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LordoftheMorons posted...

Anyway, thanks to everyone here for helping me when I started out! I definitely wasn't expecting to get so absorbed in the game when I loaded it back up last year after it had been sitting on my phone gathering dust for over half a decade.

Happy to help! In the end you completed the game way more than I did since I didn't sub30 some Dragonkings, half the nexus bosses and none of the Crystal Dungeons. Though a lot of my motivation was killed knowing the game was gonna end soon anyway so I just wanted to beat the last 4 bosses and be done with it.

Lopen posted...

Feel like the game peaked in the USB Era personally. That's when they started veering off straight power creep to upgrade and made the game about team compositions. Which was a great idea.

It was a good formula but eventually power creep has to happen. The problem is they didn't want the next level to straight obsolete the previous tier so they had to introduce gimmicky mechanics, and it worked for a while but the game collapsed under its own weight imo. It just became oppressive for new players to join.

USB era was like 3-4 years into the game so I don't think they were concerned about getting new players at that point, the established whales was already putting lots of money in to keep it substainable.

What really killed it was the labyrinths, everyone hates doing manual runs to try and get those 5/5/8 passives and it really wears on someone wasting hours trying to get, and constantly having to do it again and again when a new group comes out. Even with the QoL updates it's still a slog and not fun. Since that was the only updates the game was getting over a year besides a late Dragonking and Wodin people got bored of the game and quit. And by the time we finally got the Crystal Dungeons it was already decided that the game was set to end.