SOE Has Been Getting Lots Of Feedback On BGs. What Happens Now?

[Rahatmattata]

<p>GU60 was a disaster for BGs. Almost no one that I know of likes the new map because of the PvE mobs. In T4 you just can't get a Ganak or Den match anymore. You can get gears, but it's usually a 3v5 or something odd, and people don't get joined in later in the match anymore. The new gear is dissapointing to say the least. The fact that only the new map gives faction, and that it is not fun at all in many peoples' opinions, is pretty terrible design.</p><p>BGs are riddled with bugs. People on opposite teams in the same raid. People not on a team at all running around in NPC form unable to play. Pre-formed groups getting split up. It's ridiculous. Champion's Respite is another big fail. The concept of being able to form groups with players on other servers is good, but you should be returned to your server if you queued from your server. There is nothing to do in the zone, so you group up and just sit there waiting for a match. Also, we need to be able to see our guild members list in CR.</p><p>BGs were fun before this update. I miss running Den and Ganak and getting tokens to buy gear I wanted. Now, I feel like I'm wasting my time when I queue for BG because I would be better off out in the wild PvPing for Discord faction, and if I BG I'm wasting time. And the new map isn't even fun so I have found very little reason to BG at all anymore. Everything just changed and got terrible in 1 update. It's dissapointing, and it sucks.</p><p>SOE has been receiving feedback all over the place about this, some things are terribly broken, some things desperately need to be changed to make BGs fun like it used to be. What is the plan now? Are we going to see some changes soon, or do we have to wait for 6 months or a year? I mean, I pretty much pay 15 bucks every month just to pvp... you can rarely find it in the wild, and now BGs suck. I'm not happy with the state of the game right now, and I was really looking forward to this game update... but it's such a huge let down; I just wish we could go back before this update because BGs was really fun.</p>

[NardacMM]

<p>I agree wholeheartedly. And from a PvE perspective, it's even more frustrating b/c there is no "wild" for me to go play in on my home server.  I get to spend a hundred hours doing a terrible new map for no rewards.</p><p>I feel like feedback was listened to in the making of this BG, but it was done all wrong.  The original BGs were the most exciting time I've had in EQ2 and I've been playing since launch.  I was looking forward to GU60 more than anything to date, but I'm very disappointed.  Nobody i've talked to has enjoyed it. Most of the people from AB that I grouped with regularly in the original BGs have decided not to bother doing the Frozen Tundra... And sure enough, they log onto the game much less now.  I ran about 15 matches this today.. Most of the matches lasted about 3 minutes.. And I'm burnt out on them again.</p>

[Vaylan77]

<p>Well I tell you what:SOE will look in its statistics and will say: "Hey look how many people suddenly play the Tundra map, many more than Gears which was the top notch map before. We knew it that the combination if a buggy PVP scenario with absolutely no fun PVE elements will be exactly what people waited for. We should get rif of the other maps completely and just focus on more mixed PVE/PVP content. That's the future of this game: More PVE on the PVP servers! The numbers don't lie. People play Tundra all day long. That's a fact. We have done everything right. Our market research guys are heroes. Double our salaries!"That's what will happen, cause SOE was always to ignorant to use real user feedback.</p>

[Rahatmattata]

<p>I just wish a dev would let us know what's going on so we aren't left in the dark playing buggy content for a few months.</p>

[Mattax]

<p>I have to agree with all of the above. I got tierd of chasing the carrot at 90 and T4 Bg's were the only thing that I really enjoyed playing for the last 6 months. I just can't understand the logic behind several key points.</p><p>When you first introduced BG's you forced us to play scenarios that we didn't like in order to get certain items of gear. After much negative feedback you changed this by introducing the "universal bg token".</p><p>Now with this latest scenario, you have reverted in forcing us to play the new scenario , if we want the new gear. Why the big U turn?....Did you not learn from your mistakes first time around?</p><p>The real kicker for me is you give a foyer to form groups, but you can't send tells. Please tell me the logic behind this. I hate blind invites and also dislike spamming the zone with shouts. I don't want to repeat the frustrations of others, but I am saddened to the point of cancelation after 7 years of fun. Faction grinding is not fun! You have in my opinion broken the Battlegrounds and I don't see any long term future if this is the direction you wish to pursue.</p><p>Tarrak,Tarrik, Drekzlar   T4</p>

[dKKeN]

<p>I agree with all the above points....... Much more to add, but I really can't be bothered with it anymore.. </p>

[yellowbelly08]

<p>Lets help the devs out then...here would be my fixes/ideas:</p><p>1.) Make all 4 Battlegrounds give faction. The daily quests should have higher rewards to encourage players to do them eg more coin and more faction on completion. This way we may actually get into a smugglers match again...and a Ganak...etc</p><p>2.) Fix the broken pve rules applying in Battlegrounds..eg many red adorns not tagged for pvp still work...pve multi attack clearly still works...etc</p><p>3.) Fix the bug where your qued group mates dont go onto the same side. Fix bug where sometimes you are white and non attackable. Fix the invitation to another BG while you are in a BG. Fix being able to zone into a Bg while in open world pvp combat....</p><p>4.) Hot patch in the new pvp Weapons and jewelry so that ALL slots have a desired pvp item...as it was surely intended.</p><p>But it must be SO difficult to do all the above....right...?</p>

[Crismorn]

<p><cite>yellowbelly08 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Lets help the devs out then...here would be my fixes/ideas:</p><p>1.) Make all 4 Battlegrounds give faction. The daily quests should have higher rewards to encourage players to do them eg more coin and more faction on completion. This way we may actually get into a smugglers match again...and a Ganak...etc</p><p>2.) Fix the broken pve rules applying in Battlegrounds..eg many red adorns not tagged for pvp still work...pve multi attack clearly still works...etc</p><p>3.) Fix the bug where your qued group mates dont go onto the same side. Fix bug where sometimes you are white and non attackable. Fix the invitation to another BG while you are in a BG. Fix being able to zone into a Bg while in open world pvp combat....</p><p>4.) Hot patch in the new pvp Weapons and jewelry so that ALL slots have a desired pvp item...as it was surely intended.</p><p>But it must be SO difficult to do all the above....right...?</p></blockquote><p>in 6 months</p>