I understand the EC may have features the CC doesn't that may give it an advantage, but since it's officially supported and not illegal, I don't follow how it's a 'cheat client'. Anyone can download it freely without any risk. Can you explain for someone that's never used the EC outside of using it's long book title feature?
The reason those people complain is because they can't PVP against those illegal tools and decide not to, not the other way around!
Unless you have any proof that removing these clients would 'kill the game' I offer to you that removing these clients would 'save the game' as people that don't feel like cheating and losing their accounts to 3rd party programs to PVP, would PVP, and massive amounts of players that have quit due to them would come back. See, it works both ways.
Unless you have any proof that removing these clients would 'kill the game' I offer to you that removing these clients would 'save the game' as people that don't PVP, would, and massive amounts of players that have quit due to them would come back. See, it works both ways.
If they fixed Classic Client, to match Enhanced, millions of pvpers would come back.
If they banned 3rd party clients, right now, the entire game would shut down.
My proof is, that I've never stopped pvping, through all the crap, I know most pvpers old and new.
I guess it's not worth discussing the specific topic as we can't. I would like to delve further, but nevermind. Unfortunately the cope of these clients for PVP, well, they extend way beyond that as you've surely seen at the ToTs.
I would still like to see our clients get updates to bring them up to part with features the PVP community requests. Wouldn't that be an ideal solution? OH right, back to 'we get nothing and like it'. Nevermind that too.
Really sad the more I think about it, hope I can be out of this game soon. Already closed 2 accounts last year.
I hope they add the improvements you asked for and then some, but, I'm not holding my breath. I'm sure one of them is a new targeting system which all players would enjoy and benefit from.
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I don’t PVP, but I agree with Cookie that outright banning the use of third party clients would be bad for the game right now. Third-party clients provide quality of life improvements and automation capabilities that surpass both CC and EC. Until the official clients match these features, people will favor third-party ones. There is some benefit to Broadsword in this regard: they can let the community fill in the gaps with respect to client-side updates, more people are able to enjoy the game with less tedium, players can have a modern experience while still keeping the old artwork, etc.
Third-party clients do make it easier to perform actions which negatively impact the game, sure, but these actions should be bannable regardless of the client. As they say, don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
As far as the newsletter is concerned, the devs have finite time and resources. For this one, they chose to focus on PVP updates as a follow-up to the solicitation of player feedback. Additionally, they did give an approximate time for NL, and this is good enough for me, personally. I would rather they project a time and curtail expectations rather than set a deadline in stone.
Id love auto follow in the ec and get memory leaks fixed in ec. Haven't checked if it just pincos but I go from using about 380megs ram to 900 in 30 mins of playing time and have to restart before it crashes at the worst time possible.
over 90% of the player base dont pvp so every patch based on pvp isn t optimal to keep people paying subscription new event does and new contents.
Better idea.
Announce that they are going to have a method to approve additional 3rd party programs by submission of approval from the creator of the program to an email that goes to Mesanna.
Then go thru the ban criteria if players use non approved ones.
Can't believe this had some good ideas and then just died.