Nixon
23-02-06, 23:49
Well.. Where could i start.. Hm,
I loved the game when the retail came out, there wasn't anything that could compete with it.
The storyline is quite fine, tho honestly said i never was too interested in that kind of stuff.
The graphics was quite good and the bugs didn't bug me that much back then. The atmosphere
was the 'thing' that kept me playing even 10 hours per day sometimes.
The same 'thing' is in the game still but not nearly as deep as before. Big factors of it is missing
along the many lost players and the rough sides of the game start bothering even more.
First of all when i reactivated my account about a week ago i thought there would be less bugs
and the game would have 'evo'lved to the state of a retail game and not the beta stage where
it had been at the times when there was actually people around.
I was dissapointed, seriously, but not suprised at all. The game looks the same, many models
have been updated, some towards worse and some well improved but the weird thing is that
the engine is alot heavier with such a small visual change.
I couldn't believe my eyes when NC2 had my system crawling on it's knees when i strolled
through the swamp sectors with all the 2d sprites. (amd 64 3k+, r9800xt, 1gbddr) The worst
thing was that you can't even remove them from options anymore.
The game stability is pretty much the same as always before for me. Fatal runtime errors occur
every now and then, basically more than in any game that I've played in the last i dont know
how many years. Alt-tabbing in wastelands crashes the client.
The 'last nail in the coffin' in my book is the lack of players in Neocron. It's a fact that not even
the most enthusiastic NC fanboi can't deny, there isn't enough players in this game to call it a
MMORPG. It's more like a MORPG. It has been going this way for a long time and the downhill
probably won't stop unless the developers do more than one miracle. I'd picture the game as a
slowly sinking ship with people trying to sling the water back with too small buckets.
To Reakktor i'd say you've done a great job building something like this and i really hope you got
some other project under work already for the MMO gaming community while you keep patching
NC to try and keep it alive until you can move on.
I myself will keep playing casually and do stuff with my ingame buddies until i don't feel like it
anymore. The payment is not a factor that would keep me from hanging around from time to time.
--
ps. Do note that these are my views pointed out as objectively as i can. I have no grudge for
anything, just simply sharing my thoughts with other players.
pss. This ain't a "nc will die now" post either, saying such is quite light-minded as the game
can keep on and up for years and such things have been said before many, many times.
I loved the game when the retail came out, there wasn't anything that could compete with it.
The storyline is quite fine, tho honestly said i never was too interested in that kind of stuff.
The graphics was quite good and the bugs didn't bug me that much back then. The atmosphere
was the 'thing' that kept me playing even 10 hours per day sometimes.
The same 'thing' is in the game still but not nearly as deep as before. Big factors of it is missing
along the many lost players and the rough sides of the game start bothering even more.
First of all when i reactivated my account about a week ago i thought there would be less bugs
and the game would have 'evo'lved to the state of a retail game and not the beta stage where
it had been at the times when there was actually people around.
I was dissapointed, seriously, but not suprised at all. The game looks the same, many models
have been updated, some towards worse and some well improved but the weird thing is that
the engine is alot heavier with such a small visual change.
I couldn't believe my eyes when NC2 had my system crawling on it's knees when i strolled
through the swamp sectors with all the 2d sprites. (amd 64 3k+, r9800xt, 1gbddr) The worst
thing was that you can't even remove them from options anymore.
The game stability is pretty much the same as always before for me. Fatal runtime errors occur
every now and then, basically more than in any game that I've played in the last i dont know
how many years. Alt-tabbing in wastelands crashes the client.
The 'last nail in the coffin' in my book is the lack of players in Neocron. It's a fact that not even
the most enthusiastic NC fanboi can't deny, there isn't enough players in this game to call it a
MMORPG. It's more like a MORPG. It has been going this way for a long time and the downhill
probably won't stop unless the developers do more than one miracle. I'd picture the game as a
slowly sinking ship with people trying to sling the water back with too small buckets.
To Reakktor i'd say you've done a great job building something like this and i really hope you got
some other project under work already for the MMO gaming community while you keep patching
NC to try and keep it alive until you can move on.
I myself will keep playing casually and do stuff with my ingame buddies until i don't feel like it
anymore. The payment is not a factor that would keep me from hanging around from time to time.
--
ps. Do note that these are my views pointed out as objectively as i can. I have no grudge for
anything, just simply sharing my thoughts with other players.
pss. This ain't a "nc will die now" post either, saying such is quite light-minded as the game
can keep on and up for years and such things have been said before many, many times.