Quik wrote: ↑Sun 3 Feb 2019 8:32 PM
Of course its an option. That is made clear from the beginning, but if people here seriously think that players haven't left and moved on to other games after being grey ganked numerous times your kidding yourself.
Again, I'm not saying I have an answer, but I know for a fact people have left because of it and moved on to other games.
Yes you can say they might have left anyway after hitting RvR and maybe it isn't what they thought it was, or you can say they should have left because they are wimps or whatever you want.
I'm not disputing any of it, I am just saying my PERSONAL felling is why should we grey gank and even take a chance of losing players when it is such a stupid argument either way.
If you enjoy grey ganking then just own it and say you love killing people with no challenge in the hopes of drawing out the big boys. It isn't against the rules and lots of people do it.
But those who want to just ignore the fact that it IS alienating a small part of the player base and driving a few people away just don't want to acknowledge it happens.
Might be 1 player or might be 500, we will never know the exact numbers, I just know of 3 people who quit because of it and got tired of dealing with it. Yes they could have got experience elsewhere and I told them but they knew the frontiers were a whole lot better at that time and kept trying.
It sucks to get grey ganked, but then there is an xp bonus for leveling in frontier zone. What’s worse for the new player? Getting grey ganked maybe once or twice on their road to 50 or to not have any frontier xp bonus and tinderboxes for these 50 levels? For me the answer is clear.
Also you assume that new players don’t grey gank. What if some of the new players were grey gankers, because they have troubles finding groups?
At the beginning of beta, grey ganking was a million times worse because greys actually gave RPs, so there was incentive to go grey gank. Now that they changed it, there are no incentives to go grey gank, other than the desire to grief XPers from the opposing realm, which gets old very fast.
I don’t think there is an issue at the moment, as lame as grey ganking can be.