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I know I'm not the first one to complain, but this game just doesn't feel the same anymore. Sure it's easy to have fun with friends, but the problems just stack up; the numerous bugs that have gone unfixed is ridiculous, and it seems the devs just don't care anymore.

Although reforge and HG did give some purpose to endgame other than escalation, it feels a little empty. And after reforging once or twice, you realize there's nothing else to do. Getting and upgrading armor sets has just become tedious, due to the removal of behemoth pursuits and the nerf on athersparks. Overall it just makes the process of getting simple stuff grindy and unecessarily tedious.

If there's one thing I'm just not liking, it's how much the game is starting to push purchases and plat. Rumors, patrol keys, and athersparks are just a way to slowly squeeze more money out of the playerbase, and it's sad. I genuinely like this game as an alternative to Monster Hunter and would love to see it grow. I really hope PHXL gets their act together because at this rate, Dauntless is slowly killing itself.

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almost 4 years ago - /u/CreatureTech-PHX - Direct link

Hi, I can comment on a couple of things here!

We're buffing aethersparks in the next patch and still fiddling with the number.

We're also bringing back solo queues in March.

I know those aren't the root of all your feedback, but I hope it helps. We still care about Dauntless and continue our work towards making it the best it can be.

For now, I've passed on this sentiment/feedback to the devs for you <3

almost 4 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by NDChaos

Similar story here but not a new player, veteran introducing other players to the game, having fun for a few months then we all quit a couple days after reforged dropped.

Did you find Reforging itself to be your main complaint, or something else?

almost 4 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by Amplify91

Quick story: I was a newer player, level 30ish, starting to really get into Dauntless. Spent a little money. I was getting my whole friend/family group to start playing also. Then Reforged happened, tried it a couple times, and none of us touched the game again. The end :(

What do you wish was different?

almost 4 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

I can promise you that we love Dauntless, and we are taking all of the feedback to heart.

First off: We never want it to feel that we are "squeezing more money" out of the playerbase EVER. That's not how we think about games or commerce at all. Our goal is ALWAYS to make a game that players love and choose to spend money in because they want to. We experiment with offers, as we do with everything in our game, but all of those experiments are to hone in on new things players feel joy in purchasing.

As far as bugs go: Now that we have shipped Reforged we are working on some longstanding community bugs and will have quite a few of them fixed in the next few patches (such as Val's horn being unbreakable, tonics for rams, Agarus' animations, etc.) and we are hunting down the Chain Blades bugs (especially the one where you hit invisible walls). Reforged involved a massive amount of effort, and now that it's in your hands we are reacting to the feedback around it + making sure we carve out enough time to tackle bugs.

In case you didn't see, we are adding solo/private queues to Hunting Grounds, and are aiming for March for that update. In the closer future we have Frost Esca launching Feb 4 if you're looking for some new content!

The aethersparks nerf is being tweaked in 1.5.4 (Feb 4) because we heard the community feedback. We will continue to tweak them in future patches of course as well.

At the end of the day we are an experimental company working on a game we love! And what matters is that we continuously learn in order to create the best experiences for our players.

Keep giving your feedback. <3