NOTE: I realise this is a rather angry post, but this game has a lot of potential and I just feel this open beta is rushed for some reason… It could’ve benefited from an extra large stress test and some more preparation and explenation could have gone far. There are also a lot of positive reviews, don’t get me wrong on that. Also on twitch there were a fair amount of people streaming and enjoying the game. I just feel a lot of negative reactions could have been avoided! Oh, well;)
Three things pop up the most in these negative reviews:
First, connection. People are complaining about loading screens everywhere, not being able to sign in, being put in wrong region servers, servers bug where 10/16 is actually full and 10/14 had only one or no person in it, failing to load the server browser, servers not showing ping, etc etc… This is sad imo because this could have been prevented. Seems like you just opened up the game to everyone and let it all happen. Surely you can predict these problems when suddenly x6 people start playing? There shoud’ve been stress tests and some of these issues are known for weeks but not fixed for open beta… If I were to play a game for the first time and was confronted with these issues, well I would not be happy either.
Second, p2w. It seems that a lot of people give this game the p2w badge. It is understandable at first glance. Seeing you get a case that gives you a card for fragger, but then only to find out you cannot use that card, because you need to first BUY the merc for a price that is TOO HIGH. You need to pay 9.99 euro’s to get fragger… Who will do that? Then you think oh well I will use the credits, aaaaand now, 50.000 credits? Everyone can calculate the tedious grind needed: hours and hours and hours. On this basis it is hard to convince them otherwise. An nother problem is that the merc system is poorly explained: they just are there… greyed out… Ofcourse they think that fragger or kira or w/e or BETTER mercs because you need to pay for them, allthough that is not the case… It is just badly explained to them. Every merc is distinct and has differenct abilities. No merc is better than an other. I feel there needs to be a lot more explenation to new players about this. And seriously down the prices of the mercs… 4.99 at most! Also you are partnered up with Nexon. You KNOW the reputation of nexon games. You shoud’ve clearly stated the goals for monetization from the start so people are not biased from the first second.
Third, XIGNCODE. A lot of people just cannot log in to the game because they get kicked by this poor anti cheat. It has been said so many times that this anti cheat is simply useless and just annoys people. The proof is there aimbotters are in months… There is nothing to stop them. Using the worst anti cheat on the market is not going to help you from getting a good anti cheat policy across. XIGNCODE needs to go and be replaced with something else. If you want this game to have a future partner up with valve and get VAC and also give is TOOLS to stop cheating: demorec and those kind of things. Or atleast made it clear this was on the horizon?
(PC exclusive LOL LOL LOL)