Celestis
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Well, I just received an email inviting me to watch other people playing a game I can no-longer afford to play .... why would I do that?!
I played DU since Alpha and they changed the game and made it worse then changed the game and made it worse until eventually they launched with a sub that's twice what they said it would be..... and continued to make it worse....
I'm not coming back to watch other people playing a game I used to like playing myself.
I'd come back if they halved the sub because although the game is way worse than it was during Alpha and early Beta, there are still things in the game that are fun to play, just not for as much per month as they are asking; I would pay half that though.
So NQ, if you are listening, there might be others who would come back if the sub was halved.
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1. I did not receive any notification about the 30% discount so NQ clearly does not realise that if we are not playing the game they need to email us to invite us back if they want us back.
2. Even with 30% discount it's still way too expensive.
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I'm sad that there is talk of shutting down DU... or was it just the forums? I haven't heard anything officially, just a line or two in posts.
I gave up playing because I couldn't afford the subs.... if they hadn't doubled it I'd still be playing.... crazy to double the subs at launch as I think many of us left when our DACs ran out because the subs are too dear.
It would have been great if they'd enticed us back with a free month or half-price month for everyone... to celebrate the anniversary... get us in and maybe we'd get caught and enjoy the new patches added since we left.... new planets to explore perhaps??
I'm not paying $20 for an in-game statue! but I would have paid $10 to come back for a month.
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However, the subscription is so expensive that I'm not coming back just to get a statue and go on a few rides.
If the subs was $5 for a month I might have considered coming back to see what it's like now.
If I could pay for Game time with in-game currency that would be good.
Have fun all of you who have reasons to keep paying, enjoy a Happy Birthday for Dual Universe!
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Any chance we could have some tours between UTC 2200 and UTC 1200?
for people in Time-zones around the UTC+10 regions.
The current times of the tours are UTC 2000 which is 6am for us, UTC 1800 is 4am for us.
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6 hours ago, Jinxed said:
Only 50 scans? The current champion of bad luck is, if we are to believe them, a group of half a dozen who have made nearly a thousand scans between them of Alioth, Madis and Thades and found nothing over a single digit. And every one of their finds has been the dregs of others' T2 rosettes, much like us.
Wow, and they call this a game!
Does anyone enjoy listening to that droning machine noise the scanner makes for 15 mins every time you scan a new tile?
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Scanning for something other than T1 ore on planets is deadly dull and boring, certainly not at all fun.
So, looks like I won't be mining anything other than on Haven.
Industry is not worth the effort, and especially not worth all the time waiting around for Temporary schematics to be produced.
Temporary Schematics are too expensive anyway.
This game is far less fun than it was during Beta.
I backed this game because it looked like a good game and was a lot of fun during Alpha, and early Beta, even through after update 0.23, right through until mining units and Temporary Schematics.
The Permanent Schematics were at least a challenge to fetch.
If we stood a chance of finding T2 ore within 30-40 scans it might be okay but 50 scans in and I've had enough of scanning for zero reward.
DU is supposed to be a game and games are fun but so much of DU is worse than work, it's dull and boring like working in a factory turning machines on and off etc..
Oh well, I've a few DACs left so we'll see if NQ can improve this game before my DACs run out.
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So it looks as though those of us who generously backed the game will be penalised by our DACs not working in time.
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When will our DACs be available to use?
We need them before we can play at launch.
We also need to be able to transfer some of them to others.
We do not get the talent point boost until our DACs are available for us to use and/or transfer.
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6 hours ago, SvarogZ said:
You can create a blueprint without DRM. So, you can ask other players.
Cool, ty, I didn't realise we could create BPs
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41 minutes ago, Haunty said:
Is no one planning on buying DACs with quanta instead of subscribing with real money? Just going to leave when your supporter DACs run out even after accumulating a bunch of stuff and quanta? Assuming NQ can get tradeable DACs going not too long after release...
Assuming NQ can get tradeable DACs going not too long after release...
Well, can they?
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Thanks for the viewing of all the outposts, very helpful for choosing which outpost.
Will these be available as Blueprints for purchase with quanta in the game, other than our initial outpost selection?
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Thursday 2300 UTC is 9:00 am Friday AEST. Route B
Saturday 0100 UTC is 11.00 am Saturday AEST Route A
Please correct these times if I've miscalculated them.
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6 minutes ago, vylqun said:
NQ doesnt like giving definite times for more or less important dates (like the release for example)
NQ has given the times for the bus tour in European and NA times so why can't they also give the times in AEST as well?
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It would be nice to know the times in AEST for those of us In Aus.
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Do we spawn on Haven anyway but have to fly ourselves to Sanctuary to place our STU?
Will the shuttle from Alioth to Sanctuary still exist?
If we go to the PTS to try out the new FTUE and we deploy the furniture you have given us in our nanopacks; I presume it will be in our nanopacks again when we launch the new game on 27th September, please confirm this.
Will the tile we choose on the PTS be our tile on Haven after Launch?
Will the Outpost we've chosen on the PTS be our chosen outpost at launch?
I am presuming that the PTS is merely a copy of what we will experience at launch so that anything we do on the PTS will be erased and reset for launch, including anything we do with our nanopacks. I'd just like to have this confirmed please?
I like the new FTUE 🙂
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I have ONE question and I have asked it multiple times in multiple ways but you still have not answered it:
I wish to use one of my DACs to pay for my subscription for the first month at launch; will this be possible?
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I wish to pay for my first month's subscription with my first DAC; will this be possible?
I have asked this through Ask Aphelia a number of times and I have not yet had a reply.
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On 8/17/2022 at 4:31 AM, Noddles said:
Why dont we just remove the planets forever? We don't need all of them, they spread the player base out too much, and they have almost zero purpose right now. Then just shrink the safe zone back to the alioth market region and smoon/haven.
I enjoyed being able to fly to many distant planets so yes, we do need all of them if you are not going to restrict the things we can do. Half the fun is being able to slow-boat long distances and discover new worlds.
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On 8/10/2022 at 2:52 PM, PopsiclePete said:
No, the beta keys were a perk, a bonus in a series of perks that came with a pledge Their access and any entitlements that come with it end at release I'd say. Not sure how this is even a question people have.
Personally, I think my DU journey will end here. I do not see enough progress or justification to move to a subscription and certainly not paying a year-long sub in advance with no solid information on what is ahead just to get the launch pack perks.
I do understand the choice NQ made here and from their perspective I think it makes sense but there is not enough game for me to start over with nothing but a handful of blueprints and the experience. I will follow the game and if it shows the progress I'm looking for I may come back and give it another try.Ah, thanks for clarifying.
Yes, I agree, my journey with DU is likely to end when my main account's DACs finish becaues, yes, I agree, there isn't enough game left after the wipe to start again with nothing but a handful of blueprints and experience.
I will take my memories of an enjoyable game as it was through Beta with me, along with a bunch of screenshots of cool things others have built.
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19 hours ago, Distinct Mint said:
Yes, there is the calibration cost. So the calculation is whether the 500k quanta you save on tile tax is greater that what you would gain from the income of a similar tile (same number of MUs and calibrations) as part of a flower on a planet/moon, but for which you pay the tile tax. It should be a straightforward calculation (that I didn't do ;-p).
After reset, I think I'll just go to the market.
Time to change the business model
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FWIW, if your business model consisted of a subscription of less than $10 per month, I'd still be playing DU but at approx $20 per month it's too expensive so I have found other games that are less than $10 per month.
You could so easily have a cheap subscription or zero subscription for just the basic game with extras we have to pay to be able to do.
At the moment you are getting nothing from me and I'm not playing so offering me double talent points just isn't going to get me back.
If you offered players like me who have left half a year or more ago, a six month sub for $10 per month, I'd come back and so might others.
Just giving you feedback.