[SC] My opinions about the game, and why the game is dead.

So, here I'm going to post my opinions about the game. Why so many players left the game, and how could it have been prevented it from the game from reaching It's currect status as it's now.

Powercreep.
One of the things that RUINED this game, It's the godless Uber Full-Elite equipment. Talking about the Apis & Zeus drones, LF-4's, Upgrades, Ship desings/Variants and other stupid Powercreep which made the game much harder than how it used to be in 2011 or earlier. In the old times It's just enough to get Goliath ship, Reasonable amout of LF-3 and BO2 and you're ready. Now you have to spend whole year collecting those stupid LF-4 in order to maximise your ship.

No reasonable low-level/Newbie protection.
So instead of actualy working on this topic, they spent their time adding more powercreep instead of helping newbies. Protection from UFE's up to level 5 - 6 is not enough. Leveling up above level 6 was pretty much easy work, you can reach level 7 or higher within first day of playng the game.
yes, I'm also aware that players now start with 3 LF-3s and bunch of LF-2s. But that does not protect them from Uber Full-Elite players on Goliath ships.

Now I receive typical response from Noob/Low level hunters: "Omgz! But get used it lolz!!!11! I used to get killed by FE goliaths too, so you should suffer the same way as I suffered LELELZ!!!111!!!11".

This comes from a typical player who dont want It's easy-kill abilities to be removed. They shoot low-levels because they want to rack up their flirthy stats and their stupid K/D ratio. If you want to earn those, THEN EARN THEM ON THE FRIGGIN FAIR WAY BY ACTUALY GOING TO PVP AND NOT SHOOTING INNOCENT LOW LEVELS AND NEWBIES. They dont have to suffer like you. They want to have fun game just like you want, and they deserve it.

I'm not a FE myself, but there is no honor shooting low-levels. Well actualy I did shoot some, but only to complete those PvP quests, considering my ship is weak for real PvP, other than that, I have no intentions to touch low levels, because I don't care about them neither.

Bot users & Cheaters.
No, this is not completely the fault of the developers. The people who created those bot programs are also guilty for the game currect status. If they didn't inspire more than 80% of the community to use their stupid cheat-programs, they wouldn't have been banned and the game would have been much much more alive than currectly.

So do you agree with my statmets why the game is dead and no one plays it nowadays?

 

The Powercreep is the main reason seasoned veterans left the game as they thought they had spent all the money they had to to maintain top ranking, then DO reset the bar and added the UFE costing so much more than the FE+ status they enjoyed.

The Newbie Protection used to be the FE players patrolling the lower maps and protecting them. The addition of the AJP-01 jump chip removed the ability to easily do this and the loss of the populations on the servers took the Portal Guard out of the game. So D O needs to make changes to make the x-1 to x-4 maps protected from enemy/same company attacks. If you completed the "Starter Quests" you have already lost the "Protection" as you have already made it above the protection threshold.

Bots and Cheaters have always been in the game, when I started we had the original programmers who had a back door entry into the servers and created havoc where ever they could took a year for D O to find and remove this doorway to remove them from the game. Current DDoS attacks would not surprise me to find they are being done by banned players who have arranged for making these attacks to make the game unusable by the players who do not need to cheat to enjoy the game. They all bought their cheats (probably from the same place) and they probably have a forum like us so they make arrangements to attack server "x" during a certain time on a certain day and of course there is nothing that D O can do to stop these.

The one thing you forgot to mention is all of the Bugs/Glitches/Exploits that the Dev Team seems to add to the game in an abundance. If they would take an extra month before launching a game update they could find these things and not introduce them into the game and keep it a smooth running game instead of a mess of garbage.

 

The money nubs run this game. Dark Orbit does not want to cut their own throats. So they will slowly let the game die the death of a thousand cuts -- allow UFEs and MCCs to drive players out. Played this game a long time and there used to be more of a sense of community where people help each other to move ahead. Those times are gone. What's left are a bunch of socially dysfunctional people with more money than morals devouring any player in their way no matter what level. They gang up on solo players, noobs, weaker clans, backstab their own and make a mess out of every event in the game. And many of these player actively seek any advantage including scripts, macros, gaming devices, exploits, cheats, etc to get ahead. Not a healthy game environment for most players who don't have tons of money or time to put into building quickly.

The Hitac is impossible to shoot in USEast1 without being chewed up by the mccs. Oh and to make the Lance formation a prize in a recent event...50% more mine damage... just lines the maps with 150% damage mines the noobs and a lot of FEs and lesser UFEs cannot take. EVERY event is getting like this. I'm about ready to quit. I stopped trying to do Hitac after getting shot at 15 times, one death in a span of 10 minutes. The hogs can have it.

You play a game for fun, killing time, friendships, challenge... not to be constantly prevented from that or bullied like the newer players are.
And don't tell me 'it's a pvp game' that's just nonsense. There is NO BALANCE anymore. And DO keeps rolling out items that extend the gap between new and UFE players. Why would anyone play a game if you are constantly popped and no one helps you?

 

I agree with everything you said.

I just love how those smarts come up with the typical argument "But It's teh normal that newbies and low-levels always getting killed, It's supposed to be that way lol!!11!!1". And stating that the game is fine and progressing well, what a good joke that comes from a typical wallet warrior noob LOL. So why then Newbies and low-levels leave the game then?

It's one of my main complaints about the game. LF-4's, Upgrades, P.E.T's, Apis and Zeus drones... *Cough* Events that are built only for UFE's... -.-

BigPoint! I miss the old darkorbit that was in 2011 or earlier!

I miss the times when there we're no stupid LF-4. I miss the times when there are no ship desings. I miss the times when there are only Flax and Iris drones. I FRIGGING MISS THE OLD INVASION GATE. *Cough* P.E.T. One of the worst abominations that ruined the game concept.

Anyone remembers the old Lasers models and sounds? Anyone Remember the old alien models, they actualy used to look like actual aliens, unlike now.

Omg, the old maps backinground? Those we're the best times of darkorbit... Dark, deep dark space, dreadfull aliens, the namely reason why It was been called DARKORBIT for gods sake, not the currect cartoon abomination we have now ****.

 

Hey, don't bring the nostalgia back! Miss those days a lot.

 

I miss them too. And dont worry, you're not the only one who has the nostalgia for the old great darkorbit, dark and dreadfull.

The game went totaly downhill.

 

You have no idea what I am capable to give just to have the chance to play with that old community for one more time! Even if that experience lasts only 5 more minutes..

 

I wish they did not get rid of Uridium Wars(The Dark Orbit before the crap Dark Orbit). This game will die there is no way I see Bigpoint bring this game back to life. I am surprised they have noy back Uridium Wars back. Jagex got a lot of hate for the updates to Runescape, so they brought back Old School Runescape which came free for everyone. Jagex knows how to keep their community happy unlike Bigpoint.

 

Ohhhh....the old days. I remember patrolling the lowers to protect the noobs so they could work on their rank in piece. Now it's not done at all. Clans used to get together and go raid X-1 maps. Hell, even had friendships with people from other companies and we'd usually give byes to 'em if they wanted to hang out in our maps. Crap like that.

COMMUNITY.

I just ran across one of my own company getting attacked by a more powerful ship (other company). I helped out and my guy started shooting me! Later on I was tooling around and crossed paths with the same guy and he started shooting at me AGAIN.

To be honest, it's all the people leaving that kind of feeds a gang mentality...there's nobody to shoot at anymore! I remember TENS of people hanging out at a gate when one of the opposing FEs was hunting. Now you're lucky to find a single ship in any given map.

 

Maybe we could all stop playng the game, and then lets see If BigPoint will turn their brains up and bringing the darkorbit that we all love!

 

The will keep the lights on as long as it gets them $, that's fair enough I think. At this point in the games life span, if we all "quit" in protest, they would pull the plug. Big Point has many other games, and no new energy will be put in to re-invent this particular game.

2012 that might have worked, not now.

PS. I do miss the old metal, meat grinder Mordons....and the old lasers, god I miss the old lasers....not these colored spit balls we shoot now lolz !!

 

Have you ever thought that they are messing the game up so we will QUIT? They know the game has gotten out of hand and it is going to cost more than they are making to get it fixed. The few skins they have sold did not get the response they wanted and the G G Rewards Weekends were a failure as the rewards turned more people off from creating the gates for the rewards. IF they wanted the game to be GREAT they would have removed the issues before adding more to the game.

 

And this is what those incompetent Darkorbit devs DESERVE. They destroyed the game, THEY DESERVE TO NOT EARN THE MONEY.

Dark orbit used to be look almost like space horror action game, It's like star wars, but horror style, Dark and dreadfull maps, aliens that put players into fear, speciality newbies, I remember how I used to get filled with creeps when a lordakia started to shoot at me when I was a complete darkorbit newbie... ah the lasers, they're so eye candy used to be ahh. Nowadays It turned into pathetic generic cartoony space themed MMO.

HAHAHAHA. So true. I just going to laugh how retarded and idiotic is to see a ship shooting "Football" balls at Cartoon fish-looking alien (Talking about sibelons), omg... I just... I dont even... oh god.

I have to guess they watched too much disney cartoons while updating darkorbit... Which resulted DarkOrbit to turn into Cartoon space shooter.

GAME DEVELOPERS, WHAT THE ACTUAL **** IS WRONG WITH YOU FOR GODS SAKE!?

Sorry... The cartoon bull*** was the mainly reason that killed the game. Watching all that cartoony looking ships and desings I just want to laugh really hard.

 

Am I crazy - with all the new cartoony NPCs and lasers - or does the Aegis remind anyone else of a Warthog's head?
While we're at it, Cubes looked like skyscrapers before they "reimagined" the NPCs.

I do miss the lasers AND sounds. RSB USED to sound downright evil. Now it sounds like X4...which is almost *pew-pew*.

 

[REMOVED]

To make money you have to buy a special ammo that sprays like a can of raid. But they have make the ammo reasonable price.

Man I would love pay cash for that and it would be great publicity.

 

the game will never be back to how it used to be bigpoint dont care cos people still stupidly spend money on it, would you keep throwing money at a broken car.. no would you keep throwing money at a broken game .. yes, when people stop spending they may address the issues, or more likely pull the plug