An Open Letter To Every Head Honcho in Bigpoint, Every Small Fry And Anyone In Between Who Can Read.

Dear(pfft) Bigpoint and DSO team

Congrats. You have been put up in the dictionary. Yes yes yes!!! the synonym for "dissapointing,Swindling, Cheating,Annoying,exasperating, did i already mention dissapointing? and lot of other similar words have gained a new synonym. "Bigpointing it".
Your Dev team is worthless. Your Coding is bogus. Your meathods are annoying, your attempt at leeching money is too obvious.
It doesn't matter if its F2P or P2P, you guys have managed to bigpoint everything EDIT.
You guys replace 1 bug with 10 more bugs. You guys cant hold an event together. You took 3+ months to solve a single bug only to replace it will an another bug.
You guys don't pay the slightest attention to player demands. Why? have you guys decided that you have milked enough money from the players so its worthless to keep the game running? are you trying to lower the quality so people will stop playing and you guys will wrap up the game and move onto "bigger and better things?"(pffft, right.as if, you guys are bigpoint, you will bigpoint anything you try)
Your "Faces of DSO" a la Dracaty and Greg twich about every little thing and skip everything else, We are tired of seeing those jokers try to pass off what you guys do as meaningful. If my guess is right, so are they. Dracaty's pretty face isn't going to placate anyone, its just gonna Bigpoint us even more.

Moving on, You guys have decreased COT and Unique Drop Rates just to leech some more money from us players. You provide 1/5th of the XP needed to level up a stage and rest is grind grind grind and some more grind for Cots and ander etc.And Even if we do grind, LOL! you have bigpointed there too!! <Enter Displacement/Position bug and now Rubber band/Slider bug". You guy's Loot distribution is horrible. Some players get 3 uniques a day and some not a single in 3 months.

Now, PVP matchmaking. LOLOLOL. That is some rather bigpointing issue. You clamp Flagbearers and Knight Of Orders in one group and Centurions in others. Sometimes you make 3 Knight of orders fight a single Centurion. 6v6 is bugged and barely playeabe at best. Dragonknights unless they have some really good armour stand no chance.

Next, DK is supposed to be a Tank class, So give them the tanks. Not Rangers. Your skill distribution is horrible.

Next, dabigpoint!!! How do you expect new players to get cloaks and all with that insane anount of Knowledge needed and no mentor bonus and no event or anything that gives loades of Knowledge.

Then you guys are very very Bigpointing. You Promise, you Twich and then at last moment you bigpoint. Events are few and far between, New and Full moon have outlived their shine.

Then, Are you guys really game designers? You know what a "Test Server" is for right? thats right amigo, "T-E-S-T-I-N-G" various aspects before it goes live in other servers. Or do you guys pick your noses and play ini-mini-miny-moe to make a release go live? are you guys EDIT? <content removed>

So, you guys have managed to bigpoint us out of our money, Bigpoint us in our game and made an enjoyable MMORPG into a big Bigpointing mess. You guys are a EDIT in the Gaming industry. You guys would commit Gaming suicide if you have any decency. But you will bigpoint us in that too.

You guys can't handle an MMO pals. Why dontch'a quit all this and go make some FlashPlayer game like the one in Facebook where you breed dragons and the only skill needed for the Dev team is to be able to use MSPaint.

If you still insist on Continuing your bigpointing mess of a internet existence, pay attention to your Target, yes heard of the term "Player feedback and Delivery"?. Get a DEV team that is worth the money and coffee spent and most off all, stop twiching for meanignless things.
That reminds me, your much advertised "Loot Compare"



Explain the bit about 99,11DPS being "lower" than 64,52 DPS . And the tool repair kit....who the hell wanted you to make that bigpointing thing?
we are tired of you. Pay heed or be prepared to be forgotten

 

Did anybody else notice that with the new Loot Compare and how items and especially weapons are displayed, we no logner see "base stats" for the item, which can be VERY useful when making decisions about which weapon / item to keep and how to improve the item???

 

That lot compare tool is useless and bugged too.
I agree with everything ... except this:

New players should go the same path as we did back then. We had no mentor bonuses but we managed to get knowledge books after long ... long time doing DQ's.
Even some of the events were offering minor amount of books ... but after we have reached the cap (knowledge) level.

 

Yeah and players before you didn't have a lot of things you did and players after you have certain things that you didn't get while starting out, the nature of a MMO game is to constantly introduce new elements to the game. So...I don't think its unfair to wish new ways to gain knowledge .

--MERGED--

Yes We did, but thing is Newbies cant figure out what is good for them and by the time they hit lvl 30 they know base stats of most things. That aside yes, it has been noticed and we hope the DEVs notice it too.

 

There were no players or very few before me.
But we are not talking about some certain items like costumes, sword, shield ... etc ... we are talking about core of every player. Everyone is affected by knowledge tree new and old players.
Back in the time we didn't had strong players to help us ... now the new players have. We were doing things for too long ... now you can do it very fast. For an example cloak of power ... old players were doing this quests for months because there was noone to help ... we were on our own ... and now you, the new players have support of older strong players ... and that quest is walk in a park for you. It could take only 1-2 weeks to finish this quest for a new player ... while I was doing it for 8-9 months. Isn't that enough?
Today is not very hard to hit level 30 on knowledge tree ... I am doing it every month with different character. And you only need to know how to get mentor bonus even on new account.

--MERGED--

Yes I have noticed that ... it sucks big. Base stats can be seen only if the item is not identified.

 

Totally agree, but the devs won't care about this letter..

 

hey Durrendal, I feel every single words you made from this thread

I feel the feeling you loosing hope and desperate thinking to quit the play

But you need to man up and take your decision, you know what worth for you and what just wasting your time!

What if I tell you they don't listen to players like you, like us. They care for another things.

See how your thread got mess up with this red "EDIT"

They won't listen and in the other hand they having their employees working to make sure "situation in control" by cover their shame up!

They allow players to kill and cursing in game, but here they manipulate our words like this forum for under ages people and bad words have to be 100% censor.

They banned a good number of players here who just want to giving their opinions from a different way, or to prevent words spreading.

Now you know more who you're dealing with

 

Well stated Durrendal.

I I am forced to agree with the few others. We (being older players) was forced to "grind" till lvl 45.

And as someone else stated in a previous thread DSO has probably milked all the profits outta this game and is just gettin what they can. Now they're slowly letting it die.

It really saddens me to say this....the Devs DO NOT listen to us. They could care less what we have to say. If you watched the last twitch feed you will know they DO NOT play the game. It's painfully obvious.

It's not that we're getting Bigpointed....we already have.

 

I basically disagree with the negative attitude of this topic and others threads like this. YES, THE BUGS ANNOY ME just as much as any one else any I do make less than positive remarks in of my posts, BUT...

It has always been this way. I have been playing since early open beta. Here are just a few items, going back years (I kinda want to keep this short, at least compare to my usual posts, lol.)

• chat broken for up to weeks at a time
• unable to form groups for days (this happened so often I cannot even guess at a number
• (think the current rubber-band situation is bad?) a lot of SW's could not tele for many month's before it was fixed
• Content not working right when first implemented (lets just say day 1)
• and on an on and on

As far as unpopular changes in the game I'll just mention one patch that happened 2 years 4 months ago that any SW that was around at that time can relate too... R051.

In all my years on the forums this game has been on the verge of extinction for years according to many of the posts. Yet is is still here, still pressing on. Ever spent any time just hanging out in Grimford? If so then you should have noticed constant stream of new players still joining the game. If you really believe this game is doomed take comfort in knowing you can post that thought again next year. Just like the folks that have posting this thought for years now

This is a server side browser game with content that rivals many top downloaded client side games. An ambitious coding project that has only become exponentially more complicated as the game has grown.

Players input ignored? Nonsense! Much of the features you enjoy (and probably would quit if they were deleted) came from ideas on the forum. Player criticism ignored? When it is constantly derogatory/abusive and threads are seriously trolled by members with nothing new to say... honestly, would you bother to read it all?

Schoolyard tantrums or civil constructive criticism?

Are the Devs incompetent? NO
Does the system they work under need an overhaul? YES!!!

Anyway, so much for keeping this short (it's just not in me )

Luck be with ye,
Mikey,
Tegan

 

So in essence, we should appreciate the Frying Pan because we atleast aren't in the fire?
I hope we are still here to complain about the game years later, cuz that would mean the game survived. inspite of all the bigpointing,

 

You sure that you been playing for this long? At least that sentence made me doubt it. (Just joking with you)

I basically agree with you, but there is a reason for the negativity.

Most of those who complain probably just love/loved Drakensang Online a lot and hate to see them running the game like they do at the moment. Is their own fault and you can't deny that.

They chose not to listen.
They chose not to change.
They chose to not care.
They chose to work with unnecessary stuff, that they can't even complete before releasing it (bugged).

I mean come on.. In those years you been playing DSO I guess you know as well that there has been some pretty creative ideas from different players which got lots of thumps up, but never was considered (or probably not even looked at) by the devs.

There is simply no excuse for their laziness!
Yeah, but well.. Guess it doesn't matter, they still get $$$ so why bother..

 

Venting is good for the players; it keeps us from blowing a gasket from all that pent up frustration. Most do not realize how dangerous the job would be, when we took it.

If the game didn't have so many lingering problems, word-of-mouth would drive their profits up and out of sight. They must have a very interesting business plan. As it is, turn-over constantly shrinks the on-line player lists. A lot of people still sign on because they are stubborn, and don't stay long. Some times the server seems empty. The view from the outside does not look good.

Of course, running a business is not easy, or else so many others would still be doing it. DSO is making changes; they may yet get their act together and provide consistent, quality entertainment. Here's hoping for epic fun.

 

I honestly hope you're right Darwarren. I really enjoy this game but I will< sooner or later, quite tolerating the laziness of the devs. I hope it doesn't come to that. I already started playing 2 other games. Already lvl 34 on one and making friends. I can't really play 2 games at once. I like to focus on one at a time.

The decision, ultamitily, lies with DSO which game I will play.

 

I agree. Playing another game too at the moment, while still looking on forum for good updates and sometimes logging on for daily.
- I just feel like there's no sense in DSO anymore. I have reached the end and only grind for "almost" nothing. Sooo fun..

I bet that if I quitted 100% for 6 months and then came back I would be enable to get strong again within few weeks lol, if they even added new *good* items by then loooooool.

Yeah well.. Guess we/I at least also have to appect that DSO won't be a game I play forever.. Is not intense, is not hard to get strong, is not hard to farm, is not hard to PvP.

I am at point where I asked myself.. Q6 map 2 and Mortis all day everyday until they actually make something new or quit? I chosen number two.
- At least I feel there's no reason to waste my time farming 100000+mil glyphs to upgrade sword from 49-50 granting a very small DPI boost which probably won't make much difference anyway..

 

Drakensang pleas go away from bigpoint!!!!!!!