Knew youd not be offended, decent players rarely are, i guess i should say with some irony welcome to my world.
Seriously I do appreciate and know where your coming from beef. I understand totally though never take FF seriously unless at war and that has been many years since. My idea of a FF world war would include everything tactical that most FF and alliances these days abhor, self restrict and unwilling to engage in. What made the game so popular for so many for so long now players have no guts or stomach for, not even a little chaos and since being back a year i can see why its declining as well as most others and Union aside im sure you can too.
Rankings in this game never meant much to me other than the best should naturally rise to the top ( and often did ) represented by ranking or reputation Not how much one can afford or is willing to spend but ability ... Damagers are not the best FF by any means and ive not really any problem with say BenBen in a Union being just one more Damager. There plenty of you lot out there taking all the glory bonds and prizes. The problem there imo is much deeper yet simple and likely unchangeable.
Colo never got my juices flowing since I could not play it in its early years while I was running the fort events there and just never bothered until i migrated a toon much later. Its simply an old world where people chill out to FF ...serious is not a word id use for Colorado, everyone shuffles about to keep balance but thats not organic FF rather its contrived.. but not going to slag it off as its full of great people and players but its hardly what id call real FF ... more a showpiece world for organised FF really and thats fine I guess but there is no real objectives animosity or bitter enemies
making it matter there is
NO enemy, there is
NO war. Nor am i saying that could be even possible, it is the players that have created this paradox being decent and willing to move about that keeps it going but the price is
artificial FF absent of any real need to win at all costs as any new world ever begun stands as a stark contrast, yes even Vegas or Kansas and everyone knows it..
Regarding the pay to win aspect is how I feel ever since V2 and there is nothing i think is an improvement on the game play just pretty sets and bigger numbers ...The entire game to me has become OP and about the few and $$$ thats what will kill it off probably. I cant justify the costs of the never ending latest crap to buy or upgrade in a game with a scant few thousand when ive been used to 50k player base when the playing field was virtually level, prem or not. I cant expect to duel and win tho im more than decent at it, I cant FF and expect any good performance/reward tho innovated much about FF in the early years and been top FF as a duel build woohoo ( just cos i was pure Charisma )... thats all impossible since V2 and like many others i simply left disgusted. It took me 5 years break to even bother looking again at TW nor do i see any evidence to suggest its ever going to improve again. Boo Hoo right ?
So I take my entertainment where I may while I may, lead where I feel I can make a difference being its the one thing I can still excel at without $ meaning a thing. Yes I can understand your frustration and anger at what things have become and allowed to happen, maybe more than most.. its a disgrace but we dont own the game and Innos a business so will milk what it can.
You sound like you would be more happy on a newer one with Polish or Greeks who do treat things more seriously .. ( tho goodness knows why since any idiot can spend enough $ to be half decent ) tho youd be having to invest as they do you sound like youd have more fun where there are no Unions to worry about.
Hit me up sometime for a chat m8 we hold far more in common than not and i hate to see a very good FF and player bitter about innos decisions past or present ..many feel the same for many differing reasons and id agree the main player base has indeed been betrayed in favour of only paying customers. Such is the way of the gaming world and $ making industry. Increasingly WE are becoming the product not simply a player though not many can see it yet.
For my part expectations ceased in 2015 and im happy to have been around in much better exciting times .
Be well Beefy
wouldve pissed off everyone ..
