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Originally Posted by TheHawke
...Should those level 1s who may not see game for months to come never get to do the Pearl Quest if a new chapter comes out?
What about this? I have a couple friends AFK from game, but coming back. Due to timing, they missed Constance. They missed all the invasions so far, and they won't be back probably till they are gone. How are they going to understand all the changes by the time they get back?
Then, the brand new players. How can you expect a new player to understand why the game is where it is, if they don't SEE it all themselves? Ok, so there are forums, like here, and D's own archive. Reading doesn't imply understanding. I still wish the nades quest hadn't changed here! Ok, many of you were not fond of the old quest. Kat may have been one of the last couple thousand to do it the old way. New players may hear talk about how it used to be. But will they ever understand what it feels like to have a mass of level 40's or 50's watching your back as you bumble through Kingshead for the very first time? That changed the way I saw the game. At that moment the game became more than just a solo endeavor. I feel sorry for all the new players deprived of the sight of 5 or 6 high level pirates at Kingshead. D really shot themselves in the foot on that one, because, for me, that is what made me determined to see Kat as far as she could go. It made me determined to PAY to get her there.
What do the new players have to change their mind about the game? Quests made easy enough to do solo? Running around seeing X's laid out in plain sight, instead of wandering around having to ask for help?
To me the entire game looks like they are leaning it into solo play. But then what is the point of guilds? Hmm? Should new players, thinking they can go it alone and don't need guilds be deprived of just how fun playing in a group can be? This pirate thinks not. D has gotten too far into messing with what isn't broken, and not progressing the story enough. Methinks D needs to take off an eyepatch, pull out an ear trumpet, and listen to the players!
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I agree with absolutely everything mentioned above.
1: While I do see that you might not understand how the game got to this point, you're not gonna be doing the same thing over and over again, just for the new people, are you? As mentioned before: "You're not going to read the same page of a book over and over again, right?"
Two more examples:
1: Wouldn't you get tired of eating the same thing every day for dinner?
2: Would you go to vacation to the same place every year?
2: The old quests were actually good. The very last quests of having to constantly sink ships over and over again was pretty simple. Rather than that, we have to constantly sink a SPECIFIC ship ( I.E. Kingfishers ). Some people by that point would actually be Lv30+, so sinking ships under Lv30 would be somewhat pointless. Having to sink ANY ship of the Navy class meant that you could actually hang out at the Outcasts/Padres ships and sink Dreadnoughts and Corsairs all you want. As monotonous as it was, it was much easier. And at that point, you could actually sink Ferrets all you want, if you wanted to get the quest over with quickly.
3: "Should those level 1s who may not see game for months to come never get to do the Pearl Quest if a new chapter comes out?"
If I understood this correctly, my answer would be that, chances are they're never going to remove the Black Pearl Boss Battle, as it is part of the WHOLE storyline.
4: This game IS veering onto the point of everything being a solo thing. Having to dig up a Treasure Chest buried under a andom X's on a random oddly colored pile of dirt isn't much of a "Treasure Hunt" now is it?