Hey guys, haven't been here in a while. I've pretty much quit Allods a while back. I keep coming back to say hi and try to get back into the game, but it's just so different from when I started. It just keeps pushing me back out. I really want to come back, I miss my friends.
When I say "different," I don't mean I'm afraid of difference. I love many of the new things in this game, but there's too many things changed for the worst. Most notably is the sheer amount of work needed to progress now.
When I started, the Gipat patch had just hit the same week. It took me a few months to get to end game (first mmo/ full healer/ lazy). When I reached end game and was able to do heroics, it was just wonderful. I had so much fun every day. The instances were hard, but not to the point of being boring. I loved it back then. When the lv 47 patch hit, the game started going downhill with this refining nonsense. At first it wasn't too bad. If you were lucky you could get an auto-upgrade, and every upgrade filled the gauge a decent amount.
I'm going to stop myself now before I make this way longer and off-topic.
Basically, everything you do now requires work, alot of work. Players have to put so much work into earning stuff, only to turn around and have to work to even use what they worked so hard to earn in the first place. I can't stand upgrading gear (the way it is now and still). I wish so bad there was an alternative. It just ruins the game for me.
That's not all either, astral is boring too. The drops are very generic, there are very very few allods used at endgame so you end up doing the same ones over and over, the choice between having to sail or pay gold to tp is ridiculous.
If I could sum up the game in it's current state in one word, "tedious." I think the developers wanted players to have something to work for while they developed the next patch, but forgot to make it fun. That's what this game feels like now, work. If I want to work, I go to my job. At least then I'm earning money. (P.S. I'm not a fan of pvp, especially such unbalanced pvp)
This post is a mess and I don't feel like proof-reading since it's late. I'm sure I missed lots of points since I had to stop myself to avoid long-winded rants, and I apologize. I just really miss the good days back when I used to be active. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm actually getting a little sad. I miss my friends, I miss having something to do, I miss my virtual avatar(s), I miss the (albeit through the internet) social interactions. I miss this game. I really want to come back, but Allods keeps pushing me away.
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Here's hoping a patch comes eventually that pulls me back.