Quote:Original post by pink_daisy
I started working on a 2D Java MMO 83 days ago. It's pretty light on graphics, but it has some interesting gameplay concepts. It's still rough around the edges, but I figure I'll charge the players to play it anyway during alpha, despite how underdeveloped it is, and they'll just lose all the items they obtain after beta. They also will not be compensated at all for donated money.

I'm at a point where I would like to get some feedback, but I don't accept negative feedback well, I'll rage out and BS at you making assumptions because I am an emotional being that is not suitable to moderate a game. Test my networking code, check my server stability, and pay me for it. I expect you to pay me for this as well. You can play it here:

The Chipped Dagger

Some of the features:

•One seemless world (no sharding and no instancing). (except for dungeons, houses, and crevasses, but that doesn't count; right?)
•You can find new items! (but they suck and are severely limited if you don't pay for the game!)
•You can't invent new items!
•You can't reverse engineer an existing item.
•PvP (you can attack anyone anywhere, but in nearly all areas there are penalties for attacking).
•Full loot PvP (if you can kill your opponent, you can loot his belongings, but administrators cheat and instant kill you for over 9000 damage if you try to PvP.)
•No player owned housing.
•Very restrictive classes, no skill-by-use grinding. Actually play the game instead of watching your XP bar or a countdown timer all day! Play the game by grinding for gear and running around in circles hunting for rare monsters that are barely worth killing so that you might get one worthwhile item from them if you're lucky!
•Monsters spawn in random locations at random times. Overtime they migrate. No more spawn camping, except well, everywhere.
•More than 200,000+ monsters roaming the overworld and in dungeons! But don't worry, you can only access 11 types of monsters~ and probably only 30,000 of them. Unless you pay 10$ a month for an alpha test game!
•Be remembered as the person who found a legendary item that got outdated in a week!
•A sandbox game instead of a themepark one except we strongly discourage pvp.
•Very low system requirements to play. Nearly any modern computer with Java installed should do, but don't worry: if your computer sucks it will leave you at a severe disadvantage! Players run faster depending on their internet connection and computer! If you have a T1 line you will be invincible!
•Compared the multi-gigabyte downloads of many MMOs, this one is only a couple-megabyte, and only 30,000 lines of code. It's small and underdeveloped being only made by two people. Both of which moderate the chat together and are stubborn old men that cannot take negative feedback well! They also don't like it when you corner them with multiple people disagreeing with you- They wave their ban stick and say you're full of BS.

[edit] updated screenshot: don, the head developer and site admin: camping my friends corpse using an illegitimately obtained weapon; as punishment for PvPing in a so-called open PvP sandbox game.

I fixed that post of yours for you. 100% true.

Seriously guys, this game is not worth playing, especially not paying for! In concept it was refreshing, but the game is corrupt! The whole 2 people on staff are not capable of managing this game at all, they lie to players about their intentions, they are very stubborn/immature and unprofessional about things. They'll ignore what everyone says and make assumptions about your personal life and pass you off as a worthless player; one that wouldn't ever cough up the 10$ monthly alpha fee to play premium just because you would disagree with them.

I personally was one of the first players to play and support this game with dozens of my suggestions, well thought out feedback, bug reports, and contributions to the world maps development using the games editing software. I encountered many emotional outbursts by don. He in my opinion is not one level-headed enough to be the head person responsible for this game. He overworks himself, and takes out his stress on the players at any chance he gets. He tries to keep his cool, but in general he can't handle it.

On the forums my name is shadow, look at my posts if you wish. I've found myself leaving the game, why? Because don forced me to.

At the time, I was the top player. I was nearly unbeatable with hours and hours of farmed items obtained, dominating the market with 80% of the items for sale!
I was the most devoted and active player, I helped out new players, and would often talk alongside the two developers. What changed, what made me quit? don banned me, he banned me for pvping out of boredom.

Why would he do that? Well, MMORPGs are about character progression, and my progression was at its cap. I had nothing better to do than attack everyone I could using my legitimately obtained items from hours upon hours of playing.
I chose to change my play style from PvE to PvP.

How did don handle this? He both banned and killed me in one hit with an admin weapon dealing over 9000 damage (no, this isn't just some meme reference for jokes, I'm being serious, I have a screenshot of him griefing my friend afterwards with the weapon.) He just cheated and killed me, took everything, then threw me aside.
After he banned me and my friends for PvPing in his so called open PvP sandbox game, I told him that he just lost 3+ customers. All he had to say was: You wouldn't have paid to begin with. I said I planned on it, just not during alpha, only an idiot would spend money on premium content during an alpha test.
All he had to say to that was: You wouldn't have paid to begin with, you just want me to work for free. I said no, I want you to finish your project before I pay you for it, only an idiot would spend money on premium content during an alpha test. The benefits do not passover to the release of the game, and you yourself said there is going to be another wipe before release, so all my progression would have been lost, why would I pay for that? I don't exactly have money to throw away or donate to game developers. I'm not rich, if you want me to pay for your game, give me a good incentive to. All he had to say was: You wouldn't have paid to begin with, you just want me to work for free.

The game has no animation what-so-ever, lackluster graphics, and only one sound effect! A whole 2 people are developing it, and they have 3-10 players on at once.
The game revolves around who can spam the most potions. That is all the metagame is. Attack, spam potions so you don't die in 2-3 hits, run out of potions, farm more potions, repeat.

Note: While my personal experience may leave the impression that my opinion is biased and I am merely out for a vendetta, I assure you I am not. I simply don't want anyone else to waste as much time in this time sinkhole as I have. The developers are people that will talk badly about you behind your back, and they are hypocrites. I am somewhat unsettled with the outcome of these events, and I would personally like nothing more than the game to die. My opinion is however, just and valid. The only enjoyment I had in the game was the fact that:
I was the top player,
I was helping the developers develop it,
The community was tightly knit,
I was a positive community leader.

I implore you all, do not play this game. You will regret the time you waste here.

~Shadow

Quote:Original post by pink_daisy
He's a griefer. He's just QQing after being banned. Yes the game sucks according to him yet he asked to be unbanned even after he made that post. I guess the fact that the game is attracting griefers means i'm making progress!

Lul I never asked to play your shit game again, don't put words in my mouth you F-class developer.

~Shadow

Yeah, Shadow was killing everyone which is really lame when pink_daisy is just trying to start an MMO (and one that isn't all that bad either!)

good luck with development, I might stop by again now that Shadow's out of the picture :)