PVE Loving Game Design Experts are Sprouting in Abundance

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I'm fundamentally opposed to ONE thing that will probably only kick in late into gameplay on any given server, though.

Also, I DO have better things to do, so I've cut back on a lot of plans I had for playing and testing even, but why would that mean I wouldn't help test the things I am probably helpful at testing?

Anyway, part of why this was an interesting question for me was because my group actually DOES plan to probably NOT spend time on playing or testing Ashes anymore. I just wondered 'what it takes for people to actually grasp that stance from someone who would be willing'.

We're pretty WILLING to test Ashes a bit, and if we had lots of free time, we'd probably be willing to test Ashes a LOT, even with no intention of playing it. Dygz, afaik, has lots of 'free time' for this. I just couldn't figure out why 'I have a lot of time so I'll still help test systems and hope they get into other games' became 'you're totally gonna still play Ashes, you're supposed to actually leave when you say you're not going to play'.

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I'd be disappointed for many people if that was the extent of what it meant.

I'd be happier for me, sure, but at what cost? What's the point of making an entire FFA PvP area, claiming that the reason for it is 'risk vs Reward', but having no rewards other than 'managing to trade'?

That could have been done with Naval Caravans, as has been noted many times. Is the 'Reward' just 'getting to PvP and have Naval Combat freely'?

Perhaps it is too early to assume that Steven meant that in a way that I consider unacceptable, but honestly, why stick around long enough to try to make absolutely sure of that? Especially when I think what I consider acceptable (assuming they are set on the FFA PvP zone) would make no sense to most people and make it seem like a gimmick?

For now, I will take the Sandal Lord at his word that this is not a game for me.

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I don't know what you're talking about, once again, but honestly, I was getting pretty tired of dealing with y'all weird-ass takes on everything anyway.

How the fuck you got to something bothering me after a raid from that one line baffles me, but at this point, whatever you wanna imagine I mean, feel, or think is fine with me.

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Ok so you're telling me that you 'became hopeful again' by asking me a question that you didn't have ANY concept of your own trumped up idea of the answer to?

And then didn't go into some ass-backward tirade about my 'mentality'?

Are you serious right now?

"Don't get emotional"? Ah sure, except that you are literally spewing garbage for no reason other than that you MAKE SHIT UP that you feel like believing about someone else, OR you're trying to troll me.

I'm not getting my ass banned today due to your asinine goading, but congratulations, you HAVE managed to piss me off with it. Feel free to celebrate if that was your goal, and if not, shame on you for once again missing the damn point AND not managing to even begin to communicate properly.

Anyways, IF you are capable of trying to actually understand someone else's point of view without projecting whatever it is you need to believe to make yourself feel better about your random stances, consider this perhaps, as the 'counter' to your ... whatever the fuck that was...

"I don't care if the cool ocean Raid boss drops anything at all."

If you can figure out why I might not like the Open Seas change WHILE that fact exists, maybe you will feel even better .

EDIT: Ah, no, it wasn't even 'don't get emotional'.

It was explicitly 'I'm going to imagine stuff to believe about you again based on your emotional response'.

Which is even more messed up than the first one.

I believe the main thing it 'reveals about me' is that I'm a venomous angry person who easily gets sick of putting up with stupid shit from people who just build strawmen in their minds to burn while feeling cosy and warm in the metaphorical fire as if they understand others and therefore have well-considered opinions.

If you were not aware of that before, that's fine, you're relatively new. Now you know.

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Why would I want to kill Azherae?! I wanted to help her test the game! Though I guess the latter includes the former