Laurel wrote:why exactly do you think that the only future for Genesis is listening to those who fail at grinding while muting out those who don't?
who are you guys to say what appeals to Xar and what doesn't?
who are you to tell all those who didn't fail at grinding that they are not welcome in "your" game anymore (if they don't accept "your" terms)?
I am a person who has the following opinions.
I didn't fail at grinding - I don't do more of it because it isn't fun.
I have no problem being small and I know exactly what to do to get bigger.
I think if I was suddenly Xar's size I would regularly get my ass handed to me by smaller characters with more PvP skill so just being big doesn't mean I will be able to compete with the large characters.
Believing a size cap is a good thing has nothing to do with wanting to be bigger/as big as others.
The future for Genesis is in attracting new players. That might mean making the game not fun for some current players.
There is no one that I would like to see leave Genesis. I hope the game will eventually have elements in it that are attractive to a broad range of players including power players
I think the idea of unlimited growth, even if its extremely slow, is fundamentally flawed and has been from the very beginning.
I don't think the game appeals to as large a group of people as it could. In fact I can't see it appealing to anything but an extremely small group of people. I think this will prevent any meaningful growth in the number of new players we have.
I think without meaningful new player growth the game is dead.
To appeal to more new players I think the game needs a size cap, a reasonable, straightforward growth structure that is unrelated to questing and a reasonable growth curve that will allow new players to reach the size cap in a reasonable amount of time. ( n.b. the key word there is reasonable)The game will also need new, creative reasons to do quests.
I think the game, as it is now, encourages a small group of a specific type of players at the expense of a much larger, more diverse group of players and I think this should change.