plutobhg wrote:I love this game and im super happy that people are taking the time to keep it up and running at all. That being said, it doesnt make anyone an enemy for speaking up about their thoughts on how to deal with problems like this or frustration against something like this happening. I personally would rather deal with some people having a renown rank/gear advantage in RVR for a bit while possibly figuring out another way to find out who did benefit from the bug and fixing it specifically rather than myself and hundreds of other people losing hours and hours of time and frustration invested. Its not enough to quit over...but it is enough to try to be heard.
The problem with that is those people have an advantage for now, which makes it easier to do more things that give them an even bigger advantage, and the gap continues to grow. Meanwhile they could be doing things like giving items to other people, or alt characters / accounts of theirs, etc. It would become impossible to account for not only the initial issue, but everything they did after with that added benefit. Unfortunately it impacts others as well, but a rollback really is the best solution to eliminate any possibility of anyone benefiting from such issues.
Also, not really directed at you but at people whining in general about a rollback... As others have stated, it's an alpha server. We're testers right now, not players in a full release who are entitled to anything. Gaining max level, being fully geared, becoming the top player, etc shouldnt be your main focus to begin with. Your purpose should be to help find issues such as these so they can be eliminated, by whatever means, so that when we are in a full release it has already been taken care of. Sure, as part of it you're going to eventually max out your toons and all that, but some of you really need to stop stressing over it and just have some fun while doing your best to "break" the game and find issues for them to fix instead of playing it as if it were retail and then throwing a bitch fit every time something doesn't go your way.
Nobody likes to have their time wasted and progress lost, but if you're just going to whine about how you lost a bunch of stuff and all your time was wasted and you're going to quit, etc... then maybe that's the best thing for you since you clearly don't have an understanding of what an alpha means, and are pathetically unaware of the fact that all your "wasted time" was on a video game and does not matter in the slightest to anyone but yourself. If your time is THAT important to you, it might be worth evaluating why 1) you have so little spare time to begin with and b) why you are wasting that time on something as fleeting as a video game. They could shut the servers down next week, next month, in a year, in 10 years... and all the hours you spent would be "wasted" because nothing you are doing in an MMO is permanent aside from the enjoyment you get from playing them and the experiences you share with other players.
If you aren't enjoying yourself just playing the game, then you're the only one wasting your time, not the devs.
Personally, they could do complete server resets on a weekly basis and I wouldn't give a ****. I play WAR for the entertainment I get from PvP regardless of level, tier, gear levels, etc. Those things are just icing on the cake. I'm also well aware that considering we are in alpha, there is a good chance there will be a complete server wipe at some point when it is considered ready for a full launch, so I don't stress about anything being lost. I play for fun, and am just glad to have RoR at all.
