Originally posted by CyclopsSlay

Congrats to them and all. But really, no game should ever be designed that allows, by any means, people to level that fast.

Why?

Why does every game have to be about grinding to a level cap?

Originally posted by CyclopsSlay
Still remembering the EQ1 devs stating that no character could hit L50 in less than a year of gameplay, 3 months later they were having to eat a lot of crow.

13 years later and Devs still have no clue of what players can and will do...

Very True,

Still there is a big difference in 3 months of pushing hard 18 hours a day, and 2 days .... my preference is the long journey, EQ Devs were right for people who played 5 or so hours a day, they werent expecting 18 hour a day pushes, but that says alot about EQ and how games should be, as far as leveling, only the die hard pushers can reach in 3 months and the rest take between that and a year. Id much prefer it.

less than 48 hours to level cap...its a freaking joke. 2 weeks to level cap is a joke. 7 days played time is a joke, its not hard, its quite simple. it has no rewarding feeling whatsoever. The journey is what is important and if the journey is over so fast, what does that say?

Whats the big deal?

So they figured out the fastest way to hit lvl 80 and it wasnt even by experiancing the adventure content in the game. They had a guild grinding mat's so he could get to 80 through crafting.

Now maybe they can relax and enjoy the actual game.

How did people gather the high level mats?  Doesn't crafting stop giving XP on low level stuff once you reach a certain skill?

If not that seems like a bad design..

Originally posted by CyclopsSlay

Congrats to them and all. But really, no game should ever be designed that allows, by any means, people to level that fast.

What 43 hours in and L80, umm woohoo? And for their next trick?

 

Still remembering the EQ1 devs stating that no character could hit L50 in less than a year of gameplay, 3 months later they were having to eat a lot of crow.

13 years later and Devs still have no clue of what players can and will do...

Exactly!  Fast leveling is a major weakness of all these big MMO's these days.  Leveling does not mean anything anymore.

Definite black mark against GW2 in my book.  Exactly why I am passing on this game.  No challenge.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Originally posted by CyclopsSlay

Congrats to them and all. But really, no game should ever be designed that allows, by any means, people to level that fast.

What 43 hours in and L80, umm woohoo? And for their next trick?

 

Still remembering the EQ1 devs stating that no character could hit L50 in less than a year of gameplay, 3 months later they were having to eat a lot of crow.

13 years later and Devs still have no clue of what players can and will do...

Exactly!  Fast leveling is a major weakness of all these big MMO's these days.  Leveling does not mean anything anymore.

Definite black mark against GW2 in my book.  Exactly why I am passing on this game.  No challenge.

Well there's a logical post. Ridiculous. The purpose of any game is to experience the content. If someone buys a game and gets to the end by experiencing a fraction of the content, why even buy the game? Why buy a book to read the last chapter only to complain that there weren't enough pages in between?" Why would you not play something because someone did just that when for the majority of the hundreds of thousands or millions that will play they will level up in weeks to months, not in 2 days? For those of us with lives outside of gaming (and Im a casual player that likes to explore, look at vistas, chat with friends, etc), it may take us 4-6 months or longer to get to 80.

Originally posted by Aviggin
This is in no way a big deal, or even remotely exciting, so stop making it out to be. 

This.

Why even make a mention of it. They've wasted what imo is a very fun experience so far. Why feed their ego by running to post about the first level 80's here and there. Ive seen multiple level 80 posts and its just old news and not worth anyones time to even bring it up.

Also who cares? They get to sit there and be level 80 all by themselves waiting for others to catch up. People going ooooh ahhh are just stroking their already huge ego because lets be honest, hitting max level first is only for those kids that are way too cool for school.

And he had all his guildies running around farming mats for him. I mean how boring can you get. Im gonna get back to enjoying the game. My highest level "Charr" is level 7 and im loving every minute of actually seeing the game.

It's not like he wasted the content of the game.

Now he can go have fun in any PvE area he wants, and forget the levels.

Originally posted by marz.at.play
It's crafting, it's not like he played to lvl 80 doing quests and pvp etc. So he's a crafter, good for him.

agree - this is only a testament of another way to level in the game

I think what everyone is failing to actually realize, is that the fact that someone got lvl 80 already has absolutely NO affect on your gameplay.

SO WHO GIVES A FLYING F......

just play the game and have fun at your own pace

Originally posted by CyclopsSlay

Congrats to them and all. But really, no game should ever be designed that allows, by any means, people to level that fast.

What 43 hours in and L80, umm woohoo? And for their next trick?

 

Still remembering the EQ1 devs stating that no character could hit L50 in less than a year of gameplay, 3 months later they were having to eat a lot of crow.

13 years later and Devs still have no clue of what players can and will do...

Ummm 43 hours where you read that cos i read 32hrs???

But bet he's having a nice sleep now, gratz to them for getting 80 but really sad, did they even learn anything of the game trying to hit 80 asap???

I think it is the current themepark trend to make the levelling faster. Major AAA themeparks released since WoW were mostly like this.

In Lineage II: Chronicle 1, he would be level 10 by now. (terrible grind it was :) )

i have played a few hours each day and im only level 14 hahah

game is very cooool

hope it gets better the more i play

Originally posted by Clob
Yeh for Surfeuze who now gets to continue to sit and craft stuff for guildees. 

LMAO right?! that's going to be how they play for the next few months. other then trying jump puzzles.