I know I need to do it, well then no I wouldnt be mad because it would be MY fault since I did not act.  The Dev wiping out the game is something we have no control over so thats why its upsetting. I made it a point to login daily regardless of whats going on IRL to ensure my hard work would remain. Having it taken with no regard is why we are upset. Think what you want, but for me, I am not happy about my time being wasted.

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2 hours ago, =MGC=Ranger said:

400 hours in game when you are a responsible adult with a family is a huge dedication.

Everybody is able to understand the emotions of dissapointment and frustration because of the wipe. But the game is in developement, it is not finished. You have to adapt your assessments about the game to the developement process you take part in.

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21 hours ago, Daemon Cross said:

The difference between you and those of us who are against this are we have jobs, families and real life.

I wonder what changed between 1999 and now then.  People who played EQ1, a MMO known for it's excruciating grind and camp-for-items/quest updates, had jobs and they were able to progress without whining like petulant children.  Whenever I see someone say "but i has a job!!!" as an excuse to not get something done in a game, I have to wonder how your parents were able to manage their time so much better than you can.

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