Why is this game such a chore...

[Luinne]

LOL @ game being a chore. go back to wow. there's nothing laborious about this game. Had you played something like EQ or even early eq2, maybe Aion or another Korean MMO, you'd truly know what "a chore" it was to do something in an MMO. this game... no.

[KoujiMoreno]

LOL @ game being a chore. go back to wow. there's nothing laborious about this game. Had you played something like EQ or even early eq2, maybe Aion or another Korean MMO, you'd truly know what "a chore" it was to do something in an MMO. this game... no.

Not sidding with either side here, but you sound really angry.

[TheRac25]

There's difficulty spikes? Fooled me.

not everyone is a pro at team jump rope like yourself

[XiXiQ]

Well there is the problem I would imagine. Not really the game's fault that you're stuck with a patchy internet service.

When the game has their hand out for money from people from the southern hemishpere, and have no servers anywhere near them, then yes, it's the game's fault. Latency is dictated by distance from server. (lag/rubber-banding, etc is typically due to packet loss and distance has little affect)

No-one is expecting a full rewrite so checks are made client-side - but there has to be other options they should consider, like adjusting the cast times presented to the client taking pings into consideration. Or just add the extra .5 second people need in those situations and be done with it.

[Karnyboy]

A game is a chore when you treat it as such.

[Ksenia]

It feels like a chore because they want you to repeat and rinse in the tens of thousands. It's a grinder game to the enth degree.It doesn't really matter what you are doing, leveling a craft, farming fleece, clearing a dungeon. You do it over and over and over and over and over and then log out knowing you will be doing it for weeks and months on end, depending how often you play.

As for the kill shot boss mechanics, it's a rip off from Tomb Raider games. Jump Lara up on to a ledge next, next, a sequence of fail until you become a living macro or just make a macro and say screw it.

[Cordelius]

It feels like a chore because they want you to repeat and rinse in the tens of thousands. It's a grinder game to the enth degree.It doesn't really matter what you are doing, leveling a craft, farming fleece, clearing a dungeon. You do it over and over and over and over and over and then log out knowing you will be doing it for weeks and months on end, depending how often you play.

As for the kill shot boss mechanics, it's a rip off from Tomb Raider games. Jump Lara up on to a ledge next, next, a sequence of fail until you become a living macro or just make a macro and say screw it.

What's your Titan ex kill macro?

[Miitan]

Given both the Japanese school system (Hello, Jukus!) and the (IMHO inhumane) working hours on a typical "salaryman" job in Japan, I have absolutely no idea where you get the idea Japanese people can dedicate more time to a single video/computer game than "Westeners" can.

You mean Japanese players aren't all NEETs who live at home with their parents and play games all day? ANIME HAS LIED TO ME!

[Issac]

It's exceedingly difficult for me to dodge anything due to latency. I started noticing right around, I don't know, Titan HM.

It's really demoralizing to be the target of frustration from your peers. After a while, you can say, "LAG!" until you're blue in the face- But your mates will just start to think you are a burden.

BCoB is an absolute nightmare for me, so I don't do it. In Titan HM, if I at least reacted within half a second I would make it. BCoB turn 2 and beyond? Absolutely no hope of dodging. I'm serious. Unless I try to anticipate, but that's hard to do when you have to stand still to cast.

I don't mean to complain, and I'm sorry, but I wanted to back up the OP. You're not alone.

[Sparky]

When the game has their hand out for money from people from the southern hemishpere, and have no servers anywhere near them, then yes, it's the game's fault. Latency is dictated by distance from server. (lag/rubber-banding, etc is typically due to packet loss and distance has little affect)

The poster I replied to plays on a NA server which is located in NA yet they are playing from JP using a poor quality ISP. You propose that SE implement changes that affect the majority to satisfy the minority? Do you even realize how ridiculous that sounds? That's like me complaining that the game is too hard if I was playing on a patchy 3G connection. It's not the game that is at fault it's that the player is ill-equipped to play it at 100% effectiveness, albeit through no fault of their own.

I can picture a racing driver crying "waaahwaaahwahh make the other drivers slower because my car can't drive as fast!". No. It doesn't work like that. You either have to accept you are an also-ran until you join a better team, or else stop racing.