Message from actual new player

[Sylvari]

The problem is that a lot of people are just going to walk away, and that's a problem if SE wants to attract more customers later. Especially because SE is rather notorious even in the MMO world for extremely high learning curves. Most people aren't going to sit around for 20 or 30 levels waiting for the curve to even out.

Your exactly right, in this day and age MMO's like WoW that are so blindly easy are what makes the coin... The larger amount of gamers from the newer generation are not used to things being hard... I've seen my nephews complain about a game being impossible to beat, and too hard... where i have just walked up grabbed the controller and after 5 mins of getting familiar with the game i just blast thru... Now days i look forward to games like dark souls cause i know there's gonna be a challenge and that there will be a learning curve... i don't like to pick up a game and have complete understanding and "1337" skills at it after 5 mins... I actually welcome this patch, but at the same time i think 1-20 should be about teaching you how the game works and giving you a direction... a steep learning curve with today's gamers is a major buzz kill...

[Misha]

Your exactly right, in this day and age MMO's like WoW that are so blindly easy are what makes the coin... The larger amount of gamers from the newer generation are not used to things being hard... I've seen my nephews complain about a game being impossible to beat, and too hard... where i have just walked up grabbed the controller and after 5 mins of getting familiar with the game i just blast thru... Now days i look forward to games like dark souls cause i know there's gonna be a challenge and that there will be a learning curve... i don't like to pick up a game and have complete understanding and "1337" skills at it after 5 mins... I actually welcome this patch, but at the same time i think 1-20 should be about teaching you how the game works and giving you a direction... a steep learning curve with today's gamers is a major buzz kill...

Exactly my thoughts... I can't even stand playing games on anything below hard or very hard difficulties these days. (Even then, most games are an utter joke LoL) People just wanna zerg through everything in all games nowadays, heck even critics mostly play on easy in games yet they'll actually evaluate that aspect in the games they review >.< There's simply some stuff you don't "see" when playing stuff easier and it dumbs you down so much. These people want quick and easy with no learning curve and mixing that with people like myself who actually don't wanna play another braindead mmo like WoW... well... let's just say these 2 crowds don't really mix xD

Aside from that... don't expect starting gear to last you to 1-20 anymore! Also notice that equipping higher level gear now pretty much makes it so it gives almost no stats at all!!! May as well be naked >.< LoL Also it should be common sense that with a game with cross class skills you'd want to aquire your cures and buffs first to ease said battles :P