Crosstix

Sad. Bye losers.

So you want me to keep repeating simple concepts or what? So you are either trolling me, or hardcore fanboy bias. Your condescending insults and attitude and trying to be clever with it is both pathetic and disgusting. But that's what I get for being a straight person coming into a gay bar so to speak. But like I said, hopefully this post can warn someone.

Haha, i definitely get it

I'm more intelligent than you could ever hope to be, but ok nice try. Sorry that your biases caused you to be so rude and hateful and make you look bad to anyone being objective. 

Pathetic, not going to keep repeating myself but nice wall of text I read a little.

Well if they are going to release a game into early access with a possibility of them having to erase everyones progress, then that should be stated, which again is why I made this post. But of course the majority of responses I get will just be from fanboys who aren't going to be reasonable with ridiculous bias and whatnot, so its a bit disheartening watching this, but hopefully I can at least warn people thinking about playing this since grapeshot doesn't care to.

4 minutes ago, DocHolliday said:

My phone autocorrected sleazy.  My bad. 

As to no warning we have known for weeks.  If you are referring to when you purchased that game chalk it up to your ignorance on game development and move on.  Lesson learned. 

I'm not ignorant on the gaming market or making reasonable and profitable and reputable decisions at all, which is my reason for making this post to begin with. It's sleazy to me to do this when it wasn't absolutely necessary AND REFUSE A REFUND, and there was no warning or hint about it when I purchased the game at its EA release. So I guess ill wait for your next high-horse response now?

3 minutes ago, DocHolliday said:

Lot of people bought this game and expected it to be static.  It shows by the comments. 

Until you know the technical hurdles and business related reasons they discussed you behind closed doors you cannot call them lazy.

I didn't call anyone lazy, I said I assume that is the case. And it ultimately boils down to laziness anyway whether I brought it up or not, although certain levels of laziness are to be expected in anything in life, life is about balancing things. I didn't buy the game and expect it to be static at all. But I didn't buy it to have 750 hours of investment and enduring all kinds of bs to be erased, without any warning or even hint at this being a possibility. With no warning or hint, I think I already know what is going on behind closed doors, which I already stated in earlier posts on this thread.

1 minute ago, Sixgun77 said:

Hmmmm, there's nothing sleazy about server wipes or complete overhauls during early access. Losing your progress before official release is usually expected, especially on an online game that's running servers. 

I don't see how you can say it's not sleazy when it's not advertised or even hinted at. Even if it were advertised, I don't understand why it should be expected to lose your progress before an official release, even in an online game running servers. Why wouldn't the company just make a new server at official release and let people keep their progress from the EA period? Especially in a game requiring so much investment and enduring hardships and setbacks like this one.

11 minutes ago, boomervoncannon said:

Your statements so far in this thread make it plainly apparent that you DO lack an understanding of what EA entails, as just about every other poster has pointed out to you. At this point, you are doing the expected and digging in, refusing to admit your error. Accusing others of being sleazy when you failed to have proper expectations IS an error on your part, your unwillingness to admit so does not change this.

Actually no, you are the one who hasn't read my statements. And the majority of people who will respond to this post will just be fanboys, as the ratio of fanboys to people who used to play or are thinking of playing are pretty big at this point, so there's even more misconceptioning from you. But you can stay in your self-righteous child's limited view of the situation then, there's nothing I can do to change that at this point.

3 minutes ago, Gomez Addams said:

I’m curious to know how long is long enough. If they wiped all our progress after 2 years would that have been ok? Did you want to play until you were bored and moved on to another game and then the wipe would not be so sleazy? Or is this the last game you intended on playing and your retirement plan involves your character enduring forever. Truth be told, my countenance fell when they said they were wiping but I was more upset getting booted while playing so they could wipe it without even a 2 minute warning. I knew it was coming but this forum still has a post for an end date of the EU server.

I don't understand what you are getting at. I didn't expect all my hours of enduring the hardships this game is about to be wiped at all, within reason of course, as even the most popular game will eventually die out in many many years, and the servers wont be paid for and it will cease to exist.

28 minutes ago, Chucksteak said:

Oh wow, yeah I thought we were passed these posts. Did you, for some unbeknownst reason, not think that at the VERY LEAST you would get your character wiped before it launched live? 

Setting aside the fact that you have 750 hours in a game you only paid some $25 for, and should thank GS for the value you received (at the cost of near $0.03/hr).  

Its super unread and presumptuous of you to assume they only wiped the servers because they were "too lazy" . If you need to be upset with someone, then its the exploiters and cheaters that are more than half the reason there had to be a wipe. They also added about 40% more land, more or less a completely new map.

If nothing else, at least google what EA actually means.

You are the one being ridiculously presumptuous, and yes that boils down to them being too lazy, which boils down to money, I don't care how much of a fanboy you are for whatever reasoning, it doesn't change reality. And no, at the very least I did not think my character would ever get wiped, as I can see no reason for them to need to do that. At the very most, they might make a new server where people can start fresh at the official release of the game, but not wipe everyones characters. But thanks for your condescending attitude.

23 minutes ago, boomervoncannon said:

The fundamental problem here is your lack of understanding of what EA is and what it entails. Accusing others of being sleazy because you didn’t understand what was and wasn’t being offered is the sort of thing people used to have the grace and humility to apologize for. This being the age of the internet, I am not holding my breathe. Want to impress people and defy expectations? Admit the mistake and apologize for casting aspersions at others due to your own error.

I don't have a lack of understanding what EA is and should entail and for what was implied, and I don't expect you to be honest and apologize either. I'm definitely not apologizing for being reasonable. Sorry bud. You are the one that made yourself look bad in public, not me.

If the blue banner is what that earlier guy posted, it only hinted at gameplay changes, not a wipe of all progress...?

Uh no, it just hints at gameplay changing, not wiping all your progress.  You must be quite the fanboy to stretch it into that and say things like nothing hard to understand lmao

So I played this game for 750 hours or so, and they can wipe all the progress I have, even stuff that isn't supposed to be taken from you like player experience and other things, im assuming because they are too lazy to find some way to transfer our characters to their new system, and I cant get a refund for the game. Sure I bought it at early release, but there was no warning that I was just a guinea pig and all my progress would be erased, maybe that was in the fine print or some wall of text but I didn't see it.

So i'm working on a hangar to house my boats. I haven't been able to get grenades to work underwater on stone stuff, but I don't have the means to make an explosive barrel right now to test that as well. Does anyone know if explosive barrels can be placed to damage structures underwater in a lawless zone?

Can anyone tell me if a galleon can fit through a behemoth gate?

So my schooner is stuck for the 2nd time. And for the 2nd time I haven't been able to get it to go backwards by pressing s even if the anchor is up and sails are closed. Ive personally done it in a sloop and everyone tells me it works on a schooner but mine never seems to work. Is it a weight issue or a bug? im only at 60% weight on it right now and it wont back up. So annoying.

Im downloading the new update. This will kill this game for me by the sounds of it. I don't want to be stuck roaming a map that takes literally 30 hours to cross one end to the other in just a straight line trying to find competent players to be in a company with because I can't do anything by myself and if I get a bad group of players for a company which is going to be more often than not anything I build and own becomes theirs even after I leave. Great game, not even a looking for group system implemented means this new skill thing is retarded.