there's a bunch of reason people stopped playing, entire lists, but i can only speak for myself.
* patch still has broken items, at least one is invisible.
* unpredictable combat, a mixture of bad lag, and wonky agi combat, some fights are incredibly bad, 2 people not even blocking, just swinging for the fences and hitting nothing.
- sometimes you swing the wrong swing, ill have a right swing prepped and it does a super fast over head on my screen...or i have an overhead prepped, and there is a huge delay b4 my swing releases, and it changes into a right swing.
* bad combat. a mixture of lag, and lvls people shouldnt be at, i dont think STR whores broke the game nearly as bad as AGI whores have, this mod has turned into a spam fest, but with BAD hit detection, but the worst part of it...people with 9 10 athletics using very cheap low end gear, using very long high dmg weapons...its just bad
* lvl system broke grind system. for me, i didnt like alot about this game for the last number of patches, but i still played, cuz im a grinder, i love to grind and crunch numbers. but the new lvling system has really put me off playing, the time \ reward for retiring is ridiculous, and the master title is too much now, the new lvl 34 takes WAY too long to get to, i dont feel motivated to grind.
*useless upkeep system. When Wotr came out, i was very excited, after playing in mail for years, in the glass canon warfare that is NATIVE, i really wanted a medieval "tank" game, that used alot of plate and focused less on spamming, and more on precise targeting. it was a blast for a while you could run out there and take tons of hits from noobs, while a skilled player could still down you quickly with the right attacks. Wotr slowly went downhill, the plate everyone had come for, was nerfed and nerfed and nerfed...got to a point, noone was using the plate, it was all archers and medium gear.
i still to this day am bitter about that, plate warfare was one of the game's selling points, but slowly, the best armor available in the game became the worst, too slow, not nearly enough protection.
CRPG has a upkeep system that would have to believe that Milanese plate is thee best armor, and y not? it has the "best" stats and the HIGHEST PRICE. so why so few people use it?
combat the way it is, lvl's and builds the way they are...why even have plate? why dont we all just run around in the TRUE best armor, pros and cons wise the kuyak is thee best armor in the game...for so cheap too.
the 3 p's to a good business
donkey crew seems like they have the passion, the deff have the potential, but they lack the promise. you lads need to have a vision for your product and stick to it, honestly, it feels like donkey crew are making it up as they go along, too many of the last patches havent had much thought into how it will affect the game, well thought out experiments are one thing, but to half assed just try things and "see how they work out" with no community discussion.
when you read "crpg has no goal or vision, it is an ever changing product" you tend to think it will always change for the better, ie they keep improving the mod...experimenting with and improving are two diff things.
the way crpg has gone it tells me, donkey crew is still very young, with a lot of lessons to learn.
