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I like this game. I really do.. But the fact of the matter is that the game isn't dying because of the player base singing doomsday at the hills. It's because the company doesn't care … (more)about its players- only about what's in their wallet. The content release is slow and not that impressive. Events have been severely lackluster for years. The last decent event to me was Asuna's event.
They refuse to evolve, or add additional content that's not about spending money or doing tedious grinding. For example improving fishing, cooking, smithing, crafting etc is vital to give players something else to do other than the same missions over and over. When I originally played this game I didn't mind repeating some missions because they were a challenge, but after the rise update more than 90% of fun missions were removed from the raid list, and can now be complete in 1-2 minutes at most.
Battles like Kraken, Keagan, and the Dragons used to pose such an epic and challenging fight, and now they're all just a joke. You can only do season 3 missions to get a sense of ANYTHING out of the game. Whether that be fun, money, or experience. What you people who don't want the game to die (rightfully so) need to understand is that the talk of shutdown isn't because the players necessarily want it to happen but it's simply the byproduct of what happens when you go so long without listening to your community, doing poor business practices, and mismanaging resources.
It's insane how a gacha is $200 for you to get only 50 gachas and a mere CHANCE for you to get what you want. A loyal customer of your game is spending TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS. And you can't even guarantee that he'll get an item that he wants? On top of that the items are just cosmetics... The game chooses to **** you over each and every way possible, and the CEO and directors of the game are prioritizing maxing profits and going home with more money in their bank than actually trying to increase the longevity and replayability of this game.
Runescape is a prime example of a game where the company has always been trying to improve the game and make it fun for their players. Even when they make huge mistakes that hurt the game a lot they always try to fix it and listen to the community.
Vindictus does none of that. Vindictus doesn't care about the community or what they think. They'll continue to push out outfits, and sell sex appeal until people either run out of money, die, or finally move on to a better game that deserves it. I've played many games where I pay about 20 bucks and get constant updates and content for free, virtually free, or at a very reasonable price.
Vindictus does well to make their game free, but turns around and robs their loyal player base with impossible gachas and weapon/armor goals.
It's nearly impossible to get a +15 without runes and the update to the game made +15s even more difficult so that subsequentially means you'll be spending more and more on runes. This also means that in order to progress in the game you must spend an undefined amount of money... only for it to become obsolete when they decide to up the cap.
Everything about this game is just stupid, and the fixes to it are quite simplistic, but they'll NEVER be implemented because there's an uncertainty that it MIGHT take a few thousand dollars off their bottom line. And Lord we can't have that. We can't DARE see Nexon lose a bit of money.. Even tho they'd make tons more money by keeping a healthy player base.
Also they don't advertise their game. The only people who know about the game at this point are people who are adamantly following its progress. New players are intrigued if they find it, old players are fed up, and current players have invested too much to quit.
I've spent thousands of dollars on cosmetics/gachas and Vindictus is the biggest waste of money I've ever sunk into a game. But I enjoyed the game and wanted to support it so I never thought much of it. However even tho I want to support the game doesn't mean that Nexon wants to support us.
In short, Nexon is the reason Vindictus is failing .. not because of people making forums. The game dying is an observation, not a determined wish. With that being said I'd love for one day the people in the helm of the game to realize that it still has potential to be played a lot and actually improve upon the enjoyment of the game and actually listen to the community. But I won't hold my breath. (less)
The game is not really meant for pvp. Certain characters have a significant advantage over others, and fiona is the least interesting to play in the pvp scenario.
Kai is not fun to fight … (more)against, and it's just not that fun in my opinion overall. Not to mention I rarely ever see anyone trying to actually pvp seriously, and those who do are king of the rats and act like they're Gods in a game where pvp is already not prioritized or even generally played much.
I HIGHLY doubt any new user would come to this game for the pvp experience. Just what I think tho. (less)
