Did Vermillion fail?

[Tint]

i still think they should remove verminion from the game or maybe replace it with something more pokemon-like. turn based rpg pet battles... then it's easy to use the controls, we can see something from your cute pets (something i really dislike at the current verminion, you have to zoom out to control the game, but then you can't really see your cute pets. why even bother then with pet battles???), and turn based means it is more accessible to everyone... there is a reason so many people like pokemon... and maybe put NPCs all over the world to fight, just like triple triad? let us fight everywhere against other players and use the verminon sqaure in the gold saucer as a public viewing area. so the people around can see the pets fighting in the arena...

but one of the problems i have with verminion is: it's dead. it is super dead, it was dead on arrival and will be dead forever. but they have to constantly updating it with every new minion they add to the game. and they add lots of minions with every patch... why wasting dev time on this?

[Gumbercules]

I dont like RTS so main reason I never bothered with it, maybe they shoulda gone more MOBA with it instead. Still idk if it being pokemon lite like wows pet battles woulda made much difference for me lol I don't like wow-kemon either ^^; Think the biggest flaw as soem have pointed out is that its way too involved for a mini game, I could see them maybe rearranging it some though maybe make it like a mix of rts and moba lanes and just overall faster. As for flat out removing it though, just no. Ive seen WoW remove actual pre existing content and it just pisses me the Fluck off. I mean really really irks me lol. I don't mind losers but quitters can go suck a chocobo >.>

[Kai_Lee]

Its not a complex game and it has a bit of dept to it and so many strategy you can use. The biggest problem was it wasnt in the DF when it first came out, the majority of players who plays it already have all the rewards from it so why bother to continue to play it any further.

[DamianFatale]

Its called Lord of Verminion. :P

Nit picking much?

[Big_Panda]

I tried to play it, but I quickly got lost with the tutorials.

I progressed enough to unlock the 5th challenge, which allowed me to a 15 minutes grind every week for 10000 MGP. I think that is as far as I care about LoV.

[LalafellDown]

I tried the tutorial 3 times now throughout the year and I fell asleep doing it, I forced closed the game just to get out of it. Looks interesting, but I don't want to spend time in the tutorial. I learn quickly by playing the game, I don't need a hand to hold me. I only do tutorials after I get lost trying to figure it out myself and I need a quick guide on one part of the tutorial, not the whole thing.

I agree it should of been something like a quick mini game you could do with your friends out side of the gold saucer.

Same thing with Chocobo Racing should off been done outside of the gold saucer and without those stiff controls, that's what killed it for me.

Same thing with duels.

[Xenosan]

I'm glad to see criticism that so similar to my own complaints, yay. I do like it though simply for minion hoarder in me giving me additional info on newly acquired or favored minions.

For controls, they need a way to 'save selection', like in Total War games you can save your unit selection as a platoon, and later just re-select that retinue, opposed to manually re-select them all over again (worse once they get mixed with other retinues, or spread).

Add ranged minions for skirmishes that fire volleys, direct melee engage opposed to just moving groups near another. Crystal objectives are so ZZZ, especially when they placed identical every. single. match.

The problem isn't that it's RTS, it's that it's RTS done poorly. FFVII Fort Condor is an improvement.

[ckc22]

Yes it did. Spectacularly. And someone in charge should have known it was going to happen when they were approving an hour long tutorial for a glorified mini game.