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Let me preface, by saying, that the decision to not continue your forums and to blatantly almost word-for-word copy what Epic stated when they chose to do the exact same thing, is a slap in your founders/dedicated player-bases faces.
The current state of feedback and discussions is appalling. If it doesn't jive with the core of your sub community, it's down-voted into oblivion, never responded to, and lost unless your overworked mods bring it to your attention. Here is a simple suggestion, yes I could of worded things differently, but when it comes to the actual discussion, you start to see what "reddit" as a platform really is.
My question to PHXL, is this how you really want feedback for your game processed?
Where the players who evaluate your game, not just on fun, are shut out? Reddit, the more I use it for many other threads, if not heavily moderated, is a cesspool. It does not promote discussions, even when it's PINNED and suppose to be focused feedback. Whats worse, is that patch notes and in-game tool-tips, hide so much information that has to be tested as if, we were your paid QA team.
There are so many issues with the game, from how trials is currently implemented (Bugged and hacked runs)
Top runs are all bugged (group and some solo) and or hacked (top 2 solos)
Hacking should be a HARD stance. It's obvious that intention is there. IP ban the first time, hardware ban the next time. Otherwise a week to "cleanse" the boards is going to leave a ton of actual competitors on edge and wondering if you care about the effort we put in. To me, this week was not even worth the pots to compete, between everything that went on and still, bugged runs up on the boards.
To the arguably bad balancing with the implementation of Beserker and trying to bring all weapons to an even DPS level, disregarding what made Dauntless unique in terms of risk vs. reward of play. This isn't apparent in Trials yet, but it's very apparent in Heroic/Heroic+, where majority of speedrunning/tournaments still takes place. Trials is awfully one sided due to it's current implementation, leading to the heavy repeaters use.
I'm absolutely lost, as a dedicated player who has more than sung praises of your game and criticized some of your less tasteful changes as a studio and game. While I totally understand the need to have a fun game, that attracts players and that Trials is meant for the "hardcore". However, you are breeding a community that is no longer willing to have actual discussions about balance, that resorts to filling a sub with memes and hive minded posts, buries any critique if its not to satisfy the disgruntled masses, and have gone silent to your core players who have been their day 1.
I already don't see the same PHXL, that I saw in Alpha, CB, or even earlier OB. I also don't want to blame it on EPIC or any recent partnerships, but unless we are some brown-nosing players, you don't take critique very well.
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