To all those who care about this game, and have been watching it die these past two years, I beg of you, do what you can to show the developers that we care more about what this game is than they do.

When they created this game, it was so that people could be free to make it what they will be for them.

People were free to be civil and courteous to another.  People were free to be jerks to one another.

Jerkish behavior was to be dealt with by the players.  Guilds were supposed to protect their weaker members from predatory players, not Big Brother Developers.

Now, we're losing that freedom.  The freedom that breathed life into this game is being attacked.

Of course, the first topic of the day is the dismantling of organic PvP, a bedrock of freedom.  As mentioned above, true Open World allows us to decide how we'll treat our fellow players.  This makes the world dangerous, but alive.

A next topic is the dismantling of the early and mid-game.  Permanent seasons rush players to endgame in an amount of time that prevents new players from actually getting to know and appreciate this game.  It renders all aspects of the game meaningless.  Why do anything if all you need is Tuvala?

The next topic is stat caps.  Why do any gear progression if you're stats will be capped everywhere?  Why do anything if all you need is Tuvala?

The next is favoratism among classes.  Certain classes have an obvious edge over others, not stat-wise, but how easy their controls are.  Certain classes were nerfed, like Valkyrie, but others were left alone to super-grind their way through life.  Some classes cause sore tendons in hands and wrists after a half hour of grinding whereas other classes can allow you to grind for hours by pushing three buttons.  Then, there are the stat and skill disperities.  I won't get into that.

Classes are unbalanced and that limits our freedom to play as we would wish.  This should be a priority.

Certain lifeskills are way easier to make silver with, so.............. why do they make janky, clumsy, low paying ones (like trade reboot)?  Mass cooking, people.  That's what they want us to do.

We're being funneled by the developers to play this game the way they want us to play it.  They want us to skip or r-spam their quests, because there is no silver, or exp to be had from them.  The story is put together poorly and we either avoid it or R spam it.  They want us to Tuvala our way through this game, and to what end?  I don't know, and they don't know either.  That is a horrible problem and it is currently killing this game.

So, good people who care enough to read and post on the forums, please, do what you can to show PA what they are doing to us, and that we care.

We must show them, that we remember the past, when this game was fun, and let us play the way we wanted to play.  Sure, it was far from perfect back then, but, back then,

we were free to play.  We had a purpose.  Now it is gone.

Last year they destroyed Port Ratt, a symbol of beauty and mystery in this game.  PA has a new target this year: our freedom.

Please rise, people.

PORT RATT REMEMBERS

The only thing they will react to is when the Whales stop spending hundreds of dolllars monthly on this game because it's PVE only and they're getting bored or because they got a weeks ban for killing someone they don't like a few times.  I already am loving the extra money in my budget.  I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one 🤣

If we are on the topic of things that need to be fixed, please rework the Conversation minigame system. A rework was promised literally years ago but never materialized. It's actually a VERY important part of the game (a MASSIVE amount of knowledge and side-quests are locked behind Amity) but has been left in a state of disfunction since the launch of the game.

I agree but they should focus their efforts elsewhere at the moment. in the meantime, just use the Amity Game Calculator https://bdotools.com/

I love this game but it was hard to run around the server with low gear because of the ganking. Nine times out of I did not see them, nothing was said just dead.

  The Arsha servers are not very crowded, is that because there are usually not a bunch of low geared peeps there? Meanwhile the season servers are busy.

  They should look at how guild wars 2 does pvp and server vs. Server. It's more of an even playfield.

The only thing they will react to is the Korean player base. North American and European feed back along with our ideas and whines are not counted or acknowledged.
" Holds up Dwarven fist."

Care to show us your death list from that constant ganking then?

I think for me, it's not so much that the OW PvP changes were bad, it was that they highlighted how purposeless and content-lacking PvP is, and always has been. The only true drop-in PvP is, and has always been RBF on the same goddamn map (and possibly, these days Solare).

It's crazy for a game with a huge open world that PvP is so badly, tangentially integrated that people had to make their own drama (often purposefully), just to get some form of meaningful small-scale fight.

It also seems like a collossal no-brainer, to just do a server, where you pick one of three factions, and fight over nodes, needing them to link back to your base so there's a clear frontline. Basically, rip off PlanetSide 2. Your faction controls node = get some form of meaningful bonus. Your faction is unpopular and lacks numbers? Get an increased meaningful bonus. You capture a node = get immediate reward. Drop in drop out whenever. Nobody at the node and you're solo capping it in Tuvala? Get huge rewards. Except, the fact that you do get huge rewards, will mean someone else will turn up also wanting them, and it'll snowball from there.

Fundamentally, the game needs 24/7 drop in PvP that rewards gearing and is not the same map in RBF with the same people ad nauseum. Asking for a return to that being ganking people in meaningless PvP isn't a fix, nor is ganking undergeared people in OW really good for anyone. A sign-up, time limited thing like War of the Roses is also a misstep.

What's needed is the ability to hit a button whenever you feel like it and be in a reasonable scale PvP fight that rewards your gear, the time you spend doing the PvP, and takes advantage of the huge open world. It's not moon rocket science to make such a system, as many games show.