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I have no idea why the usual suggestions to improve any multiplayer long term game always tend to be shit like this.
>much lower experience gain and no heritage items
>more expensive mounts and rebalanced riding skills
>reduced drop rate of high quality items
>reduced mana and health regeneration
>weapon skills
"Let's increase the amount of effort and time you spend dealing with the problem"
If I need a certain amount of cash and XP to earn a reward and I'm not having fun doing it, making me need to do it for longer does not help at all.
>harder mobs
>more punishing player deaths
>maybe even rebalanced game and skills?
>ammunition and spell ingredients
"Somehow, something is changed and now it's all better"
Always with the vague ideas of "rebalance things" or "harder mobs", but nothing ever specific about it. It's easier to throw these "ideas" out, but what would it take to actually implement those? Maybe the mechanics of the game don't actually allow for anything else to be done with it? Or maybe changing something would pigeonhole the players into playing a very specific unfun way?
Double dumb for the "more punishing deaths" since that's another vague idea that doesn't even have any hint of making the game better, just make your suffering even worse. It's the cheapest way possible to increase the stakes and barely ever works because the consequences never are more tension and fun, it's just everyone turtling some more.
>pvp always on (or close to always on)
>no dungeon finder
"Let's force everyone on everyone else and that will make the game better!"
It's not that I don't see where these ideas come from, but you have to consider the game you have and what tends to happen most of the time to truly understand that these suggestions tend to do the oposite.
PvP always on sounds like a good idea until you consider that someone leaves their hub with a metric fuckton of chores to do in the wilds and the last thing he needs is someone interrupting it with pointless PvP that barely rewards his time even if he wins.
And dungeon finder or similar groups sound like a terrible idea but guild drama is a great way to fuck up your whole day, not to mention restricting you to a group of people and no one else at all, even if you have no particular reason to stick with that group alone.
Neither PvP nor Guilds for raids actually work in the current paradigm when MMOs are no longer about the open PvP and you can find Discord chatrooms with more loyalty to them than guilds.
>no pet, garrisson, dailies or other stuff that distracts or at least reduce that shit
"Let's remove content from the game so you can go back to do the same shit you always do!"
Another strange solution. Isn't most of that content optional? If doing it gets you better rewards than anything else, what's the problem? And if it doesn't, why would you bother with it anyway?
Maybe it's a distraction from when you're bored of the regular content, to break monotony, and that's why it was placed in the game? Why would removing this ever help?
The strange thing is that criticism like this applies to a lot of games like your average sandbox zombie survival MMO too and for the same reasons. It's always some ideas guy that thinks tweaking some values, removing the things he doesn't like and adding more "hardcore" elements will truly change the game when the whole concept is broken from the bottom and it'd take far more than that shit.
Take for instance PvP. You want always on PvP? Fine. But don't just force it on everyone, give them a reason for that. Give them something to fight over that benefits them and ensures they are rewarded for it. Doll out effort prizes just for showing up so it doesn't feel like a waste if you don't win, even. Maybe have an area give out an XP bonus or crafting material bonus to the team that controls it and fighting gives you some credit you can spend in a store for supplies, earning a lot more if you win.
This way, you can just do the PvE to levelup, but it'd go faster if your team was controlling that area and thus you have a point to engage in PvP, especially since the supplies you can earn for taking part in it can help you in the PvE as well.