BoboOfTheFriendlies

Lots of trolls out today. They must be getting bored or something.

You need to get a molder to edit this for you. ?

There is already a new timer up, this event is a run up to what comes next. You bunch of crybabies are sounding pretty ridiculous. You got a new dino, some skins, some surprises and clues to dig up for the next thing. I could care less about skins either, but nobody told you the countdown was for Extinction or the dino outlines would be new types. You decided that on your own and are now hurt in the rear like somebody promised it to you. I would say their event is not going how they hoped, but all the dramatics are just silly.

What is with the giant stick up people's vent pipes? Why not just look at each event as something fun and different to be enjoyed when they happen? People complain about having events, people complain about not having events, now people complain about different events. What is with all the angry entitled nonsense.. If you want certain rates and stuff go play on an unofficial that has them all the time. Personally, I think it is cool that WC is mixing it up and doing events here and there to make it more interesting. If you don't like how they do them go find unofficial servers more to your liking like everyone else has always done since EA. Good grief.

I think I understand the intent with the cross ark transfers with all items and dinos, as a way to keep the end game interesting for high level players and alpha tribes. But I think this as a solution dramatically changes the character of the game, as there is no sense of community to limit the behavior of high level tribes intent on griefing and wiping out all lower level beginner players and tribes. On a given server a sense of community develops that either moderates the alphas aggression towards people trying to get started on the game, or people quickly learn to go to another server and have a shot at building up to be a contender. When you can simply go from server to server wiping out newbs and young tribes without any community backlash (it aint your home server so there are no repercussions in your community), it makes it inevitable that nothing will moderate the behavior of the massive collectives that seem to really enjoy destroying server after server. When someone loses weeks of their efforts to a random high level mob that appears and disappears it removes all motivation to try building your own tribe. I think you will see retention of the more aggressive high level tribes and players and a complete drop off of new people coming and playing what is very much a grinding game. I think you will drive off those at a mid-level now unable to progress, let alone the complete beginners. It takes a lot of hours of grinding and building to get to the point where you have a chance of holding your own with this new paradigm of constant wipes and destruction. Yes, this new character and flavor of the game play will appeal to some, but I think you will find it does not appeal to the majority of your player base that enjoys the unique balance of PVE and PVP that this game provides (or used to) on the PVP servers. I would suggest having two tiers of PVP servers, one with cross ark transfer all over the place as you have now, and another tier that does not allow transfers or keeps it to small clusters comprised of one server of each map. One thing that WC might do to understand the long term implications to their player base would be polling the active players on some sample servers to find out how many want this locked down and how many want the free for all.