Where is the fun?

[hody]

Ya, what nebulaman said goes for me as well. Very well stated.

 

[Tyrannus]

Good god things have changed...from what I can tell SS are trying to fix what ain't broken, and that never works.
PG has indeed lost its soul. When I first joined, 25 August 2009, it was...magnificent. It was so easy to play, it had a brilliant story, and there often massive battles between players. I can't tell you how much adrenaline pumped through me during those scraps, and let me tell you: it was gaming perfection.

Then things started changing. Cryonite drop rates were fiddled with, the CQ system turned into an abomination, and then PM just went kerblooey.

What happened to the 30+ people scrapping for the hell of it without fear of consequences of having to stay PM?

What happened to the wide-eyed inventiveness of the story instead of a reworked Vega story awkwardly tacked on to mesh with Sol, but not Antares, Gemini and Mizar?

What happened to a CQ system that wasn't horrifically stunted, complicated and unfair?

And what the HELL happened to the ability to play the game without being harassed by advertisements, promotions, offers, discounts, and sales every goddamn minute?

What happened to the original Vega 2, with it's beautifully massive, wide-open desert plains, instead of the cramped-up, constricting planet of Kalabesh (that might I point out, is new players first view of gameplay of PG) it was turned into?

What happened to players being rewarded for becoming powerful and able to gain easy cryonite doing white missions in a much more powerful ship?

Most importantly, soaring far above all other reasons, as this thread asks...WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FUN?!?!

Splitscreen Studios, now I address you directly, especially your CEO and senior developers. Put things back the way they were, in the glory days of this game, or at least allow us the joy of the old, perfectly functioning PM. Reverse the atrocious new control system, and give us back the perfectly good old one. Stop ceaselessly trying to squeeze money out of us, Gamigo manage to keep the game almost ad-free, before you guys turned it into a money-making engine.

Listen to your critics. Give Pirate Galaxy its soul back.

Well spoken m8.

 

[passenger8]

-i just have to agree with you folks. -i am totally confused and disappointed by the weird and greasy behavior from the developers too.

 

[pbhuh]

-i just have to agree with you folks. -i am totally confused and disappointed by the weird and greasy behavior from the developers too.

I agree, sometimes they make the greatest updates ever and you hope that it will continue, but then you get slapped in the face by the most worse updates ever...

The Vega System Update, the best one ever, the greatest new features (scan to see amout/what bp it is, total remake with an great new storyline and a new cq planet)

But then....

The Draconis System Update, the worsed one ever, everything bugged, everything too hard, prices are the double of what it should be, a bad Pirate Mode, do i have to continue

The new loot system, SS you made it much harder to get new bp's, don't lie to us, on hive i used to get stuff only 50% slower then now, but now i need 10 bp's, so it takes 5x longer, we aren't stupid ss, you made it worse, the bp droprate didn't go up 10x maybe only by 200%.

 

[Sinned]

The game is still fun, but the problem is that there is too much grinding and there is no place for fun.

Some things need to be changed such as the outrageous price of draconis ships, rare grinding, CQs etc. and the game would be nice and challenging again.

Regards
Dark Lord

 

[rawlicks]

Hello there.

When i first joined the game
-it had CQs where you could dive just to be poded, for FUN.
-You could grind for a day and have a fully equiped ship.
-Next day you could have some fun killing REDs somewhere for FUN.
-Then you could show of your mightiness for some noobs entering their squad and helping in some missions
-You could have 200 buddies
-If you don't wanna waist time on grinding, you could BUY ships.
and it was FUN, ppl were happy, well there was always someone whining for loosing their gold BPs...

NOW:
-I have to GRIND cryonites 571.000Crystals to get 1 draconis ship, with full BLUE upgrades
-If i POD i loose what i take 15 min to GRIND, and that not counting on E harvesting
-I have to GRIND for some 8 hours to have a full Blue BP

So...in total, and counting with the poor drop rate/vallue of crystals in Draconis system(average 3K/hour).
===> I'll have to grind for 8 hours x 8 BPs = 64 hours to have all the blue BPs, that will also give me 192K of crystals (3K/hour) (if i don't POD)
571-192K=379K
Now i go to the lower system and get some AWESOME 5K/Hour while grinding...what means 379/5=76hours
That means 140 hours just to have a decent ship with TOP Blue BPs...
If i play 2-3 hours everyday, that means: 140/2,5=56 Days!!!

Thats almoust 2 MONTHS to have a fully NON RARE ship!!!

So i ask you: ARE YOU MAD?!?! How do you expect us to have fun? Even if we pay...

MONEY MONEY MONEY lets make more the old players it doesnt matter so much as we can get lots more new ones?????? maybe maybe not .I agree with what you are saying

 

[defacto]

PG will not get it's soul back. I have seen many people in different games complain, and as far as i have seen, when it gets to this point, the admins usually won't listen to it's players anymore...

It's their game, and they can do whatever they want to it. But they can't expect me to pay for it...
If we got the majority of PG players on our side, maybe we can make a boycot? ^^

 

[balance]

u have my vote :frown:

 

[passenger8]

-yes, it´s their (SS) game and they can ofcourse do whatever they want to it.
-what i realy miss from the past exept from the larger freedom of choice and the diiference in travelspeed from different shiptypes, is the extreeme fine graphics where you could easily see what the time was when you landed on a planet. (early morning, late afternoon, midday or midnight and everything in between)
-i think that we old pilots have to be extreemely happy for what we have achieved, because in the future the new pilots will have to fight harder with lower gear for a longer time (in order to make them pay for the cheatcodes? (boosters)) -i did spend 99,99€ on this game for some months ago to support SS, but it´s important for my selfrespect that i insist of being a free player and see how far that will go and with that advantage that i know exactly how weak i am.
-but the game today is a degenerated "slowdown" that speaks out loud, and we have to live with that, or not.
-i still hope for the best, but think that i have learned a lesson about wasting my time on onlinegames in general so i will not start up another game. -i got what i got here and i intend to use it for your service as far as i can go, and i am not done yet

 

[lance]

I have to say, things are a lot better with the recent updates. The only thing I wish we could have back is pirate mode... I miss the days of earth clan battles...

then again, it might happen, some of the other issues have been adressed

 

[ramtex]

I agree dying for and from the changes. You do different things with other SS games, why not apply similar logic in this game.

I am gone as soon as I find something else to do. I bought all the boosters, and still have no fun.

 

[Nanopizza]

I couldnt agree more than what Bala and you others have said...sure if they try these things and listen to there players I wouldnt mind that but if the players say NO they mean NO, so why dont you put the game back to what it was before the loot system, before the steering and say "we tried these updates but players didnt like them so we got rid of them" and players may have a little more faith in splitscreen

 

[Firebrand1]

well said nano. i used to think SplitScreen was different then other game developers, but now i see i was wrong...

 

[pbhuh]

well said nano. i used to think SplitScreen was different then other game developers, but now i see i was wrong...

on pg they are not open to critisism and if they keep ignoring the players they loose us, on SL they do listen for some reason, but only highway or atleast he is the only one that actually speaks to the players.

 

[Galaxy-Delta]

i agree with you bala. I want the old pirate galaxy back!

 

[Adrana]

This is an old post, before the latest update, I will archive this, and you all welcome to do a new feedback on the latest features in proper threads. ^^