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Just wanted to say thanks for telling me about this before it was time to renew my subscription, you've saved me some money

So Long and Thanks for all the Fish

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On 10/16/2020 at 4:19 AM, Mordgier said:

Great, so lets be clear here, if there was a MMO where only a handful of players can 'win' - I sure wouldn't play it - because that doesn't sound like fun to me because I know full well that despite how much I poopsock I don't come close to the level of the top .0001% of the players who stand an actual chance.

 

That is the whole damn issue with RPO and this event. It caters to outliers. That's what makes it a bad event. That's what makes RPO a terrible game. That's the whole point. That's why looking at RPO and saying DU is like it is absolutely toxic.

 

A good event is where a much larger part of the community can participate and much larger number can win. This wasn't it.

 

The worst thing is that DU is building on a foundation of other REAL games not absurd fiction that did events and did them so much better that it blows my mind that JC does not see the DU event as an absolute failure.

 

Did you play Elite? Did you participate in the alien event? You know....this one: https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/01/06/the-elite-dangerous-alien-discovery-is-one-of-the-coolest-gaming-events-ive-ever-seen/#5f5179c37389

 

That was in my opinion an example of an event that was well done. Who won? The community did.

I gotta say you picked a really bad game and a really bad element of that game for your comparison.

The thargoid interaction there was a bit of eye candy that's all, something that happened randomly to pilots in certain sectors.

What about the tonnes of other puzzles? the Guardian Bases, The Thargoid bases, Raxxla, the artefacts the strange triangular, patterns on them , the images embedded into audio signals that had to be deciphered out of the game?

To solve most of them you needed a degree in astrophysics, astronomy something pretty much 75% of the player base didn't have, in fact if you looked at the forums most of those discoveries were made by the same people.

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