BradSTL
22-06-05, 06:52
And you know, things were going so well. Bugs I cared about were getting fixed, Reakktor stopped crapping all over the Tsunami and actually threw us a couple of bones, we actually got the Tsunami Syndicate onto the map, and I actually bothered to fully cap a character without getting bored with it for the first time in three years. I hadn't had a bad time in Neocron 2 in at least a month, maybe longer.
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Well, fine. I could have waited six or eight hours for my clan's other hackers in Europe to login, but I figured that we had enough allies I didn't need to do that; I could get it done in no time and have it ready for my people when they logged in next. And, in fact, I had a volunteer to fill in the 3rd hacker I needed in only 10 minutes. [ edited ]
[ edited ] So he shoots me, a droner with no bird in the air, at point blank range. Fortunately, my friend finishes the second hack before having to log out to escape.
So I go back a little later with my other hacker, pop the third layer, get the message that says that outpost security has been completely reprogrammed. Yay. So I start making arrangements with a PPU to have my primary character resurrected ... and while I'm in chat, with a mid-level character, I get shot in the back [ edited ]
So, fine. I log a fourth character who's able to travel through Hacknet, hike the short distance to Syncon outpost in Hacknet, tag the terminal, it says reprogramming in progress ... and nothing happens. I wait a few minutes, put in a GM ticket, 3rd in line. 10 minutes later, I'm 1st in the line. And that's where I still am when I log out two hours and twelve minutes later. So basically, what I paid my $20 a month for, was so tonight I could get shot in the back twice by allies and then spend over two hours staring at a terminal that wasn't moving ... while keeping my mouth shut as long as possible, because I knew the ally killers would just come back and gank me again if they knew where I was.
Thank God Soylent Green was on Turner Classic Movies.
When I put that ticket in, it was 9:11 pm in the evening, St. Louis time, or if you prefer, 7:11 pm west coast time. That's absolutely peak usage time for Americans, and in case you hadn't noticed, your American customers are the tail that are wagging this European dog. Having no GMs online for a two hour period in the middle of peak usage times is just inexcusable, as inexcusable as ganking allies because they're defending their outpost in a way you don't approve of rather than talking it out.
I wish the map designers in this game sucked as badly as the rest of this game does, then I could just be out of here and not miss it. I've stuck around for three years, including returning after trying to stay away for a couple of months, because someone at Reakktor has an absolute fucking mind-boggling genius-level gift for telling a story through clues left in the game world. Neocron feels real to me in a way that no other MMO I've ever played has. I hate that, because if it weren't for that, I'd be in Matrix Online by this weekend.
So excuse me while I vent. I love this game, and things have mostly been going so well. But last night was the kind of night that makes less obsessive fans than me quit games.
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Well, fine. I could have waited six or eight hours for my clan's other hackers in Europe to login, but I figured that we had enough allies I didn't need to do that; I could get it done in no time and have it ready for my people when they logged in next. And, in fact, I had a volunteer to fill in the 3rd hacker I needed in only 10 minutes. [ edited ]
[ edited ] So he shoots me, a droner with no bird in the air, at point blank range. Fortunately, my friend finishes the second hack before having to log out to escape.
So I go back a little later with my other hacker, pop the third layer, get the message that says that outpost security has been completely reprogrammed. Yay. So I start making arrangements with a PPU to have my primary character resurrected ... and while I'm in chat, with a mid-level character, I get shot in the back [ edited ]
So, fine. I log a fourth character who's able to travel through Hacknet, hike the short distance to Syncon outpost in Hacknet, tag the terminal, it says reprogramming in progress ... and nothing happens. I wait a few minutes, put in a GM ticket, 3rd in line. 10 minutes later, I'm 1st in the line. And that's where I still am when I log out two hours and twelve minutes later. So basically, what I paid my $20 a month for, was so tonight I could get shot in the back twice by allies and then spend over two hours staring at a terminal that wasn't moving ... while keeping my mouth shut as long as possible, because I knew the ally killers would just come back and gank me again if they knew where I was.
Thank God Soylent Green was on Turner Classic Movies.
When I put that ticket in, it was 9:11 pm in the evening, St. Louis time, or if you prefer, 7:11 pm west coast time. That's absolutely peak usage time for Americans, and in case you hadn't noticed, your American customers are the tail that are wagging this European dog. Having no GMs online for a two hour period in the middle of peak usage times is just inexcusable, as inexcusable as ganking allies because they're defending their outpost in a way you don't approve of rather than talking it out.
I wish the map designers in this game sucked as badly as the rest of this game does, then I could just be out of here and not miss it. I've stuck around for three years, including returning after trying to stay away for a couple of months, because someone at Reakktor has an absolute fucking mind-boggling genius-level gift for telling a story through clues left in the game world. Neocron feels real to me in a way that no other MMO I've ever played has. I hate that, because if it weren't for that, I'd be in Matrix Online by this weekend.
So excuse me while I vent. I love this game, and things have mostly been going so well. But last night was the kind of night that makes less obsessive fans than me quit games.